Can a Solar Power Station Save My Family?

My FIRST off-grid battery: Jackery Explorer 1000 v2 First Impressions Review!

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What happens when you try to harvest free sunshine in the dregs of a UK winter? 

I'm unboxing the Jackery Explorer 1000 portable power station alongside the SolarSaga 100W solar panels. With headlines about power cuts, I think I'm starting some "gentle prepping" to make sure my family doesn't moan at me, I mean stays powered up during a blackout.

I walk you through the simple setup of the 100W bifacial solar panels, including how to use the clever sun-target indicator for maximum efficiency. And even try out direct USB phone charging, generating my first few watts of off-grid energy. If you are looking for a portable, reliable power solution for emergencies or garden office use, is this the right place to start? 

Can a Solar Power Station Save My Family?



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What happens when I buy my very first portable power station and 100W, yes, 100 WATTS of solar panel? What's it like to unbox? Can I just plug it in for the first time? And more crucially, will this be the solution to put solar panels up on the Happy Hut in the background? Hello. Welcome back to Dad Delivers vlog. This is a a big day for me and my family. It's, how can I put this? It's very gentle prepping. There have been lots of really iffy headlines uh recently, especially here in the UK, of vital infrastructure just not working, just things just stopping very suddenly. And it's being presented to us as if it's completely normal. But if it were to happen uh on a bigger scale, I know the first problem for me as a dad would be the family would be moaning at me about I can't plug my phone in. Even though your phone probably doesn't work in a in a big infrastructure shutdown, but I've got to keep my back covered with this. It's the Jackery Explorer 1000. Okay, let's look at the specs, but keep it simple. Under the hood, we've got a 1,070W hour battery. In dad speak, that's enough juice for a portable fridge all day or charging your phone about 90 times, which for my knackered phone is about a day. It pumps out 1,500W of AC power, so could handle coffee makers and even some power tools. Though, I'm not sure I'll be doing that much DIY during a national catastrophe, but it's nice to have that option. I've even tested it by plugging in my Meaco DD8L desiccant dehumidifier in the hut and it seems to work just fine. It's got all the ports we actually use, including a 100W USB-C for the laptop. So, I could do some editing for when the internet comes back on. And when it's empty, it'll charge from zero to full from a wall outlet in under 2 hours. Plus, with this 100W solar panel, we're basically running on free sunshine. Up yours, power company, I'm going to bill my own family! All from a unit that's light enough to carry. Now, I can hold this with with one hand, which is amazing. I mean, it's really heavy. But what I really like about this is its size. And I like it kind of jolly shape and jolly colours as well. I'll be able to find it in the event of emergency in the darkness. So, I might be able to, you know, not trip up on it. But I've also bought these. Let me tilt the camera. The SolarSaga 100. These are 100W solar panels that are bifacial and which open up. So, they're easy to store, but more importantly, they're even easier to put up because they're very light. Let me tell you some more about the solar panels. They are shock resistant. They are waterproof to a rating of IP68 and dust resistant. Jackery explained they are made with the leading IBC technology bi-facial energy generation. I think that means that it can generate power from the sunlight and from reflected light. And they have two really handy carry handles as well. So, uh, that's nice. Makes them really portable. Now, I couldn't quite work out from the videos on YouTube how the solar panels work. of the solar saga 100W solar panels work. So basically this is what the 100W panel looks like and it's magnetic so it folds up really easy and snaps shut. And then on the back they have these two Velcro straps that act as stands. So, if I show you behind here, obviously it' be a lot easier to do this on the ground, but helpfully they're labelled "top" so you know that uh it's this way up and they prop up the panels on the ground. There are I don't know what you call this, cleated holes, so I could use rope, I guess, to hold that in place. Let me know in the comments if I'm uh wrong about any of this, but this is my first impressions having opened a solar panel for the very first time. And there's also this curious device here. It looks like a target with a spot on it. Now, I'm thinking that is some way of targeting the sun. So, the sun at the moment, I'm going to point the camera straight into the sun. Uh it's over there. So, the sun is that way. And I can see from the circle there's like a shadow. So, if I tilt it this way, I'm hoping, can you see there's a shadow cast by that dot? And then you can turn the panels to target the the sun. But I'm thinking if I turn the panels to face the sun. So, I'm assuming this is a clever way. There you go. That's that's bang centre there. That is getting maximum sun if the other half hadn't folded over. It's a lot easier to do this on soft ground. The panels themselves are are really light. It's kind of like if you can imagine this size in heavy cardboard. They really are light. So I think I really would have to chalk them down. If I were to put them up on the on the happy heart, I think I'd really have to kind of lash it to the roof so they wouldn't blow away in the stormy weather we're having at the moment. Now I think the solar panels are called bi-facial that they capture light as well as from the front. the light can pass through and I believe this means that it can pick up reflected light as well. So, it's supposed to pick up more solar to uh generate inter power. It also comes with this lead and I'm going to plug it in for the first time. I've never done this before. So, this really is a test to see how straightforward it is for someone who's new to solar. If I pull this rubber top off, it reveals this socket. On first glance, it has this box on it with two USB connections, USB-A, USB-C, and a light. So, I'm wondering if I could just plug that straight into my phone uh without the need for the power box. So, just to experiment, I've just got the uh the panels out loosely. So, we're going to see if this uh USB output works just by itself. offices panels. There's the output. You're about to plug it into your iPhone. Oh, yeah. Charging. Is it saying how much? And what's the what the number of watts? One watt. It is 3:00. It is an hour before sunset, late November. But we But look, I'm getting a free one watt. So, that works. The only plug that fits this socket is this one here. So, I'm just going to push it straight in. And it looks as if it has a particular way that it goes round. So, it's almost like a figure of eight cable, but there's this notch here. So, I'll make sure that the plug is that way round. I should push it in all the way. Bit difficult to check one handed. That's all the way in. Great. And then I'm assuming I plug this into the power station. And it looks as if there's some kind of adapter. I'll try this one. Right. That seems to look like it works. and so does that one. So, hmm, I don't know why there are two connections. Now, it doesn't actually say in the instruction manual which plug you're supposed to use. What I have found out is that one of these plugs is an 8.0mm plug and the other is an 8.1mm plug. And I can see on the side here it says DC8020. On the cable that goes to the solar panel, there's etched a DC number there, 8020. So, that is the plug that's meant to go into the power port. It would be really nice if that was explained a bit more clearly given the price of this thing. I do not want to wreck it. So, I push it in like that. It goes in okay. Let's see what happens if I stand out of the way of the solar panel so that the solar can reach it. And you can see because it's new out of the box - falling down one of Casper's holes. It likes to bend. So, I'm hoping over time that will open out a bit more so that both panels will face the sun. Only that panel is really super on target with the setting sun here in the UK. So, what I'm going to do now is see if anything is happening on the box. And oh my goodness, the the display has come to life, but it says input 5W. So, am I getting 5 watts from the uh last dregs of the sun? Now, the display's gone off. And I think that's to uh to save power. Let's try press the power button again. See if anything comes to life. Right. So, the the display has come to life. I'm going to try and open up the solar panels a bit further right next to the stinging nettles. Let's pull these back. I've got uh a tree in the distance kind of putting dappled sunlight onto the solar panels. If I just angle it a bit more aggressively towards the sun. Let's see if that improves things. It's gone down. Oh no, it's 6 Watts. I've increased my solar power generation to 6 Watts. This is pretty much the last week of November in the UK where traditionally the sun is probably nearing its weakest. Since I've been filming, the sun is setting behind these trees. There are no leaves on it, but it's enough to probably zap the power. I've got a bit of a shadow from my chair here. Let's move the chair. I got a clump of grass here that's probably not helping. Tread that down. All I need now is for Casper to run up and uh use it as a toilet. And then I think we've got the full set. Let me show you the the dot indicator. Almost bullseye. I won't move it anymore because it is really difficult to manhandle at the moment. It's a bit stiff. So I think that's the best I'm going to do. And I've managed to bring up if I press the power button, I've brought up the input to 7 Watts. This is my very first 5, 6, 7 watts that I've generated in my life. It feels like a a moment. This feels like a bit of a milestone for me. By the way, to charge this up like a regular power pack, you can get the the very nice power cord that comes with it. And I'll just plug the power cord in to the side here. And then let's see what happens. Wrong way. It's lit up. Now, this is completely empty, but you can see that the input is 347 Watts. I was going to put a power meter on. I didn't realize it would actually show it on the display. You can see a percentage and obviously the output's zero but it it looks as if it's giving a uh a rough time for charging. So it says 3.4 hours. There is even a symbol in the corner to show that the power cord is attached. And now we can see it has jumped to 1%. So I've got a while before this charges up. I... I... as I might have mentioned I've really... I'm really obsessed with solar power. Um, and it it just felt like such a expensive thing to to buy. But now that I've... I've got an ability to charge up a phone in an emergency, a phone that almost certainly wouldn't work if we've lost power. Um, I don't know if we'd still have mobile networks, but maybe we could charge up a... a tablet or a laptop to do some local work for local people. Even if the internet has gone down, it does feel good that I've finally provided power for my family and that in... in the unlikely event of a catastrophic uh scenario where infrastructure goes down, at least I won't have the family moaning at me, I'll be able to say, "No, I've got... I've got you 7 watts of power. Enjoy it. This is more than other people have. I feel like I'm providing. I feel like I'm uh creating here. I'm calling this a dad delivers success. Thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button if this is helping. I'm now blocking the sun, just losing some vital watts, but at the end of the day, but what I did want to say was all my other videos are right here and this is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next.

