The Latest on: Vibby.com, Edit Context Menus, App Lists, Removing Personal Online Data, Apple Sidecar and More

These days, many people share information using video. Unfortunately, the content within videos that needs to be shared/highlighted is often just a portion of the whole video. Vibby is a web service that can help in these situations. How? By enabling you to identify video snippets (start and stop points within videos) and be able to share just these snippet(s) as a single video. If this topic interests you, here is the link to the service’s FAQ page…www.vibby.com/faq

To help you get started with the Vibby.com service, the following link will lead you to a helpful YouTube tutorial titled “Vibby Tutorial – video mashups YouTube tool”…www.tinyurl.com/y2wq74up

I created a *“Vib” that includes a video snippet from three different YouTube videos from three different YouTube channels. To check it out, please visit…www.tinyurl.com/y3j5ych5 (*The Vibby service calls videos generated from its platform “Vibs.”)

Editing Windows 10/11 Context Menus

In Windows, when you right-click on files and folders the menu that appears is known as a “Context Menu.” Over time, as you install additional apps, the number of items that appear on context menus sometimes increases to a point where these menus can become inefficient to navigate and use. When (or preferably before) you get to this point, I would encourage you to consider paring down the number of available context menu items. If this topic interests you and you want to learn more about modifying your PC’s context menus the thewindowsclub.com article titled “Add, Remove, Edit Context Menu items in Windows 11/10 with Context Menu Editors” covers several solutions that can help you to address this problem. Here is a link to this useful article…www.tinyurl.com/ynfrckbw

Some Helpful Moving-Related Apps

As a Realtor, you may want to maintain a list of apps that customers and clients may find helpful in some way during the buying, selling, and moving processes. An article titled “The 7 Best Mobile Apps to Help You When You’re Moving” identifies some apps that you might want to add to such an apps list. Here is a link to the article…www.tinyurl.com/24ecrfyj

Help with Deleting Personal Data/Information from Google

If the topic of having personal data/information deleted from public records websites and/or from Google search results interests you, I would encourage you to review the following two articles.

MakeUseOf.com article: “How to Delete Your Personal Data From Public Record Websites” …www.tinyurl.com/452esxxr

Techcrunch.com article: “How to remove your personal information from Google search results” …www.tinyurl.com/bdzaun7f

Two related tips: 1) If you have a negative review on a specific service/website, I suggest that you Google the service’s name along with the search keywords “remove” and “review.” The search results for searches formatted in this way often include links to possible solutions; 2) If you do a search using the following search keywords “online reputation management service,” the search results will include links to services that can help you to improve and maintain your personal or business’ online reputation.

Tip for Finding a Product’s User Manual

I like having access to digital versions of product user manuals in an online folder that I can access from my phone. The following link leads to a makeuseof.com article titled “How to Find Any Instruction Manual for Free Online,” which may be able to help you find manuals for some of your products…www.tinyurl.com/y23a5e8h

Apple Sidecar vs. Universal Control

If you have a Mac computer and an iPad, you may be able to use Apple’s “Side Car” and/or (its newer) “Universal Control” features. Both features enable you to connect a Mac computer and an iPad so that you can use the iPad as a second screen. To learn more about these two features, how to use them, and what the differences are between them, please visit the following link… www.tinyurl.com/44s3ef6v (This link leads to a YouTube.com search results page that includes helpful videos on the topic.)

Reacquaint Yourself with Microsoft’s Speech Recognition and Voice Typing Capabilities

Over time, the list of available speech recognition/dictation/voice typing commands and the feature’s overall capabilities and accuracy keeps improving. If you are not familiar with Window’s speech recognition/voice typing/dictation capabilities or have not tried them yet, you should! To help get you started, I would encourage you to review the following web pages…

Article at Microsoft.com titled “Windows Speech Recognition commands” …www.tinyurl.com/yetjt3m3

Article at Google.com titled “Type with your voice” …www.tinyurl.com/459vfay4

Adding Emergency Information To Your Phone’s Lock Screen?

Adding emergency contact information to your phone’s lock screen is something you may want to consider doing since it could potentially save your life! To learn more about this topic, an article at pcmag.com titled “How to Add Emergency Info to Your Phone’s Lock Screen” covers the topic quite well. The article includes “how-to” information and instructions for both iPhone and Android phone users. The following link will take you to the article…www.tinyurl.com/5n7r8uj4

If you have any comments, suggestions, tips, or questions, you can email John at john@johnvrooman.com