How to tell if your Galaxy Note7 is safe to use

How to tell if your Galaxy Note7 is safe to use

Samsung has created specific box markings and an IMEI lookup tool so you can tell if you have a non-explosive model.

 

Samsung is offering detailed plans for how you’ll be able to tell the difference between a faulty Note7 or one that’s safe to use.

Big blue S

The company says the new barcode features a white sticker with a large, blue “S” at the top right corner and a small, black square on the bottom. If your Note7 box has the big blue "S", it should be safe.

Samsung

Look for the new label on the safe versions of the Galaxy Note7.

Check your IMEI

A Samsung recall site also has a tool to lookup a phone’s IMEI number so you can certify that a new phone is safe. You probably don’t need to double check if you’ve been an issued an official recall by Samsung, but this will be important later on as people begin to resell and trade around devices. 

Green status bar

What's more, Samsung has confirmed to ZDNet that the new, safe Note7 units will feature a green battery icon in the status bar, instead of the usual white.

What about refurbished phones?

We’ve also yet to hear what Samsung plans to do with the glut of phones it’s bound to receive since the recall extends to every single Note7 purchased. The company said the problem is with the battery itself. The following statement from Ars Technica says, “Based on our investigation, we have learned that there was an issue within the battery cell. An overheating of the battery cell occurred when the anode-to-cathode came into contact which is a very rare manufacturing process error.”

So it’s possible there could be some massive fire sale later on of refurbished models, but we haven’t had any indication of how that will turn out, or how you'll be able to tell if a refurbished phone is safe.

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10 Tips and Tricks for Google Maps On Android

10 Tips and Tricks for Google Maps On Android

Today we are here with some amazing tips and tricks for Android Google Maps app that you might not have tried till now, these tricks will help you in navigation and automating your routing tasks with great ease and also some of the additional features that you don’t even know these app can do.

Google Maps is one of the best navigation services that you can ever find on the internet as through this service, one can easily find up the most accurate locations of nearby hotels, laundries, parks, restaurants, stations and much more easily. With all its features, you can also remain updated about the routes and the places and not only that, you can also do all that at very high speed ( It matters a lot ). Although till now the Google maps is full of all the needed potential that anyone can tend to get from any navigation service but still you can try to boost it’s valued to another level so as to get more and more out of it much easily. You can put on some tricks and tips to boost up the Google Maps on Android and get out more benefits from this service, to know about some of the best tricks and tips for Google Maps on Android head towards the article given below.

10 Tips and Tricks for Google Maps On Android

Below is the collection of all the tips and tricks that you need to do in you Android mobile to get more out of Google maps app on your device.

1 Adding Multiple Stops to your Route

You can use the Maps to enter your current location and your destination and the Google Maps will automatically get up the route for your destination. If you want to go through some alter ways or through some fluctuated way out then you can also reorder your route by using up the three-dot menu and then selecting the hamburger icon under it. Drag and rearrange your route after that.
2 Get on Street View

Long tap on the location which you want to see in street view while using Google Maps on mobile devices, then tap once on the card menu that appears below on the screen and then choose up the location picture. The street view can actually give you more detailed look of the place and hence help you lots to find your exact destination.
3 Send directions (PC to Phone)

Sign into your Google Account on your PC and then open up the Google Maps, find up the directions for your route or for any place and then from the options on the card menu you can send up that particular route to your mobile device by clicking on ” Send to Device”. You know that moving through Maps feel lots easier on PC’s big screen than on smartphone so you can use this feature to find the exact route and location of any place and then send all that data to your smartphone’s Google Maps.
#4 Use Google Now Commands

While driving up your car you may find it very difficult to keep in touch with the Google Maps on your smart device (if your car doesn’t have GPS, Maps) as you cannot give it up the commands. But there is the thing that can make your task much easier, just speak up the Google Now commands to the Google Maps on your mobile device and it will follow these all.
Supported commands:

