Easy ways to protect your Android phone

Your Android phone not only enables you to
do nearly everything online, but also allows
you to carry your life in your pocket.
Although having all that information in a
single location and always on hand may be
especially convenient, it makes for an
appealing target to thieves and hackers. But
you're not defenseless: You can take a number
of steps and precautions to ensure that your
stuff stays safe.
Pay attention to app permissions
App permissions are your first line of defense
against malicious software. Every time you
install an app, you see a pop-up that lists all
of the aspects of your phone that the app is
designed to access. While most people
mindlessly dismiss the pop-up and continue
the installation, it sometimes pays off to
discover whether the flashlight app you
downloaded uses services that could cost you
money, for example, or to learn that
Facebook's app essentially asks to use your
entire phone.
App permissions are archaic and difficult to
read, but newer versions of Android make
understanding them a little easier. You can
tap each individual permission to learn more
about it and make better decisions as to which
apps you download. Unfortunately, you can't
pick and choose which permissions to accept,
so if an app wants access to something, you
must either accept all its demands or find a
different app.
Download only from the Play Store
Android evangelists often talk about the
benefits of sideloading software onto your
smartphone. On paper, it makes sense: We
should be able to install and run whatever we
like on our devices. The harsh reality is that
downloading and installing random apps you
find on the Internet can lead to trouble--even
if you're being vigilant.
Although the Google Play Store has housed
malicious apps in the past , Google has done
its part to clean out most of the riffraff. The
store isn't as reliable as the Apple App Store,
but you won't feel like you're playing Russian
roulette every time you download a game or
Twitter client. Downloading an app from a
random website on the Internet, in contrast,
opens your data--and sometimes even your
wallet--to all sorts of malware. Android apps
are notoriously easy to take apart, and
attackers can repurpose even popular apps
such as Snapchat or Tinder to distribute
mobile malware without your knowledge.
You can find a handful of reputable third-
party app stores, such as the Amazon App
Store or F-Droid , but sticking to the Play
Store greatly reduces your chances of coming
across unsavory software.
Install a security suite
If you're really worried about malware, you
should look into getting a security suite for
your phone. A search for "security" on the
Google Play Store produces a couple thousand
results, some of which come from desktop-
security software companies such as McAfee
and Norton. I recommend downloading either
Lookout Mobile Security or TrustGo Mobile
Security, as AV-Test (an independent antivirus
testing center) ranked those apps highly on
features and on their ability to catch malware.
A security app often gives you functions
beyond alerts that flag infections from
malicious apps. Most mobile security suites
offer ways to back up your phone--a feature
sorely missing from Android--and some
security tools can help you locate, lock, and
wipe your device remotely should it be
pilfered from your pocket. Installing a
security suite on your phone may not sound
like a glamorous task, but once you have set
it up, you can rest easy knowing that you have
a system in place in case anything goes
wrong.
Lock your phone
This might seem obvious, but putting a PIN or
pattern lock on your phone is one of the
easiest ways to secure your device. Doing so
keeps nosy friends out of your text messages
and makes it harder for thieves to wipe and
resell your phone. You can set a lock screen
on your phone by going into Settings and
making your way to the Security & Screen
Lock option. Note that attackers and snoops
can crack pattern locks by examining the
streaks that you leave on the screen by
entering your pattern over and over again, so
a PIN is the way to go if you're worried about
someone using your oily skin against you.
You lose the convenience of just being able to
turn on your phone and get right into using
it, but the increased protection is worth the
extra hassle.
Look past the FUD
The most important thing to remember about
Android security is that you shouldn't buy
into all the scaremongering that media outlets
report on an almost daily basis. Android's
open nature makes it less secure than iOS or
Windows Phone, but you can avoid most of
the threats to your phone if you take even
just one of the precautions described above.
So while a plague of phone-bricking Trojan
horses might be spreading via a shady app
store in Ukraine, you and your freshly
secured phone have nothing to worry about.

How to reset your Blackberry phone

How to reset your Blackberry phone

Step by step

If you want to hard reset your blackberry phone, complete the following
steps.
1. You have to remove your bb phone battery cover from the back of your BlackBerry smartphone
2. After you have done that you have to remove the battery again, and then reinsert it
after a few seconds
You have to replace your blackberry phone battery cover make sure

If you want to
Switch off you blackberry code you can use
Alt+aA^+delete button

Or if you want a soft reset
Read below carefully
1. You have to press and hold the Alt key (1) on ur bb
While holding down the Alt key, press
and hold the Right Shift key (2)
With both of those buttons still pressed,
press the Backspace/Delete key (3)
When the screen turns off to indicate
that the BlackBerry smartphone is
restarting, you can then release the keys
you have been holding.

If you use soft reset it does not remove any data on your blackberry phone
And it does not effect it with any bad thing

To fully remove data from a BlackBerry

You have to go to settings on ur bb
Then search for security wipe
After that
Now you will see a list

Select data for wiping

1 Emails contact, etc
2 User installed applications
3 Media card

Then you have to chose
User installed applications

And then enter
blackberry
in the box below it

Now you have to wait till your
Blackberry complete delete data
Note
Don't remove your bb battery when
Performing hard reset on your blackberry

