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Eric Cheng

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Universal Control

Apple’s Universal Control loses connection constantly

As a long time Synergy user, I was excited to switch to Universal Control for single keyboard and mouse sharing between two Macs. Now that I'm on OS X Ventura v13.5.2, I find that it constantly disconnects...

Meta Horizon Workrooms “lean back” move is the most immersive thing

This might seem like a minor thing, but when we're screen sharing in presentation mode in Meta Horizon Workrooms (a VR workspace), sometimes someone starts talking and it makes me "lean back" to establish eye contact. We're lined up classroom style, and the room is set up to allow everyone to see a large shared screen...

Exporting Evernote notebooks

I am finally leaving Evernote (exporting Notes to Markdown)

I've been watching Evernote stagnate and become less useful to me for many years and based on anecdotes from many friends, a lot of people are in a similar state. I've tried migrating to OneNote, Notion, Mem, and others, but no migration path has ever really worked...

Visual Studio Code

Using Whisper and GPT to summarize YouTube videos

I probably spend an average of 30-60 minutes a day on YouTube listening to amazing experts share knowledge about breaking news. After seeing Auto-GPT in action, I finally decided to do some coding with Whisper and GPT, and created a little program that fetches YouTube videos, transcribes them with Whisper, and summarizes them with GPT.

Haydnesque Scherzo, composed by ChatGPT

ChatGPT (GPT-4) music composition experiments

I had a little conversation with ChatGPT (GPT-3.5 and GPT-4) about musical composition, which was interesting. I have to imagine that if someone threw a ton of sheet music at the next version of GPT, it could become proficient (and maybe even genius) at composition in every genre (including crazy mashups).

Using ChatGPT and OpenAI’s Whisper to transcribe and translate old family archives

Tonight, using AI, I transcribed and translated an old, digitized audio tape into a bilingual SRT for almost literally pennies. The recprding is from 1979 and is of my parents and me speaking Mandarin to each other while telling / reading stories. I was 3 years old (!).

Default webloc files don't allow changes to Open with

Changing the Mac OS X default app for .webloc files to Google Chrome

I sometimes like to save web locations as files when it makes sense to bookmark in my file system rather than in a browser’s Bookmarks Manager or in a text document. On Macs, dragging a webpage icon from a browser to Finder creates a file with the extension “.webloc”; Annoyingly, regardless of how one’s default ...

Tuning the MSI Stealth GS65 Laptop for Less Heat and Fan Noise

MSI Stealth GS65 laptop owners will notice that they run hot, and the fan kicks in pretty aggressively (and loudly!). If you're OK tinkering with Windows tools, can you make the laptop run more efficiently (cooler/quieter), and set up a secondary power profile that makes it almost silent, while retaining all of the GPU power.

Alfred + lolcate: a first attempt at a Spotlight replacement for Macs that supports network volumes

The only utility I miss after switching back to a Mac from Windows is Everything (search) by voidtools. It is a blazingly-fast file and folder indexer that provides a better-than-Spotlight solution to searching for files in Windows...