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L ike many small time YouTube creators, I also got an email in January 2018 about changes to the YouTube Partner Program (YPP)  regarding changes new threshold of 4,000 hours of watchtime within the past 12 months and 1,000 subscribers. The revenue wasn't much but it was good to get some revenue from the little effort made in creating some videos. Unfortunately, my channel did not meet the subscriber threshold though watch time was alright. So, as per the new rules, monetization was set to be disabled. Read more »

There are numerous TV channels today but only a few selected channels are watched by most subscribers depending on various factors such as age, interest, gender etc. Kids would like to watch cartoons, youth may want to watch music, movies and sports. Elderly people may want to watch news, religious channels etc. With so many channels of the same kind, as subscribers we are paying even for channels we don't watch.  Read more »

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I n this post, we will discuss about using Paint.NET for resizing photo to 3.5 cm x 4.5 cm and other specifications required by most Indian Government exam websites . In my previous post " Tools for editing photos for government exams online application in India ", I wrote about a few photo editing tools that can be used to edit and resize photos for the purpose of uploading to Indian Government exam application websites where they usually ask photos in specific dimensions and size. And to my surprise, it is one among the most visited articles on this blog. In the post I shared some basic and common photo editors that may be used for editing photo for government purposes.  Read more »

The other day, I was making a tutorial video and I had to record the activities performed on a laptop screen. When recording screen activities, I usually use an open source software called "Cam Studio" but this time, the activity involved shutting down the computer. Therefore, I chose to record it with my smartphone in HD mode instead. And I noticed the video had flickers. It is very distracting to look at. I had to remove the flickers otherwise, the video will be unwatchable. So, what causes the flickering on the screen when recording a display screen or monitor? Read more »

Video editing is not only for professionals. Even regular users sometime end up editing videos for various purposes. And with increasing use of smartphones with decent video quality, we are taking videos more than ever - birthdays, videos of places we visit, and so many more. A regular user may not have any need of a video editing software for making fancy movies and high end editing stuff, but there comes a time when we need one to do some basic video editing stuff for our home videos, travel videos etc.  In this post, you will find video editors for basic video editing as well as for professional video editing. If you are looking for  "Best Free Movie Video Editing Software For Windows Computer", here are a few you can check out. They are not in any order. Read more »

I was not using WordPress actively until today. I have a few clients I helped built websites using the WordPress CMS platform and I had to do some maintenance on them. And yes, I also had to create some new users for one of the client ( non technical client is an over statement here . Never mind, why I had to do it for them . ) . Then I stumbled upon the WordPress's new "Strong password auto generator", that, as the name implies, generates a strong password for a user in WordPress.  I googled and I came across this post on WordPress.org (Passwords in 4.3: Strong by Default) where it says: Read more »

I n this post we will see how to export Facebook Events and sync it with Google calendar and also with Windows calendar. But why Google Calendar? Why not sync it directly with Windows Calendar if that is the intent? Because by default, Windows Calendar allows us to add only the following email accounts - Microsoft Account, Outlook.com, Exchange, Google, iCloud, and Internet Email such as Yahoo. It does not include Facebook here. Why take the trouble? Can't I simply login to Facebook and check? The need and reasons may vary from person to person but this may be handy if you are using Windows Calendar most of the time on your Windows computer to manage your events and reminders etc. It may also be useful to see all events, added to Windows Calendar and Facebook events in one single Calendar to assist in planning your activities and tasks. Read more »