 Owners of the Samsung Galaxy S5 will be able to make “broad” use of its in-built fingerprint sensor to make payments, MIT's Technology Review journal reports.To make use of the system, which will be explained shortly, you must register your device's identity with its cryptographic chip first, and link your fingerprint to your PayPal account. Afterwards, PayPal will ask you to swipe the fingerprint reader anytime an app or site asks for log-in credentials. This particular payment system is the first commercial implementation of a new authorization protocol developed by the FIDO Alliance, a security group of technological companies that include BlackBerry, Google, Lenovo, MasterCard, Microsoft, and PayPal. The protocol is designed so that a record of your fingerprint is never transmitted to an outside party. Instead, data from the fingerprint reader is used to generate a cryptographic key which is combined with a second key from the device’s cryptographic chip to make a third key. This way, the final key can’t be used to somehow 'decode' the fingerprint that was used to generate it. The Galaxy S5 is the first and only consumer device so far that supports PayPal’s FIDO-based authorization system. PayPal isn't saying when other devices will follow suit, but industry representatives assert that fingerprint readers will become ubiquitous in near-future smart-devices. SOURCE: PhoneArena |
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
The Samsung Galaxy S5 is first to support PayPal's new fingerprint-authorized payments
Can the Samsung Galaxy S5 survive two extreme water tests? [VIDEO]
After seeing how popular the waterproof feature was (and is) on Sony's flagship Android powered smartphones, Samsung decided that this year, it would have its flagship Android phone come out of the box with IP67 certification.
That means that the phone can be submerged in up to 1 meter (3.28 feet) of water for up to 30 minutes, and still survive!
You might recall that last year, Samsung saved the IP67 certification for the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active. And not everyone found that the waterproofing worked as advertised. One newspaper journalist writing about the phone, was taking it in a pool to snap some pictures.
Even though his Galaxy S4 Active was no more than 3 feet underwater for less than 30 minutes, when he came out of the pool his handset had gone to smartphone heaven (hold back those tears, guys).
Samsung and AT&T, which had an exclusive for the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active in the U.S., even offered to exchange a water-logged unit for a brand new one as a one-time courtesy. That move indicated how the model was having problems with water damage. Some of the problem could have been due to users of the phone not following Samsung's directions for keeping the device watertight.
To see if the Samsung Galaxy S5 would hold to its IP67 certification, the device went for a swim in 1 meter of water. And instead of waiting 30 minutes, the phone was left underwater for one hour. Would it survive? Spoiler alert! The Samsung Galaxy S5 might have been all wet, but it was still working perfectly after 60 minutes. But there was another test left.
The phone was put inside the pocket of a pair of jeans that was ready to go through a normal washing cycle. Could the Samsung Galaxy S5 live through 50 minutes of spinning and sloshing? Yes, once again the Samsung Galaxy S5 came out of a dangerous confrontation with water, in perfect condition.
Looks like Samsung might have nailed this waterproofing thing after getting off to a shaky start last year. We recently showed you a video revealing that the HTC One (M8) could survive being submerged in a shallow pool of water for an hour, although that phone has not received any IP certification. If you were going to choose between these two models, would the IP67 certification of the Galaxy S5 play any role in which phone you would select?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9J611BuXhw
Monday, April 7, 2014
Windows Phone 8.1 'shape writing' keyboard is the fastest in the world
Microsoft has been working hard to bring the features that modern smartphone users expect from their devices with the Windows Phone 8.1 update.
In addition to the Cortana voice assistant and new Action Center, one of those features is a gesture keyboard, which Microsoft is calling its 'Shape Writing' keyboard.
This may seem to be a relatively small addition, but the keyboard is still the main input method for most users, and a gesture keyboard can make that input faster.
Of course, faster is good, but fastest is even better, and that's what Microsoft says it has done with its offering. According to Microsoft, its new Shape Writing keyboard for Windows Phone 8.1 is on record as being the world record holder as the fastest keyboard. It seems that someone was able to swipe out a set sentence in just 17 seconds, which beat the previous record.
While that is very impressive, we're curious whether it is really the software that deserves the credit on that record. It would seem to us that the person whose hand swiped in the sentence should get the majority of the credit for their speedy arm muscles.
SOURCE: PhoneArena
In addition to the Cortana voice assistant and new Action Center, one of those features is a gesture keyboard, which Microsoft is calling its 'Shape Writing' keyboard.