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Do Viral Hotel Door Locks Actually Work? (Door Security Test on chains Premier Inn and Travelodge)

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You've seen the viral safety videos... but do those portable security products actually work on a real hotel door? I test two different hotel door locks/jammers on a chunky Premier Inn door. I demonstrate the correct way to install the tough metal door lock that provides a successful, jammed seal, and reveal why the other popular plastic portable lock is a complete fail for hotel rooms! I also test the famous towel trick for securing the handle. Which travel security lock is worth buying on Amazon for your next stay in chains like Travelodge or Premier Inn?

Do Viral Hotel Door Locks Actually Work? (Security Test on Premier Inn Door)



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You can tell all the other people on this floor who've seen the same warning videos that I've seen. So, I'm going to put a do not disturb sign on the door. I've been busy on Amazon and I bought a couple of things to secure my hotel room. So, the first thing I've got is this hotel door lock and you jam this in the the hole that the [music] lock mechanism goes in and then you jam it up with this. I'm going to try this one first. I've already had a go and it's it's really difficult. So, I'll just let me bring you closer and I'll just show you how to do this on a Premier Inn door. The idea with this portable door lock or hotel door jammer is that you put that bit into the door frame. And it's tricky because look at this door mechanism. It's really chunky. It kind of fills the bit where I'm supposed to put the jammer. And also, there isn't that much room on the frame. I'm going to line it up with here like this. But there's [music] all of that is filled up with lock business. The way I'm going to line it up is to use the bottom of this catch. There's a [music] gap between that catch and that catch that's just wide enough for this. So I'm just going to line it up like that. But then I've got to get it into the door frame like that. So it is possible. It's tricky, but it but it is possible. [music] So it did take a bit of uh jiggling to work that out. It's almost as if that gap is the exact right gap as well. So, I think this has been designed with hotel door mechanisms in mind. There's this catch that goes into this catch here. And then I'm going to put this metal rod into this hole and lock it at the bottom here. So, I'll just slide it in the big area and push it down. And now that's it. [music] That is jammed. If you try to even kick the door, that jam is going to hold. So now I am [music] completely locked into the room. The other advice you're supposed to take is also to put on a do not disturb. So that the other advice I've been given from all the YouTube videos is to put a do not disturb sign on the door. So I've I've failed. I I need to unlock it all to do that. Let's take this one off so that I could try this. This is a Life Venture portable door lock. It's another hotel door jammer. But the difference with this is that it is plastic. It's made of nylon. And there's even like a stretchy instead of a chain that's difficult to clip, there's a nice stretchy kind of bungee [music] thing that that keeps the two parts together. So, if I take off this door lock and completely insecure my room, go. So, take that one off, throw it on the floor. With this one, I think it's much more simple. All I've got to do is find somewhere to jam that in the door frame. Now, obviously, my biggest [music] fear is that this will actually stop the lock happening, but let's let's give it a try.

Now, the problem with this one is that it's actually stopped the door from locking. So, this this one is completely useless. That does not work at all. And there's no way for it to work because the full hole in the door is filled with door lock. So, you can't actually put this catch in anywhere. This would be more useful for a planer door. I don't think [music] this is any use for a hotel room door. Oh, no. I thought I thought I'd lock myself [music] in there for a moment. It is necessary because you can see in the past, [music] maybe it's just a a scheduled refit, but I think that has seen some action in the past. God knows what's happened in this room. There is, of [music] course, this lock as well, but I'm assuming there's a master key that can open that. That's all part [music] of the mechanism. So, we've got to stop someone being able to just override that while I'm in here to the bathroom for the final tip. Well, first tip is this didn't really work. So, but worth taking because it's cheap and light. I'm going to try the tip with the towel. And the tip with the towel is really simple. It's just to roll it up and to jam [music] it under the the door handle like this. And this is to stop someone putting a wire underneath [music] the door and reaching up and pulling the door handle down from the inside. Now, if I had the portable travel door lock put in, that [music] would stop the door from from opening, but having someone reach in and pull that handle down is [music] absolutely terrifying. So, I love the idea of putting the towel in the door handle. Also, putting a belt or another towel. I won't do it now, but jamming that up as well will stop the door from opening in the night. Of course, all of that gets in the way of an evacuation if there's a fire. So, what are you supposed to do? What are you supposed to do? By the way, if you are interested in either of those products, I've got a link down in the description. Well, I've got a few links down in the description and you can see how much they cost wherever you are on Amazon. Amazon. Amazon. And thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. It really, really does help me to keep this channel going. So, I really [music] appreciate it. Thank you. And right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next.

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How to STOP avoiding your next YouTube video

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How to STOP avoiding your next YouTube video

Do you feel like your next YouTube video idea is a complete waste of time? 

I'm currently fighting "The Resistance," a creative block that makes every project feel either too "stupid" to make or too important to mess up. In this video, I explain why these conflicting thoughts are the exact sign that you are onto something worth filming.

I break down the psychological hurdles that stops you from hitting record, including the fear of negative comments and the trap of overthinking. Using ideas from Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art and Jerry Seinfeld, I show you why "wasting time" on a video is actually the best form of productivity for a creator. If you are struggling with creative procrastination or wondering if your video is "worth it," this might help you make your next video.

