 My name is Brian Bylethse. I'm my background is in HR. I've worked in many different industries, including not-for-profits. So this event right here is informal events. We're looking to just discuss low costs of free online tools that are available to nonprofits today. I'm going to talk about the ones that I love, the ones that I use on my computer day to day. I'm going to start first, just to bring the ice. And the first tool I'm going to talk about is the Amphetamine. So what is amphetamine? So amphetamine is you go to my dock. So I'm on a Mac. So one of the tools I'm going to be, I'm talking about for the bank operating system. Some of them may be compatible with other operating systems and some of them may not be. But again, this is why we're here for you all. You can get an operating system with different tools and things. I would love to hear it. So all right, going back to amphetamine. What amphetamine is, and this is right here on the dock, I'm going to click it. Nothing pops up that you can see, but it pops up on the menu bar. So what amphetamine does is it's great if you need to keep your computer on for longer durations of time. So if I click this, usually when you have a computer, you need it sitting out and you go get a cup of water or maybe you want to go somewhere real quick. Usually the screen saver comes on and eventually the computer goes black and goes into the power saving mode. So if your computer is plugged in, you may not need that, or maybe you're downloading something and you really want that download to finish, you have the computer like just going off with you. Or maybe you have a presentation like this one and you can't afford the computer to go onto screen saver mode. This is where amphetamine comes in. And then pretty much you can set specific durations of how long you want the computer to stay on. And it'll ignore all your computer settings in terms of the screen saver option, the power off option, and it'll keep it on for that destination outside. You can keep it on for five minutes to as long as you can even out. You can keep it on until the whole day if you want. And you can even get even real granular. And you can have it while a file is downward. You can say keep the computer on while a specific file is downloading to the computer. That way you don't have to worry about it turning off. And the internet, you know, once the computer turns off, use the internet connection, you got to re-download it especially so the key file downloads while the app is running as well. So if you have an app running and you want to make sure as long as that app is running, I want my computer to stay on. This is a great app to make it happen. Again, very small app. In the menu bar, I clicked it and you may have noticed it in very little wins too. So I click on it. It makes it turn on and let me know it's on and click right here. You can see it went to my default, which you can change in your preferences, but it might be for 25 minutes and now it's starting to count down of 25 minutes where my computer will stay on. And I can right click it again and turn it off or I can left click it to go into the options. So first of all, let me show you a thing called using cursor pro. There's loads of things like this. You can, even if you go into your accessibility settings on your computer, blow up the mouse size. But it's a nice thing again for doing demos like this just to help people follow through so they don't lose your mouse in the low resolution screen share. So I'm not going to go too deep into cursor pro, just to say if you do presenters presentations from time to time, or if maybe you're working with someone who's had limited vision, an app like this can be very helpful because it also of course really helps people find and track through their own mouse as well. I'm currently using something called pastebot. There's a million things like this on Windows. You don't even need a fancy application. This is actually built in. I don't remember the name of it, but basically it is the idea of having when you go cut and paste, you keep one thing in the memory of the system. But through the magic of pastebot or similar things like this, you can also bring up an alternative page board that keeps basically your whole history over like the last day, a hundred clips of everything you've cut and picked. And so if you're like me and you're going between other windows and copying three things and pasting three other things and getting my email, instead of having back and forth and back and forth between two different applications, where you really just say, oh, I just want to get these five pieces of text. And then here is this thing. I'm like, oh, it's the right utility. Of course they want to get this thing in the list and junk. So let me just really start working through this. It's also really cool because you can search. So you're like, oh, I know I cut and paste something yesterday, but what was the name? I think it was like Phmxon. You can type and there it is. So it also gives you just like a little bit of a, I know I cut and paste something a while ago and you can actually search on it and then paste it in. If you're a little bit more programery and fancy, you can even run filters through this. You could do something called sequential paste where you can see like, I'm going to paste seven things and then maybe cut seven things and then paste all