Status Menu Item – this trigger will execute the macro when selected from a dropdown menu that’s accessible by clicking on the Keyboard Maestro status bar menu icon in the upper-right corner of your screen.The Macro Palette will only appear when the macro is available to be run, meaning that if you have Keyboard Maestro set to ignore certain applications, the floating Macro Palette may not appear. Macro Palette Entry – this trigger will execute the macro when it’s selected from the floating Macro Palette.This is the most common way to execute a macro in Keyboard Maestro. Hot Key – this trigger will execute the macro when a specific keyboard combination is pressed, regardless of the application that is open at the time.Now that you’ve built your first couple macros, let’s take a look at some of the other available triggers that you can use to activate macros on your Mac. There are a ton of potential trigger actions available in Keyboard Maestro. This could be as simple as switching windows or ejecting USB devices, or as complicated as running scripts or creating spreadsheets. “What do I find myself doing repeatedly on my Mac?” The key question you need you ask yourself before implementing Keyboard Maestro into your workflow is: We’ve just given you several examples of how you can put Keybaord Maestro to work for you, but you’ll really start to see the benefits when you customize this to fit into your specific workflow. Instead, Keyboard Maestro gives you a sophisticated palette of very powerful tools that you can use in many different ways. The App Store is full of applications that are designed do one specific thing, and Keyboard Maestro doesn’t fit into this mold. Keyboard Maestro is an incredibly powerful application that can do just about anything, but this makes it a little bit difficult to implement sometimes, because it doesn’t have a specific, specialized use case scenario. Note that if you use web apps, you can do the same thing with web apps by selecting the “Open a URL” action (useful for things like JIRA or Basecamp). Repeat for any other apps you want to automatically open Select the app you want to launch when you connect to your work WiFi (e.g., “HipChat”)ĩ. Select the “Open” category and double-click “Open a File, Folder, or Application”Ĩ. Type the name of your wireless network or select it from the drop down menu and select “Is Connected” for the stateħ. Click the “+ New Trigger” button and select “Wireless Network Trigger”ĥ. Name your macro (something like “Work Time”)Ĥ. Click the “+” button under the “Macros” sectionģ. Let’s walk through creating your first macro in Keyboard Maestro together:Ģ. If you don’t already have it, you can download Keyboard Maestro here. For example, if you open a certain set of applications or browser windows when you get to work in the morning, you can automate the whole process using Keyboard Maestro, so when you open your computer you’re ready to get to work. This could be something like a hotkey combination, connecting to a wireless network, or even connecting a specific USB device to your Mac. For those of you who aren’t familiar, macros are actions that can be activated by triggers.īasically, Keyboard Maestro automatically performs certain actions whenever a particular trigger is activated. These macros can be used to automate just about any repetitive task, like navigating running applications, opening documents, managing text, and controlling web applications. Keyboard Maestro is (simplest definition) an application to launch macros on your Mac. In this article, we’ll introduce you to Keyboard Maestro and show you some of the awesome things you can do with it to automate your Mac and become #AsianEfficent. While it may not seem like it’s for you until you really start using it, once you do you’ll find yourself wondering how you survived so long without it. Keyboard Maestro is one of those tools that, like TextExpander (which we’ve written about previously), can justify switching from PC to Mac because of how easy it can make repetitive tasks. There are a number of applications that we recommend here at Asian Efficiency that make the Mac an excellent platform from a productivity perspective.
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The more you buy, the more you save per-share. There are five price levels, depending on how many shares you buy. Equities trade commissions are per share and per trade. Lightspeed Trading pricingīecause Lightspeed was designed for institutional investors first, it has a unique pricing model compared to many retail brokers. When you log in, you are connected via SSL, an industry-standard encryption method, and your trades are routed through low-latency systems right to the exchanges to lock in market prices at near-instant speeds. The platform clearly is designed for active traders looking to enter and manage their accounts securely as quickly as possible. You can access summaries of your accounts and more from the Windows style menus at the top of the app, or click around to manage your account and positions and enter trades. Layouts can be customized to your needs, and predefined default layouts are available to fit various screen resolutions. 