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![]() ![]() I seldom download videos but when I find out that a video I really liked has been removed then I wonder if I shouldn’t download more than I do. It can be circumvented but is too much hassle for me. ![]() Another option is youtube-dl-helper, but it’s bat file is blocked by Windows Defenders smart screen. Youtube-dl with GUI doesn’t work at my desktop for a long time now, whereas a couple of years ago it worked flawlessly at my Asus laptop with Windows 7. You can read MetaDefender Cloud Privacy Policy here: I don’t use Virustotal since then all my files are stored at Google’s servers. I upload the files to to check for malware etc. Without it you will be redirected to shady ad sites. And an extensive list of Brave’s built in advertisement blockers. On Brave the trackers and advertisement shield component is set to agressive. Although you can also use Tampermonkey with the userscript, which adds a download converter button on the Youtube page. (I still update the backend from the command line, using a batch file.) I have no idea whether and how well the Linux and Mac frontends handle youtube-dl updating.įor I insert “pp” after the word “youtube” in the link. The response to breakages on *YouTube* seems to be *very* rapid.) I *think* running YouTube-DLG’s update command (in Windows) now updates its copy of the youtube-dl backend for you, but I’m not certain. (youtube-dl supports a couple/few hundred other sites besides YouTube, but I don’t know how often *they* break youtube-dl, or how quickly youtube-dl is updated in response. IMPORTANT: Changes at YouTube regularly “break” youtube-dl if you don’t keep it up to date. At any rate, it is still actively maintained. Last November, Github took down the youtube-dl repository (is repository the right word?) in response to an RIAA takedown notice, but there was a major outcry from prominent journalists, documentary film-makers, and political activists who had relied on it heavily for important fair-use purposes, and the repository was restored. The Windows and Linux frontends are pretty close to identical I’ve never used the Mac frontends. There are graphical frontends available for youtube-dl in Windows, Linux, and Mac: YouTube-DLG for Windows, youtube-dl-gui for Linux, and MacYTDL and Get-It for Mac. Now You: do you download videos? If so, which program do you use? ![]() If you prefer a GUI, try one its frontends such as this one. For those, youtube-dl may be an alternative, but it is a command line application. Not everyone wants to buy a download manager just to download videos from YouTube or other video sites. Naturally, there are other options when it comes to the downloading of YouTube videos. All that is left then is to pick the download directory, or configure IDM to download the files immediately under Settings > Downloads. On YouTube, IDM displays all available quality options and you may pick one that you favor. You should see the IDM button on the page once you do if the button is not displayed, try reloading the page. Once done, visit YouTube and start playback of a video. Most Chromium-based browsers, Vivaldi or Brave for example, support installing Chrome extensions, and you may use the Google Chrome version of the Internet Download Manager Integration Module in those browsers as well. The official IDM download page is no help, as it does not list links to the extension. Since I may not be the only user of the download manager to experience that, I decided to write this guide that explains how to add the IDM Integration add-on / extension to popular browsers.įirst, what you need is the link to the extension. It is possible that I skipped this during installation. The extension may be added to many popular browsers automatically during installation. All you need is to install the official extension for your browser of choice and you are all set to download the videos from the site. The "download this video" button was not displayed on YouTube, while it did work fine on other video streaming and hosting sites.Īfter some digging around and testing, I found a way to download videos from YouTube using IDM. Recently, I tried to download YouTube videos and discovered that IDM did not support this out of the box. It is easy to use, very powerful, and one of the best video and media downloaders available on the platform. 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See, the thing is with this MMO, not only have the developers made women the core focus of this game (you cannot even be a male), and I’m not saying that it is an unacceptable concept, but the developers have actively gone out of their way to heavily include nudity on these character models. If you are aware, you’ll know why this game is fast becoming infamous and cropping up on a lot of “Worst of.” lists. If you’re not aware of Scarlet Blade already, stay away. Spaced incredibly close together, in higher resolutions it still becomes awkward and often confusing to navigate some of the menus.īut what is more concerning about the aesthetics of the game are the character models. A cyberpunk art style has taken center of this game though a more industrious feel has taken over the art style, ultimately feeling quite dull. There are a lot worse MMO’s out there performing even worse on bad engines. With that said, let’s move on to the final review. Being approached to review this game was something I wasn’t expecting and what I experienced in this game was the aforementioned degrading and shameful experience. Aeria Games latest foray into the MMORPG market, Scarlet Blade, is the complete opposite of this. Take a look back at Tera, some of the games races were altered so the game didn’t look so perverse. Japanese and Korean gaming has often been an affair of anime like characters, colorful worlds and more than often, scantily clad characters. ![]() But what an MMO shouldn’t be, is a shameful and downright degrading experience. Along the way we make friends, foes, hell some of us even find partners. At its grassroots, MMORPGs, are huge online open worlds, virtual realities in which we escape to, to essentially play out another life. ![]() If the DNG Converter encounters a file that has problems, it will throw an alert error in the Conversion Status dialog as shown above. Jeff Schewe: "Another little known benefit of using the Adobe DNG Converter is the ability to do a simple verification that the raw file you are converting is not corrupted. Why save raw files that have been converted to DNG? So, I'll say "don't try this at home", while doing exactly that myself!" Now, it's possible that the camera vendors may be persuaded to document these private tags sometime before hell freezes over, and in that case, it's conceivable that other software may be able to use them".