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Saturday, October 15, 2016

Sample MP3 files for testing


In here you will find all sorts of sound effects, historical speeches, nature sounds, music, classic radio shows, video game quotes, movie and TV quotes, science quotes and more.

You can use these as inspiration to make audio loops.
They are also pretty interesting to simply browse around & listen.


http://www.noiseaddicts.com/free-samples-mp3/

You can also check out the RTSP Sample Streaming videos
How to Make your Li-ion Battery live longer


how to increase Li ion Battery lifeHere is one more post which will remind you, Not to let the mobile phone battery discharge completely.
In fact, this habit of fully charging mobile batteries was considered pretty good with the older Nickel-Cadmium (NiCd) batteries. This is because of something called the Memory effect, which essentially causes them to lose their maximum energy capacity if they are repeatedly being charged after only partial discharges.

But now every phone is coming with Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries which no longer has such issue.

So, there is no point in charging and discharging them completely every single time and if you do this may account in reduction of the battery’s efficiency.

So below are some efficient practices for charging of Li-ion batteries :


  • The 40–80% rule: Try maintaining the charge range in between 40%-80% in order to prolong the battery life to maximum.
  • Even if you do charge it to 100%, never leave it plugged in i.e do not overcharge your battery
  • Try keeping the phones in cool environment, as heat drastically degrades the performance of Li-ion batteries
  • Fully discharge it once a month, as this helps in rejuvenating the battery’s accuracy of estimating the remaining time for complete discharge.
Above points hold good for your Laptop or any other device if its using Lithium-ion batteries


Monday, September 26, 2016

Google's own Tips and G33k-Tricks section for Android phones



There was a post which I had posted recently about "Ok Google" where all the list of quick tricks were mentioned about how to use your smartphone smartly :)

But, Imagine Google itself giving a set of tips and tricks to make your android phone work efficiently and seamlessly, it has happened.
 I was going through android.com and landed up on a page which actually tells about the tips.
There are all sort of tips presented for Camera, Battery , Customization, Security with the simple to follow steps.

You can refer all of them at
https://www.android.com/phones/tips/

Sunday, August 14, 2016

Trick to Play Pokemon GO on computer


Requirement

Enable USB debugging on your smartphone .
(For that developer option should be enabled)

2nd thing you need is, adb drivers install on you pc.
Incase you dont have, google is the answer ;)


Now here the tricks starts.
You need to install Vysor on your Chrome Browser.
Download it from here 

Then install Vysor app from Google play on you phone.

Once all installations are done, you are ready to go.
Connect your smartphone to Computer to proceed for playing PokemonGO.

The moment you connect the phone, Vysor app will get installed on you phone too(in case you did not install)

The screen of your phone will appear on your computer .
You can then open the Pokémon GO app on the phone.
You will see it played in a window on your monitor.

Now you can wait for Pokemon to come to you and you can easily catch them using mouse instead of dragging your fingers on your mobile screen
And its easy for you to do multi tasking, you can use your computer and can play in between.

If your mobile screen goes off, and you have a new Pokemon near you,  the phone will vibrate and letting you know that , its time to Catch'em all.


Friday, June 24, 2016

Audio Testing Links for headphones and speakers


How to Test your Headphone and Speaker




Found a  nice Audio testing Website which I wanted to share with you all.


There are plenty of Audio test files which you can directly run over your browser and then you can put your Headphones or Speaker to test.



For Audio tests on your headphones 
http://www.audiocheck.net/soundtests_headphones.php


List of other Sound / Audio tests
http://www.audiocheck.net/soundtestsaudiotesttones_index.php
How to Record Android Screen [without using any app]


Record Actions performed on your Android phone Screen


Record Android ScreenaSay, you want to record the screen of your android phone i.e you want to record what actions did you perform. Its very simple.

Pre-requiste for this trick would be:
You must have an adb tool (it comes with android SDK)
You can get the tool by going through this page.

