Computer Tricks and Secrets

Whether you are adding titles in the lower third of a video or creating text captions to be placed on top of a coloured photograph, the text should be readable irrespective of the color of the background image. If you have been struggling to find the perfect text colours for your video or image, try this simple rule. Set the fill colour as white and use a thin black outline and your text captions will be clear readable over any other colour and brightness. This is exactly the reason why most meme generators on the Internet, including the one available on Google+ and Cheezburger.com, use a white font with a black outline for the text to be readable over any background. And if you enable text captions for any YouTube video, you’ll find they also use the white colour with a black outline and a little amount of drop shadow. Thus the titles ill display well in the foreground even if there are different colours used in the video. The source is unknown . One more thing. Prefer using Sans Seri...

Facebook, like YouTube, now allows to you easily embed videos on web pages outside Facebook. That means if you come across an interesting video on Facebook, you can easily put it on your blog without having to direct your audience to the Facebook website. There are two important points to consider though. One, you should only embed videos that are public. Facebook does provide the embed code for private videos that are shared with you or your network but your audience won’t be able to play these videos on your website. The other issue is that Facebook still uses the Adobe Flash player to embed videos when your website is viewed on a desktop. It automatically switches to the HTML5 format on mobile devices but if someone is viewing your website from a desktop or laptop, they would need the Shockwave Flash plugin enabled to view your embedded videos. Add Facebook Videos to your Website First, let’s find a video on Facebook using Graph Search. Go to the search box and type a search query l...

When you embed any YouTube video on your website using standard IFRAME tags , you’ll be surprised to know how much extra weight that YouTube video will add to your page. The web page has to download ~0.5 MB of extra resources (CSS, JavaScript and images) for rendering the YouTube video player and the files will download even if the visitor on your website has chosen not to watch the embedded YouTube video. The embedded video is making your page heavy and the visitor’s browser will also need to make multiple HTTP requests to render the video player. This increases the overall loading time of your page and thus affects the page speed score. The other drawback with the default YouTube embed code is that it isn’tresponsive. If people view your website on a mobile phone, the video player would not resize itself accordingly. Load YouTube Video Player On-Demand Google Plus uses a clever workaround to reduce the time it takes to initially load the YouTube video player and we can incorporate a ...