īarry Pearson: "Once I have at least 2 DNGs of each file in different places, I delete the original Raws, without embedding them first. It is not clear whether the " TIFF & TIFF- derived "raw"" formats satisfy the MakerNote principles above.ĭelete Proprietary files after using Adobe DNG?īruce Fraser: "The reason to embed the original raw file is to keep obscure bits of private metadata that only the proprietary raw converter understands. This discusses whether raw formats are TIFF-based or not. This allows an application that understands the MakerNote format for a particular camera to find the MakerNote data, along with the original byte order and file offset, and thus parse the MakerNote data correctly from the DNG file". This repackaging stores the source file's byte order and the original file offset to the MakerNote, along with the MakerNote data itself. These MakerNotes are often byte order or offset dependent, so what I'm doing to preserve this data safely is repackaging it into the DNGPrivateData tag. Thomas Knoll: "The code change in ACR/DNG 3.1 that preserves private MakerNotes applies to all formats that store their private data using the Exif MakerNote format, which includes Pentax. However, it's metadata that Camera Raw can not currently use so if you are satisfied with the way Camera Raw can convert your file, then the proprietary metadata may be meaningless to you". Is this important data? Hard to say since it's undocumented. ![]() " If your Raw file format is not NEF or CR2, some or most of the proprietary, undocumented metadata found in the private maker notes of the EXIF specification will be stripped out. As a result, if, at some time in the future Nikon grants Adobe permission to decrypt the WB data, it'll still be there in the DNG file waiting to be used, as will all the other undocumented metadata. It isn't decrypted, but it is safely moved. Even the Nikon D2X encrypted As Shot white balance is moved to the converted DNG file. " So, if you shoot NEF or CR2 you will, in essence, loose nothing by converting to DNG. Future updates to the Adobe DNG Converter will continue to add to the scope of what is preserved and migrated to DNG. Also, black masked pixels (the far outer edges usually cropped off by conversion software) for certain files, such as some CR2 files are also not preserved in DNG conversion. So some metadata will be migrated and some will be stripped. Additionally, Canon CRW files and Fuji RAF do not completely adhere to the TIFF-EP and EXIF spec. File formats from Kodak, Foveon and Leaf do not use EXIF private maker notes, so those files are not supported for migration. ![]() The file formats that do NOT use EXIF based private maker notes are not migrated. Jeff Schewe: "DNG Converter 3.1 and above does indeed move all EXIF private maker note from all TIFF-EP based raw file formats, not just NEF and CR2 files. Support of black masked pixels in 3.2 which was released TopicĬonversion other than Sigma / Foveon cameras It also contains some information about the quality of the information within DNG files. This table attempts to capture such information until it is published at a better location. Detailed information about that support's capability or about potential problems may appear in forums, and eventually disappear when the forums are tidied. What about bugs and deficiencies in key software products?ĭo DNG files contain all the original raw image data?ĭetailed technical documentation about Adobe's support of DNG tends to be fragmented.Do DNG files contain all the original raw image data?.This page continues to hold the full list that I have available, while the Using DNG safely page holds what I consider to be just the important, typically recent, subset. The latter was getting cluttered up with large numbers of reports about the completeness of the contents of DNG, and reports of problems with Adobe software, most of them duplicates or only of historical interest. This is an overflow page for the Using DNG safely page. Then enjoy macOS High Sierra with its benefits and everything it has inside. macOS High Sierra Final ISO (MediaFire - Google Drive) - The macOS High Sierra ISO is ready to download and install on VMware or VirtualBox once it’s done.However, macOS High also has its own users and benefits. 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All the basic tools are there to make the users more comfortable. ![]() Eventually-I don’t remember how-I managed to work past those dialogs, but I still haven’t regrown all the hair I pulled out in the process.Īnother time, dialogs popped up saying that I needed to create the special files afresh by saving the individual chapters under a new name and recreating the book. I quit QuarkXPress, deleted its cache, reopened the application, and tried to use backup copies of the special files. This book cannot be opened because information in the Job Ticket is damaged. If I clicked the default OK button, this message popped up: Warning, if you replace the Job Jacket, the structure of your book most will be deleted. ![]() Press OK to replace the previously linked Job Jacket with the selected one. The selected Job Jacket is not the missing Job Jacket. For example, once when trying to open the book, I saw this unintelligible alert: This strategy largely preserved my chapter files, but it did not prevent the special files from becoming corrupt. QuarkXPress crashes so frequently that I learned to save my work every 5 or 10 seconds and to keep open only the chapters I was working on. In QuarkXPress, a book requires a set of separate files for each chapter and section, plus two special files that keep track of the book’s contents and pagination. You would not want to read the full litany of the faults I found-even assuming I could remember them all-but here are a few problems that give a sense of what I put up with. What a mistake! QuarkXPress is the most bug-ridden application I have used in 36 years of working with the Mac. ![]() I found InDesign more confusing, and I dislike Adobe-Creative Cloud requires a pricey subscription and fills your drive with files-so I bought a copy of QuarkXPress. Both seemed to have comparable features and limitations. The only heavy-duty choices at the time were QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign. If you ever need a page layout application, do not buy QuarkXPress.