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Android Developer Verification on Google Play Console

NG Android, Useful

The purpose of this is to register package names and signing keys for all apps that you distribute for Android. In most cases, Google automatically registers package names and certificates used to sign the package from its developer console. In case where it fails to do it, or in cases where some apps are using different package names or different certificates for different stores, we may need to manually finish the process. The first step is to find out your app’s SHA-256 certificate fingerprint. We will use Keytool utility to retreive this information. Keytool is a built-in Java utility included in the JDK/JRE used to manage cryptographic keys, X.509 certificate chains, and trusted certificates. On windows, this tool (keytool.exe) can be located inside the bin directory of your Java installation. Add this location to the system PATH in widnows so that this tool can be executed from any directory. There[…]

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How to fill out Data Safety section in Samsung Galaxy Store Seller Portal for Admob

NG AdMob, Android, Mobile

If you are using Admob in your Android apps, and have uploaded your apps on Samsung Galaxy Store Sellter Portal, you need to fill Data Safety section while registering your app. Below are the details you need to fill In the country section, select “USA” as Admob data is stored in Google data centers which is an American company. The data is considered both collected as well as shared so fill out same details in shared section of the form.

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Install Wan 2.2 and run using ConfyUI

NG AI, How to, Tool

Go to official ConfyUI site (https://www.comfy.org/) and download the version for your system. After downloading the installer, run installer Select GPU ComfyUI can be sensitive to low virtual memory settings.Press Windows Key + I to open Settings on Windows 11.Navigate to System > About.Click on Advanced system settings to open System Properties.Go to the Advanced tab and click Settings under “Performance”.In the Performance Options dialog, go to the Advanced tab and click Change under “Virtual memory”.Uncheck: “Automatically manage paging file size”.Select your system drive, choose Custom size, and set the initial and maximum sizes to be more than 10 GB (e.g., 20 GB).Click OK to save the changes and reboot your computer. Now come back to installation and finish the installation by going through the steps as described earlier. After installation, run ComfyUI which will open as following Click on Templates on left side menu bar whch will open a[…]

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Generate a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate on the windows using Crypt-LE and install it on the GoDaddy shared hosting

NG GoDaddy Hosting, Hosting, How to, Let’s Encrypt, Tool, Useful

Crypt-LE implements the functionality to call Let’s Encrypt’s API and generate free SSL certificates for your domains. It can also be used to generate private RSA/ECC keys and Certificate Signing Requests without having a need to use openssl command line tool and the good thing is that it does not need you to install anything on your system. For Windows we can just download and unzip the latest release of the client and unzip it to a folder. You can read other details about this tool on its github page. Now let us simply jump to the action which is pretty straightforward. Unzipping windows setup gives us le64.exe file which we can run from a command prompt without any need of administrator priviledges on the system. Run command prompt and then go to the folder where le64.exe utility exists. You can also add path of this utility in widows system[…]

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Generate Subtitles using Audacity Audio Editor

NG How to, Quick Tip, Uncategorized, Useful

First we need to download and install subtitle plugin for Audacity. Download Subtitle Generator Plugin here. This plugin converts label tracks into subtitles (SRT or LRC). Install plugin on your system as described on github. After installing the plugin, launch Audacity and open your audio file for which subtitles are to be generated. Select the audio part as following and hit Crtl + B key Control + B key opens the screen as following to enter the label Type your subtitles in label box After adding all labels (by selecting audio sections one by one and adding labels to it), go to Tools -> Subtitle Generator -> Select a location and file name to save your subtitle file.

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Convert Image Sequence to a Video using FFmpeg

NG How to, Quick Tip, Tool, Useful

Download latest FFmpeg build from its official website here On windows, download the zip archive and unzip to a folder (for ex; c:\FFmpeg). Add bin path of the utility (for ex; c:\FFmpeg\bin) to the system path using environment variables on your windows system since the ffmpeg.exe file will not be automatically found by the windows system. Now copy all sequenced images to a folder. Launch command prompt in windows and change its location to the images folder. Now simply run the following command to generate a video from the images In the above command, filename-%06d.jpg is the filename of image sequence files with leading zeros. This filename will process images from filename-000001.jpgg to filename-999999.jpg. You also need to define a frame rate for videos using -r option. The output file gets created in the same folder where the images are located.

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