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How To Add Watermark To Videos With The Help Of VLC Media Player

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VLC is one of the top-rated apps among the users for playing media files. The media player is available in Windows, Android and iOS devices. The best thing about this media player is that this media player supports a huge number of video file formats and it actually offers a better watching experience to the users. Apart from regular media players, VLC media player can be a bit different as it allows you to cut video clips and even allows you to watch 3D movies. It even allows you to add watermarks to videos without any need of any other apps or softwares.

Add Watermark To Videos In VLC Media Player

Let us now get into the process and learn how to add watermark to videos in VLC media player.

  • As a first step, launch the VLC media player application on your computer
  • Now, open the video to which you would like to add watermark
  • Next click on the ‘Tools’ tab
  • Then select ‘Effects and Filters’ from the options available in the drop-down menu
  • You will get a new pop-up window, there you need to head to the tab Video Effects
  • From the video effects option, you will find the ‘Overlay’ tab, tap on it
  • Enable the ‘Add logo’ option and locate the watermark file
  • Now set up the line adjustments, opacity according to your requirements and finally click on save
  • Once it is done, you will be able to see the watermark on the video, then you need to record the video which we think you might already know, if not we will be coming up with another step by step guide for that tomorrow

If you know how to record a video, then you are good to go and you are done with the video. Stay tuned to ComputerEra for our tomorrow’s article if you want to know how to record a video using VLC media player.

How to synchronize Google Chrome data across multiple devices

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Google Chrome undoubtedly the most popularly used internet browsers and it is also among the very few browsers that have stolen the hearts of the users.
We may be accessing the internet across different types of devices and on various platforms. But Chrome browser is the common thing. Have you ever thought of having a synchronized data browsing history and favorites and bookmarks and all. It is possible now with the help of this people’s favorite browser.
The process to set this up isn’t a complicated one, but a very simple thing and just requires a few steps below.
• To start this process, you will need a Google account for synchronizing the browser data across the devices.
• So, if you have that you can just proceed with this step by opening the Chrome browser in one of your devices and then clicking on settings option, you can access the settings option by clicking on the three dot icon on the top right corner of the browser window
• Now navigate to the People section in that settings page, you can find the option sign into chrome there where you can sign in using your Google account to synchronize the browser data with your Google account
• Just click on that option and it will let you know various aspects and information of synchronizing it within your various devices, just go through them and click on ok got it
• That is it, you are done with setting up and the data will be automatically synchronized and settled
• Whenever you need to use the sync data on any other device of yours, you can just simply log onto to the same Google account that you have set to sync in the Google chrome of that device

 

Learn To Create Emoji Mashups With The Help Of Gboard On Android

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Gboard, undoubtedly one of the best keyboard apps available on the Google Playstore. Gboard has an easy to use user interface when compared to that of the other applications. Google has made lots of improvements to the Gboard app. It has now got a new feature recently known as ‘Emoji Kitchen’. The Emoji Kitchen is a new Gboard exclusive feature that has been introduced by Google as an advancement in the Gboard app. This feature actually helps the users to communicate and express themselves in a better way with emoji mashups.

Creating Emoji Mashups With Gboard

This emoji kitchen feature is now currently rolled out for beta users, so you need to be using the beta version of the application to try this out.

  • As a first step, click on this link and become a beta tester
  • Now head to Google Play Store and install the Gboard Beta application on your android device
  • Once you are done with the installation of the app, then open Gboard app
  • Now click on ‘Preferences’ option under the settings of the app
  • Here, you need to enable the options – Show emoji switch key, show emojis in symbols keyboard, and Emoji browsing suggestions
  • Once you are done enabling the above mentioned options, head to any of the messaging apps like Messenger, WhatsApp, Hangouts and then tap on the keyboard
  • Now tap on the Emoji option found on the keyboard, then it will show you some suggestions
  • You can tap on different emoji combinations to create unique emojis

That is how you can create emoji mashups using Gboard for android.

Add Third-Party Shortcuts To Your Google Assistant

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Google assistant itself is a pretty powerful application that can help you with many things. Integrating third party applications to your Google Assistant has been a pretty task. With the recent update, you can now easily invoke in app actions to the Google Assistant. You can now easily do some actions in third party apps like Instagram, WhatsApp with the help of the shortcuts that you have created.

Add Third Party App Shortcuts To Google Assistant

  • Firstly, open the Google application and head to the ‘More’ option that can be found at the bottom of the bar. Now navigate to Settings > Navigation bar
  • Then tap on ‘Services’ tab and open ‘Shortcuts’
  • Here on the next screen, you will find all the third party applications listed that are supported on your phone by Google Assistant
  • The shortcuts are made available there according to the applications that you have installed on your device
  • Now tap on + to add your favourites, then you will see a confirmation message from Google Assistant
  • ‘Your Shortcuts’ tab will show you all the third-party application shortcuts on your device
  • Now you can directly go ahead to Google assistant and use your voice commands to get the tasks done with the instructions
  • You don’t really have to use the same phrases listed there, but similar words in different alignment will also work
  • Just say something similar to the Google command and it will process correctly

This is how you can add and run third party apps to Google assistant easily.

How To Watch YouTube Videos Floating Pop-up Window

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YouTube is probably one of our favourite pass times in the recent times. No matter wherever we are, which device we have been using, the YouTube videos can help us in getting out of the boredom. We have seen earlier the various apps, ways to use for getting the YouTube videos played in a floating window in our Android devices, but this time let us see the process to play YouTube videos in a pop-up window in PCs and laptops so that you can be able to work and watch videos simultaneously.

Pop-up Window Using Chrome Extension

There are various different using which you can get the YouTube videos played in a floating window, but we choose to introduce you to this one simple, easy process using the Chrome extension. So, check it out.

As a first step, you need to get the Chrome extension called Floating for YouTube downloaded and installed on your device. It is available in the Chrome webstore, so get it installed.

After the installing and app adding is completed, you will see a small pop-up window and you will see a message in it which says enter the URL, paste the YouTube URL.

Now all you need to do is just browse the video which you wish to watch in the floating window player and copy the URL of that video, then just paste it in the pop-up window. Then it will just start playing the video on the top of the tabs. You can resize it according to your choice, drag it and place it wherever you want according to your convenience.

This chrome extension Floating for YouTube thus allows you to browse the internet, or play games or do any other thing online while you continue to watch videos.

Don’t miss to try.