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Book Indane LPG gas refill from facebook with one click

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Technology in India growing exponentially year by year, and the Govt. of India trying to adopt as much as technology to make things faster and easier.

As we all know, now a days almost everything we can do in facebook [like knowing about friends, creating new friends, watching videos, getting to know news faster and learning new things]

Indian oil corp. and facebook collaborate each other and introduced an option where you can book to refill Indane LPG gas cylinder in just a click away.

Steps to follow

Login to your facebook account [From desktop browser or mobile app] and

  • You will be navigated to Indane.co.in site
  • Connect and continue with your facebook account [One time registration]

Disclaimer from IndianOil

  • Enter your 16 digit LPG ID and click on Continue [One time registration]

Note :

Your name and email will be taken from facebook public profile

Login to https://indane.co.in to get your 16 digit LPG ID [from home page]

  • Your name and distributor details will be auto populated and click on Book Now

Next time when you will click “Book Now” from facebook, you will be directly redirected to the booking screen as shown above screenshot.

Hope this above steps helps you to register successfully.

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Download [official] portable notepad++

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Notepad++ is one of the popular note making application in widnows OS,

Notepad++ provides syntax highlight for different language when you provide extension of the file.

e.g PythonTest.py or JavaTest.java etc…

In this post, we will see how to download the portable notepad++, so no need to install.

Just download, extract using 7zip tool and click on the notepad++.exe

Note : You can create a shortcut of this exe on desktop for ease of use

Download here

Chose the desired version | scroll down | click on the link as shown below

 

Find IP address on windows machine

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To find ipaddress on windows OS, we have a command “ipconfig”

Start | Run | cmd and enter ipconfig

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\myUser>ipconfig

Windows IP Configuration

Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
 Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : 
 Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : ff10::1139:18de:1aab:aa5e%11
 IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.160.10.32
 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.160.10.1

wifi is disconnected, so the result says “media disconnected”

ipconfig will display all ip addresses of the LANs, Virtual box, interfaces etc connected.

For more detailed information inluding ip address

C:\Users\myUser>ipconfig/all

To display only ip address details from the result, then

C:\Users\myUser>ipconfig | findstr /c:Address
 Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . :ff10::1139:18de:1aab:aa5e%11
 IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . :192.160.10.32

This above command will only display the result containing the word “Address”

Reference – https://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/bb490907.aspx

Different ways to open remote desktop from windows

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There are various ways you can open remote desktop in windows OS

Using Run command

Start | Run | mstsc 

then manually enter server or remote machine name and connect with your credentials.

You can click on Options | change the settings as you need  | do Save As | change File Name and location | click on Connect

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Using Command prompt or bat file


Start | Run | cmd

mstsc [<connection file>]

connection file – specifies the name of an .rdp file

E.g. – C:\Users\user1>mstsc C:\Users\user1\Documents\Default.rdp

Note: the default.rdp is available under C:\Users\user1\Documents\, but you can move to anywhere on your machine.

 

mstsc [/edit “connection file”]

open the .rdp file to edit

E.g – C:\Users\user1>mstsc /edit C:\Users\user1\Documents\Default.rdp

This will pop up the remote desktop dialog as shown in Image 1

 

mstsc [/v:<server:[port]>]

Provide the server name you want to connect

E.g – C:\Users\user1>mstsc /v:196.192.3.2:8880

or C:\Users\user1>mstsc /v:196.192.3.2

or C:\Users\user1>mstsc /v:RemoteHostName

Additional parameters to the above commands as follows

 

/admin – Connects you to the session for administrating the server

 

/f – Starts remote desktop in full screen mode

 

/w:<windth> – opens remote desktop with the width specified

E.g – C:\Users\user1>mstsc /v:196.192.3.2 /w:500

 

/h:<height> – opens remote desktop with the height specified

E.g – C:\Users\user1>mstsc C:\Users\user1\Documents\Default.rdp /h:300

or C:\Users\user1>mstsc C:\RemoteHostName /w:400 /h:300

 

/public – Runs remote desktop in public mode

 

Other parameters are /span, /multimon and /migrate

For the details information, you can enter command as mstsc /?

You can set the values and parameters as you need for the mstsc command and create a bat file, so next time when you need to open the remote desktop, you can double click on the bat file.

 

Start year 2018 with these 5 windows utilities

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This 2018 new year, we present you top 5 windows utility tools to effectively use windows OS.

Slick Run

One stop shortcut command line utility for windows, you can create shortcut with keypress keys or words as well, be it for file paths or browser urls.

For more info, refer below

SlickRun – one stop shortcut utility for windows

Screenpresso

Download from here

It’s a screen and video capture utility for windows users.

This doesn’t just create screenshot, but with it’s powerful features you can

Take full page screenshot

  • Add annotations
  • Embed images
  • Crop or resize etc

With video capture, you can

  • Record screen
  • Convert to different video formats
  • Create gifs.

Snipping Tool

One of quick screenshot taking tool comes default with windows OS.

With this tool, you can

  • Take a window screenshot
  • Take screenshot of a region on screen
  • Add highlight and add handwritten text

Stickies Portable

Download from here

As the name, it’s a sticky note making utility for windows OS with rich of features than window’s default sticky note software

  • Easy backup restore
  • Set title of each note
  • Insert links
  • Set font, size and color of each note and more…

More features you can found here

SHAREit

You all might aware of ShareIt app on mobile, good news is that you can even install this tool on windows or mac machine and transfer data across devices.

For connectivity across devices, follow ushareit.com/en/help.html

Hope this above utility tools will help you to effectively use windows OS.

Add youtube subscriber button into your site

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In this post we will see how we can create and place youtube subscribe button in your site [sites like blogspot, wordpress or self hosted] as shown in the preview.

Prerequisite :

Create your own youtube channel, if you don’t have a youtube channel, watch here

Create a youtube subscriber button

Find the channel id as shown in the below screenshot

  • Select appropriate Layout, Theme and Subscriber count [to show or not]
  • As per the options selection, preview and code will be generated

Place the button on site
  • Log into your site admin page.
  • Navigate to the Widget section
  • Create a text widget and paste the above code generated, and place on the site where you want to display the youtube button.