How to take screenshots

Ever seen those nice screenshots with perfectly centered text and arrows pointing towards the important things or boxes indicating what you are looking for? It is so simple you won't even believe how easy it is to do so. First of all you will have to download a program named lightshot: https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html Once you have the program downloaded, lighshot will tell you that the default button is imp pnt. Locate the button on your keyboard and press it once, the HUD will show you the area that you can select and the tools will display at the side.

With that nifty tool you can take screenshots that happen at that very moment, the screen will freeze in the state that it is in and you can take whatever portion of it. This can be helpful for presentations, documents and guides as well.

How to take newspapers to a new level

Have you ever wondered how could you make a piece of text a little more interesting or presentable? Maybe a newspaper format would work, but it would take forever on choosing fonts, making the right choices of font and making it look like and actual newspaper. Many sites can advertise and really make your life easy, but just as you are done and ready to print that marvelous looking document that took soo much time, it makes you pay for the document. It catches you off guard, it makes you angry and it ends with your day. I found this site while looking for a site that did it for free, it might not have much customizability, but it gets the job done and it looks neat. First you want to go to: http://newspaper.jaguarpaw.co.uk/

Now that you are there, its very simple, just enter the data that it needs, attach pictures and get writing!

Once you've got your text in there and your images, you want to click on make it and the site will re-direct and give you a pdf download. It's pretty sick how it comes out and it does exactly what is says. Now you can enjoy a nice look of an article without paying anything and looking professional

Beware of sites that pretend

There are sites out there that wish to infect your computer with useless programs and viruses. Site like these advertise free products that are usually paid or not accesible. Many of these sites exist out there and here is a huge warning if you like to click on free programs, you might just get baited. Avoid sites that are generators of currency that are paid in games, sites that promote free products, sites that offer services or a free version of a program without being scanned before. A very popular site that fools a lot of people to this day is SOFTONIC. Softonic is a horrible page that offers free downloads of products that are no even theirs, the sites downloader is filled with ads and virus. If you have ever downloaded something from there, I strongly suggest you check your computer. The installer just leads to more installations of useless programs and at the end it won't let you uninstall them, leading you to download counter measures and retrieve full control of your computer. Avoid these sites, sites that look sketchy or sound fake in their promises. Softonic, CNET, SourceForge, Brothersoft ---> Don't use these sites, EVER. If you don't believe me just type in softonic into your search bar and type viruses next to it. Thousands of articles will tell you that these sites are just malicious, yet they still pretend not to be. Even Wikipedia cites them as a site that installs unwanted programs. Have care when surfing and looking at webpages, don't get fooled by the rating stars under a page, if you don't know about it, search and find out if its a good source. Stay safe

How to get rid of a virus

As  normal computer user you run into nasty things while surfing, sometimes infected links, other times useless ads and worse of all viruses. There are many classifications as to viruses, but what makes them special is that they enter your computer without your knowledge. To stop this you might already have and anti-virus. but sometimes the pesky buggers infect your anti-virus and a full system check to find them would take way to long. Instead you would want to download a program to check the health of your computer or get rid of them.

We are going to be using two anti-viruses that will surely get rid of the virus, they are paid, but they have a 30 day free trial, enough to get rid or have a quick check over your computer. The first being Malwarebytes: https://www.malwarebytes.com/ Download the program and install it on your pc. Once the interface is open click scan now.

After hitting the scan button, you can just wait and remain calm until the program is done. It will identify threats on your pc or the ones that may have taken hold of your anti-virus. Our second program to use is Hitman Pro: https://www.hitmanpro.com/en-us/hmp.aspx Again, download the program through the free download and install it, register an email account to activate the product and it will scan your pc.

Now just wait for it to be done and the program will take care of any threats in your pc, if it finds any. They will be deleted right away and you can rest thinking that you are safe.

Now you can laugh at the virus face, your computer will be safe. If you find any program in your pc that has not been installed by you and when you try to uninstall, it gives you another virus, download revo uninstaller and get rid of it ASAP.

Enjoy your safe computer -Guides4Life

How to add shaded text to blogs

Want to learn how to do this? ---->Shaded Text  Its real simple and it adds an extra effect to whatever you are writing or you can make a very nice looking header. Its very easy, so easy indeed you should have known about it, but don't worry I have a simpler method.

You first wanna go to this site http://www.vex.net/~x/xfade/advanced.html
Once there type your word or words into the box, choose words size, colors and even background color.

You can even fade your text two ways, change the font size and make it giant or make a wicked combination of colors and background. After clicking on Fade me, you want to go to Show Html codes. Copy or drag them to this site or other sites that support Html and drop it there.

Easy Peasy Lemon Squeasy

And there you go, now go shade and make some cool designs for webpages.

-Guides4Life

How to create a distortion and rainbow effect through Movie Maker

Have you ever wondered how people manage to create the effect that a picture is moving or its changing color, but it's a video? Fear no more, there is a simple method with no need of money to do this. Its easy, fun and quick, so lets ge started.

First, you'll want to open Windows Movie Maker, if your computer does not have this program, download it and come back to this step. It is very important that you download the program from their official site and not some scam with viruses; for example softonic (<----DO NOT USE THIS)

Once you are in movie maker, insert any desired picture or groups of pictures that you wish to distort or change their color as a gradient.

Select as many desired images or repeat the same one until you reach the time that you want. Now click on visual effects and find the Hue option. If you have many pictures, you will have to click on this on every one of them.

If you want a distortion effect, you could choose from Warp and 3D ripple. These two are different, experiment and find the one you like.

Now that you want to save your finished product, you must first go back to the home tab, localize the share portion in it and click the down arrow in save movie. Save the movie in any format for your favorite websites.

The video will start to render and when its over you can view your changes to the pictures. Add music in the background for a better effect or speed up the picture!

How to insert a video on Microsoft Power Point

Have you ever had the need of an extra aid in your power point presentations, an instructional or an extra element that completes it such as a video? Well fear no more, even if you were not afraid that it was not possible; the solution is here.

First, open Microsoft power point. Click on archive.

Then click on the options tab and this will pop up. Once there, click the quick access, click the downward arrow and look for developer tab.

Onc1e you have done that, you will want to look for something that looks like this.

Click on it and click add, now hit accept and close it.

Now that we have completed that, click that new icon on the upper left corner next to the presentation Icon and look for shockwave flash object.

Now lets travel to youtube, find the video that your powerpoint needs and follow this quick process. I will be using a comedy video as an example. Click on the videos url and delete "watch?" and delete the [=] that follows a letter [v] afterwards. Replace the equal sign with [/]

Now the address should look like this [https://www.youtube.com/v/15nNY7uofNw]

This new address leads us to our last and final step before you can enjoy the video in your presentation. Go back to Power Point and right click the shockwave flash object and click properties.

 

Now, paste your new address in the green square next to movie and close up properties. Start your presentation and you should be able to watch the video. Now you can really bring life to boring presentations and give them a spark of life.