How To Use Android Mobile Phone As Webcam

This is a tutorial of How To Use Android Mobile Phone As Webcam.

Note: In-order to use this application you will need a Wi-Fi connection on your mobile device

The things we need:-

IP Webcam application (free)
IP Camera Adapter (free)
Chrome or Firefox Browser (free)

The steps to use Android Mobile as a Webcam are:-

Step 1:First of all install the downloaded IP Webcam application on your android mobile phone. Also install the IP Camera Adapter on your PC.

Step 2:Now open the installed IP Camera app on your phone after it you will many options like username, password, screen resolution and many more which you can adjust according to your choice. Now after doing so just click on the Start Server.

NOTE : This app uses back camera as default foe better quality but you can also change camera mode to front but it will reduces your video quality.

Step 3:Now when you clicks on the start server then after that you will see a IP at the bottom of mobile's screen. Now open this IP in your mobile's Chrome or Firefox browser. If none of these browser is installed on your android mobile and select Browser built-in viewer option.

Step 4: Now open and install the downloaded IP camera adapter on your PC. Now in the "Camera feed URL"just enters your IP and port which you got from the app you installed on your phone and remember don't delete /videofeed and then click on "Autodetect".

Step 5: Now that's it your are done. Open any video conferencing application on your PC like Skype,Facebook messenger, Yahoo ! messenger and you will see the video streaming on your PC from your android mobile phone"

Now open any video conferencing tools like Skype, Google Hangout or Facebook messenger and you must see your video streaming from the Android phone camera on your computer. The application uses the secondary camera of your mobile phone as default and that’s because the secondary camera will have more clarity when compared toward the front facing camera.

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Motorola to enter into Smart watch battle with new OS

It’s time for a watch that looks and feels great and gives you the information you need, when you need it.

Google owned Motorola’s first launch to the smart watch market which is currently ruled by Samsung’s Gear and Pebble. Powered by Android Wear, The new OS dedicated completely for smart watches from Google.

The wristwatch for the future, Moto 360 keeps you on time and up to date without taking you out of the moment or distracting you, telling you what you need to know before you know you need it through subtle alerts and notifications. With just a glance you can see who’s emailing or calling, what time your next meeting is or a friend’s latest social post.

Moto 360 also responds to your voice. Just say “Ok Google” to ask questions like who won the last match or what time your flight leaves, or to get stuff done like scheduling an appointment, sending a text, setting an alarm or taking a note.

Most importantly, Moto 360’s iconic design, featuring a round face and premium materials, feels comfortable and familiar on your wrist. It’s everything you need, with a look that you want.

Moto 360 will be available in a variety of styles globally in Summer 2014, starting in the US. To learn more about Moto 360 stay in touch with VWS.

Posted in behalf of +Vivek MT 

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Nokia Lumia 630 specifications and images tipped in new leaks

While Nokia's big event is just a few days away (2 April), alleged specifications of the much-anticipated Nokia Lumia 630 (thought to be codenamed Moneypenny) have been leaked along with the first alleged live shots of the device.
The report comes via GSMarena via Chinese and French websites. According to the report, Nokia Lumia 630 will be equipped with a 4.5-inch display with a resolution of 480x854 pixels, which is slightly different from the earlier rumoured 4.3-inch display. It is said to pack a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S400 processor supported by 1GB of RAM. The reports adds that the Lumia 630's 5-megapixel rear camera will not feature a flash, while there is no front camera on offer.
The Lumia 630 is touted to have 8GB of built-in storage, and will allegedly measure 129.5x66.7mm. The smartphone is also said to be will be the first Windows Phone 8.1 with dual-SIM, dual-standby functionality. The Chinese website along with the specifications also published an alleged press render of the Lumia 630, alongside the recently launched Lumia 1320 and 1520.
The other leak by the French website, which also corroborated the Chinese report's specifications, showcased the alleged Lumia 630 in pictures. The tipster has managed to click pictures near what is being claimed to be an official poster for the Nokia Lumia 630, though the images don't really reveal the design of the phone, except the two network operators (indicating dual-SIM) and front navigation buttons.
At Nokia's 2 April event, the company is expected to reveal two budget Lumia devices - Nokia Lumia 630 and Nokia Lumia 930 (thought to be codenamed Martini). No details have been reported about the Lumia 930 handset till date. It is also speculated that we might see other Windows Phone 8.1 devices alongside such as Nokia Lumia 1820, Lumia 1525 and Lumia 1520 V.
A recent report on Friday had speculated specifications of the Nokia Lumia 1820. It is said to feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor coupled with 3GB of RAM. The smartphone is also said to feature a 5.2-inch display with a 2K resolution.

