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YouTube Monetization disabled and re-enabled!

L ike many small time YouTube creators, I also got an email in January 2018 about changes to the YouTube Partner Program (YPP)  regarding changes new threshold of 4,000 hours of watchtime within the past 12 months and 1,000 subscribers. The revenue wasn't much but it was good to get some revenue from the little effort made in creating some videos. Unfortunately, my channel did not meet the subscriber threshold though watch time was alright. So, as per the new rules, monetization was set to be disabled. Read more »

How to Create Task from an Email in Gmail and Google Tasks App?

With most email clients you can easily create tasks from an email or at least mark a reminder against an email to follow up later.  Google also has a separate product called "Google Tasks" to manage tasks. Gmail has also introduced "Add to Tasks" feature in Gmail so that we can easily create task from an email in Gmail. Of course, we can also create our own tasks from the Google Tasks also. Let's see more in detail. Read more »

Solution for: Error: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress

On some clients' website built using WordPress, there was this error: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress If you also have a WordPress website where you are seeing the error "Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress" when attempting to login, please find the solution below. Read more »

How to display Next Item and Previous Items in OSCLASS Classified websites?

  If you are running a classified website using OSCLASS CMS with some of the default themes available, you might have noticed that there is not NEXT and PREVIOUS links when an item is viewed. So, the visitor will have to either go back to home or click on related listings, tags etc. if available to view other listings. The NEXT and PREVIOUS links are desired on the item page.  If you are running an OSCLASS website, and would like to add NEXT and PREVIOUS item links, we shall see how to add in this post. Read more »

How to sync Google Contacts and Calendar with Outlook?

If you are using Gmail with Outlook, it is easy to setup Outlook to use Gmail. However, you might have noticed that Google Contacts and Calendar does not get automatically synced with Outlook. You may add contacts in Outlook but those will not get synced with Google Contacts and vice versa. If you just want to add the Google Contacts with Outlook, exporting the Google Contacts and importing the contacts to Outlook would work. But then it will still not sync with each other. In this post we shall see how to sync Google Contacts and Calendar with Outlook. Read more »

How to reset Drupal 8 administrator password using phpMyAdmin?

This post describes in brief the steps to reset the Drupal 8  administrator password in case you forget them. Writing down passwords are a big no no, and no matter how hard we try to remember passwords, sometimes, we may miss it, especially if you have various different password for different systems. And forgetting passwords also usually happens on development systems when you set some dummy or random passwords, phuff!, you no longer remember them. In this post, we shall see how to reset Drupal admin user password easily from phpMyAdmin.  Read more »

Unable to Copy or Transfer Files Using ES FILE EXPLORER ? - See this Demo on Mi Redmi 5 Phone on the latest MIUI 9.6 Stable version.

File Copy Transfers Using ES FILE EXPLORER - Demo on Mi Redmi 5 Phone on the latest MIUI 9.6 Stable version. Read more »

Mail app is missing on Redmi 5 phone

Almost every Android phone has stock email app preinstalled. Same is the case with Mi phones I had previously used- Redmi 2 Prime, Redmi Note 3 and Redmi Note 4. The default Mi Mail App is pretty decent and I had used it extensively both for work and personal emails. But in the recent Mi Redmi 5 phone purchase, I was surprised not to find the stock Mi Mail app preinstalled. As per Mi forums, the Mail app is also missing on other Mi phones as well. In this post, we shall see how to get the Mi Mail App if you want and also see other alternatives. Read more »