Have you ever recorded yourself, perhaps for a podcast or YouTube, and struggled to locate all the places where you need to edit out your mistakes?

In the future, when you make a mistake while recording a narration, just clap your hands. Later, when you're editing the audio, the claps will show up as spikes on the waveform, making it easy to identify and fix any mistakes.

And if you're editing a video, put your hands up for a few seconds to mark where you want to make a cut. When you review the footage, you'll be able to easily see where to make the cut thanks to your hand gesture.

These simple tips can make your editing processing much more efficient.

Use Clapping and Hand Gestures to Quickly Find and Fix Editing Errors

If you're tired of dealing with tangled cords and cables on your desk, a spring and magnet can be a powerful combination for keeping them organized.

First, remove the spring from a ballpoint pen (or any other small spring) and wrap it around the cord. Then, get a small, strong neodymium magnet to hold the cord in place.

Not only is this a low-cost DIY solution, but it's also a convenient way to keep your cords organized and easily accessible with the spring allowing you to move the cord around as needed.

Keep Your Cords Organized with the Help of Magnets

When buying or a renting a home, always check your cell phone signal.

Label your electrical cords so you don't have to trace them back every time you're fiddling with the power strip.

If the writing on your earbuds is too small to see, or if it's too dark, then attach a loom band around one of the leads.

Use a loom band to easily identify L and R earbuds

Flip your glasses upside down, and rest your phone (in landscape mode) between the lenses and the temples. Useful when showing people something on your phone.

Create a phone stand out of your glasses or sunglasses.

Aside from the toilet seat, the remote control is one of the dirtiest items in a hotel room. God knows what has touched that thing and the stories it could tell.

Instead of worrying whether or not it's been sanitized (hint: chances are it probably hasn't), pack a plastic freezer bag on top of all of your clothes in your suitcase. That way, when you start unpacking your luggage at your destination, it will be the first thing you see so that you don't forget to wrap it. Nothing worse than wanting to watch some TV in bed after a fresh shower and not having already wrapped it.

If you don't have a plastic bag, saran wrap will work just as well.

Wrap a remote control in a plastic bag or saran wrap in hotels.

By neatly bundling up your electronic cables/cords, you can stuff them inside of an empty toilet paper roll which makes it very compact easily organized when storing them.

You can organize cables inside of empty toilet paper rolls.

If you're traveling and at a hotel with a TV and no adapter for your phone charger, you can plug into the TV to charge your phone.

Most newer TVs contain a built in USB port.

By using the same Wi-Fi name and password, you don't need to re-login to all your devices post installation.

Electronics Tips

Use Clapping and Hand Gestures to Quickly Find and Fix Editing Errors

Keep Your Cords Organized with a Spring and Magnet

When Buying or Renting a Home, Check the Cell Signal

Label your electrical cords so you don't have to trace them back every time you're fiddling with the power strip.

Use a loom band to easily identify L and R earbuds

Create a phone stand out of your glasses or sunglasses.

Use a plastic bag or saran wrap for hotel remotes.

You can organize cables inside of empty toilet paper rolls.

Most newer TVs contain a built in USB port.

When installing a new Wi-Fi router, you can re-use the previous settings from your old router.

Use your phone's camera if you don't have you glasses with you.

Send someone to the exact time in a YouTube video by right clicking and selecting "Copy video URL at current time".

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