CategoryHow-To’s

How to undo/cancel a Friend Request on Facebook

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You might have received friend requests from many people but from few you would have not accepted or rejected because you were not sure and kept them waiting in your friend request list. Ever wondered the same could have happened for your requests to others. In this post we are going to learn how you can find out those people who didn’t accept/reject your friend requests and also learn how...

Creating a simple conversational speech bot using Dialogflow

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Hello There, In this post we are going to learn how we can create a simple conversational speech/chat bot that uses artificial intelligence to aid the IT Support Services. This post just serves as a proof of concept but not a complete solution. Knowledge Requirements Developing this bot requires you to have knowledge on Node and AI platforms. Approach / Design We are going to use DialogFlow AI...

How to Add Google Map Driving Directions in your Website ?

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You might have come across a situation where you needed to insert business address in your company’s about page and felt that embedding a Google Maps driving directions would make it look better but you don’t know how you can do this. Always, there is a naive way of taking a screenshot and inserting in the web page but because you are reading this post on a tech blog, I assume that...

How to Modify or Remove Genesis Footer Credit Links ?

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In general, it is a good practice to remove the back links from your blog provides to any third party website/blog for various reasons and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the important reasons among them. I have received quite a few automated emails recently from third party theme developers to delete the back links in footer credits of their respective themes because of Penguin Update...

Fix NTFS Partition is in Unsafe State Mount Problem in Ubuntu (Dual Boot Windows 8)

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If you are dual booting your ubuntu operating system with Windows 8, you might have come across this situation where your hard disk is not accessible in Ubuntu with an error message Error mounting /dev/sda3 at /media/pavankumars/New Volume1: Command-line `mount -t “ntfs” -o “uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177″ “/dev/sda3”...

How to delete windows explorer address bar history ?

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There are guys who maintain hidden folders and try to access them directly using the windows explorer address bar and you know what when you are typing next time you will find that the address you have typed is stored in windows explorer history. You will hurry up to clearing the history of recent items and windows explorer but sadly the steps you have taken will not workout as it is under Auto...

how to pronounce names correctly ?

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Pronouncing a name correctly is not so easy when you come across unfamiliar names.  Probably you might join in a new client engagement and come across a situation where you need to talk to your foreign client and embarrassingly you don’t know how to pronounce his name. In such cases you probably should have to consider how to pronounce name of the client in advance. Some of the popular...

How to Convert Video Formats using VLC ?

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VLC is one of the most popular open source applications that have been installed in many of our personal computers. Many of us know VLC as a media player but it can also be used as a convert, transcode and rip media. If you wonder why you should use VLC to convert video formats then answer is simple, it is already installed in your personal computer and you don’t need to install any other video...

How to Enable Missing 3D View Inspect Element in Firefox ?

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Inspect Element in Firefox is one of the good feature for a web developer to understand the structural layout of any particular HTML page. Certainly it would be of some help when you are confused of the structure of a page. It will show you the structure of the elements in 3D to help you distinguish which particular elements are enclosed under which particular elements. However the order of  HTML...

How to Enable Hibernate Option in Windows 8 Power Menu ?

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If you have installed windows 8, you probably might have noticed that there is no option for hibernate neither in the power menu nor in the traditional ALT + F4 way to shutdown the PC .  This was the same case even in its previous version windows 7 where I covered a post on how to enable hibernate option in windows 7 and this time it is not windows 7 and it is not the traditional start menu in...