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      <title>Install OpenFile on any device, from a phone to a Linux box</title>
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      <title>How OpenFile keeps your files private</title>
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      <description>What really happens when you drop a file into OpenFile, why nothing gets uploaded, and how you can check it yourself in two minutes.</description>
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      <title>How AI models run inside your browser tab</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>What happens when you press the button in the background remover, upscaler or transcriber: model downloads, workers, WebGPU and the WebAssembly safety net.</description>
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      <title>Ten PDF tips that save me time every week</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Gmail, Outlook and upload forms all have size caps. A practical routine to get under them: find the heavy part, pick the right preset, and split when you must.</description>
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      <title>Image compression explained, with a slider you can drag</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Lossy, lossless, JPG, WebP and AVIF in plain words. Drag the slider to see what quality settings actually do to a picture.</description>
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      <title>HEIC, JPG, AVIF and JPEG XL compared</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Four photo formats, what each one is good at, which browsers open them, and which I use for sharing, the web and my own archive. Test your browser live.</description>
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      <title>Editing video in a browser tab with WebAssembly</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How ffmpeg runs inside your browser, why the first run downloads an engine, and how to get the best speed out of it.</description>
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      <title>Make a good GIF from a video clip</title>
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      <description>Why GIFs get huge, and the four settings that fix it: width, frame rate, length and colours. Includes a planner that estimates the size before you convert.</description>
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      <title>Building a batch pipeline for 200 product photos</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A real walk through of the Workspace: resize, watermark, strip metadata, convert and zip, then save it as a recipe you can run again.</description>
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      <title>Fill and sign PDFs without uploading them</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Form fields, signature images and certificate signatures explained, plus the order I fill, sign and flatten documents in, all inside the browser.</description>
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      <title>Sketch board tips: draw diagrams faster</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Shortcuts, snapping, frames and export tricks for the Sketch board. Try the shortcut trainer right in the post.</description>
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      <title>EPUB, MOBI, PDF and comics: an ebook conversion guide</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Reflowable versus fixed layout, which ebook format to keep, and how to convert, fix and read books on your device. With a live reflow demo.</description>
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      <title>A friendly guide to file formats</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Opening DXF and CAD drawings in a browser</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>What a DXF file really contains, how to view layers and measure without AutoCAD, and how to turn a drawing into a PDF anyone can print.</description>
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      <title>The developer tools I reach for every day</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>JSON, JWT, regex, hashes, cURL and cron: a quick tour of the dev tools in OpenFile, with a live JSON formatter to play with.</description>
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      <title>Looking at your own CT and MRI scans, privately</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>What DICOM files are, why window and level matter so much, and how to view and share your scans without uploading medical data anywhere.</description>
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      <title>Text to speech that never leaves your device</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How OpenFile reads text aloud with your system voices, and falls back to a small neural voice model that runs in the tab.</description>
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      <title>MIDI files explained, with a piano roll you can play</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Why a MIDI file has no sound in it, what note numbers, velocity and channels mean, and how to play and render MIDI to MP3 or WAV in the browser.</description>
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      <title>CSV, JSON, Excel and Parquet: converting data without losing it</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>What each data format can and cannot hold, where conversions quietly break, and the tools I use to move data between them locally.</description>
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      <title>A practical guide to subtitles: SRT, VTT and ASS</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The three subtitle formats you will meet, and how to fix the usual problems: wrong format, broken letters, drifting timing and missing tracks.</description>
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