Open command prompt
Type below command and press Enter

adb shell screenrecord /sdcard/<filename>.mp4

That's all you need to do. Till this above command is running, all the actions performed over your android phone will be recorded in the path you have specified (in this case, /sdcard folder)
To stop recording stop the above command by pressing Ctrl+C.
You can play the video made with any player supporting mp4 format.

If you want to pull the file onto your system , you need to type

adb pull /sdcard/<filename>.mp4 <DestinationPathonSystem>

Saturday, June 11, 2016

Charge mobile faster with short USB cables


How to Charge mobile faster

How to Charge mobile faster

Recently I came across with an nice android app called "Ampere".
Yes, it displays the current flowing into your mobile i.e while charging and also the amount of current being consumed by your smartphone while discharging.
With this app running on my mobile, I ran an small experiment.


Here are my observations,



Scenario Charging or Not Min
Current
Max
Current
Laptop - USB long cable Laptop charging 770mA 840mA
Laptop - USB long cable On battery 750mA 780mA
Laptop - USB Short Cable On battery 1150mA 1180mA
Laptop - USB Short Cable Laptop charging 1150mA 1180mA

The same goes when charging using the chargers.
With long USB cable the charging current was 890mA and with short USB cable it was 1460mA.
Charger rating was Input--0.6A, Output -- 6V- 2000mA
Its clearly seen,there is difference of 400mA  and that's a bummer if you use long USB cable.
It can be easily concluded from above table as well that using Short USB cable to charge will definitely decrease the  charging time i.e will charge your mobile or another device quicker.
And also, it does not  matter whether your laptop is charging or not the power being drawn from the USB port of laptop remains almost same.

You can also download the app from here Ampere Android app
and can understand how fast your mobile is charging with the cable you have or do you need to replace your usb charging cable.

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Google with "Ok Google" - tips and tricks


OkGoogle

How to use "OK Google" 

Did you know that typing something does take much time rather than dictating. Of-course, you must be knowing this.
So to save your time and energy , google has come up with "Ok Google ".
You can use your voice as a command to Google app or Chrome to do things like searching, getting  directions, and creating  reminders etc.

For that you need to :
Open the Google app.
In the top left corner of the page, touch the Menu icon menu icon > Settings > Voice > "Ok Google" Detection.
From here, you can choose when you want your phone to listen when you say "Ok Google."
Learn more about the options for turning on "Ok Google" on an Android device

Start a voice search

Open the Google app .
Say "Ok Google" or touch the microphone icon .

Lets start with Easter Eggs!


1. “Do a barrel roll”
2. “What’s the loneliest number?”
3. “When am I?”
4. “Okay Jarvis, …” (Instead of “Okay Google”)
5. “Who are you?”
6. “Make me a sandwich!”
7. “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.”
8. “Beam me up, Scotty!” (That's the cliche from Star Trek )
9. “Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right”. It Konami cheat code originally used for Nintendo games.and Google will answer: “Cheat mode unlocked, unlimited free Google searches”. 

For Multimedia

“Take a picture’ to take a picture
To record a video, say “record videos” the default camera opens up.
Just say "Play Some Music" to play music Google Play.


Direct Search Commands for Google Search engine 
Here you can directly ask "W" questions to google and lovely voice will reply the answer to you.

 “Search for ”: 
 “Show me the stocks for ”:
 “How old is ”:
 “Author of ”:
 “Who invented ”: 
 “What is the meaning of ”:
 “Who is married to”:

For controlling your Phone 
Turn On Bluetooth 
Turn Off WIFI
Turn On Flashlight
Open Google.com
Open "Any app name"

Voice Maths with Google
“What is percent of ”
“How much is times ”
“Square root of ”
“What is the value of Pi”
“Convert into ”


Google know weather too
“What’s the weather in:”
“Is it going to rain tomorrow”
“Do I need an umbrella”
“Should I bring a Jacket today”


Maps & Navigation with Ok Google 
“Map of ”
“Where is ___ situated”
“How far is ___ from ”

There is too much to type. I've few screen-shots to solve my problem :)
General Commands:

Notes & Reminders :

Call Commands:

Flight Info:
Entertainment:

Saturday, April 16, 2016

How to change the resolution of videos or images : Quick and easy steps


Change the Image and Video Resolution using FFMPEG Tool



Changing the video resolution can also be termed as Scaling the Video / Resizing the Video.
How to change the video resolution
Image Resizing

One of the easiest way for manipulating the videos is to use FFMPEG tool.
FFMPEG is a free software that can produce libraries and programs for handling multimedia input. It can decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created.


