How to format text on the new facebook 2020

Before I was forced into the new Facebook layout in 2020, I used to be able to make some formatted posts by simply copying some text like Bold text, links with their own title etc.

But now we are forced into the new Layout, and I can't just simply cut and paste formatted text into the new layout.

To get around this, the new Facebook layout in 2020 allows you to use Markdown.

To add formatting with Markdown to a post:

Format	Action
Bold	**text**
Italics	*text*
List	- item
Link	[title](https://facebook.com)
Numbered list	1. first item
Quote	> quote
H1	# Heading
H2	## Heading
Inline code	`code` // your code here

This might take a little bit of getting used to, but now I can continue to have posts with my own style of formatting.

How to fix the Garmin vívofit jr 2 sync

I recently bought two garmin vívofit JR 2 watches, the first one was set up correctly, but then the second one had some issues as I selected "pair new device" instead of adding a new child account.

Who knew there was a difference, but what happened next introduced me to a world of sync pain.

I eventually got 1 Garmin watch synced correctly. But the second watch had all sorts of issues.

The main problem that would occur is :

If I go into Device Settings is says : "There is no device set up for this child"

I press and hold the button to sync, then the watch displays the number (my number), and the app says sound (my number)

I click "yes"

It goes "Connecting"

But then it fails

"Kid Band Disconnected" 

"It looks like the band disconnected. Make sure the band is in range and show the sync icon."

So now, I cannot set up the second Account.

Everything I do, when the phone tries to connect, it times out with that "Kid Band Disconnected"  error.

So what did I try :

I found a way to hard reset the watch :

Hold the button, going to the Info (i) screen, hold for 10 seconds till the "nv rst" message appears.

A big triangle appears, and then the wifi looking icon appears with my number, and try to sync with the phone

This didn't work, same problem with the sync as it wouldn't connect and time out.

Next thing I tried was deleting the app, installing it again and trying it once more.

Still the same problem.

I was going to try to contact Garmin support, but it was after hours and I was about to pull my hair out until.....

On my phone, I went to Bluetooth.

Then looked for "Paired Devices"

I saw "vivofit jr. 2" listed there.

Click the setting icon.

click "Unpair"

Now I went back into the vivofit jr. app again, and now it finally connected.

So the solution to the problem with the Garmin vivofit Jr 2 not connecting /. syncing.

Just unpair the Bluetooth connection from your phone and try again.

Hopefully this helps somebody else out there, as this is a couple of hours I am never going to get back...

[SOLVED] Unable to connect to Synology Shared folders

Problem : Multiple Windows 10 machines can connect to the Synology shared folders, but one machine wouldn't.

I had 1 machine that couldn't connect to my Sunology NAS shared folders.

Under Windows File Explorer, then checking on "Network", I could see the synology but I couldn't connect to it.

I went down the following rabbit hole trying to find a solution

• synology diskstation is not accessible you might not have permission "the network is not present or not started"
• windows 10 unable to turn on file and printer sharing
• windows 10 workstation error 1075 
• windows 10 cannot connect to network drive
• Cannot start the Computer Browser and Workstation services

This takes you down a bad google rabbit hole, with solutions on registry edit, downloading 3rd party tools, re-installing network drivers etc.. Heck some website "experts" just tell you to re-install windows.

Several hours later, you want to pull out your hair.

At the end of the day the solution is to do with SMB, and I didn't have the feature installed.

Solution :

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To enable SMB2 on Windows 10, you need to press the Windows Key + S and start typing and click on Turn Windows features on or off. You can also search the same phrase in Start, Settings.

Now scroll down till you see :
[    ] SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support
[    ] SMB Direct

Select those two options, let windows install the files, and then reboot.
Thanks to : Your System Requires SMB2 or Higher Error on Windows 10

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Mass export Motion Photos from Samsung Note 8

On the Samsung Note 8, there is an option to enable "Motion photo" That will record a short video clip of what happens before each photo is taken.

Only issue is this motion video isn't exported to things like Google Photo, and to extract it you can only do it on the phone 1 photo at a time. Luckily I found a solution....

