[ { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/showcase/hugo/showcase-1/", "title": "MtPelion 1", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "Showcase 1", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/showcase/hugo/showcase-2/", "title": "MtPelion 2", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "Showcase 2", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/", "title": "", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/music-streaming-services/", "title": "Music Streaming Services", "tags": ["Streaming"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Music Streaming Services\n Spotify YouTube Music Apple Music Plex Tidal Google Play Music Qobuz Amazon Music HD Deezer Hoopla Jango Earbits SoundCloud AccuRadio Amazon Prime Music " }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/", "title": "Posts", "tags": ["index"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "Post page", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/tags/streaming/", "title": "Streaming", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/tags/", "title": "Tags", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/tags/development/", "title": "Development", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/transactional-email-services/", "title": "Transactional Email Services", "tags": ["Web", "Development"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Transactional Email Services\n Mailgun Sendinblue Sendgrid Mailjet Mailchimp SparkPost - Message Systems Postmark Amazon SES Pepipost Mailerlite SendPulse Mandrill ImprovMX Nodemailer " }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/tags/web/", "title": "Web", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/tags/video/", "title": "Video", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/video-streaming-services/", "title": "Video Streaming Services", "tags": ["Streaming", "Video"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Video Streaming Services\n AT\u0026amp;T TV Apple TV+ Amazon Prime Video Disney+ Netflix The Criterion Channel CBS All Access DC Universe HBO Now YouTube TV Acorn TV ESPN+ BritBox FuboTV Starz Hulu Hulu + Live TV AT\u0026amp;T WatchTV Philo Showtime Sling TV DirecTV Now/AT\u0026amp;T TV Now T-Mobile TVision Home " }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/tags/free/", "title": "Free", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/tags/games/", "title": "Games", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/parsecgaming/", "title": "Parsecgaming", "tags": ["Free", "Utilities", "Games"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Parsec is an utility for desktop capture that is used for cloud-based gaming through streaming.\nIt can also be used with any other application like CAD.\nIt is free and available for many operating systems including Android.\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/tags/utilities/", "title": "Utilities", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/tags/ai/", "title": "AI", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/tags/machine-learning/", "title": "Machine Learning", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/paperspace/", "title": "Paperspace", "tags": ["AI", "Development", "Free", "Machine Learning", "Games"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Paperspace is offering cloud machine learning, AI online GPU products and cloud gaming.\nThere is a free tier for some products.\nIt seems there is a connection to fast.ai where there a are lot of free courses for deep learning and AI subjects.\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/live-streaming-services/", "title": "Live Streaming Services", "tags": ["Streaming"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Live Streaming Services\n fuboTV Hulu Live TV Philo Disney+ Sling Youtube TV ESPN+ " }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/tags/medical/", "title": "Medical", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/telemedicine/", "title": "Telemedicine", "tags": ["Medical", "Free", "Web"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Fast Internet connections have enabled applications that previously were unthinkable or unattainably expensive.\nTelemedicine is one of them and is really the future of medicine.\nA doctor in New York City could fill free appointment slots examining examining patients from Upstate New York cities like Jamestown.\ndoxy.me offers a HIPAA compliant online telemedicine product that offers a free tier.\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/tags/api/", "title": "API", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/intelligent-tagging/", "title": "Intelligent Tagging", "tags": ["Web", "Free", "API"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Intelligent tagging uses natural language processing and other AI technologies to infer meaning from unstructured data. Apparently there is a free limited API for that\ncalled open calais by Refinitiv formerly Reuters at https://developers.refinitiv.com/open-permid/intelligent-tagging-restful-api .\nThe API looks intimidating and an application must be made before getting a key.