Monday, September 20, 2021

How to read webpages from other languages using Google

 

Google is everywhere!

Now if you need to read a webpage but it is not displayed in a language you can read, then you can always try to use the Google Webpage translator. Just a couple copies/pastes and you are done.

http://itools.com/tool/google-translate-web-page-translator


Google's free online language translation service quickly translates web pages to other languages.

Use this web site translator to convert web pages into your choice of language: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Serbian, Sesotho, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, and Zulu



Google Drive - Issues downloading your files?

 

  • Go to your top right from Google browser > click the "3 dots" > then "Settings"
  • Scroll down to the Privacy and Security section > then click "Cookies and other site data"

  • Scroll down to Sites that can always use cookies section > then click "Add"
  • Type: drive.google.com and also check the third-party option
  • Sometimes you need to close and open the browser to start working.

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Is your computer falling to sleep mode and never come back? Fix it!


 PROBLEM

When I stop working on my pc, it goes to sleep mode which is okay. Sometimes when I try to continue my work it doesn't wake up and I have to power cycle (turn off/on) the computer.

1. MOUSE OR KEYBOARD ISSUE

Since we use them to wake our computer from sleep mode, this is where we should begin. Check if the mouse and keyboard are working correctly. Connect them to a different PC to be sure. You can fix them if something is wrong.

2. TURN OFF FAST STARTUP

Windows 10 comes with a Fast Startup feature. There are a few pros and cons of using this and one of them is Windows 10 PC not waking up from sleep mode.

  • Go to your Control Panel > Search for the icon "Power Options" 
  • Click on 'Choose what the power button do' option on the left pane



  • Ensure the option "  " is unchecked
  • Save the changes