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Adding webparts on O365 Modern site page

2021-09-07T17:17:00.008-04:00

Add-PnPClientSideWebPart -Page "" -Component "" -WebPartProperties ""

Explanation of Parameters

Page - Accepts String

Component - Accepts String

WebPartProperties - Accepts JSON Object

JSON Object can be as simple as:

$jsonObj = @"

{

"Property1": "value",

"Property2": "value"

}

Sometimes, one can easily add webparts from the userinterface, and hard to identify the property names to configure the webpart. In those scenarios, use this:

$page = Get-PnPClientSidePage -Identity ""

Explanation of parameters

Identity - Accepts String (example: home.aspx)

$webpart = $page.Controls | ? {$_.InstanceId -eq "GUID string"}

Explanation of parameters

GUID String can be accessed from the Source control of the page (from UI)

$webpart.PropertiesJson

Will reveal the properties in JSON Format, that can be used as is in the First command above to add webpart on the page.

Source:

Self, and

Working with modern client-side pages using PnP PowerShell

Android Malware Mines Monero, Can Literally Destroy Phones

2017-12-19T14:04:00.000-05:00

We have seen apps that can cause battery to heat-up over extended use or sometimes even when app isn't functioning correctly. Similarly, one can design an app that can cause the app to behave badly in the background, which would eventually cause the battery to heat up and burst.
And this can be configured to happen rather quickly, doesn't have to happen over extended usage.

There isn't any task manager on phones, just like on PC's, that shows apps and their memory usage for someone to kill a process. This article provides details of one such malware that will be surfacing in the market pretty soon.

At the end of this article, you do see their suggestion of what/how things happen, and how to resolve it, if you experience the issue. Review here

Source: International Business Times

The Science of Tongue Scraping with Copper

2016-04-14T11:47:00.004-04:00

As the function of the microbiota of the mouth becomes more understood, ancient techniques to support oral hygiene are becoming more popular. One practice backed by numerous studies is called tongue scraping (Jihwa Prakshalana).

Tongue scraping is the simple practice of scraping your tongue before brushing your teeth. Studies have shown that this simple technique:

Reduces undesirable bacteria in the mouth that can compromise gum, teeth and oral health. (1)
Reduces volatile sulfur compounds (VSC), which are by-products of mouth bacteria linked to bad breath. (2)
Improves taste sensation and reduces tongue coating. (3)
Changes the environment of the mouth to reduce putrefaction and decrease bacterial load. (3, 8)

Traditionally, according to one of the Ayurvedic texts, the Charaka Samhita, tongue scrapers should be made of gold, silver, copper, tin, or brass. Toxins (ama) would be collected on the back of the tongue that could cause obstructions in respiration and foul smell. (4)

When certain bacteria on the tongue and in the oral cavity break down certain proteins in the mouth, volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs) are released that result in bad breath.Studies have confirmed the benefits of tongue scraping as an effective way to reduce volatile sulfur compounds. In fact, tongue scraping greatly outperforms tooth brushing to accomplish this. (2)

Why Copper?

While a gold or silver tongue scraper would be amazing, new research on the health benefits of copper make a copper tongue scraper hard to beat. Copper has been used for centuries as a bacteria-resistant metal, and new studies are confirming these ancient practices. (4, 5, 6)

Copper may be the best metal to be used for tongue scraping because the mouth is loaded with both good and not-so-good bacteria. Copper not only seems to be toxic to the bad bacteria, it also provides important enzymes that are needed for the healthy microbes in the mouth to survive. (5)

In one study, the antiseptic benefits of copper were so great that, when copper was put in hospital rooms as furnishings, the bacteria count on all of the surfaces in the rooms was significantly reduced. (7) Some hospitals are now incorporating copper furnishings as part of their anti-bacterial strategies.

Oral Hygiene and Beyond!

