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How to bypass WhatsApp's Double Blue Checkmarks : Hacking Tips

Whatsapp Double Blue CheckmarksAs covered in our last article,  Whatsapp did what most are dreading—read messages confirmations once more to the sender. While individuals some are glad about the feature, others are freaking out.

Whatsapp has begun sending back read message confirmations over to the reader by issuing blue double tick marks on the message. This shows and affirms that the message has been read/ seen by the user on the other end.

Awhile ago, a solitary tick would imply that the message is sent and a double tick implied that the message has been gotten on the phone. Then again, there was no affirmation whether the message was seen by the beneficiary and when. Anyway now there is no getting away as the sender will know whether you saw the message and when. While blue ticks could be incredible for some, it could destroy relationships for some others. This could produce an antagonistic results on Whatsapp users and power them to relocate to other visit applications to evade debates.

The last time Whatsapp rolled out improvements to the application was including the last seen time stamp. Numerous did not like it and Whatapp made a change by including privacy settings. With blue ticks, Whatsapp has not made any options for the present.

So how would you get away from the blue tick and make life a little simpler? All things considered, there are a couple of techniques on the web, which lives up to expectations for some while others grumble that it doesn't. The strategy expresses that when you get the message, don't open Whatsapp straightaway. Essentially peep from the notification bar and you will have the capacity to read the message in a split second. The minute you click on the message, Whatsapp will open and your message's blue tick will be sent.

Some say that you ought to put your smartphone in Airplane mode and afterward check the message. Along  these  lines, Whatsapp won't send the read affirmation to the sender. You can then switch over to ordinary mode in the wake of checking the message. While some said that it lived up to expectations, others expressed that Whatsapp quickly matches up after you begin your 3g or Wi-Fi and the read affirmation (blue tick) is sent to the sender.

We found two more traps, which is still to be affirmed by a lot of people out there. In any case, unfortunately, one of this works just for Android users and not iphone. When you get a message from your sender, draw down the notification bar and you will have the capacity to see read message without opening it. In the event that it is an one line message, you are fortunate. This works for iphone as well. In the event that it is dependent upon four or five lines, iphone users can't see this, however Android users can squeeze outwards on the message (deliberately) and extend the notification message to read up to a couple of lines. Yet in the event that the message is longer or there are numerous messages, you can't do anything. We have something better ahead.

Android users can rejoice a little as you can look at all the messages without really going to Whatsapp and sending the blue tick to the sender.

Essentially add an alternate desktop to your launcher, on the off chance that you don't have a clear one. Include a Whatsapp widget in full screen mode on a clear desktop. You are all situated. When you get a message, essentially head on to the widget and look at all the messages in full length. You can parchment and read the whole messages one after the other. Verify you don't click on any message, else you would open up Whatsapp unintentionally. To prevent coincidentally opening Whatsapp, we recommend you introduce an application lock utility and lock Whatsapp with a secret word or example. Go for the same and let us know whether it worked for you. Assuredly this trap functions admirably till Whatsapp rolls out sufficient improvements. We have not possessed the capacity to attempt the same on Symbian, Blackberry or Windows Phone so far. We might upgrade you when we get something.

Do you have some other traps? Why not impart it to everybody.

Samsung launches Galaxy A5 and A3: The Slimmest Smartphones


Samsung launches Galaxy A5 and A3
The South Korean-monster has authoritatively presented Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3, touted as the slimmest smartphones from the company till date. Emphasizing refined full metal unibody designs that are 6.7mm and 6.9mm slim separately, these new phones have huge obvious changes and Samsung has at last adjusted the metal body in the wake of shedding off their adoration for plastic.

The essential center of the company is the adolescent, minute sharing, social-media driven purchasers. To satisfy all the requirements, Samsung offer a progressed 5-megapixel front confronting cam for taking pictures plainly and strikingly. Other fascinating peculiarities, for example, Wide Selfie, Palm Selfie, Rear Cam Selfie, and Beauty Face that were prior restricted to Galaxy Note 4 just, are presently going to be a piece of the software in the Galaxy A3 and A5.

"The Galaxy A5 and A3 offer a flawlessly created full metal unibody, thin plan, unrivaled equipment and the best conceivable social media experience," said JK Shin, CEO and Head of IT & Mobile Communication at Samsung Electronics. "These devices make our progressed Galaxy experience much more available to youthful and pattern cognizant consumers," he further included.