\nA preview can be seen at https://permid.org/onecalaisViewer\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/apple-store-vs-play-store/", "title": "Apple Store vs Play Store", "tags": ["Apps", "Games", "Development"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Inconceivable! Apple has paid out to developers $155 billion via the iOS App store while Google only $80 billion through Play store. Almost double!\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/tags/apps/", "title": "Apps", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/trendolizer/", "title": "Trendolizer", "tags": ["Web"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Trendolizer appears to be some kind of news aggregator engine that has an automatic republishing component.\nIt is a nice idea and can be seen live at www.trendolizer.com .\nAn obvious improvement would be to use a summarization software like summly and public domain images for reposting.\nThere is also an offer for a demo at get.trendolizer.com.\nIt looks like it is powering leadstories.com a hoax debunking site.\nThere was an EU funded similar project for journalists many many years ago that was focusing mostly on RSS feeds like Google Reader.\nSuprisingly after checking it still exists https://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html and there are mobile apps also.\nThere is also a modern implementation of this idea at https://newsaggregator.oii.ox.ac.uk/ an EU funded Junk News Aggregator.\nA more sophisticated software can be found at https://www.gdeltproject.org/ and tried at http://analysis.gdeltproject.org/ .\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/octanerender/", "title": "OctaneRender", "tags": ["Free", "Games", "Development"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Octane Render is an unbiased rendering application with real-time capability by OTOY. There is a free tier for Unreal Engine, Unity and Blender.\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/jazzed/", "title": "Jazzed", "tags": ["Free", "Streaming"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Jazzed is an audio and video streaming platform that is dedicated to jazz. Jazzed is scheduled to launch on February 12 and offers a generous free tier.\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/tags/android/", "title": "Android", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/testfairy/", "title": "TestFairy", "tags": ["Free", "Android", "Development"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "TestFairy is an mobile app testing platform that offers centralized distribution, access to testers, data retention of testing sessions, recorded sessions , webhooks, continued development, user feedback and access to logs.\nThere is a free tier and an an essentials kit that is offered for free. Similar platforms are TestFlight, Firebase App Distribution, HockeyApp, Deploygate, Appaloosa.\nAn SDK for testing that can be incorporated in a beta mobile app before it\u0026rsquo;s distributed by one of the previous platforms is Instabug.\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/tags/passive-income/", "title": "Passive Income", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/seekingalpha/", "title": "SeekingAlpha", "tags": ["Passive Income", "Free"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Seeking Alpha is a crowd-sourced content service for financial markets.\nThere is a free tier and it is a very useful source of information for Do-It-Yourself investors.\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/tags/hugo/", "title": "Hugo", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/hugo-archetypes/", "title": "Hugo Archetypes", "tags": ["Hugo"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "A new post can be easily created With Hugo using\nhugo new posts/new-post.md\nThe default content of this new post is determined by the content of the file posts.md located in directory archetypes.\nAltering this file to one\u0026rsquo;s liking is the easiest way to speed up creating new content. For example including frequently\nused tags and shortcodes would really make a difference reducing the boring stuff of post creation and allow concentrating\non the content. All the info about hugo archetypes is at the hugo manual here:\nhttps://gohugo.io/content-management/archetypes/\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/spotify/", "title": "Spotify", "tags": ["Free", "Streaming"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Spotify is an audio streaming platform that offers a free tier.\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/zacks-investment-research/", "title": "Zacks Investment Research", "tags": ["Passive Income", "Free"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Zacks Investment Research is a retail investor firm similar to Morningstar, SEENSCO and Valueline.\nVarious resources such as the Zacks Analyst Blog, securities research reports and a daily newsletter are available at their web site at https://www.zacks.com/ with a free membership.\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/wwe-network-free-tier/", "title": "WWE Network Free Tier", "tags": ["Free", "Streaming"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Network is trying to attract new subscribers and has launched free tier for its subscription service.\nCurrently it is accessible at https://watch.WWE.com for visitors that are not logged into an active subscriber account.