HTC 10: All You Need To Know

The new flagship of HTC, named HTC 10 has been launched. It came up with a better display and a beautiful alumimium uni-body. Following last year's M9 and blending the design of the M serieswith the A9, this phone may be called a modern phone with familiar design. while HTC says it spent about 12 months designing this phone. also, they have been in regular touch with the integrated feedback of their customers throughout the developement process.

The HTC 10 has everything that a latest Android phone must have. The one thing this phone brags about is its 5.2 inch,2K, Quad HD display which displays 30% more color than the previous year's launches. The scree is covered by Gorilla Glass with curved edgesthat blends into the phone's Aluminium uni-body frame. The Pre-orders for this phone have been started in the US. but, there is no word about when the phone will be launched in indian market.

the HTC 10 is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 processor and 4 GB of RAM that we can see in handful of high end Android smartphones launched this year. Plus, there is a 32GB of internal storage and a secondary MicroSD slot for expansion. Also, the company is saying that they have optimised the phone software such that it has almost 50 % faster touch response than its predecessor. The home screen can be customised such that there is no need for the icons to stay in a grid. Aslo, there will be stickers of different sizes that can be moved around the screen to create a customized look. Due to the software and hardware optimization, the 3000MHa battery in this phone works for 2 days. The phone also supports Quick charge 3.0 through its USB Type-C port.

For the music lovers, this phone will have a new BoomSound technology. This flagship also comes with Dolby Surround Sound like the company's previous flagship device, the One A9, besting in the Class DAC.

The Smartphone features a 12 megapixelcamera with HTC Ultrapixel technology. This new technology will ensure high quality photo even when you are zooming in. According to Dxomark, its camera matches the prowess of Samsung Galaxy S7 series and is way ahead of the iPhone 6s. however, the S7 still leads because of its videography. But, the actual verdict can only be given after an actual usage of the phone, which may take some time as it still have not released the pre-order date for Indian customers. The company has given a slight boost to its front facing camera, making it a 5 megapixels to compete with its rivals Apple and Samsung phones. the screen serves as a Front-facing Flash.

HTC phones have always got a good review. But the reviews were'nt able to bring that much of customers to its doors. the company still have'nt made its position in the top five phone maufacturers worldwide. but, this flagship is expected to be a game changer for the company.

The designers have worked just a bit for the UI enhancements of the HTC 10, as it gives a familar look of the screen like the most of the Android phones in the market. But, it may be so as to make it easy and quick for the phone to upgrade from its present OS (Maeshmellow 6.0) to the coming Android N. Announced Tuesday, the company has still not said anything about the pricing.

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How to Save Yourself from the My First Video Virus on Facebook

If you have been affected by the 'My First Video' virus on Facebook, this post is just for you. A small change in the settings of Facebook and Google Chrome you can save yourself from this virus. The virus automatically sends a message to a friend asking them to click upon a video link to which a virus is attached. It is not the first time the Facebook has been attacked by a virus. A similar virus has previously attacked many Facebook accounts.

How is this virus a harmful one?

The 'my first video' virus automatically sends mesaage to people in your friendlist through your account without your consent. And, wgen the other user tries to watch the video, the virus enters into his acount too and the process repeats. Also, the user find himself unable to logout from his account from that computer. Also, in many cases, there have been complains of some non conventional post to ones account.

It Also Stops You From Changing Your Accounts Password

This virus captures your account in such a way that you cannot logout from your account and, even, you cannot change your facebook account's password. The virus not only affects your Facebook account, but also your Pc on which you used your account. This is the reason the user cannot change the accounts password through that PC.

The video link opens a Chrome Extension Page

The 'my first video' virus works through an extension. Chrome Extension works just like a smartphone app that is used on a PC. Any person who click on the 'My First Video' link, a new webpage opens in front of him. The webpage doesn't contains any video, but an extension that automatically gets uploaded on your chrome. According to the cyber experts, the virus not only affects your computer, but also collects information of the websites you visit.

How to check these harmful Extensions

Recognising these harmful extension is too easy. For this, go to Google Chrome settings. Here, on the left side, below history, there is an option of extension. When you click on this option, a list of all the extensions installed over the chrome appears. If you see any extension you don't remember installing, that may be the virus extension. Clicking over the detail, it will show you the details of accessibility of that extension. You can also disable and delete that extension from here.

Be Aware of The Apps on the Facebook

Along with the game apps, there are a lot of apps on Facebook, that not only tells the marriage date of person, but also the number of kids they are gonna have. Even they tells you some intresting facts about your previous or next life. But, these apps are famous for deleting users data, sharing personal information with advertising companies and posting on user's page without their consent.

