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Tuesday, May 1, 2018

How to Download PDF from Scribd.com for Free



How to View or Download document or PDF from Scribd.com 

This would be one of the most useful tricks of all that you must be in need for.

What Exactly is Scribd.

So, Scribd is a digital library, e-book and audiobook subscription service that includes one million titles. Scribd hosts 60 million documents on its open publishing platform


And download the pdf documents, you need to Register yourself.
But in-case, you found a document on Scribd which you really need but not sure whether this is exactly what you want, you can see a preview. This preview page will have few pages shown from the PDF file and rest of the PDF would be blurred. And what-if you want to see those pages which are blurred.
Here is a simple solution to that problem.



Scribd unblur g33ktricks.blogspot.com
Scribd extension
From your Chrome Browser and go to :https://chrome.google.com/webstore
[ This is Chromes Store for Extensions ]

Here, search for Scribd Unblur.
Install any of these extensions by clicking
"Add to Chrome" button.

Once installed, open scribd.com
Search for the Book you need and Open it.

If the pages are shown blurred.  Click "U" button from top right of your Chrome extension list to Unblur that document.
And its Done.
Now you can enjoy reading the book without any hassle of registering to Scribd.com.

If you find the book useful, be a nice human,  register to Scribd.com and then view or download the book.

This is for educational purpose:
If you need to download that info from the PDF,
Right-click the page and click on "Save-as" option
Save the Complete page as .html file on you computer.
Next time when you want to read the file offline, just double-click to open that file.
And click on Unblur button on chrome to unblur the pages.

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Google Android P might have been named Popsicle


Android P was first released in March, but it’s still known as “Android P” . Google has not named it yet, But intrestingly, in recent Instagram post from Google, Google has released sets of new 5 wallpapers to their followers. (Yes, google do like Instagram and has 6.2M followers)
Here is the link to Google Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/google/

These wallpapers are more like other Google's fancy wallpaper but among them, one stands different from other . Hope this does ring bells. That could be a hint from Google about the name of next release.


Google P = Google Popsicle




Or Google is just being witty and trolling their followers :)

Interestingly, Google named it Pie