Yearly Archives: 2020

How to disable the scheduled tasks of "UpdateOrchestrator"

December 24, 2020 / Dong Liu

I got a Thinkpad T430 15 days ago. The hardware was upgraded and Windows 10 operating system was installed on the laptop. When tuning some configurations of the whole new system, I got stuck on one thing. To disable Windows 10 update, I took a series of measures. Disabled "Windows Update" in

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Bundle multiple PDFs into one PDF with your eyes shut

December 13, 2020 / Dong Liu

A couple of PDFs have the content that belongs together. How to make one PDF file with each one included? Copy the text, paste it into Word and save it as a new PDF? Isn't it time consuming? As a matter of fact, there is a much easier way. PDF merger software

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Amplify the sound of video files and audio files

October 9, 2020 / Dong Liu

Increase the volume of video files and audio files

Jack Ryan is one of my favorite counter-terrorism dramas. Apart from its critical acclaim, the OST has received consistent praise alike. The BGM at the end of each episode is especially compelling and suitable for ringtone. I didn't find the download resource. So, I cut out the segment from the video and

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Keep 5 desktop OCR applications close by to boost productivity

September 28, 2020 / Dong Liu

Perhaps there are plenty of scanned documents to deal with. Or maybe you are overwhelmed by heaps of paper. How do you extract the information from piles of printouts? I bet with my paycheck no one is willing to retype the text word by word. The solution here is to use an

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A beginner-friendly app to compress PDFs, videos & images

September 22, 2020 / Dong Liu

Perhaps movies and MVs take up much space on your hard drives. Maybe PDFs and images are too large to attach to an email. The internet is flooded with tools to decrease the size of a video, compress an image, or make a PDF smaller. But it's not easy to find one

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A compact OCR tool to extract the text from screenshots, 100% accuracy guaranteed

September 9, 2020 / Dong Liu

Last week, I found much valuable content from a bunch of infographics when reading a copywriting guide on Backlinko. Typing each word to copy the text would be definitely a weighty way. So I did a Google search for "OCR screenshot" and "extract text from image". Then, a compact tool caught my

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Fast convert video formats with a video editor for newbies

August 23, 2020 / Dong Liu

Transcoding a video is something you need to do at one time or another. Upload the clip to a platform with an allowed format. Transfer a video file in a supported file type to a smartphone or tablet. Or get the audio track from the MV and put it on an MP3

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