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How to play multiple videos side-by-side synchronized?
You can do this with mpv if you don't mind using the command-line:
3 videos side-by-side (stacked horizontally)
mpv --lavfi-complex="[vid1][vid2][vid3]hstack=inputs=3[vo];[aid1][aid2][aid3]amix=...
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How to view a PDF with more than 2 pages side by side?
Use Wrapped Scrolling option in Mozilla Firefox's built-in PDF viewer.
Open your PDF file in Mozilla Firefox browser.
On PDF document toolbar (above the document view) open menu >>. See the ...
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Linux PDF version converter
Looking up the ghostscript options instead of blindly copying commands from others who also blindly copied their commands (and so on) is time well spent. For instance, the -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen in the ...
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How to play multiple videos side-by-side synchronized?
GridPlayer can play any number of videos simultaneously. You can play, stop, seek all of them or each video separately. You can set loops. You can also control playback rate, sound volume, zoo, etc.
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How to stop run the screenkey
You can exit from Screenkey by right-clicking on its status icon and selecting "Quit":
If you're using GNOME/Unity and cannot see any status icon please make sure the python-appindicator ...
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How do I create a GIF screencast in Windows?
I would like to offer my software recommendation.
It is called ShareX.
I am recommending a review of ShareX on [2].
1: https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/releases
2: https://filmora.wondershare.com/...
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Is there a telnet utility for windows?
If you want to test a network connection, you can use with Powershell :
Test-NetConnection google.com -port 80
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Take a high resolution screenshot of a website
The best way to take a high resolution screenshot without any external tool is using the developer tools in browser:
Open Developer Tools (Ctrl+Shift+I or Command+Option+I or Right click + Inspect)
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How do I create a GIF screencast in Windows?
Just one more solution that is usually ignored.
You can actually use MS PowerPoint alone to record the screen and create GIFs.
This could be useful if extra software installations are not allowed, ...
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Opening mdb files in Ubuntu
You can use DBeaver. It has "MS Access (UCanAccess)" driver to open .mdb files.
To install:
wget https://dbeaver.io/files/dbeaver-ce_latest_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i dbeaver-ce_latest_amd64.deb
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spectrum analyzer that shows 'live' input from the microphone
Just found this one:
http://friture.org/
Testing it now.
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Utilities for finding x/y screen coordinates
For windows, you can use a powershell script with System.Windows.Forms.Cursor
e.g.
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
while (1) {
$X = [System.Windows.Forms.Cursor]::Position.X
$Y = [...
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Batch convert Word documents to PDFs
This little snippet worked very well for me.
Free
Easy
No limits on number of files
$Word=New-Object -ComObject Word.Application
$Files=Get-ChildItem ".\*.docx"
ForEach ($File In $Files) {
$...
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Is there a tool to measure file difference percentage?
I had a similar problem with two sets of transcribed files I used the Levenshtein distance as suggested in the most up voted answer but found using python a better option.
pip install python-...
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Is there a tool to query FAT filesystem details?
dosfstools on Linux has fsck.fat (possibly called fsck.vfat in older versions of the package) which shows similar information to chkdsk on MS-DOS:
# fsck.fat -v -n /dev/sda1
fsck.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)
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Opening mdb files in Ubuntu
On Ubuntu 18.04 I tried installing mdbtools-gmdb but it couldn't find the package. I ended up installing mdbtools with apt install mdbtools.
This package provides libraries to connect to mdb files as ...
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How to count pages in multiple PDF files?
I made an application just for this, Its written in Java so works on all os's. Check it out here:
https://github.com/hamiltino/multiple-pdf-counter/releases
Its best to run the application from ...
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How to find out what file is on a particular sector
The comment provided by rickhg12hs deserves a place as an answer - it's on the mark.
The ntfs-3g utilities provide some useful functionality. In my experience, the ntfscluster tool has an advantage ...
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How to view a PDF with more than 2 pages side by side?
Use Horizontal Scrolling option in default Firefox browser PDF viewer PDF.js
PDF.js is also available as a plugin for other browsers.
Open your PDF file in Mozilla Firefox browser
On the PDF ...
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Windows 10 - move window between multiple displays
Try this (results vary based on program used).
Hold Windows Key + SHIFT key. While keeping those two pressed hit the left or right or up/down arrow key to move the current active window to the ...
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Utilities for finding x/y screen coordinates
$lastX = ""
$lastY = ""
Clear-Host
while (1) {
$X = [System.Windows.Forms.Cursor]::Position.X
$Y = [System.Windows.Forms.Cursor]::Position.Y
if(($lastX -ne $X -or $...
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Software to show typed keys on the screen
On Windows there is Carnac the Magnificent.
A keyboard logging and presentation utility for presentations, screencasts, and to help you become a better keyboard user.
Install via Chocolatey:
choco ...
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Is there a tool that can detect (and if possible, fix) glitches in MP3 files?
Simpler is to use ffmpeg to copy the file from the one with the faulty duration in its ID3 tag. This causes it to write the correct information.
ffmpeg -i "audio.mp3" -acodec copy "audio_fixed.mp3"
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Is there an OS X tool for finding coordinates, pixel color and measuring distances on the screen?
Coordinates | Digital Color Meter -> View -> Show Mouse Location
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How can I limit the volume of audio on Windows by decibel level?
One way you can solve this is by using dynamic range compression (DRC).
The DRC algorithm basically works as follows: for low decibel (dB) sounds, the output signal matches the input signal, but ...
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Is there a tool like diff -r that compares a directory tree against a manifest file using hashes?
You're right, such a tool does exist already. While I see that your post is tagged 'linux,' perhaps a BSD-oriented solution will be edifying.
FreeBSD's mtree(8) utility can do exactly what you are ...
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How to view a PDF with more than 2 pages side by side?
The Okular app has an overview mode that enables multipage views side-by-side (View > View Mode > Overview).
In the preferences, you can set the desired number of side-by-side pages that you ...
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Create bootable USB flash drives
Before anything else, Diskpart is not a MS-DOS program. It's a Windows program that only happens to be a console program, but it does most of its job by talking to the Windows "Virtual Disk ...
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Batch convert Word documents to PDFs
Building off of Umar's answer, here is a modified PowerShell script that will:
Process DOC as well as DOCX
Show a progress bar as it works
As with Umar's, to use this:
save the below script as a ...
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