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Become An iPhone Pro With These Interesting Hacks



Check out these interesting tips and tricks to use your iPhone like a pro

Smartphones these days have features more or less features like PC, which coupled with fast internet connectivity makes it easier to work while on the go. As a result, we end up spending most of our time on smartphones. In spite of that, many of us do not know the hidden tricks to use our smartphones in the best possible manner.

You may be owning an iPhone since 2007, the day it was launched but chances are that you dont know many hidden features that Apple has incorporated into it. In this article, we bring you some handy tips that will allow you to use your iPhone like a pro.

1. Keyboard: Double tap the space bar for a period at the end of the sentence in order to start a fresh sentence with a capital letter.

2. Ear plug: Do you know that you can click a selfie without touching your iPhone? All you need to do is press the + button of your ear plugs to click a picture without losing the focus.

3. Home-screen: Want the home screen of your iPhone 6 or 6 plus to lower down further? Just double tap the home button (do not click it) and the menu will drop down by a few centimetres.

4. Volume: Many a times, we end up adjusting the volume while listening to music to avoid the disturbing background noises. Not, anymore. Just, go to Settings > Music > EQ > Late Night and enjoy your music in peace.

5. Browsing: You can save yourself from the hassle of saving your email in drafts in order to copy the content from another email in your inbox. All you need to do is, tap in between Cancel and Send to minimize the New Message window. Now, you can easily scroll through your email and return to the New Message window at the bottom of the screen.

6. Keyboard: You notice a mistake in the sentence formation after typing the entire text. What to do? Just shake your phone to undo typing and write a fresh text without wasting a minute.

7. Reading: Many times we are bombarded with low storage notifications from our smartphone. You have to cut your app list reluctantly. Here is how you can save some storage space in your iPhone.

Avoid installing Dictionary app, as your iPhone already has an inbuilt dictionary. While reading, long press the word whose meaning you want to know. Click on the ‘define’ option from the list of options and improve your vocabulary.

8. Maps: The international mobile data pack makes a huge hole in the pocket while traveling abroad. So, if you wish to browse maps on the go, cache maps for offline use. Zoom in the location you are about to visit, type OK Maps in the search bar and your map will be saved for further reference.

9. Browsing: At times, while checking a webpage on our smartphones, we end up scrolling the page too far. Now, you can scroll to the top in a click only. Tap the status bar (the bar which mentions time and signal strength) and you will be redirected to the top of the webpage.

10. Keyboard: Do you find switching back and forth numeric keypad and alphabetic keypad hectic? Press and hold ‘123’ button on your keyboard and slide to the character you wish to input. The alphabetic keyboard will be resumed, as soon as you release the button.

How To Secure Any Android App With Your Fingerprint



Learn how you can keep your any Android app safe and private with your fingerprint

Google has now added fingerprint scanning support natively to Android ecosystem so that its own devices, Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P could use this fingerprinting facility. Luckily for Android smartphone owners, Google also added the fingerprint scanning support to its stock Android AOSP project making the Fingerprint API available for anybody who can use it.

The bad luck is that your smartphone needs a fingerprint scanner to make full use of this API. Since Google made the Fingerprint API available for Android smartphones, many developers started to implement this facility into their Apps. Once such developer is Rick Clephas, who used the API to provide superb locking system for Android Apps. Using his App will now allow Android smartphone owners to set their fingerprint as passcode to open any App on their mobile.

In this article, we shall show you how you can lock any app using your fingerprint to keep away your pokey friends and ensure privacy.

Requirements:

• Fingerprint scanner
• Android 6.0 Marshmallow or higher

(Note that Samsung devices running Android 4.3 to 5.1 will still work using Samsung’s API, and those on Marshmallow will use Google’s API)

Step 1: Install FingerSecurity by Rick Clephas

FingerSecurity is a free app that will allow you to block access to the Apps of your choice on your device using your fingerprint.

Step 2: Installing the App

You will get a quick feature tour when you first launch FingerSecurity. On the second page of this tour, you will get a chance to double-check your device’s compatibility. Tap “Check Compatibility” here, and if you see a big green check mark, then proceed further.

From here, the next page of the feature tour will ask you to register fingerprints in your smartphone’s settings under “Security” if you have not done it before. Then, you will be prompted to create a backup password. Lastly, FingerSecurity will ask for “Usage Access.” So, tap “Open Settings” on the screen, then press “OK” on the following menu.

Step 3: Enable Additional Security Options (Optional)

Once the essentials are done, you might think of making your security stronger by enabling a pair of additional options. If you would like to avoid access to only certain screens within your apps, enable the “Improved protection” option in FingerSecurity’s Settings tab. Then, tap “Enable” on the popup, and select and enable the FingerSecurity entry on the following screen, and press “OK.”

Next, to stop someone from being able to bypass the fingerprint lock on your apps, enable the “Advanced security” option, and then press “Activate” on the next screen. This will turn FingerSecurity into a device administrator, which means that the app cannot be uninstalled or closed unless you open this settings menu, scan your fingerprint, and disable this option again.

Step 4: Locking Apps that you want to remain private

With all of the bigger options configured, the only thing left to do is select the apps you would like to lock with your fingerprint. From the Apps tab in FingerSecurity’s main menu, tap the floating action button in the bottom-right corner. Next, choose any apps you would like to lock, then enable the first toggle switch on the subsequent screen.

