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Wednesday, May 13, 2015
These Ray Ban solar shades can charge your iPhone 5
The glasses perform their traditional duty while youre catching some rays, and the solar panel fills the small battery hidden within. When the sun sets, you can remove one of the arms of the shades and plug it into your iPhone for an extra shot of energy. As the glasses were made for a school project, theres little chance youll get the opportunity to buy them any time soon, but an idea this good seems like it deserves to find its way to retail sooner or later.
Data source: via TUAW (By Mike Wehner)
Monday, May 11, 2015
Apple No We Can’t Read Your iMessages And We Don’t Want to Either
Touting its commitment to user privacy in the wake of the NSA surveillance scandal earlier this year, Apple said that the end-to-end encryption protecting its iMessage instant-messenger service is so secure that even the company itself cannot decrypt it. But, on Thursday, security outfit QuarksLab disputed that claim, arguing that Apple could intercept iMessage communications if it wanted to.
“Apple can read your iMessages if they choose to, or if they are required to do so by a government order,” QuarksLab said in a white paper presented Thursday at the Hack in the Box conference.
Apple disagrees — vehemently. We’ll get to that in a minute.
QuarksLab research is far too labyrinthine to summarize here, but the gist of it is this: Because Apple controls the keys used to encrypt iMessages between sender and the recipient, it could theoretically conduct a so-called “man-in-the-middle attack” on the two, making sender and recipient believe they are chatting directly and securely with one another, when they aren’t — and reviewing their communications.
“As Apple claims, there is end-to-end encryption,” QuarksLab explains. “The weakness is in the key infrastructure as it is controlled by Apple: They can change a key anytime they want, thus read the content of our iMessages.” QuarksLab, it should be noted, has no evidence that Apple does or has done this. It’s presentation begins with this explicit statement: “What we are not saying: Apple reads your iMessages.
What we are saying: Apple can read your iMessages if they choose to, or if they are required to do so by a government order.”
QuarksLab
QuarksLab’s research has so far been well-received by the security community, with cryptography experts saying that the concepts on which it is based are sound.
“I think what their presentation demonstrates is that it’s very difficult, but not impossible, for an outside attacker to intercept messages if they’re able to control key aspects of the network,” independent security researcher Ashkan Soltani told AllThingsD. “Probably not something that just any actor can do, but definitely something a state/government actor or Apple themselves could do, if motivated.”
But Apple insists it is not so motivated. And it stands by its June claims about iMessage’s security. Apple says that QuarksLab’s theory is just that — a theory, and one that would require a rearchitecting of iMessage for it ever to be a threat in the real world.
“iMessage is not architected to allow Apple to read messages,” said Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller said in a statement to AllThingsD. “The research discussed theoretical vulnerabilities that would require Apple to re-engineer the iMessage system to exploit it, and Apple has no plans or intentions to do so.”
In other words, iMessage was built to thwart attacks, not abet them.
That is Apple’s publicly stated intent, anyway. As we’ve learned from the NSA surveillance scandal this year, there are some actors out there who might prefer iMessage to work just the way QuarksLab describes. So perhaps in today’s world iMessage’s encryption is only as good as your trust in Apple.
Said Soltani, “We’ve recently seen indication of companies like Skype or Lavabit being forced to enable interception capabilities in their system, so it would be naive to think that Apple wasn’t at least approached by the government at some point.”
Data source: AllThingsD (By John Paczkowski)
Friday, April 3, 2015
Introducing Asus MicroFilm Your Life Story
ASUS MicroFilm lets you easily collect your photos and pictures and transfer them to vivid video with beautiful and elegant soundtracks. ASUS MicroFilm also lets you to have fun to share your stunning slideshow movies with your families and friends instantly!
In ASUS MicroFilm, you will be able apply good quality slideshow themes with stylish video and photo effects. With Intuitive steps to create the slideshow movie step-by-step, you will be able to shuffle the selected photos to vary the created slideshow movie differently .
After creating your own stylish microfilm, you even can easily share your unique photo movie on Facebook, Google+, Youtube and other popular social network services.
[Features]
ASUS MicroFilm is all about simple, fun and creative!
With three simple steps, ASUS MicroFilm makes your precious photo memories lively:
Step 1. Select the favorite photos.
