Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Monday, 24 November 2014
Sunday, 23 November 2014
WhatsApp Tricks
Use WhatsApp Without Your Mobile Number
Do you have a mobile number but for some reason do not want to use it on WhatsApp? Do you often indulge in group chats with several unknown people to whom you don’t wanna reveal your phone number? Do not worry. You can do that. Here’s how:
- If you are already using WhatsApp, uninstall it from your device completely. You can keep the SD card files i.e. the images if you want. Download and install it again.
- Now when you open WhatsApp it’ll ask you to verify your phone number. It automatically sends a verification message to its server. But if this happens your number gets registered with them. So block your message service. You can simply put your phone on flight mode so that all network connections are disabled. You can alternatively change the message center number. Remember the old one of course.
- It’ll ask you to choose an alternate method to verify. Choose ‘Verify through SMS’ and give your email address. Click on ‘Send’ and without waiting even for a second click on ‘Cancel’. This terminates the authorization process.
- Now you have to spoof that message. You can try this for Android and Fake-a-Messagefor iOS.
- Go to your Outbox -> Copy the message details to spoofer app -> Send it to spoofed verification.
- Use the following details.
To: +447900347295
From: +(Country code)(mobile number)
Message: Your email address - A message will be sent through that spoofed number. You can use this number to connect with your friends.
I don’t know if you should be trying this or not. I don’t find it useful anyway. It’s always a good idea to use your real phone number.
Recover Deleted Messages
Recover deleting messages on WhatsApp after you’ve deleted it from within the app is possible without any additional recovery software. WhatsApp by default stores all your conversations and activity on your SD card. This is helpful if you ever lose your messages or to view your messages after you’ve deleted it from WhatsApp.
Go to: SD card -> WhatsApp -> Databases and look for two files named – msgstore-yyyy-mm-dd.1.db.crypt5 and msgtore.db.crypt.
The first file contains all the messages you’ve sent or received in the last seven days (yyyy-mm-dd.1 correspond to the respective year, month and day and the 1 after dd signifies that it was the first backup taken on that day) while the second file contains all messages sent or received on that day.
To restore your Whatsapp messages, rename msgtore.db.crypt to OLDmsgtore.db.crypt or something to identify the old backup easily, so in case if something goes wrong, you can try again. Select the database you wish to restore from the files left and rename it to msgtore.db.crypt. Uninstall and re-install Whatsapp and when prompted choose Restore. The chat file you saved with the name msgtore.db.crypt is restored. Restoring an earlier database, automatically clears your current chat history and there’s no way to merge your old database and your current chat history.
While you cannot open these files with a text editor since they’re encrypted, you can anyways use Whatsapp Xtract to read your Whatsapp database on computer.
Send Two Images in One
Have you received an image where at first you see a hot chic and when you click on the image you get to see a monkey? There’s no trick but an app to do it. Try Magiapp tricks for WhatsApp for android and FhumbApp for iPhone. Using them you can hide your best pics inside others. Unfortunately there’s not much you can do if you own a Windows phone or BlackBerry except forwarding those images and even then you can’t be sure if it’ll work.
Get Contacts Profile Pictures
When you are checking out your friend’s profile picture there’s no way to store it. WhatsApp doesn’t provide an option to save the image. Of course you can take a screenshot, but then you’ll have to crop the unnecessary part. Do not worry, Whatsapp saves all the profile pictures you view automatically which you can find in SD card -> WhatsApp -> Profile Pictures. The images will be associated to you friend’s mobile number and not his name. Have an easy time searching for the image ;)
Change Your Friends’ Profile Picture
Nah, you’ll not be making the change globally, but changing your friend’s profile picture only on your phone is sufficient to scare the hell outta him. Here’s how you can do it.
- Choose a profile picture for your friend. Use Google Image search for cute looking monkeys and donkeys or weird looking people.
- Resize the image to 561×561 pixels using Paint or Photoshop and name it with your friend’s mobile phone number.
- Save the image in SD card -> WhatsApp -> Profile Pictures. Overwrite an existing image if required.
- Disable WiFi and data network. If you don’t WhatsApp will automatically update the picture. Now show it to your friend who’ll panic instantly!
