Ravi S. Iyer: Worldly

Last updated on  9 Sep. 2023   9 Sep. 2023 Update: I rarely use the software covered in this post now. To see the current software for creating Blogger blogbooks that I use, please visit:  Short User Guide to creating Blogger Blogbooks from Backup/Export File using ExportFileFilterAndGenBook and another VBA projects' macros/code (free and open source),  https://ravisiyermisc.blogspot.com/2023/09/short-user-guide-to-creating-blogger.html  . end-Update 9 Sep. 2023 8 Jul 2023 Update Note I decided to put up and publish this post on 28 June 2023 while the Google Apps Script project work was in progress, as I wanted to ensure that whatever work I had done till then was available for interested readers. I updated this post in a big way over the next few days as I progressed towards a stable solution. Now,  as of 8 Jul. 2023, the Google Apps Script project is stable. I have also put up a post about the stable version: BlogBooksMaker Google Apps Script to Create Bl...

Over past few days, I was creating pdf blogbooks for period from around 2020 to now, for posts and pages of my two main blogs - this worldly blog and the other spiritual blog. I used the free version of BlogBooker online facility,  https://blogbooker.com/ , for most of the task. That works well but the free version restricts the use as 3 times and max blog period of 1 year each time, within a utility usage period of 6 months. I quickly used up the free version runs and was able to manage two such runs. After that I still had some posts to capture in a single pdf as well as pages of the two blogs, and looked around for free software or online facility to do that other than BlogBooker. That's when I came across this wkhtmltopdf utility. Yesterday, 25th Jun. 2023, I installed and tried out wkhtmltopdf command line program on my Microsoft Windows PC. It worked in two cases but tripped up on the third which had to be fixed by breaking up the work into parts! Overall, I found it to be a...

In March of this year (2023), I changed the blogger theme of this (worldly) blog (ravisiyermisc.blogspot.com) as well as of my main spiritual blog (ravisiyer.blogspot.com) from 'Simple Bold' theme to 'Contempo Light' to ensure that search blog facility was provided when viewing the blogs on mobile. For more details, please visit my post: In Blogger, showing search button (facility) in mobile view by changing Theme from Simple Bold to Contempo Light, https://ravisiyermisc.blogspot.com/2023/03/in-blogger-showing-search-button.html . After this change, I saw that the Archive gadget functionality gave a limited view of archived posts in one view as compared to what the Archive gadget did with 'Simple Bold' theme. You could usually see only one month's posts in one view and had to click a button to see another month's view at which time the previously selected month's posts would not be shown. I very much wanted to provide visitors to my blog, as well as...

When author of post or comment is not mentioned, it should be assumed that it is me (Ravi S. Iyer). To save time, I am usually not providing my FB post links but only contents. I am also not hyperlinking links. So readers may have to copy-paste links from this post onto a browser link box and then browse to that link. ==========================================  How to Update a Shared File in Google Drive Without Changing the Shareable Link  https://www.howtogeek.com/261196/how-to-update-a-shared-file-in-google-drive-without-changing-the-shareable-link/ ----------- Reality of the past for rural commoner folks. buffalo chips meaning, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buffalo%20chips FB post: https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/pfbid024wXHUr2x57aUpmhSLme2tGsDRnygKRepCKAE8n4paoYm81EHHmkxEA7Zsv9HKZcal shares post with pic and caption, "Pioneer woman collecting buffalo chips for fuel." ========== On FB post: https://www.facebook.com/Trayambakam/posts/pfbid02nt...