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Well I just wanted to have all the different ways to capture the screen (screenshots!!!) for different devices at one place   iPad – Hold the Power Button, Click on the Home Button and release – More details iPhone – Hold the Power and the Home Button simultaneously and release both – More details Kindle Fire – Hold the Volume Down button and power button simultaneously and release both – More details Samsung Galaxy – Hold the Power and Home Button simultaneously and release both – More details   Hope this helps!!!

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There are three things I’ll discuss in this post… Enable searching from the Address Bar of a browser Type “about:config” in your browser Accept the warning message given about being careful Search for “ keyword.enabled ” Toggle the value of the boolean variable by right clicking on it. If its set to false – you’ll not be able to search from the address bar If its set to true – you’ll be able to search from the address bar   Change the default search engine assigned Type “about:config” in your browser Accept the warning message given about being careful Search for “ keyword.enabled ” – Ensure that its “true” – if it isn’t then Toggle the value by right clicking on it and selecting “Toggle” Search for “ keyword.url ” Set the value to the search engine you want to use: For ex: to use Yahoo search engine – set the value to http://search.yahoo.com/search?p= To use Bing – set the value to http://www.bing.com/search?q= You are all set to search now…Just type the search li

From all the questions I have been asked about and I have asked mostly are related to Excel Formulas If I filter even further I will find that I am looking for information on vlookup most of the times… Here is one attempt from my end to explain what vlookup is all about. What’s VLOOKUP? Ya ya apart from the obvious answer that its an excel formula, it’s a search function! It can find you matching information from a particular table of data – something similar to a hashtable or dictionary in data structures   You give it an identifier and it will find the corresponding value for it…   Can I get a VLOOKUP Example? Of course! That’s what this blog is about   Jokes apart, here is an example of VLOOKUP Problem Statement: Your boss asks you to find out the work experience in number of years of your team mates Data you have: Now you have to fill in this table to present it to your boss: Now you’ll get the data in columns H, I from C and D – isn’t it? that’s simple   You have

I bought the iPad but I was really pissed off that I can’t seem to  buy any free app. I had an apple id, but then it wanted me to give my credit card details to download a free app too…Pch!!! So I googled a bit and got this solution…   Create an apple id if you don’t have one Now download the iTunes app on your computer Open iTunes and follow these steps: Go to iTunes Store under the “Store” category on your left side panel Now go to “Apps Store” on the top panel You will see “Top Free Apps” on the right side panel (Scroll down if you don’t see) Mouse over any of the free apps listed Click on the app name (Don’t click on the free button shown when we mouse over) Then you will be asked to signin – sign in with your apple id Then you will be asked to “review” Go ahead and select “none” on the payment screen Screen will be similar to this: http://www.simonblog.com/2011/01/09/why-there-is-no-none-option-when-registering-itunes-account/ Enjoy the free apps download from

When we are updating the API 17, my Android SDK Manager kept throwing me the error “Missing SDK platform android API 17” The steps to resolve this issue: Open SDK Manager Go to Tools, Options Under “Manifest Cache” – Click on “Clear Cache” Then Go to Packages, and click on “Reload” This would show some additional new options for you to install, most importantly you will see the SDK platform listed under API17…The package which was missing!!! Happy Androiding

There is no doubt that I prefer wget way over any other type of downloads… Syntax: wget <DOWNLOAD_URL>   If you get this error “ zsh: parse error near & ” then its probably because your download URL has a “&” so you should try giving your DOWNLOAD_URL in double quotes wget “<DOWNLOAD_URL>”   If you are trying to download from a site which needs you to give your credentials then you can try giving it this way wget --http-user=<UserName> --http-password=<Password> “<DOWNLOAD_URL>”   Hope this helps