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How to Take Screenshots in Windows Phone 8

Windows Phone 8 is the next big thing. It is the second major version of Microsoft's operating system, which comes after Windows Phone 7. One of Windows Phone 8 new features is the ability to take Screenshots. After reading this article, you will be able to successfully take screenshots on your windows phone in a flash. the steps to take screenshots are:-

1. Navigate to the place where you wish to take a screenshot at.
2. A successful screenshot is indicated when a screen of your accent color flashes over the whole screen.Press and hold the windows button, then press the power button.
3. Go to the photos app, and then to 'albums'. You'll find your screenshot in the screenshots album.

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Beware of DenDroid

A new commercial tool  designed to allow cyber criminals to easily  transform legitimate Android  applications into malicious  software has hit the  underground market, paving  the way for cheap and easy  development of sophisticated  Android malware. The developers who are behind the creation of this virus are certainly street smart as they have named this virus Dendroid, which resembles to the actual operating system: Android. Ignorant and non-suspecting users can download this app assuming it to be safe and something related to Android, thereby compromising the security and functionality of their smart phones.

The toolkit is called Dendroid and can be used to create “trojanized” apps—legitimate  applications with malicious code added to them—that connect  back to a command-and-control server over HTTP and allow  attackers to perform a variety  of malicious actions on devices  that have those apps installed.

Dendroid is marketed by its  creators as an Android remote  administration tool (RAT) and is  being sold for US$300, security  researchers from Symantec  said Wednesday in a blog post .  Buyers receive a tool called an  “APK Binder” that can be used  to add the Dendroid RAT  functionality and its required  permissions to any clean APK  (Android application package) as well as access to a  sophisticated PHP-based  control panel that allows  detailed management of the  infected devices.

Dendroid’s features include  deleting call logs and files;  calling phone numbers; opening Web pages; recording calls and  audio from the microphone;  intercepting text messages;  taking and uploading photos  and videos; opening  applications and launching HTTP flood (denial-of-service) attacks for a period of time specified  by the attacker. The virus was first detected by Symantec. As per their research, “Dendroid is a HTTP RAT that is marketed as being transparent to the user and firmware interface, having a sophisticated PHP panel, and an application APK binder package.”.

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) warned about a currently active Dendroid malware campaign that is spreading across India, targeting Android users.

"It has been reported that a malicious toolkit called DENDROID is being used to create trojanized applications that infects Android-based Smartphones. The malware is created by modifying the required permissions by any clean APK (Android Application Package) with Dendroid RAT functionality that allows detailed management of the infected devices," the Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In) said in its latest advisory.Last month, CERT-In had warned Android Kitkat and Facebook users regarding security hacks on their mobiles. And within 30 days, this is the second such warning coming from India’s premier cyber security and investigation cell.

MEASURES TO PROTECT

*.Install applications downloaded from reputed app stores only.

*.Install apk files with utmost care as some apks might be modded by the hackers.

*.Keep updating your mobile anti-virus and Firewall solution to protect your device from malware and cyber attacks.

*.Always Check applications permissions before installing it.

CONSIDER THESE APPS TO SECURE YOUR PHONE

1.      Avast Mobile Security

2.      McAfee WaveSecure

3.      Snap Secure Mobile Security

4.      Norton Mobile Security Lite

5.      mSecure Password Manager

6.      AppScan Beta

7.      TrustGo Anti-Virus and Mobile Security

8.      Bitfinder Mobile Security

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Google redesigns search results on PCs

Web surfing through the Internet's main gateway now looks slightly different on personal computers, thanks to a few cosmetic changes to Google's search engine this week.

The tweaks to the way Google's search results appear on desktop and laptop computers mirror a makeover on smartphones and tablets introduced a few months ago.

The new presentation increases font sizes and removes the underlines below the blue links of each search result on PCs. Ads appearing along the top and the right-hand panel of the results page no longer are presented in boxes shaded in blue and yellow. The marketing pitches are now marked by small ad tags to distinguish them from the rest of the results.

Google Inc. rolled out the new design on PCs with little fanfare, even though it will be seen by almost everyone who searches for information on personal computers. That's because Google processes about two out of every three search requests made on PCs.

The company's lead search designer, Jon Wiley, announced the makeover Wednesday with a post on his Google Plus page.

The changes are meant to make it easier to scroll through Google's search results and present a "cleaner look," Wiley wrote in his post.

Google's decision to transfer a design originally tailored for mobile devices to PCs also underscores the company's increasing emphasis on smartphones and tablets.

"Improving consistency in design across platforms makes it easier for people to use Google search across devices, and it makes it easier for us to develop and ship improvements across the board," Wiley wrote.

Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., didn't immediately respond on Thursday to requests for further comment about the new look.

As with any redesign of a popular Internet service, some users were expressing their dismay and frustration with Google's new search design on PCs. There were also compliments mixed in with the complaints on Twitter's short-messaging service and the comments section below Wiley's Google Plus post.

The main gripes about the makeover seemed to center on the larger and different font and the lack of color on the results page.

Google, though, typically faces much louder protests when its engineers complete a radical overhaul of the formula that determines rankings of search results. Those revisions can dramatically reduce the traffic of websites exiled to the back pages of the search results after a new formula is introduced.

