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Introduction: Bluestacks is one of the most popular Android Emulators. Let's check out, is it also the fastest of all Android Emulators?  Bluestacks 4 is the latest version of the Bluestacks series. In this blog post, we shall be reviewing the Bluestacks version 4 and find out is it worth downloading. Bluestacks 4 Window System requirements: Minimum system requirements (As per Bluestacks Website): OS:   Microsoft Windows 7 and above. Processor:  Intel or AMD Processor. RAM: Your PC must have at least 2GB of RAM. (Note that having 2GB or more disk space is not a substitute for RAM). HDD: 4GB Free Disk Space. You must be an Administrator on your PC. Up to date graphics drivers from Microsoft or the chipset vendor. My System Specifications: My computer is just an average PC like all others. OS: Microsoft Windows 10. Processor: Intel Pentium 4405U @ 2.10 GHz. RAM: 4 GB. HDD: > 4 GB. Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 510. Bluestacks 4 Review (My Ho

Introduction: Bluestacks is an  Android Emulator that runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh. An Android Emulator is a software application that provides a medium to enjoy Android applications or games on your computer.  My Customized Bluestacks What are Bluestacks points? Bluestacks points are points which can be collected by playing games on Bluestacks and can be redeemed to get gaming goodies for free. This feature was introduced in the Bluestacks version 3 and is also present in the latest version Bluestacks i.e. Bluestacks 4. How to gain Bluestacks points? Bluestacks points can be gained by playing games and earning cards to unlock new levels. Levels in Bluestacks range from Level 1 to Level 10. Once you reach Level 10, you have to play quests. I have reached Level 10 within 3 hours. There is a secret technique to do this. If you want to reach levels faster, comment down below, I shall make a new post regarding that.  But, now, I shall be showing y

Introduction: What do we mean by the term 'Programming'? Well, the top result by searching on Google gives us a definition by edX like this: Computer  programming  is the process of writing instructions that get executed by computers. Hope the above definition makes sense to you! If not, it will be more clear to you at the end of this post. Programming in Visual Basic What is a Hello World computer program? If you tried to learn programming for the first time, the very first program you will create is a Hello World program. A Hello World program is a just a single line of instruction that tells the computer to print or display some text on the screen.  A Hello World program written in Java. Now, you will think how can a single instruction can create a full-fledged computer program. Okay, let me tell you that to make a particular program there is a specific sequence which must be followed. This sequence is known as an algorithm .  For example

Final Output Introduction: In this post, we shall start a project to build a C# application integrated with Chromium in Visual Studio. I shall be using Visual Studio Express For Windows Desktop 2013. But the minimum requirements are mentioned below. We shall create a Windows Forms C# project from scratch and integrate Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) in our application, basic navigation options and much more. Minimum Requirements and Prerequisites: Visual Studio 2012 or Higher that supports NuGet Package Manager. A decent internet connection. Basic Knowledge of C#. Knowlege in using Windows efficiently. Creating A Visual Studio Project: First, create a Visual Studio C# Project through File > New Project > Installed > Visual C# > Windows > Windows Forms . Name the file whatever you want, for example ' Web Browser '. New Project Customising the Form: Now customize the main form by changing its  Properties  like Text to 'Web

Introduction: Visual Studio is one of the best IDEs for making Windows Apps or Apps that can be run on various platforms. Visual Studio is always free to download from the official website of Visual Studio. You can only install the Visual Studio Community or the Visual Studio Express for free. Visual Studio Professional and Enterprise are premium. There are several editions of Visual Studio, for example, Visual Studio Express For Desktop can build only Windows Forms, WPF and C++ applications. It depends on you which one to choose. So, in this post, I shall describe how to install the latest versions of Visual Studio or older versions of Visual Studio. Note: Visual Studio can never be upgraded, they can only be installed. That means if you have an older version Visual Studio, you can't upgrade it, you have to install the newer version side by side. Both versions will work simultaneously. Download and Install Instructions for Visual Studio 2017: Downloading and Install

