Preview Google slide without any fuss

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If you are looking for simple presentation without the bottom bar while you presenting with Google Slide Then use the below preview short code in URL which shows only a presentation view without an editor. You can full screen F11 the browser to make it present just like a normal presentation. preview?rm=minimal https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/ASdfeokag3DbrBK5YM1BHGJ3ovo9t_4nthEW6WMuISoo/edit#slide=id.g9f190313b0_0_6 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/ASdfeokag3DbrBK5YM1BHGJ3ovo9t_4nthEW6WMuISoo/preview?rm=minimal&slide=id.g9f190313b0_0_6
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Native Windows Tools which makes my life easier

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Multi desktop (Ctrl + Win-key + Left or Right arrows) The icon next to Search in taskbar. Task View button on Windows Taskbar Usually I keep 2 desktops in my work PC where one is for my personal works, after all most of the cloud services keeps us busy personally in office ? Two desktops - My preference is to keep one for work and other for personal The shortcuts I use for easy switching the desktops are Cntl + Win-key + Left or Right arrows to switch to the desktop on left or rightTrackpad gesture 3 fingers swipe left or right. (I guess I configured it a while ago in windows settings.) Clipboard History (Win-key + V) Historical Paste This helps me a lot. Once you copy the text…
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Contribution to Wikipedia – Be concise, precise, and long-lasting

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I never knew Wikipedia was so much socially contributed encyclopedia. I was looking for key missing info in the wiki for CAN-FD Transfer Protocol (TP) header ?. Though it's very technical which no-one usually turns to Wiki for the help, yet I found another very technical article about CAN bus Transfer Protocol (TP) which is as technical as ISO standard itself. To my surprise, Wiki had such unexpected technical information for one but not the other. Later when I found the information for CANFD TP ?, I thought it's a good idea to ask the responsible person to add it to the Wiki page. Amazingly then I came to know the real workflow of the wiki as, Wikipedia is socially contributed and there is no one single ownership of any…
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Car Driving License process Ireland

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Obtaining a driving license in Ireland looks too cumbersome for beginners. And it's an especially lengthy process if you're from India. Good thing is that if you already have driving experience in India for more than 2 years, then you can reduce your license obtaining cost by about 200 euros with EDT Shortening. For all newcomers, I tried to grasp the steps below to achieve a driving license. Ireland Car Driving Lesson process steps Legends: ? Input to the step? Output from the step⌚ Time for the step? € Price for the step Step 1: Theory Test Practice Use theory-tester.com. No need for additional materials to practice.Complete all 900 questions on this website and pass at least 10 tests consistently.⌚ 10-20days? €Free? Your knowledge Step 2: Theory test booking ?…
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Snippet: How to show week number in Gmail & Google Calendar

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It's easy to show up week numbers in Gmail calendar view. For this you have to use the settings in Google calendar. Google calendar on Gmail showing week numbers Follow below steps Open Google calendarClick on Settings gear icon in G-calendarScroll down to enable week number visible. Also the same reflects in the Google calendar as below. You can see week number is shown up in left pane calendar and also on the regular large calendar. Week number shown in overview calendar on left pane and also on regular calendar in large pane. Below are screenshots to help achieve this. Step 1 Open Apps --> Calendar Step 2 Open Settings under Google Calendar Step 3 Check the Show week number
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LabVIEW or TestStand File Diff using TortoiseSVN or TortoiseGit

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When you're extensively working in LabVIEW or TestStand with multiple developers, you could easily end up in the need of merging different VIs or sequences. The LVCompare tool and TestStand File Diff and Merge Utility come in handy. Here is how you set up the Tortoise settings to make the diff handier right from the context menu using TortoiseSVN or TortoiseGit. You can diff the files this way without the need to go through the file selection dialog boxes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsvqPt8MB0g&feature=youtu.be For .vi file of LabVIEW "C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Shared\LabVIEW Compare\LVCompare.exe" %base %mine For .seq file of Teststand "C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Shared\TestStand\FileDifferLauncher.exe" %base %mine References For LabVIEW diff with merge, there is a good article here from Delacor.
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