August 2022

27Aug 2022 by Ajay No Comments

Changing Page Layout Doesn’t Reflect in PDF Printing

For quite some time it was strange to see some unnecessary margin borders in the PDF printing like below. A4 Page layout in Microsoft Word prints with some extra margins in the PDF The reason for this inappropriate printing is there is another layer of printer properties that control how the printer actually prints. In the printer settings, there is another page property which overrides the A4 page property that's set in MS-Word To fix the printer property (Microsoft Print to PDF printer in this case), go through the following in image below. Windows Settings → Printers & Scanners → Select Printer (Microsoft Print to PDF in this case) → Printing Preferences → Advanced → PaperSize → Set your required paper size that matches Page settings in MS-Word

Refreshing LinkedIn Post Thumbnails

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LinkedIn updates the images or text from the link for the first time and later when those links are updated with new images, it still doesn't update. To refresh it, use LinkedIn Post Inspector where you can drop your link to refresh. Now when you go back to your post, you may find its images and relevant text from the link is updated. I didn't have the dragon in the LinkedIn post before and after updating the blog with the dragon image, the post didn't update. After dropping the link in the post inspector, the dragon got updated. Image in a LinkedIn post updated after post inspector

Adding Alias Email to Gmail

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We can send proxy emails from Gmail with other email addresses. You need to verify that another email address is your own in order to do this. I use this service to send email as if I'm sending from another Gmail itself. Recently Google has stopped the authentication of this kind of less-secure apps. However, there is another way to achieve it is via using the google app passwords that allow temporary password generation to connect from less-secure apps. Steps to add alias email in this new method Generate the password from your App PasswordsGo to Gmail settings --> Accounts and Imports --> Send Mail as: --> Add another email addressEnter your Name and Alias's Email address on the first pageEnter Google SMTP (smtp.gmail.com), Google ID, generated passwordVerify the code…