Screen Recording in 2021

So how do you record your screen on Mac in 2021?

Terminalizer to record a terminal - https://github.com/faressoft/terminalizer

Loom to record video of chrome with your face. Simply install Chrome extension of Loom.

Camtasia (paid software) for recording anything

Mac keyboard shortcuts

cmd-shift-3 save a screenshot of the entire screen

cmd-shift-4 to select a part of the screen to snapshot

cmd-shift-5 to record the screen on Mac

cmd-shift-6 takes touchbar screenshot

Include a control in any of the above to copy instead of saving a file.

For example, Cmd-ctrl-shift-4 to select a part of the screen to copy, so that it can be pasted to Slack.

I love the way you love me - 2

I love the way you say you're not ready
and then call me close to kiss and flee
I love the way I understood
what you miss the most in your childhood
I love the way to make it granted
I get for you all that you ever wanted
I love the way you say I’m not your boyfriend
and then sit on my lap and touch me all over
I love the way I reply you are not my girlfriend
and then caress you in the night under the cover
I love the way you try to convince me
that I care about your heart
I love the way I ask
what makes you so sure sweetheart ;)

The Nth-Order April Fool

Some pranks I really appreciate but most are really not that interesting. I think saying something that is not true and be exhilarated about that others believed it is lame and ordinary. For eg just saying to someone hey see there is a lizard behind you and she turns back to see it and you start shouting April Fool .. April Fool .. this is very kiddish. There is absolutely no originality and any tension related to the confusion whether it's true or untrue. I am not boasting but mostly out of laziness when I used to be inactive and somewhat fat and lazy kid, such a joke was too mundane and boring for me to fall for. I would not even care to turn to see a lizard in high school it was just too much physical effort with little trade-off if not done. At worst the lizard would jump at me .. it would still be okay and less effort for me than for me to turn my head and look at the lizard on the wall. I would call such April Fool pranks first order.

I like to make pranks myself but of a different order. A second order April Fool prank would be stating a truth that no one knows about and there is immense confusion about it among the people. A third order would be where it's actually a false statement but think of it as true and think of it as a second order April Fool which I am saying to fool the lesser people. For eg if you are not actually married and you say I got married guyz .. then people think that you are saying a true statement which no one would believe and hence making others April Fool and doing that they are actually getting fooled. In the same way you can define Nth order April Fool. It can be defined as where the value of N is itself a confusion. That is no one really knows about it (except for a few chosen ones to keep the game on) and everyone else is just guessing ..
Is the statement true? Is it false? Is it actually false but said in a way so that people get fooled thinking that a true statement is said to appear as a false statement? Is it actually true but said in a way so that people believe it is for April Fool? Confusion .. that is April Fool for me .. confusion is the very essence of a good prank and I try to make the most of it sometimes hurting others too but that's for some other day!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I typically throw away everything I write .. in chat transcripts or on random napkins .. or even in the catalog book of Continental Airlines :P I do that because I don't consider myself a good writer unless I am writing software code in which case I am reasonably good at.

My sisters and my girlfriends pestered me that the least I could do is to type it somewhere so that I have a copy and telling others might result in more people writing beautiful poetry. I replied back to this reasoning with an argument that there is a poet in all of us .. via this shaayari:

jo dil mein jab dard bhara ho .. toh khud hi chhalak jaata hai ..
(when my heart is filled with pain ... it spills by itself)
jo palkon mein boond atka ho .. toh tasavvur-e-moti ban jaata hai ..
(when tear is stuck in my eye, it becomes a pearl in my imagination)
jo mann mein jo khyaal ho aap ka .. bas aiwayeen hi kalam chal jaata hai
(when I have your memories in my mind .. my pen moves by itself)
shaayari sunaane ka gunaah kyon karo .. jo har dil mein shaayar basta hai
(why should I do the crime of telling my poems to others .. when in each heart there is a better poet)


One reasoning that blew me against the above was it might inspire someone else who is aspiring but hasn't worked at it. And inspiration would lead to motivation which would lead to more people to write more beautiful poetry. More so if I write in English a bigger audience would be able to read it .. Well .. only if the poem is good enough ..

Hence in the spirit of Valentine's Day I write a poem which I won't throw but just type out on my blog. Let me know if it is bad or good or okay.