Clients are likewise ready to rapidly and effortlessly share photographs or features on their most loved social media channels with these devices which are pressed with quick system velocity of LTE Category 4 standard.


Galaxy A5 Specifications:

Samsung Galaxy A5 Specifications

- 5inch 720p Super AMOLED showcase.

- 1.2ghz quad-center processor with 2gb of RAM.

- 16gb inherent memory, which can be further be extended upto 64gb by means of microsd opening.

- 13mp auto-center back cam with LED Flash and 5mp front-confronting cam.

- 2,300 mah battery with Ultra-Power Saving Mode.

- Bluetooth: 4.0(ble, Ant+), NFC (LTE form just) and A-GPS/ GLONASS.

- Connectivity- 3g: Hspa+ 42.2/5.76mbps,wi-Fi: 802.11 a/b/g/n.


Galaxy A3 Specifications:

Samsung Galaxy A3 Specifications

- 4.5inch qhd Super AMOLED showcase.

- 1.2ghz quad-center processor with 1gb of RAM.

- 16gb implicit memory, which can be further be stretched upto 64gb by means of microsd space.

- 8mp auto-center back cam with LED Flash and 5mp front-confronting cam.

- 1,900 mah battery.

- Bluetooth: 4.0(ble, Ant+), NFC (LTE form just) and A-GPS/ GLONASS.

Both the smartphones run on Android Kitkat (4.4) and helps 4g systems also.

With these smartphones Samsung look to regroup and recover its lost market share in yearly terms in the second from last quarter, as indicated by Strategy Analytics. Samsung said on Friday that it will begin offering the Galaxy A3 and A5 in China at some point in November. It grouped them as mid-level phones, and said they will be dispatched in other "select markets", without revealing the evaluating.

According to consistent changing patterns of the hugely developing Smartphone market, the looks and specifications of the telephone are something which is profoundly being checked by every Smartphone developer. The thickness of the cell phone is, no doubt considered as the primary USP. Prior it was just Gionee Elife S5.1 being advanced as the most slender cell phone on the planet with a 5.1mm thickness. As of late, Chinese cell phone producer Oppo additionally bounced into the opposition by propelling the world's slimmest Oppo R5 cell phone, with the thickness of 4.85mm.

With mixed bag of choices accessible in the market, a client is ruined by decisions and it would be intriguing to see which company would demonstrate its courage in this ceaseless race.

Sundar Pichai takes control of Google's crucial products

Sundar Pichai Google
That being said, we figure congrats are in place. As indicated by Re/code, Sundar Pichai, the senior VP at Google who used to simply be in charge of the Chrome, Android, and web applications teams now essentially has control of very nearly every other Google product division of note. Look? Google+? Advertisements? Indeed the organization's framework? The majority of that has been obviously left CEO Larry Page's plate and onto Pichai - not an enormous astonishment considering his uplifted conspicuousness inside Mountain View over the previous months. Pichai, a nine year Google veteran, was even supposed to be one of the main decisions for Microsoft's new CEO, however the part inevitably went to long-term organization insider Satya Nadella.

In any case, that is a considerable measure of force in one man's hands, particularly considering that the publicizing division Pichai inherited fundamentally pays for the various peculiar, astounding things Google gets to do. It's important that not every Google product falls under Pichai's recently opened umbrella, however. There's Youtube, for one; that still stays under Susan Wojcicki's control, which she assumed control recently. Goodness, and all the truly perfect stuff - Nest's developing web of-things group, the biotech advancements in the works at Calico, the moonshots under development at Google X - are all still immovably in Page's pocket. Actually, his adoration for the recent may be what brought about this seismic initiative move in any case. Re/code notes that Page has communicated an enthusiasm toward concentrating on the "greater picture" stuff that'll characterize what the Google of tomorrow will look like, coating up with prior reports that he's been tapping inward ability to evaluate what enormous, world-changing problems Google ought to truly be attempting to fix.


Source : Re/Code

Indian Air Force asks personnel not to use Xiaomi phones

Chinese smartphone creator Xiaomi which took the market by storm with its low valued Mi3 and Redmi 1s smartphones is again under the magnifying lens. 

The Indian Air Force, in an alert issued to IAF staff and their relatives, guaranteed that Xiaomi made smartphones and tablets are sending private user information to remote servers placed in China.