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( Here are others that we've reviewed at Investor Junkie.) If you are a passive investor with a relatively small portfolio, you are likely better off with a major discount brokerage. Lightspeed is clearly designed for the most active investors, alongside institutional investors. Some institutional investors do pay for it. Retail investors do not pay for market data at Lightspeed. The Web/Mobile Trader platform is free to use and charges no monthly software fees. The Web/Mobile Trader platform gives you access to the following features: I should note that Lightspeed is limited, compared with full-scale brokerage firms such as E*TRADE and TD Ameritrade, which also offer bonds, mutual funds and other investments. The web and mobile platforms for retail investors do not include futures trading access. Overall, Lightspeed offers trades for equities (stocks), options and futures. But if you do happen to run an investment fund with tens of millions of dollars, be aware that Lightspeed can handle your needs as well. The first four platforms are designed for professional traders, so we are going to focus on the web and mobile trading platform designed for retail investors like us. The Lightspeed platform comes in five different varieties: LS Trader, Sterling, Livevol X, RealTick Pro and Web/Mobile Trader. This means regular investors can get access to some of the same powerful tools that hedge fund managers use to manage their massive portfolios. Lightspeed Trading is a discount broker that serves both institutional investors and retail investors like you and me. Phone: 24/7 Email What is Lightspeed Trading? If you want to see what other crafty little Christmas sewing projects I'll post with these prints, make sure to sign up for the free weekly newsletter (here), so you don't miss out on them! Finished Size Or check out what else I've made with these prints - origami ornaments and this free gift card holder pattern. Get my entire Handmade Holidays collection of patterns and templates here. I used these colorful Christmas prints from the Merry And Bright collection by loved the classic colors and those cute vintage Christmas illustrations – oh, and the gift boxes and the green ornaments were my favorites! Also, mixing large and small prints made it easy for me to include them into all kinds of Christmas sewing projects. If you use fat quarters with pretty Christmas prints, your diy Christmas stocking will be reversible! You only need two fat quarters of fabric, and scrap pieces for the cuff. OR do you want a printable copy of the WHOLE tutorial? Scroll to the bottom of this tutorial for more details! Check out how the no-fold cuff is constructed - easier and faster to sew, using up less fabric than other same-sized stockings with cuffs folded back. 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> Task :app:dataBindingTriggerDebug UP-TO-DATE > Task :app:dataBindingGenBaseClassesDebug UP-TO-DATE > Task :app:mergeDebugResources UP-TO-DATE > Task :app:generateDebugResources UP-TO-DATE > Task :app:generateDebugResValues UP-TO-DATE > Task :app:dataBindingMergeDependencyArtifactsDebug UP-TO-DATE > Task :app:compileDebugRenderscript NO-SOURCE Daemon will be stopped at the end of the build To honour the JVM settings for this build a single-use Daemon process will be forked. Failed fetching git branch from git directory: D:\Jenkins\workspace\ce05e7e74e92430\.git Executing command: cmd /c git log -pretty=format:%s -1 $ cmd.exe /C "D:\Jenkins\workspace\ce05e7e74e92430\gradlew.bat =86 =robo =develop -init-script testDebug artifactoryPublish -b adle & exit %%ERRORLEVEL%%" SystemProperty("", "true") Robolectric & Android Version I've tried to turn on logging with the following but I don't seem to get any additional logging Any suggestions on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated. I've been unable to find a solution, so I'm seeking your guidance on how to resolve this issue.Īt the very least, I'd like to enable more detailed logging for Robolectric to see the exact calls being made to Maven. It seems that I haven't configured Robolectric to properly communicate with Artifactory in the Jenkins environment. However, when I push the code to Jenkins it recompiles the code and reruns the tests, and all the Robolectric tests fail because they can't download the dependencies for Robolectric. When I run the unit tests locally through a VPN, everything works fine. The downside is its non-standard date-format and the fact that it has to be downloaded separately along with the huge Xcode developer tools from Apple.ĭoes anyone know if it can be downloaded on its own, or if Apple allows redistributing it on its own? If I succeed in completing my script I'd like to share it with others, and as such it shouldn't be a huge hassle for most people to install.Īre there ways to embed terminal commands like these into a script of some sort so that people don't have to download an install a bunch of additional tools as well?