Note: This is not a hack, but simply a trick to change your friend’s profile picture only on your device. This is meant for fun purpose only.
Create a Fake Conversation
Noticed the fake conversations between Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Rahul Dravid and Suresh Raina prevailing on Facebook where in they make fun of each other? Ever wanted to do that yourself? With the help of an app like WhatSaid you can easily create fake conversations and play pranks on your friends. Don’t use it to spoil someone’s life though, please. There isn’t a similar app for iPhone though.
Update: WhatSaid was recently removed from the Google Play Store. Here’s an alternate link to download WhatSaid.
Send PDF, APK, ZIP & More
Unlike most chat apps, WhatsApp doesn’t allow you to send documents. But with an additional app like Cloud Send you can send PDFs, APKs, Word documents and more using WhatsApp. A better way is to install Google Drive on your mobile phone, upload the documents and send your friend the link to the documents.
Hide Your Profile Picture
I’m not really sure why you’d want to hide your profile picture. No one looks that bad to be not seen by people. Anyways with an application like WhatsApp Plus, you can hide your profile picture on Android. WhatsApp Plus is not available on the Play Store and there are several fakes available online so make sure you download it from a reliable source like the one I shared. A better way is to not set a profile picture if you don’t want others to see how you look on screen. Thus you’ll save on memory!
Update: You no longer need to use WhatsApp Plus to hide your Whatsapp profile picture. You can hide your profile picture by simply navigating to WhatsApp Settings -> Account -> Privacy -> Profile photo and choose My contacts or Nobody. An alternate to this is to simply not set a profile picture.
Stop Automatic Media Download
By installing the same app, WhatsApp Plus you can stop WhatsApp from downloading images automatically.
Update: You no longer need to use WhatsApp Plus to prevent auto-downloading of images or other media. WhatsApp now allows you to control it from the pap itself. Simply go to Settings -> Chat Settings -> Media auto-download -> Check ‘When using mobile data’, ‘When connected on WiFi’ and ‘When roaming’ one by one and uncheck all the sub-options!
Find Out Your WhatsApp Statistics
Want to know who texts you the most? Want to know if that girl or guy has a crush on you? Find it using WhatStat for Android or iPhone. It shows you everything in neat organized graphs. I first came across this app when a friend uploaded some graphs he had created using WhatStat on our college group on WhatsApp. If you are okay with simple statistics, you can view your statistics by going to Settings -> Account -> Network Usage.
Change Phone Number Linked With WhatsApp
Bought a new sim card? Want to change your old number associated with WhatsApp without losing access to the groups you had joined? Here’s how you can do it. Go to Settings -> Account -> Change Number -> Type both your old and new phone number and hit ‘Done’.
Lock WhatsApp
Do your friends often use your mobile phone? Does someone sneak peek at your WhatsApp messages? Well a way to prevent that from happening is to lock WhatsApp. To lock Whatsapp on BlackBerry follow this link and to lock WhatsApp on Android follow this link.
Schedule a Message on WhatsApp
I’ve a bad memory. I often forget my parents’ anniversary and my best friend’s birthday. Are you like me? May be you should try scheduling a message on WhatsApp! And never forget a birthday, anniversary ever. Also if you are among those wishing people good morning and night everyday, you should use a WhatsApp message scheduler to save some time! Read thispost on WhatsApp message scheduling on Android for more on this.
These are just a couple of interesting things you can do with WhatsApp. As I end this post I’m still looking for more WhatsApp tricks and I will continue to share all of them here as I come across them. If you’ve any WhatsApp tricks to share for any platform just comment and I’d be more than happy to include it in this list with proper credits. Stay tuned!
20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know
If you surf Facebook on daily basis or occasionally, chances are you’re already familiar with regular stuffs like add/delete friends, update statuses, walls and profile, add and explore pages & applications, etc, but there’s more..
This week we want to cover some interesting things you can do on (or with) Facebook; inclusive of tricks that are not documented or unknown to many, as well as tips to stayconnected better with your friends. Without further ado, here’s 20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know. If you have interesting tips/tricks related to Facebook, please feel free to share in the comment box below.