If you chose to enable the Improved Protection feature in Step 3, you will see a second toggle switch on the same menu. Enable this option to only lock certain screens within the app, and you will notice a popup. The entries in this list are activities, which mean that their names are not simple to decode. However, after the last period in each entry if you concentrate on just the words, you will get an improved idea of what each activity is.

Step 5: Unlock Apps with Your Fingerprint

Now that everything has been configured, your apps will be locked by default. When you open any of the apps you selected in Step 4, you will be greeted by the lock screen. All you need to do is simply scan your fingerprint to access them.

Rick has also released a premium FingerSecurity App which will give some some additional features over and above the free version.

Man sues Apple for $10 billion for ‘stealing’ his designs for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch



Florida man sues Apple for $10 billion for ‘stealing’ his iPhone designs from 1992

Apple’s lawsuit woes don’t seems to be ending anytime soon. A Florida man, Thomas S Ross has filed a lawsuit against Apple accusing the tech giant for stealing and using his own hand-drawn designs for an ‘Electronic Reading Device’ (ERD) that he conceived in 1992 for the design of its iPhone, iPad and iPod. Now, Ross man is suing Apple for over $10 billion (£7.5 billion). He also believes that he is owed “a reasonable royalty” of 1.5pc of all of Apple’s future sales.

Ross had filed a patent for an ERD, a rectangular, hand-held gadget with a screen, in 1992. In his lawsuit, he claims that he was “the first to file a device so designed and aggregated as to have created a novel combination of media and communication tools… whose identity was, since then, hijacked and exploited by Apple’s iPhones, iPods, iPads and others.”



Included in the lawsuit filing are drawings of Ross’s original patent conceived between May and September 1992. Ross claims Apple’s own reproductions “are substantially the same as his technical drawings of the ERD, and that Apple’s three-dimensional derivative devices (iPhone, iPod, iPad), embody the non-functional aesthetic look and feel”.


Among his submissions are a design for a further device – or likely a combination of two devices, known as the ‘Cypher-Text’, a ‘reading device’; and the ‘Cypher-Note’, a ‘writing device’ (shown below).

Ross’s patent was never actually approved, since he failed to pay the appropriate fees to the US Patent and Trademark Office, and the application was declared abandoned in 1995. However, he claims Apple resorted to “dumpster diving” when designing the iPhone and subsequent devices.



“Instead of creating its own ideas, Apple chose to adopt a culture of dumpster diving as an R&D strategy,” Ross’s lawsuit says.

It quotes Steve Jobs, who once said that “we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas”, and claims that Apple has caused Ross “great and irreparable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money”. However, he may struggle to convince a jury that Apple pinched his concept.

Ross is demanding a jury hear a trial in the Florida Southern District Court. Ross v. Apple, Inc. was filed with the Florida Southern District Court on June 27. The case number is 0:2016cv61471.

Hacker fools Facebook into allowing him to access to someone else’s FB account



Hackers get access to someone else’s Facebook account by tricking the social networking giant itself

Hackers fool Facebook users through social engineering and phishing to hand over their login credentials but what would you do when Facebook itself is fooled to hand over access to your account to a hacker ? Shocking right?

That’s what happened when a hacker deceived Facebook gained access to someone else’s account. The hacker posing as a user reportedly got in touch with Facebook to seek assistance to access his account, as he was unable to do so. He provided them with a fake ID and requested the tech giant to turn off login approvals. It was no surprise that the hacker was able to get Facebook to grant access to the account.

The victim in question is Aaron Thompson, a 23-year-old Michigan resident, who woke up on June 27 to find himself locked out of his own Facebook account, with the email address and phone numbers that were associated with it had been changed, according to a report by Motherboard. When panicked Thompson checked out his email and figured out what happened. On checking his email, Thompson found was a series of email between Facebook’s customer support and the hacker who had got control of his account.

“Hi. I don’t have anymore access on my mobile phone number. Kindly turn off code generator and login approval from my account. Thanks,” the hacker, posing as Thompson pretended to have lost access to the phone linked to the account, told the tech giant. Facebook’s automated response informed the hacker that if he couldn’t get in by using Code Generator (part of Facebook’s two-factor authentication system) the only other way was to send a photo ID to prove this was really Aaron Thompson. The hacker then sent what looks like a scanned photo of a fake passport.

That scanned image was also forwarded to Thompson’s email account with the response: “Thanks for verifying your identity. You should now be able to log into your account. We’ve also turned off login approvals to help prevent you from getting locked out of your account again in the future.”

According to Thompson, none of the details other than the name in the passport were accurate. Apparently, the fake image was then accepted by Facebook as sufficient proof and got the hacker complete control over Thompson’s Facebook account.

Upon discovering the scam, Thompson attempted to contact Facebook, in efforts to get back control of his account. He informed the tech giant that he was in fact the owner of the account and that previous emails and the passport ID had not been sent by him but the imposter.

“Please look further into this, it will be easy to see the account has been hacked. They sent a fake ID to Facebook’s help team to reset the email, and password,” he wrote.

Thompson, who claimed to have several pages on his Facebook account, which he used for business purposes, was reported feeling “pretty devastated” at having his online identity breached in such a way.

“It’s blatant harassment,” he said.

Thompson also claimed that the hacker allegedly contacted a few of his friends and even his fiancé, who he sent obscene pictures, called her names and even asked for nude pictures. He spent almost an entire day trying to get back control of his account and went to Reddit to explain his frustration.

However, the good news is that Facebook has understood their mistake and gone ahead by securing Thompson’s accounts and pages, and is also working on re-establishing his regular access. A Facebook spokesperson admitted: “Accepting this ID was a mistake that violated our own internal policies and this case is not the norm.”

