Sunday 19 August 2018
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.
Sunday 12 August 2018
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.
Wednesday 8 August 2018
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.
Thursday 26 July 2018
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.
Tuesday 10 July 2018
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.
Tuesday 3 July 2018
Top Ten Videos at youtube mike downes as 3 July 2018
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Friday 18 May 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.
Friday 4 May 2018
YouTube and Me - One in a Billion
Sunday 11 March 2018
Crowdsourcing Bike Locks in Google Drive - The Decathlon Demo
a bike lock display in a decathlon store visit the image in google drive |
Decathlon UK published a short video on 2 March 2018 called Advice: How to choose your bike lock (the full video and transcript is blow).
Wednesday 17 January 2018
Android Split Screen Combinations Part One and Two
where two screen become one on android 7.0 onwards |
If you’ve a curious mind, then you often cannot stop thinking about things - in this case how an Android Screen can be Split into two halves to display two apps at the same time, side by side.
Monday 15 January 2018
Android Accessibility Help Videos
Android Magnification Zoom |
There are some quite brilliant Android Accessibility features hidden in plain sight - by that I mean found in Settings, System, Accessibility.
Mixing Voice and Music for Video
mixing voice and music with audacity |
If you watch or make videos where someone is talking and there is music playing in the background, then read on.
Friday 12 January 2018
G Suite New Ideas New Ways to use Apps on Mobile and Desktop
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Finding a Drone Font for Police
On reading a tweet from Devon and Cornwall Police, there was a line, 'insert drone emoji here' which got me searching. I've drawn a blank on emoji (so far).
However, I have found a brilliant drone font and it's free. Thought it maybe useful for the odd bullet point or illustration on a poster or collage.
However, I have found a brilliant drone font and it's free. Thought it maybe useful for the odd bullet point or illustration on a poster or collage.
Tuesday 9 January 2018
Saving Mobile Data with Datally
Datally Screenshots from Help Video 9 Jan 18 |
Datally is a new data saving mobile app that was introduced by google on 30 November 2017.
I've made five help videos to support those people who wish to learn.
Audacity 2.2.0 and beyond from Nov 2017
Audacity 2.2.1 on Win10 |
Exploring the BeFunky Photo Editor Mobile App on Android
a hare in a field as pop art from Spet 2014 |
Yet here I am in 2018 talking BeFunky again, which seems to have found it’s way to me partly from memory as that’s what I search for after looking at the Storyboard comic strip images.
Saturday 6 January 2018
U Scanner by Cyberlink is so Useful to Photo Scan Deskew Save pretty much anything
uk police tweet image using mobile first phone |
I heard about and downloaded U Scanner by Cyberlink on Android on 14 Dec 17 (iOS is also available).
After a five minute test, I upgraded to Premium and paid £1.23 UK (no watermarks and no ads). For that price it would hardly break the bank.
The Storyboard Android App by Google Research Is it Still a Thing?
Storyboard App the Six Visual Styles (click image to enlarge) |
Happy New Year People! It's 6 Jan 2018 already and last month on 11 Dec 17, Research at Google published a new android app to Transform your videos into Instant Comics.
I've made a few tests and demos and published a video playlist below. I will add more videos soon, especially as I have a backlog of ideas queued up as the seasonal vacation interrupted the flow.
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