Introduction: As a web developer, you must know what tools are available in the world of web development so that they can be used to increase your productivity as well as your web development much easier. There is a huge number of tools online. Also, there are plenty of Chrome Extensions that can be downloaded from the Chrome Web Store, which are quite helpful and efficient. So, I have made a list of such tools, that can make your everyday Web Development easier. #1. Emmet Emmet is a plugin for many popular text editors which greatly improves HTML & CSS workflow. It can be installed in nearly any text editor, such as Sublime Text, VS Code, etc. It has some shortcuts that can be so helpful to you when typing some code as it makes easier for you to write that code for a very short time. It is widely used by web developers because all developers are not fast typers. It makes typing efficient. You can download the plugin from the official website emmet.io or you can install

Source: Softonic Note: This article is for Windows users only. If you want an article on Installing Windows 10 from Linux, comment in the comment section below. Minimum Requirements: Processor : 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster. RAM : 1 GB (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit) Free hard disk space : 16 GB. Graphics card : Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver. A Microsoft account and Internet access .( ISO File Size : About 3.5 GB and Upgrade File Size : No Info) Recommended Requirements: Processor : 2 GHz or faster. RAM : 4 GB or higher (32-bit or 64-bit). Free Hard Disk Space : 20 GB. Graphics Card:  Microsoft DirectX 10. Stable Internet Connection and about 1024 bits/second, and also around 5 GB of internet package from the ISP. Note: Recommended requirements are not necessary to run Windows 10. But if you have those, you can run your Windows efficiently. How to check your system requirements for Windows 10? If you do not know a

Introduction: Creating code snippets using HTML and CSS is very easy, but for hosted blogs such as Blogger, it is quite difficult to edit the source code of the pages. You can create some custom CSS code to the source code of the page, but today we are going to show the easy process, i.e. using popular source code hosting website 'GIT HUB'. For example: Steps: We will be using GIST of GitHub to make code snippets. Open up the https://gist.github.com . You may have to Sign In or Sign Up for a GitHub account. After sign in to your account, create a new gist by selecting the top right button on the web page. Type a name for your file and type or paste the source code in the second text area. That's it, now, create a secret gist or a public gist. Secret gist means it is not visible to users, but if you give them the link it will be visible. Copy the embed code. Paste in the post editor of your blogspot post while in the HTML view. It

Introduction: Airtel Dongle installation in Linux is a quite a bit tough for beginners. But it is really as easy as regular Windows installation. Airtel Dongle does not run without installing its software, it can be installed from the dongle itself using Terminal. Here are the few steps how you can install Airtel Dongle Application on your Linux OS. Steps: Plug in your Airtel 4G dongle. Open-File Browser and on the left side click Airtel 4G. Open Linux folder. Right-click PCL_Airtel_64.tar.gz and click extract. Extract it to desktop. Now, the main part is that you have to manually enter code. So, close all windows. Right-click and open terminal where you have extracted. Type the command below and press enter:                                             sudo ./install.sh Type your computer's password and hit enter. *Note that your password will not be displayed while typing. That's it. Wait for some interval of time and it will be installed and will open. C

Login Form UI Introduction: In this post, you will get an idea how to create a Login User Interface with the help of a popular Front End Web Framework named Bootstrap. Steps: Open up a text editor and save the file with extension '.html'. Type it out with the basic HTML code. Add Bootstrap CDN between the opening and close <head> tags. You can get the Bootstrap from the Bootstrap website here . It will be somewhat like the snippet below. Now add some custom styles just before the closing head tag. We are using -webkit-linear-gradient for chrome only, you can add -moz-linear-gradient and include the same color parameters to it. Let's come to <body> tag and edit it.  First creating a card using bootstrap class called 'card'. Go to Bootstrap's website documentation for further details. Then refer to the code as follows: We are done and the final code will be look like this: Conclusion: We have created th