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A Simple Bookmark Trick For Instantly Composing A New Mail In Gmail

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Gmail, a popular mailing service from the search engine giant Google has a lot of amazing and interesting features in store for its users. And it is very much known as a fast service. And the users send and receive a number of emails every day. If you are also among those people who compose a lot of emails every day and send them, then you should definitely be needing this shortcut which allows you to cut short the process of opening the Gmail inbox and then clicking on the new button to start composing a new email. But there is a simple bookmark trick for you.

Bookmark Trick

This Google’s mailing service is a cloud-based service and therefore there will be an URL associated with everything. All you need to do is just bookmark that particular URL of that particular task on your toolbar and make your task simpler.

  • A special URL that will lead you to a simple email window and you should be logged into your Google account if you wish to access the clutter free email window using the above URL
  • And if you wish to open that URL with some default parameters, then you can make use of some specific strings
  • And let us now see the strings that you can make use of if you wish to open the new compose window with default parameters

&to=contacts, you can also add multiple contacts in a single string, but you have to separate

&cc=you can add cc recipients with this string if any

&bcc=add bcc recipients using this string if any exist

&su=add subject of your email using this string

&BODY=this string can be used for adding the body of your email

%20 is a special character that you can make use of if you have to leave a space

This quick URL bookmark trick can come to you as handy at times for sending quick emails without any hassles.

Enabling Ambient Display On Your Android Device

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Among the many cool and really awesome features of the Android devices, the ambient display feature is one. It, in fact, gives the users the convenience of viewing a dreading the notifications from various applications right from their lock screen and this is made available to the Android users who have android lollipop version or above installed in their devices. So, here we present you the process that you need to follow to get this amazing feature on your device and this process helps in getting this feature on any android device.

Enabling Ambient Display

And as not everyone has their phones rooted we are presenting you to the process of enabling this ambient display on devices that are not rooted, so that it helps the maximum number of people.

  • And to move forward or to just begin the process, you will need an Android app called the AcDisplay
  • You can find this application available in the Google play store and it is available for free that you can get it downloaded and installed on your device for free
  • Then open the application and you will have to enable the AcDisplay option as it will be in off mode by default
  • When you try to turn it on, it will ask you for a few permissions and do grant it them by simply clicking allow
  • Then click on the three dot icon on the top right corner of the screen and then tap on the settings option
  • Then tap on active mode option and tap on the disable on low battery option. It means the feature will be disabled when it is in low battery mode
  • You can also go through the various other settings of the application by exploring the application and make it custom according to your needs and requirements

We hope and wish these simple steps helped you in getting the wonderful feature on your device.

How To Create An Invisible Folder To Store Your Confidential Files

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Many of the computer users may have known the process of creating and storing important data in hidden secret files in windows run computer. But today I am going to take you through the process of creating an invisible folder so that it can help you to store your confidential files in it and make them private and save them from the threat of others.

Here are the steps for creating an invisible folder

  • Create a new folder, this can be done usually by right-clicking and then by clicking on the option “New Folder” from the pop-up menu.
  • Now after the folder is created, just select it and press F2 button. This option just allows you to edit the name of the folder. You can also do this by right-clicking the selected folder and then clicking on the “Rename” option available in the pop-up menu.
  • Delete the text in it and now comes the trickiest part. You just press and hold both the ALT, Fn keys and then type 255 using the Numpad in your keyboard, now release the ALT, Fn keys. Finally press Enter.
  • Now you have a nameless folder. To make it invisible go to its properties by right-clicking on the file after it is selected. Then click on Customize tab and then on the “Change Icon” option. There you can find number icons and you also get to see some blank spaces in between. Those are the invisible icons. Select the blank space and apply it by clicking on Apply and then on Ok.
  • That is it the process of creating your invisible folder is done.
  • And you can store all your confidential files, secret files there and save them from the eyes of others.

If you want to make the folder visible gain, then just go the properties and change the icon. I hope you follow these simple steps and get to know the process of creating an invisible file for storing your confidential files.

How To Remove Write Protection From An SD Card

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The write errors that we find on SD cards are literally a lot of pain and will disturb and distract us from all the things that we are doing and grab our entire attention. We may be picking the good company SD cards and purchase the perfect one. But these issues can be found on any company cards and as many cards have write protection, we cannot be able to format them to get them back.

Steps To Remove Write Protection In SD Card

We thought to bring a proper and easy solution for this he4ad burning problem and here are the steps that you need to go through

  • Some cards come with a toggle switch that has the ability to remove the write protection. So check whether your card has one such a toggle or not and if it has your solution is pretty simple, just toggle it and then try inserting it and you will be able to format it
  • And the second thing that you should check if your card doesn’t have a toggle switch is by checking the device’s properties. You just head to the Devices and Drivers window on your PC by just searching for devices and drivers on your PC and then right click on your particular card and click on properties where you will find toggle option, if you can’t find the toggle option even here, then head to the next process
  • The other troubleshooting step that you can try to get out of this issue is using the command prompt Open command prompt in administrator mode, then type ‘diskpart’ and hit enter, then type ‘list disk’ and you will find the list of disks connected to your device, then note the number of your card by figuring out your card by its size. And then type the command ‘select disk [disk number]’ and hit enter, then type ‘attributes disk clear readonly’ and hit enter to remove clear the write protection

Hope these simple yet useful troubleshooting tips help you to get back your SD card. Remember you can always get back your lost data from such cards through various backup managers and EaseUS Data Recovery tool is one of the very useful ones.

Learn How To Add The Missing Keys In Your Keyboard With Simple Steps

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There might be some keys in all of our keyboards that remain untouched for years. Normal users don’t feel the necessity to use the keys like scroll lock, pause/break. And some users don’t even use the Function keys. Who doesn’t wish to have shortcut keys for some functions? Everyone right!!!! Now, we are going to accomplish that thing by allowing you to have the missing keys in your keyboard.

Get The Missing Keys

Browser/App shortcut key:

You can actually turn your caps lock key into a key for opening the browser or any other specific app that you want. There is an app called Sharp keys which come to your rescue by letting you remap the keys.

Download and install the Sharp keys application on your system and open it by searching it in the start menu. Then in the program window, you can see add option, click on it and then if you wish to add a quick shortcut, then you can hit the tap key option on the left side and select the key that you want to replace and do the same on the right or you can just scroll through the options and select. After you are done with the selection, hit Ok and then click write to the registry. Restart the Windows to solidify the changes.

Shortcut for clipboard manager:

A clipboard manager is one among the missing keys that should be in all of our keyboards and many users feel it useful. Windows may find this need and may add the shortcut really, but as of now, we manually need to do this.

You can create a shortcut for many of the clipboard managers, and in this case, let us consider taking the Ditto clipboard manager. In the keyboard settings of the application, you can set the shortcut key for opening the app and make it easy for you to open and manage the clipboard.

Try adding these missing keys and stay more productive.