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Facebook like button – add to your site

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In this post, we will know how to add a tiny facebook like icon as shown here…

This tiny like icon will attract users to simply like your page on facebook.

For this, 1st thing you need to create a facebook page for your site.

Like mine is https://www.facebook.com/techreciter/

and navigate to facebook developers page https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button

Enter details and click on get code

Now navigate to your site wp-admin page, Add a text widget [From Appearance | Widgets] and paste the code generated.

 

WordPress official follow button on self hosted sites

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If you want to add wordpress follow button (on your self hosted sites) as shown hereFollow steps

Navigate to follow-button-creation and enter

  • Blog to follow – your site URL
  • check options as you need [refer below screenshot]
  • Click on Generate

Note: Make sure you will have jetpack plugin installed.

  • Now navigate to your site wp-admin, and Appearance | Widgets | Text widget, paste the above generated HTML code.

SlickRun – one stop shortcut utility for windows

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This is one of most useful command line utility for windows users, SlickRun allows us to keep all our shortcuts in one place (whether it is web url or folder path).

Customize SlickRun to keep a short name (called as magicWord) for any web url or folder path.

When you need them, just search with the magicWord saved, it will popup the web url or explores the folder.

Download SlickRun

It’s very tiny utility and can be placed anywhere on the windows screen.

How to keep shortcuts / MagicWords >

Let’s say you have a folder “Tricks” under C:\TechR\Category\Windows\Tricks

Every time you want to access the folder, you have to navigate to 4 folders,

In SlickRun, no navigations required… How!!!

Right click on SlickRun (once installed, it will be floating on screen as shown above),

Setup | New MagicWord

Click on Check mark symbol to save the magic word.

Next time when you want to explore Tricks folder, just go to SlickRun aqnd search with key word “tricks”, it will pop up Tricks folder.

We can change the appearance like font and color of the utility.

In addition, it provides Memory usage, date and time.

Copy folder sub directories / files name to a notepad

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There are situations we need to get all the sub folders and files details to a note pad, to achieve this we can use windows command prompt

  • Navigate to the folder that you want to create a list for

E.g – I want to get the list of folders / files under my C:\Root folder

  • Hold SHIFT + Right click and select “Open command window here”
  • Enter following command

C:\Root>dir /a /-p /o:gen >list.txt

 

  • Now navigate the Root folder and find a new text file created as list.txt, open and get the all the sub folders / files details

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Volume in drive C is Windows
Volume Serial Number is 80D8-BE7F

Directory of C:\Root

04/25/2017 06:42 PM <DIR>   .
04/25/2017 06:42 PM <DIR>   ..
04/25/2017 06:37 PM <DIR>   Adv
04/25/2017 06:37 PM <DIR>  Baisc
04/25/2017 06:37 PM           0 MyDet.docx
04/25/2017 06:37 PM           0 Cmd1.txt
04/25/2017 06:42 PM           0 list.txt
04/25/2017 06:37 PM           0 test.txt
4 File(s) 0 bytes
4 Dir(s) 301,075,058,688 bytes free

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If you want only list of files (no extra information), then open cmd and type

C:\Root>dir /a /b /-p /o:gen >list.txt

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Volume in drive C is Windows
Volume Serial Number is 80D8-BE7F

Directory of C:\Root

Adv
Baisc
MyDet.docx
Cmd1.txt
list.txt
test.txt

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NOTE:

“dir” command will list all the folders and files under specified folder.

“>” operator will redirect the result of command to the specified text file

open cmd and enter dir /? to see all available options and their explanation.

Hide folders in windows OS without using any software

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We already know one way to hide a folder in windows OS –

Explorer -> ALT + T -> Folder Options -> View -> check “Don’t show hidden files…”

But any body on your computer, can revert back this option by checking “Show hidden files…” and can see all your hidden files. [means there is no security to your hidden files]…

Even online, there are many 3rd party s/w or tools available to hide / show folders [most techies don’t prefer to install s/w]

no worries, we will discuss here one way to hide / show folders so no other users can see your files / folders

Using windows in build command prompt, let’s get started

  • Create a new folder in C:\ drive, rename it as “MySecret” without quotes.
  • Now open Command Prompt from Start Menu and type

Voila!! your folder or files are now hidden [MySecret folder with it’s sub folders / files]

  • Now remember the path of your secret folder, next time when you want to see the folder,

Open Command prompt and type
C:\Users\Ms>attrib -s -h C:\MySecret

 

How to turn on developer option on mobiles

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Let’s enable developer options on your android mobiles or tablets

  • On your android device, navigate to Image result for setting icon[Settings] -> ‘About’ or ‘About phone’.
  • Scroll down and on option ‘Build number’,tap around 7 times.
  • Confirmation popup comes with text “Developer mode has been enabled” or “You are now a developer”
  • Now come back to Settings, and scroll to see a new item added ‘Developer options‘,
  • Tap on ‘Developer options‘, and turn ON.

Now connect mobile / tablet to the computer, you will see device shows “USB debugging connected”