Wednesday, November 30, 2022

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.

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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

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

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.

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