This may seem to be a relatively small addition, but the keyboard is still the main input method for most users, and a gesture keyboard can make that input faster.
Of course, faster is good, but fastest is even better, and that's what Microsoft says it has done with its offering. According to Microsoft, its new Shape Writing keyboard for Windows Phone 8.1 is on record as being the world record holder as the fastest keyboard. It seems that someone was able to swipe out a set sentence in just 17 seconds, which beat the previous record.
While that is very impressive, we're curious whether it is really the software that deserves the credit on that record. It would seem to us that the person whose hand swiped in the sentence should get the majority of the credit for their speedy arm muscles.
SOURCE: PhoneArena
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
How to modify facebook account
EDIT LINK NAMES AND DESCRIPTIONS If you want to post a link to your Facebook page but don’t like the title or description that Facebook automatically pulls from the linked page, you can change it. Before you click the Share button, click on the title or description in your pending post. They will change into editing boxes, like those to rename a file on your computer desktop. When you’re done editing, press Enter to save your changes.
TAG FRIENDS IN UPDATES AND COMMENTS If you type the name of a Facebook friend while editing a status update or a comment, Facebook will automatically create a link to the friend’s page. In fact, it will pop up a list of possible completions for names like “John.” Once you’ve entered a name, you can backspace over it to erase the last name for informality’s sake, or click in the middle to edit the first, turning “Kenneth Smith” into “Kenneth” or “Smith.” Sorry, you can only shorten names — you can’t edit “Kenneth Smith” into “Snuggles.”
POST A PLAYABLE MP3 If you paste a link that ends in “.mp3” into a status update, Facebook will create a player in the middle of the update that lets other users play the music file without having to click through to its host site.
MAKE A PHOTO YOUR PROFILE PICTURE Any photo on Facebook that has been tagged with your name includes an extra blue link at the lower-left corner of its page labeled Make Profile Picture. Click that, and Facebook pops up an editing page in which you can crop the photo to be just right for your profile.
CREATE A POLL Hiding in plain sight above the box to enter status updates is a Question button. Posting a question looks just like posting an update, except that it takes the first three answers from your friends and turns them into a poll to keep the discussion focused. You can also set up the poll with your own answers, or add more to those Facebook creates.
COLLABORATE ON A DOCUMENT Within a Group page, click on Docs at the top of the page and then the Create a Doc button on the right-hand side to create a text-only document that everyone in the group can edit. When you save the document, it will be posted to the group’s feed, just like a status update, with an Edit button in the upper-right corner. To see previous revisions, click Recent Changes.
INVITE NON-FACEBOOKERS TO AN EVENT When you are creating an event on Facebook, the Select Guests menu shows your existing friends, but it also lets you enter the e-mail addresses of people who do not have Facebook accounts. Type one or more e-mail address, separated by commas, into the Invite by E-mail Address box. Your invitees will receive a message with a link to your event page that, unfortunately, prompts them to sign up for Facebook before they can look at it.
GET THE TICKER OUT OF YOUR WAY Facebook recently added a constantly scrolling window on the right side of the screen that shows your friends’ updates as they come in. Fun for some, agitating for others. You can’t turn it off entirely, but you can make the moving ticker as small as possible. Using your cursor, grab the bar that separates the Ticker from your Facebook Chat window. Drag it upward until the Ticker is as small as possible — the size of two status updates. That will reduce the level of unwanted distraction it causes while you’re trying to read the rest of the page, while still letting you see new updates.
ADD A CALENDAR TO YOUR PAGE If you’re a business owner, a team coach or a performer who wants to keep everyone on Facebook apprised of your coming events, simply creating separate Facebook events for each one can be ineffective. These can get lost in the stream of events, making it hard for people to check for, say, your next game. As an alternative, use the Social Calendar app, which was not developed by Facebook. Go to facebook.com/SocialCalendar and click the Add to My Page link in the lower left corner. That will pop up a menu of pages you manage. Click Add to Page next to one or more pages, then click Close. Those pages will now include a Calendar link in their upper left corner, just below Wall, Info and Photos. Social Calendar is pretty smart — it will autocomplete the names of events you’ve already created, and if you type in an Address field, it will add a map link to the location on the calendar. But for maximum attendance, you should still post status updates announcing an event.