of them in order, without having to go back and forth. So you can get expert fancy, but even if you're unfancy, I find this to be so useful. It's up there with text expansion, which Brian will show later, in a thing, which is if you spend your life on one of our computer, these are just so indispensable because all we do is move text around and we can make our lives slightly easier. It's the huge win. And as I say, this is built into Windows or Macintosh people have defined third-party applications to basically build in a similar kind of functionality. But that is pastebot. So the next app on the list, that's what I really love, is called Solver. And I'm especially excited for this because I bought Solver many years ago, but never really figured out how to use it in a real way, bounce off it. So I'd love to see your use of it. I particularly love Solver. So Solver is right here. I'm going to open it. And when Solver, to me, Solver, the way to define Solver is I, to me, the description is it's Excel and a calculator app had a baby. So what Solver is pretty much, it's like a mini calculator, but it's like that spot in between Excel and a calculator. I use it all the time for quick calculations, five times five. I want to subtract it by six. The answer is always over here. I want to, and it just takes regular, I want to get the tip of something, 25%, $100 will just figure it out right there. It's from just natural language, 25% off 100. Natural language, it's just calculating it for you. So you don't have to think about it. I love it. I use it all the time for simple calculates, like a five times five to 25% off. There's so much more. The other thing is really want to get into the mid-degree of it. So let's say I'm doing 90 plus 80, right? And then over here, I'm doing another calculation with 16 minus 24. And then I want to take those two. So now I can just say line, because this is line six, I can say line six, it automatically take that line, the value of it, plus line seven, and it will add these two up. So you can do so many different things about it. Oh, that's super cool. The way I'd seen it earlier is you put like, you put A equals that formula, then B equals 60 minus 44, and you could use those as variables. But this, as you say, it's even more natural language. Exactly. And yes, to your point, you can even get to that. If you want to get like even more advanced, you can make it into variables. Me personally, I use it more just for the natural language sense of it. It's a quick calculator. I made a pull up when I needed it. I don't even use a regular calculator app no more on my computer. This is what I use on this and on my phone, which is actually what I did want to show as well, because I think it's even just as good on the phone. And you know, my, I'm done on actually here my life. Oh, this is the whole other power trick, which is I have never actually done this before. So you can actually share your phone right into Zoom. Yeah, yeah. On the main screen, there's a I have on the, you can see it's solver. It's about the third row down yellow app. So again, similar to the application and all by the way, all this can sink as well. So you have something on the desktop app, you can pull it up on this as well and vice versa. But again, natural language, five plus five, I want to do that minus four. So it already took the line one. I want to say line one by just clicking and you can't see where my fingers are moving by clicking the 10. It automatically put line one plus line two again, presented. So I want to say 20. If I hold this down, it makes it easier. So 20% off of 500. And it just figures it out. Again, going back to the natural language aspect of it is multiple keyboards and you want to get really fancy or really like you want to do a conversion of US dollar to euros or any type of currency. We can go to the basic keyboard as well. But yeah, all in all, wanted to just quickly show you how great it is, not just on, but also on the phone. I love this app. I use it. It's a daily dignified that I use it. I'm constantly feeling that whether I'm trying to figure out tip, I'm trying to do a quick calculation when I'm talking on the phone with someone. So yeah, I think it's a great app. This is, I will be the app I showed you before, worth three. This app does cost a little bit of money. I bought some time ago. It's not too much. I think it's under 10 bucks, the iOS and that version. But yeah, I think it's a great app. It's a little on the right now, a little over it calculator. So yeah. Yeah, some of us have apps where you're like, all right, I will pay for that one because for me, it's valuable enough. Got a question coming in next in Rosalind. So you can store variables temporarily and then make a equation. Is that right? Yeah, yeah. So I haven't used, again, I haven't used it for that part of it, because at that point, I probably would use Excel, but yeah, you can make into a store equations into it, similar to what Eli was doing before, and then setting like A equals five, and then B equals six, and then A plus D, and then assigning variables to it. Yeah, you could totally do that. You can, let me just share my screen again, again, a lot of times what I'm doing, I'm trying to figure things out. So I'll name it. So I'm, maybe I'm saying rent for NA, and then I want to say rent for NA, and then I want to say rent for June, also 25. I got to put a new line, but again, you can, I use it, I name it, and I'll put numbers next to it, and just like to come up with a little calculation, but to your point, which that I actually haven't done before, but A equals five, I think you haven't tried it yet. So I'm hoping this works. If you can make rent, I wonder if I can do it like this. This is something I'm actually trying now to say. