WebUser – 04 April 2018

Readers’ Tips

YouTube’sGaming
appletsyoustream
yourAndroidscreen

Usewebmailon
yourphonetosave
storagespace

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footageto your
phoneor tabletso
youcan edit it
beforeuploadingit.
On the next screen,
choosethe app
you’dliketorecord
–the YouTube
Gamingapp will
suggestsomeof
the gameson your
devicebut youcan
tap All Appsand
chooseanything
youlike.
TheYouTube
Gamingapp
recordsand
streams everything
thathappensin your chosenapp,and
also recordsanythingit hearsthrough
the microphone.When you’vefinished,
swipe down from the topofthe screen
to stop recording.
Simon Richardson,via email

MOBILE

Mailontheweb
BothGmailand Outlook let youaccess
your emailthroughaweb browser.This
works on mobilephonesand tablets,as
well as on your
desktopPC. If you
want to save space
and battery power
whileusingemail
on your mobile
device, deleteyour
Gmailand Outlook
appsand use their
webversions
instead.
OpenChrome
and go togmail
.google.comor
outlook.com.
Youcan even save
shortcuts to these
sites on your home
screen, so youcan
simplytap the
shortcut icon
to go straight to your email.Thewebsites
work surprisinglywell on aphone,
and the only featuretheylack is new
messagenotifications–you have to visit
the websitetosee if you’vegot any
newmessages.
Bill Ewart, viaemail

OFFICE

Word’s superior search
TheWordOnlinewebapp (bit.ly/
word446)isthe only word processing
softwareIneed thesedays –Icertainly
don’tneedto spendmoneyonMicrosoft
Office. Whenbrowsing the web, Ioften

use Ctrl+Fto openthe search box, which

lets yousearch forspecifictext on a

page.However,the Word app goesone

step furtherand opensasearch panelat

the side.This is really usefulbecauseit

shows ashort extract of the pieceoftext

thatcontainsyour search term, so you

can see the context. Youcan thenuse

the up and down arrow keystomove

throughthe search results,and Word

Onlineupdatesthe displaytoshowits

location in the document.

JaneDoyle, viaemail

ONLINESTORAGE

StopKasperskyblocking

Google Drive

Irecentlystarted usingthe newGoogle

DriveBackup and Sync tool, and

everythingwasfine foraweek or so until

it started throwing up error messages

and stoppedworking.Aftersome

investigation, IdiscoveredthatKaspersky

Anti-Virus wascausingthe problem.

To get the twoprograms to work with

eachother,you have to add the Google

driveshell extension(.dll) to Kaspersky’s

trustedapps. Youalso have to uninstall

and reinstall the Googletool, but when

Itried to do this, Kasperskystoppedme

reinstallingit until Ihad addedthe

GoogleInstalleras atrustedprogram.

There’snothingon the Kasperskyforum

to indicate thatafix is forthcoming.

rufford155, WebUserForum

GENERALPC

Uncoveryourlicencekeys

Manythanksforyour help with the

problemsIwas having with my hard

drive(see Ask the Expert,Issue 444,

bit.ly/webuser444).Your readers

mayfind it usefulto knowwhereto

find theirWindows licencekey.It’s

in the Registry,but forsomereason

it’s stored in Binaryform. Thankfully,

NirSoft(www.nirsoft.net)offers asmall

free program calledProduKey that

converts the binarykey backintoa

moremanageablenumber.Itcan also

do the sameforother Microsoft

products,someof whichgo back

manyyears.Headovertothe NirSoft

websiteand search forProduKey.

IanReed, viaemail

BLUNDEROFTHEFORTNIGHT

Have youmanagedto fix aPC-relateddisaster?

If so,pleasesendyour [email protected]

Ihad promised to deliver some

handheldvideofootageof afriend’s

daughter’s wedding,but endedup

having afew toomanydrinksbetween

shots.WhenIlooked at my footage

after the event, it wasalittle wobbly.

Luckily,I’vefoundsomesoftware

calledEasyShakyVideo Fixer (bit.ly/

esvf446)that’sspecificallydesignedto

help smoothout wobbly video,and it

worked remarkably well with my

footage.You’ll find this featureon

othervideo-editingsoftware, but the

processisusuallyautomatic, and I

found thattweakingthe manual

settingsin EasyShakyVideo Fixer

provided greatercontrol when

Fixshakyhandheldvideos

SOFTWARE

eliminating my unstablecamerawork.

DavidWhittaker,via email

EasyShakyVideoFixerhasplentyof

settingstohelpfix wobbly camerawork

If youcan’t findaMicrosoft productkey,

tryNirSoft’s handyfreesoftware

TheWordapp’s searchtooltakesyour

browser’s Ctrl+Fcommandastepfurther