TRACK YOUR PAGE’S SUCCESS On any page you own, whether it is for your business or your clog-dancing club, click View Insights in the upper right corner. Facebook will display charts of user information and page interactions. Beyond the number of Likes and comments, it will plot a graph of page views and user feedback, plus a breakdown of which Web domains are sending traffic to your page, and the demographics of your visitors. If you want to do your own number-crunching, you can export the data into an Excel-compatible file.
KEEP A BIRTHDAY PARTY A SECRET Do you want to let everyone except one or two people know what you’re up to? Edit a status update as usual, but before you post, click the lock icon below the editing box. That will pop up a menu with options for specifying who can see your update. By default, it’s set to Everyone. Choose Customize instead, and in the dialog box that pops up, enter one or more names in the box near the bottom that says Hide This From. There’s another button to make this your default setting for future updates, so you needn’t worry about accidental oversharing.
BLOCK ANNOYING COMMENTERS Do you have a friend who constantly posts inappropriate comments on your updates but whom you can’t bring yourself to unfriend? In the uppermost right corner of Facebook, click Account and choose Privacy Settings. That will take you to a page labeled Choose Your Privacy Settings. Near the bottom is a section labeled Sharing on Facebook. Hiding at the bottom of that section is a link labeled Customize Settings. Scroll down to Things Others Share. There’s a setting for “Permission to comment on your posts.” It works just like the filter for sharing status updates: click Customize, and enter names of people to keep Facebook from presenting them with comment features when they look at your posts. Maybe they’ll get the hint.
TAG FRIENDS IN UPDATES AND COMMENTS If you type the name of a Facebook friend while editing a status update or a comment, Facebook will automatically create a link to the friend’s page. In fact, it will pop up a list of possible completions for names like “John.” Once you’ve entered a name, you can backspace over it to erase the last name for informality’s sake, or click in the middle to edit the first, turning “Kenneth Smith” into “Kenneth” or “Smith.” Sorry, you can only shorten names — you can’t edit “Kenneth Smith” into “Snuggles.”
POST A PLAYABLE MP3 If you paste a link that ends in “.mp3” into a status update, Facebook will create a player in the middle of the update that lets other users play the music file without having to click through to its host site.
MAKE A PHOTO YOUR PROFILE PICTURE Any photo on Facebook that has been tagged with your name includes an extra blue link at the lower-left corner of its page labeled Make Profile Picture. Click that, and Facebook pops up an editing page in which you can crop the photo to be just right for your profile.
CREATE A POLL Hiding in plain sight above the box to enter status updates is a Question button. Posting a question looks just like posting an update, except that it takes the first three answers from your friends and turns them into a poll to keep the discussion focused. You can also set up the poll with your own answers, or add more to those Facebook creates.
COLLABORATE ON A DOCUMENT Within a Group page, click on Docs at the top of the page and then the Create a Doc button on the right-hand side to create a text-only document that everyone in the group can edit. When you save the document, it will be posted to the group’s feed, just like a status update, with an Edit button in the upper-right corner. To see previous revisions, click Recent Changes.
INVITE NON-FACEBOOKERS TO AN EVENT When you are creating an event on Facebook, the Select Guests menu shows your existing friends, but it also lets you enter the e-mail addresses of people who do not have Facebook accounts. Type one or more e-mail address, separated by commas, into the Invite by E-mail Address box. Your invitees will receive a message with a link to your event page that, unfortunately, prompts them to sign up for Facebook before they can look at it.
GET THE TICKER OUT OF YOUR WAY Facebook recently added a constantly scrolling window on the right side of the screen that shows your friends’ updates as they come in. Fun for some, agitating for others. You can’t turn it off entirely, but you can make the moving ticker as small as possible. Using your cursor, grab the bar that separates the Ticker from your Facebook Chat window. Drag it upward until the Ticker is as small as possible — the size of two status updates. That will reduce the level of unwanted distraction it causes while you’re trying to read the rest of the page, while still letting you see new updates.