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, you can do tons of stuff with it. I think it was a great app, and yeah, I didn't even use it before, assigning variables, but now I will think, I learned something you all love to bring it up. So yeah, but yeah, that's over. Again, I don't remember the cost at this time, but again, if you search for it, you could find me on both the platform. They may not have a Windows version. I'm not 100% sure, but it's a great little app. I highly suggest it. Right. Yeah. Looks like a pretty good Canadian, about 25 US. Yeah. Oh, so there's a Windows alternative. Perfect. Oh, this is beautiful. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Perfect. Yeah. So it's a Windows alternative. Yeah. It's a really great little app. I can't say it enough. So anyway, you inspired me to go in and start playing around with it a bit more because sometimes you don't need a full spreadsheet for some things, plus you can just like throw, cut and paste the text and then you just keep it a bit more free form. So this is a piece of software called Descript. And what Descript is a video editor, and you can see that right here is a piece of video and you can sort of see it on the bottom. Here's the scrubby timeline. So for any of you who have ever played with a video piece of software like video editor before, it's going to look pretty similar, but you're going to see something a little bit odd here. You'll see those new words along the top here, along the timeline. And you'll see right here on the left side, here is the script of the document. And you're like, okay, how did this get here? So what I did is I took a video file and I uploaded it into the software. And then what it did immediately is fire it up into machine translation. So due to transcription. And this transcription is, let's be honest, not that great, but it's good enough. Because what it does is it takes away all the hard parts of doing the rap video editing. This isn't something that I create a movie with. But if you need to make an edit of a webinar, if you just want to make something like pull out a clip from a larger video, this gives you this really powerful tool because what you get to do is you clip, you just jump through the text by clicking on a word and it jumps to that part in the video. And that becomes really powerful because you can say, oh, actually this section here where we started the Q&A or where the speaker stumbled for wanting to say, I don't want that. So she's got this line here about a little bit more about me. I'm just going to highlight that and click delete. And it disappears directly from the video. So this is a really powerful way for you to do some very quick and dirty things with video. The other thing that's powerful about having a script is you can go here and say, I want to remove the filler words. And so it's got like this list of filler words. You can see here's all the uses of them. And you're like, oh, actually, I don't want to have any ums in my video. So what you do is you just go down to the bottom here, click and say, I would like to delete all of those. But all boom in the video has just been cut. So now you'll come through here and just. So welcome everybody. I am Sandra Amar and I'm your local TechSoup Connect host, which is a program of TechSoup. TechSoup connected the globe. So we're like, okay, that's great. I like that. But I can say like, here's instruction I don't want. So I'm just going to say. And I also on the side do consulting for small businesses and non-profit. I don't want to get rid of, I didn't set up her just saying I want to do. I also on the side do consulting for small businesses and non-profit. You're like, what if I just want to get rid of the small business part? And so she just does consulting for non-profits because they'll be back to the audience here. So I'm just going to cut that out of the tech. And now let's start playing that. Also on the side do consulting for non-profit and as well as a whole bunch of trade. I am also. And then she also has a whole bunch of where she just trails off. Just going to cut that part too. So I do consulting for non-profit. I am also the national, currently the national. And as you're currently, I'm like, I currently didn't add anything there. Still leave. We're currently now gone from the video. Also the national president for the one. The national. Let's just get rid of, because you'll see she stumbled there. She said the national. I'm just like, cut that out. Profit. I am also the national president for the one parent families associated. Lovely. Really clean. So now we think you can go really deep and in depth with this by like cutting words, moving things around like you could, but, or you could just, just do wild edits. The other nice thing you can do is sometimes they're just like gaps in a webinar or something like that. And so what you can do is say, I don't need to find anywhere where there's any like a two second gap. Oh, there's two of them here. Let's just find