How to STOP avoiding your next YouTube video



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I am just about to make a a new video on my other YouTube channel, My Dad Delivers Vlog channel, and I really don't want to make this video. It's because I have two thoughts in my head, and I thought that this might be the reason why you're not making your next video. So, I thought, let's let's go through those two thoughts and see if you if if this happens to you, too. So, it works like this. I don't want to make this video because it feels like a complete waste of time. The video I'm making is is capricious nonsense and the amount of time that I'm about to spend on making this video isn't worth it because nobody's going to watch it and it doesn't really need to be made. And at the same time, I have this other thought which says I might get this wrong and actually this video is so important because I don't want to make it badly. Bad things will happen. People will think poorly of me because they care so much about what's in this video. And that's why I shouldn't make the video. And these two thoughts are happening at the same time. They are complete opposites. Both of these thoughts cannot be true. So why are we having these thoughts? And if they are equally working against each other, why would either of them be correct? There's a book called I'll put it on screen now. I'll put it in the description as well. There's a book called The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, and he calls this the resistance. And it's a lovely book. It's really short and it explains exactly what artists go through in these situations where you have these these thoughts, those two thoughts that work in complete opposites to each other. And he says that the resistance itself is the sign that you're on to something and that you're about to make something that is worth making. And the reason the resistance will fight you on this is that because you will be a completely different person as a result of going through with making this art. In this case, a video about how to set a poll on WhatsApp. There's also a really nice video. I'll put this down in the in the description as well. It's with Jerry Seinfeld and it it's just talking him talking about how he writes a joke, but there's this throwaway comment just towards the end of the video. He says something like, "It's a long time to spend on something that means absolutely nothing. But that's what I do. That's what people want me to do is spend a lot of time uh wastefully. You know, in my world, the wronger something feels, the righter it is. So to waste this much time on something this stupid is that's that felt good to me." The process, the thought process and the effort that goes into making the joke isn't worth the time that's devoted to it. It's a complete waste of time. That's why it's beautiful. That's why you're doing it. It's because it's a complete waste of time. It's because the resistance will cause people to start mowing their lawns when you're in the middle of a video. That... that in the background there, that's the resistance. That's something stopping me from making this video. I'm sure your brain will come up because you're creative. You will come up with all kinds of reasons to not make the next video and to put it off. And I just wanted to be that voice to remind you that that's a brilliant thing. That's good because that resistance is the sign for why you should be making this video. So, I hope this helps you to waste some time, deliberately kill some time, and devote too much time to something that clearly does not deserve it. That's that's why we watch YouTube videos. Someone has spent the time in a way that it doesn't deserve. It just does not deserve that amount of time. And that's why we enjoy watching it. And investing that time in the thing, the video that you want to make... That puts you ahead of all of those people who haven't wasted their time on that video you're about to make. And the same goes for for negative comments as well. I... I was talking to someone recently and they were saying they're a bit worried about the reaction that they would get online to putting out videos. That's probably the biggest reason why they weren't making videos. You have wasted the time. They haven't. You outrank them already. The fact that they are commenting on your work means that you've created something worth commenting on. You know that. You know it. You know it in your bones. But we we're wired by biology, by evolution to avoid these threats. But we know the prize that wasting our time on this will change us and make us better YouTubers, better artists. Does this help? Uh, making this video has helped me at least get to the point where I might actually record this video today cuz the sun's out. It's nice. I've just got to wait now for this moment to stop. If if these videos are helpful, thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. If you do either of those things, it really helps me to keep this channel going. But say hi in the comments as well because uh it really helped for me to see where everyone else is at with their journey. And right here on screen now, I'll put the playlist to all my tips for creators on YouTube. And here's what YouTube thinks you want to be watching next. Do it. Just do it. Waste some time.

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Macbook: How to CHANGE desktop background picture!

Change MACBOOK wallpaper background: how to get different desktop picture!

Whether you're on a MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, or Mac Studio, I’ll show you the two easiest ways to change your desktop wallpaper. 

Especially if a macOS update replaced your beautiful desktop picture  with a "depressing forest"! 

We’ll explore Apple’s stunning Dynamic Wallpapers and Moving Aerials (including how to find that sneaky download button!), and I’ll demonstrate the lightning-fast way to set any personal photo as your desktop background with just two clicks. Perfect for beginners or anyone switching from Windows to Mac. Also how to have the same background image on multiple displays.

Macbook: How to CHANGE desktop background picture!



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How do you change the desktop background wallpaper of your Apple Mac, MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air or Studio? I've just had a software update and it's changed my desktop background to this monstrosity. It used to look gorgeous with gentle rolling fields, which I loved. But now it's this depressing forest where bad things happen. What's behind that trunk? I'm more used to using PC Windows, so this is new to me. But there are a couple of ways to change the MacBook background. Stick with it because there are a few tips coming up that helped me. To change your MacBook desktop, first go to system settings, this cog icon here, or it's in Launchpad. Look for system settings. Or we can right click or double tap anywhere on the blank desktop and choose this option here, change wallpaper. This method is the longest way to do this, but it does show all our options. On the left hand sidebar, scroll down to wallpaper. Click on that tab. And here is the main control center for how our desktop looks. At the top, we have add photo or add folder or album. This is great if you want to use your own photos. For the backgrounds made by Apple, we can use these shelves below. We've got dynamic wallpapers that change light throughout the day, light in the morning, dark at night, and the moving backgrounds, landscape, city, underwater, and earth. By the way, if you see a little down arrow next to the title, you need to click it once to download the video. So, if I click on it here, you can see the download button. All the other backgrounds start instantly when you click on them. If you want to shake things up on your Mac, use shuffle aerials. That shows us something new each time. And at the bottom here, we can have a solid color for our background. Let's try pink. That's probably too much even for me. I'll show you the quick way to do this. But by the way, let's go back to the top. The toggle that says show on all spaces means you can have your desktop picture everywhere if you use multiple desktops or spaces. The second method to do this easily without digging through all your settings. Find any image file on your MacBook. I've got a folder and a picture right here. Click on it or two finger tap on the trackpad of your MacBook. Then go down to the bottom of the menu and choose set desktop picture. Whoa. I definitely do not want this one. So, let's go back to wallpaper for the picture I actually really want that shows the hills... Sonoma horizon. And I'll click on show as screen saver and all spaces. Congratulations, no more depressing forest. Thanks for hitting the thumbs up button and tell me in the comments if you prefer the moving landscapes or your own photos. And right here are all my other MacBook tips and tricks for YouTube creators.

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FAST Screen Record on iPhone (iOS Hidden Setting!)

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FAST Screen Record on iPhone (iOS Hidden Setting!)

Trying to record your iPhone screen for a YouTube Short, Instagram Reel or TikTok but can't find the button? Here's how you customize your Control Center in iOS: the screen recorder is hidden behind the "Add a Control" menu. In this real-time guide, I show you exactly how to activate the screen recorder, how to use the long-press trick to turn on your microphone, and where your videos are automatically saved. Whether you're on a new iPhone 16 or an older model updated to the latest Apple software, this is the quickest way to start capturing your screen with audio today.

FAST Screen Record on iPhone (iOS Hidden Setting!)



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How do you record the screen of your Apple iPhone? Maybe you're sharing a funny TikTok or Instagram reel or recording a tutorial for YouTube shorts. Apple makes screen recording simple, but the iPhone's built-in screen recorder is slightly hidden. If you can't find it, don't worry. We'll activate this together. Here's my iPhone on screen so you can follow along. First, swipe down from the top right hand corner. This opens the control center with all its quick toggles for switching things on and off. Look for a button with a circle and a dot in it. That's the screen record button. Here's a pro tip. If you long press on this button, so hold it down for a few seconds, you can turn your microphone on or off if you want to be heard during the screen recording. If the button isn't there, long press anywhere on a blank part of the screen, then press on this option at the bottom here, "add a control". Click on that and on this screen there's a bar, search controls. Here we'll type screen recording and that brings up the screen recorder icon. Just tap on the icon and that adds the screen recorder to your control panel. And now it's active. We can just press it or long press the button to start screen recording. It gives us this 3 second countdown. And then we know it's recording because there's a red recording dot and a bar at the top of the screen. To stop the recording, just tap that bar and then it saves the video to photos in your camera roll on your phone. Congratulations, you can now record anything on your iPhone screen. If this video is helping, thanks for hitting the thumbs up button. And right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next.

