iPhone Hidden Features: Your iPhone Has A Secret Button You Didn't Know About

The iPhone is one of the most popular andbest-known gadgets in the world.

It's pretty odd then that no one seems to
know how to use it. Recently a study showed that for CheapHolidayLand.com showed that 68% of people had no idea you can use the volume up button as a camera shutter, for instance.

Here are our 7 favourite 'hidden' features in iOS 7.

. If you want to delete text you've already written, shake your phone. It will delete the text.

. You can use the volume up button as a camera shutter.

. Your iPhone has a spirit level hidden in the Compass app.

. If Siri doesn't pronounce your name properly, or other words, you can teach her to do better.

. You can ask Siri to search for different topics on Twitter.

. You can block calls from certain, or all unknown numbers.

. Your iPhone will send you a 'happy birthday' message if you tell Siri your birthday.

Source: HUFFPOST

How Winamp Disappeared Into Obscurity

This year marks the 16th birthday of Winamp. During that time it went from being a must-have piece of software to languishing in complete obscurity. But
where did it all go wrong?

Prior to Winamp, there wasn’t much available beyond Windows Media Player or RealPlayer. But none of those players could, in the mid-1990s, do something as basic as playlists, much less visualizations and custom skins, nor were they as tightly and efficiently programmed as Winamp. Even today, the Mac version of the Winamp installer is only 4.2MB; by comparison, the iTunes Mac installer comes in at a whopping 170MB. The Windows Advanced Multimedia Products (WinAMP) player was released to the world on April 21, 1997. The next year, when its parent company Nullsoft formally incorporated, Winamp became $US10 shareware. But no one pays for shareware, right? Wrong.
“Nothing ever was broken [if you didn't pay], there was no feature that was unlocked,” Rob Lord told. “In that year before we were acquired, we were bringing in $US100,000 a month from $US10 checks-paper checks in the
mail!”

In fact, Winamp proved to be a huge success, and in many ways was the piece of software that naturalized the use of MP3s, by making it easy to rip,store and manage them, all from one piece of software. So successful was it, in fact, that eventually AOL acquired the company in June 1999 for somewhere in the region of $US80-$100 million.

What followed, however, isn’t a pretty story. Through horrendous mismanagement, AOL throttled the
creativity of the Winamp team :

“There’s no reason that Winamp couldn’t be in the position that iTunes is in today if not for a few layers of mismanagement by AOL that started immediately upon acquisition,” Rob Lord, the first general manager of Winamp, and its first-ever hire. Justin Frankel, Winamp’s primary developer, seems to concur in an interview he gave to BetaNews. (He declined to be interviewed for this article.) “I’m always hoping that they will come around and realise that they’re killing [Winamp] and find a better way, but AOL always seems too bogged down with all of their internal politics to get anything done,” he said.

Later, of course, came iTunes, at a time when Winamp was already beginning to struggle, to further compound the problem. Over time, Winamp’s success dwindled, and its development staff left. Nowadays, Winamp still exists — it just has an incredibly small, stagnated user
base.

Facebook Hacker received $33,500 reward for Remote code execution vulnerability

Facebook has paid out its largest Bug Bounty ever of $33,500 to a Brazilian security researcher for discovering
and reporting a critical Remote code execution vulnerability, which potentially allows the full control of a
server.

In September, 'Reginaldo Silva' found an XML External Entity Expansion vulnerability affecting the part of Drupal
that handled OpenID, which allows attacker to read any files on the webserver. As a feature, Facebook allows users to access their
accounts using OpenID in which it receives an XML document from 3rd service and parse it to verify that it is
indeed the correct provider or not i.e. Receives at https://www.facebook.com/openid/receiver.php

In November 2013, while testing Facebook's 'Forgot your
password' functionality, he found that the OpenID process could be manipulated to execute any command on the Facebook server remotely and also allows to read
arbitrary files on the webserver. In a Proof-of-Concept, he demonstrated that how an attacker can read the content of 'etc/passwd' file from Facebook's server just by manipulating the OpenID
request with malicious XML code, and in order to extract the essential login information such as system
administrator data and user IDs.

After receiving bug reports from Silva, the Facebook Security team immediately released a short term patch
within 3.5 hours, described as:

"We use a tool called Takedown for this sort of task because it runs on a low level, before much of the request
processing happens. It allows engineers to define rules to block, log and modify requests. Takedown helped us
ensure this line of code ran before anything else for any requests hitting /openid/receiver.php."

The Facebook team determined that the vulnerability could have been escalated to a remote code execution
issue, and rewarded Silva accordingly after patching the
flaw.

I Am telling you a Gmail secret . An amazing trick

I Am telling you a Gmail secret . An amazing trick.
Friends.
Do u know?
You can create multiple user accounts (IDs) on 90%
websites with a single gmail id .
Atleast Every website dont allow you to create more then
one account associate with same email id and you know
it better..
But if you have gmail account then you can create many
accounts on a websites.
Its possible because gmail account don't count dot(.) in
email addresses.
thats means
anyname@gmail. com
and
any.name@gmail. com
both are same email address . Yeah if you send email to
anyna.me@gmail .com then it wil go to
anyname@gmail .com
that means if you already have ur account on a website
with yourname@gmail .com
you can create you.rname@gmail .com
but facebook is listed in the 10% websites. it dont allow
this even u use dot.
But 90% websites includin twitter will allow you to signup
so enjoy and keep share.