In the end, this incident only highlights no matter how many security measures you put on your online accounts, it can by fairly simply bypassed by cybercriminals by creating mayhem on innocent victims.

Hacker Takes Over Oculus CEO’s Twitter Account, Announces New Boss



Oculus CEO’s Twitter account hacked, Hacker announces new Oculus CEO through it

An unknown hacker hacked Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe’s Twitter account on Wednesday. The hacker then used the hacked Twitter account to promptly announce a new CEO for the Facebook owned virtual reality company.


The hacker also changed Iribe’s Twitter bio to read, “im not testing ya security im just havin a laugh.”

This is just the latest in a string of tech CEO’s having their Twitter accounts compromised, however this hack doesnt seem to be the work of OurMine which has in the past hacked accounts of Travis Kalanick, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg and Dick Costolo.


The hacker told Techcrunch’s Lucas Matney that he accessed the password via last month’s MySpace breach. The hacker added that he almost managed to hack into Iribe’s email account if not for two factor authentication enabled by the Oculus CEO.

The hacker also used the hacked Twitter account to send some quirky messages :


The hack was fairly brief. By Thursday morning, the hacker’s tweets had been removed and Iribe’s bio was restored.

Inventor creates a ‘ghost phone’ that can be seen only using smart glasses


This ‘ghost phone’ screen can be seen using only smart glasses

How would you like your smartphone to be read only by you through a set of glasses. If somebody else views it, he/she could see just a blank screen but you can see all the Apps through smart glasses. Is this possible? Yes it is! A Turkish inventor has created a ‘ghost phone’ that can only be seen using smart glasses. In other words, the messages on your smartphone are meant for your eyes only. The smartphone has an altered screen combined with glasses and the display appears to be white to the naked eye with no content.

The thought came to Celal Göger from Diyarbakir, Turkey, when he was going around on crowded public transport in Istanbul, and felt strangers’ eyes looking over his shoulder at business messages on his smartphone. He then decided to create a way to hide iPhone information using a special screen used with glasses.


He came up with the ‘ghost phone’ in just four months, which he wants to name C.COGER I. The smartphone is altered utilizing a chip which makes the screen look white. A second chip in a pair of glasses then interfaces with the smartphone, making the screen noticeable to the wearer.


In spite of growing up in a small village without no electricity, Mr Goger has a technology studio where he invented this way of concealing his screen from others.


Mr Goger said: ‘I think I was born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

‘If I had been born in the UK I think I would have gotten a lot more support to move this project forward and start mass production of my invention.’


‘On the off chance that I had been conceived in the UK I think I would have gotten significantly more backing to advance this anticipate and begin large scale manufacturing of my development.

‘Somebody’s telephone is an exceptionally individual thing and I believe it’s amazingly discourteous when other individuals gaze at it.


‘When I completed my innovation I began educating individuals concerning it however no one trusted me.

‘They thought it must be some sort of enchantment trap until they saw my development which left them totally gobsmacked.

‘In the event that I can get financing I am wanting to take this anticipate advance and introduce an on/off catch on the telephone which implies that the client chooses whether to actuate the capacity.’

Tuesday, 28 June 2016

The Rise of Social Gaming



The way we connect to the Internet and the quality of those connections are evolving daily. Moving ever faster, the amount of information we are sharing with each other, and the gaming we are doing is astounding at times. This is why It comes as no surprise that the Internet is changing the face of social gaming as we know it.

The Rise of Social Gaming



Social gaming has been growing ever since games became more multiplayer. Even sat on a couch with our friends is a version of social gaming and a successful one. Now though we can play with people from all over the world, and communicate with them in many ways. Facebook has allowed us to even connect in casual games and pushed the rise of mobile gaming which is seeing astounding popularity.

Mobile gaming is one of the parts of the gaming world that is seeing the biggest growth. Casual games are easy to load onto our devices, and in no time we are connecting up with our friends to play the latest games that are “free-to-play”, though have a few hidden charges for those willing to pay them. This freemium model though is pushing social gaming to new heights of popularity.

With the increased speeds of the Internet, though, a new trend is to share our gaming endeavours. Whether this is on YouTube of a service like Twitch, we broadcast our gaming skill for all to see. The fact that the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 make it even easier to broadcast in this way has led to an explosion of gameplay sharing.

Another aspect of this game sharing and broadcasting of skilful play is the rise of eSports. This is where players have turned professional and are making the big bucks from play. eSports is showing real growth, and the success is sending social gaming to new heights, making the future of the industry an exciting place.

Whether you’re a casual gamer, somebody who likes pushing on with bingo game, or a person with their eyes on reaching the top of the eSports ladder, you are fuelling the rise in social gaming.

Monday, 27 June 2016

Samsung Galaxy S8 rumored to have dual rear cameras, 4K display



Samsung Galaxy S8 to also feature dual rear cameras, apart from 4K display

While there are already rumors about Samsung Galaxy S8 hitting the markets next February, the latest rumor now claims that it will have a dual rear camera system designed to compete better with the next iPhone. The next iteration of Samsung’s flagship smartphone will feature a dual camera module on the back of the phone and the dual camera lens is most likely to be engineered by Samsung motors (Semco), claims rumors. The smartphone will also come with necessary software additions to allow consumers to take advantage of the complete feature suite from the camera app.

