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Today we will learn how to make your Android smartphone as a wifi repeater for free. Why make your Android smartphone as a repeater? Let me explain. I have a phone which gets no internet when my tv is connected to the same wifi. I don't know what is the issue is but I've observed that whenever my tv is turned on, the wifi on my phone becomes useless.  So my phone is there only to receive or do phone calls nothing else. Upon research I came to know that we can use a second phone as a wifi repeater. Follow the following steps 1) Download the net share app from the play store on the Android phone which you want to use as a wifi repeater https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kha.prog.mikrotik 2) Open app and press on setup wifi hotspot. 3) In the below drop-down option it will show proxy settings such as ip address and port number, keep a note of it. 4) On another phone, put the wifi credentials and connect. 5) After connecting you will have to go to that wifi options and i...

 Today we will learn how to install a free vpn in our linux system. The vpn I'm talking here is proton free vpn.  Although it's free you need to sign up with proton vpn to access the VPN. This tutorial is applicable only for debian based distributions, so proceed with caution if you have arch based os, windows or macos. 1) Go to  https://protonvpn.com/free-vpn and then click on get proton free vpn and then click on continue with free. 2) Sign in or sign up if you don't have an account, after that sign in. 3) On the left menu click on downloads and download for GNU/Linux. If you want it for your operating system do that here. This is direct download link for linux  https://protonvpn.com/download-linux .   After going to that link click on install proton vpn. here if you are confused  https://protonvpn.com/support/linux-vpn-setup/ 4) click on debian  https://protonvpn.com/support/official-linux-vpn-debian/ and follow the onscreen commands from steps 1 ...

Hello there, Today we will learn how to get the Matrix code as a screensaver in linux. If you have watched the Matrix movie or like the screen text of the Matrix you can now enjoy it as screensaver. There are two methods to install this screensaver. One is a GUI and another terminal based. Let's start with gui first as many people freakout for terminal method. GUI METHOD 1) If you are already on Ubuntu based distribution like linux mint or mx linux. Then you need to open it's software center like the one in Android called play store.  What's a linux distribution? Linux is broadly categorised into flavours of different types of window managers. Linux was earlier only terminal based but with time we got different versions of linux as it was open sourced. We now have cinnamon, xfce, kde, gnome, openbox based flavours. So for beginners I would recommend trying linuxmint cinnamon edition if you are coming from windows and pop os if you are coming from Mac os. Although they are n...

Nowadays everyone has Google messages installed in their phones right? Excluding some OEMs like samsung or some off brand that does not ship Google messages as default. You can enable rcs chats on samsung phones which will be covered in the later part of this post. Follow on! I've been wanting to write this blog post for quite some time now, so letting all out of my mind in this post in any manner. So, please read carefully. You can now text anyone in your friend circle with just internet but it must have a sim card in it. Internet can be via Wi-Fi or mobile data, it doesn't matter. There's something called as RCS chats which stands for rich communication system. A protocol made by Google for texting which they say is sms 2.0 for the internet. Every phone has the RCS chats feature enabled by default if you bright your phone after the year 2021. If it is not turned on you need to enable it by going into Google messages app's settings. Enable rcs chats. You might need to ...

While I have cut from cable connection at the wake of expenses in our household. I’m looking for free alternatives to watch content online as we have a wifi connection. Let’s see what I can find this quest of research for online content, Although don’t quote me on the legality of the websites, these are something I found doing research and development. Officially a Cordcutter now. All the options shown below requires a computer with internet connection, a mouse, keyboard. Youtube is free but has some popular movies behind a paywall like rent or buy. So, I stick to free content on youtube and watch news channels and youtube channels which I like in my Subscriptions. free serials and movie shows https://www.desi-serials.cc/ this website had tv channels, webseries and hindi movies. If you live india today news channels like TimesNow, zoom, MirrorNow, ET Now visit here https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/live-tv . This is an Official website. For Anime lover’s I found something which can ...

