Hacks Creating a bootable USB stick from an iso file on Mac OSX I wanted to load ReactOS [https://www.reactos.org/] 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.
Music More fun with Music - Introducing Kodi! I spent a lot of time this Saturday getting my music collection ready. It was quite an experience! I'll first layout the notable highlights of the experience that I somehow seemed
Hacks Show the last played song on my page So, I think its high time I get to putting few of ideas I had related to my music into action. I have recently resumed scrobbling all the music I listen to last.
Hacks Running portable Photoshop without admin rights on Win 7 I had a quick job to do using Photoshop on a Win 7 machine without admin rights. I got a copy of the portable photoshop installer and installed it without any issues. So
Tips Mount remote folder onto your local disk on the Macbook I like working on my Mac but like to keep my development repositories on a headless terminal on the cloud (like a Digital Ocean droplet or a AWS EC2 instance). Usually, I simply
Hacks Stitching a set of video files together Similar to the previous two posts (Cut a video from desired time intervals and Creating a custom animated gif from a selected duration of a video), I have now a requirement to stich
Hacks Cut a video from desired time intervals Similar to my earlier post on Creating a custom animated gif from a selected duration of a video, I now want the custom video itself! The video I had taken at the International
Hacks Creating a custom animated gif from a selected duration of a video I took a nice cute video of my daughter when we landed in Cochin recently. I've been try to convert a portion of the video that I particularly liked to an
Hacks Open Source & Free Password Manager I have about 200 user accounts to keep track off and they have 200 passwords out of caution! You simply never know which service will get hacked at some point. Till now, I
Hacks Switch back to Upstart after upgrading to Ubuntu 15.04 (Livid) I just upgraded my Digital Ocean Ubuntu 14.x droplet to Ubuntu 15.04 (Livid). The previous version was outdated and apparently the support was discontinued. As a result, I was running into
Hacks Converting a docx document to PDF For a new web application that I am working on, I needed to convert a docx document to PDF. Pandoc [https://github.com/jgm/pandoc] seems to be the most preferred option to
Hacks Creating an animated gif from the terminal Animated gifs are a great way to quickly demonstrate small tasks on the screen. Videos are an overkill and making quality gifs is often quite a pain. I often use LICEcap to created
Hacks Lazy Sunday Morning So here I am in Chennai to make a trip to the US Visa office. What good is a trip without a tiny hack! Here is where I stayed and where I enjoyed
Mac Fixing the flicker problem on HDMI monitor This is possibly a dumb hack! I have no idea why it works as of now! So I have this cool Dell S2440L monitor that looks cool. A flat panel of glass, minimalistic