🧐Updates: • PDFCPU now supports the "decrypt" command (and some others) for PDF 2.0 files as of version v0.8.0, allowing you to remove edit protection for them 📝 Some tips based on questions I've seen a couple times: • For basically all of these, you need to run them from within the command line, NOT by double clicking, otherwise it will just pop up the cmd window and immediately close. On recent versions of Windows, you can do this by right clicking in the folder with the exe and clicking "Open in Terminal". If you don't see the option this tutorial page might help: www.elevenforum.com/t/add-or-remove-open-in-terminal-context-menu-in-windows-11.2479/ • To make it so you can run the 'cheat' program (and any others you want) without having to navigate to the folder containing the exe file first, you can add the location of such exe's to the so-called "PATH environment variable". Basically Windows has a built-in list of locations in Windows, where if an exe is in one of those locations, you can still run the program by doing like "cheat.exe" even if the cmd window isn't opened in the same folder as the exe. This video is a good tutorial on how to edit this setting: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pq2CqpSTzMiVl4k.html

"FFMPEG: The most widely used multimedia transcoder on at least two planets" - The team behind ffmpeg added this into a presentation because Nasa uses it in some of their rovers on Mars to transcode their videos before sending back to Earth.

0:00 - Intro 0:20 - Cheat 3:34 - YT-DLP ( video downloader ) 4:30 - ImageMagick ( format converter ) 6:16 - FFmpeg ( edit / convert mp4 ) 7:11 - Err.exe ( cheatsheet for errors ) 7:50 - ExifTool ( metadata edit ) 8:44 - Pandoc ( convert ) 9:22 - PDFCPU ( edit secured pdf ) 11:03 - XPDF Tools ( pdf convert ) 11:44 - Tokei ( source code stats ) 12:12 - Hyperfine ( speed of commands )

If you want GUI based tools or are scared of the command line here are some: Open Video Downloader is a front-end for yt-dlp and FFmpeg Handbrake is a front-end for FFmpeg IrfanView can edit images and shows all EXIF information and JPEG quality (press I) Mp3Tag can edit metadata of audio files but it can also edit video containers like MP4 and MKV including inserting images There are many more out there, tell us other good tools. 😀 Bit of history... outdated now but I remember using RazorLame which was a front-end for LAME for encoding MP3s back in 2003 in the Windows XP days. Now LAME lives on within FFmpeg.

honestly, my favorite is yt dlp. it's probably one of the most used tools out of this list by your average day to day person, and it's also the most useful one to me, somebody who constantly does editing, clipping, archiving etc.. thanks again for yet another fantastic video!

a cli tool I've found to be useful is tldr. it takes the man/info commands from Mac/Linux, and and lists the most common uses for the command :)

This video is a gem. I wanna jump into every single program you've compiled here right now.

Extremely epic and awesome and good

@ThioJoe you forgot unsilence, it removes the silent parts of videos and audio, its super nice

May not quite fit the criteria you set for those tools you picked, but to add another one for people who prefer the console: winget It's included in Win 10 and 11 and lets you install and update a quite big variety of programs without having to hunt for their individual installation packages. Might not (yet) be as mighty as the linux equivalents (apt, dnf & co), but it's still a neat helper.

I love ffmpeg, I use it all the time to split, merge, and compress videos. It's just makes me feel I have more control over the output than the gui video editors for mobile.

Tokei is definitely my favourite, seeing how many files and lines of code i have written for a certain project is just so nice to have

I love your Videos. Unbelievably useful! Definitely saw some tools and features here that I was not aware of yet. Much appreciated mate.

Love it, We need part two please

One of your best videos yet, thank you!!

Well this is definitely going to be handy, since I spend most of the time on the terminal. I would usually write scripts to automate stuff, just to save time and not worry about forgetting a command.

This video has just made me love cmd. Thanks a lot, this has been very helpful

Extracting PDF images using either of the two tools you mentioned is a lot better than Windows + Shift + S or Cmd + Shift + S and selecting the region. Thanks for that!

10:10 Paper tiger" is a calque of the Chinese phrase zhǐlǎohǔ The term refers to something or someone that claims or appears to be powerful or threatening but is not ...