Earlier Xiaomi was under flame subsequent to there were various security concerns with its Mi Cloud messaging administrations. Xiaomi then made the Mi Cloud a discretionary administration in the fallout of security allegations.
Xiaomi Air Force Security


"f-secure, a main security arrangement organization, as of late did a test of Xiaomi Redmi 1s, the organization's budget smartphone, and found that the phone was sending transporter name, phone number, IMEI (the gadget identifier) in addition to numbers from location book and instant messages once again to Beijing," the IAF note says.

A few months back, the armed force additionally located a comparative security hazard and issued a statement"every Internet organization and telecom administrator in China, both outside and household, is held legitimately subject for all substance imparted through their platforms."currently Xiaomi is researching the matter since India is a significant market. 

We will update you as often as possible on any further advancement.

Source: Indian Express

Response from Xiaomi

Xiaomi Redmi Phones

I read your article about the Indian Air Force round to their staff encouraging them not to utilize gadgets made by Xiaomi. I might truly want to elucidate a couple of key focuses.

1. Xiaomi does not gather any data without user consent

We offer different Internet based administrations, for example, Mi Cloud and Cloud Messaging which oblige data to be put away in the cloud. We take thorough precautionary measures to guarantee that all data is secured when transferred to Xiaomi servers and is not put away past the time needed. Users will dependably be advised in advance in circumstances when we require your individual data, and will need to sanction the solicitation.

Mi Cloud and Cloud Messaging are pick in administrations which users can turn on and off whenever, giving users complete control.

2. The concerns raised by F-Secure have been completely tended to

We accept the warning roundabout issued by IAF is focused around occasions around 2 months back. It alludes to the F-Secure test done on the Redmi 1s in July 2014 about the enactment of our Cloud Messaging administration (which empowers users to send instant messages free of charge). We promptly tended to the concerns raised, which was specifically recognized by F-Secure after 4 days.

It would be ideal if you allude to this post by F-Secure affirming their worries were tended to:

F-Secure

3. We are as of now moving our Indian users' data to servers outside of China

Since ahead of schedule 2014, we have been relocating our administrations and comparing data for Indian users from our Beijing data focuses to Amazon AWS data focuses in Singapore and USA. This relocation will be completely finished before the year's over.

This aides enhance the execution of our administrations furthermore give some significant serenity to users in India in guaranteeing that we treat their data with the most extreme care and will dependably keep up the most elevated privacy models.

Google to Shut Down Orkut on Sept 30

Google Officially closes Orkut
Google published today that it is shutting down its first social network, Orkut, on September 30.

Orkut, launched in 2004 and named after Google engineer Orkut Büyükkökten, who made it, was extremely well known in Brazil, where for quite a long time it was the leading social network. Facebook at last surpassed it the country in January 2012.

Orkut was widely utilized within India, however never picked up footing in the U.S. also with the production of Google+ three years back, the end of Orkut was just a matter of time.

"It's been an incredible 10 years, and we apologize to those still energetically utilizing the administration," engineering chief Paulo Golgher wrote in a blog entry. "We trust individuals will discover other online groups to start more discussions and fabricate considerably more associations for the following decade and past."

Orkut grew out of Google's 20 percent activity, which permitted representatives to utilize a fifth of their working week on side undertakings. Obviously, the social network has since been supplanted by Google+, a more driven administration that ties into a large number of Google's different items. The choice to close Orkut is consequently scarcely amazing – the reality it took so long is most likely all the more a stun.

Beginning today, it will be imposible for newcomers to make another Orkut account. Existing clients can get to the administration as ordinary, nonetheless; Google (Orkut Team) says the three-month period ought to "give the community time to deal with the move." Orkut fans can likewise send out their profile data , community posts and photos utilizing Google Takeout.

The Orkut application will be expelled from Google Play and the App Store later today. You can discover all the more about the progressions and how its client base will be influenced in the advancing months here.

Google Closes Orkut
Orkut users will have the capacity to continue to utilize the network until Sept. 30, however no new account could be made begun today. Orkut profile data, community posts and photos might be sent out with Google Takeout (which will be conceivable under September 2016).

Top 5 Features why you love Apple's new iOS8

Apple IPhone IOS Update
You can't get another iphone 6 or iphone 6 Plus until Friday, yet ios 8, the most recent variant of Apple's portable working framework, goes live on Wednesday.

The free download will be accessible to anybody with an iphone 4s, 5, 5c or 5s.

IOS 8 isn't the radical update that ios 7 was, however it has a hand sized scoop of new gimmicks that you're sure to revel in. Here's a gander at a couple of our top picks. (Is there an alternate peculiarity you're anticipating utilizing? Tell us in the remarks.)

