August 2010

The anatomy of a video file

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The title of the post seems to be a bit nerdy, But trust me, Its not and I’ll keep this as simple as possible. The container: This specifies how the information is stored in the video file. Different containers can store different kinds of data. The container has no effect on CPU usage, just on [...]

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How reCAPTCHA works and how to mess with it!

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The fault of reCAPTCHA lies in the fact that it is used to digitize non-digital texts maybe to OCR the web, as well as stop spam. What this means is that in every captcha, there will be two words: One that the computer knows is right and will compare and check your text against and [...]

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How to: Remove Youtube’s new subscription / autoplay gray bar

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Few days ago YouTube became more ‘bloated’ with a new feature. The gray autoplay bar! Most of you guys must have noticed it, It is horrible and set Autoplay to “ON” by default; You have to turn it off everytime. I like to drop a comment sometimes after watching a video, Now I don’t even [...]

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