Protection is not hard

User can check lists of apps using Facebook login. You can go into the Facebook setting and can delete these apps. Just go in the settings. Here, when scrolled down, there is an option of apps. Clicking on this option, comes a list of apps that have logged in through your Facebook Account. Clicking on each app tells you the level to which the app can look into your account. The harmful apps can be removed by clicking on the cross sign beside it.

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WhatsApp Encryption: All You Need To Know

After adding the feature to share files over WhatsApp, the developers have now added a new and probably the best feature to WhatsApp. The end-to-end encryption. This feature will ensure that the user's messages are only read by the person for whom the message is meant to be. The messages can't be read by anyone else, not by WhatsApp, not any cyber criminal, not even by any law enforcement agency.

Jan Koum, one of the founders of WhatsApp made the announcement regarding this over his Facebook page saying that the company has been working on this feature for the last two years. "We’ve been working for the past two years to give people better security over their conversations on WhatsApp… People deserve security. It makes it possible for us to connect with our loved ones. It gives us the confidence to speak our minds. It allows us to communicate sensitive information with colleagues, friends, and others. We’re glad to do our part in keeping people’s information out of the hands of hackers and cyber-criminals"-Jan Koum.

So, what does the end-to-end means, and, how exactly it works on WhatsApp?
WhatsApp encryption uses ' The Signal Protocol'. It has been designed by Open Whisper Systems.
Explaining, WhatsApp says that "once the session is established, clients do not need to rebuild a new session with each other until the existing session state is lost through an external event such as an app reinstall or device change." Explaining how the messages are encrypted, WhatsApp said- "clients exchange messages that are protected with a Message Key using AES256 in CBC mode for encryption and HMAC-SHA256 for authentication. The Message Key changes for each message transmitted, and is ephemeral, such that the Message Key used to encrypt a message cannot be reconstructed from the session.” It also says that calls, large file attachments are also end-to-end encrypted. One drawback of this feature is that it may cause the delivery of messages a bit late.

Users should know that this feature is enabled by default in WhatsApp. so, if you have the latest app installed on your smartphone, then your chats are already been encrypted. Unlike Telegram, the encryption cannot be specialized for time required, i.e. you can't turn off this feature.

Users should also know that they need to be on same version of the software to use this feature. so, if you and your friend have recently updated their software and you chat with him/her you will see a message saying "Messages you send to this chat and calls are now secured with end-to-end encryption. Tap for more info." when you tap on the message, a pop up menu that will explain about the end-to-end encryption. To verify if the encryption is working good, the user needs to click over the verify button. This will take the user to a page with a QR code and a string of 60 numbers.
And if your friend is near you, scan their QR code with your phone with the given option. if the code matches, a green tick comes and you are good to go.

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IBPS PO 2015 Result

This time IBPS took PO exam in two phase. First, there was a prelims exam of 100 marks. The qualifying students were allowed to sit in Mains exam. The mains exam was conducted on 31st October. The paper was a bit tough and time taking. The quants was moderate but time taking. The 50 marks reasoning section was hard and has some typical puzzles. Hence, the cutoff is going to be bit lower than previous year's that was 82 for general and 80 for OBCs. But, this time it is going to be around 70 marks. So, the low cutoff is easing things for aspirants, but along with this they have to cross the sectional cutoff. This can be a bit hard for them.


The result will be out soon. People can keep checking this webpage to get update of their IBPS PO V CWE main exam. We will keep you update with the IBPS PO 2015 result. Best of luck.
Till now you can read some interesting posts here. Some links are shared below.

Click here to learn to save data. http://techinmech.blogspot.in/2015/11/customize-your-phone-and-save-internet.html?m=1

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Customize Your Phone and Save Internet Data

Internet data costs much more Cable connection. Watching few minute YouTube video costs many MB of data. In this you can change some setting of your phone and save a lot of data. During browsing, many websites have some plugin and popup videos that are unnecessary for users. Because of these, the website takes a lot of time to load and also there is loss of a lot of data. A few changes in browser setting can eliminates these plugins and popups for all time. With this many browsers have a feature that compresses photos and saves a lot of data.


Chrome browser
To save data on chrome browser, go on setting and then click on the 'data saver' option. On this browser you will get the information of how much data you saved by this feature. This feature compress the webpage and photos before loading. This option also prevents the downloading of malicious third party apps on phone.


UC Browser
UC browser is the mostly used browser in India. Here, you can save data upto 60 percent. With photo compression only, we can save 30% data. There is a 'text only mode' feature on this phone which when switched on, only text can be seen on website. During browsing, photos can be completely eliminated. Here photos will only be loaded on wifi mode. It also compresses high resolution picture and saves data. To switch on the text only mode, go on the menu. In menu, swipe left and here you will find the 'text only mode'. Switching on this feature will save data upto 60 percent.


