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Create GMail Group to Send E-Mail to Multiple Recipients

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You need to create GMail Group to send e-mails to multiple recipients within a very short time. Ever wonder for sending e-mails, if you could just type in one address and you would get five, ten or even more email addresses typed in seconds?? Many of you must already know this. But somehow if you don’t, no worries, I am here to talk about gmail group today. E-mail or electronic mail is an essential part of our daily needs now more than ever. Everything is happening online right now and you need e-mail everywhere.

What is GMail Group

By the name, you can imaging that gmail group is a group of emails. Not necessarily it has to be all gmail addresses. If you use a gmail (which probably you do) and want to send mail to many recipients, you can have a separate group for all the receivers you want to send the mail to. You can have gmail groups for your teachers, friends, neighbors or customers. Creating a gmail group can save a lot of your valuable time.

Why do you need Gmail Group

So, think of a scenario where you need to send a bunch of emails to a lots of recipients at the same time. Such as, sending new years wish or Christmas or thanksgiving wishes to your friends and families or even your colleagues or the customers of your business. Whenever there are lots of recipients you basically have two ways to insert the name of the recipients. Number 1: is to type the addresses manually or copy from your spreadsheet or Number 2: type in one name and all the names appear. 10 out of 10 people will surely pick option 2, right?

How to do it

Creating a GMail group is very easy. You need to access to google contacts first. For this reason, you need to go to Google Contacts or search google with it. Remember, you must be logged in before proceeding. So it will take you to a page like this:

Gmail Group Creation — Login to Google Contacts

Typically in this page, if you have your gmail address synced with your Android phone, you will see your contacts here. If you save any mail address on your gmail, it will show them here too. However, I am using a fresh email so nothing appears. If yours do, nothing to worry.

If you don’t see your desired email address click on frequently contacted addresses or just start adding them one by one. For this demonstration, I am adding five non-existent email addresses and showing real people’s email might not be appropriate.

Adding Contacts to Google Group — Creating Contacts for Google Group

Creating Labels

Labels will actually create the what I am referring to as group. You need to select multiple email addresses for your group and click on labels on top. Give it a name and you will see it’s labeled as what name you have given it to. I have labeled as ”ALL MEMBERS”. It is not necessary to put all caps but I prefer to do so. Now go back to your gmail and start typing all members and select to see the magic

You just select your label and you will all your addresses at once. That’s how to create groups in gmail. I hope the procedure was easy. If you didn’t know about it before, hopefully you do now. So, that was today’s post. You can see the video on iSudip YouTube channel for full demonstration and I will see you guys next time, peace.

Android 10 Update on Asus Zenfone Stock Android Phone

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Android 10 update has been released on September 3^rd of 2019 and started rolling out on some of the devices. Like always, not all the current devices has the acceptability of getting the update. Most of the high-end newer phones are coming with android 10. Some stock android phones are also getting the update provided officially by the manufacturer.

Stock Android

Firstly, let’s talk a little about stock android phones. A general android phone and a stock android phone has very little distinction between themselves. I hope you already know that Android Operating System is free for all manufacturers. So, the mobile companies tweak a bit of the operating system and gives their best possible output to the customers. As a result, we have Android with Oxygen OS in OnePlus, Android with MIUI in xiaomi, Android with OneUI in Samsung, Android with HiOS in Tecno and the list just goes on. But the concept of the Stock Android is to give the same android experience within all the devices from different manufacturers. But in reality, there is some tweaking also.

Android 10 Update on ASUS Zenfone MaxPro M2

So, for today’s demonstration of the android 10 update, I will be using my Asus Zenfone MaxPro M2 device. It is one the rare devices to have Android 8, 9 and 10. As of now, the official beta release of android 10 update has been announced on their website which you can check out below:

Asus Beta Version Update download link

Android 10 Update on ASUS — Android 10 update

You obviously need to download the 1.61GB file to your mobile. You can either download it with your phone or you can download from PC/Laptop and transfer it to the root directory of the phone. Root directory is the phone memory. If you download the file with mobile, you need to move the file to the root directory and if you download with pc, just paste the file after opening the internal storage, can’t get any easier than that.

Precaution before android 10 update

As stated in the website, the android 10 update may lead to lose all the data on your phone. So, for this reason, you should back up all your data before proceeding. Backing up contacts, calendar and everything related to google should be easy but if you want to back up files or text messages, you might have copy it to somewhere else. But there is a way where you can upgrade without losing any of your data. You need to cancel the locking security. By locking security, I mean the pin code lock and the fingerprint/face lock removal. If you don’t want to lose any data, remove them before proceeding. However, if you want to get yourself a brand-new experience and want to delete your data, just proceed.

