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How to Create and Add Engaging Graphics to Facebook Live

At first, Facebook Live was available for mobile users only, but now, the service is available for desktop users as well. Using your desktop computer to produce your Facebook Live videos has huge advantages. This gives you access to Live Producer, which opens opportunities for enhancing your live videos. This guide will take you through the steps needed to set up graphics and text using Facebook’s Live Producer from your desktop. Live Producer gives you the ability to create polls, overlays, questions, live stream management, and more. What You'll Need To take advantage of these native tools, you will need an external software or hardware encoder that supports adding a browser source. Open Broadcast Software (OBS) is the encoder that we'll be using in this guide. It's a free and open-source software for video recording and live streaming. If you wish to use an alternate encoder, don't worry. Most streaming software solutions have similar settings that you can confi...

Report: iPad Just Enjoyed Its Best Quarter in Years

Right now, a lot of the conversation around hit Apple products is focused on the iPhone 12 series, and, to a slightly lesser extent, the first generation of Apple Silicon Macs, featuring Apple's M1 chips. But the iPad is also doing exceptionally well for Apple right now, as a report from global technology market analysis firm Canalys makes clear. Big iPad Growth According to Canalys data, as shared by Patently Apple , Apple's line of tablets grew 40% in annual growth in the fourth calendar quarter of 2020. In all, Apple shipped a reported 19.2 million iPads in the three-month period. During the same quarter last year, Apple shipped an estimated 13.7 million iPads. That's the best iPad performance for Apple since the fourth quarter of 2014. To put that in perspective, this was back during the days of the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3, and one year before Apple introduced its top-of-the-line iPad Pro. At the time, iPads were still running iOS 8, and Apple itself was valued i...

How to Enable LED Camera Cutout Notifications on Samsung Phones

In their quest to create devices with minimal bezels, Android smartphone manufacturers have removed some neat features, like the notification light. This tiny LED, once present in many smartphones, could notify you of calls, messages, and more. Nowadays, most smartphones lack this inside the notch cutout for the speakers, cameras, and other sensors. However, some modern smartphones from Samsung have a punch-hole cutout for the front camera. This can be used as an LED notification light with the help of third-party apps; here's how. Which Samsung Phones Support LED Notifications? The punch-hole cutout for the front-facing camera allows for a higher screen-to-body ratio, as it doesn't require a notch. The camera is placed inside the cutout, with that hole cut on the display using a laser. There is usually a ring around this cutout, which can be used as a notification light with apps we'll look at below. The following Samsung Galaxy devices support LED camera notifications...

8 iPhone Hydration Apps That Remind You to Drink More Water

It seems that everywhere you go in the modern world, someone is claiming that the magical cure for their plaguing ailments was nothing more than water itself. As one of the foundational building blocks for life itself, we all understand some of the power that water holds, but we often forget to utilize it to our best advantage. In such a busy and chaotic world, we must remember to stay hydrated! Help set yourself on a new journey of personal health by testing out some of these awesome water-tracking apps for your iPhone. 1. Apple Health Image Gallery (3 Images) Expand Expand Expand Close Image 1 of 3 Image 2 of 3 Image 3 of 3 Many users are unaware of the wide range of services available in the Apple Health app. This app is not only useful for daily step counting and medical identification, but it also works as a basic water tracker. Relat...