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A simple trick that you can try when you are unable to open a certain website

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Sometime or the other we all may have faced some kind of issues with our internet. And they may be of different kinds and types, but today we are going to learn a simple trick for the most annoying problem that many of us face sometimes. That problem is being unable to open a certain website using our internet connection, it can be a WiFi or an Ethernet or a data modem. Let us find a simple solution to this most irritating problem

  • It’s just pretty simple, all you have to do is just install a free chrome extension into your PC
  • Bettrenet Unlimited Free VPN Proxy is the chrome extension, you can find it in the Chrome web store, just install it
  • You can find a shield icon added to the top right corner of your Chrome web page
  • Just click on it and select a desired location and then click on connect, it only has US and UK, so select any one of them
  • Now try opening the web page which you are unable to open earlier

Thus, this simple trick using Betternet Unlimited Free VPN Proxy can some to your rescue when you face this issue.

How To Edit PDF files without Adobe Acrobat Reader

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The most popular format for exchanging documents is undoubtedly PDF, and Adobe created this format in the early 90’s. This format of documents has become so popular because it is really compact than the source documents and they preserve the original formatting. The content in the PDF files cannot be edited easily and you can even restrict the users from copying and printing the text. These files can be opened any PCs and mobiles.

They are read-only files by default, but there are some ways where you can edit them without the help of the commercial PDF editing tool Adobe Acrobat.
Here are the different ways

Ways To Edit PDF Files Without Adobe Acrobat

You can use the online PDF editor for performing some basic editing tasks, PDF Escape , you can use this tool if you want to hide certain parts of the PDF file
Becy PDFMetaEdit tool helps you for editing the metadata of the PDF files and removing passwords of the PDF files
And another thing you can do if you really want to edit the contents of the PDF document is just converting that file into a Word file or an Excel file and edit them, then finally export the modified files back to PDF format

These are different ways where you can edit the PDF documents without actually making use of Adobe Acrobat.

Some Of The Awesome YouTube Tricks That You Must Note

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YouTube, as you all may have know is the most popular video blogging website and has a lot of interesting video content to watch and share and many of us view a lot of videos daily on YouTube. But some simple and useful YouTube tricks, your YouTube experience is going to be superb. Let us first go through some of the keyboard shortcuts that you must note.

While you are watching YouTube videos, here are simple keyboard shortcuts which may save you from boggling with the mouse and allow you to relax leaning back on your coach and watch videos.

YouTube Tricks You Should Note

  • Pressing spacebar will pause the YouTube video, this you may know. But it works only after a click on the window, in such cases ‘K’ key will pause the video without having to touch the mouse.
  • J and L keys help you to rewind and forward the video for 10 seconds respectively.
  • Arrow keys also perform the rewind and forward action but for 5 seconds, that is if you want to rewind very small part, use these keys. Left arrow to rewind and right arrow to forward.
  • Press “F” key to go into full-screen mode.
  • Using the number keys 2,3,4…. You will be taken to 20%, 30%, 40% ….. of the video respectively.
  • Pressing “0” will take you to begin of the video.
  • Pressing Up and Down arrow will increase and decrease the audio by 5%.
  • “M” key will mute/unmute the video.
  • Turning any YouTube video into GIF is actually by simply adding the word ‘gif’ right before the domain name of the video URL. For example, if the video URL is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfcVoR8TbfY, then your GIF URL will be https://www.gifyoutube.com/watch?v=lfcVoR8TbfY

So, I hope these simple YouTube tricks will be useful to you at times and you use YouTube like a pro by implementing these tricks.

Improve your Gmail experience with these Chrome extensions

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Google is very much famous for its most used search engine and Chrome browser and Gmail are also among the most popular services from the search engine giant. While chrome web store has a tonne of useful extensions, here are some handful of Chrome extensions that can help you in having a great Gmail experience.

Notifus:

This is one such free extension available in the Chrome web store where you can follow up on emails and check whether you got a reply from them or not. This extension keeps everything simple and free as well.

After you download and install the extension in your browser, you can see some additional options besides send menu which will include send and remind in 1 day or 2 days, 3 days, etc. You can simply click on send and remind in 2 days if you wish to get notified about the reply from that email id. Notifus thus makes things simple and useful.

Checker Plus for Gmail:

Many of us have a lot of work to do with our inboxes regularly. But opening and checking inbox every time whether we got any new emails isn’t that easy task, Checker Plus for Gmail is an awesome Chrome extension as it is not just a notifier, it even lets you interact with your email, mark emails as read or even delete them. The pop-down pane lets you interact with the email without opening a new window.

Mailtrack:

In this fast-paced generation, no one has got the patience to wait and everybody wishes to know instant results and instant responses. Mailtrack is a free extension available in the Chrome web store. It works just like the read receipts option in the WhatsApp application. One green tick on the sent mail means the email is sent and two green ticks indicate that the email has been read by the recipient.

How to enable Gmail preview pane using simple steps

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Gmail, the mailing service from Google is the most used mailing service without any doubt. Large amounts of people use Gmail for their primary source of communication. But many people might not be aware of the various features that the Gmail offers. Don’t worry I will let you know the various useful features that the service offers its users. But as of now in this article, I am going to show you the process of enabling the Gmail preview pane feature.

This feature helps to have an email preview on the same screen that you are along with the other emails on one side. This gives the users ease of access to the various emails in the Inbox and makes easy to switch between the emails.

Steps for enabling the Gmail preview pane feature:

  • At first, you must be logged into your Gmail account
  • You will see a gear icon on the top right corner of your screen, click on it and then click on settings
  • Then you will be directed to another screen with various options, now choose labs tab
  • Now you will see search for a lab option there, type preview pane in the box and you will find the preview pane result below, just enable it and click on save changes
  • Google will load the page again after saving the settings
  • Now you can see an icon just beside the gear icon on the top-right corner of the screen where you can change the orientation of the pane, you can choose either vertical or horizontal.

That is it you are now done with setting up and can now be able to view email preview.