I knew about none of these, I like them all. Thanks! ... Ugreen looks like a great competitor for Snology, but I'm worried about their security both because of their size compared to Synology and because of them being a Chinese company. For home users I guess it's ok if you want to take the risk with your data not knowing the company. I will say though they make high quality products like cables etc. as I've purchased these on Amazon when needed and no "mysterious" chips in the connectors of these cables when X-Rayed

I question the use case of hyperfine since I tend to use the Powershell commandlet 'Measure-Command'

Winget is also crazy cool, because it is not restricted by schools.

This, good sir, earned both a like and a subscription.

Some people's voice, like Joe or Jason (from DDOI), is so soothing that people would buy ASMR of them.

Cheat is going to be a time saver. I have a bunch of txt files with command line examples.

Windows CLI barely mimics a fraction of Bash's power

Cheat doesn't have an install instruction for Windows in its documentation. There is a Powershell script in the pull requests for automatic downloading and extracting the program, but you can also just download the windows version from releases, put the exe in PATH, and rename it to cheat.exe

As a programmer i LOVE hyperfine. it truely is hyper fine.

Imagine magic is amazing, I used it to convert scanned documents into a pdf and then email them with a time stamp name using a power shell script

Omg this speeds up a lot of. I needed this!

Great video! I’ve been stressing for months trying to get Microsoft Store to work since I updated to Windows Pro 11 last year. I’ve tried every fix on at least 200 websites, I’ve updated Windows, the Bios, all firmware, all drivers, I’ve made sure all the services related to the Store are on, and the registry, I checked my Microsoft account, but I can’t update the Store or get any of my apps or games I downloaded from the Store to update. The error code has been reported, I called Microsoft and they literally hung up when I said I was calling about the Store. It works fine on my iPad!

No mention of SFK - Swiss File Knife? Its instant FTP server makes it super trivial for me to move data to/from retro PCs, and it has, so, so much more tools!

YT has a free “watch later” function so I don’t see any reason to waste space downloading. As for command lines, here’s my weekly basic go-to after I’ve exhausted every possible update: CMD>Admin>Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /Checkhealth CMD>Admin>Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth CMD>Admin>Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth Sfc /ScanNow Winget Upgrade --All Merely gleaned from the ‘net, no personal technical knowledge so redundancy is unknown. Perhaps SFC would suffice but the entire process is very quick anyway. Comments are welcome.

PDF-toolkit has been around for over a decade and is awesome!

Thx a million for this video. Now we definitely need a video about corresponding GUIs. 🙂

On Linux, I have these programs as well as thousands more. I use Arch, btw.

Finally, I found the easy way to quickly get some jpegs lighter. Thank you! And it's nice of you to write scripts to make it easier to use, good job!

Interesting! Definitely gonna get Cheat, an absolute life saver by the looks of it

Thank you, Thio !

command line is king/queen, as that's how you can connect several tools to do a job that has not been authored into a bespoke gui application. this all works great when commands are written to work this way easily with standard input and output

You can also use hardlink to rename commands like Cheat , this keep your old file and does not take up space .

I think on Linux there is an actual ImageMagick GUI, e.g. preinstalled on RasPiOS.

I believe there is a tool built into windows that does something similar to the err command It comes up sometimes in “enterprise” windows versions like education edition

Winget and aria2 are awesome.

There is also a GUI for FFMpeg called WinFF.

I normally use PDFTK for some actions on PDF files, but PDFcpu (at least under WSL) is much faster and can remove the password protection that interferes with splitting / rearranging pages.

Finally, I no longer have to use those sketchy online converters. :D

Let archive this video with YT-DLP, it's a good one!

Cool stuff -Thanx Joe 👍👍👍

For those Windows users who had as much difficulty installing CHEAT as I did, installing with Chocolatey couldn't have been any easier! Possibly winget would've worked as well.

Cheat reminded me of something I recently made for Powershell. It's a keyboard shortcut that lets you input a brief description of what you want to do, then it calls GPT4 API to find out the command or short code block to get it done, and replaces the input buffer with that command. I doubt it will let me link to it in comments though. 😐

If you need another command line tool to help you remember all the commands for other command line tools, that means somebody should just make a GUI program instead. I use command line only if I have to.

So Cheat is the windows version of man for Linux but it isn't anywhere near as good?

It's not totally CLI, but I couldn't live without mpv and its command-line options anymore for playing media.

EDIT: Not the case. My miatake. I heard that the *encryption* is weak, so it can be cracked somethat easily. (Every non-OTP encryption can be cracked, but it the required resources make it not feasible).

What a great video. Helps a lot, thank you.