“Avoid Tolls”
“Avoid Highways”
“Avoid ferries”
“Allow …above things”
“Find Gas Stations”
“Show Alternate Routes”

#5 Use Maps Offline

You know that you can easily download up to the loaded maps for using in-network ban conditions or for much fast and flexible surfing as nothing can be fast than offline browsing. So just download up to the map for your route and then access it offline, you can save lots of time by doing so.
#6 Track Visited Locations

While using up the Google Maps it constantly traces your visited locations and saves them to your timeline. This could be very helpful for you too if you get lost in the middle of the route while going to your destination. To recheck your visited places go to your timeline from the hamburger menu (slide it from the left edge of the screen).
#7 Zoom Easily

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6 Awesome Apps By Google You Probably Never Heard Of

6 Awesome Apps By Google You Probably Never Heard Of

Lets have a look on 6 Awesome Apps by Google You Probably never Heard Of and using these apps on your android mobile you will definately get the great experience, So have a look on all these apps below.

Google is one of the leading manufacturers of software, apps as we all know and it makes great software that couldn’t be misunderstood ( Android is also made and developed by Google ). You could have found some great apps for your smartphones running on Android or iOS that all are made by Google but still there are some more great apps by Google that you probably might have never heard of. These great apps made for Android and iOS by the Google are just tremendous and you will also love to use them on your devices. Here in this article, we have listed those best awesome apps by the Google that you might have never used before or even heard of. Just read up the whole article and know more about them.

6 Awesome Apps By Google You Probably Never Heard Of

Below we had listed some of the best apps that you will surely love to try, but you must not have heard about them till now. So have a look on these apps below.

1 Google Duo

This could be either stated as the best Video calling app or the simplest one because it is not loaded with so many functions but only the support for just video calling. Anyone who needs to do a video calling will have to click up the Big video call button, choose up the contacts and then go for the calling. This can be the best app for video calling because while doing video calls no one may want any bunch of functions except just noninterupted calling, the nontech-savvy people can find it much more usable than any other app of the same kind. There is one amazing preview feature of this app with which users can actually see up the caller on their screen even before picking up the call hence can easily identify the caller. This app can be used to call on both Android as well as iOS and even the cross-platform functinality is possible.

#2 Snapseed

This one is the most powerful photo editing app that you can ever find for your devices, this app resembles the potential qualities of the desktop versions of image editors hence you could imagine it’s real power. Not only that but this app has a great UI too which makes it easier to work with different tools and the images. You get in some great image editing capabilities with this app like cropping, rotating, image tuning, add text, brushes, healing etc and apart from that all you get a huge number of filters that you can apply to your images.

#3 Androidify

This is something that you will really love! This app is really awsome, users just can play up with many different aspects of an Android green bot like body and then convert into an image which is the exception and you made that for some purpose. Make up multiple changes from the list of various styles for everything like changing up the clothes color, adding accessories etc and much more to create a great image of a character that you can actually share with the social media users.

#4 Google Gesture Search

Till now you might have used up with some few gestures on your Android devices and you get limited to apps or some settings for which you can actually set up the gestures. But now after installing up the Google Gesture Search app on your device you can easily search for about everything inside your device like apps, files, settings etc just through gestures that you can set up before in the app settings.

#5 Google Fit

This could not be the best fitness-related app but still is the simplest and the coolest ever app that you can find for your device. Through the easy to surf interface of this app one can keep up the look of all possible fitness related information and the app also provide the users with the guidelines and tips so that the users can grow up much faster on their tracks or the practice routines.

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10 Tips and Tricks for Google Maps On Android

10 Tips and Tricks for Google Maps On Android

Today we are here with some amazing tips and tricks for Android Google Maps app that you might not have tried till now, these tricks will help you in navigation and automating your routing tasks with great ease and also some of the additional features that you don’t even know these app can do.

