4 Awesome WhatsApp Tricks You Should Know About

WhatsApp has now become one of the important parts of our daily life. This very popular instant messaging app for smart phones is used by millions of people in all over the globe. This app lets you share images, video, user location and audio media messages from one smart phone to another instantly over internet which is essentially the main reason behind the popularity of WhatsApp, so people fell very easy to use this app to send messages, images, videos etc to friends or to any other easily. And now, WhatsApp becomes the most popular instant messaging app with having over 800 million active users in the year 2015 and every day more numbers of users are increasing. So, with the increasing popularity, we must know Awesome WhatsApp Tricks that can make this app more fun and useful to use. Here are top 4 and Best tricks that every Whatsapp user must know.

1) Hide Your WhatsApp Status, Last Seen & Profile Picture

Privacy is the most important concern for all of us, but with Whatsapp, there are no worries. By default, WhatsApp is letting everyone know the last time you used the app. But you can disable your last seen timestamp, profile photo and status message. Simply by going Settings > Account > Privacy on both iPhone and Android. Read Receipts, notified by those Blue Ticks can be disabled too, but Just like last seen that also means you won’t be able to see read receipts from other people.

2) Spy on your friends’ chats
There is always curious to know about other people’s chat and so saying others are always been fun. But at the same time, it turns very embarrassing when you get caught while checking someone’s WhatsApp messages. Whether it’s your curiosity for fun or distrust here’s one way to do it:
a) Get their phone for once and go to SD card (File Manager).
b) Get on WhatsApp and select database folder.
c) Select all files and copy it to your device using any sharing app you have or simply by Bluetooth.

d) Now backup chats on your phone to google drive and uninstall WhatsApp.
e) Again navigate to WhatsApp – database and delete all the files present there.
f) Now paste the files in the database folder which we have copied from your friend’s phone.
g) Now install WhatsApp again and this time it will ask an option to restore your chat. Select Restore and all your friends chats will get restored in your phone.

h) After reading all the messages simply delete all the files present in the database folder. After that, you can restore your chats using google drive.

3) Change Your Friend’s Profile Picture on your Phone

Navigate to the following folder: /device/sdcard/WhatsApp/Profile Pictures. Here you will see the profile pictures that the app has saved. If you don’t see your friend’s picture in here, go back to WhatsApp and open it. Once you find his picture, Note down the name of the picture and then delete the picture. Now, find the picture you want to add to his profile. Make sure the picture is in JPG format. Change its name to the original one. Now copy-paste this picture in WhatsApp – Profile Pictures folder.

4) Recover Deleted WhatsApp Messages

If you’ve accidentally deleted your WhatsApp chats, you can easily recover them because WhatsApp backups your chats every day at 2 AM. Uninstall and then re-install WhatsApp. Sign up with the same number you used WhatsApp with previously. You will be prompted that a backup has been found. Tap “Restore” to start the restoring process. Once done, you will see all your messages back and healthy.

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For the first time, Mac users have to worry about malware that locks their computer and demands a ransom

Ransomware, a type of malware that encrypts all the data on your computer until you pay the   attackers a ransom (often in bitcoins), has been a big problem for Windows users for years.
And now the first successful ransomware attack on Mac users occurred this weekend, using malware designed to lock files on a targeted computer three days after infection, reports Reuters' Jim Finkle. Targeted users could start seeing their files locked on Monday.
Finkle was told about the attack by security researchers at Palo Alto Networks.
While there have been previous reports of Mac users attacked by ransomware, such as an attack back in 2013; in that case, the attack was more or less faked.
Attackers were able to embed a little bit of code in the browser that made it look like the Mac (or Windows) machine was locked and encrypted when only the browser was affected, reported security researchers at Malwarebytes.
But it seemed only a matter of time before Macs would get their own ransomware. Security researchers have been writing more and more proof-of-concept Mac ransomware and a few successful attempts were shared by at least two different researchers last fall. The idea of proving and sharing such code is to allow Apple and others to fix the holes that would let real hackers get in.
The good news is that Apple may have developed a fix to stop this particular ransomware attack. This malware appears to have snuck into an app called Transmission, a way for people to share movies and other content via sharing tech called BitTorrent. Apple has come up with a way to block Macs from installing the infected version of this app.
The Transmission website carries a warning telling people to upgrade to a new version of the app immediately, and offers instructions to check if your Mac was infected.
The bad news is that, given the rise in popularity of Macs, particularly in businesses and other targets with deep pockets, this also might be just the beginning of ransomware in the wild for Macs, and comes into the your computer in other ways.

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Quicken 2013 Adds Support for Android, iOS Apps

The 2013 editions of Intuit's venerable Quicken personal finance software are out, but they're not incredibly different from the 2012 versions--with one notable exception: They can sync automatically with Android and iOS mobile apps, the first Intuit has produced to work with Quicken.

The good news is that the mobile apps are free, and there's no charge for Intuit's cloud-based syncing service either. But Quicken 2013 editions are all $10 more expensive than their already-pricey 2012 counterparts. You have to really want to use desktop software to pay these prices when there are so many free cloud-based alternatives--including Intuit's own Mint.com.

For the record, the 2013 lineup consists of Quicken Starter Edition ($40), Quicken Deluxe (adds budgeting features for $70), Quicken Premier (adds features for investors for $100), Quicken Home & Business ($110, for people who want to manage business and personal finances in the same app) and Quicken Rental Property Manager ($160, for landlords who want to manage their personal and business income).

There are also new email and text alerts, according to Intuit's website.

