MacOs: Transcribe Training Video using OpenAI Whisperhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/apple/macos-transcribe-training-video-using-openai-whisper.html

23 June 2025 Just noted this down in case I need to do it again. This article documents how to take a 5.5 hour video (MP4) and have it transcribed by a locally installed AI on a MacOS (running Sequoia 15.1.1). Why? Needed for training videos as a follow-on from my...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Apple
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Add a template to the dropdown in Kunenahttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/add-a-template-to-the-dropdown-in-kunena.html

20 September 2009 This is what I had to do to be able to add another template to the dropdown in the Kunena configuration panel: Download your site from your server to a copy on your local disk (hard disk, flash drive, etc) Make sure that the...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: *

Hide Menu Item from Registered and Special https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/hide-menu-item-from-registered-and-special.html

06 September 2009 Hide Menu Item from Registered and Special Refer to this link if you want to clean out a front-end admin interface with your website's style. The following is from http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=252258&start=0 at this date/time. Can't...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: *

On Gui Resize Eventhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/on-gui-resize-event.html

09 November 2009 Thought I'd put this down as it took me ages to search the Internet for this solution. In the end, I found it hidden away in the Autohotkey help file and not under the gui events... The issue here is if you want to do something when a user resizes your...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AutoHotkey
• Language: en-GB

Added a Launcher and Unduplicaterhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/added-a-launcher-and-unduplicater.html?catid=87

19 May 2010 Just a note to say that I've added two more programs which I regularly use to my download section on this website. As always, these are free to download and include the source codes under the GNU/GPL License v3. If you have autohotkey installed, you...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Products
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SSRS Expand specific drilldown by defaulthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-expand-specific-drilldown-by-default.html

23 February 2011 thought I'd put something here as there are lots of posts like this on forums (a lot of which seem to be copied & pasted from other sites) but they refer to SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005. This is how to do it in SQL Server 2008 and creating a...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

Oracle SQL - Convert given list (CSV) into Rowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/oracle-sql-convert-given-list-csv-into-rows.html

30 August 2011 Situation I have one column of values that I've suffixed a comma to but I want to display this as a rows in a table. This is for Oracle PL/SQL. My List: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Yields: 1,2,3,4,5,6 Using this snippet SELECT EXTRACT (VALUE (d),...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: en-GB

First and Last Entry on a Page using Modulus Remainderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/first-and-last-entry-on-a-page-using-modulus-remainder.html

26 September 2011 was glaringly obvious, just do a primary school mathematics table and it all makes sense (see my 10 mod table below). This article is a quick note (so I never spend as long again) in PHP on how to determine when looping through a loop, which entry was...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: *

Select unique values in Microsoft Excel columnhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/select-distinct-values-in-microsoft-excel-column.html

03 July 2012 I'd put a quick note here, I tried a fair few solutions that didn't work and then found this hidden away in a forum: Quick Count =INT(SUMPRODUCT((A3:A1000"")/COUNTIF(A3:A1000,A3:A1000&""))) This returns the number of unique values in the range A3 to...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Excel
• Language: en-GB

Drop If Object Existshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/drop-if-object-exists.html

03 August 2012 been suggesting you can use "CREATE OR REPLACE... VIEW... FUNCTION" but my SQL Server 2008 Management Studio doesn't like this and refuses to understand what I'm trying to do. Why? As this data seemed to be across various websites, I wanted a page...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• Language: *

Mootools - How to contain a menu sidebar between header and footerhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/mootools/mootools-how-to-contain-a-menu-sidebar-between-header-and-footer.html

10 August 2012 This has taken me too long to figure out and I hope I don't lose this note again. The only website that was titled similarly kept slowing down my computer too much so I decided to work out my own. The complexity is due to content also being dynamically...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MooTools Framework
• Language: en-GB

Make bootstrap carousel responsive to swipehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/bootstrap/make-bootstrap-carousel-responsive-to-swipe.html

14 December 2016 The code is minimal but does what it needs to do (tested on iOS) and doesn't appear to effect other javascripts. Put this in a JS: /*! Bootstrap Carousel Swipe jQuery plugin v1.1 | https://github.com/maaaaark/bcSwipe | MIT License */ !function(t){...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Bootstrap
• Language: *

Zoho Deluge - Get Full Day Namehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-full-day-name.html

08 November 2018 This is a very quick note with the code to retrieve the full day name from a date (eg. "Monday"). Why? If I use the toString() function to get the day, it only returns the first 3 letters of the day (eg. "Mon"). My_Date = today; Day_Name =...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

ZohoCRM GetRelatedRecords INVALID_DATAhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-getrelatedrecords-invalid_data.html

30 January 2025 and to update the related records. I was getting the error INVALID_DATA with the details being api_name:'data'... But this is shortcode, not an invokeURL. { "code":"INVALID_DATA", "details":{ "api_name":"data" }, "message":"invalid data",...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Zoho
• Language: *

Disclaimerhttps://www.joellipman.com/static-items/disclaimer.html

30 May 2009 The information contained in this website is for general information purposes only. The information is provided by Joel Lipman .Com and while we endeavour to keep the information up to date and correct, we make no representations or warranties of any...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Static Items
• Language: *

Setting up your store to use SSLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/ecommerce/setting-up-your-store-to-use-ssl.html

11 September 2009 How do I test SSL is working? Before we do anything we need to test that the SSL domain has been configured correctly. In this example we will assume your webstore is located at http://www.example.com/store If you have dedicated SSL simply go to your...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: eCommerce Systems
• Language: *

Applying a button and centering it in the RocketTheme Affinity templatehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/applying-a-button-and-centering-it-in-the-rockettheme-affinity-template.html

15 September 2009 This took me a while to do so I thought I'd document it for future reference. The Issue See the restore default setting link at the bottom of this page in the footer? I wanted to put one of the styled buttons behind it but then found that there's a lot...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: *

Counting the occurence of a word within a string: Benchmarkhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/counting-the-occurence-of-a-word-within-a-string-benchmark.html

06 September 2009 I added this article because when I was only trying to look up how to do this, this nut "the Storyteller" went and carried out a benchmark test on the most popular ways of counting the occurrence of a specific word within a string of text. Source:...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: *

Uninstalling AEC Central and installing Community Builderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/uninstalling-aec-central-and-installing-community-builder.html

20 January 2010 The reason I did this is because AEC is now a commercial package and it is somewhat limited in terms of good customer service. It only really manages the payment side and the complicated tasks of invoicing, but Community Builder provides more options...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: *

Returned a data type that is not validhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/returned-a-data-type-that-is-not-valid.html

06 January 2011 I'd put a note on this error. Bearing in mind that this is a general data type error and not just because I tried to convert a date in SQL format to a Month name. An error occurred during local report processing. An error has occurred during report...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• Language: *