October 3, 2023

The Halloween Ambience Project

As I mentioned before, I’m working on a Halloween Ambience project using the Mac Pro 2013. This is a good project for that machine since it involves video and audio. If you haven’t tried, go to YouTube and put in a search for “Halloween Ambience,” there are some fun videos out there with fun soundtracks you can use at Halloween. My goal is to take some/most of those videos, split them into smaller clips, and play them on my machine as a Halloween compilation. It makes for a nice loop full of Halloween goodness. Since these are YouTube videos, the first task is to download them locally using Downie. Once downloaded, depending on audio, I extract it using Permute and store it as MP3. I can play that as background music or maybe an audio loop. Now that I have the file and the full audio, it’s time to trim it down since I only want 20 minutes for my […]

October 1, 2023

Downloading Video and Audio using Downie and Permute

Once you find the right keyword, topic, or channel, YouTube is a rich source of content, and tools for downloading videos are commonplace. In fact, you can’t turn around without running into a YouTube downloader. There are dozens of similar looking and sound apps like YT-Saver, VideoDuke, Wondershare Uniconverter, Wondershare AllMyTube, Allavsoft, Bigasoft, Cisdem Video Converter, VideoPro, not to mention all the browser extensions. There are so many of them they all start to look alike. They’re made by different companies, right? So, with all these “free” tools, do you need a standalone video downloading app? If you want one or two videos, then no, but if you’re looking to download a series of tutorials, an entire channel, or extract some audio so you can listen to it offline, then yes you do, and you should look at Downie and Permute combo from Charlie Monroe. Downie handles the downloads and audio extraction for new files, while Permute handles conversion between […]

September 29, 2023

Friday afternoon cleanup with BuhoCleaner

Even though App Cleaner and Uninstaller is on sale at Bundlehunt, I have a weekly task to run BuhoCleaner. Keyboard Maestro fires it up on Fridays so I don’t have to remember. I install a lot of apps during the week because I’ll try out 6 variations on a tool. I like trying out software to know if there is a better tool than the one I have. When I’m on a roll, my machine has a lot of tools I no longer need. Sure, you can drag apps to the Trash, but plenty gets left over. Not every app stores its information in the Application folder/subfolder. To really remove an app and its support files it should be uninstalled, this is where BuhoCleaner comes in. BuhoCleaner is a clean and efficient app to remove junk files, uninstall apps, find large files, check for duplicates, display startup items, securely delete files, and shows which apps you haven’t used in a […]

September 28, 2023

Removing duplicates and uninstalling apps from Bundlehunt

Bundlehunt is back with another quality sale and among the choices are Duplicate File Finder and App Cleaner and Uninstaller from Nektony. What makes this a great deal is not only the low price, but it’s a low price on the non-subscription, standalone version. Nektony makes good software, but their pricing model is horrific. You can either pay by the month, the year, or pay five times the value of the software as a lump sum just so you can keep using it beyond the year and never receive any more upgrades. Their pricing model, like that of MacPaw is ridiculous and normally I steer clear because it’s a stupid amount to pay, and pay, and pay. They are the epitome of why I hate software subscriptions. But, both companies make quality software, so when a deal comes along I’m not going to say no. Duplicate File Finder is an excellent tool for finding and removing duplicates. Like other apps […]

October 11, 2021

👩‍💻 An impressive array of features in DevUtils ⌘

Like several apps in my tool belt, I picked up DevUtils in a Bundlehunt sale. It wasn’t on my original list of tools to get, but the feature set looked really good. It has turned out to be a real gem. And getting more polished with each release. Originally, I was drawn to the JSON formatter, XML Beautify, and Text Diff Checker. I use those all the time in my QA work. Further, it’s just a bad idea to paste company text and code into random websites to get the same functionality. I also became a fan of the RegEx Tester. I can use all the help I can get with RegEx, and this is very handy. I have a tool called Patterns, but if I’m already in DevUtils, why open something else? Further, Pattens hasn’t seen an update in a couple of years. Might not need it, but still, new OS version have come along. DevUtils has regular updates […]

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