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Some Of The Awesome YouTube Tricks That You Must Note

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YouTube, as you all may have know is the most popular video blogging website and has a lot of interesting video content to watch and share and many of us view a lot of videos daily on YouTube. But some simple and useful YouTube tricks, your YouTube experience is going to be superb. Let us first go through some of the keyboard shortcuts that you must note.

While you are watching YouTube videos, here are simple keyboard shortcuts which may save you from boggling with the mouse and allow you to relax leaning back on your coach and watch videos.

YouTube Tricks You Should Note

  • Pressing spacebar will pause the YouTube video, this you may know. But it works only after a click on the window, in such cases ‘K’ key will pause the video without having to touch the mouse.
  • J and L keys help you to rewind and forward the video for 10 seconds respectively.
  • Arrow keys also perform the rewind and forward action but for 5 seconds, that is if you want to rewind very small part, use these keys. Left arrow to rewind and right arrow to forward.
  • Press “F” key to go into full-screen mode.
  • Using the number keys 2,3,4…. You will be taken to 20%, 30%, 40% ….. of the video respectively.
  • Pressing “0” will take you to begin of the video.
  • Pressing Up and Down arrow will increase and decrease the audio by 5%.
  • “M” key will mute/unmute the video.
  • Turning any YouTube video into GIF is actually by simply adding the word ‘gif’ right before the domain name of the video URL. For example, if the video URL is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfcVoR8TbfY, then your GIF URL will be https://www.gifyoutube.com/watch?v=lfcVoR8TbfY

So, I hope these simple YouTube tricks will be useful to you at times and you use YouTube like a pro by implementing these tricks.

How to extract and copy text from images on your PC

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Sometimes, we may find something interesting and may want to use it somewhere or send it to someone. But rewriting the text isn’t a cool way if it is a lengthy text, copying and pasting the text by extracting the text from images. There are a few tools that can help you with this task and Project Naptha is one such cool Chrome extension that helps you directly extract text from the images on the internet without having to download them.

Extracting Text From Images Using A Chrome Extension

This Chrome extension reduces the strain of downloading the images before extracting text from them. Here are the few steps you need to follow

  • Download Project Naptha Chrome extension from the Chrome’s web store
  • Then a pop-up window will appear, just click on add extension option there
  • Now just open any image with text in the browser
  • Just select the text on the image and right-click on it
  • Then from the pop-up menu select Copy text
  • That is it you can now paste the text you just copied wherever you want

Using this useful extension you can thus extract text easily. Using the text from images is easy now with this Chrome extension.

Removing background from images using an Android app

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With the evolution of smart phones we have been dealing with many difficult tasks very easily. Smart phones have made our lives easier and made us to depend on them for a lot of things. Photo editing is one such thing which we try with the help of a lot of applications in the smart phones.

Now, in this article I am going to introduce you to an Android app which lets you to easily remove the background of any  right on your Android phone.

Background Eraser is the application which lets you to remove the background of the image pretty simple. Here is the process
• Download the Background Eraser Android application from the Google Playstore
• Now just open the application and you will see many options there, just click on the option Load a photo
• Now, just choose the photo to which you wish to remove the background from
• Crop the focused part as much as you can, and click on done
• There are three options available to remove the background and they are Manual, Auto, eraser, just click on Auto
• Then click on done and keep the smooth level in maximum to make the background smooth
• And finally, click on Finish, after a little processing your image is ready without background
• You can just click on the save icon on the top to save it to your device

Thus, this Android app can really help you in removing the background of any image you want.

How To Enable The Floating Bubble Of The Google Dialer

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If you are aware of the new Floating Bubble feature that Google has recently rolled out exclusively for its very own Pixel and Nexus series, you might want it on your device too. But if you are not, don’t mind I will let you know what it is and how to get it on your Android device. The Google Dialer in Pixel and Nexus devices has got a new update called the Floating bubble which basically allows the users to make the different call actions without being on the call screen. A Facebook Messenger kind of a chat head will be seen as soon as the users exit the call screen which can be moved all over the borders of the screen. Users can tap it to find three options which are speaker mode, mute the call, end the call.

Enabling Google Dialer Floating Bubble

Let us now look at the process of getting this feature in our Android devices

Note: Your device needs to be rooted for this process

  • Download and install the Google Phone APK
  • In the next step, you have to set this Google Phone app as your default phone app. You can do that by going to Settings>Apps. Then tap on the gear icon which you can find on the top right corner of your device’s screen. A new app configuration screen will appear, select option Phone App and then tap on the app that you just installed. It will have a navy blue icon
  • Now head to /data/data/com.google.android.dialer/shared_prefs using any root file explorer of your choice and then tap dialer_phenotype_flags.xml to edit
  • Once the file is opened, search for the string G_enable_return_to_call_bubble, change the value set from false to true, save the file and exit
  • Now head back to Settings>Apps>Phone App> then tap on Force Stop
  • Then open the app to reload it in the system memory

That is it, you are done with the process, you can experience the floating bubble feature in the Google Dialer the next time you make a call or receive a call.

How To Stop Google From Tracking Your Voice

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Google, the search engine giant tracks everything that you do in t. If you think it may forget, then you are wrong. It keeps track of everything that you do with it. The information that it keeps track of may include your Google searches, watched YouTube videos and browses. But don’t worry it even allows you to control the information that you have in your account. Voice search using Ok Google is very much popular and it is very easy to use and one doesn’t have to type to search for something on the internet and it makes it convenient for the users to search like this.

But have you ever thought that Google will have a track of everything you search using your voice? Yes, it does have a record of everything that you browse using voice search.

Ok Google has been the most prominent features of the Android smartphones since the last few years and this feature has made people’s lives easier. But using a simple step, you can stop Google having a record of your voice searches. Here are steps you need to follow.

  • You need to go to the My Activity page and then sign in to your account.
  • Then you can find Activity Controls option on the left side. Click on it
  • There you can find the option Voice and Audio activity. Under that option click on Manage Activity, if you want to have a look at all the audio searches that you did using your Gmail account.

Or else you can just toggle the switch and it will open a dialogue box where you need to click on turn off. That is it. You are done with settings. This simple setup will thus allow you from stopping Google from tracking the voices you search using the Google voice search after the Ok Google command.