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  • Import Pictures and Videos – images not previewed

    I use the Windows “Import Pictures and Videos” to import my photos: To me this works better than the default “Import Photos and Videos”: This post is not about the choice of tool but rather the way the tool works. When importing, it first scans you device, say a camera, and it gives you the… read more…

    Import Pictures and Videos – images not previewed
  • WordPress style name not visible

    In WordPress block themes you can set the style for the site using “Styles”. By clicking on “Styles” and then selecting “Browse styles”, you can see a list of the available styles. When you do this you can only see the list of styles, with the font and colors associated with those styles, but you… read more…

    WordPress style name not visible
  • YARPP tweaks

    These are the customizations I made to get “Yet Another Related Posts Plugin”, YARPP, doing what I wanted on the Zoyinc site. Bear in mind this is being done for the “Twenty Twenty-Three” theme which is “designed to take advantage of the new design tools introduced in WordPress 6.1” using Gutenberg and blocks. It is… read more…

    YARPP tweaks
  • Concatenate artist tags using Mp3tag

    My music player of choice is Neutron https://neutroncode.com/ unfortunately this doesn’t deal with multiple artists for one track, it only displays the name of the first artist. So for the track “Bangla Dhun” it would show the artist as Ravi Shankar. This is pretty frustrating as I like to know who are all the known… read more…

    Concatenate artist tags using Mp3tag
  • New categories can’t be added to post

    I have now found that if I add a new category in WordPress I can’t add it to my posts. For example I have added the top level category “Trains” and a category beneath that “Wrapped Trains”: However if I try to select “Wrapped Trains” it isn’t in the list of categories: In fact before… read more…

    New categories can’t be added to post
  • CD Archiving

    Rip the music to FLAC First rip the CD Using EAC and the post Archiving a CD using Exact Audio Copy (EAC). This will put the ripped songs *.flac, EAC log file *.log, CUE file *.cue and playlist *.m3u8 files in the root of the folder for that CD: Archive the artwork Archive the artwork… read more…

    CD Archiving
  • Install Netflix on Kodi

    I wanted to watch Netflix on Kodi on Windows and although there are no official add-on’s for Netflix I chose the “Netflix” add-on by Stefano Gottardo, aka. CastagnaIT, as it seems to be respected by many people including comments in the Kodi forums This plugin was born in 2017 designed and created by asciidisco with… read more…

    Install Netflix on Kodi
  • Open VMware remote console from url

    If like me you run a lot of stuff in ESX, then you will know that you can open up the console in the remote This is very handy and opens up VMware Player connected to your VM in ESX. This gives a much better experience than using it through a browser: As handy as… read more…

    Open VMware remote console from url
  • Dr Who season list for MythTV

    This is a list, for myself, of a mapping of actual seasons to season numbers I use in MythTV. This is necessary because Doctor Who went from seasons to series and MythTV only has one field. This means the latest “Series” will have different Season numbers to those expected – the world is an imperfect… read more…

    Dr Who season list for MythTV
  • This file exceeds the maximum upload size for this site

    This is related to the WordPress error you may get when trying to upload a file greater than 2MB: While you can install plugins to get around this I found this did not work for me and I then got the error: My install of WordPress or more specifically PHP follows the instructions in CentOS… read more…

    This file exceeds the maximum upload size for this site