Opera Mini
Opera Mini was designed for the purpose to lower the data usage only. It saved data more than Chrome browser. It compresses the webpage before it loads. Go on setting and click on the 'load image' option. After clicking on this, you will see option of image quality. Here low the image quality and you can save a large amount of data. It makes the high resolution smaller before they load.

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Watch Your Favourite TV Show on Your Phone For Free

If you love to watch TV and due to some reason you are unable to watch your favourite TV show, you can watch it on your mobile for free. There are many apps where recorded shows as well as live shows can be seen. We are going to talk about some of these apps here.


BSNL Mobile TV
This application has more than 110 tv channels. You can download it from google play store at free of cost. Through this, one can watch live TV shows. It's another feature is that you can watch good quality streaming not only on 3g, but 2g as well. In this you can watch news and entertainment series of different languages. If you face any problem, you can call the troubleshooting expert. On the top, you are provided with options of news, entertainment and regional news.


YUPPTV- Indian Live TV movie
On this app, one can watch more than a thousand Hindi movies and live streaming of more than 170 tv channels. Also, there is a feature of 'show on demand' on this app at free of cost. You can also watch recorded when ws as well. All this is available at free of cost.


nexGTV HD
One who want to watch his favourite shows, Hindi movies as well as foreign movies, this app is well suited for them. Here English Channels are also available. The user of this app can watch shows live and in Hd quality also. You can download it from google play store for free of cost. Information regarding shows can be shared with friends.


Hello TV
This app has been designed keeping in mind the problems faced by the Indian users and thus the shows can be watched offline by downloading it. This app provides you with HD quality videos. Keeping in mind the problems of Indian users, the app can work with both 2g and 3g. So that it can stream good quality picture at low speed even.

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This Week will See The Release of 5 New Smartphones

Five smartphones are being launched in india this week. They are 3^rd generation Moto G, Oneplus 2, Android One of Lava and budget phone of Micromax. The smartphones of Motorola and Oneplus are going to compete with premier smartphones of Samsung. Along with these, Xiomi’s MI4i with 32GB memory has started its market. This phone may give a lot competition to Asus’ Zenpho

This month saw the release of two smartphones of Galaxy series of Samsung as well as the Yureka plus. The galaxy J5 and Galaxy J7 has been released in the market. Also, the micromax’s helper company YU Televentures brought the Yureka Plus in the market. The company alleged that they have already sold more than 50000 units of Yureka Plus. The smartphones being released this week may give great competition to Yureka Plus.

 

Moto G Third Generation (two variants):

Motorola released two smartphones under the name Third Generation. The first variant will have 1 GB RAM and 8 GB internal memory, while other variant contains 2 GB RAM and 16 GB internal memory. The 8 GB variant will be available at inr 11,999 on flipkart. This phone will have 4G support and dual SIM support. The phone boast with its Gorilla Glass 3 to keep it from scratches. Its display is of 5.5” with resolution of 720x1280 pixels. There is a 1.4GHz QuadCore processor in it. The phone is going to have a 13 MP main camera and a 5 MP front camera. Also, it has a long lasting 2470MAh battery.

OnePlus 2 with 5.5 inch display:

The Chinese company OnePlus’ much awaited phone OnePlus 2 is being released today in India. The phone could only be brought through invoice system. For this, the company has made a website where one has to register their email id. One can log on to oneplus.net/invites and register their email. This phone has a 5.5 inch display with 1440x2560 pixel screen. The screen is protected with Gorilla Glass 4. The phone is decked with 1.5 GHz QuadCore processor and 4 GB RAM. The phone is available in 2 variants of 32 GB and 64 GB internal storage. Also, there is a 16 MP main and 5 MP front camera with dual flash.

 

Lava’s Android One:

Lava has launched its first Android phone Pixel V1 with price of INR 11,350. It will be available on Flipkart from Monday. The phone can also be brought from retail stores. This phone has a 5.5 inch HD display. There is a 1.3 GHz Quadcore processor and 2 GB RAM. The smartphone operates on the latest OS Android 5.1.1 lollipop.  This phone has 32 GB internal memory and can support memory card of upto 32 GB. This dual SIM phone doesn’t supports 4G. The phone is equipped with BSI sensor 13 MP main camera and 5 MP front camera.

 

Budget phone from Micromax:

The Indian company Micromax will present a budget phone this week. The company hasn’t revealed much about this phone. The company has said that the Canvas Spark will be on sale from today through open sale. It will cost INR 4,999.

Xiomi mi4i:

The Chinese company Xiomi will start the selling of 32 GB Xiomi mi4i from today at 2 PM. The phone will cost you INR 14,999. Before, company has released 16 GB variant at INR 12,999. This phone will compete with the Asus’ Zenfone 2. The smartphone contains a 13 MP main and 5 MP front camera.it is loaded with 3120 MaH long lasting battery.

 

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