You can download ffmpeg tool from here based on your OS

FFMPEG uses the libswscale library to scale the input video.
[The scale filter forces the output display aspect ratio to be the same of the input, by changing the output sample aspect ratio.
If the input image format is different from the format requested by the next filter, the scale filter will convert the input to the requested format.]

For all the options available with FFMPEG scaling you can see
http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#toc-Options-1


Examples:

ffmpeg -i input_file.avi -vf scale=320:240 output_file.avi


With the above command the aspect ratio will also change. If you want to keep the aspect ratio same after changing the video resolution you have to specify only one component, either width or height. And have to set the other component to -1.

Example:
ffmpeg -i input_file.jpg -vf scale=320:-1 output_file_320.png

The above commands will work with Image files as well.
You can change the image resolution using the ffmpeg tool too.

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Sunday, April 10, 2016

What is RTSP


What exactly is RTSP 

The Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) is a network control protocol designed for use in entertainment and communications systems to control streaming media servers. The protocol is used for establishing and controlling media sessions between end points. Clients of media servers issue VCR-style commands, such as playrecord and pause, to facilitate real-time control of the media streaming from the server to a client (Video On Demand) or from a client to the server (Voice Recording).[Wikipedia]

Protocol Directives:

RTSP defines control sequences useful in controlling multimedia playback. RTSP has state (not like HTTP which is stateless), where an identifier is used to track concurrent sessions. Like HTTP, RTSP uses TCP to maintain an end-to-end connection and, while most RTSP control messages are sent by the client to the server.


Below are few RTSP requests:

Other requests are GET_PARAMETER, SET_PARAMETER, REDIRECT, ANNOUNCE

OPTIONS: 
An OPTIONS request returns the request types the server will accept.
DESCRIBE: 
A DESCRIBE request includes an RTSP URL (rtsp://...), and the type of reply data that can be handled. 
SETUP:
A SETUP request specifies how a single media stream must be transported. This must be done before a PLAY request is sent. 
PLAY:
A PLAY request will cause one or all media streams to be played. Play requests can be stacked by sending multiple PLAY requests
PAUSE:
A PAUSE request temporarily halts one or all media streams, so it can later be resumed with a PLAY request. 
RECORD:
This method initiates recording a range of media data according to the presentation description. 
TEARDOWN :
A TEARDOWN request is used to terminate the session. It stops all media streams and frees all session related data on the server.


To browse RTSP Streaming test samples visit:


Tuesday, April 5, 2016

[Free] [Updated 2023] List of OTT HLS M3U8 test URLs


HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) M3U8 URLs for Testing

HLS Sample URLS for Testing

Introduction:

Video real time is an essential piece of the cutting edge web. It's all over: on PCs, TVs, cell phones, and even on wearables like VR sets. It needs to work perfectly on each gadget and system type, be it on moderate portable associations, WiFi, behind firewalls. HLS is developed by Apple Inc., which is HTTP based media streaming protocol. Apple's HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) was made precisely in view of these difficulties. 

Practically all cutting edge gadgets come blessed with present day equipment that is sufficiently quick to play video, so speedy and unwavering quality rise as the most serious issue. Why would that be? Before more than couple of years, the standard method of putting away and distributing video were UDP-based conventions like RTP. This demonstrated tricky from multiple points of view. Here are few of them- 
- You need a worker (daemon) administration to stream content. 

- Considering the global public over the internet, you will need a streaming daemon service running in different parts of the world to cater them.

- And most firewalls by-design permit just standard ports and system traffic types, such as http.

