Peer-Axel's Tech Blog
All sorts of notes about recoveries, conclusions, tipps and tricks that I once found worthy enough to write them down just somewhere in the internet.
computing
- CyanogenMod on a Nexus 7 (Wifi 2012) An alternative OS can speed up the old tablet device.
- Update zwecklos - das Ende meines HP Compaq 6715s Notebooks Ein Update auf Windows 10 oder Linux scheitert in vielen Fällen mit diesem Notebook von etwa 2010.
audio
- Change WAV sample rate parameter without resampling How to repair an audio file with corrupt sample rate parameter
- Remove specific ID3 tags
photos
- Batch downsize images - best parameters and a script 500K is sufficient for most images. This DOS batch script can handle many directories using Imagemagick.
sound
- Grab WAV stream before sound card
- Yamaha Steinberg USB driver - sample rate gray new driver versions can only change sample rate with a hidden control panel
streams
- Audio Stream Servers How to use Icecast and Shoutcast streams with the HTML5 audio player and read out stream information.
thunderbird
- Text encoding in Mozilla Thunderbird Depending on your e-mail service it is neccessary to set default encoding
video
- Rendering slide shows for DVDs - best parameters Resolution always drops down. However, with the right settings you can prevent the worst. Including some findings about MP4 rendering with Vegas 12.
- Video stuttering Disabling sound enhancements can be a solution if video playback generally is not gapless.
windows
- EXE files opened by other applications
- Existing high screen resolution is not selectable
- Useful Windows 11 apps and settings This is the software I work with.
- Windows 10-PC wird nicht im privaten Netzwerk angezeigt
databases
mysql-mariadb
- Add functions in phpMyAdmin just add it in the SQL box but beware of the delimiter
- Get country from IP how to download databases and compose the query
- upgrading phpMyAdmin do not overwrite, only copy config.inc.php from old version, grant priveleges to pma-user
postgres
home stereo
satellite
- DVB-S audio bandwidth differences in audio of satellite radio
- Spanish satellite radios
music
computing
- Unique files / songs in M3U playlists A PHP script to sort out double entries while maintaining #EXTINF meta info.
radio
software development
geospatial
HTML
PHP
- Capture all Windows handles (HWND) and process IDs Some functions like imagegrabwindow require the HWND to specify which window you want to copy.
- fputs linefeed Combinations of chr(10) and chr(13) have unpredictable outputs
- Get audio and video Metadata with PHP Using ffprobe. An example.
- List all PHP variables from one directory
- Save and restore file timestamps Creates a textfile with all last access / created / modified timestamps in a directory and optionally all subdirectories
- Serial COM port access in PHP a workaround to access COM10 and above
- strnums PHP function to extract all numbers from a string into an array
- True Type Fonts in PNG images will boost up image size