Tag Archives: iphone

Battle of the Nerds

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I see myself in this situation, especially having that tattoo. For once I feel Nokia actually stands out for something it’s good at: interrupting and looking relatively strong.

How To: Get your iPhone to allow you to swear

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“I figured out how to do this ages ago, but someone mentioned it today and I explained how you do it. It’s a pretty handy trick and can be used for ANY custom words you want – not just swearing” – Ben

How to set it up:

  1. Open up your Contacts on your iPhone.

  2. Create a new contact

  3. For the first name, put something like “swearing”

  4. Under company, put as many colourful swear words as you like separated with a space – your iPhone will now accept those words once you hit save :)

     

**WARNING: Your iPhone might occasionally autocorrect TO swear words if you aren’t careful – so always read what you type!

How To: Add Subtitles into to video files for iPhone and iPad playback (Mac-Only)

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“I recently taught myself how to ‘hard-encode’ subtitles into .mp4 and .m4v video files so I can watch them on my iPhone or iPad. I tested this out from some trial and error and found a pretty quick and simple method. Enjoy” – Ben

How to hard-encode subtitles into .mp4 or .mv4 files

Required:

  1. A Mac (sorry windows people – I hear that VirtualDub is a good option).
  2. A video file in .mp4 or .m4v format (if not, I’ll how you how to convert them in Step 1)
  3. Handbreak for Mac – Download Link (needed if your video file is any other format than .mp4 or .m4v).
  4. Subler for Mac – Download Link or their official Page

Steps:

  1. If your video file isn’t .mp4 or .m4v; Encode your video file to a mac-device friendly format (.mp4 or .m4v) using Handbreak. This is pretty simple, but you open up video file via ‘Source’, select your format type from the ‘presets menu’ on the right. If that menu isn’t there, go to your menubar and click Window > Presets Drawer. I prefer using the ‘High Profile’ option by default. This step will take some time depending on your machine and the size of the file being converted. For me an episode can take anywhere from 10-30 minutes. Pro-tip: if you are doing more than 1 file, say a whole season, use the ‘add to queue’ function and let Handbreak run overnight.

    Step 1: Make sure your video file is in .mp4 or .m4v format (use Handbreak to encode)

  2. If your video file is .mp4 or .m4v; open up the Subler app and do the following;
  3. Go to your menubar and click File > Open and find your video file. Subler will now look something like this; 
  4. Click on the little + sign on the top-left of the Subler window (add content to video file) and find your subtitle file (.srt).
  5. It might launch a little window asking about subtitle file, just go with the default settings and click ‘Add’.
  6. Click on the ‘Export’ arrow (top-right) and it will place that ‘job’ into a queue.
  7. Click ‘Start’ and it will quickly add the subtitle file to your video.
  8. Enjoy your subtitled video on your iPhone / iPad

Note: During playback (whilst watching) you will have to manually turn on the subtitles. This is done by tapping the screen once to bring up the playback menu (play, next, etc)… there should be a ‘text / subtitle’ icon and you just turn it on.