The Samsung Galaxy S8 is also expected to feature a 4K resolution screen (2160 x 3840) and measure 5.5 inch UHD AMOLED screen. Adding the 4k resolution screen would help push along Samsung’s VR prowess by delivering a better user experience. The Galaxy S8 could be the first smartphone from Samsung to sport a UHD display and dual-camera configuration.

The smartphone could be powered by the Snapdragon 830 SoC. The chip will be produced using the 10nm FinFET process, which means that it will not only provide more power, but will also be energy efficient. Other hardware details on the Galaxy S8 are not known at this time.

Samsung is working on VR headset technology for next year and since this technology rotates around small phone displays being placed into a headset device that puts the 5.5 inch screen close to the eyes, 4K resolution will be an integral part of that type of VR.

With a potential for dual cameras, a Snapdragon 830 chip, and a 4K resolution screen, the next Galaxy S device could pose a serious threat to the Apple flagship phone.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Social Media Account Hacked



OurMine behind the hacking of Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora account

In our recent article, we had reported that how new hacking group, OurMine have been targeting elite tech accounts around the world. Their recent victim was Daniel Ek, the CEO and founder of Spotify. They are also responsible for breaking into the social media accounts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Channing Tatum, YouTubers Pewdiepie and Markiplier, Deadmau5, David Guetta, and former Twitter CEOs Dick Costolo and Ev Williams.

The recent victim to make this list was CEO of Google, Suchar Pichai. It appears that the Quora account of Google’s CEO has been hacked. The three-man hacker outfit has been posting messages on Quora through Pichai’s account. His Quora account is connected with his Twitter account. As a result, OurMine was able to tweet their hack to all 508,000 of his followers. However, the tweets have been removed now.



While it is unclear how the group is gaining access to their accounts, it likely doesn’t involve system breaches of the social networks their targets have accounts with. Instead, the group claims that it uses numerous exploits to pull passwords from celebrities’ browsers.

OurMine claims itself as a Security Firm. They said they are trying to support it’s targets so that these incidents do not happen again.

The group told TNW that it was only conducting a test. Here is what they said:

“We are just testing people security (sic), we never change their passwords, we did it because there is other hackers can hack them and change everything.”

The group also noted that it managed to gain access to Pichai’s account by exploiting a vulnerability in Quora’s platform, one that it claims to have reported to the company, but have got no response.

If you’re on Quora, it is advisable to change your password right away. Ensure that it is not the same as what you have for other services.

IBM Set To Launch A 200-Petaflop Supercomputer By 2018



Supercomputing future blast as IBM set to deliver 200-petaflop supercomputer by early 2018

Moore’s law may have come to a full stop in the transistor technology but it doesnt seem to hold true in Supercomputers. In the latest release of the Top500 on Monday, the Chinese system, Sunway TaihuLight was announced as the fastest supercomputers on the planet, with a Linpack benchmark rating of 93 petaflops and a claimed peak of 124.5 petaflops. Now IBM is set to break this record by 100 petaflops to create world’s fastest supercomputer by 2018.

Now the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory in U.S. has announced that it is having a new IBM system, named Summit, delivered in early 2018 that will now be capable of 200 peak petaflops. That would make it virtually twice as quick as TaihuLight, if the declare proves true.

The Summit will make use of IBM Power9 and Nvidia Volta GPUs. Summit will deliver over 5 occasions the computational efficiency of Titan’s 18,688 nodes utilizing solely about 3,400 nodes. Each node will have “over half a terabyte” of coherent memory (HBM + DDR4), as well as 800GB of non-volatile RAM, serving as a burst buffer or extended memory.

The DOE, in a statement responding to the news Monday about China’s supercomputer, said U.S. supercomputing capabilities “have grown exponentially by a factor of 300,000” since 1993. “High-performance computing remains an integral priority for the DOE,” the statement said.

The DOE, which buys many of the supercomputers used by the U.S. government for scientific research, has two other major supercomputers planned for 2018.

One system, named Sierra, is a planned 150-petaflop IBM system that will be located at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, and is scheduled to be available for use by mid-2018. A third supercomputer, a Cray and Intel system called Aurora, is due by late 2018, at the Argonne National Laboratory.

The latest TOP500 announcement Monday caused a little bit of a commotion. TaihuLight is not only roughly 3 times quicker than China’s Tianhe-2, the prior champion, but also it does not make use of US-sourced elements in any respect for the primary time. It is powered by Sunway 260-core SW26010 processors, which might be roughly on par with Intel Xeon Phi, in addition to customized proprietary interconnect.

Freedom 251: World’s Cheapest, $4 Android Smartphone To Start Shipping This Week



The controversial world’s cheapest $5 Freedom 251 smartphone ready to be shipped on June 30

Finally, the world’s cheapest smartphone at Rs. 251 (less than $4) will see the light of the day. Its makers, the Noida-based start-up Ringing Bells Pvt Ltd claim to have close to 2 lakh units of the phone ready for shipping. And if that’s not enough, the smartphone company is also planning to launch an affordable LED TV.

Indian smartphone maker Ringing Bells shook the entire tech world in February this year by announcing the world’s cheapest phone, Freedom 251 exclusively at a price of Rs. 251 (which is less than $4). They invited everyone to make registrations for grabbing the smartphone at an inexpensive price. However, their online payment model didn’t work as expected and there were many bugs in their website.