\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/google-stadia/", "title": "Google_Stadia", "tags": ["Free", "Games"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Google Stadia is a promising new cloud gaming service. Up to 120 games will be released in 2020 and excitingly a free tier will be available in the next few months.\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/video-game-retailers/", "title": "Video Game Retailers", "tags": ["Games"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Video Game Retailer List\n Steam HumbleBundle Epicgames Fanatical Indiegala GreenManGaming Origin Uplay BattleNet Microsoft Store Rockstar Games Amazon Digital Game Store " }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/markdown-help/", "title": "Markdown Help", "tags": ["Hugo"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Links for helping with markdown syntax\nhttps://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet\nhttps://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/\nhttps://gohugo.io/content-management/shortcodes/\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/stress-grey-hair-magnesium/", "title": "Stress Grey Hair Magnesium", "tags": ["Medical"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Grey hair is connected to stress related chemical norepinephrine. Magnesium may inhibit norepinephrine release.\nWhat effect would a magnesium deficiency have on hair greying? What could cause a magnesium deficiency?\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/tags/reviews/", "title": "Reviews", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/the-crew-2/", "title": "The Crew 2", "tags": ["Reviews", "Games"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "The Crew 2 is the ultimate open world racing game and there is a free demo on steam.\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/quibi/", "title": "Quibi", "tags": ["Web"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Quibi is a short-form mobile video platform. Apparently there is a market for people that would like to watch short-form 10 minute episodes.\nAlas, what next? Virtual acting using machinima?\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/blogger/", "title": "Blogger", "tags": ["Free", "Web"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Blogger by Google is a free blog hosting service.\nPlatform limitations though make it difficult to adhere to modern web design.\nHowever skillful web developers can work around these limitations and sometimes\nproduce interesting designs.I checked at https://themeforest.net/category/blogging/blogger\nand was pleasantly surprised.\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/work-from-home/", "title": "Work From Home", "tags": ["Web"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Working from home: Apps\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/songtrust/", "title": "Songtrust", "tags": ["Passive Income"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Songtrust is the world\u0026rsquo;s largest global song royalty collection service.\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/influxdb-cloud-free-tier/", "title": "InfluxDB Cloud", "tags": ["Free"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "InfluxDB the open-source time series database provides a rate limited free tier on their cloud offering.\nIt is especially useful for operations monitoring and IoT sensor data applications.\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/nvidia-geforce-now/", "title": "Nvidia GeForce Now", "tags": ["Free", "Games"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Nvidia GeForce Now is a game streaming service that offers a 60 minutes per session free tier.\nThe difference with other game streaming services is that you can only stream their library of games\nif you already own them in Steam or Epic and take advantage of Nvidia\u0026rsquo;s high end GPUs that could\noffer ultra settings for new games even on an old Dual core PC provided your internet connection\nis fast enough.\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/aws-forums/", "title": "AWS forums", "tags": ["Web"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "A lot of AWS development info at the Amazon Web Services Discussion Forums and RSS is still available.\nhttps://forums.aws.amazon.com/\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/oracle-cloud-free-tier/", "title": "Oracle Cloud Free Tier", "tags": ["Free"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Oracle provides a free tier to their cloud offering.\nIt is quite powerful but a credit card and mobile phone is needed.\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/cloudflare/", "title": "Cloudflare", "tags": ["Web"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "Cloudflare is a very useful add on for a site.\nIt provides a cache for the contents of a site reducing its load and also it\u0026rsquo;s a CDN that helps a site to be accessible quickly from all over the world.\nUnfortunately there are some side effects. From the moment you change the nameservers cpanel is not accessible any more.\nThe cpanel subdomain must also be included when cloudflare is configured in order to avoid this problem.\nThe same must be done for the mail subdomains and any other subdomains that have been defined.