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Hello! Welcome back to the Happy Hut. I'm Neil and it is cold tonight.
This is the coldest night of the year so we'll get through this as quickly as possible.
How do you change your name on YouTube?
We are going to change our YouTube channel name, but we actually have two names on YouTube... look at my channel here.
Firstly we have the channel name, so this channel you're watching right now is called “Neil Mossey”.
You can choose anything you like up to 50 characters and it has to be within YouTube Community guidelines so no rude words!
But there's a second name down here which starts with an @ symbol and YouTube calls this a handle.
It's a name that's completely unique to you so no one else on YouTube has this, and it kind of works like the @ names on TikTok and Instagram.
I've got the YouTube guidelines on screen now, so this can be anything from 3 to 30 characters long and YouTube might have just made up and given you your handle that you have right... right now.
And it usually puts numbers on the end so you probably want to remove those numbers from your YouTube name.
If you want to do this using your desktop computer, I'll leave a link down in the description and YouTube will change this over time.
I'll leave a link right down in the description for the very latest guidance and advice for how to do this.
So the first thing we're going to do is open the YouTube app, and then I'm going to click on the avatar on the top right hand corner of the screen.
And we'll make sure that we are logged into the channel where we want to change our name, so on here you can see I'm called “My super first channel” and my handle is my superfirstchannel5798.
I don't want those numbers, so we're going to click on the next menu option down: “your channel” and we click on “your channel” whether or not you have videos up on your channel.
And on this page, just underneath our name and details you can see some options here.
We're going to click on the pen icon which... which is the edit icon.
This opens up all the details for our presence on YouTube.
At the top here we can change the picture for our Avatar, so if I click on this camera icon here I am... I can even take a picture and change my avatar.
And the first option down, if I click on the pen icon here, I can change the name of my YouTube channel.
Now this name doesn't have to be unique, so there might be lots of channels called “my super first channel”. It doesn't matter, so long as it's 50 characters or less.
The second option down is where we can change our handle.
Let me show you what happens if you can't get the handle you want.
So I want to change this to “mysuperfirstchannel” and lose those numbers.
But unfortunately the handle has been taken by another Channel with this handle.
What I can do is call this something completely different, so let's try “MySuperSecondChannel” and YouTube is telling me that this handle - this unique handle - is available!
So I'll click on the “save” button on the bottom here, so if I wanted to change my channel name... I can click on the pen icon here and I could change this to whatever I like.
And because of this it means that we have a completely unique URL!
So we have a unique web page for our YouTube channel or our YouTube name and this URL is youtube.com/@mysupersecondchannel
So if we go to our YouTube channel, this is how it looks now.
I think it's beautiful!
If this video is helping thanks for saying hi in the comments below it'd be great to hear from you and right here are all my videos to help you get started on YouTube.
How do you free up space in Google Photos on mobile? Here's how to recover Google storage space when it's full! This is my step-by-step guide to solving the google photos storage full problem with 5 things you can do right now on your mobile phone. If your back up is full or out of storage, there might be something here which will help you bring your space back down to under 15GB.
I'll try changing the back up from original size to storage saver, easily search and remove any unwanted photos and reducing all the photos and videos in my Google Photos app to storage saver size.
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Hello I'm Neil, welcome back to the Happy Hut: this is so frustrating...
Is your Google photos suddenly full?
You are getting warnings and error messages like these, telling us that it stopped backing up photos and videos... Even worse than that, it's shut down our Gmail!
This is happening to me right now, so I'm going to show you quick things you can do right now on your phone to bring your Google photo storage back under the 15 gigabyte limit.
I'll also show you how you can keep it under that limit without deleting all your photos and videos, or more importantly without giving Google any money whatsoever.
You know Google? The most profitable company on planet Earth? Yeah that Google, that really wants us to buy some storage.
You and I both know that buying storage from Google isn't a good idea because it will mean a monthly fee for the rest of our lives!
And Google can increase that fee anytime they want to while they still hold on to our data and sell that to advertisers.