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Flickr2Facebook is an unofficial Flickr to Facebook uploader(bookmarklet) which allows you upload photos to Facebook from Flickr.How To Update Facebook Without Using Facebook
hellotxt and Ping.fm both introduced features that let Facebook administrators update Facebook Pages.How To Schedule Facebook Messages
Sendible lets you schedule Facebook messages ahead of time so you can send messages to your friends, customers or colleagues in the future.How To "Friend" Someone On Facebook & Hide It From Your Status Updates
A short tutorial on Makeuseof to guide you how to hide Facebook status updates and keep that fact confined to your closer friends.How To Create A Photo Collage Using Pictures Of Your Facebook Friends
Click on Friends tab. Proceed to More tab. From "Choose an option" dropdown, choose any of the dashes "—" . Your Facebook friends collage is right on your computer screen.How To Know When Facebook Friends Secretly Delete Or Block You
This service has been discontinued. X-Friends is a unique tool for tracking friends that disappear from Facebook.How To Display Selected Pictures Only On Your Facebook Profile Page
A little-known feature in Facebook that lets you decide who shows up in that Friends box. Click that "edit" pencil in your Friends box and type the names of your best friends in the box that says "Always show these friends"How To Remove Facebook Advertisements
This Greasemonkey script – Facebook: Cleaner removes many of the annoying ads and updates that unavoidably appear on your Facebook pages.How To Syncs Photos Of Facebook Friends With Contacts In Microsoft Outlook
OutSync is a free Windows application that syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to select which contacts are updated. So you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a time.How To Display Facebook Statuses On WordPress Blog
The following method make use of Facebook status feed and WordPress RSS widget to display Facebook Statuses on WordPress blog.. It will also work for self-host WordPress blogs.How To Post Your Blog Posts To Your Facebook Wall Automatically
Wordbook allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall. Your Facebook “Boxes” tab will show your most recent blog posts.How To Access Facebook Chat On Desktop
Gabtastik and digsby let you keep Facebook chat sessions open on your Windows desktop outside of your regular web browser, using minimal screen real estate and system memory.How To Create Quiz On Facebook Easily
LOLapps provides quiz creator that can be employed to conjure up these popular personality quizzes that are so widespread in Facebook.How To Hide Your Online Status On Facebook Chat From Select Contacts
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NutshellMail consolidates your Facebook accounts through the inbox you use the most.How To Update Facebook Status From Firefox
FireStatus is a status update utility for multiple social networks, including FaceBook.How To Get Facebook On Your Desktop
Seesmic Desktop, Facebooker, Xobni, Facebook Sidebar Gadget, Scrapboy and Facebook AIR application are desktop applications that allows you interact with your stream just as you would on Facebook, but without the browser.How To Delete, Cancel And Terminate Facebook Account And Profile
A simple guide to terminate, delete or cancel Facebook account, together with the Facebook profile easily.
Saturday, 22 November 2014
How to log out your facebook from another computer?
Log out your facebook from another computer
How to know if someone has logged into your facebook account? Or if you forgot to logout of facebook on another computer, like a friend’s computer or from an internet café? Then there is no need to worry. It’s one of the common problem faced by all of us. Facebook itself has made provisions for you to logout your account remotely from any computer. Most of these facebook security privacy features are unknown to the common users.Logout facebook from all locations before it’s late
With this feature you can find out the currently logged in facebook sessions and thereby blocking facebook security risks related to your account. This enables you to make a move to prevent others playing on you before you change your password.
Follow these steps to check out your active sessions details and block them:
Step1:
Log into your facebook account.
Follow these steps to check out your active sessions details and block them:
Step1:
Log into your facebook account.
Step2:
Goto account settings page.
Goto account settings page.
You’ll be taken to the general account settings showing your username,email etc.
Step3:
Goto facebook security page. Then you will see the securitty settings on facebook.
Goto facebook security page. Then you will see the securitty settings on facebook.
Step4:
Click on the active sessions
If you observe any location or device that’s not known to you or the device that a forgot to log out, then you can quit facebook from there by clicking the ‘End activity’.
However there is a limitation for this service too, that is it you can’t log out your account in case your active session is from facebook mobile site(m.facebook.com).
Other facebook security features in facebook security settings:
1.Secure Browsing
For additional security you can enable facebook secure browsing option in the security settings.
