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I f you have bought a new Windows 8 or Windows 10 computer, you would normally not find "My Computer" or "This PC" icon on the desktop. In this post, we will see how to display "My computer" or "This PC" icon on the desktop on Windows 8 or Windows 10. Read more »

Have you ever wondered how to compress videos on Android smartphone? In this post we will explore a very useful Android App that every enthusiast must have on his or her smartphone to compress videos. Read more »

If you are not able to use your Selfie Stick with Mi Redmi Android Phones, then check out the video how to fix it. It works, but there are a few places you need to change settings. Selfie sticks uses the volume button control to tell the phone to take pictures. So the phone should be able to take pictures with the volume buttons even without a selfie stick. This applies to any phone. If the phone is not taking pictures with the volume buttons, configure the phone's camera settings.

If you have migrated a Drupal site from local development server to a live server or from one host to another host, you will generally encounter a 404 error when accessing the pages after migration. Do not freak out, this is pretty normal and can be resolved easily. Let's go through what I did so far to migrate from one host to another. Process of migrating a Drupal Site from one host to another host: On the old server: Read more »

Like many of us, I am also facing an issue with sending emails from Drupal website hosted on Linux Host. From my tests I found that - 1) I can send and receive emails by accessing webmail of the domain's email account. 2) But when sending email using the contact from on the website, Drupal says email is sent successfully but emails are not received. Nor are the emails visible in the "Sent" box in webmail. The same email was configured on the site as well as contact form settings. The error thrown by Drupal is as shown above: "Unable to send email. Contact the site administrator if the problem persists.. Incidentally, I also tested on a WordPress site and even emails are not getting sent from WordPress's Contact Form 7 plugin. So I ruled out Drupal as the issue or WordPress for that matter. It seems to me that it could be the host that is not allowing the emails to be sent. So I contacted my service provider. And, here is the reply from my hosting service provider...

If you are a regular Blogger user then you might have noticed that Blogger "Labels" are not displayed on Mobile devices by default. But why is it important? Labels or "tags" are a quick way to let users access related content on your website. It also reduces bounce-rate of the site if the user find the article interesting and want to continue reading related articles. Labels do appear on desktop browsers (unless disabled by the admin), but it does not appear on Blogger Mobile templates by default. Labels on Blogger Blog You can enable them though. Here is how. How to enable or display Blogger Labels in Blogger Mobile Template? Read more »

This video explains the steps involved to download, install and configure Genymotion emulator, which is considered to be faster than the default emulator that comes with Android Studio. VirtualBox Software is required to be installed to run Genymotion emulator. Part One: Download and Install Genymotion emulator for Android Studio Part Two: Configure Genymotion Emulator to use with Android Studio Read more »

Facebook comments is a great interaction tool to add to your blog or website. The sheer number of Facebook users today is something that bloggers should tap and not only that, it is very convenient for the user also to comment using existing Facebook account he or she is logged into. So, if you haven't integrated Facebook comments, then do it soon. How to add photo to Facebook comments on blogs and websites? Read more »

I f you would like some website content to only show on mobile devices or not show on mobile devices, then read on. We can do this using CSS. This allows a web developer to easily control what sort of content should appear on mobile devices and what to display on desktops. It is also useful for Google Adsense publishers as Google by default allows only three ads on a particular page and if you want to control the positioning of Google Ads separately for desktops and mobile devices, then this method can be used to manage the display as per the device. Check out this short video tutorial how to display or hide website content on mobile devices: Read more »

Mi Drop is a feature on Mi Phones by which one can transfer files from one Mi Phone to another Mi Phone. It is very simple to operate and much faster than Bluetooth. Mi Drop is basically a peer to peer or P2P file transfer services between Mi Phones. Mi Drops was included in MIUI 7 and the pre-requisite to use Mi Drop is: Both phones should be MI Phone and should have Mi Drop feature on both MIUI 7 (Global Developer ROM 5.9.25 or China Developer ROM 5.10.8 onwards)  Demo Video: File transfer using Mi Drop Read more »

ES File Explorer is probably the most popular Android File Manager for Android devices. It has many advanced features than a regular file manager. That is why it is loved by many who want more features. However, on Mi Phones, you may encounter issues when attempting to transfer files from the phone storage to SD CARD using ES File Explorer. I did not do an extensive research on this but I can confirm that this issues did not occur on MiUi version earlier than 7.5. I started to see file transfer issues after MIUI version 7.5. This prevents us from creating new files and folders using the ES File Explorer. While attempting to create, copy-paste or move files, we normally get a prompt to allow permission to let ES File Explorer have to access SDCARD Root. In this post, we shall see how to resolve this problem of transferring, creating files and folder using ES File Explorer. Read more »

OTG or On-The-Go cable can be very useful to transfer files to and from the smartphones that support the OTG feature. Most recent Android Phones support OTG. The most common task we would normally perform using an OTG cable is to transfer files from USB pendrive. But besides file transfer, OTG cable can be used for other tasks as well like, to connect to a USB keyboard, USB mouse, to charge another phone etc. Check out the video below to find out five useful common uses of OTG cable with your Android Phone.