Why Legacy streaming system is floppy:

Efficiency is the biggest issue here. The actual size of the video data is getting high and consiquently increases the file size. Transferring files with big size is a challenge on its own and areas where the connectivity is poor or high bandwidth is not available, its difficult for the users to view such high bitrate, high resolution videos.So, we need a solution that would download the amount of video which is approximately the same which can be played. Other way would be to reduce the resolution as mentioned above but here the bandwidth is not completely utilised and its getting wasted. Here comes the role of Adaptive Bitrate Streaming 
As the name suggest, the media bitrate area calculated on the fly and used for rendering the media stream.

A special thing about HLS is that, the HLS packet can easily pass through firewalls or proxy servers as it is HTTP based request and not like UDP based protocol like RTP. Its an ABS (Adaptive Bitrate Streaming) protocol which uses m3u8 files to describe media streams which underneath uses HTTP hence the name HTTP Live Streaming.

The HLS is comprised of M3u8 PlayList which is plain text file format made to organize collections of MP3 files and Media files for various stream.

HTTP Live Streaming i.e. HLS is not open standard likewise most of the technology from Apple, thus it is difficult to find the content from the Open source Community.

Overall, if you see, the MPEG-DASH and HLS test streams OR the .m3u8 streams are very important for you to test your solutions. These streams on this site are good source for you to test various format as well.

Below, I am sharing collective list of sample HLS Files and List of Publicly available HLS streams including DASH streams for you to help with your development.

What is HLS Streaming?

HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) is a streaming protocol developed by Apple for delivering live and on-demand media content over the internet. It is widely used for streaming video and audio content to devices such as smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, and desktop computers.
HLS works by breaking the media stream into small chunks and sending them over the internet using HTTP. Each chunk is typically a few seconds long and is encoded in a specific video format, such as H.264, and an audio format, such as AAC. These chunks are then stored on a web server, and a playlist file, usually in M3U8 format, is generated and sent to the client device.
The playlist file contains a list of the available chunks, along with their URLs and metadata, such as duration and bitrate. The client device requests the playlist file and uses it to download the chunks one by one and play them in sequence. The client device can also adapt the quality of the stream based on the available bandwidth, which means that the video quality can be adjusted to match the network conditions.
HLS is widely supported by web browsers, mobile devices, and streaming media players, and it is compatible with both iOS and Android devices. It is also used by many popular streaming services, including Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime Video.


M3U8 /  HLS(HTTP Live Streaming) streams for testing:

The HLS test streams (.m3u8 streams)  are difficult to find. Here is a quick list of streams that you can use for testing m3u8 format. Copy paste the links to your browser for downloading them.

[EDIT]
Added few more direct links which include m3u8 file format

AES HLS proxy simulation (Thanks to MS Azure):  Likewise other platforms, Microsoft(MS) and Azure Media Services have also been working really hard with DASH. They have come up with MPEG-DASH and below is the link. 
      Dynamic
      Static
DASH Industry Forum:MPEG-DASH Test Vectors 

New HLS DATA sets from different sources


There are different university that are also working HLS and we are lucky to have such data set available to us. Thanks to the researchers for their work.

University Klagenfurt, ITEC DASH Dataset: It was one of the first MPEG-DASH dataset available and now it also has MPEG-DASH. You can see the content with Full movie length  in different resolutions till 1080p. 

Telecom ParisTech, GPAC: UHD HEVC DASH Dataset: These guys have UHD HEVC dataset, which they created under 4Ever project . The DASH sequences provided by them is  HEVC encoding from 720p30 @ 2Mbps up to 2160p60 @ 20 Mbps. They have content with 1080p60 and 10 bits 2160p60The dataset content is distributed under the terms of the Creative Common by-nc-nd Licence.
BBC MPEG-DASH Test Data: BBC have been leading in forefront on MPEG-DASH and they do actively work on it. BBC uses MPEG DASH in their productions and have shared us the RnD link.

