Personal Media Organizer: digiKam

Looking to replace cloud solutions such as Google Photo's, ACDSee and Adobe with an offline application that won't have your personal data? Try digiKam. This thing is amazing and has so many feature, it runs offline and can be a portable app. It supports Windows, Linux and MacOS. You can use it to organize, modify, tag and consume your digital photographs and videos.

 

 

Site: https://www.digikam.org/

Top Features:

Face Recognition - Automatically identify people (offline, no internet) once you train the facial recognition component. It works fairly well.

No Cloud - No need to worry about your personal data leaving your desktop.

Exif Viewer - See on a map where the photo was taken and a small thumbnail of the image if GPS data is in the exif data of the photo.

Tags - Use custom tags to quickly search and view your content

TikTok: Video currently unavailable - Fix

 

If you click on a video or saved TikTok link and get the error message "Video currently unavailable", here's what to do.

 

Go to https://ssstik.io, enter the URL of the video you cannot access and click download.

There you go, you have a copy of the video downloaded and can now view it.

External Hard Drive Turned RAW (Fixed!)

Recently my 4TB exFat external USB Hard Drive (HDD) turned RAW, most likely due to not safely removing or some sort of corruption. I spent hours trying to get it back without having to recover each file. Both Windows and Linux could not read it, the drive appeared to be unformatted (no filesystem). Here's how I quickly fixed it and was able to get back all my data and use of the drive within minutes.

 

Boot a Ubuntu desktop (you can use a Live CD if you don't have one installed), open up the program called 'Disk Utility' and note the drive location (ex. /dev/sdb) of the affected drive.

Launch the app/program called 'Terminal' and type sudo exfatfsck <drivelocation> which should look something like this: "sudo exfatfsck /dev/sdb"

Normally this will fix it (has in the past for me), however this time I got the error "ERROR: invalid VBR checksum 0x7d00716 (expected 0xc069f9f)."

So, I connected the USB drive to a Mac Desktop/Laptop. Opened up the program/app called 'Terminal' and typed Typed "diskutil list" and hit enter.

Saw that my 4TB HDD was /dev/disk2, then typed "sudo fsck_exfat -d /dev/disk2" and hit enter.

Saw a bunch of lines scroll by and waited to see a prompt that asked me to "update?", so I typed "y" and hit enter. Once it was done, I exited and unplugged the device. Went back to my machine, plugged it in and saw that I was able to see all the data again like nothing happened!!

Hope this helps someone.

If you have NTFS or FAT, you can try "sudo fsck /dev/sdb" in Linux to see if it fixes the issue for you.

 All credit goes to /u/bgdawes on reddit, in this post.

Note: I take no responsibility for data loss. I tried soo many things including free software such as TestDisk, MiniTool Partition Wizard and AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition. This is what did it for me and was the fastest and easiest by far.

Android Phone No Sound (Fixed)

 If you are experiencing no sound from any of your android applications/apps and the ringer is still working, I may have a fix for you. The issue is most likely due to your headphone jack, either via software or physically (port may be dirty and shorting the connection so the device thinks there is a headphone plugged in).

Fix 1 - Check Android Services

Go to Settings, Apps/App Info, Choose Disabled Apps (or All Apps if you don't have this option) and look for any that may be related to sound. Re-enable it and reboot the device. If that does not work or nothing is disabled that may be affecting sound, move on to fix #2.

Fix 2 - Install Headphone Disable App

Install a headphone disabling app from the app store and disable the headphone and that should work. Be sure that you trust the app and the app permissions are acceptable to you. I take no responsibility for any app you install. I tested using the iTech Solutions Apps (4th from the left below), which worked, however I did not like the permissions it required so I uninstalled it until I can find a better one.

Hope this works for you like it did for me! Comment and let me know.