 I wasn't able to do it directly on the phone, but this is how I mass exported the Motion Photos from my phone :

 1) Copy the pictures from the phone to computer (Windows 10)

2) Using the extractVideo_SamsungMotionPhoto.sh from : http://blog.mrnepal.com/2017/12/06/how-to-export-video-from-motion-photo-in-samsung-s7s8-using-a-bash-script/
 - Make a small modification to the file under :

tail -c +$(($VIDEO_OFFSET + $SEPARATOR_OFFSET)) $FILE_PATH > $DESTINATION_FILE

Add the following :

touch $DESTINATION_FILE -r $FILE_PATH

This will preserve the time stamp when you create the mp4 videos.

 3) Run the script extractVideo_SamsungMotionPhoto.sh (I am using cygwin, but Bash on windows should also work)

 This has now exported the videos from all your files. Because I use Google Photos, I then copied the mp4 files back to my phone to have them uploaded to Google Photos

Zlio is Closing Its Doors

This is from an Email I received today (19 August 2011 16:52) in regards to the zlio.com website closing.

Email Title : ALERT : Zlio is Closing Its Doors

Six years after its launch, we regret to announce that we are going out of business.

The service will officially end on September 11!

Zlio had a fantastic start, receiving capital from one Europe's largest venture capital funds, Mangrove Capital. In addition, we held advanced M&A talks with Google, which unfortunately fell through at the last minute.

Our strong initial growth was interrupted on September 27, 2007, when the majority of Zlio shops, which were generally very well ranked, saw their Google ranking drop dramatically, eliminating 65% of our traffic.

Despite our best efforts, and the opening of 380,000 stores to date, it has not been possible to regain our previous Google rankings, except in exceptional cases.

When we founded Zlio, we thought that you, members of Zlio, would successfully promote your shops among your circles. We did not believe that Google referencing would be so crucial. Unfortunately, it has proved to be indispensable.

Among the actions taken to improve our Google ranking, we approached an SEO company who claimed they were able to fix our problem.

In view of their poor performance, we assessed that this company had not fulfilled its obligations. Therefore, we entered into dispute with it, which resulted in a court case whose sentence was rendered on July 26, 2011. This ruling is available on the website of the Paris Commercial Court (Tribunal de Commerce de Paris).

This decision sentences us both to pay the whole of a service that we still believe have not been provided and to pay damages for publishing our opinion about Referencement on Twitter. The latter part of the sentence has already drawn much attention in the French media.

This sentence means we cannot go on. The service has been losing money for several years (which forced us to gradually reduce our staff), and the amounts to which we are sentenced to pay today no longer allow us to meet our obligations.

Nevertheless:

- We will settle all the commissions due to our members. If you have validated commissions, you are invited to collect them as soon as possible via your administration interface.

Click here to go to your administration interface : http://accommodation.zlio.com/admin/index.php?page=Commissions

If you have pending commissions, you will be able to collect them within the next few weeks as the merchants validate them.

- The Premium subscriptions that will still be active on September 11 will be reimbursed automatically in the next few days as Zlio commissions prorata their remaining months of subscriptions.

The shops will close on September 11.

The owners of active domain names registered through our service will soon receive an email with the information required to transfer their domain name to another website.

Thank you all for your trust!

We are proud to have invented such an innovative tool, but it soon became clear that our success was too dependent on search engine optimization, which we did anticipate.

Thank you all for your support, and see you soon!

The Zlio Team


PS: Throughout this period, our support is reachable by email to answer any questions at the address: http://www.zlio.com/help/contact
News about the service will be regularly published on our Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/zlio

PS2: The teams of Zlio have launched several projects over the last months, including:
http://www.kimaventures.com
http://www.iadvize.com
http://www.onetask.com
http://www.producteev.com

notepad++ multiple instances

If you want to run multiple instances of Notepad++

Easiest way is to create a shortcut on the desk top with the following :
1) Right Click desktop
2) Navigate to New -> Shortcut
3) Location of the item : "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" -multiInst
4) Name of shortcut : notepad++
5) Click Finish

The main part is adding -multiInst

For other Notepad++ Command Line Arguments
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/cmdLine-HOWTO.php

Wordpress get list of shortcodes

Trying to figure out what available Wordpress shortcodes with all of your plugins installed?

<?php
global $shortcode_tags;
echo "<pre>".print_r($shortcode_tags,true)."</pre>";
?>

Seems to do the job
http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API