Youtube :
 Why would Google be behind. Youtube. Google Movies uses  MPEG-DASH mostly. They do have DRM protected content which utlizes MPEG-CENC and Widevine.

GPAC MPEG-DASH Dataset: From the content which they had shared, its very easy to use and test. Their content includes ISO Base Media File Format as well as MPEG2-TS.



Do let me know in comments, if you find the links useful. Credit goes to Apple, Akamai, Unified Streaming, Dolby, Azure for generating and hosting these free HLS m3u8 URLs for the community.

You can refer to RTSP URL sample pages here

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Friday, April 1, 2016

How to stream a movie without downloading it


How to directly Stream Movies using VLC


Everyone, now a days, prefer downloading a movie over the internet. But downloading and then watching a movie sometimes is not an option and then why would you want to keep the space occupied in your hard-disk when you would be watching it for only once.  What if, you want to quickly watch a movie without having a patience to download. Wouldn't that be great!
How to steam movie without downloadingThere is a sweet g33ktrick for doing that.
To start with, you need to have a VLC Player installed on your system.
You can download the player from here.

Now go to the website from where you are planning to download the movie /stream to watch. I've few links here consolidated which might help you.
Usually, websites have a separate download page/link for downloading. Go to that page.
And for downloading it, you usually click on "Download" button or "Right-Click" and then click on "Save Target As" to save the video.




VLC streaming online moviesSo, instead of following these steps, you need to "Right-Click" on the link and then select "Copy Link Address".
Once you have this link address you can use it for streaming the video directly.
Now, Open VLC player and press "CTRL+N" to open the Network Protocol screen.
Paste the copied link over here and then
click on Play button.
Wait for few moment to start the stream.
Please note that if your network bandwidth is really good you wont have to wait for buffering the stream. Also, its not necessary to use VLC player if you know where to paste the magic streaming link in some other player.

Sunday, March 27, 2016

Tips on Go Green and Save Energy


How to Save Energy and Go Green

    Save Nature , go green
  • Avoid the car: When taking a short trip, choose to walk, cycle or use public transport. This reduces your carbon footprints and is also good for your health
  • Check your tyres: Fully inflated tyres can reduce a car's fuel emissions by up to 5%. Maths is the answer
  • Drive slower - and smoother: Staying within the speed limit and smoothly accelerating can save up to 25% of a vehicle's fuel use
  • Use energy-saving light bulbs: These compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) use up to 75% less energy and last 10 times longer. The LEDs are another great inventions and LEDs are the best option that we have for saving power
  • Switch off when you leave: Lighting an empty office wastes enough energy to boil water for 1,000 cups of coffee and doubles a company's annual electric bill
  • Recharge you batteries: If not disposed of carefully, batteries can be harmful to the environment due to the acids and metals used in their manufacture. Rechargeable batteries are safer, last longer and therefore cheaper
  • Go solar: It may seem expensive, but the government and many states offer programs and rebates to offset the costs
  • Turn out the Sun light: Switching off one bulb for one hour saves up to 22,000 watts per year
  • Keep your cool: It takes a refrigerator three minutes and a freezer 30 minutes of high-energy use to cool down after being opened for just one minute. So, try avoiding to keep the refrigerator open for more time un-wantedly
  • Unplug your charger: 95% of the energy used by a phone charger is wasted by being left plugged in
  • Make fast food: (Not the Fast-Food) Cooking quicker uses less energy - switch from the grill to the toaster, from the oven to the microwave
  • Consume responsibly: Avoid buying products that are excessively packaged
  • Print double-sided: Using both sides of the paper is highly effective and easy. It reduces your paper consumption by up to 50%. Again simple maths :)
  • Plant a tree: Trees make a big difference by continually removing carbon from the atmosphere. It is a worth while long-term in initiative. Although, just for fun fact - it's the algae around the globe that produces Oxygen more than the trees and plants.
  • Reduce paper consumption: Think before you print. On average, each worker uses 50 sheets a day. Recycle and reuse, or don't print
  • Take shorter showers: Making your shower one or two minutes shorter saves up to 2650 litres a month
  • Stop dripping: 10 drops a minutes wastes up to 6 litres of water everyday
  • Turn off the tap: Doing this when brushing teeth or shaving saves water, because a running faucet wastes 10 litres of water a minute
  • Bring out the clothesline: Take advantage of nature - a clothesline takes longer than a dryer but uses no energy, produces no emissions and is free! With each load, an electric dryer generates more than six pounds of greenhouse gases
  • Shop fresh: Fresh produce requires less packaging and can help improve your diet and overall health
  • Pay bills online: Easy and saves your time to go to billing location

