Unable to Copy or Transfer Files Using ES FILE EXPLORER ? - See this Demo on Mi Redmi 5 Phone on the latest MIUI 9.6 Stable version.

File Copy Transfers Using ES FILE EXPLORER - Demo on Mi Redmi 5 Phone on the latest MIUI 9.6 Stable version.

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How to integrate Google Calendar with Thunderbird Email client - 2018

Thunderbird is an excellent email client and a good alternative to Microsoft Outlook email client if you are looking for a free one. Thunderbird can be used with a lot of email accounts including Gmail. If you are using Thunderbird email client and with Gmail, this this post is about how to integrate Google Calendar with Thunderbird Email client.

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How to configure XAMPP to open Apache and phpMyAdmin on port 8080 by default?

In this post we shall see How to configure XAMPP to open Apache and phpMyAdmin on port 8080 by default?

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How to check transaction history of Airtel Payments Bank Saving Account on Airtel Android App?

After Digital India initiatives by the Government and especially after demonetization, usage of digital payments have increased. Nowadays, many citizens are using various modes of digital payment be it usage of debit cars, ewallets, Unified Payment Interface (UPI) etc. Airtel also introduced Airtel Payments Bank which is beneficial for Airtel subscribers to pay utility bills and also to do online shopping on select eMarchet websites where the payment method is supported. As on 15 Feb 2018, Airtel Payments Bank offers an interest of 7.25% which is higher than regular saving account in any Bank. For all those using Airtel Payment Bank, we shall see how to check transaction history of Airtel Payments Bank Saving Account.

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Display YouTube videos in a gallery in WordPress website and how to get YouTube API Key

YouTube Videos Gallery in WordPress

There may come time when we need to show YouTube videos on websites. As most of us may already know, we can easily embed YouTube videos in web pages by simply copying the YouTube embed code from a particular YouTube video and put it in web page to display the YouTube video. Similarly, we can show YouTube library.

In this post, we shall discuss how to add a YouTube videos gallery in WordPress website that I did for one project recently. The requirement is to post videos on a YouTube channel and show the same to the WordPress YouTube Gallery to display.

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How to show labels widget expanded instead of collapsed in new Blogger theme 2017?

Google released new themes for Blogger in 2017 and they are great! If you haven't seen them, check them out here - Check out new responsive Blogger themes released by Google! They are modern and elegant design.  I have already blogged on some posts related to the new Blogger themes which you can find from this link - Blogger Themes 2017.

Now, one thing I wanted to change in the new Blogger theme I have applied on this site was to display labels expanded. Yes, the new Blogger theme show all the labels collapsed. So, a user has to click on the title or drop down to see first few labels and then click on "Show More" to see all the labels selected during the widget setup. I wanted to display at least the first few labels at least.

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How to resolve - Missing Facebook comments on Blogger sites due to country specific redirection

If you have applied Facebook comments on Blogger blog and you are not able to see some of the Facebook comments, this post is for you. In this post, we will discuss  how to resolve - missing Facebook comments on Blogger sites due to country specific redirection by Blogger.

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Extend Wi-Fi network using two wireless routers one as base station and one as wireless repeater

Would you like to extend your Wi-Fi? Are you looking for ways to extend the Wi-Fi range at home? We can extend Wi-Fi using wireless repeaters or wireless extenders. Some wireless routers comes with wireless repeater feature. Using such routers we can easily extend Wi-Fi range at home or office. Besides wireless routers with repeater or extender features, one can also buy dedicated Wi-Fi repeaters and extend Wi-Fi network. They are usually cheaper than Wi-Fi routers. In this post, we shall see how to extend Wi-Fi using two Netgear Wi-Fi routers. 

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Best Android app to compress videos on Android Mobile Phone (Video Compress Demo)

When we buy Android smartphones, we want the best -  with good features and with good camera resolutions. Nowadays, most smartphones have at least 8 MP resolution camera. And more resolution means, more video file size. Eventually, the phone's memory is going to be filled as memory is not unlimited! So there may come a time when you might need to compress the videos to keep them on the phone though backing them up on a computer is more practical to preserve the original resolution and quality. And most users use mobile data connection which is costlier than our home Wi-Fi. And some users share video shot off their mobile phone camera as it is. For viewing a video on mobile devices, a very high resolution is not necessary. Thus, it seems more practical to compress such videos before sharing to others so that the sharer does not waste a lot of data and even so that the receiver also do not need to spend a lot of data to download the video. While we can also use desktop video editing / compression software to compress videos and put them back to the phone, it may be a tedious task. And why do that when there are Android apps for it, hmm?

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