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How to create a shortcut for a Chrome profile

If you are using more than one profile in Chrome you might want to create desktop shortcuts for each profile. Currently, there is no option to do this for all profiles in one go. It has to be done one profile at a time; here is how Paste chrome://settings/manageProfile into the address bar and hit Enter. If you prefer a graphical method, do this instead: click on the profile icon on the right and then click the customize profile button as shown in the image below.

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How to record your screen using VLC

VLC, the popular media player, has a lot of features in addition to simple media playback. One of those features is the ability to record your screen. VLC vs OBS Screen recording in VLC is very easy. It has the added advantage that you probably already have VLC installed on your computer. But simplicity also means fewer features. If you want more features and are willing to live with the extra complexity, OBS should be your choice.

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How to zoom video in VLC

VLC media player supports two types of zoom: basic zoom and interactive zoom. Basic zoom simply increases the size of the whole video, while interactive zoom allows you to zoom in on a specific portion of the video. Interactive zoom To enable interactive zoom: Go to Tools ➾ Effects and Filters ➾ Video Effects ➾ Geometry. Enable Interactive Zoom. This displays VLC’s zoom controls in the top-left of the video.

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Crop animated GIF using GIMP

Here are the steps for cropping an animated GIF using Gimp. Open the GIF file in Gimp using File ➾ Open Press Shift+C to select the crop tool. It can also be selected via Tools ➾ Transform Tools ➾ Crop or by clicking on the crop icon on the Tools Pane. Select the portion of the image you want to keep by clicking and dragging. Press Enter to automatically crop and resize the image to the size of your selection.

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Workaround for uGet integration wrong file name

uGet’s browser integration module does not seem to support content-disposition fields. This often results in downloaded files having inconvenient names like download.php or some GUID like e94d8f80-7e18-11e9-80e1-46db6c91c5c0. This problem did not exist in older versions of uGet since it used to auto-rename files ignoring file names set by users or by plugins. This behavior has now changed. Solution uGet uses either aria2 or cURL as a backend to download files. Both programs support getting the filename from the content-disposition header.

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Extract audio using FFmpeg

Using FFmpeg, we can easily extract audio from a video file. But, there is a small inconvenience caused by the unusual way FFmpeg handles output file names. It is compulsory to specify an output file name and this file name must have the correct extension. FFmpeg uses the extension to determine which format or container to use for the output file. Contents Extract Audio Extract non-default audio stream Extract and convert Extract Audio without checking audio format Batch Extract Extract Audio Here is the command for extracting audio from a video file.

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KeePass Auto-Type guide

The auto-type feature of KeePass allows us to send a sequence of keystrokes to a target window. To auto-fill a form it is not enough to send keystrokes for only the username and password. We will have to send some extra keys like TAB and ENTER as well. KeePass has a default key sequence that works for most input forms. The default sequence is: username, TAB , password, ENTER and in that order.

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Adobe Illustrator: Transfer color swatches between documents

Sometimes you need to transfer custom color swatches from one document to another. This is quite easy to do in illustrator. First, open the target document; that is the document to which you want to copy the swatches. From the Swatches Window, choose the Swatch Libraries menu. From the Swatch Libraries menu, choose Other Library. This opens a dialog box which allows you to open swatch files. Swatch files are just Ai files; you can open any Ai document using this dialog box.

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Searching inside multiple unopened PDF files

It is often useful to search for a phrase inside multiple PDF files. You can search inside all files in a folder. I will demonstrate this feature in Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader, and PDF-XChange Viewer. The basic idea is the same in all three software. Instead of searching using the small find box which you can invoke using CTRL+F, use a search pane which can be invoked using CTRL+SHIFT+F. The same shortcut works in all three software.

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Google Calendar: Changing the date of all events in a recurring series

One feature which I find lacking in many Calendar applications is the ability to shift the dates of all events in a recurring series; Google Calendar has this feature. Why you might need such a feature There are some recurring tasks where the gap between the events is crucial. Let us look at an example. You have decided that you need to mow your lawn once every week and added a recurring task for it in the Calendar.

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