Also, Ringing Bells’ claim to be a part of Indian Government’s ‘Make In India’ program was found to be false. The cloud of suspicion hanging around this device further intensified when the prototype devices sent to the media were found to be disguised Adcom phones. The Android icons of the Freedom 251 also seemed borrowed from the iOS. To add to the company’s miseries, it came under the scanner of the Indian Government, which even investigated into this company. Even an FIR was lodged against the company. Finally, Ringing Bells decided to refund the money to its potential buyers and switch to a cash-on-delivery model.

Despite all the hiccups and accusations, the company has announced that it will be shipping the handsets starting June 30.

According to Ringing Bells’ Founder and CEO Mohit Goel, the company has been able to keep its promise to consumers.

“We are ready with nearly two lakh ‘Freedom 251’ handsets. We will start delivery from June 30,” Goel told IANS, adding that once he is done with this first phase of delivery (of two lakh phones), he will open registration again for those who wish to buy the handset.

The company had in mid-February this year planned to deliver 25 lakh handsets before June 30. However, it received over seven crore registrations before its payment gateway crashed within three days.

“We learned from our mistakes and decided to go silent till we come out with the product. Now we have a 4-inch, dual-SIM phone ready for delivery. I feel vindicated,” he said in one breath. “Our devices are completely ‘Make in India’ and were manufactured at our Haridwar-based manufacturing unit. We plan to sell two lakh devices every month.”

According to Goel, he is facing a loss of Rs. 140 – Rs. 150 per unit, but hopes to make profit on volumes. “We will have a loss, but I am happy that the dream of connecting rural and poor Indians as part of the ‘Digital India’ and ‘Make in India’ initiatives has been fulfilled with ‘Freedom 251’,” Goel said.

The 3G smartphone features a 4-inch display and is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor coupled with 1GB of RAM. It comes with an 8GB of in-built memory and supports external memory cards of up to 32GB. It sports an 8-megapixel rear camera along with a 3.2-megapixel front-facing shooter camera. The Freedom 251 packs a 1,800 mAh battery and runs on Android Lollipop 5.1. Ringing Bells have also ditched the iOS icons in favor of Android-themed ones.

The phone will be available in two color variants, black and white with centrally aligned rear camera and branding on the back panel. It has a speaker just alongside the branding.

The device displays the Indian Tricolour when you switch it on. The company has incorporated all the basic Google apps in the handset.

Goel also announced the launch of an affordable television set. “The company is also planning to launch a 32-inch high-definition LED television — also called ‘Freedom’. These will be the cheapest television sets in India and will be available for less than ₹10,000. Within two days, the delivery would be made and we will sell them online. We have 1 lakh units in stock,” Goel said.

In comparison, the cost of 32-inch HD LED TV sets normally begins from Rs. 13,000.

Whether Ringing Bells succeeds in making the world’s cheapest smartphone against all odds, will only be known after they deliver the Freedom 251 smartphone units to all the customers as promised by the end of this month.

Why Surfing Porn in Browser’s Incognito Mode Is Not Safe



Browsing for porn in your browser’s Incognito mode might not be as private as you think


Last week we had reported why logging out of Facebook while surfing porn websites is good because Facebook tracks users through the ‘Like’ and ‘Share’ buttons on such porn webpages. Carrying the research a bit further, we present you with another fact you didnt know. Surfing porn in any browser’s Incognito Mode doesnt make your porn habits private.

It is a fact that Incognito mode doesnt save history but that’s about the only protection it grants you. 99 out of 100 Google Chrome user think surfing porn in Incognito users is safe! Admit it, you use your browser’s Incognito window to surf porn yourself!!!

Why surfing in Incognito is not private?

Opening a private or incognito browser in either Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari or Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer only ensures your computer does not remember your online activity. As said above, any web browser will make sure your web searches and online history are not visible the next time you log in. And that is all that it does.

However that doesnt mean that Incognito surfing is private or anonymous. You Incognito browsing is stored by your ISP, your company and eventually the browser company. Your internet service provider – or ISP – is able to monitor every webpage and web search you made from your house.

Try opening your bank account or email webpage in Incognito mode. You will find that the data like your user name and password are filled up despite the Incognito mode not saving your data. It is fact that most browsers pull data from local memory to fill such details in both normal as well as Incognito mode.

Actually signing into your Gmail account in Incognito mode makes Google’s job of tracking your porn surfing habits that much more easier. 

If you haven’t disabled or paused your account’s Google Web History – you are able to log-in and track your porn surfing activity there, too.

What about other browsers? Most browsers do the same thing what Google does. Like Google, Mozilla Firefox uses an almost-identical disclaimer on its private browsing mode. But again, “while this computer won’t have a record of your browsing history, your employer or internet service provider can still track the pages you visit.”

Then there is something called Super Cookies. Many porn websites use something called Super Cookies which are able to track your movements across the web even when you are browsing in private mode. Super Cookies are like the regular, a lightweight software and sit on a website and fingerprint users who visit the page. When you return to that particular page again at a later date, the website is able to track the entirety of the user’s activity between the two visits.

Considering the above facts, it is unwise to think that your Incognito mode porn surfing habits are either private or anonymous. If you really want to be anonymous, use VPN but dont be under the impression that your Incognito browsing records are private.

Sunday, 26 June 2016

Save trees by using re-writable paper



Re-writable paper is another critical development in the setting of enhancing states of contamination and inordinate deforestation. This can be reused for around 20 times. Rather than utilizing ink or graphite, bright light is utilized to print down substance and additionally pictures.


Battles on “preserving trees’ would get a break if this creation of ‘Re-writable Paper’ comes into worldwide utilization. Being ‘re-writable’, this can lessen heaps of waste that is produced every year altogether from the paper business.