Google Maps is one of the best navigation services that you can ever find on the internet as through this service, one can easily find up the most accurate locations of nearby hotels, laundries, parks, restaurants, stations and much more easily. With all its features, you can also remain updated about the routes and the places and not only that, you can also do all that at very high speed ( It matters a lot ). Although till now the Google maps is full of all the needed potential that anyone can tend to get from any navigation service but still you can try to boost it’s valued to another level so as to get more and more out of it much easily. You can put on some tricks and tips to boost up the Google Maps on Android and get out more benefits from this service, to know about some of the best tricks and tips for Google Maps on Android head towards the article given below.

10 Tips and Tricks for Google Maps On Android

Below is the collection of all the tips and tricks that you need to do in you Android mobile to get more out of Google maps app on your device.

1 Adding Multiple Stops to your Route

You can use the Maps to enter your current location and your destination and the Google Maps will automatically get up the route for your destination. If you want to go through some alter ways or through some fluctuated way out then you can also reorder your route by using up the three-dot menu and then selecting the hamburger icon under it. Drag and rearrange your route after that.
2 Get on Street View

Long tap on the location which you want to see in street view while using Google Maps on mobile devices, then tap once on the card menu that appears below on the screen and then choose up the location picture. The street view can actually give you more detailed look of the place and hence help you lots to find your exact destination.
3 Send directions (PC to Phone)

Sign into your Google Account on your PC and then open up the Google Maps, find up the directions for your route or for any place and then from the options on the card menu you can send up that particular route to your mobile device by clicking on ” Send to Device”. You know that moving through Maps feel lots easier on PC’s big screen than on smartphone so you can use this feature to find the exact route and location of any place and then send all that data to your smartphone’s Google Maps.
#4 Use Google Now Commands

While driving up your car you may find it very difficult to keep in touch with the Google Maps on your smart device (if your car doesn’t have GPS, Maps) as you cannot give it up the commands. But there is the thing that can make your task much easier, just speak up the Google Now commands to the Google Maps on your mobile device and it will follow these all.
Supported commands:

“Avoid Tolls”
“Avoid Highways”
“Avoid ferries”
“Allow …above things”
“Find Gas Stations”
“Show Alternate Routes”

#5 Use Maps Offline

You know that you can easily download up to the loaded maps for using in-network ban conditions or for much fast and flexible surfing as nothing can be fast than offline browsing. So just download up to the map for your route and then access it offline, you can save lots of time by doing so.
#6 Track Visited Locations

While using up the Google Maps it constantly traces your visited locations and saves them to your timeline. This could be very helpful for you too if you get lost in the middle of the route while going to your destination. To recheck your visited places go to your timeline from the hamburger menu (slide it from the left edge of the screen).
#7 Zoom Easily

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HOW TO HACK WI-FIGet Anyone's Wi-Fi Password Without Cracking Using Wifiphisher

HOW TO HACK WI-FIGet Anyone's Wi-Fi Password Without Cracking Using Wifiphisher

Welcome back, my tenderfoot hackers!

Do you need to get a Wi-Fi password but don't have the time tocrack it? In previous tutorials, I have shown how to crack WEP,WPA2, and WPS, but some people have complained that cracking WPA2 takes too long and that not all access points have WPS enabled (even though quite a few do). To help out in these situations, I present to you an almost surefire way to get a Wi-Fi password without cracking—Wifiphisher.

Steps in the Wifiphisher Strategy

The idea here is to create an evil twin AP, then de-authenticate or DoS the user from their real AP. When they re-authenticate to your fake AP with the same SSID, they will see a legitimate-looking webpage that requests their password because of a "firmware upgrade." When they provide their password, you capture it and then allow them to use the evil twin as their AP, so they don't suspect a thing. Brilliant!

To sum up, Wifiphisher takes the following steps:

De-authenticate the user from their legitimate AP.Allow the user to authenticate to your evil twin.Offer a webpage to the user on a proxy that notifies them that a "firmware upgrade" has taken place, and that they need to authenticate again.The Wi-Fi password is passed to the hacker and the user continues to the web oblivious to what just happened.