We do not need to be giving Google a monthly subscription, so let's dive in with tip number one.
So the first thing we're going to do is to change the Google photos upload size from original quality to “storage saver” quality.
You might have done this already but just let's make sure that that setting is set to storage saver because sometimes when the Google photos app updates it switches it back to “Original”.
So we're going to click on the avatar on the top right hand corner of your Google photos.
Don't click on “free up device storage” because that is just going to remove photos from your phone.
We don't want to do that. We don't need to do that.
What we are going to do though is go down to photos settings.
We click on that and then we'll click on backup and sync, which is the first menu item here.
If we scroll down we can see “upload size” and there are two ways that you can backup photos to Google photos: that is either “original size” which is the full fat big size of your photos and video...
Or this option here: “storage saver”.
Honestly I've been using storage saver for years now. I haven't noticed any difference and if you do want to keep the original resolution of your photos and videos, you can be backing them up to your computer.
It really does make a difference with the file sizes as we'll find out on one of my tips in a moment! So I'm going to choose “storage saver”.
Tip number two is that we're going to turn off Google photos backup.
And to do that we're going to click on the Avatar in the top right hand corner again.
We're going to scroll down to “photos settings” and then we're going to click on backup and sync.
There’s a little toggle switch here: we're going to turn that off and the reason we're doing this is that once we've cleared some space from Google photos we don't want to be filling up Google photos with the pictures that are in our phone again.
And later on I'm going to show you how you can set up a Google account just for your photos and videos.
The third tip is to remove any obviously unwanted Google photos and videos.
Click on the Avatar in the top right hand corner, and down underneath the “account storage full" you can see this button with three dots.
I'll just click on it and that takes us to the “out of storage” window.
There's a section down here called "review and delete” and this is where it offers to show you screenshots, blurry photos, large photos and videos, and other apps.
Now I don't particularly want to delete these, but there might be some big ones here that you can delete.
You can see from the sizes here aren't huge and I don't think they'll bring me back underneath the storage limit, which brings us to tip number four, and this this is the killer tip.
This is how you and me are going to beat Google, and it's to reduce the size of all the photo and video files in Google photos just in one go.
Now you can't do this on the Google photos app, which I think is pretty disgusting, so what we need to do is to open a browser on your phone.
If you have an Android phone that's probably Chrome, and if you have an iPhone or an iPad that's Safari, and we'll type in photos.google.com
Next on the top left hand side, you see the three lines there?
We click on that to open the menu just to make sure that we are logged into the correct Google account.
You can click on the Avatar face there if you want to change the accounts.
Next we'll scroll down, and down here where it says storage we're going to click on the word “storage" and this is like manage storage on the app...
But if you scroll down, the app doesn't have this option: “recover storage”.
And by the way if any of these tips are helping, please say hi in the comments or hit the thumbs up button. It really helps other people to find this video so thank you.
On the “recover storage” option here, we're going to click on “learn more" and it opens up this scary warning.
Now we don't know which photos and videos in Google photos are at the big original size or the smaller storage saver size. By clicking on this option, it will reduce all of the photos and video file sizes down to the storage saver size, which will free up loads of space.
I'm going to click this warning disclaimer here: I understand that it cannot be undone...
and then I'm going to hit the blue "compress existing photos and videos”
Now it looks like nothing has happened... look our storage is still at 16.3GB
If I scroll back down it says compressing.
It does take a couple of hours, let's see how this fixes my Google storage!
It's now 8:30... 7 hours later. Let's open Google photos app.
We were on 16 gigabytes. If I click on my avatar, whoa! Look at that!
Account storage 7.8 gigabytes!
We did it! Woah, we did it! So for me this tip reclaimed about eight gigabytes of storage, but more importantly it's got my whole Google account working again!
But that's not all, because we can now keep it off.
Because tip 5 is to create a Google account just for your photos and videos.
I've got a video all about that, it's right here. You'll never run out of free Google storage again and you can create a new Google account for every year. You could create one for every month if you wanted. The step-by-step instructions are right there or in the link that's in the description below. In your face Google!