Nature Communications, discharged on 2 December, 2014 Yadong Yin, University of California, Riverside has clarified about new re-writable paper. In spite of expanded prevalence and also usage of computerized contraptions, Yin has faith in persuading eventual fate of re-writable paper innovation.


This re-writable paper chips away at concoction responses of decrease and oxidation. The paper at first has the color which is shaded being oxidized. Paper is secured with nano-sized crystals of titanium dioxide which are each around a billionth-of-a-meter in size. This hued paper is secured with words or pictures imprinted on a translucent base-like a stencil. To print the information, this paper surface is presented to bright (UV) light. The UV light causes reduction reactions on the parts that are not secured by printing; subsequently decolorizing those bits. Subsequently, the fragments that were secured by stencil stay hued.



In this strategy color is artificially diminished utilizing bright light. It is the obvious little size of nano-particles on the surface of paper that permit compelling and less demanding development of electrons; quickening redox  responses. The electrons lost by other natural parts of this re-writable paper involve openings, setting up the nano-crystals work once more.


For reusing, the paper must be made shaded once more. This is finished by oxygen existing in air. Oxygen pulls in electrons and the paper gets to be prepared for utilizing once more. To stay away from this procedure amid or not long after the printing, cellulose is included. It has a tendency to diminish cooperation of oxygen and color. The printed stuff can stay in place for two or more days.



To reuse the paper right then and there, warming procedure is utilized. Oxidation can be enacted at specific temperatures bringing back the whole paper in shading in under five minutes.


Exploration is as yet continuing enhancing components and making this re-writable paper usable in conventional lives. Points of interest connected with utilizing re-writable paper are its minimal effort and natural advantages obviously. Inside of couple of years of examination and alterations, re-writable paper is required to serve proficiently.


“Numerous individuals would like to peruse news on ordinary daily papers instead of tablet PCs,” says Yin. “Additionally, one does not have to stress over charging and keeping up batteries for re-writable paper. I accept there would be an in number interest for it.”

Samsung Unveils Its First Foldable Phone



It has been a common news that Samsung is dealing with its foldable cell phone for some time. The prior reports were viewed as only gossip, however Samsung itself affirmed that it is building a foldable phone. At last, the foldable cell phone is appearing to be closer to the truth.

The insider sources propose that the foldable telephone is coming in two models: one with Qualcomm Snapdragon 620 chip and the other with all the more intense Snapdragon 820. These telephones are relied upon to accompany 3GB RAM, a microSD card for additional memory storage and a non-removable battery. The source cases to have an inside and out learning about the handset, yet data is hard to check as he/she needs to stay unknown.

The main foldable telephone will include an adaptable presentation made of plastic. Samsung has been effectively exploring different alternatives regarding the screens of its telephones as seen in Galaxy S6 Edge and Note Edge. This first foldable telephone from Samsung will have a tiny bit bigger display that could be collapsed for effortlessness in bearing. As indicated by the spilled data, this is being alluded to as the Project-V inside V for Valley.

The Project Valley will be prepared by January one year from now and we could hope to catch a gander at it in the MWC in February end.

Hypotheses are being made that this could be the Samsung Galaxy S8, however that appears to be exceedingly unlikly to me. Simply the way Galaxy S7 Edge joined the normal lead Galaxy S7.

Latest rendition invisibility wrap can hide 3-D objects!



Researchers at UC Berkeley have built up a foldable, unbelievably thin invisibility shroud that can wrap around minute objects of any shape and make them imperceptible in the obvious range. In its ebb and flow frame, the innovation could be helpful in optical processing or in covering mystery microelectronic parts from prying eyes, yet as indicated by the scientists included, it could likewise be scaled up in size without hardly lifting a finger.

Articles are unmistakable to us on the grounds that a little parcel of the light that hits them is scattered toward our retinas. Invisibility wrap can make articles vanish from sight by misusing the bizarre optical properties of supposed metamaterials. These exceptional man-made mixes can control light in one of a kind approaches to guide it around the wraps surface, with the goal that no light is reflected from it or the item it’s protecting.



Shrouds have as of now been conceived that work in the unmistakable, infrared and bright divides of the electromagnetic range. On the other hand, while fruitful in twisting light around an item, these gadgets likewise irritate the period of the electromagnetic wave; in this way, while the article stays covered up as no light is reflected off it, the cloak itself can in any case be spotted through specific instruments. In addition, these gadgets additionally have a tendency to be extremely cumbersome and difficult to scale up in size.

A group drove by UC Berkeley’s Xiang Zhang has now utilized huge advances in metamaterial building to outline an enhanced shroud that is particularly thin, just 80 nanometers thick, not experience the ill effects of the stage location issues of past shrouds, lives up to expectations in the noticeable light range, and could allegedly be scaled up to shield naturally visible items.

The wrap meets expectations by utilizing varieties of gold nanoantennas, with every one controlling the light’s period wave that is scattered off the shroud. At the point when a shrouded article is enlightened by 730-nanometer wavelength (dark red) light, the reception apparatuses make the cloak demonstration like a flawlessly level mirror, paying little heed to its present shape.

Zhang and group tried their innovation by wrapping the shroud around a cell-sized article with a profoundly sporadic shape. Of course, when red light struck the shroud, it reflected off its surface as though off a level mirror, making the item underneath it undetectable even by stage touchy identification. At the point when the polarization of the nanoantennas was changed, the shrouding impact halted altogether.