īy the way, in case anyone's interested (apparently, according to lots of forum discussions on the matter, changing the creation date seems to be one of those things which are hard/impossible to do), here's the syntax I used to change a file's (a JPG in the example below) creation date to Jan 31st 2014, 13:21.// Robolectric repo config for artifactory: This may or may not be a problem for my task, but in the meantime I just found another command called setfile and it appears to do what I want (change just the creator date/time). I believe that didn't apply with earlier versions of OSX. Perhaps there are better ways to do this.Īfter several tests I found out you can't change the creation date to anything later than the already existing creation date, only earlier. With my limited experience in scripting I'm thinking that the time/date value EXIFtool finds (using a terminal command in a "Run shell script" action) could be passed on as a variable to whatever can write the creation date. Unfortunately EXIFtool doesn't have the ability to write system-related stuff like that, so I need to look into other tools for that specific job. I'll be using the command-line tool EXIFtool to read an image-file's time/date tag inside its EXIF header, then write that date back to the same file's creation date (because certain image software messes with the creation date, so fetching it back from the EXIF header will fix that). I should have mentioned this initially, but do you know if it could be used to create an Automator application where the actual date to be changed to is determined by the results of another tool? It seems to be limited to the following two options:ġ) change date created to: current date and time But one of the issues is that the tools the poster referenced only work on Windows. The script makes that really post, and interesting that they consider what Parallels did "amateurish". Or I can post a manual procedure - but that's complicated if your system language is not US English as you have to go to Microsoft to find the files for the download. I'd appreciate some kind souls to test it out before I include it as part of the Companion. I have a prototype script that automates the build process. And it works on the Mac with only one open-source package download. The ISO build process from a downloaded ESD from Microsoft is actually relatively quick compared to building from. And Parallels' note that they are getting Windows "from Microsoft", while technically true, isn't exactly the same as getting an ISO from Microsoft. I'm still not finding anywhere that Microsoft is providing a ISO, but having an ESD is big step forward. Similar to what Fusion does for its easy install where supported. The Parallels installation process is injecting something in the install, though, since there are a lot of questions in the Parallels installation from ISO that are being answered for you. Keep your fingers what I'm seeing in reverse engineering the process, Parallels appears to be taking the bits for the arm64 boot loader that Microsoft provides in the ESD. If this works out, I'm set to remove all references to uupdump from the Companion guide in favor of this process. It's installing files to the hard drive right now, and in about an hour or so I should have a working VM. I'm going through final testing right now, but the initial tests have the ISO booting entering Windows Setup. The reverse-engineered process uses the utilities in the open source package wimlib-imagex, and the macOS command hdiutil. What they're doing is not rocket science. I did not feel comfortable extracting stuff from the Parallels ISO, so I went down the reverse engineering path to see exactly what they were doing. Given the information the (the link was very helpful) - I have reversed engineer the process that Parallels is using to get a Windows 11 ARM ISO directly from Microsoft (well, they don't get the ISO from Microsoft, but they are getting the ESD and using open source and macOS tools to create the ISO). Hey everyone! I think I have a breakthrough. So who blinks first? Microsoft to release publicly the ISO for Windows 11 ARM, or VMware to provide a similar ISO for download like Parallels does? So, if you have this Windows 11 ARM ISO that Parallels downloaded for you, the installation of a Fusion Windows 11 ARM VM just got a little easier. So far the VM is behaving fine and updating itself to the 2023-02 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 for arm64-based Systems. No issues with the ISO and no changes to the procedures in the Companion Guide. I skipped the procedures in the Companion Guide for building an ISO from and jumped straight to the procedure to create a VM and install from ISO. The ISO appears to be a pretty vanilla version of Windows 11 22H2 (build 22621.525). So I asked myself: "Self, I wonder if this ISO will work with Fusion?" Parallels tech notes say that they are downloading the file "from Microsoft". The first thing that it did was to download a Windows 11 ARM installation ISO file named:Ģ_release_svc_refresh_CLIENTCONSUMER_RET_A64FRE_en-us.iso After installation I proceeded to have it install a Windows 11 VM. I installed the trial version of Parallels Desktop 18 as I was curious what build of Windows 11 they were using. I ran a little experiment after seeing what Microsoft and Parallels announced this week. You may be required to hold a CLP for a specific amount of time before you can test for your CDL endorsement.A 10 Year History Record check is required as part of the application to ensure a history of safe driving.Apply for a commercial learner's permit (CLP) with the P and/or S endorsements.The process for application for endorsement S or P will vary according to your state. This means you must pass the “P" endorsement test prior to taking the “S" endorsement test.