Beyond the benefits of oral hygiene, tongue scraping, brushing, and flossing the teeth followed by drinking a large glass of water is a strategic way to kick-start the digestive process. By stimulating the taste buds with tongue scraping, not only is the tongue better able to perceive tastes and properly digest foods (3), this taste bud-activation also engages the lower intestines to initiate a complete bowel elimination first thing in the morning.

A copper tongue scraper will not only offer great oral hygiene benefits while scraping the tongue, it will also resist bacterial accumulation while not in use – results that last! Due to its beneficial properties, silver would be the second choice for tongue scraper material, although stainless steel is more than adequate to perform the job.

How to Scrape your Tongue

In the morning, right after you wake up, scrape your tongue. Make it the first thing you do. Even if you wake up in the middle of the night, scraping the tongue followed by a glass of water can reduce accumulating digestive ama (toxins).
With a relaxed tongue, using your U-shaped tongue scraper, gently reach to the back of the tongue and scrape the tongue from back to front. Repeat this 5-10 times, reaching as far back as comfortable, rinsing the scraper after each pass. A slight gag can help bring up some mucus and ama from the back of the throat.
Follow tongue scraping with brushing (with non-fluoride toothpaste), flossing, and a large glass of water.
To complete an Ayurvedic oral hygiene routine, this can be followed by oil pulling – of course, this would require another round of tooth brushing.
Get into the habit of scraping your tongue prior to each brushing.

References

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16032940
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15341360
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15191584
Charaka Samhita. Sutrasthana. Ch 5. Verse 71-75
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22341460
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3067274/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22173515
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23579907
http://aem.asm.org/content/77/3/794

Source: Lifespa.com

How Many Solar Panels Do I Need to Power My Home?

2015-08-27T16:22:00.002-04:00

Dated: Aug 27, 2015
Here is a simple calculation method to identify the number of panels required to power your home.

Review your monthly electricity bill to find number of KWh (Kilo Watt hours) used.
Sum all the values to find KWh used for a year.
Divide this number by 365 (days / year)
Resultant value gives number of KWh units consumed per Day.
Remember this is an average, and give plenty of room for cloudy days and winter. So, add 50% to this value as buffer.

Next, Measuring the Sunlight:
Let's say your home receives a solid 6 hours of sunlight per day on an average.

The Calculation with Example:
Monthly units used: 700 KWh
Yearly = 700 * 12 = 8400 KWh
Per Day = 8400/365 = 23 KWh
Avg./Day (including buffer) = 35 KWh

35KWh/6 = 5.8 KW needed every hour

We now multiply this by 1,000 to make calculations simpler
5.8 * 1000 = 5800 Watts

So, Your solar panel needs to produce 5800 Watts of energy per hour to power your home. Simple, wasn't it ?

The decision
Solar panels are rated for the amount of watts they produce. Let's say you want to buy 200-watt solar panels, it's easy enough to work out, that you will need 29 panels to cover 5800 watts per hour.

The varied solar panels produce, 100, 150, 200, 250, 280, 350 Watts and the price for each varies appropriately.

Prices at the time of writing this article,
250 Watts - $550.00

Sources:
Finder
Grape Solar

Priyanka Chopra: The new face of Guess

2014-02-11T23:10:00.000-05:00

The move from Celebrity to Ubiquity: Bollywood star becomes a Top model for Guess ....

Check out more here

Source: NYTimes.com

You Shower Too Much !

2014-02-07T10:49:00.000-05:00

Surface Bacteria Maintains Skin's Healthy Balance

Read this article from UCSD (University of California San Diego) researchers that provides details of how this happens.
Dr. Richard Gallo provides insight into the field of Dermatology.

Source:
MSN UCSD

Chrome maybe secretly recording you .....

2014-01-23T14:10:00.000-05:00

One of the few new features released last year by Google Chrome browser was Speech to text feature.
You could speak and chrome browser would convert your speech to text. There were sites designed to make best use of this feature.

Chrome will be able to use this feature, only when user gives the permission to do so, and this can be done separately for every tab in the browser.