\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/converting-video-to-3gp-format/", "title": "Converting video to 3gp Format", "tags": ["Utilities"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "I needed to convert a video to the .3gp format so it can play on a cheap feature phone.\nThe obvious utility to use is FFMPEG but it is very difficult to get it right.\nIn order to convert from one format to another you enter\nffmpeg -i myvideo.avi myvideo.3gp\nUnfortunately the first video is a high resolution one but the resulting 3gp will be used on a 240x320 phone.\nTherefore the input video must also be resized but the H.263 codec standard accepts only sizes like 128x96 ,176x144 352x288.\nSo the ffmpeg command becomes\nffmpeg -i myvideo.avi -s 176x144 myvideo.3gp\nAnother problem occurs immediately as ffmpeg displays\nOnly 8000Hz sample rate supported\nThe ffmpeg command must be changed again to\nffmpeg -i myvideo.avi -s 176x144 -ar 8000 -ac 1 myvideo.3gp\nFinally problem solved or is it.\nLooking at the result it looks like ffmpeg complains about the output video bitrate but nevertheless chooses the maximum one and finishes the task.\nIn order to not get any warning the -ab flag must be included\nso the final version of the ffmpeg command is\nffmpeg -i myvideo.avi -s 176x144 -ab 12.2k -ar 8000 -ac 1 myvideo.3gp\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/posts/hugo/", "title": "Hugo", "tags": ["Hugo"], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "This site is build with Hugo. Hugo is a static site generator written in Go.\nIt is very fast, consists of a single executable and it can be used in a multitude of operating systems.\nThere are two versions to download. Even though there is no official document describing the differences the extended version is the best one. Apparently some themes require the presence of the extended version.\nInstallation is very simple.Extract the contents of the directory and move to a directory that is in the path of the system.\nThen after creating the directory where your new site will be stored enter\nhugo new site mynewsite\nand a new directory mynewsite will be created.\nDownloading themes is simple no git use is necessary.\nGo to the github url of the theme and press the green \u0026ldquo;download or clone\u0026rdquo; button and choose download zip.\nInstalling a theme is as simple as extracting the zip file to a seperate diectory in the themes directory and changing the theme name in the .toml file in the base directory.\nThen after following the individual instructions of the theme the first post can be created by entering\nhugo new posts/my-first-post.md\nA new file will be created in the content\\posts directory.This file can be edited in any text editor.\nAfter saving the changes the site is visible locally by visiting the url http:\\\\localhost:1313 with any browser after entering at the base directory\nhugo serve\nThe nice thing is that if the file my-first-post.md is changed the site is updated instantly.\nWhen all the content is created then the final site for the day can be created for uploading by entering at the base directory\nhugo -D\nOf course all this trouble can be avoided by just uploading the .md files at a service like zeit, github pages or netlify.\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/about/", "title": "About", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "MtPelion", "content": "MtPelion\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/showcase/hugo/", "title": "Hugo", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "Showcase", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/showcase/", "title": "Showcase overview", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "My portfolio, repos, works overview page", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/gallery/cartoon/", "title": "Cartoon", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "cartoon gallery", "content": "Sample images from Pixabay\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/gallery/", "title": "Galleries", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/gallery/photo/", "title": "Photo", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "photo gallery", "content": "Sample images from Pixabay\n" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/categories/", "title": "Categories", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/pt/dir/fourth/", "title": "Fourth", "tags": [""], "categories": [], "series": [""], "description": "My fourth presentation", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/pt/", "title": "Presentations", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "Presentation list with reveal.js", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/series/", "title": "Series", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/pt/third/", "title": "Third", "tags": [""], "categories": [], "series": [""], "description": "My third presentation", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/pt/second/", "title": "Second", "tags": [""], "categories": [], "series": [""], "description": "My second presentation", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/pt/first/", "title": "First", "tags": [""], "categories": [], "series": [""], "description": "My first presentation", "content": "" }, { "uri": "http://mtpelion.com/archive/", "title": "Archive", "tags": [], "categories": [], "series": [], "description": "Archive Page", "content": "archive page\n" }]