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Thursday, May 21, 2015

How To Capture Someone’s Picture Who Tries To Unlock Your Phone

Some things are better if kept private. I have seen many people hating it like anything when their friends or family members try to unlock their smartphone without their permission. And sometimes due to lots of successive incorrect attempts, the phone gets hard-locked – that means the only way to unlock your phone is via your email. This is enough to irritate a person. Also, you can not do anything about it because you don’t know whom to yell at.

Today, I am going to tell how you can capture a photo of that intruder who tries to unlock your phone without your permission. The only thing you have to do is to download and install this free Android app called Hidden Eye. Hidden Eye once installed will capture a photo of the intruder each time he/she tries to unlock your device.

How Hidden Eye Works?

It’s very simple to use the Hidden Eye app: just open it and tap on the OFF button which is located at middle and then tap to ACTIVATE it. Now tick the options on which you want to get alerted, and this is it.

Hidden Eye app work on a very simple idea- each time intruder tries to unlock your device, it will capture an image of him/her which you can see by tapping on View Intrusions. You can also see the date and the timing below the image captured by app.

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If you have turned on the first option, your phone will ring after 3 attempts with the default ringtone. With enabling the second option, you will get to see the intrusion in notification bar. And if you enabled the third option, you will get to see the intruder’s image at the time of unlocking your phone.


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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Know How Easy It Is To Lose Your Important Data From SSD

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According to a new research in the data storage field, new solid-state drives are prone to data leakage over time. These hard drives are faster and have more storage size but all of them have a major flaw associated with its basic property, that it will eventually lose its data if it is not powered regularly or for few days.
A solid state drive (SSD) (also known as a solid-state disk though it contains no actual disk nor a drive motor to spin a disk) is a data storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies as memory to store data persistently. We all know SSD’s qualities over regular hard drives and we normally think that it will last forever even if we smash it with hammer or pour acid on it.
The basic reason behind this flaw is the non-regulated and unmaintained temperature. The real problem is the time after which it will lose data. For different scenarios the time taken is also different – it can take months, or sometimes few days and then it’s gone.
Nobody needs the details on how important your stored data can be sometimes. Think as it is a legal evidence and it will go after two years in court as in India (blame the slow India judicial system) and suddenly you noticed that all data is gone or think of an instance suddenly all of your Facebook images are gone simply because Facebook stored it in SSD and forgot about it. But, it will not happen as Facebook have their separate cold storage facilities to outrun this problem.



A recent presentation is given by Alvin cox, Seagate’s engineer at Joint Electron Device Engineering Council seminar. He warned that the period of time data is retained on some solid-state drives is halved for every 9°F (or 5°C) rise in temperature where it’s stored. It means that if the solid state drive is at normal room temperature which is 25°C then it’s okay but if the temperature goes somewhat 5°C high, then half of your data will be gone.
Now all the guys living in desert areas might be thinking that why they still have their data safe. You don’t lose your data that easily if you are regularly giving power to it or maintaining the temperature by using it. Or, you are using some high-end SSD, which we all are using in our MacBooks or gaming laptops then it will have around two-year life span. So, for two years, your data will be safe even if you change the temperature or not.
But enterprise solid state drives are the most affected ones. These drives are having the data loss problem pretty severely. So for the companies who value their data or work on their stored data, it’s a big problem. The one and only reasonable solution to this is to make its copy on mechanical disk. Or else you might lose your data without knowing about it.

Friday, April 3, 2015

DVDFab Giveaway!

Ladies and Gentlemen, we are proudly to present you a gift from our team.

We will give a FREE* software giveaway, licensed and fully functional.


A. DVD to DVD
1. 8 DVD to DVD copy modes available: Full Disc, Main Movie, Split, Customize, Customize Split, Clone, Merge and Write Data.
2. Full Disc: All movies, menus and trailers, is copied to a DVD with just one click.
3. Main Movie: Just copy the movie, with specific audio/subpicture.
4. Split: Copy a DVD-9 onto two DVD-5 discs with 100% quality, and preserve original menus on both discs. Ideal for episodic/season DVD movies, TV series, etc.
5. Customize: Personalize your DVDs! Want to make a DVD with only your favorite titles? How about cutting out those annoying commercials? Or selecting specific audio/subpicture? No problem! You can select just your favorite titles, specify the title playback order, with or without original menus, to create a DVD with only the stuff you want!
6. Customize Split: Copy a DVD-9 onto two DVD-5 discs using "Customize" way. Ideal for episode/season DVD.
7. Clone: Make perfect 1:1 bit-to-bit copy of DVDs: * Make perfect dual layer DVD copy by using the original layer break position.
* Copy data DVD disc, like PS2 DVD.
8. Merge: Combine several titles of several sources into one DVD:
* Combine two DVD-9 like "The Lord of the Rings" into one DVD-9.
* Merge season DVDs to fewer discs.
* Create your own special features collection disc.
9. Write Data: Burn existing DVD folder or ISO image file to DVD writer, or convert DVD folder to ISO image file.
10. Burn to any blank DVD Disc (DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL).
11. Constantly updated to support latest DVD burners and blank DVD discs.
A. Blu-ray to Blu-ray
1. 4 Blu-ray to Blu-ray copy modes available: Full Disc, Main Movie, Clone and Write Data.
2. Full Disc: All movies, menus and trailers, is copied to a Blu-ray with just one click.
3. Main Movie: Just copy the movie, with specific audio/subpicture.
4. Clone: Make perfect 1:1 bit-to-bit copy of Blu-ray.
5. Write Data: Burn existing Blu-ray folder or ISO image file to Blu-ray writer, or convert Blu-ray folder to ISO image file.
6. Compress BD-50 to BD-25/BD-9/BD-5. (coming soon)
7. Very fast copying speed.
8. Burn to any blank Blu-ray Disc (BD-R 25, BD-RE 25, BD-R 50, BD-RE 50).
9. Constantly updated to support latest Blu-ray burners and blank Blu-ray discs.


