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Mar62022 by Doitself1 Comment

How to hide YouTube channel subscribers

Internet

Hiding YouTube subscribers is a new trick that is currently being employed by quite a number of YouTube creators. This is simply a setting from YouTube that makes the number of people who have subscribed to a YouTube channel invisible. With this setting, you only see the number of views of a certain content but not subscriptions for that particular channel, for example views for a song, tutorial, sermons among many other types of YouTube content. The intentions for hiding YouTube subscribers varies and solely depend on the decision of channel owners. The hiding ranges from channel that are very famous with a notable number of subscribers to upcoming channels that have not yet gained many subscribers or them that are not yet popular. But what are some of the…

Dec232021 by Doitself2 Comments

How to use WhatsApp on your computer using WhatsApp Web

Internet, Software

WhatsApp Messenger is an open source mobile application popularly installed in Android, Apple among other mobile platforms . The instant messaging application well known to run on smart phones is currently owned by newly formed Meta company formerly known as Facebook. The app allows you to send messages inform of text and voice, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, among other content. WhatsApp is very popular running on mobile phones and many smart phone users are aware of this. However, there are very few people who are aware that is actually possible to use WhatsApp right on your computer or your laptop for that matter and quickly send and receive WhatsApp messages just like on mobile phones. Yes, this is possible through WhatsApp Web, a…

Dec92021 by DoitselfNo Comments

How to make a screen shot of your computer in two simple ways

Software, Windows

Screen shots are simply images created by capturing either the entire or sections of a computer screen. They are a very important tool in the current digital world and mostly they are used to capture the error in a certain applications after which is sent to an IT expert who will often analyze it, troubleshoot and later fix the error completely. Screen shots are also greatly used to explain a variety of steps or pin point a specific area of a computer window either through marking or painting on the them. They are very effective when illustrating step by step instructions to achieve a certain task in a computer. For example this article uses a variety of screen shots to make the steps as simple as possible to our readers.…

Nov262021 by DoitselfNo Comments

How to share a Google pin of your location on Google maps

Internet

Google pin is a great tool from Google Maps which has become one of the popular web mapping platform in the world. Google maps offers you a variety of help through satellite imagery and aerial photography to have a view of streets, monitor real time traffic conditions and route planning for traveling by foot, car, air and public transportation. It is one of the current technological trends used in transport to show, locate and share directions. Whether you are traveling by foot, you are using personal or a public means of transport you only need to know your destinations or location where you need to go and Google Map will help you with directions in which you will navigate through. That means that knowing the location of your destination is…

Jun32021 by Doitself2 Comments

Eight Items contained on a computer desktop

Windows

Computer desktop is your work area on which program and files icons are located. It is basically a work space where you can access everything you need to operate your computer, such as system components, applications, the Internet, etc. This personal work space is accessed after logging in to the operation system when computer completes the boot up process after being powered on Items on Computer Desktop Start button: Allows you to open menus and start applications. Task bar: Primarily used to switch between open windows and applications. Icons (or graphical pictures): Represent applications, files, folders and other parts of the operating system. By default Windows provides you with one desktop icon, the Recycle Bin. My Computer: Provides access to the resources on your computer. You can access your drives…

Jun32021 by Doitself3 Comments

What happens when you power on a computer

Windows

It is useful to understand what happens behind the scenes when you switch on your computer from an idle machine to an operable and functional system. This process is called booting. There are essentially two forms of booting - the soft boot and the hard boot. The cold boot or hard boot involves powering the computer up from an initial zero power supply. A warm boot on the other hand takes place when a software application or operating system triggers the computer to perform a reboot. It is mostly done using CTR + ALT + DELETE keys when the computer stops responding or the system updates is required to take effect. A successful boot is dependent on the hardware, BIOS and operating system files to function without errors. When an…

Jun32021 by Doitself3 Comments

How to login to Gmail account in simple steps

Internet

It is of no doubt that Gmail is one of the leading email service in the world as far as electronic mail is concerned. one is required to login to Gmail account in order to access this free service which is offered by Google. In order to Login to Gmail account, you need to have an account with Google. Creating a Gmail account is quite simple and takes less time. See our guide on how to create a gmail account. To Login to Gmail account, start any browser of your choice and type gmail at the search bar as shown in the image below and press enter or click the arrow on the right of your search bar. Various Gmail urls will appear as shown below. Choose the option Sign…

Jun12021 by Doitself1 Comment

Four important things to consider before live streaming

Internet

Did you recently hear about a well known and an influential media personality who was messed up by his background when on live meeting in his house? It was such a bad embarrassment that really costed his reputation. His die heart fans who were equally embarrassed and annoyed by the mess of this personality house which was in a bad mess. This was a big lesson for us to learn especially those who do live video streaming like in Facebook, Twitter, Instagram ,YouTube,zoom among others. Do not just woke up and start live streaming either in Facebook or in other platforms but prepare well and take a few considerations, remember your audience are over the world and how well you are organized for the occasion will build their trust, like…

May102021 by Doitself1 Comment

Six Advantages of Videos as a Tool of Marketing

Digital Marketing, Internet

For a longer time I thought videos were only meant for fun or inspiration as seen in music and movies or perhaps the best way in which one would capture the most memorable moments and activities in his/her life. By then my thoughts were a little challenged until today’s current digital era of growing and popular social media and the greatly increasing advantages of videos. Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and video sharing platforms like YouTube, Daily Motion, Vimeo, and Netflix among many have more economic benefits to businesses than we think. We are in a digital era where almost everyone who wishes to do a quick showcase or a demonstration of their products runs to social media and in this case they would upload a video. or…

May102021 by Doitself1 Comment

2 Easy ways to prevent hacking of your FB account

Internet, Security & Safety, Software

Have your Facebook account ever been hacked? Or ever heard about a hacked FB account? To many this sound like a rhetoric questions that expect an obvious answer yes and that how vulnerable we are as far as our social media accounts are concerned. The outcry from quite a good number of my Facebook friends has reached me hence a decision to offer a very simple to follow guidance on ways to prevent hacking that will frustrate malicious acts of many hackers. But also if you have not heard about this or you have never been a culprit of these malicious and annoying acts, it would be highly advisable to take precaution and follow these simple steps that will prevent hackers from intruding your accounts. 1. Choose a strong…