Four Neat Things

A Friday Hodgepodge

1. A man describes his "two-part desk setup, with his long desk having digital and analog sides.

This is an interesting idea, and he claims to be able to shift contexts simply by sliding his chair between the sides.

This may not be for everyone, but it might be worth a look, if you are unhappy with your current setup and want ideas for improving it.

2. I don't edit video often, but when I do, I use ffmpeg, which is cross-platform and a veritable Swiss army knife.

It's nice to know that, should I need to do this on a computer I don't own or control, there is an in-browser implementation of ffmpeg here.

It claims to work on files locally, but its file loader looks like an upload icon, so if that's a concern, dig around a bit before using.

As a bonus -- and despite its name of ffmpeg CLI -- many common actions are iconified on the page.

3. While I am not upset that Google is making its searches more AI-centric, I don't always want to search that way, and I am not alone.

Tech Crunch recently reviewed six solid alternatives to Google.

In addition to DuckDuckGo, which I expected to see on the list, other choices variously offer such features as better privacy and customized means of limiting searches, such as putting out results for news from the left or news from the right.

4. Funny Comment of the Week: From a discussion about colonizing Venus: "At this point we're so deep into the science fiction that it might be easier to just hop into a time machine and colonize Mars before its atmosphere boiled off."

-- CAV