“This is the first run through a 3D object of discretionary shape has been shrouded from noticeable light,” says Zhang. “Our ultra-slight shroud now resembles a coat. It is anything but difficult to outline and execute, and is conceivably versatile for concealing plainly visible items.”

While the capacity to draw a Harry Potter with a substantial scale adaptation of this shroud may be years away, the present rendition could as of now discover utilization sequestered from everything delicate formats of electronic segments or supporting the improvement of optical PCs.

How does WhatsApp work?



WhatsApp is a messenger that aims to replicate the SMS experience, but avoid the expense of SMS. Part of what makes SMS popular is that it rides on top of the phone numbers that you can also use to make a phone call. So you can exchange a phone number with someone, and then you have a choice of reaching that person via a telephone call, or an SMS text message.

WhatsApp expands on that idea so that you can now also reach a person via WhatsApp if you have their phone number. This phone number matching done by WhatsApp is not some optional feature — it’s a core aspect of using WhatsApp, as there is no other way of finding people than having their phone number.Once you have found someone to talk to on WhatsApp, the mechanism of chatting is pretty straightforward.The simplest phrase for WhatsApp is that it is a “store and forward” system.

This happens in a couple of places. The WhatsApp client will store any message you send, and keep trying to send it to the WhatsApp servers. his behavior varies somewhat by platform, as some mobile platforms do not allow arbitrary code execution, and this restriction can be visible to the user at times – this is most obvious on the iPhone and Windows Phone platforms, as apps have very restricted access to the CPU when not in the foreground. On other platforms, like Android, BlackBerry, BlackBerry-10, Symbian and Nokia S40, the OS allows background execution, so the user experience is substantially nicer.

This “store and forward” also happens on the WhatsApp chat servers. When a WhatsApp mobile app connects to the chat servers, the store-and-forward process occurs in both directions. The client sends any pending messages in its message store to the server, while the server sends all the accumulated messages destined for that client to the client. This process is done on an acknowledgement basis. This means messages are sent repeatedly until the other side acknowledges receipt of the message.

One difference between the server and the client for “store and forward” is that the server drops messages once they are acknowledged – there is no long term storage. Whereas the client will update the UI to double-check status once the ack. arrives, but will keep the message. In the WhatsApp framework, the client is the canonical message store, and the server is a router with temporary storage. This is in contrast to the more typical “store everything forever” strategy seen by other large communication providers operating today.

The lifecycle of a message from ‘A’ to ‘B’ is thus: -user A sends a message by hitting ‘send’ button. A’s client code connects to the chat server. A’s client sends the message body to the chat server. the chat server sends an ‘ack’ back to the client code so that the message isn’t sent again in the future.

This puts the message in ‘single check’ in the UI. Now the message is owned by the server. If we are lucky, client B is already online, and the message can be pushed down the existing connection B has established. If client ‘B’ is not currently online, then the server has a decision tree of actions to take to try to get B to connect. Typically a push notification is delivered to client B.

Some platforms will just display that notification directly to the user, and wait for user action to start the app. Others allow the push notification to be delivered directly to the WhatsApp application, in the background. Background delivery is again, a much nicer experience for the user, as WhatsApp can then setup a chat connection in the background, fetch the messages, then notify the user.

This means the user won’t have to wait for message delivery when they open the application, as the messages are already inserted into the message database. No matter how B’s client code is activated, once it connects to the server and receives A’s message, it sends back an ‘ack’ to the server. This relieves the server from the duty of delivering that message in the future. This ‘ack’ is routed all the way back to A’s client, and the message is then in ‘double check’ in the UI for A, indicating that the delivery process is complete.

Apple iPhone 7 to come in 3 models with 256GB Pro model



Apple’s iPhone 7 to be available in 3 versions, Pro version to have 256GB storage, dual camera and smart connector

It is always good to be spoiled for choices before you purchase anything. But what happens if this choice is offered to you by Apple.

Following World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) held in San Francisco, California this month and the unveiling of iOS 10, there are rumors that Apple may be releasing three different versions of the iPhone 7 this fall, including something called the ‘iPhone 7 Pro’, reported 9to5Mac on Thursday.



The new rumor suggests that the iPhone will follow the iPad model, which means that it could be an iPhone 7, 7 Plus and a new ‘Pro’ model to choose from. In other words, it is nothing but the same as the iPad mini, iPad Air and iPad Pro.

In terms of design, the smartphone is said to be much like the iPhone 7 Plus, but will offer more ‘Pro’ features for those that want it. While there is no clarity if the Pro may be a larger device like the original iPad Pro was for the iPad lineup. It is also rumoured that the iPhone Pro may have a dual-camera array, and/or wireless charging via the smart connector like the iPad Pro. It is also expected to be water resistant like the Samsung Galaxy S7. Additionally, it is rumoured that the 3.5mm headphone jack from the bottom of the smartphone will be removed.

The reference to a new “Pro” line for the iPhone 7 in addition to standard iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus models isn’t exactly new. Alleged leak schematics that appeared in a Japanese magazine a couple months back claimed to show an ‘iPhone 7 Pro’ model sporting a dual-camera system and Smart Connector functionality.

Top 10 highest-paying job profiles in tech sector for 2016



10 Highest-Paying Job Titles In The Technology Industry In 2016

The technology industry is widely considered as one of the best-paying industry world over, as there is an exceptional demand for people with technical skills. However, not all skillsets are treated equally.

