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If you thought that through emoticons Facebook is capable of expressing merely smiles and sadness -then think again! Below is the complete list of emoticons (aka smileys) that are supported by Facebook platform. But before that here is an extra tip! By the way, if you want to impress your friends even more, you can post text art on Facebook. To make text bold in Facebook chat; enclose the text in * For example, if you type the following in your Facebook Chat: Tips about Facebook Chat from TechWelkin The output would be: Tips about Facebook Chat from TechWelkin Likewise, if you enclose text in underscores (i....

Use Your Computer to Upload Photos Automatically If you are using one of the earlier models of digital camera, probably it does not have a built-in Wi-Fi or cellular data connection. In the absence of both, you cannot upload photos from your camera without the required hardware. However, if you have the required tools installed on your PC, you can connect your digital camera to your computer and it immediately start uploading photos....

If you want to keep using your external screen with the laptop’s lid closed, you will need to change a few settings. In this article, we will discuss two things: When we connect to an external display, we normally use the external display as an extension to the laptop screen. If it is not required and we only use an external display, it would be better to close the laptop lid to save power and extend the laptop battery....

That said, Windows 10 stills come with 2 separate apps for videos and audio and do not support the new Media Player like Windows 11. Since the new Media Player is now available for everyone, you can download it for your Windows 11 PC from the given link below, in case you had uninstalled it: https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/windows-media-player/9WZNCRFJ3PT?h1=en-us&gl=us Unfortunately, the method we are about to discuss does not apply to any version of Windows 10, since the app is designed for only the Windows 11 operating system....

If you want to open something that you do not want to add to your browser history, you can use the in-private mode, also known as the “Incognito mode.” However, if multiple users use your computer and you want to keep track of the history of what users are opening in the browser, you should disable in-private browsing in all installed browsers. Disabling the in-private option from the browser will remove the option from its menu, and it will no longer open using the keyboard shortcuts either....

The purpose of this mode is to provide a worry-free internet environment for the kids so that their parents continuously do not have to monitor their child’s activity while on the computer. The convenient part is that not much configuration is required while starting or stopping kids mode in Edge. Let us continue to see the benefits of this mode, what it includes and how you can enable it....

It would be absurd to pay for a new edition of Windows to have this feature. Therefore, we have come up with a way by which you can install the Local Security Policy manager on your system running Windows 10 Home edition. What is SecPol.msc The Local Security Policy Manager is used to manage and administer different security parameters of the host computer. This includes policies like managing a user’s account password....

If you want to force a program to use a specific GPU, you can change Windows settings appropriately. This article will show you two ways you can force a program to use a specific GPU in Windows 10. What is a GPU? A modern Graphical Processing Unit or GPU is similar to CPU but makes use of parallel processing and is able to handle many processes and threads at the same time....

Microsoft PowerPoint is a very powerful tool to create brilliant presentations. It provides horde of features to the presenter for creating and delivering just the right kind of impression on audience. Here is how you can insert and embed a video or a movie file in any of your PowerPoint slide: Go to Insert menu. On the right hand side of the ribbon of insert option, you’ll see options to insert Movie and Sound Click on movie button and select “Movie from File”...

As I research a lot on Internet, I often find a big number of tabs opened in my Chrome browser. Upon noticing the clutter, I would decide to close the unwanted tabs and start clicking the cross button —but with that quick succession of clicks, I sometimes manage to close even a tab that I actually needed! Uff! And then I would rummage through the browsing history to find the URL I so desperately needed....

Here we shall show you how you can configure your system’s IP address directly through the command line interface on your Windows 10 platform. It is very less time consuming and can be done in a few steps. The IP address is a unique identifier of your machine that lets every other component on the network know where the packets need to be routed to. Since it is unique, it cannot conflict with another IP address on the same network....

That said, some users have reported that moving files and folders between the host and the remote machine is sometimes impossible. If you are experiencing a similar problem, then this article is for you. This post discusses how to mount your local computer’s drive(s) to the remote computer, making it much more convenient to move data between the two machines. If you are having trouble copying/pasting files and data using Remote Desktop Connection, try these fixes....

Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)-certified devices are a technology that allows you to share content between your devices. Most modern streaming devices, such as your Chromecast, Roku TV, etc. support the DLNA technology. If you have the hardware that supports this technology, then you can download media onto your Windows PC and use it as a streaming server. In this article, we show you how to set up your Windows 11 PC as a DLNA media server and then connect to it over the network to stream your favorite media....

Printing on Both Sides Without Duplex Printer (e.g. Canon LBP 2900B) Canon LBP 2900B printer is not a duplex printer so it can not flip the paper on it’s own. In case you have printer that is not capable of automatically flipping the paper, in most of the printer models you’re given the option of printing on both the sides; but you’ll have to do manual flipping. The best way to print on both the sides is to first print the odd numbered pages of your document....

While this method has worked well for a while, it has left the Google gods in a quandary. All too often, the keyword and backlink method of search engine optimization was compromised by what’s known in the business as Black Hat Techniques. Essentially, unscrupulous webmasters tweaked the system to their advantage. In recent years Google has done a great deal to prevent those shady SEO methods, and Web searches today produce results of a much higher quality than they did previously....

Screen orientation is the act of making the screen up-right in relation to the north pole. Changing screen orientation can be useful in cases where you want your monitor to be placed vertically or you want your laptop to act as a tablet. There are other useful purposes of rotating the screen but sometimes Windows 10 can act crazy and mistakenly change the screen orientation. In this article, we will talk about how to rotate screen in Windows 10 with keyboard shortcuts, using Windows 10 settings and graphics card settings....

Design of Facebook is such that by default it allows anyone to send you a friendship proposal. People feel hopeful without realizing that some people could be facing a barrage of such unwelcome approach. Let’s see how you can change the default behavior of Facebook and stop unsolicited friend requests. At the onset, let me tell you that on Facebook it is not possible to disallow everyone from sending you friend request....

Microsoft Performance HUD is different from the Performance Monitor in the sense that it will only monitor one specific process in real-time. It will detect and report information like module load/unload history, thread create/destroy history, Registry activity, file I/O activity, soft and hard application hangs etc. in real-time. According to Microsoft: It’s like a semi-portable app which installs but does not have any customization options. Just run the HUD executable after installation, attach it to a process and start monitoring the application activity....

Let us dig in on what other benefits can be expected from the update. What’s new in Windows 10 Preview Build 20257 Your Phone now supports multi-app experience on Windows With this update, insiders can now launch Android applications directly from the Your Phone app, which is on their phone. When the phone is connected to the Your Phone application, Android applications can be launched in separate windows, allowing users to launch multiple applications simultaneously....

We suggest that you upgrade to this release using the guide given below in this post if you are already using Windows 11. If not, upgrade to Windows 11 now! Check whether your PC meets the minimum hardware requirements for it. If not, you can also install Windows 11 while bypassing system checks. Installing KB5008215 will upgrade your OS build to 22000.376. You can check your OS version and build by typing in winver in Run....