Things You Should Know

Useful Stuff
  • MediaInfo is a free open-source program that displays technical information about media files, as well as tag information for many audio and video files. You can use it to easily check a video's resolution, or an audio's bitrate.
  • A Checksum can be used to compare two files and determine if they are the same file. To put it simply, it uses the file to generate a string of letters and numbers. If the strings of two files exactly match, it means they are the same file. This way, two people can compare their files without having to download each other's files. It's also more accurate than comparing file sizes because Mac and Windows use different metrics for determining file size. You can use Terminal to do checksums, but an easier way is to use OnlineMD5. Just be sure that the "Checksum type" you select is the same for both files.
  • Mac and Windows computers define kilobytes differently.  Mac defines it as 1000 bytes, and Windows as 1024 bytes. You can use the Bit Calculator to convert between them.
  • Kid3 Audio Tagger is a free open-source program that you can use to edit audio metadata, tags, and add album art.
  • Aegisub is a free open-source subtitle editor.
  • NameChanger is a free program (for Mac only) that can help you quickly rename multiple files systematically.
  • Text files (.txt) can have different encoding. This means that sometimes unusual characters like "É" might be represented as a random symbol like "…" when the text editor tries to read it using the wrong Encoding format. There is no easy way to fix this (that I've found, at least). What I do is use a text editor called Atom to automatically detect a text file's encoding and copy and paste the fixed result.
  • MultCloud is a website that can be used to manage all your accounts with various cloud services. It's free. It's most useful purpose is to log into all your MEGA accounts at once and prevent your files from being deleted after 3 months due to inactivity. Its other uses include being able to check what's stored on any of your accounts, and transferring files between accounts. A free MultCloud account gets you 30GB of data transfer per month, but you can pay for more. There are no limits to how many cloud accounts you can add to MultCloud.
How to Google​ 
Being an effective Googler will not only help your trading game, it’ll help your game in general.
  • Using quotes around key terms in your searches will return an exact match, not an approximate one.
                “Book of Mormon” “Nic Rouleau”
  • Using a dash before a term will remove that term from your results.
                -Ben -Platt “Book of Mormon”
  • You can confine your search to results only from a certain site.
                site:weebly.com “Norm Lewis” “Phantom of the Opera”
  • Returns results where two search terms appear a number (n) of words (or less) apart from each other using AROUND(n). “n” stands for a number of your choice.
                Newsies AROUND(10) Netflix (would return results where "Newsies" is 10 words or less apart from "Netflix")
                “Pierce Cassedy” AROUND(20) “Book of Mormon” site:weebly.com -Rory -O'Malley