Little basic hacks

The internet is down to a terrible speed, but you know the remedy: unplug your router or modem, wait for ten seconds, then re-plug it in. Why does this trick magically work and why exactly 10 seconds? And the even bigger question: is there some way you can prevent doing this? Your Router Is Actually a Computer You might wonder- "How is this even possible? It doesn't even look like one" . But inside that plastic box, there is a CPU, memory, and local storage, all running an operating system. And just like a computer, things can go wrong from time to time. Maybe a bug is responsible for a memory leak, or there are overheating issues with the CPU, or maybe a full blown kernel panic has taken down the entire system. And the simplest and most convenient way to fix these computers is-Turning it on and off again. Your router is the same:  every reason rebooting a computer can solve problems  applies. Just like on your computer, you’re not actually solving what...

Starting with Windows 10’s  Fall Creators Update , the Windows Subsystem for Linux now allows you to manually mount drives. It still automatically mounts all internal NTFS drives. However, now you can manually mount external drives and network folders using the Linux  mount command. How to Mount External Devices The Windows Subsystem for Linux  still automatically mounts fixed NTFS drives. So, if you have an internal C: drive and let's say an E: or a D: drive, you’ll see them at  /mnt/c and /mnt/d  in the Linux environment. DrvFs now allows you to mount external drives like USB sticks, CDs, and DVDs. These devices must use a Windows file system like NTFS, ReFS, or FAT. However, you still can’t mount devices formatted with a Linux file system like ext3 or ext4. Like with internal drives, these external drives will still remain accessible in Windows after you’ve mounted them in the Linux environment. Mounting them also makes the...

At times it so happens that you email someone a copy of your Word document or PowerPoint presentation and they don’t have a font installed. In such cases, Microsoft Office shows that document with the default font. This can mess up the whole layout and make the document look completely different, but you can actually fix this by embedding fonts into your documents and let the recipient of your file see it just as you want them to. How The Thing Works? When you enable this option, Office takes the font file from your system and embeds a copy of it into the Office document. Though this increases the size of the document, anyone who opens the document will be able to see the document with its intended font. Note: You can only do this in the Windows versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Publisher. This doesn’t work in the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, or web version of Word or PowerPoint. This also works only if the font you’re trying to embed actually allows embedding. T...

A Portable Document Format(PDF) is a kind of file format used to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware or Operating System. It often comes in handy when you want a piece of information to be available to a number of recipients in the exact same way, however they are quite difficult to edit. Today we'll be talking about how to convert a PDF file into an editable text document. You'll very often have no other option but to browse various sites and use all sorts of tools to edit your document if you don't have the full version of Adobe Acrobat, i.e. if you haven't bought one, it will be very tough to edit your document. The easiest of all these methods is, using Google Docs. If you have your PDF file ready, open  Google Drive  in any browser and log in with your Google account.  Upload your PDF file from your local files by clicking on  NEW  on the left, then File upload . Select the PDF you want to upload and...

It's available to download now, the Fall Creator's Update from Microsoft for Windows 10, codenamed Redstone 3. Earlier we talked about the Creator's update but this is something big. There's a bunch of new features so let us now see what new has been included and what are the upgrades from it's predecessor. If you want to update right away before the update rolls out for your computer, follow this link . OneDrive Now Shows Files in the Cloud and downloads them on Demand Microsoft has announced OneDrive Files on Demand , which allows files to be stored in the cloud and made available without the need of getting synced on your local device. Quite interestingly, this new eature works with files in the Desktop and Documents folder, so it isn’t just limited to your files in the OneDrive folder as said earlier, no need to sync. When you try to open a file that isn’t stored on your PC, Windows will download it and open it for you. This is implemented ...