The Gboard Google Keyboard Mini Series

In this Mini Series, we take a look at the Google Keyboard Gboard. This series was born out of the simple idea how when I type I hit the emoji key by accident - I went looking for a solution and in the process found a whole interesting bag full of nice surprises.

As an overview, expect these topics:
- Themes (Part 1)
- Preferences
- Emoji Hide
- sounds: type, backspace, enter
- Physical Keyboard with Virtual Overlay
- Alt for Emoji on Physical
- Space Bar Swipe, backspace swipe

As usual, I'm using Android 7.0 on a Moto G4

#TheMikeDownesPage #Android #GBoard #Keyboard

If you need it, Gboard - the Google Keyboard play.google.com/store

Our mobile keyboard is one of the main ways we communicate and record ourselves, for some fascinating background go take a look at The Typewriter (In the 21st Century) and you can also watch the trailer

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The Zoom H2n Mini Series

Having purchased a new Zoom H2n on the 11 July 2018, it's now been 30 days of learning and testing. Here's a small mini series with plenty of examples - four videos with total play time of 25 minutes.

The Zoom H2n as a model was launched in 2011, so not a new item at all - yet I would say an ESSENTIAL device if you are passionate about audio recording.

Of course if you follow this blog and my youtube channel, you will have seen I bought a Zoom H1 in 2013. And a lot of audio for me has been recording with my Moto G4 inbuilt microphone.

There are a few more paragraphs and links at the bottom of each video.

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The Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 15 Mini Series - The Freedom and Autonomy to Create

In this post we are going to explore Desktop Video Editing.

Videos 1 to 6 on the playlist are the Mini Series to help you learn while the remainder give some background on how to use Vegas Movie Studio.

YouTube Hashtags at Video Search

Hashtags at YouTube have been around for a long while - yet what's new, how to add a hashtag into a title or description text and have those hashtags appear above the title.

Used in moderation quite useful, so what's the best way? I am leaning towards a three step approach

1. channel name #themikedownespage
2. subject, topic like #GoogleEarth
3. subtitle like #Measure

Any more hashtags a too many in my opinion. What's alarming how google youtube have a limit of 50 hashtags - I say alarming as in my view, that limit should be MUCH lower - like 5 I would say.

Edit Fri 27 July 18 - Rules..

1, if hashtag(s) in title, then TITLE ONLY
2, if title and text description then TITLE ONLY
3, if no title, hashtag(s) in text description then ABOVE TITLE ONLY

therefore hashtags cannot be in both TITLE and ABOVE TITLE (?)

Links: Official Help Page Use Hashtags for Video Search



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About The Mike Downes Page

I'm working on a new site called the mike downes page, postes this in the About area, it reads..

From the very beginning my YouTube channel has been called The Mike Downes Page. That was on 8 Oct 2010.

Top Ten Videos at youtube mike downes as 3 July 2018

New playlist here called, 'Top Videos in the last 28 days curated 3 July 2018.

How did you make that Video - The Royal Visit

This is a new series on video making education. We take a recent video and talk about how it's made. We look for clues that made it effective and watchable. We then take these lessons and use them to make better videos ourselves.

YouTube and Me - One in a Billion

The YouTube and Me - One in a Billion Talk video