Month: August 2017

Creating PDFs using Microsoft Word

On By windows7bugsIn Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7Leave a comment

Hi guys

Many great websites like “oracle base” let you copy the content from their site, so that you can make documents for offline references. Obviously, you need to copy, paste make sometimes format a bit here and there so that the document finally becomes worth keeping.

One of the major issues with most of the free PDF printers is the lack of ability to include the embedded urls. Once you find an interesting article and use a free PDF printer like “PDF Creator”, you will realize that whole the book marked urls are lost other than the links starting with http:// or www

With the recent versions of Microsoft Word software (Office 2010 & later) , Microsoft lets the users to save a word document as PDF, in addition to printing the documents as PDFs. So what are the main difference between printing and saving as a word document?

While printing, the engine discards all the embedded URLs and the end user gets a plain PDF file, and when saved as (From file Save as context) PDF, all underlying URLs are preserved as bookmarks and clickable links are created automatically.

Does it sounds interesting? Give it a try and let us know!

regards,

 

Local DNS Server using DD-WRT | Buffalo Routers

On By windows7bugsIn NetworkingLeave a comment

A local DNS will help a developer to access and test the applications across local network having to worry about hostnames (Especially mobile devices, where updating host files may force one to root the devices)

This time we will see how a local DNS could be setup using relatively cheap WIFI routers running DD-WRT firmware

I am using a Buffalo router that acts as a WIFI access point at my home.

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Make sure you are running the latest available firmware for the device to insure maximum stability. Once the firmware has been updated to the latest, Click on Services and you will be landed on Services page. Setting up the local DNS is most effective when you have all your “Computers” have static IP allocation (As seen with below image)

 

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Don’t worry about the lease time parameters, as long your computers are having static IP addresses, these entries work as ‘A’ records, letting you to access the computers by their name, instead of IP addresses.

Set Used Domain as “LAN & WAN” & provide a meaningful name to “Lan Domain”. This name will be appended to your hostnames when you do a simple ping like commands. For example, when I try to ping “rajesh-pc” from command prompt, “rajesh-pc.my.home” will be automatically generated incase if you set up parameter “expand-hosts” with Additional DNSMasq options (Check below image)

 

 

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Save the settings & apply. You are all set to start using the local DNS server. Whenever you have a new host, access the services page and create a static host entry (one time) & your last device is accessible using a name, instead of IP addresses.

 

Regards,