Update

Right after you copy the file to your root directory, you will be shown a message to update your phone and reboot. But for some reason, if you don’t get that message restart your phone and you will see it. Pull down the notification bar and click update, the phone will restart and the whole updating procedure will take like 2-5 mins. It’s easy and no hassle.

So, What’s new

Nothing significant is new in this update. But some new things that I found was:

Change of the icons in settings
Introduction of dark mode
Navigation gestures (finally)
Some new options in camera
Improved battery backup

In my opinion, the android 10 itself didn’t bring much to the table so you can’t blame asus for this. But most importantly, you got new version of android. Whatever I wrote in this post, should be much more helpful for you if you just check out the video on top of this page, just go ahead and hopefully the procedure will be very easy for you. See you soon.

NTRCA Written of ICT (Code 431)

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Hello and welcome to a brand new series of ntrca written examination. In this series, I will talk (write actually) and share some videos of ntrca written examination preparation. The target subject is Computer Science [Code: 431].

What is NTRCA

First of all let’s talk a little bit about ntrca and it’s exams. NTRCA stands for Non Government Teachers Registration and Certification Authority. So, all non government teachers join a school or college through this authority. If teaching is your profession, then passing the exam is a must for you. Passing the exam was easy at a time but now a days, it’s really very difficult. The ntrca itself was criticized for it’s work in the past. Though, I am not going to talk about at all.

Computer Science 431

My focus in this Series is just about the ntrca written exam of the subject of Computer Science . The whole course is in Bengali language so all the future posts about this topic will be in the bengali version of the website which is located at http://isudip.com/bn , keep your eyes on that site from now on. And for the videos, keep your eyes on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7bOQDtfkoF9Cy8s6Kq4ew?view_as=subscriber

The Syllabus

Let's take a look at the syllabus first. By the way, you can get the syllabus through the official website at www.ntrca.gov.bd . Here's a screenshot of it:

As you can see, the syllabus is pretty big, or should I say, massive! This is basically what you have studied all your honors life for the past four years. But this course will surely give you a heads up in refreshing up what you have studied. As already stated above, the course language is Bengali so all the contents will be bangla from now on in the bangla verstion of this very website. If you need in depth analysis, obviously follow the YouTube channel. Hope you will like the contents there.

Have a nice day.

Windows 10 Memory Problem [Solved]

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Windows 10 Memory Problem

If you are a windows 10 user then this is a problem then windows 10 memory problem is a problem that you have probably faced. By memory problem, I mean the storage size of C drive in a windows 10 operating system. The problem occurs when you update your windows (mostly on major and big size updates). It can also happen when you do not clear your junk files or cached files for a long time.

How to detect the problem

The thing is, you won’t have to manually detect the windows 10 memory problem, the problem will find you. Yes, you will see your C drive space will gradually decrease but the fact is you haven’t done anything that can cause in decreasing of free memory. It happened to me several times when I haven’t installed any software on my C drive, put my working files there or even downloaded something.

Let me remind you, I always use a separate drive for downloading and game installation. Both of them needs a huge amount of space. No matter whether I update or reinstall my operating system or not, I would like my games and download folder to be the same they were before updating or reinstalling.

Solution to windows 10 memory problem

Don’t worry, the solution is really easy. There’s no need to install any additional software to get rid of this problem, thanks to windows 10. Go to the system settings for windows 10. To do this, you will need to go to System settings. You can go there in several different ways, I will show the easiest one. First, click the message icon on the bottom right of the screen and then click on “All Settings”.

You will see a bunch of windows settings, click on System for the next step:

Click on storage and you will see the list of your drives like this.

Click on the C drive, you will see where your space is being used. I see my temporary files took almost 14GB, click on it and you will see the list of temporary files.

The space is more than 14GB, it actually almost 20, so I need to clean the space up. Here all the files are temporary so these are files that I won’t actually be needed. I will just select them all and delete them. After that I will see significant change in my free space of the HDD.

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Free space on your C drive might not be important if you have a lot of space in your C drive but my recommendation will be, no matter how small or how big you C drive is, after all, it is the operating system drive, so you should keep it as free as you can. I hope you can do this by your own, if you still have any problem, I have recorded a screenshot video of the whole process in a 3.28 min of YouTube video, go ahead and watch it.