You may Like to see my other post: Energy Savings Tricks

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Facebook Emoticons


Facebook Smiley


Its nice to use smiles while chatting. Usually they are called Emoticons.
Following are the few of them that you can use in Facebook.

Most of them also work while chatting too.


Awesome and Simple Android Tricks that everyone should know


Tips and Tricks for Android Phones

If you have just bought an Android Phone or you are pro user of this wonderful Operating System, you should really must be knowing below tweaks which will definitely help you.
Android Awesome Tricks and tips
These tricks may vary a little for your phone manufacturer, say Micromax uses the default OS as is and OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturer) like Samsung , Asus modify or customize the OS 
thus changing the paths or options. But the options would remain similar.

  Set Mobile Data Limit


If your phone version is greater than Android (4.0–4.0.4 Ice-cream Sandwich) your phone must be 
Android Awesome Tricks and tipshaving an option to track your monthly mobile data 
To start with, 
1. Goto Settings > Data Usage
2. Here , over the graph Orange Line represents the data limit usage
3. You can set your Data Usage cycle based on when  month starts and ends

Whenever the data limit is reached your phone will alert you based on the data usage recording but please also bear in mind that your mobile network provider may track it little different.
The best option would be , setting the limit little less than your monthly data pack.

Disabling Automatic App Updates

Android Awesome Tricks and tips
Automatic updates are sometimes burden on your net packs or data plans. Android has a bad habit of updating itself without your permissions. 
You can do it simply by,

1. Open Play Store app and go to Settings in play store
2. Now, Tap on Auto-update apps option
3. Tap on "Do not auto-update apps"

Thats all you need to do!
But in-case you felt like your phone has outdated applications, you just need to ,
Goto PlayStore >  Settings 
Tap on "My Apps" and then based on need you can update all the apps or a particular app.


Changing Default Apps Settings


Android Awesome Tricks and tipsSituations when you try to open an MP4 file it just opens using default Video player. But if you have installed VLC player and playing MP4 just open the default Video player which you definitely don't want. To resolve this issue
you need to, 


1. Go to Settings  > Apps
2. Swipe Right and select All tabs
3. Tap on the app which you want to remove as default.
4. Tap on 'Clear defaults'



Disabling Animations


Who doesn't want there phone to run Smooth especially if its Android. Before we start  you should be having access to "Developer Options" which can be found under Settings .



If "Developer Option" is missing, you need to go to Build number under Settings and tap on it repeatedly until you see "You are now a developer!". Developer options are now enabled.


Under enabled Developer options, look for Window animation scale, Transition animation scale, and Animator duration scale.
Disable three of the options individually.




Disabling / Enabling Auto-Correction option


Turning off the 'auto-correction' is an best option when you are typing in your own language. 

1. Goto Settings > "Language & Input"
2. Tap on the "Settings" icon next to the keyboard that you are using, e.g. Google Keyboard.
3. Tap on Auto-correction 
4. Tap on Off option to disable the Auto Correction option.



Setting Owner Info in-case you loose your android phone


Tough chances of getting back your phone when its lost are close to zero but I do believe in humanity and you should as well. So, in case you loose you phone somewhere and you want that person should know whose is the owner of the phone and some info about you, you can set all at the "Owner Info" section

Goto Settings > Security > Owner Info

Please note that this information will be available over the lock screen always.