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How to screen record on Android... (Samsung S24 built-in recorder tutorial)

Want to record a video clip of your phone screen for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reel, tutorial or Shorts? Complete guide on how to screen record on Android using the built-in feature (Samsung Galaxy S24). I show you the easiest way to start using the Quick Settings panel and how to choose the right audio settings (No Sound, Media, or Media + Mic). Plus deep-dive into the powerful floating toolbar, showing you how to pause the recording, use the front-facing camera for reaction videos, and draw/highlight directly on the screen. I also show where to find your final screen recordings in the Gallery and how to change the advanced settings like video quality.

How to screen record on Android... (Samsung S24 built-in recorder tutorial)



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How do you record the screen on an Android phone? Sometimes we need to show someone exactly what's happening on our phone and screen record video clips for our Tik Tok, Instagram reels, or YouTube videos. I'm doing this on my Samsung Galaxy S24 with a feature that's built into this device. Or if you can't find this on your Android phone, there's a screen recorder app linked in the description below. The easiest way to start is through your quick settings panel. Swipe down from the very top right hand corner of your screen. Or if it doesn't look like this, try swiping down from the middle once, then a second time to fully expand the quick settings panel. Look for the icon that says screen recorder. Yours might be on a second page of icons, so swipe left if it looks different on your phone. Here's the screen recorder icon. If you can't see it, click on the pen icon at the top, then edit to reveal all the possible buttons and look for screen recorder there. When I tap on the screen recorder icon, it brings up this menu. We can choose what sound it will capture while recording the screen. either no sound, media, which is the sound the phone is playing, like music or game sounds, or media and mic to record your phone's microphone at the same time. There's also an option to show taps and touches. I'll turn this on to show you what it does, but basically it highlights where your finger comes into contact with the screen while it's recording. I'll press start recording and we see this 3-second countdown to get ready and recording begins. In the top right hand corner, we have this small floating toolbar. This is our control center and this doesn't appear in the screen recording. You can long press on this control center bar to drag it around the screen to have any position you like. There's a pause button here so we can pause the recording without ending it. The pen icon lets us draw or highlights things on the screen while recording. And if I tap on the color, we can change the color and the thickness of the pen. Now we can write or draw whatever we like on the screen. And there's an undo button, too, to clear things up. The person icon here lets me activate my front-facing camera. Now I can record my beautiful face in this small circle and I can drag the circle to wherever I want on the screen. This is perfect for gaming streams or quick reaction videos. If I want to minimize the control panel, click on this small triangle here. And now it just shows the timing of the recording. Swipe left on this to open up the panel again. When we're done, simply tap the stop button, which looks like a square. I'll show you where this recording goes, but first, let me show you the settings you can change. Go into your phone's settings and then advanced features, then screenshots and screen recordings. Scroll down to the recordings section and we can set the default for the audio. Choose the video quality. Set the size of the camera circle and choose which folder to save the screen recordings. This is the folder to go to if you want to transfer the videos to a computer. To find your screen recordings, just open up your gallery app. The video is right there in your main album and it's also in the album called screen recordings. From here, we can edit it, share it, or delete the file. The recordings also appear in Google Photos, which also has an album for screenshots and recordings. Congratulations, we can now record our Android phone screens. If this video is helping, thanks for hitting the thumbs up button. And right here are all my other essential Android phone tips and tricks.

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Sony ZV-1 Battery Change Guide: How to replace Camera Battery in Seconds

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Got the dreaded "Battery Exhausted" error on your Sony ZV-1 or ZV-1F camera? It's time for a replacement! Complete step-by-step tutorial on how to change the battery in your Sony ZV1 camera. I show you exactly where the battery compartment is, how to use the blue lock lever to safely eject the old battery, and the correct NP-BX1 battery orientation for the new one. Plus, I confirm the location of the Micro USB charging slot for the new battery. This quick fix works for many Sony compact cameras. 

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Hello. How do you change the battery in a Sony ZV1 or ZV-1 camera? I had a rainbow above the happy heart here. And uh this is what it looks like on the picture I took on my phone. I had to take it on my phone cuz when I tried to take it on my ZV1, I got the camera out and then got this error message. Battery exhausted. I've had this battery for about oh my goodness about 5 years now and I think it's time to to change the battery. Here's how I change mine. It's quite straightforward as soon as you know where to look. And I think this is the same for many other Sony cameras and versions of the Sony ZV-1. The battery that the ZV1 takes is Sony lithium ion NP-BX1. I have a brand new one here. There's a link down in the description if you want to get a new one, too. Maybe you just want to take the battery you've got out. This is what the battery looks like. And you can see there are these four terminals here. Let's take a look now though at where the battery goes in the ZV1 camera. So I'm going to look underneath. And this is slightly different for different versions of the ZV 1. The battery compartment is just on the left hand side here. And to open this compartment, you slide this slider here towards the open. And then underneath, you can see there's the SD card that pops out like this. I'll just push it in like that. And then to release the battery, there's a catch here, blue catch. So, I'm going to push this catch to the side. And the battery should spring up like that. And then the battery comes out. Now, I've written my phone number on here just in case I ever lose the camera. So, I'll leave my battery this side up. I'll just take the new camera battery. And you can see the terminals there match the terminals inside the camera. So, I'm going to put it this way up. So, the Sony side up towards the lens. And we just bounce it down. And you can see there's a spring there. And we need to just push it down so it clicks into place like that. And then we can close the compartment and slide the catch over to keep the compartment closed. We can now charge it by opening this compartment here. And there is a on my camera it's a micro USB slot. You might have a USB-C slot, but we just uh power it up there and that will charge the battery inside. So, the rainbow's gone, but at least I've got a new battery in my camera. Time to charge it now. Thank you if this video is helping if you hit the thumbs up or the subscribe button. It really helps me to keep this channel going. So, thank you. And right here are all my Sony ZV1 or ZV 1 camera videos, all my accessories and tips and tricks.

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Best SMALL Dehumidifier? MEACO 6L ARETE ONE REVIEW!

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The Meaco Arete One 6L is here! This is a complete first impressions review and comparison against the bigger 12L and 18L models to help you fight mould and condensation. I test if the smallest Meaco dehumidifier is good enough for a single room, show you how much water it collected overnight, and compare the crucial details: running costs (Wattage check against the 12L model), the ultra-quiet 32dB Night Mode, and a full tour of the air purifier and Smart Laundry Mode controls. If you have a problem room or live in a flat, this is the review you need before you buy! Affiliate links to compare all models are in the description.

Best SMALL Dehumidifier? MEACO 6L ARETE ONE REVIEW!



