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How to restart remote machine/server in windows

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There are situations where we need to restart remote servers or machines and we can’t do normal Ctrl+Alt+Del, let’s see how we can perform restart in different ways

Using key press

If you have opened your remote desktop/server from your local windows machine, then on remote server/machine desktop, key press

CTRL + ALT + DEL to restart the remote machine.

Using command prompt

On your local machine, open command prompt [Administrator mode] and enter

C:\Users\MySys>shutdown /r /f /t 0 /m \\<serverName> /c "<anyComment>"

NOTE:

/r        – Shutdown and restart the computer.”

/f        – Force running applications to close without warning the users.

/t xxx   –  Set the time-out period before shutdown to xxx seconds.

The valid range is 0-600, [default is 30]

/m \\computerName – Specify the target computer.

/c “comment” – Comment on the reason for the restart or shutdown.

For more information you can enter command shutdown ?/

Place chrome’s address bar to bottom of screen

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On your android mobiles, you can move chrome browser’s address bar to the bottom of the screen, which helps to type the url addresses easily as bottom of screen is close to your hand, there’s feedback about the performance of this, so the first step you need to do is to update the full phone or computer device, and you might want to add a turbo booster for it to be smoother and faster, you can learn more here.

After you do the updates you can check the rest, for some this may not be much beneficial, but still you can experiment or give a try with chrome flags

  • Open Chrome browser on android
  • Click on the address bar and type

chrome://flags/#enable-chrome-home

and select “Enabled”


  • Restart your chrome browser, boom!!!

You will see your address bar at bottom of the screen

Looking online for remedies or alternatives is now much easier, you can just click here and get all the information you need.

YouTube features you’re probably not aware of!

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After google search engine, now a days youtube become most popular platform to search things we want to know which gives practical or live demonstration that leads to easy understanding, even you can use this platform as an entertaining medium like watch movies, clips and listen to music.

In this post, we will be discussing some youtube features [for both mobile and desktop/laptop] that you probably don’t know

YouTube on both mobile and desktop/laptop

Speed up or slow down video playing

On mobile – tap once while video is playing, on top right corner “3 dots icon -> playback speed”, change as you prefer.

on Desktop – on video playing pane, settings icon -> Speed, change as you prefer

NOTE : less than 1, slowing the speed and greater than 1, increasing the speed

YouTube On Desktop/laptop

Switch to Dark theme

Go to profile settings [top right corner of youtube site], Turn ON dark theme

Video preview

On desktop, if you want to preview any video before actually you watch, you can do so by hovering mouse on the video

Link to a specific play point

Let’s say you want to give a portion of video from a point [not from beginning] to end, you can do so by adding #t= at end of the video url

e.g – <video url>#t=03m15s will play the video from 3min15second to end of video.

Save videos offline

To watch youtube videos without internet, below to each video, find and click on 3 dots icon -> Save offline

NOTE : not all youtube videos support save offline feature

Validity of offline videos are of 48 hours from the date of last watch [not download], you can find offline videos under library icon -> offline videos

You can even download the videos by using some 3rd party vendors such as keepvid.com, but you must comply with the copyright law.

YouTube On mobile

Double tap to move video forward or backward

on the mobile, while watching youtube videos on full screen, you can double tap left side of video to go backward [rewind], same way double tap right side of video to forward the clip, each side will move 10 seconds back or forth.

mAadhaar app – lock or unlock biometric details

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Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) launched an official app called mAadhaar app (for Android OS) to keep the Aadhaar details like name, address and date of birth etc on smart phones.

Download mAadhaar app from here

Steps to follow after downloading the app

  • Install and open the app
  • Create / add a profile (your aadhaar details) by either entering aadhaar number or scan your aadhaar QR code provided on the hard copy.

  • You will get an OTP by SMS to your smart phone (it will auto populate the OTP from SMS) and click on verify
  •  Once authenticated, you can view your aadhaar card front and back side on the app

This app even provides some more features other than keeping the aadhaar details

To avail these features – Go to your profile [aadhaar card details screen] in the app


  • Lock or unlock biometric details

Click on the right top corner (3 vertical dots) and click on “Biometric Settings“, check the box to lock biometric so no body can tap your details.

If you want to link your aadhaar card anywhere like with mobile number or while buying a new SIM, you have to uncheck to unlock the biometric and do a OTP verification, now you can link aadhaar anywhere you want with finger scanning.

  • Show your aadhaar QR code to retrieve accurate demographic information like name, address etc instead of manually entering which may lead to mistakes…

Click on the right top corner (3 vertical dots) and click on “Show QR-Code”

you can scan the qr code to get details with any qr code scanner, even there are mobile apps like CS scanner app.

  • Share your e-KYC data to anybody via any social media like whatsapp, gmail, share it or even you can save it in google drive for future reference.

How to take screenshot on Mac

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On Mac, you can capture entire screen, a particular region or a window or dialog, we will discuss few shortcuts to achieve this

Capture entire screen

Shift (Shift Modifier icon) + Command (⌘) + 3

Above command will capture entire screen and place the image with extension .png on desktop.

Capture a particular region or a window

Shift (Shift Modifier icon) + Command (⌘) + 4

Cursor will turn to crosshair,

Capture a region – You can drag mouse to a region and release to capture a region on screen

Capture a window – With the above command, when cursor turns crosshair, press space bar so the cursor turns to camera, then move the mouse to any window / dialog shown on screen to capture.

As usual, the screenshot will be on desktop with .png

Note : If you want to cancel any capture, press Esc before releasing the mouse.

All you want to know : Tez – Payment app by Google

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Google has introduced a new mobile payment app (exclusively to India for now) called Tez

It’s hindi translation is Fast, means you can transfer money faster, let’s see some of features that makes Tez app faster

Download and Installation

Available for android and ios devices

How it works

Tez works based on UPI (Unified payments interface), so we can add banks with UPI facility (not to worry, more than 50 banks has UPI)

Once installed Tez app, need to verify with OTP and then add your bank account (should be of UPI enabled bank) and you are good to go…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=105&v=LN2F0ae–WE


Features 

  • Transfer money from one bank to other bank over UPI.
  • No wallet concept – no need to add money to any wallet, direct transfer from bank to bank either by phone / account number, QR or UPI ID.
  • Tez cash mode – Even you can send or receive money from your near by Tez app user (just like send and receive feature of document sharing app ShareIt or xender)

Cash mode enables to pay money to any vendor (small or large) with out asking their bank details, just put your phone (with Tez app open) near to their phone (with Tez app open) and transfer money directly to their bank.

Daily limit – For cash transfers, ₹1,00,000 is set as the limit in one day across all UPI apps. With Tez app, users can do 20 transfers in a single day.

  • Small or big merchants with current accounts can receive money with Tez app (up to 50,000/month, there is no fees to transfer money back to their bank account)
  • Online payments with Tez – pay on apps and websites where UPI is accepted. When you checkout, look for the Tez logo or use your Tez UPI ID.

Additional feature

  • Google’s multi layered security and 24/7 protection by Tez Shield make users to use confidently.
  • Supports Indian languages other than English (Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil, Telegu, Marathi, and Gujarati)

Rewards and offers

Tez offers scratch cards to its users on transactions of worth ₹50 or more, which will allow them to win up to ₹1,000 with each transaction and be eligible to win ₹1 lakh every week with ‘Lucky Sundays’ offer.

Do a first transaction (Send money either by using cash mode or by UPI or scan QR code) and get cash back ₹51 instantly to your linked bank account…