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Learn How To Get Google Web Fonts On Your PC

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Google fonts is an extremely beautiful and awesome collection of web fonts that can be used in your HTML web pages without any kind of restrictions. As the fonts are specially designed for web pages, these fonts may look more attractive than the regular fonts like Arial, Times New Roman. They will also be in the comfortably readable format. All the Google Web fonts are made available under open font license since they can be used anywhere without the fear of any license issues. You can even use Google web fonts on your PC.

Not only in the web pages, you can even make use of these beautiful and easily legible fonts on your PC. You can use them on your office documents, notepad articles, or any other such programs on your computer.

The process is also pretty simple as it is a legal thing and you don’t have to use any tricks here. You simply just download and install the fonts on your computer. Here is how you can get them on your computer

Get Google Web Fonts With Google Fonts Director

  • Open the Google Fonts Director
  • Pick your favorite fonts from there and add them to your collection
  • You can see a minimized window with families selected written on it. Just click on it and you will see a download icon there and tap on it
  • You will get fonts in the .ttf format in a zipped file downloaded on your PC
  • Now finally just unzip the file and then install the fonts individually by double-clicking them. Then click on the install option

This is the simple step by step procedure that needs to be followed for getting the Google fonts on your Windows PC. We hope and wish you to follow this process and get it done easily.

A Few Things That Make Yahoo Search More Worth Than Google

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Google search is the world’s most popular search engine undoubtedly, it is also the most widely used search engine. But there are a few interesting and most useful things that only Yahoo search is capable of doing. It doesn’t matter how much you are used to searching in Google. Here we present you to some of the really cool tricks using Yahoo search that make Yahoo a better option. In fact, we are going to tell you some really interesting tricks that you will be capable of doing only using Yahoo.

Search Tips For Making Yahoo Search Better

Take a look at the few search tips that only works with Yahoo.

  • Composing emails in Yahoo is quite easy with the help of this search tip as you just need to search !mail prisat@outlook.com, which is the keyword mail followed by the mail id to which you wish to send the mail. Searching this will open the new email message in your Yahoo Mail
  • You can get the lyrics of a particular song from your favorite artist very easily using yahoo. You just need to type Linken Park lyrics if you want lyrics for all his songs or Linken Park’s heavy lyrics for getting the lyrics of the Heavy song
  • Putting the square brackets on both the sides of your keyword that you are searching for will bring you the results of the exact keyword.

Ex: Searching [Taylor Swift] will only get you the results of web pages with Taylor swift in them and not Swift              Taylor

  • Get the Wikipedia pages of some people or any website or any other thing that you may want to know directly from the Yahoo search. Just type using the keyword !wiki India, which will bring India’s Wikipedia page

These search tips make Yahoo useful than Google search.

Screen Recording Your Desktop Screen With YouTube

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Screencasting is a pretty simple process as you just need to have a tool and hit the record button. There are a lot of software programs available that can be downloaded for free from the internet with which you can record your deice’s screen and later upload them to YouTube or share them with your friends. For doing this you need to have a software on your computer, while there are many useful tools available for free, there is another pretty simple way for screen recording your device’s screen is using the most popular video-sharing website YouTube. Yes, you can capture your device’s screen easily using  YouTube.

Screen recording Your Desktop Screen Using YouTube

All you need for this is a web browser and a YouTube account. Here is the step by step process to do that

  • Sign in to your YouTube using your Google account.
  • Click the upload icon which you can find on the upper right corner of the screen and then click on Live streaming and go to events option there
  • Now just click on the new live event button there
  • You will then be directed to the create event page where you need to enter the title for your screen recording video
  • Set the privacy to either private or unlisted and then click on Go live now button
  • Then hangouts on air page will be opened, turn off the webcam and microphone by clicking on the camera button on the right corner of the pop-up window. Also, toggle the microphone button if you don’t want to record the audio
  • Then on the left side of the window, you can find the screen share option. Just click on that and select the window that you wish to record the screen of. Or you can also select the entire window if you wish to record the entire screen window
  • Click on the start screen share button. Then on the start broadcast button which will start recording the screen of the window that you have selected. As this is a private session no one can see while you record it.