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This is the small Meaco Arete One 6L dehumidifier and air purifier, but is it any good to use in a single room? Welcome back to the channel. Very exciting day today. By the way, this is where I do all my hair and makeup. Actually, it's my daughter's bedroom where I do all my hair and makeup. But look, I've got this for her room. It is the coldest room in the house. And we've had all kinds of... I want to say damp problems, but they it's more condensation, mould. It grows everywhere. I've tried pulling away the furniture from the walls. We've even completely stripped bare the walls and completely redecorated in here. And since we've done that, we've not had any mould back. And that's thanks to this, the bigger brother to the 6L. This is the Meaco Arete One 18L dehumidifier. Since we got that, we've not had any mould in the house. And I've been chasing the mould around the house for years. And in about 1 year, this completely solved our mould issue. But now we've got the bedroom exactly how we want it. I want to keep that moisture at bay. I want to make sure the mould stays away from here. This is a weird extension to the house. It was built in the 1980s and it's on the first floor. The roof is... I mean it's just pretty much uninsulated. So although we've got the bigger dehumidifier that completely solves the house. When Meaco got in touch and said, "Do you want to try out our our smallest ever dehumidifier?" I said absolutely 100% yes. I bought the 18L Arete One with my own money. That's why I'm... I can compare this with that. Is it good value for money? How loud is it? How much energy does it use? And more crucially, will it look good in here? My daughter absolutely loves the Arete Two 12L dehumidifier. I think a large dehumidifier copes with our house. It solved the mould problem, but having a second one has really helped with the laundry, and it's also helped just to have one on each floor. I don't think we need it, but the second one does make the second floor feel a lot drier. And we've got the bathroom up here, plus all our bedrooms. We're breathing in the night. We've got condensation galore. Having a small dehumidifier was actually how I got into dehumidifiers. This is not a subject that I thought I would know anything about, but I made this video, this first video about the I think it's the SilentNight, and I think this is a 2L dehumidifier. Should we just open it? Let's just open it. This is just a first impressions review, by the way. It's not going to be in-depth. I just want to show you what it looks like when it arrives. Let's unfurl it. Amazing. So, it's a really nice size. It comes with a HEPA filter. That's the air purifier part of the dehumidifier. This filter, I'll spin it around. It's got blue tape that holds it in place for transport. As well as purifying the room, the good thing with the filters is that it protects the dehumidifier. It stops dust getting into the fan inside. And I don't think you can open this up if it's like the... the bigger ones. But you just get the the filter, put it into the air intake, and this has got a grille on it anyway just to stop big particles going in. But this will actually help purify the air in the room. So that's nice. And you just slide it back on like this. The power lead, the power cord looks like it's I mean that looks like it's a metre and a half. I'll put it on screen when I've measured it properly. But that's a really nice amount of lead. I love, by the way, that I can just put it on her desk. The Meaco dehumidifiers are this shape because you can push them up against the wall. So, they're they're kind of designed for UK and Ireland houses. We don't have that much floor space. So, being able to push this up against the wall and the air intake has been designed to be able to draw in from the sides. You're encouraged to push it up against the wall. At the front is the water tank by the looks of it. Just pull that. And because there's a clear window here, you can see when it's full up. When it fills up and it's full, the dehumidifier will cut off and it will stop because there's a... there's like a device in here so it knows when it's full so it doesn't overflow. This is me in the edit. I just wanted to drop this clip in now because this is the next day. I just kick this to one side. It looks like it's off, but it's actually on night mode. So, it's been running all night. It's now down to 61%. But I just wanted to show you how much water is collected. If I give it a little shake, it's quite a lot. So, if I turn it off and then pull it out. So, yeah, I was filming the unboxing at 8:00 last night, and it's now 2:00 the next day. This is how much water it's collected on night mode. I think we put it on about 10:00 last night. I can show you how much comes out.

So all of that... it was nearly full. So I'd say maybe 1 and 1/2 L uh just on night mode in about 14 hours... 15 hours. So that is the kind of liquid that's removed from the air by this dehumidifier. And there's also there's a hose attachment. I've never used these, but you can plug it in and attach I think a garden any garden hose and then it will just continuously drain. So, if you want to leave it and not have to empty the water tank. Oh, look. It's like my dehumidifiers have had a little baby. Now, I think what makes this an Arete One is that it doesn't have the louvre of the Arete Two. So, this is where the air comes out, the dry filtered air. There's a handle here that says your Arete has been designed with a discreet carry handle. Lift both edges basically. Uh don't pull it up from one side because it might snap. So you you pull it up like this and you can move it around. Although that said, I mean it's pretty easy to to carry without it. I'm going to take this label off. This is a nice satisfying moment for me. Get to take off the protective film and I'll give you a tour of the control panel. So obviously this is the the power switch. I'll turn it on here. I think my camera isn't coping very well with the LED numbers. These are crystal clear in real life. What it's doing at the moment is sampling the air. So, it will take a few minutes for it to take a reading of the humidity in the room. That's what this number is here. At the moment, it's reading 68. The target humidity Meaco recommend is 55%. On an aircraft, it goes as low as 20 or 18%. So, you get dry air. You can feel the liquid leaving your body. And when it's really super humid, which is what it used to be in here. These, this used to be like up at 80 or 83%. On the control panel, we have this button here, which selects the target humidity. We've got laundry mode, night mode, and then we have four indicator lights here. So, I think this first one means that it is actually dehumidifying at the moment because it's not hitting the target humidity yet. This light here lights up when the water tank is full. This lights up when it's in air purifier mode. And this is a lock to lock the control panel so you don't accidentally change it. It's like a child lock. So this is the... this is the button we use to control humidity in the room. If I press it once, you can see it says 55. Honestly, this display is crystal clear in real life. It looks a bit fluffy. If I press it again, 55 means that's the target humidity for this room. So, it's at 67. This dehumidifier will run and dehumidify until it hits 55%. It will go down over time to hit 55. If I want to change that, if I press it again and then press it again, every time I press the button, it gives me a different target humidity. So, CO is short for continuous. So, if I just want it to just keep running, I'll put it on CO. If I press it again, that's 40%. Which is quite a dry room to have. Press it again. 45. I'll just bring it back up to 55. When I let go, 55 will be the target that this dehumidifier will try to aim for. I don't use this button very much. It's laundry mode. And if I press it, you can see the target humidity now is 35%. I just paused there to see if you could hear that the fans are going at a higher speed now. So, if we had laundry in the room, this is now running at a slightly higher fan speed. And the target humidity is 35. It really wants to dry everything in the room. The SL stands for smart laundry mode. So, in smart laundry mode, it runs for 6 hours and turns off laundry mode after those 6 hours. I don't know if I can get a countdown. Yeah, there we go. 06. So, that's the 6 hours. So, you just press it a couple of times to see how many hours you have left on smart laundry mode. Honestly, I... I it's a nice feature to have, but I just run the dehumidifier as a dehumidifier. The button here is night mode. If I press this, we can see that the indicator goes on here and then all the indicators go off. But I hope you can hear on my microphone that it's still running. And I believe the fan drops to a slightly lower level. I'll turn night mode off just by pressing the night mode button again. And now we can change it back to if I press it again, it now flips it back to the normal dehumidifier mode. And I don't know if you heard there, but the fan came back up to a higher speed. This is supposedly one of the quietest compressor dehumidifiers on the market. The figure that Moaco quote is 32 decibels. That 32db is when it's on night mode. There are no casters on the Meaco Arete One 6L. So, it sits flat on rubber feet and there's less vibration rattling against the floor. When you do want to empty the water tank, all I do, I... I tend to turn it off. And can you can just pull out the water tank here just from both sides. And then you can just pour it in the sink from either or both holes here. And then once that's done, you just push it back into place and turn it on again. The capacity of the water tank is 1.8L. When I compare that with my 18L Arete One that stores, I think 4.9L. So, it's a... it's a couple of litres. And this is probably the good point where I do my bad description of how the litres works. So, you can see on the box, this model is called the the 6L model. So, all dehumidifiers have a litre figure attached to them. And it's really easy to think of the litres as the... the storage tank, and it's not. So my Arete One 18L dehumidifier will remove 18L of water at a certain percentage humidity and certain temperature of the room. That's why they call it relative humidity. Which means that compared with that model, this 6L dehumidifier would remove 6 litres in a day under those same conditions, which means that my 18L dehumidifier would remove three times more water in a day. It's just a way of being able to compare like with like. At the back, it comes with a grille that filters out large particles and mud in the air, thanks to my dog, Casper. And it comes with this filter. It's a HEPA filter. All you do is you just slot this into the filter tray. Just push it down. There's like a foam edge around the edge to make it airtight. And now we can just slide that back into the dehumidifier like this. This isn't hugely scientific, but I've got this device that measures how much power a device uses. Should be able to see how many watts it draws. Now, this is going to be different depending on all kinds of different situations. And you've seen the relative humidity is about 64%. And you can see that it's drawing about five watts. To me, that's incredible. I actually think it's sampling at the moment. I don't think it is uh 5W. Oh, here we go. I just heard the compressor kick in. Let's have a look now. There we go. 113 W. So, I can hear that the compressor is working. The fan is going and it's on it's on normal dehumidifier mode. And that is running at about 114 watts. If we want to translate that into a cost, I'll put this on screen. My energy bills at the moment are 24p per kilowatt hour. So if I ran this at 100W for 10 hours, that would cost me 24p. Uh, but it wouldn't be running all the time because you might hit the target humidity. Um, there might be time in there where it's sampling. I might even put it into uh a higher mode to dry some laundry. But just to give you a rough ballpark figure, it's about 24p for about half a day. I have got all the dehumidifiers in the house in this room. Let's move the camera back because over here I've got my Arete Two 12L. So, should we compare? Should we see how that compares? And instantly you can see the number of watts that my 12L Arete Two dehumidifier uses is 142. Your circumstances will definitely vary, but the 12L the much bigger 12L dehumidifier uses 143W when it's first plugged in. So, this dehumidifier, the 12L, is double the dehumidifying power of the 6L one, but it only uses 40 to 50% more electricity. I was obsessed with the the cost of this thing to to run when I first got my big dehumidifier, and we were really careful to only just leave it running at night on the landing or in the main kitchen area. On the second year, because our bills hadn't gone up that much, we just left it running. We left it running pretty much all the way through the winter and we also used it for our washing. So, we stopped using the tumble dryer. So if you're in a say a student flat, maybe you're in some kind of bedsit and you're thinking about should I get one of these or one of these, whichever you choose will cost a lot less than the tumble dryer or tumble dry function on your washing machine. This is just a fraction of the cost. We stopped using our tumble dryer altogether. We only use it for towels now and our electricity bill really came down. So that was unexpected. And also the thing dehumidifies the house at the same time. So my goodness, what a dull video. But if you're looking for a dehumidifier, I know what it's like. Do you go for a small one or a big one or a really big one? Because the 18L or the 20L or even 25L models are even larger. It's difficult to gauge which one. If you have a house and you want to dehumidify it, if you have mould problems like we had, I'd go for the biggest one possible. But if you've got a problem room, I'm going to put this down cuz it's killing my lap. If you have a problem room or you're living in a shared house, this thing, this 6L thing is absolutely gorgeous. And I've found that the 2L models are really tempting because this is a lot of money. But these things work. They draw so much moisture out of the air. The proper dehumidifiers, as soon as we got them into the house, they completely did the job. We've not had any mold issues for 2 years now. Hands down. We we spent our own money on buying the first dehumidifier. It's the best thing we have spent our money on. I completely understand the difficulty in in choosing. Uh, I say go big, but if you're looking for something for a room or a uh house share situation, this Arete One 6L dehumidifier on first impressions is absolutely gorgeous. What do you think? If this is helping, thank you for saying hi down in the comments below. I really appreciate it. There's a link in the description to the 6L model and also some of the other different models if you want to compare like with like. Right here is my playlist for all my dehumidifier videos. Good luck with your choice and good luck with beating the mould this winter.

