Tricky Tricks: December 2014

Sunday, 21 December 2014

Browser Secrets ! ! !

Today, lets see some browser tricks.

1. Use browser as Emergency Notepad

You can quickly add text while browsing your internet. There is no need to open notepad for adding text. You just need to add code to your URL box and type anything you want.

The code is:

data:text/html,<html contenteditable>

2. Shake to minimize

If you have multiple windows opened on your screen which looks mess and is hectic to minimize all at same time. So you just shake the window you want to keep open. The rest will minimize. Repeat the same to open them back again.

3. Add more than allowed bookmarks

For this you have to go to already saved bookmark and remove the name in them. You are now free to add more bookmarks.

You can add bookmark in the folder. Just create folder in bookmark option.

4. Don't close wanted tabs unwillingly

What if you accidentally close all tabs. Following are the ways to recover it.

Google Chrome: Has option called the "pin tab".

Mozilla Firefox: Has option like "Recently closed tab" "Recently closed window"

5. Flexible Wikipedia

The text and content can be saved in PDF format and and also be printed directly from site itself.

6. Play Dinosaur running game on Chrome

When internet could not be connected the following dialog box opens. Then hit the spacebar ; a dinosaur running game starts. It is best thing to play in your free time while low connection. You can also play on offline mode.

Sunday, 7 December 2014

Notepad Tricks : Part 3

Let's Learn some more Notepad tricks.

Make your keyboard LED dance

Your keyboard has three LEDs above numpad of Scroll Lock, Caps Lock and Num Lock. This Notepad trick will make those three LED continually on and off, creating dancing effects.

Steps:

Open Notepad

Enter following code

          Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
          do
          wscript.sleep 100
          wshshell.sendkeys “{CAPSLOCK}”
          wshshell.sendkeys “{NUMLOCK}”
          wshshell.sendkeys “{SCROLLLOCK}”
          loop

Save the file as Dance.vbs
Click the file and your all three LED lights will start dancing.

To stop, Shut down or Log off your PC.

World Trade Centre Attack Trick

Did you know that the flight number of the plane that had hit on 9/11 was Q33NY …

Open your Notepad

Type the flight number i.e Q33N in Capital Letters.

Increase the Font Size to 72

Change the Font to Wingdings

You will be amazed. Its a Plane going for 2 building shaped structures & then death. WTF ?

Must Be Shocked.

But This Is Only Hoax As No Plane Number Q33N Crashed Into Twin Towers.

Changing Header and Footer in Notepad

Go to File ->Page setup in notepad, and then in the fields for header and footer, type any of these codes.

&l Left-align the characters that follow
&c Center the characters that follow
&r Right-align the characters that follow
&d Print the current date
&t Print the current time
&f Print the name of the document
&p Print the page number