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How to install touchpad driver for HP laptops to enable finger swipe gestures and bitlocker recovery

If your HP laptop has a precision touchpad functionality but the finger swipe gestures such as 2 finger scroll up down or th 3 finger app switching are not working, follow the below steps: 1. Visit the below HP official website and select the appropriate laptop model https://support.hp.com/in-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-elitebook-840-g5-notebook-pc/8491271   2. Navigate to the above driver selection at Driver-Keyboard, Mouse and Input Devices & hit the download button for the Synaptics Touch fingerprint driver. Install the driver and restart your laptop. 3. In case your Windows Operating system disk drives are bitlocker encrypted, you will reach the bitlocker recovery screen since the driver configuration of your system has changed. DO NOT PANIC !! Visit the custom URL seen on your laptop screen to access the recovery key for your laptop in the Microsoft site custom URL. Enter the recovery key and you should be able to successfully log in to your Windows desktop console. Notice t...

Some useful terminologies related to rendering on the web

  Rendering SSR:  Server-Side Rendering - rendering a client-side or universal app to HTML on the server. CSR:  Client-Side Rendering - rendering an app in a browser, generally using the DOM. Rehydration:  “booting up” JavaScript views on the client such that they reuse the server-rendered HTML’s DOM tree and data. Prerendering:  running a client-side application at build time to capture its initial state as static HTML. Performance TTFB:  Time to First Byte - seen as the time between clicking a link and the first bit of content coming in. FP:  First Paint - the first time any pixel gets becomes visible to the user. FCP:  First Contentful Paint - the time when requested content (article body, etc) becomes visible. TTI:  Time To Interactive - the time at which a page becomes interactive (events wired up, etc). Reference: developers.google.com

How to change the default pdf viewer application in your Mac or MacBook

  To  set  a  PDF viewer  as the  default  on  Mac  OS X: Select any  PDF  file from Finder. Control-click to open the menu. ...  Choose Get Info from the menu that opens. ...  From the Open with: section in the new window that opens, select your preferred application, such as Adobe  Reader  or Preview. ...  Click the  Change  All button.

Benq 3d Projector MX525 with Sony HT Blu-ray E3200 - Watching Avatar 3D & Titanic 3D

My idea of watching movies has always been on a big gigantic screen ever since my childhood. I cherish the 3d movies watched on the silver screen theatres starting right from the vintage Chota Chetan till the recent Avengers End Game!  My setup details With the pandemic striking in 2020 it has become a distant dream to watch these 3d movies again in theatres. Thankfully I have my Benq 3D projector MX525 to the rescue. My Benq 3D projector MX525 (Cost around Rs 30K) in combination with my Sony 3D Blu-ray home theatre BDV-E3200 (Cost 30K) creates the magic of the large theatre-like vision and the high fidelity sound output. The magic of the 3D is witnessed through the DLP 3D glasses from Hi-Shock/IT-Hub India(Cost Rs 2500 per pair). The 5x5 ft projector screen that I am using is from a company called Logic which cost me around 4K bought from SP road in Bangalore. The overall cost of the setup is about Rs 72,000/-  A word about Avatar The movie which brought 3D to the forefront i...