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How to create every New Folder with name as current date-time in windows ? Every time we create a folder in windows, it's default name is New Folder. But there is a simple trick by which you can generate every new folder, with a customized name of your choice. Let's say you want to create every new folder with name as date-time of creation. So here is what you need to do. Just open notepad or notepad++ Copy and past below line: MD %date:~10%-%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%_%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2% and save this file with any name, but make sure to save with .bat extension. For example: ploymate.bat Now, whenever you double click on this bat file it will create a folder with name as your current date-time at the location of this file. Easy !! Now, you can further customize the folder name. Say, if you don't want the time but you want to add some prefix. You can put something like following: MD PloyMate_%date:~10%-%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2% Putting above line in .bat file will create fo...

How to Chat with someone on WhatsApp without saving the contact number? WhatsApp is one of the most widely used chat and media sharing mobile app for Android and IOS. If you scroll down to your contact list, I am sure you will see many contacts which you actually used once or twice for a very short span of time. These are contacts which we use share some information for one of two instance, like some friend of friend, a distant relative or cab driver etc. We save these because we need to send quick WhatsApp chat, but latter we forget to delete these contacts. But you know, sometimes having these unknown/unnecessary contacts in your contact list gives them some addition access, like access to your profile pic or WhatsApp status. Some social media platform also uses your contact list to customize your feeds, also they consider them as people you may know. Here is a quick trick by which you can chat with someone on WhatsApp without saving his/her number in your contact list.   St...

Create a simple Text to Speech converter with Notepad/Notepad++ Notepad and Notepad++ are most commonly used text editors. And there some really simple yet amazing things you can do with these tools. Here we will be creating a simple text to speech converter on using notepad, without adding any additional plugin or software, and its offline. This also be fun for your children and even help you in teaching them something, if you use it right. Open notepad or notepad++, whichever text editor you like to use. Copy and Paste below code in editor. Dim message, sapi message=InputBox("What do you want me to say?","Text to Speech") Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice") sapi.Speak message Now, save this text file with any name, but only with .vbs extension, for example you can save as TextToSpeech.vbs Close notepad. When you double click on file, it will open a message popup like below with a text field. Just type-in the text and hit Enter key or Click on OK butto...

How to always open your browser in incognito/private browsing mode ? Private browsing is a feature in popular web browsers. When you switch your browser to private browsing or incognito mode, your browser won't save your history, searches, cookies, and other data during browsing sessions. However do note that, it doesn't mean that your ISP will not be able to track you and even some other websites can also track you. So it's not something that can make you 100% untraceable. When you open your browser, you need manually switch to incognito (Chrome) or private browsing (IE) mode. But if you want to always open your browser in incognito/private browsing mode, here is the trick to do that. Chrome : Right click on the chrome shortcut icon on your desktop or task bar, which you use to open your chrome browser and go to Properties . Now add a space and - incognito at the end of the value available in Target box. after update, it will look something like below. Do not change chrome...

Best way to remove PDF password offline without any paid tools? You got a PDF which needs a password to open. you know the password now, but what if you open that PDF after 6 months or 1 year. You may not remember the password then or you will need to store password in some file and then remember where you stored the password. 😝 So you want to remove the password now itself, and then you don't need to remember it forever. But you don't want to waste money on some paid tool which can do it offline, and uploading the PDF online doesn't seem to be good idea to you.  Here is the easiest way to remove password offline. Step 1:  Right click on the PDF file and open the file through Open with  option which appears in the context menu. Select Google Chrome  from the list. Step 2: Enter the password to open PDF for the for the last time, after this, you need not to enter the password again for this PDF, if you follow the subsequent steps. Step 3:  Once you enter the pa...

YouTube shortcut keys, which can change your Video watching experience !!  If you spend hours on YouTube videos, here are few handy keys to make your life easy. So, you already know hitting Space bar on keyboard pauses the video on YouTube. But sometime it causes scroll down the page, and in this case you need click on the video to pause it.  Similarly going forward or backward could also be problematic.  So instead you should use following: Pressing  J,  key will take you backward 10 seconds 👈 👈 If you feel 10 seconds is too much use Left Arrow to go  backward 5 seconds 👈 Press K , this will play/pause the video currently playing ✋ Pressing L,  key will take you forward 10 seconds 👉 If you feel 10 seconds is too much use Right Arrow to go  forward 5 seconds 👈 Go Full Screen by pressing F Increase/ Decrease volume by 5% using Up/ Down arrow 🕨🕩🕪 Mute or Unmute videos by pressing M 🔇 🔊 Move to the previous video in a playlist   ...