The Computer/Software/Marketing Help Thread

Ah amazing mate!

I’ve Final Cut and I can make the basic DVD but just not add menus/buttons!

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No worries if you get stuck give me a shout I should be able to remember what to do, I remember the custom buttons were a bit fiddly

What kind of software would this kind of (I think) pretty basic graphic design be done on? I get ideas for cards that are better than some of the stuff on these card sites and would like to learn how to get into it, make a little bit of passive income.

Canva.com

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Can anyone help me a simple way to download a podcast from Spotify to MP£. I’ve obv googled it and downloaded countless ‘converters’ this morning but all want me to pay for ridiculous premium account. I don’t want to do this regularly, just need one file.

On a PC? You could use something like Audacity, let it play and just record the audio:

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TY. I think that’s gonna be the best way!

Can anyone suggest a decent free VPN for Mac?

Had planned on watching the Notts game tomorrow but it’s not on Sky due to the time so I need to pretend I live outside the UK…

All the podcasts I listen to are sponsored by Nord VPN. They’ve all got a discount code too - https://nordvpn.com/moms (if you want to support a Villa podcast :joy:)

Weirdly I had to do the exact same thing yesterday.

If you haven’t sorted it already, this website does it for free: https://podcasttomp3.com/

Ta. Looks like they do 30 day free trial too so ticks the boxes…

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Let me know how it goes. Something I need to look into myself for next season! FireStick has become too glitchy

My Sky broadband seems to be blocking me even getting on to any VPN’s site so not good so far…

Do you really need a VPN to stream a footy game?

League Two, only ever on Sky Sports Plus or the club’s own site.

Not on Sky as starting at one rather than half twelve means it encroaches into the Saturday 3pm blackout so I need to watch on the Notts site, which is only available for overseas fans (I don’t have a dodgy stick).

Sorted it though, manually exempted the site so should be all good. Not normally that bothered but it’s the business end of the season…

NordVPN also has a browser plugin too. So for football i use the browser plugin and just use a UK server to stream footie. For accessing stuff like piratebay i use the browser plugin and use a German or Belgian server.

For torrenting i use the actual app and generally just use a UK p2p server. You can setup your torrent client to use the VPN on it’s own but this frequently has issues so i find its easier just to route your whole PC

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That’s a bit too tech for me. I’ve just gone for ProtonVPN free tier. If it gets me through one game then it’s all good…

In Photoshop 2025 my generative variations aren’t showing up in Properties, only the layers. Anyone..?

whatcha mean? you’re not seeing “generate similar” button in properties?

I don’t think so. I get the three choices in the pop-up, and then Properties looks like this:

Don’t assume I know what I’m doing by any means, it might be something very obvious.