However, mobile app support is the big news with the latest versions of the software. If you opt to use the mobile apps (you don't have to if you don't want to entrust your data to the cloud), Intuit will automatically sync data from accounts you specify to the cloud, so that you'll have access to the same info whether you're using the desktop software or a mobile app.

Here are a couple of screenshots; stay tuned for a full-blown review of Quicken 2013 and the new mobile apps.

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Mozilla Sets End of Firefox Windows XP Support

   Mozilla on Friday announced that next month's Firefox 12 will be the last version to run on early editions of Windows XP and the 12-year-old Windows 2000.
The company also reiterated that it will stop serving security updates for 2010's Firefox 3.6 in April.
Starting with Firefox 13, the browser's minimum requirements will be XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). Firefox 13 will not work on Windows 2000, Windows XP RTM (release to manufacturing, the original mid-2001 build) or XP SP1.
Firefox 12, set to start on April 24 and due to be replaced by the next edition on June 4, will be the last that supports the three older Windows.
"This support change allows us to significantly improve Firefox performance on Windows by using a more modern build system," Mozilla said in a Friday post to a company blog.
The decision wasn't a surprise: Mozilla has been discussing the change for at least three years . And the company actually pulled the trigger two months ago, when Asa Dotzler, director of Firefox, explained the firm's reasoning.
"Our developers have not been able to take advantage of new compiler features [in Visual Studio 2010] and have had to struggle to keep valuable optimizations from breaking, including having had to back out and ultimately delay some important new features like SPDY," said Dotzler in late January . "Our users have suffered a slower Firefox than would be possible as both direct and indirect results of moving to a more modern compiler."
Windows 2000 fell off Microsoft's support list in mid-2010, and XP and XP SP1 were dumped in 2004 and 2006, respectively.Microsoft doesn't even support Windows XP SP2 .
The only version of Windows XP still backed by Microsoft with security updates -- including patches for Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), the browser that shipped with the OS -- is SP3, which released in 2008 and has two years of support life left.
Mozilla advised Firefox users still running Windows XP RTM or XP SP1 to migrate to a newer operating system -- Windows XP SP3 is a free upgrade -- and urged Windows 2000 customers to do the same.
Opera runs on Windows 2000, but they recommends user's XP or later.
Unlike Opera, Google's Chrome is not an option, since Chrome's lower limit is the same as Firefox's, Windows XP SP2.
On Friday, Mozilla also repeated what it had announced the week before, that Firefox 3.6 is nearing support retirement.
Firefox 3.6.28, which Mozilla shipped March 13, is the last planned update for the two-year-old browser. Between now and April 24, Mozilla will only release fixes to 3.6 if developers uncover critical security or stability issues.




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Lenovo's K2 Tablet

Intel showed off a pre-production version of Lenovo’s K2 tablet at the Mobile World Congress and offered some hands-on time with the device, which had a Medfield processor inside.

The K2 will ship with Intel’s Medfield Atom processor, which is intended for both phones and tablets.  The demo of Android 4.0 on the Lenovo appears to set the stage for what's looks to be an interesting competition among chipmakers for a niche in the increasingly competitive tablet space.

The tablet's specs include a 1280-by-800 resolution display, 1GB of memory and 16GB of storage. Around the edges are a micro-USB port, micro-HDMI, SD Card slot, and SIM card lot. The tablet features an 8-megapixel camera on the back. Plus, it will support Intel's Wireless Display technology, for less-hassle when connecting to a WiDi-capable display.

. The display looked good for its resolution, with a noticeably minimal air-gap. I also noticed that Android was responsive as I flicked among screens, played high-def video -- long the bane of Atom's existence -- and played a game (though, the Angry Birds flying through the air seemed a tad slower than I've come to expect from other tablets). A section of the back felt a bit warm, but many tablets

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Burning Questions the Windows 8 Consumer Preview Should Answer

By Tim Greene, NetworkWorld    Feb 28, 2012 5:00 am

When the Windows 8 Consumer Preview is available Wednesday it should answer questions that the earlier developers preview didn't.

Chief among these is what applications will be available right away that are written in what Microsoft calls Metro style. Metro style refers both to the graphical look of the user interface, which relies on words rather than icons, and to the way individual applications interact with the touchscreen environment Windows 8 supports.

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The Windows Store, which will be the marketplace for acquiring these applications, launches Wednesday, too, so users will get their answer.

Will Microsoft apps support touch mode, and if so, when?

This is important to those who want to use tablets but want more laptop functionality. Microsoft says it is preparing touch mode for the next major release of Office (Office 15) applications, some of which will ship with WOA devices. Office 15 itself is due out sometime by the end of the year, industry observers say, but Microsoft hasn't set a date.

How well will Windows 8 perform on legacy x86 hardware?

According to Microsoft, Windows 8 hardware requirements are no greater than those for Windows 7, and the company recommends that Windows 8 Consumer Preview users install the operating system on devices that are marked Windows 7 compatible. The new operating system supports all the applications Windows 7 supports on x86 PCs, Microsoft says.

That's the promise, and the preview will let consumers find out one way or the other whether that's strictly the case.

What will the Metro style multitasking interface be like?

When running Windows 8 without keyboard or mouse, users pick and choose the apps they want from a Start screen. (The desktop and Start button themselves are gone.) If they are already in an app, they can swipe from the side of the screen to view more, but if they have many applications active, it can be a chore to find the one they want -- not crippling, but more cumbersome than using a desktop or taskbar buttons.

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