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Spider Pro

Improve Productivity. Extract YouTube Transcripts using Spider Pro

I've been working on trying to get a blog post related to Spider Pro, which is as they say is *one of the easiest ways to scrape the internet, simply start clicking and collect the data you need*.

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Meteor

Working with REST APIs on Meteor

I have an IP address that changes everyday. One of my electron app has the IP hardcoded, and I need to manually update the IP everyday to get this working. Doing this over

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Terminal

Switching between windows on a remote nested tmux session

Figured this out a while. I tmux first to server 1 and then ssh into server 2. I often need to switch between windows in the remote session. Finally, figure out that the

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Spinning

Streaming from Macbook to Amazon Fire Stick

Good fun this weekend! I've been trying to stream my Pelton classes to my Fire Stick that is attached to the TV. I have a ton of Peloton classes on my hard-drive and

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Hacks

Amazon Fire TV Stick with Beats Wireless Headphones

Discovered this last night and am pretty kicked about it. I never thought this would be possible. I wanted to watch Tron in the living room without disturbing family in the house. I

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Hacks

Reset PRAM and SMC on Macbook Pro

Life can get weird and somethings seem to work by the "Shut-it OFF" and "Shut-it ON" way :-) Here is the way to do it for PRAM and SMC.

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Hacks

Solved : Displayport of Macbook 2011 (Early) not working

OK! I hate ridiculous solutions, but this actually seems to work! My displayport of Macbook Pro 2011 edition stopped working ... suddenly! I tried a lot of restarts, plug-ins and plug-outs .... and the usual

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iPhone

Accessing Iphone 7s photos on Ubuntu 16.04

I have tons of photos on my iPhone 7s and was looking to download them onto my MacBook Pro. I swapped the harddisk in my Macbook Pro (2011 edition!) with an SSD and

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Hacks

Redirect IP Address to localhost

I had some of my code (terrible as usual) pointing to an IP Address. I had downloaded my code to a local machine and wanted to use the same code to function of

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FFMPEG

Creating an audiobook from a list of mp3 files

I recently got my hands on an audiobook with a collection of mp3 files. I like to listen on an iPhone and creating a playlist wasn't working the way I intended. So, I

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Hacks

Solved! Display setting of Dell ST2420L monitor going black after few seconds!

This is weird. I dug up my closet and pulled out my old Dell ST2420L and plugged it in. It was turning off after a few seconds! Sucks! After an hour of changing

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Tools

Clearly Extension on Google Chrome

I'm addicted to the Clearly extension that was previously released by Evernote and is no longer available!! Here is the way to install the last one available: Download extension from Clearly 10.6.

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rstats

Data Pasta is a must have to working with R and the Web

Just came across this package called MilesMcBain/datapasta from r-bloggers! Here is a quick demo of why it is a boon for working with RStudio! No repetitive tasks of parsing and munging for

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Pebble

Creating my first Pebble Watchface

Going to try out creating a pebble watchface as mentioned here. Installation Install pebble SDK using Homebrew with: brew install pebble/pebble-sdk/pebble-sdk Development I first started with this sample app of a

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Hacks

Creating A Native Signature From A Picture To Sign Documents

A fun exercise today. I had to sign a document .. self-attestation actually and I hate manual stuff and paper. I wanted to hack a way to get a near real experience of signing

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Mac

Resurrecting my Apple TV 3rd Gen

I've been a facing a weird lag when I use my Apple TV as an extended monitor. Till recently, it was fine because I decided to use my Apple TV to watch on

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Music

MusicBrainz Picard - Awesome id3 tagger for all your music!

Totally blown away by MusicBrainz Picard! This id3 tagger is just awesome! The explanation will take some time .. but here is a demo that shows how awesome it is! (shower some patience on

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Hacks

Decrypting Gaana's undocumented API

This weekend has been fun! I do a lot of hacks around Gaana.com! But, now I needed to get Metadata of the tracks I listen to. Here is a quick explanation on

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Hacks

The (Raspberry) pi has landed

this weekend was quite exciting I recently got hold of a raspberry pi. Honestly, installing raspberry pi is not as straightforward as I had imagined. There were couple of challenges which had tried

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Automation

Hammerspoon – Powerful automation of OS X with Lua

This is pretty cool! HN featured a post on the front page today about Hammerspoon. I skimmed through the page and looked pretty neat. I liked two examples ... run spotify and find your

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Terminal

m-cli - Add some more power to your OSX command line

I love working on the Mac terminal. I just came across the rgcr/m-cli:  Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X. It is basically a set of cool administrative commands made accessible through

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Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi Zero has landed

I just got my hands on a Raspberry Pi Zero. The size of it is just amazing. I'll experiment with it the next couple of days and try to write some interesting posts!

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Hacks

Making your external harddrive from Mac readable on ubuntu

I recently replaced my old harddisk in the Mabbook with an SSD. I decided to put the old hard disk into a USB casing and start using an external drive. I formatted the

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Hacks

A completely customizable browser - Electron Browser

It sometimes happens that I do not need the complete functionality available in a typical browser and would like to hack on top of it to suit and customize it to fit my

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Hacks

Creating a bootable USB stick from an iso file on Mac OSX

I wanted to load ReactOS on an old laptop of mine. Steps followed to create the bootable USB stick hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o /Users/santoshsrinivas/Downloads/ReactOS-0.4.0.img /Users/santoshsrinivas/

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