ADD A CALENDAR TO YOUR PAGE If you’re a business owner, a team coach or a performer who wants to keep everyone on Facebook apprised of your coming events, simply creating separate Facebook events for each one can be ineffective. These can get lost in the stream of events, making it hard for people to check for, say, your next game. As an alternative, use the Social Calendar app, which was not developed by Facebook. Go to facebook.com/SocialCalendar and click the Add to My Page link in the lower left corner. That will pop up a menu of pages you manage. Click Add to Page next to one or more pages, then click Close. Those pages will now include a Calendar link in their upper left corner, just below Wall, Info and Photos. Social Calendar is pretty smart — it will autocomplete the names of events you’ve already created, and if you type in an Address field, it will add a map link to the location on the calendar. But for maximum attendance, you should still post status updates announcing an event.
TRACK YOUR PAGE’S SUCCESS On any page you own, whether it is for your business or your clog-dancing club, click View Insights in the upper right corner. Facebook will display charts of user information and page interactions. Beyond the number of Likes and comments, it will plot a graph of page views and user feedback, plus a breakdown of which Web domains are sending traffic to your page, and the demographics of your visitors. If you want to do your own number-crunching, you can export the data into an Excel-compatible file.
KEEP A BIRTHDAY PARTY A SECRET Do you want to let everyone except one or two people know what you’re up to? Edit a status update as usual, but before you post, click the lock icon below the editing box. That will pop up a menu with options for specifying who can see your update. By default, it’s set to Everyone. Choose Customize instead, and in the dialog box that pops up, enter one or more names in the box near the bottom that says Hide This From. There’s another button to make this your default setting for future updates, so you needn’t worry about accidental oversharing.
BLOCK ANNOYING COMMENTERS Do you have a friend who constantly posts inappropriate comments on your updates but whom you can’t bring yourself to unfriend? In the uppermost right corner of Facebook, click Account and choose Privacy Settings. That will take you to a page labeled Choose Your Privacy Settings. Near the bottom is a section labeled Sharing on Facebook. Hiding at the bottom of that section is a link labeled Customize Settings. Scroll down to Things Others Share. There’s a setting for “Permission to comment on your posts.” It works just like the filter for sharing status updates: click Customize, and enter names of people to keep Facebook from presenting them with comment features when they look at your posts. Maybe they’ll get the hint.
How to track and block a stolen Android phone
It isn’t originally my post so am going to attach the source at the end of the post.
The EMI number is on the box the phone came in if you still have it and the best way to lock it and make it unusable is to call your carrier and tell them it was stolen once you do this it will be deactivated and if the person who stole it tries to activate it at the store they will know its stolen and then it will be returned to you. Also if the phone is stolen and it is an android powered phone. Log into your gmail account on a Pc and go to the play store from the play store download the app Plan B to your phone from lookout. The app will silently install to your phone turn on gps signal and then will email you the exact coordinates of the device to your email from there you can call the police and tell them where it is and they can go and get it for you.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai…
Go to that link if its android powered and read the apps description and follow the steps this will only work if the phone is on and is currently connected to a network.
If the phone is not android powered contact your carrier and report it lost or stolen so you dont get charged with unexpected charges.
Good luck and hopefully your phone is android powered so you have a chance of getting it back.
The EMI number is on the box the phone came in if you still have it and the best way to lock it and make it unusable is to call your carrier and tell them it was stolen once you do this it will be deactivated and if the person who stole it tries to activate it at the store they will know its stolen and then it will be returned to you. Also if the phone is stolen and it is an android powered phone. Log into your gmail account on a Pc and go to the play store from the play store download the app Plan B to your phone from lookout. The app will silently install to your phone turn on gps signal and then will email you the exact coordinates of the device to your email from there you can call the police and tell them where it is and they can go and get it for you.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai…
Go to that link if its android powered and read the apps description and follow the steps this will only work if the phone is on and is currently connected to a network.
If the phone is not android powered contact your carrier and report it lost or stolen so you dont get charged with unexpected charges.
Good luck and hopefully your phone is android powered so you have a chance of getting it back.
How to delete facebook account permanently
If you’re done with Facebook, you may be running around in circles trying to figure out how to delete your account. They certainly don’t make it easy to find. Follow this guide to make sure that you save all of the data you need and delete your account for good
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Visit the Delete Account page. This page cannot be accessed through Facebook unless you search for it. You can also follow this link. Click the “Delete my Account” button to start the account deletion process
Steps
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Save any data you need. Before you delete your account, save any photos and contact information you need from your account. You will lose access to all of this when you delete your account. - You can download a copy of all of your Facebook data through the Account Settings. Click on the Gear icon in the upper-right corner to access it. Click the link that says “Download a copy of your Facebook data”.