  Today we will learn how to read blocked/ restricted content on the internet. Remember when you find a good article and you try to read it. You are welcomed by a only half an article or a pop-up to buy a subscription to read the whole article.  What if I say, that you can now read that exact article, for free.  There is a way but you should only follow this method if you don't have the means to support the particular organisation or you must be Jobless like me .  Before that if you want to try something you could try clearing your cookies on the browser and you might get to read the complete article. You can also try incognito mode to view that article it works for some websites. If all these methods are not working for you then let's get to the real deal. It requires enabling the developer mode of your browser and installing an extension. So let's begin.... 1) Download the extension from GitHub. It is not available in the official google extension repositories. htt...

  Today, we will learn how to block advertisements on your browser. Don’t get me wrong I am not against advertisements but sometimes it becomes nagging after getting hit by the same ad everywhere. I have an Pentium  4 processor based computer and it cannot handle day-to-day tasks of the modern web. So, to increase it’s life span I use ad block  and it is fairly usable  after that to use the computer. Install Ublock origin plugin for Firefox or Google chrome and it should do the job for almost all the average Joe. Here’s the link to add it into your Firefox browser https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search I use Firefox as my default browser if you want it for google just click on the link and watch it’s developer name and icon you can easily find it in your chromium store. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en If yo...

Today we will learn how to implement jio tv app with the help of kodi app from Play Store. Don't get me wrong we can directly watch Jio tv on our tv but the app is optimised for mobile, so using it on a tv without a mouse or keyboard because a task. With kodi app you get to do everything with just the remote which came with the tv and the interface is relatively easy if you get the hang of it. Kodi can be difficult if you cannot figure out anything explained in this tutorial because you have never used this application.  Will try my level best to explain without any images because I don't have a massive following who reads my blogs and I don't want to waste my resources writing a good blog. Deal with it. This tutorial is written with Modi's matrix version your mileage may vary depending upon time.  1) First of all download kodi application from Play Store or download via apkmirror if your tv does not have an Play Store built in. I know you are the one who doesn't ha...

Today, we will learn how to listen to your favourite songs and download them for offline access on the go. This tutorial is applicable only for android users, sorry for iOS users. Your operating system does not allow installing apps outside the app store. Keep cribbling :P The app name is called Fildo Checkout this website if you want to download or try it out https://fildo.net/android/en/ If the website is down then it is probably been taken down but as of writing this article the website is still on. Fildo does not hold any music files on it’s server. It is just a front end to the music library if I am able to explain you correctly in lay-man terms. They claim they are better than those spotify mods available online, take it with a pinch of salt as I have not used spotify myself personally.

 Today we will learn how to add Flag Counter on your website. This tutorial will cater to blogger platform but it is the same for WordPress or any self hosted website. Now the question arises why to Install a Flag Counter because we can manually check all the historic data from our own respective Dashboard, for Ex: blogger shows it in our dashboard. Let's just say it looks nice on the homepage and I am very lazy to check the stats or it might look like I'm bragging about my blog whatever one might think. First of all go the the Flag Counter website and customise the layout of your Flag counter widget according to your need.  https://www.flagcounter.com/index.html Then you will find a yellow button on the right side saying Get your Flag counter and Et Voila! You now need to copy the code for website. Go to your blogger dashboard now, Click on Layout ----> add a new Gadget ----> choose HTML/JavaScript and paste the code copied from Flag Counter. Click save and refresh your...

How to change default font to ms office font so that you don’t have to do it every time while sharing with your windows friends. Click on tools, select options Choose LibreOffice writer, click on basic fonts Now change all the fonts to Arial if you want to share it with your windows friends. If you want to learn how to install ms core fonts check this post out now 

Today we will learn how to install linux fonts on linuxMint. It would be the same for all the  Distributions based on debian. Open software Center/ Software Manager in your Operating System linux  Search for ms fonts and you will find something like ttf-mscorefonts-installer/ Click on it and install and then reboot or you can try straight away. I found problems posting from libreoffice to Blogger as I believe there was a font error.