However, according to this post, it could be that there could be some pop-up advertising windows, that could be secretly recording your speech, irrespective of you providing it the permission or not. And this could be hidden, so you might not even be aware of something like this.

Check the post here: Google Chrome browser Speech spying vulnerability and also the video on this site, that demo's how its done.

Source: TheRegister.co.uk

Disable Google+ on your Gmail A/c

2014-01-10T11:38:00.004-05:00

Google begins to merge Google+, Gmail Contacts starting Thursday Jan 09, 2014
Benefits: If you don't have e-mail address of somebody you found on Google+ Circles, however, you want to contact, then, thanks to this new Gmail feature
Pitfalls: This new Gmail feature will result in some users receiving messages from people with whom they have not shared their email addresses .

You may want to do it now, before its late. Here is how you can disable it:

Login to Gmail
On the top-right - select Settings as shown below:
In the General tab, scroll down to find: Email via Google+: Select "No One"
Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click "Save Changes".

News about Gmail's new feature: Google begins to merge Google+, Gmail Contacts
Some concerns: Google Linking of Social Network contacts to e-mail raises concerns,
Connecting Gmail to Google+ is SENSELESS, says Digg founder

Sources: Reuters, the Register, Cnet

OPPO n1

2013-09-24T22:48:00.000-04:00

Check out the new phone OPPO n1

It has amazing usability features. Maybe the next competition in the mobile market. Would love to see new competition !!!

Check this out, and i'm sure you will love it, just like me....

Full moon with scattered clouds

2013-01-27T00:49:00.000-05:00

Sharepoint Designer 2013

2013-01-04T10:49:00.003-05:00

SharePoint page-design features

The following feature is not available in SharePoint 2013.

Design view and Split view

Description of the change.SharePoint Designer 2010 has three views for editing HTML and ASPX pages: Code view, Design view, and Split view. Design view and Split view are removed from SharePoint Designer 2013. The removal of Design view and Split view affects the features of SharePoint Designer 2013 that are used for editing Web Parts and master pages. If you edit pages in SharePoint Designer 2013, you must use Code view.

Reason for the change. Compared to current versions of Internet Explorer, Design view is an older technology that does not support many new HTML5 and CSS tags.

Migration path. If you edit pages in Code view, you can press F12 to preview the page in the browser. Alternatively, you can use Visual Studio to edit pages.

If you want to visually design or brand your site, and you want a WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") page-editing experience, you can use any professional HTML editor, such as Microsoft Expression Web. Then you can import your HTML files into SharePoint Server 2013 by using the new Design Manager, which is a feature included in publishing sites, such as the Publishing Portal Site Collection site template.

Source: MSDN

A New Pic....

2012-10-20T09:14:00.002-04:00

New Updates to gmail

2012-08-09T16:10:00.000-04:00

This was amazing what I encountered this afternoon. I was writing up a mail to my friend. Forgot to attach documents and clicked on "Send" button. However, Gmail prompted me with the following pop-up message:

Amazing new feature.

Good one Google !!!

Google Play

2012-06-18T11:01:00.002-04:00

Source: Google

Microsoft to run Linux on Azure

2012-06-07T00:14:00.003-04:00

Microsoft to run Linux

Source: Networkworld.com

Cross-browser worm spreads via Facebook, security experts warn

2012-05-21T18:58:00.001-04:00

Read the full article here
Affects all variants of operating system includes LINUX, and MAC too.

Source: www.networkworld.com

Learn How to Draw 3D Shapes

2012-05-04T22:35:00.002-04:00

If you know the methods how to draw 3d shapes realistically, your pictures will improve enormously. Your drawings won't lie flat on the paper anymore. Instead they will jump straight into the watchers eyes, like they are coming out of the picture. Or they will create the illusion of depth and look like a window to a world that lies inside of them.

