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 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.

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.

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

Interestingly, Google named it Pie

Speed-up your Chrome Browser to load page faster

As you may know, Chrome is one of the popular browser available to us and it is also among the fastest browser. You also might have used it or maybe you are using it now as well and can feel the difference of speed compared to other Web Browsers.
The fact which you might not know is, Google Chrome uses DNS prefetching and speedy (SPDY) protocols instead of HTTP. DNS prefetching and SPDY protocols helps to load the webpage in advance which reduces the time to load the page.
If you are reading this page means something went wrong with your Chrome browser. After using it for many days it tends to slow down. Lately, it has been observed that Chrom has been consuming high amount of RAM even if there is only one tab opened. Offcourse, it does lot in background so consuming high memory is not a surprise.

So, here are the things which you can do to fasten your Chrome Browser application for your desktop machine. This should work for other browsers too.

1. DISABLE THE  PLUGINS or ADD-ONS 

Having many plugins enabled in your browser can slow down it easily as it consumes time to load each and every plugin and moreover it consumes you RAM usage as well. So the best option would be to load the important plugin which you really need and disable the rest. I presonally prefer running zero plugins.
This is how you can disable it.


a. Open Chrome Browser and enter the following address into address bar

chrome://plugins/

b. Now you can Un-tick all the plugins which you think are not at all useful to you.
Please do remember that few plugins like Adobe Flash is required for many websites to display content so you should not disable it and there are some other plug-ins which can help your browser to increase performance.

2. DISABLE EXTENSIONS

a. Open Chrome Browser and enter the following address into address bar

 chrome://extensions/

OR

Click on Wrench icon on your toolbar > Tools > Extensions.

b. Un-tick the extensions which are not needed or can be deleted as well if not required.

3. CLEAR YOUR BROWSING DATA

Browsing data consumes good amount of space. Everytime you visit a webpage, some amount of data from the webpage will be saved on your system so that when you visit the same page again, the data can be loaded quickly. But if your not clearing your browser data, the data continues to increase thus slowing down your browser.

Although cache and cookies are really made to speed up chrome browser but sometimes it happens that they are responsible for decreasing your browsing speed and lagging while opening webpages.


This is how you can clear the data

a. Click on Wrench icon
b. Go to Tools > Clear browsing data.
c. Choose Time range in the dialog box and click on "Clear browsing data"

OR

a. Go to Settings
b. Search for "Clear browsing data"
c. And appropriately select the data that needs to be cleared.

4. Disable any ToolBar you have added to your Browser

Toolbars are your worst enemy. They stay on your browser and do nothing. Toolbars can really slow down the system and the browser. Moreover, I feel toolbars should not be installed at first place.

The Above tips works well for the other browser like FireFox and Internet Explorer as well. Only the path to change the settings will vary.

Hope you like the tips shared. Please do add any other tips if you have in comments.

You can set the Chrome to Dark mode . Check it out here