Įighteen months ago, I needed to lay out an illustrated book. In the end, after much troubleshooting and experimentation, the best I could recommend was that he cut his losses and switch to InDesign, a luxury that he couldn’t afford given publishing deadlines. I can thus say, from personal experience, that what Charles relates here is only the tip of the iceberg of what he went through. Although I don’t know QuarkXPress, I’ve laid out many books in Adobe InDesign and have years of experience working with PDF ebooks. Every day when I came back from the conference, I found Charles at his Mac, swearing at the latest problem created by QuarkXPress. 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A symmetric column grid has all columns the same width, while an asymmetric grid will have some columns proportionally thinner or wider than others. Spacing between columns (gutters) should be proportional and consistent throughout the entire page. Design elements can be placed inside one column, or across two or more to create a variation of visual layouts. Once placed inside a column grid, text and images follow the alignment of the columns’ vertical lines and flowlines. But it’s really up to the designer to decide how many columns they find necessary. That being said, the standard grid layouts in web design consist of six, nine, or 12 columns. Column grids can have as little as two columns, with no real limit to how many there can be. When your aim is for website visitors to relish in your website content or About Us page, the more you facilitate a vertical, focused reading experience, the more likely they are to embrace your content.Ĭolumn grids are composed of several columns, mostly used to organize multiple elements into columns. ![]() The way we see it, a key reason why block grids are such a perfect match for article pages and general single posts is because they embrace the linearity involved in reading a story. The Elementor single post template shown above finds a way to make a single-column page look just as varied and interesting as any other, applying multiple widths, fonts, along with classic visual elements such as hero images and shape dividers – all despite it being in “only” one column. One of the most common use-cases we’ve seen for block grid layout is single post pages, primarily for article or single blog posts, as shown in the image above. ![]() Another instance where you may encounter block grids is large, full-width images, such as cover images or hero images. Using the terminology we defined earlier (“Anatomy of a Grid”), block grids are essentially a large rectangular area taking up most of the space inside a format.īlock grids are often used for extensive or continuous blocks of text, and can often be found in blog pages or posts. Block grids consist of a single column and can either include one single element or multiple elements arranged vertically, surrounded by margins. This includes web design, interaction design, and especially responsive design.īefore we discover how and why the grid-based layout is such a valuable asset to our design process as web creators, let’s delve even deeper into the tangible components that make up a grid system.īlock grids can also be referred to as single-column grids or manuscript grids, and are considered to be the simplest grid structure. That being said, there are many areas of modern-day design that depend and thrive on a grid-based layout. The concept of grid layouts originates in print design when they were used in the context of typography with the goal of arranging handwriting on paper, especially books and newspapers. Grids also define a consistent set of fixed units of measurement that dictate the sizing, spacing, and alignment that each design element must abide by. Grid systems serve as a systematic approach that allows designers to lay out elements in an organized manner, and provide a modular approach to designing components for multiple pages or layouts. Grids help split pages horizontally and vertically, using rows and columns. As user flows often contain multiple screens or windows that repeat similar design schemes and layouts, grids ease the process of developing wireframes, templates, or standardized layouts for similar pages. When designing for web and mobile, the purpose of the pages or interfaces we design is to create various user flows. Once we have this structured framework in place, we can place text, images, and really any design element in a consistent, orderly way within the interface. In terms of how it’s used in the web design process, the grid system helps align page elements based on sequential columns and rows. Then you’ll be asked where you want to store the virtual drive file, which is the Windows data drive. You can then select to run Windows applications as if they are Mac applications, without having to view the Windows desktop, or to run Windows as an independent environment-“Like a PC,” is how Parallels puts it. You’re the one who wanted to use Windows, remember? Don’t shoot the messenger. Apple’s dual boot manager hasn’t been updated yet to recognize Microsoft’s latest operating system. When it’s time to install the Windows 8 Preview Release in Boot Camp, make like you’re installing Windows 7. Remember to make note of the activation code. Since we’ve already determined that you’re using a recent Mac, you’ll want the 64-bit release. ![]() So, assuming you have a relatively recent Mac, the first thing you’ll need to install Windows 8 Preview Release via Boot Camp is, not surprisingly, a copy of Windows 8 Preview Release, which Microsoft is providing for download at the cost of only a valid email address and your immortal soul. ![]() ![]() It is possible to extract the install into a new disk image with a normal boot sector, but it’s complicated, and you’d need an existing Windows install to attempt it. I was actually able to install an earlier preview release on a 2006 Core Solo Mac mini, but not the latest release, which is unfortunate. 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