Step 2. Apply a slideshow theme you like, get a preview and then create as a slideshow movie.
Step 3. Share it now on your Facebook, Youtube or any other popular social cloud services.
ASUS MicroFilm also has major features:
-Good Quality slideshow themes applying with stylish video and photo effects
-Intuitive Steps to create the slideshow movie step-by-step
-Shuffle The selected photos to vary the created slideshow movie differently.
-Easily Share your stylish photo movie on Facebook, Google+, Youtube, ... etc popular social network services (SNS).
-Fully Support the most popular image formats, including: BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG and so on.
-Optimized Video previewing / converting performance using hardware decode / encode
-Stylish Designed themes for you to create your personal and unique slideshow movies including Life, Sports, Memory, Carnival and Country for now.
Come to experience how simple ASUS MicroFilm and share your stunning videos with friends and families on all your social communities. Show off your created photo movies with professional-looked video and photo effects, let your friends and families join you, enjoy the great moments together !
"ASUS micro-film" Five creative movie scene description:
- Movie Theme: "Living" is You & Me
"Asus micro-film" in "Life" movie theme, apply a strong design style special effects editing, layout and music designed to make your home life factors people photos, looks like a professionally shot video effect through the viewfinder too! - Movie Theme: "Sports" is the Make Life Different
Asus micro-film" in "sport" movie theme, subtly in one screen, placed two and four pictures, and music with the rhythms, showing the effect of a more dynamic and more tension - Movie Theme: "Memories" is Made Us Who We Are
Asus micro-film" in the "memories" movie theme, with pastel effects, memory atmosphere! - Movie Theme: "Carnival" is Joyful
ASUS micro-film" in "Carnival" movie themes, colors more vivid, more will be three photo editing effects side by side, showing ornate and colorful special effects - Movie Theme: Village
Asus micro-film" in the "Village" movie theme, a selection of filter effects, so that the film presents a relaxed casual comfort
You can also share key instantly by pressing the top right, you can make your creative micro-film, and immediately share the face book, Google +, Line, YouTube and other social networking sites and instant messaging with friends and family to share
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Best Android Food Apps for Your Kitchen
Being with friends and family is just amazing. However, meal takes the center-stage when your X-Mas holiday break rolls close to. This means that whether you are celebrating at home or even heading out with a meal, these amazing food apps can help you in cooking something oh-so-delicious for the celebration.
If you are a foodie and loves cooking, this app is just apt for you.This app provides wide ranging recipes directly at your kitchen areas. The app facilitates easy navigation and browsing.
From the kitchen area, you can easily manage a look-up depending on an ingredient as well as dishes. A few chefs have also listed a number of recipes in apps database. Altogether “Food Network In The Kitchen” gives ample choice of recipes to concoct something delicious everyday.
There are several curated recipe choices such as Thanksgiving collection that currently offers recipes intended for turkeys.
Certainly one of the most popular functions, is “Search by Leftovers”. By using this function, you will be able to enter three ingredients you have inside your kitchen, and hunt for recipes.
If youre searching for weekday motivation, attempting to cook the ideal steak or endeavoring your own hand in crafting desserts, then get some real help from BBC Good Food app.
It is worth being called as one of the best cooking apps. This application gives you a chance to purchase and store all the existing BBC Good Food cookbook applications, and organize your favorite shopping records in one place.
These cooking applications will not just help you uncover the best, but also give you some additional tips to master the art of cooking.
About author:
Anna Harris working as web content writer and a strategist for a major IT firm specialized in various Android application development services.
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Food Network In The Kitchen
If you are a foodie and loves cooking, this app is just apt for you.This app provides wide ranging recipes directly at your kitchen areas. The app facilitates easy navigation and browsing.
From the kitchen area, you can easily manage a look-up depending on an ingredient as well as dishes. A few chefs have also listed a number of recipes in apps database. Altogether “Food Network In The Kitchen” gives ample choice of recipes to concoct something delicious everyday.
BigOven
Certainly one of the most popular functions, is “Search by Leftovers”. By using this function, you will be able to enter three ingredients you have inside your kitchen, and hunt for recipes.
BBC Good Food
If youre searching for weekday motivation, attempting to cook the ideal steak or endeavoring your own hand in crafting desserts, then get some real help from BBC Good Food app.