In this case, Google is tinkering with the style of the search results, and not the substance.

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More than megapixels - what really counts in a smartphone camera

Just about every new phone that launches has ads that focus on photography. While most refrain from saying it in as many words, manufacturers manage to coyly suggest that their phone's camera is better than even a DSLR, pointing, on most occasions, to the high megapixel count. Nokia holds the crown for the smartphone with the highest-megapixel count with the 41-megapixel 808 PureView and the Lumia 1020, though rumours now point to a 50-megapixel camera in Oppo's next phone.

In real world testing though, only a few phones have managed to come close to the quality and control that you get with even a mid-range point-and-shoot camera - forget about being better than a DSLR. Why is that?

When Nokia first came up with the PureView technology used in the 808, its announcement of the 41-megapixel camera toting phone made no sense. However, thanks to the camera companies themselves, the term megapixel had become a kind of shorthand for image quality. When point-and-shoot digital cameras were gaining in popularity, Nikon, Canon and other manufacturers got into a race to fit in higher-resolution sensors into their compact cameras, and marketed the term widely. This has parallels with the GHz wars that played out between Intel and AMD during the heydays of the PC industry.

Today though, this tactic has come to haunt the camera manufacturers (much like what Intel and AMD suffered), and people in both Canon and Nikon are the first to point out that a 5-megapixel resolution is high enough to take a clear print-out on an A4 sized page.

That, incidentally, is the standard resolution for images you will get on the Nokia Lumia 1020 PureView. This is because Nokia uses a technology called oversampling, which uses software to treat the individual pixels as a single unit, and essentially creates artificially big pixels on the image sensor.

The image sensor - essentially a plate where the light falls through the lens, where the picture is formed - is probably the most important factor in actually determining quality. NDTV Gadgets spoke to Abhishek Singh, a Technical Officer at Nikon India, who shared his thoughts on the subject.

"The current thinking about megapixels is highly misleading," Singh says. "As a measure of resolution, it just tells you how big the image you're taking is. How much can you crop, without pixelation. That's when the original image is too small and you zoom, so it starts to look blocky. But with a 16-megapixel image, even if I crop to 50% of the image, it won't look pixelated when printed."

In fact, the 8-megapixel iPhone 4S camera was used by the Time magazine in November 2012 for its cover photo. The only time you would actually use a full 41-megapixel image is if you wanted to print the image on a billboard, which is why Nokia over-samples the pictures and produces clearer 5-megapixel.

The real reason that a Lumia 1020 produces better pictures than it's contemporaries is twofold. One of the reasons is that it simply gives the user a lot more control over individual settings like aperture. But the first - and most important reason - is that it has a much bigger sensor than any other smartphone (other than the 808 PureView).

"The image is formed when the light forms on the sensor," Singh explains. "If the sensor size is big then the image will be more detailed, even when you crop into smaller parts of the image and enlarge them."

So where do the megapixels fit into this? According to Singh, the problem comes when you try and pack too many pixels into a small sensor.

"It's like a room. A room that has space for 10 people, you put ten people there and everyone is comfortable. But when you squeeze 20 in there, then it becomes uncomfortable, and when you reach 40 people, no one can breathe," Singh says. "When you pack the individual pixels too tightly on a sensor, the image quality goes down." That is why the images on many budget phones look blurry as they struggle to balance 'advertising friendly' megapixel counts, while still keeping the sensor small enough to fit on the thinner than ever devices.

According to Singh, finding out about the sensor size of a device - instead of the megapixel count - is a quick way of knowing how clear a picture will be, whether you are looking to buy a smartphone, or a compact digital camera. He says that another detail that casual buyers need to learn more about is the ISO or sensitivity of a camera. "A high ISO setting means that you will be able to take a picture in poor lighting without difficulty, but what's happening is that your camera (or phone) is electrically stimulating the sensor to brighten the image. So this can introduce graininess into the image as well."

With a growing trend towards low-light photography and a popular shift away from flash photography, Singh says buyers should also look at the lenses they are getting. Aperture, or the size of the lens opening through which light falls on the sensor, is very important in these scenarios, he says. He adds, "an aperture of f2.2 or f1.8 is becoming more common even in the smaller compact cameras, because of low-light photography." So when a phone's ad promises better pictures in low-light conditions? That has nothing to do with how many megapixels are mentioned in the ad.

Camera manufacturers deserve their share of blame for making people equate megapixels with quality, but it's a figure that phone makers picked up and ran with because it is an easy competition. The fact is that if you want a phone that is super slim and super light and still has a battery life that will last a full day and more - then some compromise has to be made, and that is often done by making a smaller sensor, and making compromises on the lens. If an 8-megapixel camera is good enough for Time magazine's cover, then maybe it's time for customers who'll just be sharing pictures on Facebook to think about what they want from a smartphone camera - and the answer is almost never more megapixels.

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