by John Heath | Wed 23 Sep 2015 | Blog |
If you want to follow an in-page link in Google Chrome, without using your mouse, you can search for and then select the link without taking your hands off the keyboard by following the simple steps below. Search for the in-page link you want to follow using Ctrl-F...
by John Heath | Mon 31 Aug 2015 | Blog |
If you are experiencing a lack of sound since upgrading from OS X Snow Leopard to OS X Lion (and beyond) on older Macbook models, the problem may lie with Intel High Definition Audio. The simple steps below detail how you can see if this is the root cause of the...
by John Heath | Sun 30 Aug 2015 | Blog |
Background pip is a package management system used to install and manage software packages written in Python. It can be used to install any of the many packages found in the Python Package Index (PyPI). One major advantage of pip is the ease of its command-line...
by John Heath | Sat 15 Aug 2015 | Blog |
You may have noticed that git commands are not available at the command line after installing GitHub for Windows; and that it’s not immediately apparent where Git’s executable (git.exe) can be found. On Windows, Git’s executable is actually located in:...
by John Heath | Sat 01 Aug 2015 | Blog |
You can check the integrity of a video file using FFmpeg, the free cross-platform solution for recording, converting and streaming audio and video. Here are examples of the code you can employ; both in Windows and Linux environments. Windows Example [path to...
by John Heath | Thu 19 Mar 2015 | Blog |
If you’re using Python 2.6 above, you can use sys.maxsize to find out whether you have the 32-bit or the 64-bit version installed: import sys is_64bits = sys.maxsize > 2**32 print is_64bits Here’s a screenshot of example output:...