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Why I'm STOPPING my YouTube Memberships

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Why I'm STOPPING my YouTube Memberships

Sharing exactly why I am turning off YouTube Memberships on my channel, and walking you through the entire disable process in real time! This video is essential if you are monetized, interested in recurring income, or considering YouTube memberships. I have 3 big problems with the feature, focusing on the split call-to-action (Subscribe vs Join button), hiding my best videos behind a paywall, and poor user experience of member-only videos in your feed. Full step-by-step tutorial on how to safely disable memberships and why I choose subscriber growth over recurring membership income. Is this a good move? 

Why I'm STOPPING my YouTube Memberships



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I am turning off my YouTube memberships on my channel, but I'm also sharing with you why I'm ending YouTube memberships. And I'm doing that in real time so you can follow along. Because if you're not monetized and interested in how you can earn money here on YouTube, or maybe you have memberships and are thinking about this too, for many creators, memberships work brilliantly. It's a way to make a paid exclusive community with reliable recurring income. For me, memberships are a great space to make less formal and quick to make videos, the more experimental stuff, but there's just something that's not working for me. There are many problems that I have with the membership feature, and this is why I'm turning it off now. So, the first problem and probably the biggest right now, if you look at my channel page or videos where you'd usually see the single subscribe button, I was shocked that instead you see a big fat join button. For me, this is a split call to action, which means a new viewer is being asked to do more than one thing. I think my number one priority right now is hitting 100,000 subscribers. It's purely a vanity metric, I know, but it's important to me. The join button, no matter how great the perks are, and we'll get on to that problem in a minute, the join button, I think, pulls focus from what I want the viewer to do and from growing my free subscriber base. And it turns out that is quite important to me. The second problem is hiding my best work behind a pay wall. The whole purpose of this channel, my whole reason for doing it is to encourage as many people as possible, you to make more videos here on YouTube. When I turned YouTube memberships on, I suddenly realized that all the videos I'm making for members only are all videos I actually want as many people as possible to see. By making the videos exclusive, I'm stopping them from doing the work that I want them to do out in the world. I don't want my videos hidden. I think I want them out there helping people. Which brings us on to problem number three, which is how members only videos are presented in viewers feeds. My members only videos and posts appear in your YouTube feed. You might see a great thumbnail if I've, you know, managed to put some effort into it and you click on it and then you're hit with a pay to see screen. For me, I think that's a frustrating user experience. Even worse, that's one impression, one thumbnail that could have been used instead to promote the videos that I want to be seen. All of this works really well for other creators, but having to build up a whole library of videos that no one's watching in the hope that one day it might equal what I would have earned with Google AdSense is a big ask for me. I'm already working for nothing on this. So then to do that again from scratch with no upside for potentially a lot of work, it it just felt like one push too far. I know, I get it. You've got to speculate to accumulate, but I can only make so many videos per month. To then make even more videos or make fewer that instantly pay so I can make the members only videos, it's just too much for me. Your experience may vary and you may have a channel with hundreds of people wanting to pay you directly every month. I just don't think my channel is there yet. Which means let's turn off the YouTube memberships right now. I'm in YouTube studio on a desktop and we are going to click on the earn tab on the left hand side here. These are all the features that I have switched on for my monetized channel. If I click on memberships, and this has been enabled for about five or 6 months now, you can see the hundreds of dollars I'm earning from the thousands of members I've managed to attract to my channel. I did have lots of videos and posts up. I've been slowly removing them from the from the memberships. To end YouTube memberships for your channel, at time of recording, the option is slightly hidden. I'll put a link to the YouTube help article in the description for the latest guidance. All we have to do is click on these three dots next to your memberships offer. Then click on disable channel memberships. This brings up a warning. If you do, you will lose all of your members and any future revenue that you might receive from channel memberships. This action can't be undone. I will tick the box to say I understand and want to turn off memberships for all my fans, all my thousands of fans there. Then we will click on the turn off button. Oh, it's thinking about it. There you go. So, it's reset itself to the splash page that we had before we started memberships. Grow your community and earn monthly. And if you want to restart memberships, I think yeah, you could just go through the process again. I have a video down in the description that walks you through the entire memberships setup process. YouTube will automatically refund members for their last month's payment if their billing cycle isn't complete. I'm really excited about this because it means I can finally release these hidden videos and get those views and watch time and revenue, but it also helps me feel okay about doing more experimental quick turnaround videos in future. Are YouTube memberships something that work for you? Let me know down in the comments below or to just say hi and thank you for hitting the thumbs up button or the subscribe button. It really helps me to keep this channel going and means far more to me than a monthly subscription. And right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next.