YouTube Dashboard

  • When you are done, just click on the stop broadcast button on the bottom. Then head to the YouTube dashboard where you can find the saved recording
  • You can see the saved screencast which you can share with your friends and all by downloading it to your Google drive.

All your recorded videos will be saved to your YouTube dashboard which you can download and share with the world

Taking Scrolling Screenshots On Your Android Device

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Many of us wish to take long screenshots sometime or the other and Xiaomi first caught the desire the basic users and has introduced the ability to capture scrolling screenshots. Eventually, other smartphones have started following this thing which has become quite useful to the users. But what if your device manufacturer hasn’t offered you that feature by default on your device. Don’t worry, there is actually a way where you can take the long screenshots on your device and here are the applications that can be useful to you

Apps For Taking Long Scrolling Screenshots

LongShot:

It is one of the best applications that can help you in getting this feature that you would love to have on your device. The basic features of this app are capturing screenshots, capturing a web page, stitching screenshots. You can just download and install the LongShot application from the Google Play store. And after that when you open the app, you can find the options capture screenshot, capture a web page, which you can just tap and go to the app or web page of which you would like to capture the screen of, scroll the screen till the point you would like to take a screenshot of. When you are done, then hit the done button.

You will be taken to the back page, where you can find individual screenshots, just hit the join button and the app will combine all those shots into one. In the next page where it shows the combined shot, you can even adjust the screenshot manually if you wish to.

Scroll Capture:

If you don’t find the above app interesting and if you are looking for a more easier application, then Scroll Capture is your right choice.  And one thing to remember is that this app works with only web pages and when you open this app, you will find an interface just like the web browser. You can just copy and paste the URL of the web page that you would like to capture the screenshot of. After that, you can see the app capturing the entire web page and will present in front of you the fully captured screenshot and there is no need for you to stitch the screenshots.

Thus these apps make the process of taking scrolling screenshots pretty simple.

How To Hide Files, Photos And Apps On Your Android Device

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Our smartphones contain a lot of our personal information which we don’t need to be publicized. Anyone who has the control of our phone will obviously control all our data and if you are among the ones who don’t wish it to be like that then don’t worry, here I am to explain to you how to hide your various files and stay tension free even if you give your smartphone to someone. There are a variety of options to hide files on your device and let us go through a few of them

Apps To Hide Files On Android

File Hide Expert:

Most of the android devices don’t have the ability to hide files by default, but thanks to these wonderful applications and there are a number of such applications available in the Google Play store. You just need to download the File Hide Expert application from the Play store and open the application, this app works like a basic file management application and you can just add files here by clicking on the folder icon on the top right corner of the app startup screen. Then add as many files as you like and also add files of any type and after you are done with adding files and folders, then head to the previous screen and click on Hide All option which will make them invisible in any other file managers and galleries. You can make them visible again by just clicking the restore all button or you can even bring a particular file or folder visible by just clicking the x icon parallel to the particular file or folder.

KeepSafe:

And the most important thing that you shouldn’t forget to do is enabling password for this app. Just open the app and click on the menu, then click on settings, now check the enable password option and then enter the password.

If you are searching for the most efficient photo hiding app, then this is the right one you are searching for. Along with hiding your photos, it can also help you in saving your sensitive data like passwords and id cards. You can simply download the app from the Playstore and set up is pretty easy.

Just open the application and it will take you through the PIN setup process, set up the PIN, after that you can just click on the add picture option on the bottom right corner of the app screen. You can also add pictures to this by just sharing the pictures you would like to hide and then selecting the KeepSafe option from the share menu.

Hide files without any third party apps:

There is actually a simple trick using which you can easily hide any type of files that you wish to without having to download any third party applications. All you need to do is just add a “.” At the beginning of the file name that you wish to hide, you can edit the file name in your file manager. This simple trick will prevent the files, pictures and audios, videos from showing up in their respective players.