In today's video, I'm going to accidentally reveal all my credit card numbers, phone numbers,
email addresses, and many other personally identifiable information, so if you are a
hacker or a spammer, you can take advantage of those things.
Let's get started.
Okay, that was a bit too much, but jokes apart, the point is, that if you are a content or
course creator, or anyone who uses screen recordings in your workflow, but always spend
time blurring out sensitive information to hide them and keep away from prying eyes - details
such as credit card numbers, phone numbers, email addresses, IP address or any personally
identifiable information, that is displayed on your screen recordings over the computer
or your laptop screen.
You know it takes a lot of time to blur out that sensitive information, especially if
it's a moving or a scrolling screen.
If we need to move the blur element too - frame by frame, it takes a lot of time during your
editing process.
Thankfully, we have a tool to take care of that.
It's called Blurweb App, which helps in keeping your private things private by helping you
hide personal and sensitive information instantly and effortlessly while sharing your screen.
Now, keep watching till the end - I am not only going to show you a demo of how this
tool works, but there is also a surprise giveaway announcement at the end.
We are going to giveaway its Professional version for free to 5 winners among you.
If you really want to skip to the end, use the chapters given for this video, below in
the description.
Now, really, let's get started.
If there is one thing that I’d like you to walk away with today, it is that Blurwebapp
helps you in saving time while protecting your personal information during screen sharing
sessions - it could be while: Creating tutorial videos, like the one I am
doing right now, or during live webinars, and PowerPoint or Keynote presentations in
front of your audience.
Or anytime when you share your screen for others to see.
Alright, so now we know how it helps!
Next, let's see how it works.
All the links that we are showing in this video are all given in the description below.
All right, so here is the Chrome Web Store link, where you can download the Blurweb app,
come here and then click on Add to Chrome, add the extension, and this adds the extension
simple.
Now, my blur web app is activated with a license, and I'm here on a sample form to show how
it works.
Once activated, click on this icon to bring out your toolbar.
So this is a convenient toolbar with all the tools within this.
And let's go over, one by one.
The first thing is about a toggle button, which switches mode between blurring selected
text and blurring elements over here.
For example, if you mouse-over on these elements like the DOM elements, these are all labels,
so you can click on this to hide them.
And if you want to select any specific text instead of hiding the entire element here,
for example, this entire sentence, you can switch this mode and let's say you want to
hide this particular text and then select the text and then click on blur selected text
so that hides or blurs out your specific text.
Now, the best part is even if you scroll up and down or move the window however you want
it, the blurred element stays blurred.
Alright.
Next, if you want to blur things and then keep it saved even after a page refresh, then
you want to keep this Keep blur icon selected before you start bluring things out.
Keep it and then blur things and then refresh the page.
When I reload this page, you can see that those elements stay blurred.
And this icon here will help you to hide any specific titles of the webpage, for example,
clicking on this will remove the title of your webpage.
And the next part is about blurring the area.
So clicking on this, you can blur out any specific areas.
For example, let's say that you want to hide this area.
You'll have to just simply click and drag it and then blur that specific area.
Click on Apply.
That's it.
You can, of course, move this blur box anywhere you want on the screen and then keep it at
that.
So, this is especially helpful while hiding face or any brand images within videos or
logos that you don't want to appear in your video.
Maybe in an embedded video on a web page while you're showcasing it live or recording a screencast
tutorial for your audience.
Plus, you can simply drag that box anywhere as I showed you and as you have been seeing
all along, you can always click on this clear all button to clear out any blurs that you
have made.
There's one more thing.
How about if you want to, let's say you blur this out, but that was an accidental click
and it got blurred out.
How do you remove that blur again so that you don't want that sentence to be blurred?
All you want to do here is now just simply click on it one more time and it removes the
blur, so you blur this one and click on it, and then this takes off the blur from it.
You can always reduce the intensity of your blur here.
Let's say now we have blurred this out, but this is if you feel this blurring percentage
is too much, you can reduce it by clicking on plus and minus here to suit how much blur
you want to show.
And this applies for the entire web page and not just element specific.
That is one thing you need to keep in mind.
So whenever you change the blur percentage, it affects all the blurred areas that you
have given.
Now, let me take it a step further and show you how you can even assign a keyboard shortcut
to bring up Blurweb app.
So you could save those tiny seconds in bringing it up from the extension menu manually using
your mouse.
To do that, click on your three dot menu, go to "more tools", and click on extensions.
And once this opens up.
Click on this hamburger menu and go to keyboard shortcuts.
You'll see that under your installed Blurweb app, activate the extension, you can set your
own keyboard shortcut here by clicking on this pencil icon and then give your keyboard
shortcut whatever you want.
It could be a letter or a combination with your control and shift keys or alt key.
I'm going to try.
Control Shift L. And that's it.
And now, let's see, I'm going to hit the control shift L on my keyboard to bring up Blurweb
app.
So I can have this hidden from the toolbar and still bring up blurweb app, so it's currently
available as a browser extension for Google Chrome and Firefox for now and even Edge,
as you can see on the screen here.
Uh, I believe safari extension is also coming soon and it's already in the works.
Once you download and activate it with that unique license key, which we saw at the earlier
part of this video, you can start using it out of the box.
With a single license you get to give this tool on three active devices or browsers at
the time of making this video.
One thing to note that its founder Sanskar Tiwari is highly receptive to feedback and
has taken things seriously since its inception.
At the time of purchase a few months ago, I did not see many of its features what we're
seeing today, and with all the feedback Sanskar has made this tool even better with all the
features that we are seeing today.
So if at all you have any improvement suggestions or bug fix requests or anything that you want
to ask about blur web app, you can always reach out to Sanskar Tiwari and provide your
feedback.
Plus, you can also get live status on its upcoming updates from this URL here so you
can see what updates are being made and what improvement suggestions are being acted on.
It's easy to buy with this one time payment at the time of making this video, so grab
it before it moves on to any subscription models.
And I would request if you liked this video, please use my affiliate link given below so
that I can get a small commission at no additional cost to you.
I know we talked about a giveaway announcement at the beginning of this video.
Speaking of which, and to make this even sweeter, we have a blur web app's founder Sanskar Tiwari
himself here so you could directly hear it from him.
So hello everyone, my name is Sanskar Tiwari.
I'm the creator of Blurweb App, and today we are giving away five professional licenses
of Blurweb App to you.
So to join the giveaway, all you need to do is subscribe, comment and get notified.
So you need to subscribe to the Tech Library TV YouTube channel and then comment - "what
kind of content do you create and how do you think Blurweb App can help".
And the third step is to visit the giveaway link, which will be in the description of
the video and submit your email ID to get notified of the results.
I wish you good luck and I'll see you in the next one.
Now you heard it.
Just to reiterate, taking part in this contest is just a simple three step process.
One Subscribe if not already done to this channel and hit the like button if you want
to see more giveaways in the near future.
Two: comment below on what you do and what content you create and how this tool - Blurweb
app might help you in your workflow if you win it.
And finally, go to this page to seal your participation with your valid email ID.
And this email id will be used to contact you if you win this contest, so please enter
a valid email address.
That's it.
Five lucky winners will be chosen from all these entries, so you could be one!
All the five winners will each get a lifetime license to Blurweb app's Professional version
You will have time until September 30th to participate.
Remember to share this video with your creative friends and family members.
I'll see you again in my next video.
Until then, keep creating because your success is just around the corner!