How do you start a YouTube channel? If you want to create a new YouTube channel from scratch, this video might help. I've launched many YouTube channels, and 2 have become monetized... I've done it the wrong way many times, so here I'll help with step-by-step instructions for you to start your very own channel on YouTube!
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Hello welcome back to the Happy Hut!
It's not a very nice day today you can see Casper at the window there...
Hello I'm Neil Mossey, and YOU want to make a brand new YouTube channel!
What are you thinking!
This is it! This is gonna be the time we're gonna get through this.
But it looks difficult enough even knowing where to start.
But trust me, it is really easy and you can follow along step by step.
I'm going to make one right now, we're going to do this together.
I've created a lot of YouTube channels: two of them have become monetized, so I'm in the YouTube Partner program. And it is absolutely lovely getting money... getting paid by YouTube every month, but I have hit some problems along the way.
So I'm gonna do this to avoid any of those mistakes and problems further down the line.
The first thing we'll need is one of these, a Google account!
And you can skip ahead if you have one of these already, but it is much better for me to create a brand new Google account for the YouTube Channel.
I do this just in case something goes wrong, either with my Google account that wrecks my YouTube channel... or something goes wrong with my YouTube channel and then I lose my Google photos and Gmail... so I just keep the two separate.
There are some terrible things happening out there.
At least this way I play it safe and one won't affect the other.
I've signed out of Google to start a new account and up here in the top right hand corner we've got “Sign in” so we'll click on that and then down here on the sign in page there's an option “Create account”
So we'll click on this. It gives you three options: “for my personal use”, “child” or “work or business”.
I'm going to choose “for work or my business”: it just keeps it clean and separate and “not me”.
What do you want to call your channel? Leave a comment down below. I'm gonna call this “my super first channel”.
Next we'll verify this account and agree to the terms and conditions, and now it confirms that the Google account is ready.
And that takes us back to the Google home page with the avatar in the corner showing that we're now logged in with this new account!
Now it's the exciting bit! We'll go to youtube.com and you can see it's already automatically signed me in. There's my avatar at the top.
If I click on it we can see that I'm logged in as “my super first channel” and the very first option on this pull down menu is “create a channel”.
Let's click on it... now this is where it gets slightly confusing.
Even though we created a Google account that is “for work and business” it still wants the YouTube channel to launch with your name.
And your handle is your unique name on YouTube, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to change the name of the channel to “my super first channel” and it lets me have that as the... the handle.
There’s a little green tick, so I'm going to click “create channel”.
It's looking a bit bare... well it's looking very bare, there's nothing here at all so the first thing we need to do is to upload a video.
Very generously they've given us a button here to “upload video” but I'm going to use the proper button to show you where it is for all the other videos.
Up here on the top right hand corner, can you see there's this kind of camera icon with a plus there?
And if I hover over it, it says create... and you have two options.
You can either upload a video or go live. Obviously we're going to hit “upload video” and then it brings up the “upload videos” dialog window.
“Select files” and then we're going to find the video file that we want to upload and click “open”.
This opens up another window where you answer some questions about the video. You can change these later on, so you don't have to do this now, but we can give it a title.
So I could just... I don't know... call that “welcome video” and then down here we have the description box, and that's where we can type a description for the viewer.
You can change all of this later on. This is where you can put in a thumbnail... you can add it to a playlist... and there are even more details...
We can fill those later on. I'll click on “next”.
Oh it's reminding me that I have to say whether or not it's “made for kids”.
It's not made for kids.
Don't be confused there. It might be acceptable for kids, but it's whether or not your video is specifically geared towards children... so if it's like a cartoon or a nursery rhyme that's the only time you'd hit “yes” - even though my videos are safe for kids to watch.
And it's explaining that the video is going through some checks, and then we have a choice. We can either make the video go live right now by selecting “public” or I can just save it so that anyone with the link can see it. That's “unlisted”.