Similar scripts have been around for awhile, such as Airsnarf, but this new Wifiphisher script is more sophisticated. In addition, you could always do this all manually, but now we have a script that automates the entire process.

To do this hack, you will need Kali Linux and two wireless adapters, one of which must be capable of packet injection. Here, I used the tried and true, Alfa AWUS036H. You may use others, but before you do, make certain that it is compatible with Aircrack-ng(packet injection capable). Please do NOT post questions on why it doesn't work until you check if your wireless adapter can do packet injection. Most cannot.

Now let's take a look at Wifiphisher.

Step 1Download Wifiphisher

To begin, fire up Kali and open a terminal. Then download Wifiphisher from GitHub and unpack the code.

kali > tar -xvzf /root/wifiphisher-1.1.tar.gz

As you can see below, I have unpacked the Wifiphisher source code.

Alternatively, you can clone the code from GitHub by typing:

kali > git clone https://github/sophron/wifiphisher

Step 2Navigate to the Directory

Next, navigate to the directory that Wifiphisher created when it was unpacked. In my case, it is /wifiphisher-1.1.

kali > cd wifiphisher-.1.1

When listing the contents of that directory, you will see that the wifiphisher.py script is there.

kali > ls -l

Step 3Run the Script

You can run the Wifiphisher script by typing:

kali > python wifiphisher.py

Note that I preceded the script with the name of the interpreter, python.

The first time you run the script, it will likely tell you that "hostapd" is not found and will prompt you to install it. Install by typing "y" for yes. It will then proceed to install hostapd.

When it has completed, once again, execute the Wifiphisher script.

kali > python wifiphisher.py

This time, it will start the web server on port 8080 and 443, then go about and discover the available Wi-Fi networks.

When it has completed, it will list all the Wi-Fi networks it has discovered. Notice at the bottom of my example that it has discovered the network "wonderhowto." That is the network we will be attacking.

Step 4Send Your Attack & Get the Password

Go ahead and hit Ctrl + C on your keyboard and you will be prompted for the number of the AP that you would like to attack. In my case, it is 12.

When you hit Enter, Wifiphisher will display a screen like the one below that indicates the interface being used and the SSID of the AP being attacked and cloned.

The target user has been de-authenticated from their AP. When they re-authenticate, they will directed to the the cloned evil twin access point.

When they do, the proxy on the web server will catch their request and serve up an authentic-looking message that a firmware upgrade has taken place on their router and they must re-authenticate.

Notice that I have put in my password, nullbyte, and hit Submit.

When the user enters their password, it will be passed to you through the Wifiphisher open terminal, as seen below. The user will be passed through to the web through your system and out to the Internet, never suspecting anything awry has happened.

Now, my tenderfoot hackers, no Wi-Fi password is safe! Keep coming back as explore more of the world's most valuable skill set—hacking!

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4 Tips to Capture Documents Without Getting Shadows

4 Tips to Capture Documents Without Getting Shadows

It is annoying when there are some shadows on scanned documents. So today we’d like to share some ways to solve this problem. Follow the tips below and most of the shadows can be avoided.

1. Ensure adequate lighting when capturing documents.

Enough lighting is the most important factor for avoiding shadows. So make sure that your documents are captured in the environment with full and even light.

For example, you can make full use of daylight because natural lighting is most effective in improving illumination. Furthermore, if it is available, try to use multiple light sources by mixing direct and reflected light.

2. Find the best viewing angle.

Take pictures toward the light instead of against the light. Shadows of your hands and body will be projected on the document when you capture it against the light.

3. Use the flash.

When capturing documents in low light, you may try to use the flash in the app.

On the document shooting page, tap the icon in the upper left corner then you can manually turn on or turn off the flash. And you can also choose Auto or Torch mode for the flash.

4. Timely preview your scans.

We added the preview feature for both single and batch scan mode since version 3.4. So users can timely preview the scan qualities. This helps users to find the problems and make better scans before saving it.

Have you found any nice ways to avoid image shadows? Come and share with us!

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