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VLC skins

It's been a while from my first blog post, so today I thought to make a blog post about skins in VLC player. I think you all are familiar with VLC player if not, here's the link for the website www.videolan.org/vlc/index.htm l In brief, VLC player is a free and opensource player that can play almost all the types of media formats. Even though it is a such a nice player, it looks kind of old and rusty, like the windows classic look. But you can make it prettier by just adding some new skins to it.  You can download skins for the player from here http://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins.php Then place the downloaded skin file (.vlt file) in the " skin " folder in the installation directory.           eg:- in windows:    C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\skins           or in linux systems:  ~/.local/share/vlc/skins Then, open the VLC player and go to the preferences. ...

Searching with Google

This first blog post is going to be about how to search things on Google. No I'm not kidding, I know it sounds like something doesn't worth to write a post, but I thought to write this because I've seen many of my friends type things in Google and struggling to get the results as expected. I hope this will help them to get their Google search results correctly and quickly. Be simple First thing is use simple and web-friendly search queries. As example, say you want find about the benefits of drinking tea. For that you might search like   "what are the benefits of drinking tea?" . But if you search like  "benefits tea" instead, it gives the same sort of results. But it is easier and most of the times it gives more relevant results than typing a complex query. file type If you want to find things in a specific file type, you can specify it like this.   benefits tea filetype:pdf Here it gives results with .pdf files Si...

Hello World!

Hello people! Thank you for visiting my new blog. Finally after all these years here I started blogging. So, I will try to fill this up with some useful posts for my friends :) And this is going to be kinda techy blog with tricks and tips, new things, how to do things etc. And of course related to computer stuff . I have to say that I'm really lazy at reading lengthy texts, so if you don't like to read lengthy posts like me, I'll try my best to write less texts and explain things with pictures and videos more :) And you guys have all the rights to comment your ideas and correct me if I'm wrong, I'll be glad :) thank you!