It is worth being called as one of the best cooking apps. This application gives you a chance to purchase and store all the existing BBC Good Food cookbook applications, and organize your favorite shopping records in one place.
These cooking applications will not just help you uncover the best, but also give you some additional tips to master the art of cooking.
About author:
Anna Harris working as web content writer and a strategist for a major IT firm specialized in various Android application development services.
Follow me on: Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Google+
Sunday, March 29, 2015
How To check If Your Android Phone Is Rooted or Not
You can now easily check if your Android device is rooted or not. For one reason or the other one may lose the root privilege on an android device. This is not too far fetched since updating OTA may cause root privileges to be lost. Also, sometimes, a need may arise that would require the device to be taken to service centre for repairs. Usually, when an android phone is rooted, the guys at service centre may refuse to accept it for repairs under warranty. So, root needs to be checked and removed before taking it in for service.
Now, there is a small application that allows you to check the root status of your Android phone.
All you need to do is just to head over to the Google Play Store and download a small app called Root Checker by Joeykrim.
Once its installed, just click on Verify Root Access and immediately it will display to you the results as shown in the image below.
One good thing about this app is that it doesnt require root access to check if your device is rooted or not. This small app may come in handy when you need to verify that an Android device has root access or not.
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Saturday, March 28, 2015
15 Best Camera Apps For Your Zenfone
Best Camera Apps For Your Zenfone
Camera MX
[Price: Free with in app purchases]
First on our list of best camera apps for Android is called Camera MX. When compared to the other apps on the list, it’s pretty run of the mill. When compared to the rest, it’s actually quite good. It doesn’t necessarily have the feature set that a professional might be looking for, but if you’re a hobbyist or you really enjoy sharing pictures via Google+ or Instagram, then Camera MX is more than good enough.
First on our list of best camera apps for Android is called Camera MX. When compared to the other apps on the list, it’s pretty run of the mill. When compared to the rest, it’s actually quite good. It doesn’t necessarily have the feature set that a professional might be looking for, but if you’re a hobbyist or you really enjoy sharing pictures via Google+ or Instagram, then Camera MX is more than good enough.
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Camera ZOOM FX
[Price: $3.99]
Camera Zoom FX is next on our best camera apps for Android. Unlike Camera MX, and most of the other apps on this list, Camera Zoom FX takes a different approach to using filters and effects. Instead of applying any number of pre-made filters and effects, Camera Zoom FX allows users to choose multiple effects to create their own filter. If you’re feeling a little lazy, there are some pre-made ones to choose from. It’s highly functional and popular. There are also no in app purchases with this one.
Camera Zoom FX is next on our best camera apps for Android. Unlike Camera MX, and most of the other apps on this list, Camera Zoom FX takes a different approach to using filters and effects. Instead of applying any number of pre-made filters and effects, Camera Zoom FX allows users to choose multiple effects to create their own filter. If you’re feeling a little lazy, there are some pre-made ones to choose from. It’s highly functional and popular. There are also no in app purchases with this one.
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Camera360 Ultimate
[Price: Free]
Camera360 Ultimate is not only among the most popular camera apps for Android, but it’s also one of the best. For many, this is the go-to camera replacement app and has been for a long time. It’s totally understandable as well, as Camera360 Ultimate is packed full of features. They’ve even updated it recently to include more settings for a better camera experience. As per the norm, you get all the standard features along with a number of filters and effects.
Camera360 Ultimate is not only among the most popular camera apps for Android, but it’s also one of the best. For many, this is the go-to camera replacement app and has been for a long time. It’s totally understandable as well, as Camera360 Ultimate is packed full of features. They’ve even updated it recently to include more settings for a better camera experience. As per the norm, you get all the standard features along with a number of filters and effects.
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Camera Fun Pro
[Price: $0.99]
Camera Fun Pro is next and this one is definitely for a more niche market. The various filters available provide a more goofy and fun theme for people rather than the more serious and artistic filters that others on this list provide. One of the more nifty features is the app’s ability to let you see how the effects will look before snapping the picture. So instead of taking the picture, adding the effects, and hoping you got the shot you needed, you can instead take the picture you wanted the first time. There are professional filters available, but this app definitely caters more to the fun pictures crowd.
