Music can make or break a video. The right music can set the mood and enhance a message, but it can also just be a nice filling sound for quieter moments in videos. The problem, of course, lies in the rights to that music. Licenses are expensive, and the average person cannot afford to pay for a license for different music for each video, and most videos won’t generate enough money to pay royalties. Thankfully, there’s an alternative – websites…
One of the most useful ways to log and troubleshoot the behavior of commands or batch jobs that you run on Windows is to redirect output to a file. However, there are a few different ways you can redirect command line writes to a file. The option you choose depends on how you want to view your command output. How Windows Command Prompt Output Works When you type a command in the Windows console ( command prompt ), the output…
It’s frustrating when Outlook keeps asking for a password despite entering it numerous times in the app. If the issue lasts any longer, it can really drive you crazy as you need to enter your password each time you click on something in the app. There are various reasons why it asks you to enter your password again and again. Maybe your profile has been configured in such a way that it needs to authenticate you every time you send…
“Windows 10 can’t connect to this network” is one of the issues you could face while trying to connect your Windows machine to a network . As you can see, except for telling you you can’t connect to the network, the error doesn’t say much about why the issue has occurred and what you can do about it. If you’ve found yourself in the situation for the first time, you’re probably clueless and have no idea what to do. Luckily,…
Since we rely on our phones for 90% of all everyday tasks, having your smartphone freeze on you can be a total nightmare. To get a taste of that, try and leave your house without your smartphone one day. Most of us won’t last an hour. A frozen smartphone can cut you off from your work, friends, and family. Not being able to access certain software or your favourite communication channels can harm your productivity as well as your general…
When a program stops responding in Windows, most users know how to stop it by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Delete on their keyboard, pressing the Task Manager option and closing it from there. That approach doesn’t quite transfer to Linux distributions like Ubuntu, but that doesn’t mean that you’re short of options when a program crashes. On the contrary—there are quite a few ways to close a program on Ubuntu using CMD. If you’re comfortable using the terminal, you…
Google Docs is a very flexible word processor in many ways, but what many people don’t realize is that you can embed HTML into a Google doc. There are several ways to do this. One is to actually copy an HTML document straight from a browser and paste it into a Google Doc. The other is a trick using the importHTML function in Google Sheets to customize HTML formatting that you can then embed into a Google document. Embed HTML…
If you’re trying to share files between PCs on a local network, but you just can’t make a connection, it could point to a problem with your network configuration. You may be connected to your network, but accessing other PCs and devices on your network might be blocked. This is often due to incorrect settings on your device or a broken network connection. Thankfully, it’s usually an easy process to fix if you can’t see other computers on a network.…
Productive and successful teams know that video conferencing software is the cornerstone of their success. Tools such as the free Zoom Cloud Meetings enable groups of people to work together in a virtual face-to-face meeting. Zoom is a cloud-based video communications solution for collaboration, live chat, audio and video conferencing, meeting recordings, and webinars across all devices. This article will show you how to create and host a Zoom cloud meeting on your desktop or smartphone. Get Started with Zoom…
Casting is a method of projecting or sending content wirelessly to a different screen such as your television or second monitor. Once you set up your Google Chromecast device , you can play any content from your mobile device or desktop on your TV or remote monitor, with the device becoming a remote control. It saves you the painful hassles of hooking up your PC to your TV using an HDMI cable, which largely depends on the length of the…