Recently, U.S. based StackFlow, one of the world’s largest online community for programmers, released 2016 Developer Hiring Landscape. The annual developer survey that received over 50,000 responses from 173 countries looked across industry segments ranging from software development and web services to more traditional sectors like manufacturing, defense, automotive, and aerospace to find out most desirable job titles in the technology industry.

1. Executive VP (tech), CTO or CIO

Topping the job title list is Executive VP (Vice President), CTO (Chief Technology Officer) and CIO (Chief Information Officer). Usually at the top of the tech ladder, the men/women holding these job titles earn an average annual salary of $150,314.

2. Engineering manager

Engineering managers, in charge of teams of developers and programmers earn an annual salary of $143,122 in the U.S.

If you are looking to make six figures in the tech world, then these are the 10 highest-paying job titles in the technology industry in the U.S.

3. Enterprise level services developer

These guys are usually the ones who make software for the big businesses. As a result, the enterprise level services developers command big money. If you can develop software explicitly for a big business audience, the average annual salary for such a job title is $121,908 in the U.S.

4. Mobile Developer, iOS

While Android may be the most popular operating system in the world, developers working on the iOS operating system powering idevices such as iPhone and iPad are much in demand. According to the Stackflow survey, the annual average salary of iPhone app developers is $115,460.

5. Data Scientist

Data scientist is the latest ‘in’ thing in tech sector and is widely hyped to be one of the hottest job titles of 2016. These big data crunchers can earn an average annual salary of $115,244.

6. Developer with statistics or mathematics background

Developers with backgrounds in statistics or mathematics too have high demand in the U.S. with their annual salary at $111,656.

7. Embedded application developer

Embedded applications are going universal. Embedded application developers work on high-reliability, high-security, high-expectation software that goes directly into devices like voting machines, smart stethoscopes, and even cars like Tesla’s. With IoT a rage world over, there’s little surprise that embedded application developers command high salaries. According to the survey, the average annual salary of an embedded application developer is $110,899.

8. DevOps

‘DevOps’ is a relatively new term that combines ‘developer’ and ‘operations’. The responsibilities can be vague, but generally focus on helping build and maintain next-generation apps on innovative cloud computing platforms. The last few years has seen an increase in demand for people with DevOps skills. According to the survey, a DevOps pro can make $109,640 a year.

9. Back-End Web Developers

The back end of a website comprises server, applications, database and more. Specialists in back-end web development, a technically demanding role are the guys who have the specialized knowledge of the plumbing that makes websites work. The average salary of back-end web developers is $108,580, according to the survey.

10. Mobile Developers

Since the rise of smartphones, mobile developers have been named as the hottest job title by several surveys. Mobile developers for operating systems like Google’s Android make a little bit more. StackFlow survey pegs the annual salary earned by mobile developers at $104,648.

Why Users Switch Back To Android Smartphones From iPhones



Reasons why Android smartphone users go for iOS and then come back.


iOS vs. Android has always been a burning topic for debates all over the internet. There are numerous users who have changed their Android smartphone with an Apple iPhone and later regretted their decision. In this article I’ll point out the reasons for which Android users switch to iOS and the problems they face after it.

Okay! First lets discuss about exciting features of Apple devices:

1. Retina Display

A display having pixels density more than 300 PPI(Pixels Per Inch). Apple used the term “Retina Display” for its such displays. It was said that the visual quality offered by retina display will be beyond amazing. It is true, whether you’re watching a movie, playing a game, reading a document or doing any task with your phone, the display will make working with your Apple device a visual delight.

2. Smooth Operation

Yes! This is definitely an attractive “feature” of Apple phones and tabs. When we compare an Android device and an Apple device having similar hardware( RAM size, Processor cores etc), we quickly find out that Apple device performs far much smooth than the Android device. Android users can be seen often complaining about how installing a new game converted their phone into a brick, Apple users seldom face such situation.

3.Camera

The camera of Apple devices is always ahead of the time. That said, an Apple phone or tab having a camera of specific megapixels will always beat the Android phone or tablet having same megapixels. Thanks to the big aperture of the camera lens, decent extra features and better image processing offered by Apple.


This is not it. The list is pretty long but I’ve mentioned the major factors only. Now lets have a look at what actually comes along these features which we get for paying large amount of extra money.

1. No Expandable Memory

Actually it is expandable on iCloud only. And since Android users get used to having an option of increasing the memory just by buying an SD card, it is not easy for them to handle this surprise. So, they have limited memory, the additional stuff can be put on iCloud, which is a paid service itself.

2.Nothing can be Customized :

Customization is almost nothing in Apple phones when compared with Android ones. Google works extensively on its UI to make it attractive and flexible at the same time. Users can personalize their phones on drag-n-drop basis. Although Android devices too have some restrictions but the extent is very different between these two.

So, if you want the freedom to change things at a level similar to Android, you’ll need to jailbreak your Apple device.

3.The Sliders are Annoying:

If you need to lower brightness in your Android, you just open the brightness status bar and put your thumb to the desired place and the brightness is set to that level. But in Apple you have to put your thumb on the slider and then slide it to the desired position, this is damn irritating for an ex Android user.

4.Price is always Sky High:

And no one knows why Apple never worked on providing affordable phones to its users. And the price always depletes to its half in two years. Most of the iPhone lovers are seen to buy an iPhone just after two or two and a half years after its launch.

Well, these were the points one needs to keep in mind while switching. Above all Apple phones and tabs are amazing in their quality. And Android is affordable yet amazing.

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