- Download individual pictures by clicking the Download link at the bottom when you open them.
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Clear your Facebook history. You can open the Activity Log to undo all of your previous actions on Facebook, such as liking posts and comments you’ve made. This will help ensure that as little data about you remains as possible after your account is deleted. To access the Activity Log, click the Privacy button in the top-right corner. Select “Who can see my stuff?” Click the link for the Activity Log. Here you can choose which parts of your activity you would like to delete.3
Visit the Delete Account page. This page cannot be accessed through Facebook unless you search for it. You can also follow this link. Click the “Delete my Account” button to start the account deletion process
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Enter your password and the CAPTCHA. Once you have entered these, press “Okay” to permanently delete your account. You will need to wait 14 days for the deletion to take effect. - You need to have access to your Facebook account in order to delete it this way. If you can’t remember your password, use Facebook’s password reset service before deleting your account.
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Try a temporary deactivation instead of deleting your account.- Click the Settings icon and select Account Settings.
- Open the Security section from the left menu.
- Click the “Deactivate your account” link
- Fill out the form for deactivating your account. You will still be able to be linked in posts and messaged, though you will not receive notifications about it.
Warnings
- Bear in mind that you will not be able to restore your account after the 2 weeks of the permanent deletion process have passed.
- Be aware that Facebook may still retain information from your account in their databases (they have been unclear about whether they do this). Even though it may never be given out in public, authorities can ask for this information.
Thursday, December 19, 2013
How to Set Up Email on a New Android Phone
Unless you rely on one of the majors like Yahoo and Gmail for email on your Android smartphone, one of the worst tasks in setting up a new device is surely configuring the email server. The key is to ignore the Android-device prompts for an automatic setup -- they won't work. Instead, plan to manually enter the data straightaway -- it's faster.
Setting up a brand-new phone can involve numerous aggravations, but if you don't rely on one of the majors like Yahoo and Gmail for email, one of the worst is surely the manual email server configuration. If you use a customized domain name, your Android device's email client is likely to need this extra step.
This could become an even more prevalent problem with the January U.S. launch of the reasonably priced and specified Moto G smartphone, enabling consumers to buy new devices willy-nilly and without contract. Buying such a new device might be easy, but it will likely remain a time-consuming hassle to configure it -- particularly if you're moving operating systems, like Apple iOS or Windows to Android.
In any case, the key is to ignore the Android-device prompts for an automatic setup -- they won't work. Instead, plan to manually enter the data straightaway -- it's faster. Begin by identifying your existing email settings: Open a currently functioning email client and choose the Settings menu. Then copy the settings syntactically character-by-character.
Microsoft Office's Outlook on the PC lets you leave the settings dialogs on-screen while you fiddle with the phone, but the settings can be copied from iPhones or other software clients too; look for the Settings button on the iPhone and drill down for email settings.
Outlook 2013
Step 1: Open Outlook 2013 and choose the File tab. Then click or touch the Account Settings button and again, click or touch the resulting drop-down button.
Step 2: In the resulting Change Account dialog box, double-click on the listed email account that you want to use on your phone. The account type, incoming and outgoing servers, and incoming logon information will be listed.
Step 3: Choose the More Settings button on the dialog and then the Outgoing Server tab in order to see if the outgoing mail server is different from the incoming mail server listed in the previous step. Keep Outlook open.
Tip: Some, but not all, outgoing email servers use settings different from those of the incoming server.
Step 4: Find the email setup area on your new Android 4.0 ("Ice Cream Sandwich") device by choosing Settings in the app drawer and then Accounts and Sync; then Add Account and then Email.
Tip: The newest Android operating system -- Android 4.4 "Kit Kat" -- sets up similarly.
Step 5: Follow the syntax precisely to enter server data, obtained in the earlier steps, into the Android device's email setup menu. Use the Next prompt button to progress forward through screens.
Tip: Check the server syntax, password and User ID if the Android device can't connect to the server. Required ports can be found in Outlook's More Settings. Look for the Advanced tab and copy the port numbers listed there.
Pay attention to outgoing server-required SSL encryption, which will be listed in that Outlook tab too. Outgoing encryption is more prevalent than incoming.
Step 6: On the last screen in the series of Android email setup prompts, choose the Android device's email account options such as inbox-checking frequency, default sending account, notification and syncing.
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