Acronyms / Also Known As:
DVDFab, BluFab, DVDFab DVD Copy, DVDFab Blu-ray Copy, DVDFab Video Converter, DVDFab DVD Ripper, DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper, DVDFab DVD to Mobile, DVDFab Blu-ray to Mobile, DVDFab DVD Ripper, DVDFab Blu-ray 3D Ripper, DVDFab Blu-ray to DVD Converter


 * - You must complete a simple offer to download the file. In this way we prevent leechers and spam/bots.
Offers are easy to complete and it will cost you about 2 minutes!

Download it here.

Remove unwanted Toolbars, Addons, Plugins

Soft4Boost Toolbar Cleaner: Remove unwanted Toolbars, Addons, Plugins

Toolbars which are foisted on your computer as bundled software, usually affect the performance your PC. These toolbars, add-ons, and plug-ins which land silently on our PCs while installing the third party freeware, may even compromise the security of your computer,  clutter the screen space of your browser and make it load slowly. The may even make some changes in settings, which could be difficult to revert. They could show pop-ups and even leak your personal data. If you are fed up of such annoying and nasty toolbars and their intrusive pop-ups, Toolbar Cleaner is a free tool that can help you remove  all those unwanted toolbars, add-ons and plug-ins.

Soft4Boost Toolbar Cleaner

While you can manually uninstall toolbars using the Control Panel, toolbar cleaner and remover tools like this one makes things easier and ensures a complete uninstall.

Soft4Boost Toolbar Cleaner

Soft4Boost Toolbar Cleaner is a free toolbar uninstaller software, which removes all unwanted toolbars, addons, plugins from your Windows PC in real time, for any browser.
It is a simple program which takes just a few minutes to download and install in your computer system. Even a layman can install and run it to remove the tenacious toolbars, add-ons and plug-ins from your PC.

Remove unwanted browser toolbars, addons, plugins

You need to close all your running browsers to make this program start working. Once you have closed them, and created a system restore point, run the tool. The main overview of the program says all.
Click on the Refresh button, and the toolbar cleaner then automatically identifies all the toolbars, addons, browser extensions and plugins along with their path and brings you the entire list in real time. You can then select and remove them manually from your PC. It allows you to remove one or more items at one go.
Toolbar Cleaner will display a list of all – with pre-checked boxes, so do not click on Remove blindly. Go through the list and uncheck those which you know are safe and useful to you. Keep only the one’s you want to remove, checked. Once you have done this, you may click on the Remove button. This make the whole removal process quite easy as you can remove multiple browser extensions in a click.
The View tab allows you to change the skin of the program. There are 11 different skins available to switch upon – AMPix, iTunes, Android, Bionix, GPX, iPhone, Metal, MSOffice 2010, Ubuntu, VIPZone, and Xfactor.
If you don’t want to remove any of the toolbars or plugins from your system, you can add them to the Ignore list and refresh the list. The Ignore list already includes My Toolbar, and Soft$Boost Toolbar. You may want to remove them from this list.
You can also send an email to the support team directly from the ‘Email us’ tab in the About section.
You can download Soft4Boost Toolbar Cleaner here and remove the disturbing toolbars and add-ons. WOT ranks the website poorly, but I did not face any issues while downloading and installing the tool. The program is ad-supported and it displays a static ad in the header.

Computer screen glare reduction freeware for Windows

As computer users, we often spend hours in the late night working.
One difficulty that is encountered in the task is staring into a vision brighter than the brightness to which our eyes are adapted. Windows includes the Adaptive Brightness feature, where the OS checks the lighting conditions of your computer’s surroundings and adjusts the brightness and contrast level automatically. 
But this may not always work the way you want it to, 
and that is where using a free software to reduce glare can help you.
Today, we will take a look at SunsetScreen.

Computer screen glare reduction freeware

SunsetScreen Computer screen glare reduction freeware

Skytopia has come up with a nifty application SunsetScreen, a free tool for Windows that helps automatically reduce the enhanced glare on your computer screen at night. The rationale behind developing this freeware is the scientific research that indicates over-bright screens can affect the production of melatonin – the chemical which helps control sleep and wake cycles.
SunsetScreen dims the screen to match the color of the indoor lightning which in turn may reduce the effect that over-bright screens have on the production of melatonin thereby, helping you get a sound and restful sleep. It is advisable to have a screen that matches your current lighting conditions to make your computer more comfortable for use. isn’t it?
With SunsetScreen, it’s easy to dim our screens to an orange-ey hue to match the colour of the indoor lighting we use. The application gives you good control over the color adjusting process and is much more configurable in nature.
It has a system tray icon, but there’s no right-click menu to configure its functions: you can only close the program or show its main window. Although, above description hints less automation, the app gives you more control to adjust the cycle based on your needs. You can modify the transition phase (set to 60 minutes by default). In this phase, the program handily switches from day color to night color mode.
SunsetScreen is similar to F.Lux application for Windows PC which also helps users adjust to the monitor brightness better. The application is compatible with all recent versions of Windows (including Windows 8).

SunsetScreen for Windows free download

Interested users, try this application and make your computer more usable at night. It requires Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. You can download the latest version of the software from here.
There is also a portable version available.

If you give it a try, do let us know in the comments section below how it works for you.