I'm going to choose “private” for now and then I'll make it public when I've got everything ready. So we'll go down to this box down here. Save, and this is the first video on my channel content page!
But this video is now ready to go live. I'm going to show you how to go into the video to change anything you want to do.
I'm first going to click on the pen icon to open up “details”.
This video is now ready to go live so we're going to go to “visibility”, but if we pull down this box we get those options that we saw earlier... so the video can be hidden so it's “private”. We can make it “unlisted” and down here is “public”, so I'm just going to make it go “public” and live.
I'll hit “Done”.
Now it won't go live until I hit “Save” on the top right hand corner here, so let's hit “save” and this video is now live on YouTube!
Out on the internet for anyone to see it. It's a... it's the greatest buzz.
You've got to do this! You've got to do this. If you've managed to get a video up onto a brand new channel, I'd love to hear from you down below in the comments below.
It'd be great to see your channel and your first video... and right here I've put all my YouTube hacks, so everything that I need for making a YouTube channel.
It'd be awesome to bring you on the journey with me, if you want to hit the Subscribe button. I know you can do this! You've got to do this. We need your videos on YouTube. You've got this!
I'm cheating on our regular supermarket, Lidl. An Aldi has opened up today 20m closer to our house so let's brazenly walk in and take in the delights of a new supermarket smell. Just don't tell the Lidl.
And I also use the stuff from Aldi to make my daily egg frittata or omelette, with the chorizo and button cup mushrooms. But is THIS the start of VLOGMAS?!
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Hello welcome back to the channel I don't know if I'm going to release this video because today I'm... I'm going to cheat on my Supermarket
So around the corner from us we've got a supermarket called Lidl it's uh... it's one of the lower end supermarkets in here in the UK
They're all over Europe I think they're over the United States as well
I mean we use it because it's cheap but also because it's the nearest and it served us really well over the years but... I've made some videos about it on this channel
But over the years the staff are brilliant but the supermarket itself is... is now getting a bit tired... a bit run down like me!
And lately I don't know if you... you you're experiencing this with your Supermarket but the shelves are just bare empty and most other supermarkets they sort of make an effort to spread the stuff out to cover up the supply issues... the supply chain issues that we're facing here in the UK at the moment for obvious reasons
But they haven't even got the stuff to spread out on the shelves because that's partly what I'm doing... why I'm thinking of cheating on them
The second reason is that their main competitor - that their arch rival - their Nemesis - has opened up a branch and it's about 20 metres nearer to us... so not only do we get a brand new supermarket and the excitement of another chain
And it's the head-to-head rival...
But it's... it's... it's brand new and more importantly it's less far to walk
I'm gonna buy the three products that are usually buy in Lidl... I'm gonna buy them in Aldi and I'll see if I save any money
We're here! It’s all new - look benches!
You can sit down and... look at the car park!
New baskets - look - the hand sanitizer stand doesn’t fall over when you touch it!
The doors don’t... The doors don’t fall off when you touch them! I know, this is the first product that I wanted to buy: mushrooms for my omelettes, £1.25 so we’ll see how that compares
Now the next thing I need to find is chorizo slices.
The thing with the German supermarkets is that they... they know to do their meat...
I can’t find the chorizo
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Okay, I’ve found it - and it looks like it’s the same price! 89p
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It’s so clean! Now the last thing I need is erm some Gouda slices - or is it Gouda slices? Leave me a comment below, how do you pronounce it?
I'm gonna try and not be distracted by the stuff in the middle
the Aisle of Aldi... is that what we call it?
now the gouda slices usually cost about three pounds 20 so let's see how much they cost here
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It's £3.19, which I think is exactly the same as Lidle.
it's literally penny for Penny identical to Lidl... except without the bare empty shelves and the wobbly cleaning station
I've got completely distracted by the dog harness
I think I'm gonna get this for Casper - apparently it lights up - charger - and the neon dog coat
I think he's gonna like this - we were actually looking for one - which is the trouble with the middle of the aisle things - they are things that are sort of in the back of your head
Okay I spent way too much than I should have done
Let's uh let's go to the checkouts now and see the damage
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What I actually went for
oh yeah okay thanks
Thanks
oh cool I like the attention
Well that went really well!