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YouTube Shorts: How to LINK to other videos... get FREE extra views!

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How do I link my YouTube Short to another video on YouTube?

If you want a link on your YouTube Shorts to take viewers to other videos, I walk you through the whole process.

YouTube Shorts are amazing for views, but they are a pain for getting viewers to watch your other content. This is a complete step-by-step guide for creators on how to use the Related Video feature to link your Short directly to another video on your channel! This is a game-changer for growing your watch time, as it puts a clickable link right under your Short's title. I show you how to find the edit settings on your phone, select any of your public or unlisted videos (Short or long-form), and implement this strategy for getting free extra views and turning Shorts viewers into loyal subscribers.

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If you are a YouTube creator, you already know that YouTube shorts are good for getting new views and subscribers. But they can be a real pain for getting viewers to watch your other videos. You can get thousands of views on a short, but how can you get those people to see another one of your YouTube videos? This is a feature that allows you to link your short directly to another one of your videos. It puts a clickable link right in the shorts player under your video while it's playing. So your viewers can go straight to another video without searching for it. This is a gamechanger for growing your channel because it's effectively free extra additional views. We can do this in a few clicks. You can follow along with me on my phone now. First, open the YouTube app on your phone. In the bottom right hand corner, you will see your profile picture or avatar. Click on it. This takes you to your profile. Now, scroll down to the section labelled your videos. Right at the top, you'll see these buttons. We want to click on shorts to see all of our shorts. Now, find the shorts that you want to link to another video. I want this one. Next to the title of the short, you'll see these three dots. They're easily missed. We'll click on here to bring up this menu. On here, select edit. This takes us to the video details page with all these different options. We need the section labelled related video. Click on related video and that brings up a list of your latest public and unlisted videos. Find the video that you want it to link to and select it. It can be another YouTube short or a long- form video. Click on the save button at the top right hand corner of the screen. Congratulations. When someone watches your shorts, they will now see a clickable link to your other video right under your channel name and above the title of the video. This is the fastest and easiest way to help a viewer from the shorts feed see your other videos and maybe turn them into a subscriber. If this video is helping your YouTube shorts, thank you for saying hi in the comments below or hitting the thumbs up button. And if you subscribe by clicking on my face, I have lots of other videos about how I'm earning thousands of dollars from the videos on my two YouTube channels. Good luck with your YouTube shorts.

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How to make INSTAGRAM posts PRIVATE and HIDDEN

How do you make an Instagram Post PRIVATE? 

Want to hide an Instagram post or video without deleting it forever? Or set an Instagram post, picture or reel to private? Maybe it's an old embarrassing picture, or a photo you're not sure you want on your profile anymore. While there's no private post button or setting, there's a simple, free workaround: the Archive feature. 

I'll show you how to quickly archive a post so it disappears from your public profile but stays safe in a private folder that only you can see. Plus, I'll show you how to unhide a post if you ever change your mind.

How to make INSTAGRAM posts PRIVATE and HIDDEN!



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Do you want to hide a post on your Instagram account without deleting it forever? Maybe it's an old embarrassing picture or a photo you're not quite sure you should be posting. You've probably looked for a private post button, but we won't find one. At the moment, Instagram doesn't have a way to make a single post private. When your account is public, all of your posts are public. But there is a simple and effective workaround. It's called the archive feature. And this could be a huge help. Archiving a post removes it from your profile so your followers and the public can't see it. But it doesn't delete it. It's like putting it in a secure private folder that only you can access. We can do this in just a few clicks. Plus, I'll also show you how to get it back if you change your mind. I've got my phone on screen now. Step one, go to your Instagram profile. Scroll down and find the post that you want to hide. 

Click on the post to open it. Then, look for these three dots in the top right hand corner. We'll tap on the three dots and a menu pops up. You'll see an option that says archive. Click on that. The post is immediately removed from your profile grid and it's no longer visible to anyone but you. It's that simple. But where did it go? To find your archive posts, go back to your profile page. Look in the top right hand corner for the hamburger menu with the three horizontal lines. 

Click on that and this menu slides out. Select archive. Make sure you're in the posts archive section and you'll see all the posts you've ever archived. If you ever change your mind and want to unhide a post, it's just as easy. From your posts archive, find the post that you want to bring back. Click on it to open it. Look for the three dots again in the top right hand corner. We'll click there. Now we can see this new option, show on profile. Click on that and the post will reappear on your profile in its original chronological spot with all its likes and comments back on there. It's a great way to keep your feed clean and up to date without ever having to permanently delete anything. If this video helps clean up your Instagram account, thank you for saying hi in the comments below or hitting the thumbs up button. It really helps me get to 100,000 subscribers. So, thanks very much for your help. And right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next.


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How to add YouTube Shorts to PLAYLIST (and delete!)

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How to add YouTube Shorts to PLAYLIST (and delete!)

How do I add my YouTube Short to a playlist?

You've found that amazing YouTube Short only to lose it to the algorithm... 

This is the complete step-by-step guide for beginners on how to save YouTube Shorts to a playlist so you NEVER lose them again. I show how to add Shorts to an existing playlist, create a new playlist, and manage crucial privacy settings (Public, Unlisted, Private). Also how to set up a collaborative playlist so friends can add their own videos, and show you the simple steps to find or delete your playlists later. Start organizing your favorite Shorts instantly!

How to add YouTube Shorts to PLAYLIST (and delete!)



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You know when you're scrolling through YouTube shorts and find an amazing video, but then you lose it forever. You try to scroll back to find it, but it's gone. Swallowed up by the algorithm. You can only find it again through your YouTube history. But we can add YouTube shorts to a playlist, which is probably why you're looking this up. As you know, playlists let us save and organize all our favourite shorts. So, we can find them again instantly. And we can also group them by topic or give them any title we like, making it easy to find our favourites later. Plus, even share these videos with a friend or the whole wide world. I've got my phone on screen here. So, let's do this. First, open the YouTube app and find the shorts that you want to save. Once you're on the short, look at the right hand side of the screen. You'll see a series of icons. In the top right hand corner, you'll see three dots. Click on the three dots and a menu will pop up. From this menu, select the option that says save to playlist. A list of all your existing playlists will now appear. You can simply click on the check box next to the playlist you want to add the shorts to. Then click on the bottom here. Done. But what if you don't have a playlist for this topic yet or you want to create a new one? At the top of the playlist list, you'll see a button that says add new playlist. Click on that. Now you can give your new playlist a name. My best air fryer recipes. Below the name, you can set the privacy of your playlist. The options are public. Anyone can see your playlist, which is perfect for sharing your favourites with friends. Unlisted, only people with the link can see it. And private, which means that only you can see the playlist, which is great for personal collections. There's also this toggle switch that says collaborate. If you turn this on, YouTube will give you a special link that you can send to other people. Anyone with this link can then add their own videos to your playlist. It's a perfect way to create a shared playlist with friends for things like a movie night, a road trip, or a collaborative project. Once you have your name and privacy setting, tap create. The short is now saved to your new playlist. To find your YouTube playlist, click on your avatar picture icon in the bottom right hand corner. Scroll to playlists. By the way, there's a plus button here where you can also create a new playlist. But if you click on the button next to that, view all, that brings up all your playlists. To delete your playlist, either click on the three dots on the right hand side of the playlist and choose delete or inside the playlist, click on the three dots in the top right hand corner and choose delete playlist. If this video is helping your YouTube shorts, thank you for saying hi in the comments below or hitting the thumbs up button. And if you subscribe by clicking on my face, you'll see my other videos all about how I'm earning thousands of dollars from my two YouTube channels.