To create a 3d drawing you have to observe the laws of 3d reality and mimic them on your paper. These laws are not difficult to understand since we see them all the time in the world around us. To draw according to them can be time consuming, though. But any good picture also needs a good investment of time. And the results are worth it. So let's get into the nuts and bolts of 3d drawing! It'll be fun!

How to Draw Buildings in 3D

Learn how to draw buildings in 3d from the outside as well as from the inside. First we'll draw a simple 3d house step by step. Then we go inside the building and draw a 3d room with furniture.

Source: Discover-How-to-Draw.com

SEVERE DRY SKIN REMEDIES

2012-04-04T20:50:00.002-04:00

A human’s outer skin, or epidermis, is a protective shield that wards off infection. It is considered to be the human system’s largest organ. The epidermis does not have blood vessels. In the right conditions, our skin is naturally moisturized by our sweat glands, which are underneath the skin. When the body is unable to retain the oil and water that is naturally manufactured, then dry skin is the unfortunate byproduct.

The Causes of Severe Dry Skin

The underlying causes for dry skin can be genetic, or the natural aging process can cause the glands to be less efficient in providing the necessary moisture. In addition, our environment can be blamed. Low humidity indoors or outdoors can be at the root of the cause, along with air-conditioning and heating systems.

Home Remedies

There are home remedies that can resolve the problem of severely dry skin. Using moisturizers regularly helps to seal the moisture in your skin and provide relief. Eucerin and Cetaphil–or plain baby oil–are beneficial moisturizers that can be purchased at your local drugstore. Instead of taking long, hot showers or baths opt for shorter lukewarm ones that will help retain the oil in your skin. Use gentle soap that will be easy on the skin, such as Neutrogena or Dove. Softly pat yourself dry and apply moisturizers immediately after getting out of the bath in order to seal in the moisture. Humidifiers serve your overall skin well in keeping the atmosphere in your house moist. When choosing clothing, keep in mind that wool can scratch and aggravate the skin. Cotton and silk are good natural fiber choices that are kinder to your skin.

Lifestyle Adaptations

There are also lifestyle adaptations that can be helpful for more moist skin. Some of the severe dry skin conditions can be addressed in the convenience of our homes. However, a doctor visit is necessary to get a prescription if it is a more serious case of psoriasis or ichthyosis. Dermatitis is a cause for concern as well, and manifests itself in itchy red skin. The treatment typically prescribed is a topical hydrocortisone ointment. If the skin is cracking, the doctor may prescribe wet dressings that contain an astringent to reduce the risk of infections.

Source: ehow.com

HTML5 OS for Tablets

2012-04-01T10:13:00.007-04:00

Source: Youtube

History of April Fools day

2012-04-01T09:39:00.002-04:00

The History of April Fools Day

Source: Dailymotion

12 Greatest Entrepreneurs of our time

2012-03-28T23:08:00.002-04:00

1. Steve Jobs - Apple
2. Bill Gates - Microsoft
3. Fred Smith - FedEx
4. Jeff Bezos - Amazon
5. Larry Page and Sergey Brin - Google
6. Howard Schultz - Starbucks
7. Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook
8. John Mackey - Whole Foods
9. Herb Kelleher - Southwest Airlines
10. Narayana Murthy - Infosys
11. Sam Walton - Wal-Mart Stores
12. Muhammad Yunus - Grameen Bank

Infopath 2010 - Forms

2012-03-20T20:53:00.002-04:00

To make a form Read-Only

To make a form read-only, add a property named readonly to your schema that will be set to true when the form is submitted.

Adding a rule into the form load event which switches active view to read-only view, if this readonly property is set to true, will always show the read-only view after the form is submitted.

Source: Expert SharePoint 2010 Practices, Apress Edition

HTML 5 Drag - Drop feature to SharePoint Lists

2012-03-08T23:54:00.000-05:00

Source: HTML 5 Drag Drop

2012-02-05T00:44:00.001-05:00

Document

How to Create Snippets for Visual Studio 2010

2012-01-12T01:12:00.002-05:00

Create Snippets in Visual Studio 2010