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Fix high CPU usage of Microsoft Teams by using the web-app
As much as I love and use Microsoft Teams, way too often I noticed it was using over 8% CPU in idle state. My computer ran hot, slower than it should and the battery drained faster than usual. Especially during video-calls the CPU use would spike to 50 or 60%, which was abnormally high. (fyi. …
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Reduce apps & services on startup to speed up your PC with ‘Autoruns’
Autoruns is a tiny portable app by SysInternals for all versions of Windows. It is an essential free tool that lists everything that happens during a fresh boot of Windows. And it allows you to enable/disable items with the tick of a box. Download Autoruns here. Thorough optimization of the boot process is delicate, but …
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Fix .SRT Subtitles not loading in LG WebOS Photo & Video App
If you use a DLNA of UPnP Media Server to stream videos from your (e.g.) Synology NAS to your LG C9 or CX OLED TV, you may experience subtitles not always loading properly. Even though you have an SRT file in the same directory as the movie file or many subtitles are embedded in your …
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Extract subtitles from .MKV files to .SRT – The FREE & EASY way
Many video players don’t support embedded subtitles in MKV files. Few people know it’s quite easy to extract one or many subtitles as .SRT files. The search for this solution gave me quite a headache, so I’m happy to share it with you. The right combination of MKV TOOLNIX + gMKVExtractGUI, both free tools, works …
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Blokada improves security, privacy, battery life, speed, saves mobile data AND blocks almost every ad on your Android device
Blokada is a free standalone APK which can easily alter the hostfile and DNS of your Android phones or tablets. It is -in my humble opinion- an absolute must-have on every android phone or tablet. You can download it here and simply install the Blokada.APK file. By changing your DNS to e.g. Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 and …
10 Reasons Bitcoin is getting more valuable every day (Hint: price has nothing to do with it)
Even though miners are rewarded with fresh Bitcoin on a regular basis, there is a hard-capped total supply of just 21.000.000. It’s important to know that Today we’re at around 18.6 million mined Bitcoin Through mining, the supply keeps increasing, but at a rate less than 2% per year (like gold) But this increase halves …
Play your iTunes (smart) playlists on Android and/or DLNA network devices
All my ratings and (smart) playlists are configured to perfection in its library and the files are all stored on my Synology NAS. I like iTunes, but it hasn’t been easy combining it with Android and streaming the library all around the house via UPnP DLNA devices (like LG WebOS, a Telenet Digicorder, and the …
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Tips to prevent burn-in when using an OLED-TV as your PC monitor
Having an OLED display for your PC is truly amazing and I can only recommend it. But for most people, burn-in is a concern. I’ve been using the 55″ LG OLED55C9PLA for almost a year now. It serves as our living-room TV and most of the time as my PC monitor. Even though LG has …
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Extract all images and videos from Word, PowerPoint and/or Excel files with this simple trick
As a designer I sometimes receive Word or PowerPoint files filled with photos, or PowerPoints filled with video files. It can be tedious to extract them all. But few people know these files are actually zip-files in disguise. You can easily extract all media files by changing the file extension from file.docx, file.xlsx or file.pptx …