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How to link DJI MIC MINI to DJI Osmo Nano camera

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How to link DJI MIC MINI to DJI Osmo Nano camera

Need to connect your DJI Mic Mini to your DJI Osmo Nano camera for better audio? This is a full, step-by-step pairing guide for beginners! I show exactly how to access the dedicated wireless mic settings, use the transmitter's link button, and troubleshoot the common "Osmo Audio not found" error (which is likely due to a previously connected mic). And include a sample audio test to see if the microphone's orientation affects the quality. Get better audio for your vlogging instantly!

How to link DJI MIC MINI to DJI Osmo Nano camera



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to connect the DJI Mini Mic to a DJI Osmo Nano camera. I'll turn on the Osmo camera. Hello, I'm here. I'm not just a disembodied voice. We will swipe down from the top into settings. And on the Nano, we have a dedicated wireless mic button. So, I'll click on that. And we have two options. We can either connect the mic mini to the TX1 input or the TX2 input. TX stands for transmitter. Let's choose TX1. And the menu screen here says power on Osmo Audio and pair. There's also a linking guide to guide you through how to connect with the Mic Mini. On the DJI Mic Mini, we will hold down the linking button. It looks like a a chain. And can you see it's blinking off and on blue and green. I'll let go of the link button. It will carry on flashing on those two colors. Oh, now here it says Osmo Audio not found. Now, I think the reason that has happened is because I had my mic 2 connected to this. So, I'm going to hit the reconnect button and it says power on Osmo Audio and pair. So, I'll hold down the link button and it's flashing blue and green alternatively again. And on the camera, it now says Osmo battery level 40% Osmo audio connected. And we have a solid blue light on the microphone here. Beneath this display on the DJI Nano, we have transmitter one settings. So, we can change settings in the microphone from the camera. I won't go through all of them because they will change over time. You can have a play with those yourself. But the one I use a lot is the LED button. So, I can just toggle this LED switch on and off. And I haven't turned the microphone off. I've just turned the LED light on and off because sometimes it's distracting when you're filming. I've now connected the DJI Mic Mini to my Osmo Nano. And this is how the DJI Mic Mini transmitter wireless microphone sounds on my DJI Osmo Nano camera. This is how the the microphone sounds. What's interesting and while we're talking about small cameras with a small microphone, what I found is that it's really easy because it's so small, it's really easy to set it on its side because it's just the the square shape there. So, this microphone's pointing in the other direction. And if I keep talking, hopefully you won't hear too much of a difference, but this is the difference between the microphone pointing out to the side and the microphone oriented towards my voice. I don't know if you can hear a difference there. I'm just saying it's really easy to have this pointing in all kinds of directions because it's so small. It's fantastic.

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3 Ways I STOP Google spying on my phone... Android Privacy Settings!

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3 Ways I STOP Google spying on my phone... Android Privacy Settings!

Do you ever feel like your Android phone is listening to you? You're chatting in the car about a something, and later that day, ads for it show up on your feeds. It's a little creepy. While our phones are constantly tracking our activity, they don't have to listen in on our conversations. There are three simple settings you can turn off right now to get your phone working for you, not against you. In this video, I'm sharing how I disable personalization, stop usage and diagnostics, and turn off those super creepy ads that are spying on you.

3 Ways I STOP Google spying on my phone... Android Privacy Settings!



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We all know our Android phones are spying on us. You mention something in passing while chatting in the car, then that night there's a YouTube video or an advert that is exactly all about what you were talking about. It's what it does. Constantly tracking your activity, monitoring which apps you use and what you search for on the internet. But listening into conversations feels like a step too far. There are tracking features which are switched on by default on our Android phones. Plus, they're slowing them down and draining the battery. But there are three settings which we can turn off right now to stop our phone spying on us. Let's do this right now. This is my phone up on screen here. And I'm going to do this in real time as we do this so you can follow along with me. The first thing we're going to do is disable personalization. My phone shares my data with lots of apps, which feels like spying. All that activity is logged and recorded to send me advertising and recommendations that are targeted at my brain. My brain can't take it anymore. Plus, it's my data. Also, it's using my phone's resources, which slows it down and runs down the battery. So, let's shut this down. Go into your phone's settings, which is the cog icon, and look for Google on this long menu. We'll click on this, and there are two buttons on the top, recommended and all services. We need all services. It's almost like it wants to be hidden. Let's click on all services. There are different sections in this menu. Scroll down to this section, privacy and security. And we want this option, personalize using shared data. Click on that. That opens up this list of apps which have access to my data. I don't know why clock is on there. I can't look at that myself. But maps and Chrome are pretty much everything I do on my phone. And device contacts down here is pretty sinister. I'm turning off all the apps on this list. And I hope this will free up some system resources on my phone. Next, I'm stopping Google constantly tracking how I used my phone, which apps I use, how long I use them. It means my phone is always running background processes to send this data. Oh, and it's using my data and power to do this, which doesn't exactly help my battery life. I'm turning it off. In the phone settings, click on the Google section. And then we'll go back to the privacy and security section again. And down here is usage and diagnostics. It's just a single toggle switch. Click on it to turn it off. My phone didn't blow up. And now it isn't sending continuous news about my phone to Google. I'm sure they'll be okay. I can get my phone working for me now. This next one I think is my favorite. It stops those super creepy ads from spying on me. This happened the other week in the car. My son asked me, "How does the clutch work?" That night, I start getting YouTube recommendations explaining how a car's clutch and engine works. It wasn't a coincidence. My phone uses my microphone and other data to send me recommendations and targeted advertising. I'm singing like a canary, spilling out keywords and topics like there's no tomorrow or or billionaire shareholders to feed. I never knew I was that interesting. But let's end this right now. In the phone settings, we'll then go into the Google settings and we'll click on this one more time. All services. Click on that at the top and under the privacy and security right at the top here because they are the most important thing on my phone. We will click on ads. Manage the info used to show you ads and measure ad performance. There are three options here when we scroll down. Ads privacy, reset advertising ID and delete advertising ID. Let's click on ads privacy. And I I'm just going to turn off all of these. I think we have three options here. Add topics, app suggested ads, and ad measurements. I don't like the sound of any of these. There's an explanation on screen now. I just don't think I need any of these. So, I'm going to turn off allow ad topics and go back. App suggested ads. I'm going to turn off allow app suggested ads. And then the final one, add measurement. Why Why would I use this? Let's turn it off. If you know why I'd want these, put it in the comments. But I I feel quite comfortable turning these off. I feel slightly ill because it's so obvious, but I truly don't think I need any of this. Now we'll click back to the ads menu and the next option is reset advertising ID to remove all the tracking data associated with my device. I get a warning message. Of course, this replaces the devices advertising ID with a new random number. Apps can still show you ads, but for a while they may not be as relevant or interesting to you. Yeah, because ads are interesting. I think I'll confirm and turn that off. So, I've reset my ID. The next option down is to delete advertising ID. Apps can no longer use this advertising ID to show me personalized ads. If I click on delete advertising ID, I get another what seems like a warning message. This deletes your current advertising ID. Apps can still show you ads, but they may not be as relevant or interesting. I think I will hit delete advertising ID. There's no confirmation button to press. It just does it. Now, it does offer me this option to get a new advertising ID, but I I don't think I'll do that. I'm good. And that's it. When my wife made these changes, the videos on offer on YouTube suddenly became a little weird at first, but they seem to have got back to normal now. I am calling this a Dad Delivers success. If this video helps you feel a little bit more secure or like your phone is working slightly less against you, thank you for saying hi in the comments below or hitting the thumbs up button. It really helps me to keep this channel going. So, thank you. And right here is what YouTube thinks you might want to be watching next.


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