Hard Resetting Your Nokia Lumia 520, 720, 822, e.t.c.,

It is a well known fact that most of the usual problems can be healed by a soft reset of your phone. But some rare problems are only cured by a more intense - hard -  reset. Hard reset erases all your data, and returns like a freshly bought phone! These instructions are based on Lumia 720, but it is tested on 520 and 822 too and it might also work on other Lumia devices!

WARNING : BACKUP IMPORTANT DATA BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO LOSE THEM IN THIS PROCESS

There are two methods for this process : ONE requires access to your settings and TWO does not. This is because that in some cases you cannot even access your mobile phone UI. But both basically does the same thing.

METHOD ONE         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~        IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THE SYSTEM SETTINGS

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Follow the instructions on scren and that's it! The device will reboot and the phone will be reset!

WARNING: THIS PROCESS MAY TAKE A FEW MINUTES (EVEN AS LONG AS 10)

METHOD TWO     ~~~~~       IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THE SYSTEM SETTINGS

1. Power off your phone by holding Power button and volume down for at least 10 seconds.
2. Now just hold the power button until you feel ONE vibration, and then hold the volume down. Now you will see a screen with an exclamation mark on it (!)
3. Next, you will have to click each of these buttons, in the exact same order:
   1. VOLUME UP
   2. VOLUME DOWN
   3. POWER BUTTON
   4. VOLUME DOWN
   
   
   
   Now the reset process will begin. DO NOT click any other buttons during the process. After a few minutes, (as mentioned, as long as 10), you will have a completely reset Lumia Device on your hand! 

How to change the Favicon for your Blogger blog - step-by-step tutorial

                   A Favicon is a small image which is associated with your blog. It is used in many places. For example, most browser, you will see a small icon besides the title of the page. In my case, it shows two letters 'SC'* . By default, Favicon of a Blogger blog is a letter 'B' written in an orange background*.

In this tutorial I'm gonna show you how to set a favicon for your Blogger blog.

STEP 1 :  Get your Favicon ready.

You may do this by creating an image with your photoshop or any other means but the dimensions of image should be 16X16 px and the format should be .ico. Or much more easier is to create your Favicon with a free online tool in here. I always prefer the latter method. It is a very simple process to get your image/animation using this tool. Draw as you like and after you finish just click 'Download Favicon' and you will now have your .ico file.

STEP 2 : Go to the layout settings of your blog from blogger. On the upper right corner you will see 'Favicon' setting. Click on edit and a new window will pop up.

STEP 3 : Go ahead and click on 'choose file' and upload your .ico file.

STEP 4 : Now click 'Save' and the window will automatically close.

STEP 5 : You will see your favicon in place of the default one on the layout page when the window closes. This means everything is good and you have your very own favicon for your blog now. One last step. Click save arrangement on the upper right corner of your layout page, and 'View Blog' on the upper left. 

That's it! You are now good to go with your blog's new favicon!!
Spare a moment to say thanks and motivate me. :)


//Spectracoder

How to resume cancelled Chrome downloads using .crdownload file

The one and only thing I dont like about Chrome is its download system. It can be extremely frustrating sometimes, if you are downloading huge (>500 MB) files. It automatically stops sometimes. The common misconception is that, if this error happens, we have to download the file from the beginning. Easy enough, if you have not reached that far in your download. But what if it happens when you are on 90% or above? Here is an easy trick to resume a cancelled download of Chrome, using leftovers of the dead download…

Step 1 : Go to your download location and locate your file. It will have an extension “.crdownload” (eg : if you are downloading a file named “name.extension”, what you have to locate is “name.extension.crdownload”). Now rename your file by removing the “.crdownload” extension. (eg: rename “name.extension.crdownload” to  ”name.extension”)
Step 2 : Download “wget” from here and copy the .exe file into the same directory as that of your unfinished download.
Step 3 : Open command prompt inside your download folder. To do this easily in Windows 7/8, just hold Shift Key and press left mouse button, and select “Open command prompt here”.
Step 4 : Now a new black window will appear. Type in the command ” wget -c <URL> “

>> You will need to type the place you are downloading the file from in the place of <URL>. You can obtain this from Chrome Downloads page, or the website you are downloading the file from. (eg: http:// webpage.com/ file.extension)
Step 5 : Now your download will RESUME!! After completion, you just need to go to your download folder, and find your file,, completely downloaded! Neat huh?

Kindly take a moment to say Thanks. That will be really appreciated. And it will be a motivation for me. Subscribe for more tricks n’ tips..
~ RaMaN, Spectracoder   B-)

What is Data and What is Information?

Data and Information... These two are the two of the most used words by Computer Scientists and Geeks. What's the deal with them? Let's see:

Data

Data are plain/raw facts or figures. They are unorganized and meaningless fragments of input given or taken from  a source. An appropriate example is group of names of members in a particular group. When Data is put together in a meaningful fashion, it gives Information.

Information

Information is a group of data, which is arranged in such a way that it conveys a message to the reader.
Lets take the example of the group of names we discussed above. When we arrange this names in a particular order, for instance, when they arranged in alphabetical order, then we can call this Information!


Computer Science deals with the manipulation of data and information. 
Data  is manipulated to give out information, and information is manipulated to give out different results. This conversion/manipulation is called Data Processing. Cool right? Here is a flowchart showing the process of converting data into results. Here, we are taking the example of converting your marks in several subjects to your progress reports, or other results:

Another term related to this and often used by Computer Scientists is Knowledge. Use of information in appropriate situations, is called Knowledge.

That's it for today guys..

Happy Coding! :)

Introduction to my blog...

Through this blog, I am planning to give away the most valuable, or should I say UNvaluable, thing... Information!
I am going to give tutorials on programming languages like C++ and Java, and web development languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP etc; Be sure to subscribe to RSS feed, comment, and share the blog with your friends... :)

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