Thursday, March 6, 2014

Flutter- Control your PC without even touching it !


Flutter, quiet innovative software, acts as a very useful tool with Windows Media Player, iTunes, Netflix, PowerPoint, and a bunch of other daily used software.

The fact is that you can just simply control Windows Media Player or all other mentioned software using a hand gesture that is, without even touching the keyboard or mouse. The main thing is that you should have a webcam to use Flutter.

As a user of Flutter for the last few months, I personally recommend it. For me, it is really helpful for playing songs while I play games (NFS, GTA San Andrea) in my laptop. I don’t need to minimize the game window, just show my hand near the cam to play, pause, forward, previous the songs. It is also useful for presenting PowerPoints.
Google has taken over Flutter and had used its features in YouTube also. You can search for the chrome extension to enable this feature.

Sounds EXITING, Right!!?

Go get it for your Mac or Windows...

Tip: Install Flutter and don’t allow it to run in startup because your web cam will get opened when your PC turns on. Else Flutter will be in the tray. You can simply turn it on by clicking on the tray icon.

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https://flutterapp.com

New material for fast and cheap data storage

Scientists have developed a new synthetic material for optical data storage, an advance that brings the much cheaper method for storing data using light a step closer. Optical data storage does not require expensive magnetic materials as synthetic alternatives work just as well.
When you store a file on your laptop or PC, the computer creates a code consisting of zeroes and ones. These are actually tiny magnetic poles (spins) that can point in one of two directions: the ‘zero’ state or the ‘one’ state.
Switching these spins using a magnetic field is a relatively a slow, energy-intensive process. An alternative is to switch them using light, which was first achieved six years ago.
Optical switching is only possible in special magnets, called ferrimagnets. However, these magnets are made up of expensive rare-earth metals, which are also difficult to produce in a nano-scale.

Now for the first time it is also possible to switch synthetic ferrimagnets optically.

Stolen cell phone spells $9,800 bill for Japan man



A Japanese man was shocked to receive a massive $9,800 monthly mobile bill after he lost his cell phone during a trip to Europe. The man from, Fukuoka, Japan, said his cell phone was stolen on December 29 in a subway in Spain.

1.25bn emails for sale in digital black market

A “mind boggling” and Godzilla-sized” cache of personal data put up for sale on the online black market by hackers. One of the hacker attacks stole over 105 million records making it the single largest data breach in cyber-crime history.

The trove included credentials from more than 360 accounts and around 1.25 billion email addresses. These credentials can be stolen directly from services in which you and your employees entrust data. 

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

GFY’s are the future

The GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) image has been around for more than a quarter of a century. But it could be replaced soon by the GYF (GIF Format Yoker) File Format, which does everything the GIF does and more. It is much smaller in size. It can be paused, rewound or sped up. It supports many more color than GIF does. A 4 MB (Mega Byte) GIF can be shaved down to roughly 200 KB (Kilo Bytes) using GFY. This means that the GIF’s don’t chug as they load, that you get the superior color reproduction of video, that your site loads faster, and that you can see the content regardless of what browser you are using. Oh, you can also make them bigger.

Some handy keyboard shortcuts

 Here are few handy keyboard shortcuts for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1


- Windows Key + S Open Search Charm to search Windows and Web
- Windows Key + Q Search within the opened app
- Windows Key + F Search files
- Windows Key + Z Get Commands and Context Menus within an app
- Windows Key + . + Right Arrow Snap app to the right
- Windows Key + . + Left Arrow Snap app to the left
- Ctrl + Plus (+) Zoom in on Start Screen
- Ctrl + Minus (-) Zoom out on Start Screen
- Windows Key + Down Arrow Close an app
- Windows Key + Start Typing Search your PC
- Windows Key + O Lock the screen orientation (portrait or landscape)
- Windows Key + Ctrl + Spacebar Change to a previously selected input language
- Windows Key + P Choose a presentation display mode
- Windows Key + X Open Start Button options
- Windows Key + Home Minimize all but the active desktop window

 Posted in Behalf of +Zachary O'Reilly 

A goto fails the iPhone

Apple released iOS version 7.0.6 last week. The update was to patch a security issue in its implementation of SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Encryption, the method by which the internet protects itself against eaves dropping. Companies usually provide details of security flaws, the nature of the vulnerability and how attackers exploit it, along with the patch that eliminates the vulnerability. Apple did none of these things, which led Security Experts to wonder about the exact problem. And when it came out, it stunned them. Some software bugs are infinitely subtle and complicated. Others are comprehensible almost at a glance to anyone who dabbled in BASIC as a kid. The iOS 7 bug is in the latter group.


The problem: a goto statement – a programming mistake that even newbie programmers avoid.