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Asphalt 9 Legends First Update

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Asphalt 9 first update

The first ever update for Asphalt 9: Legends was out on 5^th of October, 2018 which was a few days ago. The update was almost 500 MB in size so you can imagine the changes that has been brought to this update. Asphalt 9 is a perfect successor to Asphalt 8 in all sections. This game has a lot of different types of races to offer to new and existing racers. I wrote a post on Asphalt 9 legends review. You can go ahead and read that post. Today, I will be talking about the update that has been installed, what does it offer and if it is good or bad.

Daily Goals

Daily goals is the new option in Asphalt 9. From your main game section, you can see a Daily goals tab. In that tab, you will see a list of things you need to do and in exchange of that, you earn tokens and car blueprints. Right now, this daily goal system offers Lamborghini Asterion, a class B car, which is obviously a good one.

Right now, the goals to complete are as follows [5 tokens each]:

Claim card packs from the shop
Play any race
Update Cars
Play daily events
Play multiplayer races
Purchase at the legend store
Win reputation for your club
Apply import parts to a car

Completing either of the above goals gives you 5 tokens and a count to 6 for winning a blueprint for Lamborghini Asterion. This is a good way to earn some tokens daily basis and also get a good car. As you know, Lamborghini Asterion is a very good car for both career and online multiplayer mode.

Introduction to new car Lotus Elise Sprint 220

In this upgrade, you get to have a new car Lotus Elise Sprint 220, a D class car. If you have played Asphalt 8 before, then you know that the starting of Asphalt 8 was also like starting with as many as 50 cars at the start. But they kept adding new cars every now and then. Asphalt 8 added more than 200 cars at the end of their four and a half years. I think, Asphalt 9 is also going the same direction. From personal point of view, Asphalt 9 is better than Asphalt 8 in every direction, you can have other thoughts.

New season

Along with new car you also get new season. The season is only available to see if you have unlocked the car first.

New multiplayer seasons:

There have been minor changes to multiplayer system. Before the update, you could play with any car from your garage but after this update, you have some fixed choice of cars for each season and also for each league. By league, I mean the bronze league, the gold, the platinum league and last but not least, the legend league.

Time for the season is now a variant, a season lasts for 2 weeks but the next season is ended within three days. The next one might be only 1 week and so on. Right now an open season is going on and it will end in 7 days.

Multiplayer packs:

There’s been change in multiplayer packs. Before this update, you needed 10, 20 and 30 flags within an hour of playing the first multiplayer game in asphalt 9 legends. Well, it seemed a bit hard to do, specially the third target of 30 flags within an hour. So, this time the number of flags is 5, 10 and 20 and the time is also increased. For this reason, racers can win easy packs and the pack elements are good as well. If you have the patient to score the 20 flags, you will surely get an amazing blueprint.

Club race:

I think the biggest move towards this update is the club race. Players among a club can now play races between themselves. This is an amazing move. Multiplayer is always fun but there’s no possibility that you are gonna get your teammate in a multiplayer race, even if happens, the chances are very low. So, playing a club member is fun. Though it will cost fuel, but that’s completely worth it.

Some bug fixes:

There have been some bug fixes as well that I noticed. Before this update, if you connect to a multiplayer race and decide to go back, your fuel would have been lost, but thanks to gameloft, that doesn’t happen now anymore. If you, for some reason, decide to go back after hitting play button in multiplayer, you get your fuel back. That’s great, because a fuel is really very costly for a high rated car. I don’t like the fueling system at all, but as they are still here, the decision to give the fuel back is good.

So, that was the overall overview of the first update of Asphalt 9 legends game. If you haven’t read the review, please to ahead and read that post about Asphalt 9 legends review. What are you thinking about this game? Let me know your opinion. Like and share this post on facebook and other social and like my facebook page. I will see you in the next post or tutorial.

Emmet plugin for sublime text

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If you are a web developer and you use a lot of HTML and CSS then the plugin you must have is EMMET. Emmet plugin for sublime text is a must have for developers for saving time while coding. Currently this plugin is available to download for Sublime text, Brackets text editor, Atom, Eclipse and all other popular text editors, IDEs and online.

Emmet Plugin for Sublime Text 3

You can do coding a lot faster using the emmet plugin. It saves a lot of your time and also gives you a boost in coding. Let’s say, you want to make a div and you have several child divs and photos or links inside it, you can do it a lot quicker using EMMET. As I have stated before, this plugin is available to many editors but I use Sublime Text 3 currently so I will demonstrate how to use emmet plugin for sublime text 3.