one. I'll just click it and I'll show me that little section. The life has a little bit was really helpful charity. So there wasn't really much there. So what we can just do is take your gaps and I'm just going to delete them. Boom. So you can pull out any kind of gaps or longer sections of silence, like maybe when you were advancing a slide and took a moment and there wasn't any audio there. And so that is really Descript at its heart, which is you can edit text and it will cut edit the video. You can also of course do it from the timeline. So you say like, Oh, there's this back here. I just want to short mat and move that to right here. You can do it that way as well. And then when you're ready to go live, you just click publish and go into export. And you have a number of options here. You can just export it as an entry for a file. You could also add subtitles to the video from the script. You could automatically add subtitling to your file. Or if you work with professional video editors, you can take this wrap edit and export it as like Final Cut Pro or Adobe edition or files like that. So that way you can like basically give them working files where they can then continue to do their editing. I find it super powerful. It's $10 a month to subscribe. I find it ridiculously useful for the work I do. And I'm delighted to pay. It also has you can get a screen recording software. So it's another way of you know, basically it's to record your screen and then do again some of the edits. But there's of course a lot of other stuff which can batch stuff as well. That was great. So there's the question, Martin. So is there any way to control the text of a video? So those who watch the video can click through a video. Yeah. So actually what you have a way to post that video so people can see the text. Can I click through the section? That's a good question. Let me take a look at that. So one thing you can do. Go ahead. No, I wanted to know the name. Sorry. It's D script. D E S E. I'll put it in the chat actually. D script. So one thing you can do when you go to export one of the versions of this is you're going to put the page. So basically create a page and you will still be transcribed on that page. And I'm not positive if it was clickable, but let's find out. It may take a moment for us to load. So we might need to come back, but it looks like, yeah, here is, oh yeah, you can hover through it. Yes. It would be exactly like to take that script, make that publicly available, and people can link both here. And in fact, when you go over here and hover this, you'll see it gives you the ability to copy a link. So you could send people to just one section. And so I want to give people a link that sends you just to this one sentence or paragraph of the script. Oh, wow. Man, I'm learning some great stuff myself. This is awesome. Thank you. Thank you. I think this is, like, I love the idea where you can kick away the um from your videos and just go through it and just like a really simple form. And I love because we really want to get ahead of you by exploiting to like a final title or primitive pro. So yeah, that's way too pro for me. And I definitely need to resist going down the rabbit hole of tweaking every sentence and making it just a little bit better. But if you just want to just like do the automatic thing like Jeff, get rid of all boom, put enough to get out into the world. It's a great powerful tool that way. Yeah, I'm looking at it now. Check this out. I can. Oh, yeah, I know, right. Yeah. And if you're already producing longer videos, the other thing that's really interesting about the script is you can just take a really an interesting click. You're like here's just one section and just like export just like a one paragraph of text. And these can be used often on like on social media or for other promotional uses. So here's one interesting clip from a larger piece, which you can then render out. You can also beam it, subtitle it. Again, you could go really crazy or you could just keep it. Don't do too much work. But definitely I would say worth playing with free to use. You only get I think about five hours of transcription with the free version. But once they've been they're going to charge you 10 bucks a month or five bucks a month if you're a nonprofit. I always find it pretty hard in my management or rather if I have a file, let's say I have this file and I want to bring it into another application. Like maybe it's a photo. I want to put in my photos application. I want to move from one folder, one finder window to the other. So I find so like maybe I maybe ask something in my documents and then I want to move it into another folder. So I want to move this work folder over here. Like I would have to have two windows open and it's easy now, but when you have so many windows open and you're kind of like everything together, sometimes this is in the background because you have like a window open and there's so many things going on. So this is where it's a little nifty app. As you can see, I'm I'm being given away, but it's called the noise and what it does is the placeholder. Once you grab the file, drop it and it holds it for you and then you can get to where you want to get to. So maybe I'm over here now and I want to drop that file into my copy. But only until I'm writing it's going to continue to hold it. Maybe I'll put it back to my desktop. You're