How to use Google Search as Timer clock

Now Google Search has a very cool feature, Google search has the Timer capability , Yeah, that's right, we dont need any clock or watch.

Open a Google search and type "set timer for 10 seconds"  , it counts the specified timer and once done it has a notification Timer to let us know.  also you have the Reset timer option too, there is no limit for the timer, you can set timer for one hour, 2 hours etc.. 

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How to use Google Search as Dictionary ?

Google has updated its search with a Dictionary to provide the means of lot of words from its Dictionary ( from Oxford Dictionary ) .

The Beauty of the Google Search is not only it shows the definition/meaning of the word, it also shows the origin of the word, and its usage of the word from past couple of years.
You need to click on the little Arrow icon at bottom of the box shows the definition

 Here is the example of the work Mythology :

Also it has the translation facility to other language of your need, and it remembers your language selection and for every word it translates you to the language you have selected. 

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Gmail's New Compose with Keyboard Shortcuts

With Gmail's new compose and reply interface will display a Rich Text editor right underneath the mail, especially when you click on Reply it open in the same window where you can not perform other activities like searching other emails, or using Gmail Search while composing long reply.

By using few keyboard shortcut keys, you can actually make the Reply editor as a New Compose editor just by pressing Shift + Click on the "Reply"

If you want to open a New email in Pop-out window just use Shift + Click on the "Compose" Button.

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What is Akamai HTTP Response Code 000 means ?

We know a traditional HTTP Server Response codes like 200, 404 and 500 . But Akamai Content Delivery Network follows slightly additional set of HTTP Status codes like 000 .

Here is the details of Akamai Edge HTTP Response Codes mentioned in Akamai KB Article

OK: content was delivered to the client (200, 206, 408)  

Not-Modified: a positive response to a content freshness request (304) 

Redirect: a redirect response was returned to the client (301, 302)

Not-Found: an unknown object was requested (404)

Permission: a permission denied or HTTP basic auth response (415, 403, 401)

Gateway Error: usually an issue with the origin server (504)

Server Error: an issue with an origin or Akamai server (501, 502, 503, 504)

Client Abort: the client canceled the connection before receiving any content (000)

Other: any other HTTP response code not included above

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Let AT&T know not to track your Cell Phone Activity

Recently AT&T Started collecting your Cellphone Activity about your account for external marketing and analytics, By default it will be selected to send information and they continue to gather your information, But there is an option to opt-out from Tracking your information.

Here is the information what AT&T Collecting like Account information, address , password etc mentioned in their Privary Policy .

Here’s some of the information we collect:

• Account Information includes your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, service related details such as payment data, passwords, security codes, service history, and other information like that;
• Network Performance & Usage Information tells us how you use our network, our products, and our services, and how well our equipment and network is performing;
• Web Browsing & Wireless Application Information tells us about the websites you visit and the mobile applications you use on our network;
• Location Information tells us where your wireless device is located, as well as your ZIP-code and street address;
• U-verse Information tells us about which programs you watch and record, the games you play, the applications you use and similar information about how you use our U-verse services and applications.

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Easily Managed All your Social Networks from One place

Ever wondered of having one centralized place to navigate to all the Social network sites to made the modifications like Changing profile picture, Changing the location, Change User Name OR even Delete an account.

Well, well, now its simple by using www.blisscontrol.com . BlissControl Have all the navigation links to Majority of the Social Network sites people using daily.

It's really awesome place where we can work/make changes or delete below accounts with out search the google for other information.

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Best Opensource Video Converter : HandBrake

Handbrake is the best Opensource Video transcoder in the recent days,  Using Handbrake is Simple, easy, and Fast ..  You can find Downloads for Handbrake on almost all the Operating Systems like Windows, Mac, Ubuntu..!!

Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources.

It's Free, Open source and it covers the license under GNU General Public License, and here is some of its amazing cool features where you can benefit.

more features

1. Title selection
2. Queue up multiple encodes
3. Chapter Markers
4. Subtitles
5. Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
6. Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
7. Video Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
8. Live Video Preview

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High Quality Photo's for Print on the Go and pick-up in one hour using KickSend

We take a lot of photos on our Mobile phones daily in different places like Parties, functions , work , on the way ...  If you want to take  High Quality prints of your photos on Mobile and send it to nearest CVS , Walgreens to you or send it your Dad and pickup in one hour.

• Download the Add called "KickSend" from either Apple Store, or Google Play.
• No Signup required. 
• Select the Prints for your self or for family 
• and send to nearest Walgreens, Target, CVS 
• Pickup in One hour.  That simple.

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Redirect HTTPS Homepage to http for website

Considering the SEO ratings how can we have one home page , i.e redirect https home page to http.

Here is the Redirection Logic will will do the magic of redirecting the HTTPS homepage to HTTP and continue to work the remaining HTTPS functionalities in a site like secure sign-in and secure checkout if its a payment processing website.

Modify your httpd.conf of Apache server and add the below lines with in the Virtual host.

<VirtualHost  www.example.com:443>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 443
RewriteRule ^(|/)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/ [L,R=301]

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</VirtualHost>

After the Apache server restart, now all of your https home page requests should be redirecting to http and have greater SEO rankings for your homepage :)

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Capture Part or All of your Screen on MAC OS

Folks who moved from Windows to Mac missing "Print Screen" option on Mac , or Any OneNote Users missing Windows + S .

Mac OS Offering couple of options to capture full or part of your screen .

Copy to ClipBoard :

• Press Control + Command + Shift + 3 --> To Capture the full screen to clipboard 
• Press Control + Command + Shift + 4 --> To Capture selected part of the screen by dragging the gray box. 

Save to Desktop in JPG Format :

• Press Command + Shift + 3 --> To capture the Full screen and save a jpg Image on Desktop
• Press Command + Shift + 4  --> Capture selected part of the screen by dragging the gray box and save as jpg image on Desktop

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Websphere Commerce Build and Deploy ( WCBD ) with Jenkins Integration - Checkout

If you are a Jenkins fan and wanted to integrate your WCBD with jenkins to use in Graphical way to perform your builds, its easy.. !!

Create a Checkout Job in Jenkins to execute your source code from your favourite Source control system.

• So, when ever you tried to execute the Checkout Build, Jenkins will try to checkout the source code by using the "Svn Update" with SVN Revert before update, so that there is no chance of leaving older version of files in your file system . 
• Navigate the path to your source directory by navigating back from Jenkins default directory.
• Then you can completely comment out the extract job from your WCBD scripts like below.

#===============================================================================

# Properties for extraction

#===============================================================================

##

# Whether source code extraction should be done.

#

# @default

#   true

#

# @valid-values

#   <ul>

#     <li>true</li>

#     <li>false</li>

#   </ul>

#

run.extract=false

• Then execute the below command from Jenkins to perform the checkout from Jenkins and Compilation using wcbd scripts.

/usr/opt/app/IBM/WebSphere/CommerceServer70/wcbd/wcbd-ant -buildfile /usr/opt/app/IBMWebSphere/CommerceServer70/wcbd/wcbd-build.xml

All Set, Now Jenkins will perform Checkout and WCBD will perform compilation and building Zip file for your deployment. 

Good luck & Happy Jenkins :) 

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