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For a smartphone in 2017, one hand is insufficient

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Do you remember, the last time you have used your smart phone entirely just with one hand? Oh, you don’t. Neither do I. You might have experienced this, you want to send a quick reply of two words with your smartphone while holding something, say a coffee cup, on your other hand. But that becomes a mission impossible. Then you are forced to keep the coffee cup somewhere just to use your smartphone for a few seconds. Smart phones are becoming larger and larger with respect to screen size as days go by. Although reduction in footprint and ever-increasing screen-to-body ratio are becoming the norm for any smartphone releasing in 2017, with the surging popularity of 5.5 inch screen size segment, it’s even more important to have a one-handed mode. Surely Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and others have developed one-handed mode for their respective phones, but none of them are really that usable or intuitive. The main one-handed mode methods are to Resize the screen size to make
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Install an Operating System without a Bootable USB or DVD

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With frequent installer of new versions of Operating System like me who always likes to update to the latest version there always has to be a pen drive. But there is a catch. I already lost so many pen drives. It has become a habit to lose the tiny things which contain little but important data. After watching the Microsoft event on January 21 I wanted to install the Windows 10 Technical Preview again but I didn't have a pen drive. It was already 2 AM in the morning and I can't go asking others for a pen drive. So I thought that is it possible to do without a bootable USB. In case of a PC it is just a matter of having boot sequence start from the C drive partition in normal bootup or a bootable USB in case of installing a new OS. It is easy to change the boot sequence from Hard Disk to USB in BIOS during startup. Then I stumbled upon an article where it was mentioned how to change the boot disk[1]. It was same as choosing an OS to boot when you have multiple OS installed. The
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Running a VPN (Virtual Private Network) for FREE

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I think most of you know what a VPN is. For those who don't know a VPN is a method of creating a private network over the public network (INTERNET) and provide another gateway to the sites which we want to access. It also helps in protecting privacy and use protocols which might be blocked by some networks. Requirements: OpenVPN software and a .ovpn configuration file. OpenVPN software is available for PC, Android and iOS. For PC:  Click here to download . or go  here  for the latest version. For Android: Download from  PlayStore . For iOS: Download from  AppStore . For the ovpn configuration file goto the site VPNGate  here . This is an Academic Experiment of University of Tsukuba which provides free VPN services. Steps for PC: 1. Install OpenVPN software. 2. Put the ovpn file in the config folder in the installation directory. 3. Run as administrator. 4. Right click and connect. If you are behind squid catching proxy servers then use the ovpn files with port 443.
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Some More Problems connecting windows 8 App STORE

Most of you have followed my previous post about connecting to app store behind proxy and from the feedback and comments I was happy to hear that people were able to access app store and install apps. Still some people were not able to connect and some people connected but could not install apps. INSTANCE #1: Network icon in taskbar has yellow exclamation mark. Solution: Try to get rid of the yellow exclamation. Even if you can access internet from your browsers (say Internet Explorer) App store will not work. Follow the steps to get rid of exclamation mark. Step1: Change the internet proxy settings to some other proxy, which has internet access, from your room IP, which was in IE. Use 202.141.80.?? in IE. Step2: Then open command prompt (with ADMINISTRATOR privilege) and type           netsh winhttp import proxy source = ie Then the proxy will be changed to some proxy with internet access. Step3: Restart your computer. Now you are free of the yellow exclamation. Step4: Ch
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How to use Windows 8 App store behind the proxy in IITG

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Windows 8 was finally here. You can Download from software repository and install in your computer or you can Upgrade from your windows 7 OS. No need to mention the new features in windows 8 , I think you already know. It has a metro interface integrated with the start menu and various apps are available in the windows app store for the metroUI. Some of you might have tried and installed the previous releases of windows 8 like developer preview, consumer preview and release preview. In the release preview version app store was made available for trying apps and people have faced problems in downloading and installing apps. Not to mention the common problem is the PROXY server. All the computers in the institute runs behind a proxy so the IP address appears to be the same for all the computers connected to the LAN system. The metro Apps in windows 8 prefer direct internet connection so it has to be configured properly. Following steps will explain how to configure the apps to use proxy
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Solution : How to fold it ??

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The solution of  how to fold it the equilateral triangle. figure htfi.1 Fold the square in to half from vertical side and half again twice from horizontal figure htfi.2 then open the paper to half you can see three lines of cut marks on the paper as shown. Then take the bottom one to the second fold and get the 3rd part split in to half. figure htfi.3  Consider the 2nd part as the two third of the height of triangle and top half of thrid part as the one third of height of triangle. The red line in the figure htfi.3 as the base of the triangle. Then from the center connect the base by folding the upper part of height of triangle as shown. figure htfi.4 Move point P in the figure  around point O such that it touches the base line of triangle and then we have found our other two vertexes of triangle. figure htfi.5 Fold the paper along the line which joins the newly found vertex Q and the center O. Then cut straight along the base li
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How to fold it ??

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I just came across a book named "HOW TO FOLD IT" by Joseph O'Rourke. And I find it very interesting and there is a problem which states: Fold a square paper such that you can cut an equilateral triangle with one cut with a scissor. For example : Cutting a square with one cut: Fold it from diagonal like this Fold it from another diagonal again Then cut straight and you will get a square Observed the example. Now try to do with a equilateral triangle in a square For solution click here .
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