2. Enabling Login notifications
Also there is a login notification feauture to let you know if someone has accessed your account from a device that comes.
3.Adding a security question
This involves providing a security question and answer of your choice. It enables facebook to recognize your identity.
4.Recognized devices
Approving the devices is one of the best security practices for reducing possible facebook security threat.
Friday, 21 November 2014
Join Videos without any Software
How to join various video files into one video file without any software…..?
Join Video Using Command prompt |
In this article I’m going to show you how to join different video files like as MPEG, DAT, MPG, mp4, AVI etc. andconvert it one video. You can join your video files using just the windows Command Prompt. No need of anyvideo joining software’s. The best method to follow is shown below.
Step-1:
For example if you have 3 videos in your hard drive root drive: video1.mpg, video2.mpg and video3.mpg just rename them to a, b, and c (just the letter without the file extension).
Example:
Rename ® video1.mpg ® a (without .mpg)
Rename ® video2.mpg ® b (without .mpg)
Rename ® video3.mpg ® c (without .mpg)
Step 2:
Now open Command Prompt ( winkey + R) or Start–>Run–>type “cmd”.
Step 3:
Then type your location like “C: , D: , E: etc.”
File location Screenshot |
Step 4:
Type this code: ® Copy /b a + b + c videoname.mpg and press enter
Or
copy /b "C:\File.mp4" + "C:\File1.mp4" CombinedFile.mp4
Step 5:
Now wait till you see: 1 files<s> copied, then type exit and press enter.
Command Prompt |
That's it. You are done! Hope you enjoy this trick… @@@
Note: If you want to join two files then those files must have the same extension and if you change directory C:\> to D:\> then, you just type the drive name like "D" and colon like D: then press enter.
Thursday, 20 November 2014
Entire List of Run Commands in windows 8
Latest List of Run Commands in windows 8
Below is a list of all hidden run commands in windows 8. Most of these run commands are inherited from earlier Windows 7 or XP. View the post on List of Run Commands in Windows 7, if you are using Windows 7. Please note that some of these commands will only work on Professional edition and might require Administrator rights. Please comment and let me know if any of these won’t work.
Application Program Name | Run Command |
About Windows |
winver |
Add a Device | devicepairingwizard |
Add Features to Windows 8 | windowsanytimeupgradeui |
Add Hardware Wizard | hdwwiz |
Advanced Startup Options | bootim |
Advanced User Accounts | netplwiz |
Authorization Manager | azman |
Backup and Restore | sdclt |
Bluetooth File Transfer | fsquirt |
Buy a Product Key Online | purchasewindowslicense |
Calculator | calc |
Certificates | certmgr |
certlm | |
Change Computer Performance Settings | systempropertiesperformance |
Change Data Execution Prevention Settings | systempropertiesdataexecutionprevention |
Change Printer Settings | printui |
Character Map | charmap |
ClearType Tuner | cttune |
Color Management | colorcpl |
Command Prompt | cmd |
Component Services | comexp |
Component Services | dcomcnfg |
Computer Management | compmgmt |
Computer Management | compmgmtlauncher |
Connect to a Network Projector | netproj1 |
Connect to a Projector | displayswitch |
Control Panel | control |
Create A Shared Folder Wizard | shrpubw |
Create a System Repair Disc | recdisc |
Credential Backup and Restore Wizard | credwiz |
Data Execution Prevention | systempropertiesdataexecutionprevention |
Default Location | locationnotifications |
Device Manager | devmgmt |
Device Pairing Wizard | devicepairingwizard |
Diagnostics Troubleshooting Wizard | msdt |
Digitizer Calibration Tool | tabcal |
DirectAcesss Properties | daprop |
DirectX Diagnostic Tool | dxdiag |
Disk Cleanup | cleanmgr |
Disk Defragmenter | dfrgui |
Disk Management | diskmgmt |
Display | dpiscaling |
Display Color Calibration | dccw |
Display Switch | displayswitch |
DPAPI Key Migration Wizard | dpapimig |
Driver Verifier Manager | verifier |
Ease of Access Center | utilman |