right here and again I can hit my desktop, but we're talking when you're like your screen is crazy and you're just trying to find the next window to get to. I've always had trouble with that. So I've always looked up for something like this and I've even proactively searched for it. There was something else before and it ended up losing support in this for a while. So yeah, again, it's great. It's a placeholder. You can do whatever you want to do, move things around, have multiple windows open and it will always be safely for you to use at any time and you can customize it while you add. So you may not like it. I have it set to come right here, but you may want it to. You can change the position. You can have it show up at the left edge at the top, the bottom, the center. You can have it show up when you start to drag the window. You can have it show up right next to the file. So I can even have it not show up on the top. It can show up right next to the file. So you can customize it to what you're like workflow and how you find it fit, but it's a great little ad for others. And that's like the next of the two window management apps. But I consider this like a window management. So that's one of the two that I've wanted to share. I'm going to actually just talk real quick on the other one. It's been, I've still been in the same class and the other one is called Rectangle. Now what Rectangle is, one day I've always been broslin. One thing I've always been jealous of window is how easily you are able to like snap like the window on the side like that or on. So if you see right here, but not anymore because I can do it right now. I can snap it. I can snap it to the right. I can snap it to the left. I can even do it through my keyboard. So I can maximize it and make it sort of move around as I see fit. I can smaller, bigger. I can do so much. And then again, I could do all that keyboard or I can even just drag it to certain corners and have it work. So this is great when you like have two windows that you want to like work on side by side. You want to have three windows. I have one third, that's another third, that's a third quadrant. This is something that I've always been jealous of window uses that comes out the box. Like they, they have this one's a little bit super advanced version, but we noticed it does have the whole you can pin it to the side already. And the Mac never has that, but not anymore. This app called, there's a couple of them out there. I personally like rectangle. Number one, it's free. And number two, I just think it has all the, it takes a little bit of all the other ones that are out there and placing to it. But another good one is called up, which is another, that one costs money. So I would hire this different rectangle. Yeah. So that was the second of my two window management apps that I wanted to get into both of them, lightsabers. Oh, that was a whole world. I totally don't know about it. Someone spent a lot of time in Macintosh land. That's really interesting. That's like have that little shelf app and you might just feel like it's going to live over here. Yeah, no, it's, yeah, it's super helpful. And, and especially again, when you like doing multiple, we have multiple things filled with which we all do. And then that's when you really see it come into play. And right now when I was showing you all, it's a clean screen right now. But when you have multiple things and trying to do this and that, oh, it is got them. Oh, so from Ron's like, how do I make the windows into dirt manually? Do I click apply? Yeah, let me see my screen again. That's a great question. And you can't see my what I'm doing on my fingers, but so there's a couple of ways to do it. So I was using a keyboard shortcut now. And there's also a way I believe to do it. I think there's a way to do it. Yeah, by the drag. So I buy you drag it in the like the third bottom, it'll do it. Put the one and then do it right here. It'll make it or be do it on the left side. Oh, the last quarter. I'm sorry. I think I'm so ingrained in you that you're like keep our command. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, you can, it's a different option. You can do it through the keyboard or you can actually drag it certain places. And I need to mention, you can do quadrants. So one cord is actually six. You can just move it wherever and into the cord. Again, I'm using keyboard shortcuts and you can also I put it to the corner and give me one forks for that corner. And then so the answer your question though, if I go into menu options for it, where is that application? You can actually so you can change you could pick which how you want to do it. So it comes preset with like how you want the keyboard shortcut to be. But I personally had a I changed minds around to to one that helped me with better muscle memory. You can pick these are all the different quadrants and pass and or you can do it. You can do change the next display. So we have two screens like me, you can have a jump from one screen to the next screen with a tap. And again, you can set it to how you want it to do it. And again, they also offer dragging the dragging. It looks like you can't customize the dragging if you can customize like the button press money keyboard if that answer the question. Yes, exactly. Yeah, I've actually funny enough, I've seen a lot of programs already. Yeah, maybe not this