The "OK Google" Trick

I remember the days when voice recognition was a big task for computers but Google is so smart now a day that it can understand your voice, you don't have to change your pitch / pronunciation / dialect to make it understand your need.

Just Tap on Mic symbol in the search bar and say "Ok Google" followed by what you want info from google.
For example : "Ok google Set Alarm at 4PM" 
And android will set alarm for you. its so simple.








PlayStore(s)


Yes!!! There are different Stores for application apart for Google Play Store.
You can download applications from other store but these stores are having apps which may or may not be safe.
One of the Example is Amazon's app store and others Google Play, SlideME, Opera Mobile Store, Mobango, F-droid.
But when you download an app from other store remember that you should enable the option Unknown Sources
Go to your phone Settings page
Tap Security or Applications (varies with device)
Check the Unknown Sources 

Chromecast / Miracast / Wifi Display / WIDI


Chromecast or Miracast  or Wifi Display  or WIDI you must be a fancy word which you might have not heard before. But getting known to such an awesome feature is never waste of time. 
In simple words, Chromcasting means replicating your mobile screen on a TV display using WiFi Technology. Many of the Smart TV sets are capable of this feature. Its similar to, connecting HDMI cable to TV and then other end to your TV( but who uses HDMI on phone and moreover Wireless is the new era) 

All you need to do is,
1. Go to settings > Display
2. Select Cast Screen option
3. Tap on the TV which is shown in the list.

Please note that few android phones does not have this feature. And if your TV does not support Miracast you need to buy WIDI dongle or WIDI adapter like Actiontec Screenbeam or Samsung AllShare from Market which is little costly option.

Hope you enjoyed the tips, do add your android trick and tips in the comments.


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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

How to disable Microsoft OneDrive


Disable MS OneDrive

Steps to Disable Microsoft OneDrive 


Are you annoyed of Windows 10 Microsoft OneDrive.

You have come to right place.
There are many ways to
disable Microsoft OneDrive and Remove OneDrive from File explorer.


For Windows 10 Home Edition this is what you need to do.

Right-click the OneDrive icon in your notification area (little white cloud) and then choose Settings.
Disable MS OneDriveUncheck the “Start OneDrive automatically when I sign in to Windows” Option and save your settings.
OneDrive won’t load at Windows Startup from now on..
If you are not planning to use OneDrive, you can click on the “Unlink OneDrive” button .
It will stop OneDrive from syncing to the Clouds.



For Windows 10 Professional  or Enterprise or Education Edition you need to ,
Press the Windows key to open the Start menu’s search box.
Type "gpedit.msc"and press Enter
This will open the Group Policy Editor.
Now go to :

Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > OneDrive

Now, Double-click on the “Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file storage” policy setting in the right pane and click on “Enabled” and then click  on “OK”

It will disable the access to OneDrive. OneDrive will be hidden from File Explorer.

Monday, March 21, 2016

Fake GPS Location on Android Phone


How to Fake GPS Location on Android Phone

To Start with , to spoof your vicinity on Android is to become a developer. That does not mean you need to become actual developer duh!! You simply need to activate developer option inside the Android settings menu.

Goto Settings > About Android > Tap on that option 7 times until you get the affirmation activate as shown.

Fake your GPS Location
Fake GPS Location on Android

You'll want to go back a step to the root Settings menu and go to "Developer options". Once inside the sub-menu, find the Allow mock locations option and tick the check box right next to it.

Fake GPS location on Android
Enable Developer Options for Fake GPS Location



Now, get some GPS spoofing Application from Google Play.
You can try using Fake GPS Location Spoofer for Free.
Once Installed , you will be requested to enable
Turn Off the WIFI if possible, coz android can look into your location using your WIFI.
Now, click on the Location Settings button in the pop-up and then go to Mode within the menu.


How to Fake your GPS Location on Android phones


Once inside the Menu, select GPS only.
Next, choose a Location on the Map and "Double tap" on the screen to set it.
Once Set, all the other apps and services that looks for GPS location, will be spoofed.


How to Fake your GPS Location on Android phones
GPS Spoofing