Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from August, 2015

How to Find the Wi-Fi Password of your Current Network

Y our computer is connected to a Wi-Fi network but you do not remember the password that you had earlier used to connect to this particular WiFi network. Maybe you forgot the password or maybe the network administrator entered it directly without revealing the actual password to you. You would now like to connect a second device, like your mobile phone, to the same WiFi network but how do you find out the password? You can either send a password request the WiFi admin or you can open the command prompt on your computer and retrieve the saved password in one easy step. The technique works on both Mac and Windows PCs. Find the WiFi Password on Windows Open the command prompt in administrator mode. Type “cmd” in the Run box, right-click the command prompt icon and choose  Run as Administrator  . Now enter the following command and hit enter to see the WiFi password. netsh wlan show profile name=lucifer key=clear Remember to replace  Lucifer  with the name of ...

Can I Upgrade my Computer to Windows 10 for Free?

W indows 10, the latest version of Windows, will be released on 29 th  July. The new Windows OS has received rave reviews from people who are currently testing it as part of the Windows Insider program but there has been some confusion around the upgrade path. Will you be eligible to download a free upgrade of Windows 10 or will you have to pay for the license? Who Can Download Windows 10 for Free? This quick flowchart breaks it down in simple English. If you have a computer that is running a genuine copy of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, you will get a free upgrade license of Windows 10. If you are running a pirated copy of Windows, or if you have Windows Vista or XP installed on the machine, you’ll buy a new license for Windows 10 and perform a clean install. The Windows 10 Home license will be $119.99 while the Windows 10 Pro version would cost $199.99. If you would like to try Windows 10 but without affecting your existing Windows installation, you can join ...

Building a List/Grid View Switcher in Blogger with Auto Read More

A list of posts in grid or list view provides a more defined canvas with which a blogger or website owner can use as a guide in creating content. This concept has extended to visitors, where they can have control on whether or not they wish to view posts in list or grid view. While custom modification codes are shared by some blogging sites, others are not. Some that are shared, however, can be complex even to bloggers themselves, such as JQuery.  The good news is there are lightweight codes available, including the Auto Read More in Blogger. Through it, a blogger can add two buttons that will enable visitors to switch between grid view and list view, depending on what they prefer. These buttons, however, are only visible on limited pages ­ homepage, label page and archive page. Nonetheless, it is better than not having this particular feature at all.  Unlike JQuery, the Auto Read More uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript. To view posts in a list view, two sets of CSS codes...

Popular Post Widget for Christmas

The Christmas countdown has begun and while homes are decorated with colourful lights and the sweet smell of pine trees and the stores are playing Jingle Bells, there's no reason why we wouldn't decorate your Blogger blog with some ringing christmas bells right next to the Blogger Popular Post widget! So today I was playing around a bit with CSS and I was thinking that tit would be nice to add some fresh styles to the Popular Posts widget so that it would look just ready for the forthcoming Christmas holiday. How to Add the Popular Posts Widget with Ringing Christmas Bells to Blogger Step 1. Log in to your Blogger Dashboard, go to Template and click the Edit HTML button Step 2. Click anywhere inside the code area and press the Ctrl + F keys,then press the search tag:               </head> Step 3. Just above the </head> tag add the following:  <style> #PopularPosts1 .item-thumbnail:before{ display...