Some Cool Tech hacks that You must know

Here are some good tricks.

1.Google timer :

2.View password beyond asterisk:

Right click on the password field and select inspect as shown below:

change type=”password” to type = “text” (marked in blue in the figure below) by selecting it and hit enter.

3.Peep through live cameras by typing these in Google:

• inurl:”CgiStart?page=”
• inurl:/view.shtml* intitle:”Live View / — AXIS
• inurl:view/view.shtml
• inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=
• inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=Refresh
• inurl:axis-cgi/jpg

4. Useful keyboard shortcuts.

Open the task manager directly by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC

Open the run command by pressing WIN+R

Lock windows by pressing WIN+L

Stack current window to the left half of the screen by pressing WIN+Left arrow key

Stack current window to the right half of the screen by pressing WIN+Right arrow key

open accidentally closed tab by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+T

Instead of deleting one letter at a time delete an entire word one at a time by pressing CTRL+BACKSPACE

Use chrome as text editor:

6.If You Want To Avoid Someone On Your Phone But Do Not Want To Reveal That You Have Switched Off Your Phone, Remove The Battery, Instead Of Switching It Off. Switching Off Phone Will Notify Mobile Switching Centre And Callers Will Receive The Switched Off Notification.

7.When Visiting Any Video On Youtube Replace Youtube With Following Things Given In Video Url To See The Magic

1. Just Replace “youtube” with “listentoyoutube” in the URL and paste it in your address bar to download the audio of the video.
   Just Replace “youtube” with “ssyoutube” in the URL and paste it in your address bar to download the video in any quality available.
2. Just Replace “youtube” with “nsfwyoutube” and paste it in your address bar to bypass age restriction.
3. Just Replace “youtube” with “youtubeskip” in the URL and paste it in your address bar and you won’t see ads.
4. Just Replace “youtube” with “listenonrepeat” in the URL and paste it in your address bar to repeat the video automatically .
5. Just Replace “youtube” with “gifyoutube” in the URL and paste it in your address bar to convert video into gif format .

8. Press SHIFT+ESC to open Google chrome’s inbuilt taskmanager.

9. To close a Tab press middle mouse button.

10. Youtube Hotkeys

• Press F to view the video in Fullscreen mode
• To pause a video: Press K.
• To skip 10 seconds back and forward: Press J and L respectively.
• Press M to toggle Mute.
• “Shift + > key” will increase the playback speed. “Shift + <” will decrease it.
• Toggle captions using C.
• Number Keys to jump to the respective percentage of the video.
• Press B for changing the background of the Subtitles.

11. Bored!Type these in Google and click on I’m feeling lucky

• Atari Breakout
• Do a barrel roll
• Tilt
• Google in 1998
• Google gravity
• Zerg rush
• Pacman
• blink html
• Google underwater

12.Visit Https://www.Google.Com/Sky/ To Explore Space

13.Getting redirected to country specific Google search page. TryHttp://Google.Com/Ncr in order to avoid this

14.Drag any audio or video files in chrome window and chrome will start playing it.

what I’ve noticed is that chrome plays video files much smoothly than some of the top video players out there in the market.

15.Get direct links to download your favourite movies from google search by typing

+”index of””Your Movie Name” Release date

For example in the pic below I’m searching the movie Revenant .

(Note:Since revenant is released in the end of 2015 hence to get better results I’ve searched release date as 2016)

16.Search direct links of your favourite mp3 songs.

intitle:index.of?mp3 Your song name here

For example I’m searching the song Sky full of stars

17. Use incognito mode on browsers to visit Airline websites. As airline website will use your own cookies against you by raising the price the more times you check and you knowingly unknowingly will fall into their trap.

18. Windows gives very few number of primitive options when we select the send to option as shown in the pic below:

To get more options Hold shift and then Right click.You will be able to send your files to all the folders inside the User’s file folder(in my case it is Schnieder (Top Leftmost icon on the desktop)) as shown below

(NOTE:Use SHIFT + RIGHT CLICK A FOLDER AND SELECT OPEN COMMAND HERE TO OPEN THE COMMAND PROMPT HAVING THE SAME LOCATION AS THAT OF THE FOLDER)

19.Lost Your Android Phone? You Can Ring Your Phone Even If It Is In Silent Mode, Erase Data, Or Lock Your Smartphone Remotely UsingAndroid Device Manager

20.While Travelling Open Http://En.Wikipedia.Org/Wiki/Special:Nearby In Your Phone To Read Articles Based On Your Location

21.Get direct links to pdf files on google. Just type

FILETYPE:pdf your pdf file name

for example I’m searching pdf files of OS by galvin(shown in the pic below)

(Note: To get direct links of ppt or other file extension just replace the pdf with other file extension).

22.Save your presentation files as pps instead of ppt. Saving your files as pps will open the slide show directly and your presentation will look more professional.