How to partition a hard disk or delete disk partitions on Windows using Device Manager's Disk Management?

When we buy laptop or desktop computers, usually the computer comes with a single disk partition that is accessible from "My Computer" that is usually labelled "C". Yes, there could be some hidden partitions on the hard disk such as the "Recovery Partition" and some manufacturer specific partitions for system recovery and tools etc. A user would normally like to have at least two partitions on the computer to manage personal files separate from the Windows partition. So, if your computer came with a single accessible partition, how to create more partitions?

What is hard disk partitioning?
Hard disk partitioning as the name indicates is the process of dividing a hard disk into partitions or logical disks on the same physical hard disk and treat each partition as a separate disk. That's right! Each of the partitions on the hard drive is treated by the computer as if they were different physical disk with it's own label.

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First Things to do after buying a new laptop

So you have bought a new laptop. Great! And you can�t wait to start using your new device. But here are some recommended things you should do before you start using your laptop.

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How to sync subtitle in VLC player?

Subtitles may sometimes be required when you are watching a movie of foreign language or when there are some jargon which you may not be familiar with or just to follow all the dialogues. Unfortunately, you may have searched and found subtitles on the internet but later you found the subtitles don't sync with the video. The subtitle may be appearing before the video or it may be appearing after the video. For those of you who use VLC Media Player on your computers, we will see how to sync subtitles on VLC Media player.

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How to setup Gmail on Mozilla Thunderbird email client?

What is an email client and what are its advantages?
Email client is a desktop application that enables configuring one or more email addresses to receive, read, compose and send emails from that email address(s) through the desktop interface. It provides a central interface for receiving, composing and sending emails of configured email address(s). We are basically using a "webmail" when we access Gmail, YahooMail etc. on our web browsers.

If you are looking for free email clients to use Gmail with, then Mozilla Thunderbird is a very popular and free open source email client. Thunderbird is a very popular Outlook replacement email client. In this post, we will see how to setup Gmail on Mozilla Thunderbird email client.

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How to disconnect Google Drive from your computer?

Most internet users now have Gmail accounts at least. So Google Drive, a cloud storage service by Google is a great cloud storage service to have on your computer, instead of having account from different providers like Microsoft (One Drive) or Dropbox etc. Not that you cannot sign up on these services with your Google account but it is better if they are all from the same provider as it works more seamlessly. Like with Gmail and Google Drive, we can drop an attachment straight to Google Drive and likewise.

How to disconnect Google Drive from your computer?

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Where is Windows Movie Maker in Windows 10?

Windows Movie Maker is a video editing software by Microsoft. It is a part of Windows Essentials software suite and offers the ability to create and edit videos as well as to publish them on OneDrive, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, and Flickr. Windows Movie Maker is quite a basic movie maker with limited features. But it is good for basic video editing purposes and Windows users love it! For basic video editing, it gets the job done. Windows Movie Makers is however, not available on Windows 10. But if you need it you still can download and use it.

Download and install Windows Movie Maker 2012 on Windows 10

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Upgrade Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10 for FREE!

Windows 10 is a personal computer operating system released by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. Windows 10 is the latest Microsoft Operating System released to consumers since July 29, 2015. To encourage the adoption of Windows 10, Microsoft announced that during its first year of availability, upgrades to the operating system would be made available free of charge to users of genuine copies of eligible editions of Windows 7, and Windows 8 after update to Windows 8.1.

However, not every Windows Operating System is up-gradable to Windows 10. On Microsoft Website it says:

"This free upgrade to Windows 10 is available for PCs and tablets. Qualified Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 devices can upgrade for free."

Find out if your Windows is eligible for free upgrade to Windows 10.

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What is the difference between WhatApp Group and Broadcast?

If we see the menu of newer version of WhatsApp, we see "New Group" and "New Broadcast". We are familiar with "groups". So, what is a "Broadcast" and what is the difference between WhatsApp's Group and broadcast message?

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How to schedule emails in Gmail to send later using Google Sheets?

Previously I wrote a post on how to send emails later in Gmail using an extension called Boomerang (click here). Services such as Boomerang are limited on free versions. Free Version of Boomerang allows to you send up to 10 emails per month, which may be quite sufficient for personal use for some. If you do not like a third party service provider access your Gmail than you may try using Google Sheets as described in the steps below.

How to schedule emails in Gmail?

What you would need is a Google Script developed by Amit Agarwal. The Script is incorporated in Google Sheet, which you would need to copy to your Google Drive (see steps later). Then all you need is to compose some emails in Gmail and save them as drafts. Open the Google Sheet, get the drafts in Gmail in the Google Sheet, and schedule the messages to send emails later.

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How to Schedule an email to be sent later in Gmail (using Boomerang)?

Sometimes we may need to compose an email that we need to send at a later time- because we may forget or because we may not be available during that time or because it is simply appropriate to send during that particular time or date only. In this case, we would need to schedule it. Gmail being the most widely used email platform, let's see how to schedule emails in Gmail.

Microsoft Outlook has a built-in scheduler to delay the delivery of email messages. Set the "Delay Delivery" details, write the email message and hit the Send button, the message isn�t delivered immediately � it stays in your outbox and is sent at the specified date and time automatically.

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Share internet/data plan with family members on Airtel

Airtel, one of the biggest Telecom company in India has launched internet or data plan sharing. You can share data plan with friends or family up to five Airtel mobile numbers. This feature is very useful if your family members are all using Airtel so that you can have just one data plan for all.

The key benefit is that data plans are usually more expensive for smaller packs. 1GB plan for example is more expensive that 6GB plan if we look at per GB rate. Also, sometimes we don't utilize all the data we purchase, which can be used by other member in your shared plan in that case. So opting for data plan sharing can be more beneficial.

How to share your Airtel data plan ?

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Tools for editing photos for government exams online application in India

Most online applications for government exams in India asks for scanned photograph and signature in specific pixel size and image size such as -

Upload Scanned Images of Photograph and Signature:
The scanned images of photograph and Signature should be in jpg/jpeg format only.
Size of the photo image must be greater than 4 kb and less than 40 kb.
Size of the signature image must be greater than 1 kb and less than 30 kb.
Dimension of photograph image should be 3.5 cm(width) x 4.5 cm(Height) only.
Dimension of signature image should be 3.5 cm(length) x 1.5 cm(Height) only.

Such file size limits are set so that the web server space is not exhausted by letting candidates upload any image size as several lakhs or even crores of candidates apply for government exams. Even a photograph taken with smartphones in high quality will be at least 3-4 MB in size. If 3000 candidates apply, it will be roughly 3 GB of photographs!

I have had some novice computer users, especially relatives and friends ask me to edit their photos as per the specifications issued in the advertisements. And I have also advised them on free tools they can use to do basic photo editing for such purposes. If you have Adobe Photoshop great! Otherwise, let's see some of those tools which we can use for basic photo editing.

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