Device Continuity


At the point when Apple's Mac working framework, OS X Yosemite, is released, likely in late October, it will match with ios 8 for the tightest integration ever between widgets.

Clients will have the capacity to do things like answer telephone approaches their portable computer, get messages on a desktop machine and move a record in advancement from an iphone to an ipad to a machine with a single swipe.

That functionality, is called Handoff, works with applications including Mail, Safari, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Maps, Messages, Reminders, Calendar and Contacts.

Widgets


As of recently, Apple has kept strict controls on how applications - other than its own particular - show up on the iphone and ipad. Fundamentally, they get a minor, consistently estimated box for every application, and that is that. At the same time in ios 8, it has given designers the capability to make gadgets for the gadgets.

Presently, they'll have the capacity to make straightforward, standalone instruments for things like checking the climate or observing information use. In any case the capacity, which has long been accessible on Android gadgets, will be restricted to the "Today" screen under the gadget's Notification Center.

Keyboard / Console changes


Apple says ios 8 brings the greatest progressions to the framework's console since the iphone was presented.

For one, Apple will start permitting outsider writing applications, so tools like Swype, the finger-dragging framework prevalent on Android, will be impending soon.

The framework's local writing framework will get a few tweaks as well, generally as Quicktype, a Google-style prescient content framework. The framework will foresee the following word you need to sort focused around what you've composed in the past and let you include the whole word with a solitary tap. Its forecasts will change focused around the individuals you're speaking with and the organization you're utilizing (say, email vs. content).

What's that melody?



Siri is currently incorporated with Shazam, an application that perceives music and other media playing around it.

ios 8 clients will have the capacity to just ask Siri "what melody is playing?" and get the widely adored computerized aide's best figure.

Family Sharing



Mac needs you to have one major blissful iphone and ipad-utilizing family.

In the new framework, up to six individuals will have the capacity to impart buys from itunes, ibook and the App Store without needing to impart a solitary record.

Family Sharing additionally naturally makes a family photograph collection, letting anybody on the arrangement offer to it.

There's an imparted family logbook so anybody (OK, let's be honest, so Mom ...) can keep everybody side by side of arrangements and an "ask to purchase" work that naturally pings folks, giving them a chance to give or withhold consent when a youngster tries to purchase something from Apple.

Java 9 Features Announced - Technology Updates

Java 9 FeaturesIf you are a Java developer, you would absolutely be aware about the fervor that presently encompasses the Java 9 updates. Java is widely utilized crosswise over different platforms and there are numerous developers who make utilization of this technology. Morever, the normal upgrades are required to take Java to an another level. While the Java Development Kit 9 is planned to be launched in ahead of schedule 2016, theories have as of now started about how the technology upgrade will change the way Java was constantly utilized.

Expected Features:

Give us a chance to talk about a portion of the features that are bringing on all the fervor among people and endeavors apparently equivalent:


Light Weight API: API is an integral component of JSON. It is by and large utilized for expending as well as building records and data streams by making utilization of the JSON data trade format. A light weight API would bring extensive profits to the developers and the clients of the technology.

Application Programming interface Updates: Another region where the Java upgrade may make a redesign in moving up the treatment of operating system process. The current API makes it mandatory for Java developers to make utilization of local codes. However, the overhaul will change that and make the methodology less difficult.

Contended Locking: Java developers constantly accepted that there was some space for the change of battled Java Object monitors. It is foreseen that this may really happen in the upgrade. The objective is to enhance contended Java Object monitors.

Modular Source Code: With this source code redesign, it will get to be simpler to execute the Java SE stage on more modest devices. It additionally implies the performance of uses will enhance, and they will get to be more secure. In short, Java developers would have better tool for programming.

Code Cache Segmentation: As the name recommends, this peculiarity will permit the division of the code cache. One will have the capacity to segment them. This won't just empower the utilization of extensions, it will additionally increase the performance of applications.

Java Compilation: This feature is required to feature the capacity of the compiler tool.

We need to realize what you think about the JDK 9 announcement! Are these features something you've been sitting tight for, or are exceptionally intrigued by investigating further? Is it accurate to say that you are to a degree disappointed by the moderate hole of gimmick advertisements? Do some of these recommendations appear to go against changes that you need? Comment below about how do you find this article, interesting, boring or so-so.
 

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