Procedure

I am hoping you already have sublime text installed in your computer/laptop. However, if you haven’t you can download it anytime by googling or just going to sublime text editor website directly. Though it is a paid software, you still can use it in free version and also enjoy all the features. Just a message will pop up to register, nothing else. Sublime text is good, sublime text is love. So, go ahead and download it.

Follow these steps

If you have downloaded the text editor for the first time then you will need to add package controller in order to install emmet plugin or any other plugin for sublime text. To do this, use the shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+P and type in package control, hit enter.

Wait sometime and you will get a successful message like this:

From now on, you can install any package in your sublime text and you won’t need to do it again. All the plugins will be available to download through “Install Package” option from sublime text command palette. So, go type CTRL+SHIFT+P and type in install package

A list of all packages will be visible at this time, you can type in emmet or some part of that word and the plugin will be available to download. Click on emmet and you can see the download progress at the bottom of the editor.

After the successful installation, you will see this message:

As you can see in the success message, you will need to restart your editor to finish the installation process. So, close the editor and open it again. You will be able to write in emmet.

So, that was the detailed process of how to install emmet plugin for sublime text 3 editor, I hope this post helps you in writing shorter and smarter code for your website. If you still have any problem in doing, I have recorded the whole process in a 06.53 min YouTube video. Go ahead and watch the video.

Subscribe to my youtube channel for future videos. I will see you guys soon.

Font Awesome 5 In-Depth Analysis

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Font Awesome is arguably the best source for using icons. It is very popular comparing to other free font providing services. Why is that? Because it is free and very easy to use and customize. Font awesome was first released in 2012 (source: Wikipedia) and has became very popular in the recent years, especially in version 4. Font awesome 5 has been upgraded from version 4 in last December of 2017. There have been some major changes. Before Font Awesome 5, font awesome 4 syntax was like this:


 <i class="fab fa-facebook"></i>
 <i class="fab fa-twitter"></i>
 <i class="fas fa-cogs"></i>
 <i class="fas fa-wrench"></i>

Upgrading from Font Awesome 4

In this syntax, all the icon names start with an ‘fa’, which is obviously the shortcut for font awesome and the next thing is ‘facebook’ for the actual icon name. But in font awesome 5, the icons have been categorized. How? They introduced some new prefixes for using the icons. Basically, there are 4 to be exact. They are:

Font Awesome Brands. [fab] (brands like facebook, twitter, youtube and so on)
Font Awesome Solid of Font Awesome. [fas or fa] (solid icons like settings, star and etc)
Font Awesome Regular.
Font Awesome Light.

The last two categories, Font awesome regular and font awesome light are available for paid version only.

Using font awesome 5

Using font awesome 5 is as easy as it gets. You can use it by calling in from CDN or using it by downloading into your system first and then using it. I find the second one handy because even if your internet is slow or down, you can use without any problem at all. So, if you download font awesome 5, you will see folder containing so many files. Here’s a reminder, you can use just the brands icons or just the solid icons or you can also use the master css file to use them all. This is just a css file so you can use all versions at once or you can call the ones you require. So, it’s your choice.

The separate versions will come in handy if you use font awesome just for social icons in your website. As of now, font awesome version is …….. and you will need to go to ‘web-fonts-with-css’ folder and in the ‘css’ sub folder, you will see a file named ‘fontawesome-all.min.css’. Copy the file to your website directory. Also copy the ‘webfonts’ folder. Whatever folder you copy the css file, the webfonts folder must be one step back of that directory. If you copy the font awesome css file to your /css directory, make sure you have webfonts folder on the root directory.

Then call the css file from the head section of your website.

Font Awesome 5 Output

Try out these following codes and see if the execute.

	<i class="fab fa-facebook"></i>
	<i class="fab fa-twitter"></i>
	<i class="fas fa-cogs"></i>
	<i class="fas fa-wrench"></i>

If you have done everything right, you will see font awesome working like this:

So, that was the detailed usage of font awesome 5. I hope it was easy. If you want to use font awesome 5 as background pseudo element, you can do that. This post is already long enough so I think I will write another post maybe with another video in the near future. Stay tuned with my facebook page for further updates. If you haven’t been able to do this right, watch this whole process in the following 06.25 minute video you’ll certainly be able to do it.

I hope the process was easy and you understood. If you have, make sure to share the post and also subscribe to the youtube channel while watching.