Ī school bus endorsement requires you to be able to load and unload children, properly operate the lights, stop signs, and other warning devices on the school bus, and other needs specific to transporting children on a pre-determined bus route to and from their homes and their school. 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Nearby is my general with a decent stack. Then I reached turn +/- 60 and there's this full Sicily Stack (whom I'm at war with) on my lands. I can't remember what I did, but it seemed to stop crashing there and my game continued on. This was when Portugal moved an army into the fog of war. Finished a Short English Campaign before jumping into another English Campaign, this time a Long one.Īt some point during the game (round about 50 turns I think) the game crashed with the R6025 Pure Virtual Function error. I've recently started playing MTW2 again after buying it this weekend. If you do, keep it shored up with a good garrison, Genoa doesn't take kindly to you robbing their former capital away from them.This is for the unmodded Vanilla campaign game (Win 10, 64-bit): Hard starts off normally challenging, but it quickly becomes too easy once you get into the midgame.īIG HINT: I know Milan is a tempting target early game, but don't wear yourself out taking it. Give VH another chance, as it remains challenging throughout the campaign. The early game is ALWAYS the hardest part. Let them strike first, they will be marked as the aggressive party, which harms their reputationīeating VH requires a lot of knowledge of how the ingame politics works, mainly keeping yourself from being overwhelmed by mass enemies. Sicily and Genoa (and probably the HRE) WILL attack you within the first 20 turns. If they're fighting with the Romans, they won't divert their full attention to you. If your campaign will put you into conflict with the Byzantines at some point, ally with their neighbors, such as the Seljooks, Crusader States, Cumans, Khwarezemian Empire, etc. In vanilla Med2, the Byzantines were wimps, but in SS they're the most dangerous faction in the game. Byzantines are naturally inclined to attack Venice. Don't rely on the Hungarians as Venice, their AI is geared to hate you. Hungary is naturally inclined to attack Venice. If you must go to war with someone, try to keep the war on one side of your kingdom. Look at the other faction locations, ally yourself with the ones who are geographically out of the way so they have no reason to attack you, but will have reasons to attack their neighbors. Fighting everyone right away is a good way to get a crusade on your doorstep. Sometimes it's you, sometimes someone else (I'm looking at you, HRE). Everyone allies with the Pope, then when the Catholic nations go at it, someone is naturally going to get shafted. Ally with the Papal States, but don't expect it to hold. Everybody hates rebels, conquering them will give you a little reputation with everyone only hit the rebel settlements, hit them hard and fast. What is Venice's objectives? Kill the other Italian states? Regardless, let me give you some tips on how to better situate yourself early game: I haven't played as Venice on SS yet, but I can tell you you're gonna be in for a mosh pit of combat, being surrounded by five factions within walking distance of your capital. Battle difficulty is pretty self evident, but campaign difficulty is a little more obtuse, especially on SS where the AI has been tinkered with.Ĭampaign VH, the enemy is naturally more warlike, and is more organized with their military efforts that is, they will come at you with a full stack instead of some pisspiddin spear militia. Very hard what? Campaign? Battle? There's two separate difficulties. We think that many other stars have exoplanets around them but probably not all of them. We are currently just exploring what processes drive the formation and evolution of other solar systems, and what we can learn from this about our own solar systems (and Earth’s!) history. In addition, our solar system as well as all of the others orbit around the black hole in the centre of the Milky Way! But what is even more, some of these other solar systems actually have not one, but two or more stars (like Tatooine!) - and then these stars perform a rhythmic dance around each other, together with their exoplanets. For one, all the exoplanets orbit their stars, just like our planets (such as Earth and Mars) orbit our sun. Do solar systems move?