This is a nice video bro ❤

'cheat' sounds a lot like running a command with --help or running 'man some-command' on Linux. Very useful! Even the nerdiest of us can't possibly remember every single command/argument. 😁

imagemagick also has a GUI (on linux at least)

I definitely expected Aria2c and Chocolatey to be mentioned in this video but I was surprised to not find it.

@ThioJoe Bruv thanks for putting out meaningfully applicable content. It is appreciated in kind regards.

I've used one or two of these, but not heard of the others.

How the f have I not heard of Err! That's awesome, thank you!

hyperfine not needed there is powershell command does the same without installing anything . its Measure-Command

You forget the Microsoft sysinternals suite well done are gui thought

next suggestion: add some of these cmd to context menu , pyWinContext, Easy Context Menu, to name a few , are great tools...

I mean I'm surprised about how good the python interactive help is

Question: Can image magick create WebP picture but by using VP9 codec algorithm? The default is still VP8 last time I checked

The chichi's trick is pretty useful.

In the case of pandoc, on Linux*, this two-liner allows you to view a markdown file in the browser: #!/bin/bash A="$(mktemp --suffix=.html)" pandoc --quiet -f markdown_phpextra -t html -s "$@" >| "$A" && google-chrome "$A" and with the addition of two simple lines, so that the first parameter is the file type, we can write a viewer for any filetype that pandoc can read: #!/bin/bash L="$1" shift A="$(mktemp --suffix=.html)" pandoc --quiet -f "$L" -t html -s "$@" >| "$A" && google-chrome "$A" * I say on Linux. This is easy adapted to macos as the script will run essentially identically under zsh. Under Windows, this could be rewritten as an equally simple Powershell script.

Eh, Synology is just a little more, a mature/well supported product and isn't through Kickstarter.

need this video like a decade ago

awesome video ty! what about spreadsheet to pdf or document or text?

I like croc a lot. Just plain useful

I dont usually write comments but thanks for your videos

Sponsorship ends at 3:32

Can you maybe look into doing a video on Aria2C? It's a command line-based download utility.

Cheat is what i missed soo long!

great list of tool.

had to come back to windows after using linux and i am absolutely hating it

Hyperfine is my favorite

A few years back I watched a thiojoe video and was trying it in real time. I deleted a system file 😔 and my computer crashed after restarting 😭. Now I watch, analyze its usefulness then maybe try it or not.

Please cover networking tools.. like... ftp file transfer from cmd..

ffmpeg is crazy. 6:20

Most of these are compatible with WSL, which helped me alot.

But can it enable the halt and catch fire routine?

For the record, I never stare, nod knowingly and smile while sitting in front of a computer.

err.exe justs opens and closes a DOS window. Not able to enter an error code.

PDFCPU looks really interesting. I was using PDF24 on Windows before, but now that I finally switched to Linux, I didn't have a good alternative yet. Probably going to use PDFCPU in combination with some self-written Shell-Scripts to make it easier to use for my dad too. 🤔 He has a Windows/KDE neon dualboot system atm with Windows only for PDF24 offline tools. Summed up: Thanks for your video and those amazing recommendations! At least one defo is going to make a change for me/us. 😌👍🏼

How to bypass device security issues when trying to run older software executables, on Win 11 os. Logitech gaming software drivers.

Kuwahara issues are the bain of my existence.

most linux distros have imagemagick and ffmpeg by default

Very handy tools.

you are really the goat thio thank you ❤🎉

Joe, can you use autotranslation tracks in your videos on many different languages? I think, you can, cause you have over 1mln subscribers. :)

i suggest croc to share files in p2p (the same you do with private torrents)

Cool! Thanks!

Sorry for the off-topic comment. I was just force-upgraded to Chrome 123.0.6312.86 and I hate everything about it, from colors, to fonts, to tabs, to menus. Please make a video showing how to revert to before update. I am afraid disabling Chrome Refresh 2023 flag no longer works. Thanks ThioJoe.

You mentioned a community around the application Cheat that would have other scripts. Could you provide a link to this resource? Please.

1:22 this needs a more detailed description or its own video. The Windows documentation for cheat is terrible. You also have to rename the file to cheat.exe. The cheat "folder" is in %appdata%\cheat which is very difficult to find to must novice users. The "personal" folder is not created on initial run either. You have to manually create it. Cheat also doesn't add itself to PATH so you have to do that manually to. It's a general pain in the butt to get setup and working for a novice.