particular one, but using some type of Google management application. Yeah, it's programs love these things. It allows us to like look with like multiple like applications one side by side. But yeah, multiple applications side by side. But yeah, yeah, so it's a great little nifty Windows management application. So yeah, it's called rectangle. There's multiple versions of them out. There's one again called magnets. It's one also called BTT. Yes, that's plenty. But rectangle screen side table with that one. I am not a great diaper. I'm constantly making all kinds of silly mistakes. So I've recently hired a robot to do some of the checks on this. And this is not totally brand new technology. You've seen this for a long time in Microsoft Word, where you'll see a little squiggle lines under both your words. I think that was misspelled. And you could also optionally turn on the grammar underline squiggle. But frankly, that was the longest time. So wildly, like not to help people actually wrote that most people just turned it off. So Grammarly is basically that kind of feature, but it's not tied to a particular application. It can be run across every app on your computer. And what it does is it basically reviews your writing and then offers suggestions. And you even set different styles within it. So you can say, Oh, I'm writing business style, or I'm writing for marketing style. And so by letting it know, like the kind of writing you're trying to do, you can also have it do some things like if you've got like basically a style guide at work, unusual words, you can also drop it here into the system. And so here's what that looks like in the real world. And so in this case, ignore. So you'll see these things here where it says it underlined red. And it's saying, Oh, we think you're verb form here. Let's just see if I can increase that side a little bit. I can't a little bit off. And so it's saying like use should be actually I'm sending you're like, I'm sent you're right. You're totally right. I'm sending. Here's another one by take advantage of these things like that doesn't make sense by taking. And so it just does some nice little grammatical suggestion here. It says favorite, that's fine. And so that's nice little suggestions. And then you'll see it's got a little there's a little load even here, which is quite small. And this actually be flit in here. It gives you some more stylistic suggestions, like the more heavy rewrite options. So sometimes I'll say, Oh, your wording is too long. And you can send as accepted or sometimes ignore it. So you've got like around the world is when it had written here. And they're like, honestly, worldwide is shorter. What do you think? Should we talk about not bad or we're freaks out. So join us in taking us in talking to your favorite group. That is doing good. Or favorite group doing good in the world. Good idea. Actually, that isn't improving. Refrain. And sometimes it is like I think you're like, Oh, no, I never say that dismiss. So you can go through it here. But it's a nice little tool just to do appropriate where if you don't have another human available to do that proofread for you. And so it also saves you for me. It saves me from terrible embarrassing mistakes in works, flack messages all the time. And it works in all the apps that got the organization. There are no flagging. So that's not a real sentence. Try that again. I'm like, good point, robot. Thank you. And so that's Grammarly, the basic version I'm showing you here, totally free. If you wanted to do even crazier, well, buddy things, you can pay the money. But I'd say if it's of interest worth checking out. Yeah, thank you. I love Grammarly. I'm glad you brought that up. Grammarly is going to a lifesaver. I use it as well. It's been like when I'm writing email, you can even use it in your email and using like your Gmail. You can type it and it'll help you like articulate the perfect email. You can yeah, you can integrate so many different things. And it's like one of those things where it's like hidden behind the scenes. It's per se. It's not a tool per se, but it's a tool like it makes you a better writer. So yeah, I'm glad you brought that up. Thank you. I love it. I use it and I highly recommend it. So yeah, it's a very sense of your email. That's a good question. Eli, do you know about that? It's a good question. I'm actually googling for that right now because honestly, I'm not totally sure about that as well. They do have this piece here of saying they don't record everything you write. So I'm going to put this link here into the chat. But I think that's a really good point for organizations that may have compliance issues like government, like health organizations, like banks, where they need to be very careful around the data and what's reading and sending things to external servers because it's certainly, I think the servant is working remotely. It's not happening completely on your computer. So that article they will give you a test on it. They're saying like it's not doing standard key logging. That said, I think that's a strong concern to look into. Yeah, I love it. It's more, it's not a spell checker. It really helps to craft good sentences. And that's one of the things I love about it. But yeah, that's a really great question. Some of us are very guilty about the passive voice and you could have a robot We don't do that. Mike, thank you, robot.