I went in to spend about four pounds and came out spending 32 pounds something but oh there's nothing like a brand new Supermarket to lift the spirits is there?
look Casper I got stuff! I got stuff for you! quick find the shoe well done! all right should we go and put the stuff on you'll have a little doggy fashion show while I make an omelette with my Aldi stuff
come on then Casper come here Casper come! good boy! look what Daddy's got! oh what is it what is it? ready? yeah I can't do this with one hand
oh yeah very good you're helping aren't you? right you ready? sit!
you look like a member of the emergency services!
oh Casper you look... you look ready to have your pay cut by the government! oh Casper! oh it's beautiful oh yeah give us a wag! very good boy! oh I think that's a hit because we bought a coat before and the trouble was there was so much coat that it was basically all around his bits and pieces
although - this is fairly close to his bits and pieces so when he goes for a tiddle it just goes all over the coat
That's how dog coats work isn't it? let me know if I'm doing this wrong but I think he's just gonna wee all over the underside of that
I was kind of hoping it'll all be lit like um some kind of neon stripe?
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I think that's a hit! we'll adjust it - Casper that looks amazing! oh it looks amazing Look at that - make it twinkle?
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let me share some closing Thoughts with you while I make the omelette with the Aldi stuff
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So there’s this thing on YouTube called Vlogmas, I’m sure you’ve heard of it - It’s where vloggers try to make a video every day through December
I've never done it before and I'm thinking of giving it a try
what do you think? oh these chorizo slices look smaller
thing is, I don't know if it's a... if it's a good idea
I think it is a good idea because it just means I get to share more junk like this but this is a LIDL chorizo slice - chorizo - this is an Aldi chorizo - chorizo slice
I have to put one on top of the other yeah it's definitely smaller look at that!
the Lidl chorizo slice is much more generous than the Aldi one
that's Lidl and ALDI
it's exactly the same weight but there are 22 slices and this has 24 slices
it's exactly the same product for exactly the same price but shaped differently
we need two eggs - so I don't know I'm just thinking of making a video every day just to see what would happen but I don't even know if I can keep up one video every day
so I take the two eggs
anyway put the two eggs in
I know what my first vlogmas videos would be
I could fix the leak over there, I'd clean out my Phillishave - you know it's really exciting stuff! uh what else? oh and I’d share, I’d share how I got the scaffolding Tower up on the... the side of the... the building here last week and survived!
so I cut the chorizo pieces into, well, into pieces
I cut the slices into bits
I'll bring the camera around - I'll get two mushrooms - I'll get three because they're little
I'll just cut these up and I should wash them but I like living dangerously
and then I get a knob of butter [Music] and then I fry the mushrooms or saute them or just make them warm and buttery
I put the chorizo in at the same time so I'm doing this with one hand not very proficiently
the gouda slices or gouda slices are for a roll later... I didn't get any rolls! didn't get any bread! future Neil, quick! go back and get some bread!
I'm gonna whisk the egg and I'll just sling this into the pot
[Music] I like to not disturb it so that all the bits are evenly distributed but I always mess that up so let's just Stir It
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I wanted to share this with you for a long time and the trick is to get it solid without it burning
right it's the moment of truth
can I get this flipped over without it falling? right I usually have a success rate of about one in ten so it's gonna be really unlucky If This falls apart on me, on camera
but I am doing it one-handed
Shall I go for it? oh almost yeah yeah! I'm calling that a Dad delivers success!
I did it! I did it! it flipped!
it sort of stayed in one piece and that's it - that's my beautiful egg frittata slash omelette slash first time at Aldi and YouTube can put up a window of one of the other videos
there'll probably be a how-to that you're not interested in so let's see what it offers can you please help my daddy get 10000 subscribers just click in his face thanks bye all right this is gonna be the proper one right?
