Android Tips: Adding Web Address To Your Home Screen
If you want to be able to quickly access a particular website, you can add its address to your Home screen. Follow these steps:
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Android Tip: Using a Different App Launcher
A launcher is an app that enables you to launch other android apps. The launcher governs the way your device’s Home screen and other main screens appear, including any live widgets you place on them. Android includes a default launcher that runs by default and which you invoke every time you press the Home button. […]
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Android Tip: Smart Lock Feature
Android’s Smart Lock feature allows you to set up methods of unlocking your device other than your pattern, PIN, password, or fingerprint. Setting up Smart Lock is pretty straight-forward. Locate Smart Lock option somewhere under Settings -> Security. You’ll be required to enter your password, PIN, or pattern to prove your identity. Next, choose the […]
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Concatenating Rows in Sql Query
Sometimes it is required e.g, to get a comma-delimited-values list in a field from a relational database table. This is only possible to find some way to concatenate rows of the table. Following is one of the possible solutions using ‘FOR XML PATH’ expression in T-Sql. You may find other solutions as well. Suppose you […]
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Windows Command Prompt Tricks
Enter multiple commands at onceAdding && between commands will let you enter multiple lines at once to be executed in succession. e.g, tasklist && netstat -b List every device driver on your PCThe following command line displays the list of device drivers on your PC driverquery /FO list /v Output results to text file or […]
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JQuery Technique: Parse JSON data
A couple of very simple and intuitive code examples to parse data received in JSON format: var resultJSON = ‘{“FirstName”:”John”,”LastName”:”Doe”,”Email”:”johndoe@johndoe.com”,”Address”:”123 dead drive”}’;var result = $.parseJSON(resultJSON);$.each(result, function(k, v) { //display the key and value pair alert(k + ‘ is ‘ + v);}); Or var obj = $.parseJSON(resultJSON);for (var prop in obj) { alert(prop + ” is […]
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How to Find Your Lost Device?
Losing your smart device can be drastic and painful, specially when you have a collection of sensitive and/or precious data. Financial loss could be tragic, for quite some time. With panic stricken face you may rush here and there in search of it. There’s a strong hope!!!Log in to this page: https://www.google.com/android/find?u=0 from a PC, […]
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Download Apps using your PC
Very few people out there know of this little trick that you can download and install Apps on your Android devices using your computer. Just log into your Google account and open Google Play. From there, find the app of your choice and click install. You will be shown a drop-down menu containing your Android […]
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Common Amazon Alexa Commands
Amazon Alexa is a voice assistant that can make your life smarter, comfortable and easier, but only if you know the right commands. Here are some of the commands you may want to know for your daily life activities. To start with; With your Echo or other Alexa device, use the activation word “Alexa” to […]
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Major Tips to Learn Programming Faster
Learning how to create an efficient computer program is a never-ending struggle. There’s no rule of thumb, albeit there are still some basic points to ponder before your start learning or decide to go for it. Learn by doing: Always play with the code. There’s no best alternate of hands-on learning.Even if you blaze through […]
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