CES 2014: The ten coolest gadgets on display in Las Vegas

IF YOU’RE interested in the coolest and
craziest tech gadgets, the annual Consumer
Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is the
biggest and arguably best event of its kind. As
this year's CES starts to wind down – it runs
from 7 to 10 January – here are ten bleeding-
edge gadgets making waves in the desert.
A 3D printer that makes sweets
Sure, 3D printers are exciting, but they
seemed the preserve of inner-city industrial
designers. Until now, that is. 3D Systems has
used CES 2014 to unveil ChefJet, a printer that
will make sweets and other sugary treats.
There will be two models, says The Register.
The standard ChefJet is a monochrome,
countertop sized device with a build volume
of 200 x 200 x 150mm. The ChefJet Pro can do
multiple colours and has a 250 x 250 x
200mm space for pastries and such. ChefJet
printable nibbles come in a variety of
flavours, including chocolate, vanilla, mint,
sour apple, cherry and watermelon.
The white goods you can yell at
Feel the urge to get angry with your
appliances? No problem. LG's Home Chat
allows users to control their kitchen gadgets
using voice commands. The Las Vegas Sun
says: "You can even ask your fridge what
groceries its out of — in person at home and
through text while at the supermarket —
ensuring that you’ll never forget to buy milk
again.
Curved TVs
Flat televisions are so 2013, right? TV
manufacturers are leaping onto the curved
screen bandwagon thanks to the technology's
ability to deliver a better viewing experience.
One of the standouts at CES 2014 is LG's 77-
inch flexible 4K OLED TV which lets you
control the curvature of its display using the
TV remote. The range of curve "takes the
screen size and viewing distance into account
to give you the best viewing experience",
reports PocketLint . You won't be able to get
your hands on one for a while, but the set
"marks the future of curved TVs", says the
website.
The Lamborghini with the $50,000 sound system
Something for the person with everything. The
Lamborghini Veneno Roadster is a $4.5
million monster that goes from 0-60mph in
less than 2.9 seconds. Why is it at CES 2014?
Well, the soundsystem is also supercharged. It
features an Android-powered touchscreen
interface that allows you to control the music,
along with subwoofers in the driver and
passenger footwells. "To say it was loud would
be an understatement," writes PocketLIint.
The drone you can own
Drones don't have a great reputation. But the
Phantom 2 Vision aerial system from China
promises to take spying on the neighbours to
a whole new level. Kept aloft by four rotors, it
contains a 14-megapixel camera that can
shoot RAW files or 1080p video. You can
either watch a live stream of the video or
store it on an Android device or iPhone.
Smart socks for runners
The most sophisticated thing about the socks
worn by joggers used to be an ability to
disguise unpleasant odours. Not any more.
Sensoria is a new range of socks from a
company called Heapsylon that can track how
a user's foot hits the ground, analyse the
rhythm of each footfall and calculate stride
length, reports the Daily Telegraph . Over
time, the socks learn how you run and could
alert you to "the possibility of injury or over-
exertion". The sci-fi socks will go on sale in
March priced at £100 a pair.
An intelligent toothbrush for oral obsessives
Electric toothbrushes are so last century. The
product making visitors to CES bristle with
excitement this year is the Kolibree. Designed
in France, it's a smart toothbrush that
analyses users' brushing habits and displays
the results on a smartphone app. You'll never
miss a molar again. Priced at $99, the
Kolibree will go on sale later this year.
The ultimate VR suit for gamers
Microsoft's Kinect promised to turn gamers'
bodies into controllers when it was launched
in 2010. But Kinect often "failed to capture
your movements with true fidelity", reports
tech website The Verge . That's not an issue for
the full and half-body game controller suits
being demonstrated by PrioVR at CES 2014.
They use state-of-the-art motion-capture
technology to "render your gameplay with
great accuracy", says the Verge. Sure, you may
look like a heavily-bandaged A&E patient, but
the suits offer the "most accurate gesture-
based gameplay seen to date". Priced at $270
for the half-body suit and $400 for the full-
body suit, the products should be available
later this year.
The return of the medallion
OK, the Bluetooth jewellery unveiled by UK
company Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) is
more elegant (not to mention functional) than
the chunky medallions worn by fashion-
forward men and women in the 1970s.
Designed as a prototype rather than a
commercial product, the pendants will flash
blue light when a call or text is received by
the wearer's smartphone. If blue's not your
thing, the colour and sequence of the flashing
light can be programmed to suit your mood

Instagram hit with 'miracle fruit diet' spam

Photo
sharing app
Instagram
was
reportedly hit
with 'miracle
fruit diet'
spam when
users'
accounts
were hacked and photos of fruits were posted.
According to the Fox News, the spam hit the service
in the weekend and along with the food photos a
link to a fake BBC page was also posted promoting
' miracle fruit diet'.
One of the photo descriptions read, 'I saw it on Dr
Oz's show! Link is in my bio #lovemyfollowers
#health', which was clicked on more than 35,000
times.
Instagram spokesperson said that the users
experienced problem when unwanted photos were
posted from their accounts adding that Instagram's
security and spam team quickly took actions to
secure the accounts involved, and the posted
photos were being deleted.
It is unclear if he attack on Twitter with a similar
'miracle diet' is linked to attacks on Instagram.

New smartphone app records things that happened 5 mins ago

A
new smartphone app that lets you record
everything
that
happened
around you
five minutes
ago has been
launched.
The app - Heard - achieves this seemingly
impossible feat by constantly recording whatever is
going on and keeps it in a state of buffering.
If the user then decides he wants to record
something that has already happened, he can go
into the app and do exactly that, The Sun reported.
And if the user does nothing, then the recordings
are constantly deleted after the five-minute mark.
The app also syncs with social networks so audio
clips can be easily uploaded onto Facebook, or
emailed to pals.
It can run constantly whenever the smartphone is
turned on, but it does have a red banner at the top
of the phone screen to remind the user it is still on.
Heard is available free with 12 seconds' recording
time, or for USD 1.99 for up to 5 minutes in the
Apple store.