Ībsolutely, and in many ways. And since often we find multiple of them orbiting the same star, we can count about 4,000 other solar systems. But since then we have discovered already more than 5,000 planets orbiting stars other than our sun (so-called exoplanets). Yes, so many! If you had asked anyone just 30 years ago, the answer would have been "we don’t know". Are there other solar systems in the Milky Way? Whenever I am not searching for new worlds, I enjoy exploring our own Earth, travelling, and the outdoors (scuba diving, rock climbing and hiking). I am fascinated by our quest to find Earth-sized exoplanets around small stars, and the big question of how stellar flares impact their habitability. I am the European Space Agency (ESA) Project Scientist and Mission Representative of CHEOPS (the Charactersing Exoplanets Satellite), and a science team member of several other space- and ground-based telescopes. They're also mostly made of gases like hydrogen, helium and ammonia rather than of rocky surfaces, although astronomers believe some or all of them may have solid cores. The four large outer worlds - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - are sometimes called the Jovian or "Jupiter-like" planets because of their enormous size relative to the terrestrial planets. Pluto also has a rocky, albeit frozen, surface but has never been grouped with the four terrestrials. The inner four planets closest to the sun - Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars - are often called the " terrestrial planets" because their surfaces are rocky. Related: 15 stunning places on Earth that look like they're from another planet Types of planets in the solar system The alleged "Planet Nine," also called "Planet X," is believed to be about 10 times the mass of Earth and 5,000 times the mass of Pluto. Pluto is truly way out there and on a wildly tilted, elliptical orbit (two of the several reasons it was demoted).Īstronomers, however, are still hunting for another possible planet in our solar system, a true ninth planet, after mathematical evidence of its existence was revealed on Jan. If you insist on including Pluto, it would come after Neptune on the list. What is the output video quality of MakeMKV files? Yes, It can rip Blu-ray discs to lossless formats like FLAC and WAV, in addition to MKV. Yes, It can handle copy-protected discs, but you will need to have the appropriate decryption software installed on your computer to do so.Ĭan MakeMKV rip Blu-ray discs to lossless formats? However, it may prompt you to purchase a key after a certain number of days, but you can continue using the software without purchasing a key.ĭoes MakeMKV support copy-protected discs? Yes, the app is FREE to use during its beta period, which has been extended indefinitely. MakeMKV is a software program that can be used to convert Blu-ray and DVD discs into high-quality MKV files, which can be played on a wide variety of devices. For example, freeware transcoding tools can be used to transcode MKV files produced from a Blu-ray disc back into a Blu-ray image or set of M2TS files, while maintaining the original quality of the files. However, since all meta-information is preserved in MKV files and compressed media data ( video, audio, subtitles) is not altered in any way, it is always possible to transcode MKV files back into their original format without any losses. While playing MKV files on a computer is generally not an issue, many hardware players require transcoding of MKV files into a format that the particular hardware player can understand. Due to its open and patent-free nature, Matroska has gained widespread support and is quickly becoming the industry standard for movie storage.ĭespite its advantages as a storage format, playing MKV files directly can sometimes be problematic. This allows for a complete movie with multiple sound and subtitle tracks, chapter information, and thumbnail to be stored in a single file. The acronym MKV stands for " Matroska Video", which refers to a container file format capable of holding unlimited video, audio, and subtitle tracks, as well as any associated metadata. In addition, MakeMKV for Windows 11/10 offers the option to stream decrypted video instantly without any intermediate conversion, making it possible to watch your Blu-ray and DVD discs on your preferred device and operating system with your favorite player. Or T-lZt8o9nM99zaQRod7dAiCZudjEmOnY1sSlVJFbG Make MKV is free while in beta, the current free beta key is: These files can be played on various platforms using a wide range of players, and can also be converted to other formats such as DVD and Blu-ray discs. The MKV format allows for multiple video and audio tracks to be stored along with their meta-information and chapter details. It acts as a format converter or "transcoder" that converts video clips from proprietary, often encrypted, discs into MKV files without altering the original content. MakeMKV is an easy-to-use software solution that enables you to convert your own videos into a free and patents-unencumbered format that can be played on any device. |
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