EFS REKEY Wizard | rekeywiz |
Encrypting File System Wizard | rekeywiz |
Event Viewer | eventvwr |
Fax Cover Page Editor | fxscover |
File History | filehistory |
File Signature Verification | sigverif |
Flash Player Settings Manager | flashplayerapp |
Font Viewer | fontview2 |
IExpress Wizard | iexpress |
Import to Windows Contacts | wabmig3 |
Install or Uninstall Display Languages | lusrmgr |
Internet Explorer | iexplore3 |
iSCSI Initiator Configuration Tool | iscsicpl |
iSCSI Initiator Properties | iscsicpl |
Language Pack Installer | lpksetup |
Local Group Policy Editor | gpedit |
Local Security Policy | secpol |
Local Users and Groups | lusrmgr |
Location Activity | locationnotifications |
Magnifier | magnify |
Malicious Software Removal Tool | mrt |
Manage Your File Encryption Certificates | rekeywiz |
Math Input Panel | mip3 |
Microsoft Management Console | mmc |
Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool | msdt |
NAP Client Configuration | napclcfg |
Narrator | narrator |
New Scan Wizard | wiaacmgr |
Notepad | notepad |
ODBC Data Source Administrator | odbcad32 |
ODBC Driver Configuration | odbcconf |
On-Screen Keyboard | osk |
Paint | mspaint |
Performance Monitor | perfmon |
Performance Options | systempropertiesperformance |
Phone Dialer | dialer |
Presentation Settings | presentationsettings |
Print Management | printmanagement |
Printer Migration | printbrmui |
Printer User Interface | printui |
Private Character Editor | eudcedit |
Protected Content Migration | dpapimig |
Recovery Drive | recoverydrive |
Refresh Your PC | systemreset |
Registry Editor | regedt32 |
regedit | |
Remote Access Phonebook | rasphone |
Remote Desktop Connection | mstsc |
Resource Monitor | resmon |
perfmon /res | |
Resultant Set of Policy | rsop |
Securing the Windows Account Database | syskey |
Services | services |
Set Program Access and Computer Defaults | computerdefaults |
Share Creation Wizard | shrpubw |
Shared Folders | fsmgmt |
Snipping Tool | snippingtool |
Sound Recorder | soundrecorder |
SQL Server Client Network Utility | cliconfg |
Steps Recorder | psr |
Sticky Notes | stikynot |
Stored User Names and Passwords | credwiz |
Sync Center | mobsync |
System Configuration | msconfig |
System Configuration Editor | sysedit5 |
System Information | msinfo32 |
System Properties (Advanced Tab) | systempropertiesadvanced |
System Properties (Computer Name Tab) | systempropertiescomputername |
System Properties (Hardware Tab) | systempropertieshardware |
System Properties (Remote Tab) | systempropertiesremote |
System Properties (System Protection Tab) | systempropertiesprotection |
System Restore | rstrui |
Task Manager | taskmgr |
Task Manager | launchtm |
Task Scheduler | taskschd |
Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel | tabtip3 |
Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Management | tpm |
User Account Control Settings | useraccountcontrolsettings |
Utility Manager | utilman |
Version Reporter Applet | winver |
Volume Mixer | sndvol |
Windows Activation Client | slui |
Windows Anytime Upgrade Results | windowsanytimeupgraderesults |
Windows Contacts | wab3 |
Windows Disc Image Burning Tool | isoburn |
Windows Easy Transfer | migwiz3 |
Windows Explorer | explorer |
Windows Fax and Scan | wfs |
Windows Features | optionalfeatures |
Windows Firewall with Advanced Security | wf |
Windows Help and Support | winhlp32 |
Windows Journal | journal3 |
Windows Media Player | dvdplay |
wmplayer3 | |
Windows Memory Diagnostic Scheduler | mdsched |
Windows Mobility Center | mblctr |
Windows Picture Acquisition Wizard | wiaacmgr |
Windows PowerShell | powershell |
Windows PowerShell ISE | powershell_ise |
Windows Remote Assistance | msra |
Windows Repair Disc | recdisc |
Windows Script Host | wscript |
Windows SmartScreen | smartscreensettings |
Windows Store Cach Clear | wsreset |
Windows Update | wuapp |
Windows Update Standalone Installer | wusa |
WMI Management | wmimgmt |
WMI Tester | wbemtest |
WordPad | write |
XPS Viewer | xpsrchvw |
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