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How to Record your Desktop Screen with YouTube

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Screencasting is simple. You download a software program, hit the record button and a video of your computer screen is created, ready for uploading to YouTube. There are a plethora of screencasting tools to choose from but did you know that you can also create screencast videos inside YouTube without requiring any desktop software? All you need is a YouTube account and a web browser. Here’s a step by step guide on how you can make screencasts of your desktop windows with YouTube. How to Create a Screencast with YouTube Step 1: Sign-in to YouTube with your Google Account, click the Upload button in the upper left corner and choose Events under Live Streaming. If you never done this before, YouTube make require you to verify your phone number to enable streaming. Step 2:  You are on the Create Event page. Give your screencast video a title, set the privacy of the video to either Unlisted or Private and click the “Go Live Now” button. Step 3: This will open the Hangouts on Air

How to Use Pluralsight Training for Free

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Pluralsight is among the best places on the web to learn programming through videos. Whether you are a complete beginner or a pro looking to advance your coding skills to the next level, you’ll find a video course at Pluralsight that will meet your needs. They have courses on practically all programming languages from JavaScript to PHP to Java to the trending technologies like AngularJS and React (see complete list ). It is a subscription based service and you have shell out $30 per month to get access to their entire video training library. Now here’s the interesting part. If you join the Microsoft Visual Studio program, which is also free, you automatically gain free membership to the entire PluralSight library for 6 months. No credit card or coupon codes required. Here’s how you can activate your Pluralsight subscription in a minute: Go to signup.live.com and create a new Microsoft Account. Skip this step if you already have one. Go to my.visualstudio.com and sign-in with

Twitter Guide: How To Do Everything With Twitter

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The first tweet was published almost 8 years ago and Twitter has come a long way since then. There’s a whole ecosystem of apps and services available now that allow us to use Twitter in more ways than ever before. This guide curates the best tools that will help you get the most out of Twitter. 1. Nuzzel  – This works as an intelligent filter for Twitter and helps you discover the most popular news stories shared across your Twitter network. All signal, no noise. 2. Flipboard  – Connect your Twitter account to Flipboard and it will create a beautiful magazine for all your Twitter feeds that you can flip through on the web ( example ), mobile and Windows 10 devices. 3. LifeOnTwitter  – Get interesting statistics and facts about your Twitter account ( example ). 4. TallTweets  – It lets you send tweets of any length by slicing your long tweet into multiple 140-character tweets ( sample ) and sending them in sequence. 5. IFTTT  /  Zapier  – Whether you want to tweet by email, cross