How to Use YouTube Analytics
Navigating YouTube’s analytics panel is a pain if you don’t know what you’re looking at, which is a shame since it’s one of the most useful resources a content creator has at their disposal for measuri...
How To Make Your Computer’s Microphone Sound Better
Ever wonder how radio and podcast hosts get their signature sound? While some of it comes from their better hardware, a lot of it comes down to post-processing, which is editing the audio after it’s recorded (or sometim...
How to EQ and Mix Your Microphone Without Any Hardware
Audio equipment can be costly. Audio mixers, used to balance and EQ audio, can easily cost hundreds of dollars, and while they’re very nice to have on your desk, you can achieve many of the same effects through software...
How to Color Correct and Color Grade in Final Cut Pro X
Color correction and color grading are the processes of adjusting the color of a video to achieve a more balanced or stylistic look. Final Cut Pro X makes this reasonably easy to do.
How to Improve Your Twitch Stream Audio With VST Plugins
Twitch streamers with noisy microphones will be happy to hear that OBS, the most popular live streaming program, has support for audio plugins in the form of VSTs. It’s a little-known feature hidden away behind a bunch ...
How To Install the (Unofficial) Dark Mode for Slack
Slack still doesn’t have a dark mode. They have dark themes, but those only let you customize the sidebar colors, leaving the main window white. With the release of system-wide dark modes on macOS Mojave and Windows 10,...
HTG Explains: How Does a CPU Actually Work?
Most things in a computer are relatively simple to understand: the RAM, the storage, the peripherals, and the software all work together to make a computer function. But the heart of your system, the CPU, seems like magic eve...
How to Set Up FaceTime on Your Mac
FaceTime is Apple’s built-in video and audio calling app. It pairs with your iPhone and allows you to make phone calls on macOS.
Why Do My Mac’s Desktop Icons Say “Out of Space”?
If you have a new Mac, you may have noticed the words “Out of Space” under many of your Desktop icons and documents. Don’t worry, your computer’s hard drive isn’t actually out of space—your...
How to Use (or Disable) iCloud Optimized Storage on Mac
iCloud Optimized Storage is the newest addition to the iCloud lineup, saving space on your Mac’s hard drive by storing documents you don’t use too often in iCloud. If you’ve already got an iCloud plan for yo...
How to View Websites on Mac that Require Internet Explorer (or a PC)
Some older sites have strict browser requirements, sometimes even forcing you to be on Windows despite running perfectly fine on other browsers. The browser required most of the time is Internet Explorer, which doesn’t ...
The Best Discord Bots to Power Up Your Server
Discord has an extensive API and good support for bots on their platform. Because of this, there are tons of bots to go around. However, many of them just copy one another’s functionality. We’ve picked out the on...
What is Binary, and Why Do Computers Use It?
Computers don’t understand words or numbers the way humans do. Modern software allows the end user to ignore this, but at the lowest levels of your computer, everything is represented by a binary electrical signal that ...
What are YouTube Premieres, and How Do You Use Them?
YouTube has added a new way to share and watch videos: YouTube Premieres. Premieres are a mix between a live stream and a traditional YouTube video. You prerecord them, but then play those recordings live, with live chat and ...
How to Hide Your IP Address (and Why You Might Want To)
Your IP address is like your public ID on the internet. Any time you do anything on the internet, your IP address lets servers know where to send back information you’ve requested. Many sites log these addresses, effect...
How to Power Up Your Twitch Stream with Streamlabs
Streamlabs OBS is a modified version of OBS designed with streamers in mind. It adds support for themes and widgets, improving the look of your stream and adding support for many useful features, such as showing donations an...
How to Make Good YouTube Videos
Using decent gear is a prerequisite to making suitable content. A good camera or a good rig for streaming games ensures your video feels more like a quality production. A good mic ensures people can hear what you’re say...
How to Get Started Editing Videos with Final Cut Pro X
Final Cut Pro X is a huge step up from iMovie, which is the video editor most macOS users probably started out with. Final Cut Pro X functions similarly but packs in a whole lot more power while sticking to iMovie’s sim...
How to Get Started Making YouTube Videos
YouTube is a social media platform where you can create and upload video content for anyone to view. Some people make whole careers on YouTube, and the feeling of having people watch something you made entices many people to ...
How to Make Your Own Discord Bot
Discord has an excellent API for writing custom bots, and a very active bot community. Today we’ll take a look at how to get started making your own.
How to Record Your PC’s Audio With Virtual Audio Cable
Routing audio in Windows is surprisingly hard. It’s not supported natively at all, and while you can record audio output with tools like Audacity, there’s no way to send that output as an input to another applicat...
How to Use the YouTube Video Manager
YouTube’s Creator Studio can be a bit hard to navigate, but there are a lot of features hidden in menus and tabs that you might find useful as a content creator.
How to Customize the MacBook’s Touch Bar with BetterTouchTool
The stock Touch Bar on Apple’s MacBook feels a little bland. If you’ve ever wanted to spruce it up a bit with things like custom buttons and widgets, the BetterTouchBar app lets you do just that....
How Does the YouTube Algorithm Work?
With over a billion users and billions of hours of video, the fact that YouTube’s algorithm manages to deliver what you want to watch when you visit the site is a testament to software engineering. So, how does it work?...
How to Live Stream Games on YouTube
YouTube’s live streaming support has gotten much better and is now a solid competitor to Twitch. If you’re an aspiring content creator with an audience on YouTube, you might want to live stream on a platform where...
