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Laptop OsX

How To Take A ScreenShot on Mac

Mac Screenshot

You can capture a Screenshot of your entire screen or just a selected portion of it. The screenshot is automatically saved to your desktop.

How to take a screenshot of your entire screen

  1. Press Shift+Command (⌘)+3.
  2. The screenshot will be saved as a .png file on your desktop

How to take a screenshot of a selected portion of your screen

how to take screenshot in mac

  1. Press Shift+Command (⌘)+4. The pointer changes to a crosshair.
  2. Move the crosshair to where you want to start the screenshot, then click and drag to select an area.
    Note: While dragging the Crosshair, you can hold Shift, Option, or Space bar to change the way the selection moves
  3. When you have selected the area that you want, release your mouse or trackpad button. To cancel, press the Esc (Escape) key before you release the button.
  4. The screenshot will be saved as a .png file on your desktop
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Android Device

Nexus 5 Not Booting: Possible Reasons & Solutions – Updated

UPDATE: There are multiple confirmations that the issue can be caused by using the wrong charger to charge the device. Nexus 5 comes with a different specification of the charger(particularly the cable for charging) and using alternate chargers might lead to the device not charging properly causing the issues.

Note: The solutions explained below can damage or brick your phone. Please exercise caution when implementing them. The author has tried most of these solutions but under expert supervision. If you are not sure about the solution please contact your Google Support

There seems to be a common problem in some Nexus 5 phones wherein the phone switches off and just refuses to start up. This happened to a colleague of mine too and here are my observations and possible solutions to the problem:

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Hardware Solutions Ubuntu

Ubuntu Check Disk for BadBlocks & Errors

Steps to use Ubuntu Check Disk to detect Bad Blocks and Errors.
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Toshiba HDD2189 2.5″ hard disk drive platters, head and actuator arm. near 1:1 macro. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

If your system regularly does ubuntu check disk or scan disks on boot up and if it often finds errors during the check, its highly possible that you have bad sectors on your hard disk.  In such cases its highly recommended to do a disk check to detect if you have bad sectors on the disk.

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Web

Use Packrati to Automatically Bookmark your Twitter Shared Links

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Packrati.us provides a simple service that bookmarks every single link you post in your Twitter feed. Additionally it even bookmarks links in tweets you mark as your favorite. It also uses any hashtags you include as tags for your bookmark and includes the full text of the tweet in the bookmark comments.

Packrati is a wonderful lifesaver when you are in search of that link you tweeted ages ago but cant seem to find anywhere.

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Linux Media Open Source

Managing Collections with Tellico

Tellico
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Tellico is a versatile collection manager for Linux. The KDE based application is designed to handle almost any type of perceivable collection and convert it to a easily manageable solution. If you have a huge collection of movies, music, books, comics ect and regularly lend them out, Tellico is the perfect program to keep track of your collections.

Tellico has pre-designed support for collections of: Books, Comics, Movies, Music, Coins, Stamps, Board Games, Wines. Cards and Games. The databases are designed to make data entry and search both relevant and easy.

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