I love the way you love me
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I love the way you lie to me only to make me feel good
I love the way you shout at me only to make me perfect

I love the way you hurt me only to make me feel strong
I love the way you slap me only to make me feel owned

I love the way you ignore me only to make me feel missed
I love the way you bite me only to make me feel LOVED

I love the way you push me only to make me earn it
I love the way you scold me only to make me learn it

I love the way you make me cry only to feel secure
I love the way you cry for me only to keep me yours

I love the way you fool me there is something in your eyes
I love the way you get me close only to be kissed I realize

I love the way you hit me only to make me grab you
I love the way you pull me only to make me kiss you

I love the way you dump me only to make me burn
I love the way you make love only to make me return

I love the way you ask me how do I like the most
I love the way I reply you: YOU answer that first

I love the way you say to me do I have it with me
I love the way I tell you I’m alwayz ready baby!

Call drop on AT&T

An extremely emotional talk was about to reach its climax when it got dropped just around 3 AM. I found it so painful and was furious about it. I tried calling again, it didn’t work and I thought that maybe the person on the other side went out of reach. I decided to question my hypothesis and called my own number to reach my voicemail. To my surprise even that was not reachable! Why don't I change from AT&T to a better network? Restarted blackberry .. didn’t help. Took out battery and restarted again .. didn’t help either. I started thinking of alternate ways .. maybe GoogleTalk .. no she can’t install anything on her corporate laptop .. damn why didn’t I buy her a new one! Let me get online to see if I can use Skype to call on her cellphone. wtf .. I forgot my Skype password. Where to get it from? Clicked on Forgot password. Checked in my gmail account. No email! Where did it send the Forgot password email to? Checked to figure that it sent to my age-old yahoo email account. Tried to login there. Damn it! I don’t remember the password on that account either. Why the hell on earth do I change my password ever .. I for sure know that nobody has time to hack on my personal account. Anyways .. did a forgot password on Yahoo too .. it sent to my gmail this time fortunately .. thank God! opened up my yahoo account expecting to see Skype and wtf there is not even a single email there .. it seems yahoo removed all emails once it was unsued for some time. Sent the Skype forgot password again to get the password email to yahoo. Used that to open Skype. Ran Skype. No money in the account. Put money into it online. So happy to see it get started but wait a second it got stuck.. had to kill the application. Somehow just couldn’t make the call from it. The Skype app just hung! I am the kind who never gets angry .. however, I smashed the Bold on the wall .. then on the floor.. stomped on it .. threw it everywhere I could .. picked up .. and threw it again .. finally decided that I would go to office (@330 AM!) to give a call from there .. and voila .. I get a call on my phone .. it suddenly started working! :)

Remembering Waltz with Bashir

Few movies ever have had an effect deep enough on me to wake me up at 1:30 AM after two years of watching it .. Waltz with Bashir is one such movie!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltz_with_Bashir

It quickly became clear to me if I don't write something about it.. I am not sleeping .. so here it goes ..

The worst and the best part of the movie for me was the parallel drawn between the Lebanon war and the Nazi holocaust. The crux is that to deliberately ignore a wrongdoing is as bad as doing the wrong yourself. Creating light so that someone else can take a good aim is similar to switching on the Nazi gas chamber and let the Jews in the chamber die. Both are an accomplice to kill.

The movie has its protagonist trying to figure out why he is unable to sleep. He is unable to figure out .. He tries to ask this question to several of his friends and acquaintances of past... to stumble finally on his guilt. It seems why he couldn't figure it out himself or figure out sooner .. now that he has found it .. it seems obvious and weird that he took so much time and involved so many people in different countries to let his guilt come out for him to discover.

However, I don't know why but of all the people I can somehow feel empathetic that it's not easy to figure out your own guilt that you have buried down deep inside in an attempt to forget it .. extending the concept of out of sight out of mind to too far in a wrong way in a hopeless hope to forget it. The guilt stays there .. lurking and itching inside .. such a guilt is like a bed bug.. which can't be found easily .. it doesn't let you sleep .. it can't be exterminated .. ever .. unless you confront it squarely .. and to do that first you ought to discover it .. discovery is necessary because you have long conditioned and tried to train your mind to forget the harder truths .. the guilt of your wrong-doings .. or accomplice in a wrong-doing .. or just a bystander to a wrong-doing. You were so good and so hard in concealing those guilt that you are amazingly afraid to dig deeper in the fear of actually discovering it .. even without knowing it exactly!!

Why am I awake thinking all this .. what is going on with me .. do I really have a guilt of mine lurking deep inside that I have not yet discovered or just refuse to face it within myself .. for the fear of being let down in my own eyes. Is that what people call conscience .. that when we know that no one would ever know or knows .. it still hurts to think of yourself in a bad way because you know that you know that about yourself ...

having written this now I can sleep now .. at least ack'ing that I need to work on my own for the rest of it gives some relief to my conscience ..

How my friends pose for me :)

It's so hard to get them to pose normally that's why I never put any of their pictures!! :)