Camera Fun Pro is next and this one is definitely for a more niche market. The various filters available provide a more goofy and fun theme for people rather than the more serious and artistic filters that others on this list provide. One of the more nifty features is the app’s ability to let you see how the effects will look before snapping the picture. So instead of taking the picture, adding the effects, and hoping you got the shot you needed, you can instead take the picture you wanted the first time. There are professional filters available, but this app definitely caters more to the fun pictures crowd.
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Camera JB+
[Price: $1.99]
Camera JB+ is an increasingly popular camera that was actually suggested to us by our readers (in the comments below). It’s based on the AOSP Jelly Bean camera. It includes three camera modes including regular shot, video capture, and panorama mode. There is also a lightweight image editor built in so you can make minor adjustments to your images. If you like the look and feel of the stock Android camera, this is the one we’d recommend. If you want KitKat then there is also the Camera KK app. The KitKat version is free with in app purchases.
Camera JB+ is an increasingly popular camera that was actually suggested to us by our readers (in the comments below). It’s based on the AOSP Jelly Bean camera. It includes three camera modes including regular shot, video capture, and panorama mode. There is also a lightweight image editor built in so you can make minor adjustments to your images. If you like the look and feel of the stock Android camera, this is the one we’d recommend. If you want KitKat then there is also the Camera KK app. The KitKat version is free with in app purchases.
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Cymera
[Price: Free with in app purchases]
Cymera is another one of those camera apps for Android that is already wildly popular. With over 10 million downloads to date, Cymera ranks up there with the most popular camera apps period. It also happens to be really highly rated as well. Unlike most camera apps on this list, Cymera focuses on taking a certain type of picture. Namely, it’s used predominately for taking pictures of people’s faces. It can function as a regular camera app. There are the standard features, filters, effects, and other editing goodness. However, it’s wheelhouse is face shots. There are a completely separate set of features and filters for when you catch a smile in your pictures.
Cymera is another one of those camera apps for Android that is already wildly popular. With over 10 million downloads to date, Cymera ranks up there with the most popular camera apps period. It also happens to be really highly rated as well. Unlike most camera apps on this list, Cymera focuses on taking a certain type of picture. Namely, it’s used predominately for taking pictures of people’s faces. It can function as a regular camera app. There are the standard features, filters, effects, and other editing goodness. However, it’s wheelhouse is face shots. There are a completely separate set of features and filters for when you catch a smile in your pictures.
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DSLR Camera Pro
[Price: $2.99]
DSLR Camera is a camera application that acts like the kind of software you’d see on an actual DSLR camera. It includes things like the ability to change your ISO, exposure compensation, white balance, and grids. There are also some more casual features like color effects and geotagging. It is important to note that some features are dependent on your hardware. That means the app supports these features but your device’s camera may not support them which means you won’t be able to use them. If they do work then this is a great application.
DSLR Camera is a camera application that acts like the kind of software you’d see on an actual DSLR camera. It includes things like the ability to change your ISO, exposure compensation, white balance, and grids. There are also some more casual features like color effects and geotagging. It is important to note that some features are dependent on your hardware. That means the app supports these features but your device’s camera may not support them which means you won’t be able to use them. If they do work then this is a great application.
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GIF Camera
[Price: Free]
Let’s face it ladies and gentlemen, the internet would not be the same without GIFs. They have contributed to the hilarity of the internet for so long that thinking about the internet without them can be difficult. With the next app on our best camera apps for Android list, called GIF Camera, lets you create your own GIFs using your camera. It’s actually pretty easy, too. Essentially, you just set up the shot you want to make a GIF. Then you shoot it and the app automatically turns it into one. You can adjust frame rates if you need to and then save it for sharing elsewhere. Additionally, you can create a collage of sorts using pictures you’ve already taken and create GIFs that way.
Let’s face it ladies and gentlemen, the internet would not be the same without GIFs. They have contributed to the hilarity of the internet for so long that thinking about the internet without them can be difficult. With the next app on our best camera apps for Android list, called GIF Camera, lets you create your own GIFs using your camera. It’s actually pretty easy, too. Essentially, you just set up the shot you want to make a GIF. Then you shoot it and the app automatically turns it into one. You can adjust frame rates if you need to and then save it for sharing elsewhere. Additionally, you can create a collage of sorts using pictures you’ve already taken and create GIFs that way.
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