That's all thanks for reading

How to Hide Your IP Address

Hiding your I.P. address offers an additional
layer of security when surfing on the
internet. There may be times when visiting a
site that it may try to access your personal
information without you knowing. With
security flaws in web browser, a hacker site
can install malware onto your computer and
access it through your IP address. The
internet can be a hostile environment for
non-experience web surfers. So why not
hide your computer and ISP I.P. address
from the web. This can easily be done with a
proxy server.
Step1:
You will need to download proxy server
software from the internet. See my resource
links below for safe downloads.
Step2:
Once you have the proxy server software
installed, you will most likely need to update
its database with proxy server IP addresses.
Refer to the Help file of the software you
downloaded for detailed instructions.
Step3:
Some proxy software will ask you for the
browser you are going to use so that can it
configure the browser for the correct proxy
IP address. Some software will automatically
detect what browsers are installed on your
computer and configure them automatically.
Step4:
For anonymous web surfing you will need to
enable your proxy server software before
opening your browser. If you are using
Internet Explorer, you can go to Tools,
Internet Options, Connections, and then
select LAN settings. If you see that the proxy
server box is checked and you see an IP
address and port numbers, then you are all
set. This is only a one time check and
doesn't need to be repeated for the next
time.
Step5:
To surf the web with out a proxy server, all
you need is to deactivate the proxy server.
This will restore your browser configuration
to the original settings.

How Solid-state Drives Work

In 1956, IBM shipped the world's first hard
disk drive, or HDD , in the RAMAC 305 system.
The drive used 50 24-inch (61-centimeter)
platters, stored a meager 5 megabytes of data
and took up more room than two refrigerators.
Oh, and the cost? Just $50,000 ($421,147 in
2012 dollars).
Since then, hard drives have grown smaller,
more capacious and, thankfully, less expensive.
For example, the Seagate Momentus laptop
hard drive, with a form factor of just 2.5
inches (6.4 centimeters), offers 750 gigabytes
of storage for less than $100. But even with
advanced protection technologies, the
Momentus drive, like all HDDs, can crash and
burn, taking precious data with it. That's
because hard drives have mechanical parts
that can fail. Drop a laptop, and the read-write
heads can touch the spinning platters. This
almost always results in severe data loss.
Luckily, a new kind of computer drive could
make crashes as obsolete as your Apple IIe.
Known as a solid-state drive, or SSD, it uses
semiconductor chips, not magnetic media, to
store data. Your computer already comes with
chips, of course. The motherboard contains
some that house your device's system memory,
or RAM, which is where information is stored
and processed when your computer is running.
Computer types refer to such memory as
volatile memory because it evaporates as
soon as your machine loses power. The chips
used in a solid-state drive deliver non-volatile
memory, meaning the data stays put even
without power. SSD chips aren't located on the
motherboard, either. They have their own
home in another part of the computer. In fact,
you could remove the hard drive of your
laptop and replace it with a solid-state drive,
without affecting any other essential
components.
But why would you want to? And what exactly
would the drive look like -- a green, printed
circuit board or a brushed-metal box
resembling a traditional hard drive? We'll
answer those questions on the following pages,
but before we give your machine a makeover,
let's review a few computer science basics.

How do I update the drivers on my computer?

It seems like a day doesn't go by where our
computer isn't politely urging us to please
install an update for something or other. While
most of these allow us to explore new features
in our music library or help software run with
more security, there's also the need to update
so your computer can run what you want,
period.
In a computer, a driver is a piece of software
that tells hardware how to run on a certain
operating system. That means your PC card,
DVD drive, video card and other hardware all
use drivers to make their operations work. If
you're using your computer right now, you
probably have a ton of drivers already installed
and working.
That's one of the reasons, in fact, that people
don't know that much about drivers. Whenever
Windows or Mac has an update, the drivers are
generally installed along with it; you don't even
realize you're getting a fancy new way for your
hardware to communicate as well. In general,
you don't need to fuss about whether or not to
update your drivers. While there are some
drivers that Windows doesn't automatically
update, they're by and large covered.
But how do you know when you need to
update your drivers? According to programmer
and writer Leo Notenboom, there's no reason
to update for the sake of updating. Instead,
decide to update using some common sense
signals [source: Notenboom ]. If you're having
issues with your hardware, checking for a
driver update is a great place to start
troubleshooting. If Windows or the software
itself tells you an update is available, it also
doesn't hurt to take it.
So let's upgrade ourselves a page and discover
how we can update any drivers that might need
our attention.

How to Uninstall on a Mac

Getting rid of programs on a Mac can be easy.
Or difficult. Easy because in most cases you
simply drag the program's icon to the trash
and the software disappears. Difficult because
Mac doesn't include the uninstall feature that
Windows users take for granted. Some
programs create files in the nooks and
crannies of your Mac's hard drive , and finding
them can take some detective work.
Why would you want to uninstall a program?
For the same reason you occasionally tidy your
office or clean your garage. Clutter breeds
inefficiency. Applications take up space on
your hard disk and can slow your computer.
Also, a new version of a program may not
work correctly unless you get rid of the old
one [source: Ritchie].
Most of the time, uninstalling is this simple:
1. Exit all programs.
2. Open the Applications folder, which
you'll find by clicking on the hard disk
icon.
3. Drag to the trash the icon of the
program you want to uninstall.
4. Empty the trash.
This method works fine with many
applications, like iTunes or Quicken. The files
for these applications are all stored in one
location. In Mac talk, they are "bundled." To
see if a program is bundled, click on its icon
while holding down the Control key. If a box
appears that says, "show package contents,"
it's a bundled program and the drag-to-the-
trash method is probably the best way to
uninstall it
For some other programs, removal is more
complicated. When installed, these programs
create files in several locations. The first step
in removing them is to check the program's
documentation to see if there is an uninstall
utility. If your program has an uninstall utility
associated with it, it may have been installed
with the program or included on the disk that
came with it. To remove Symantec software,
for example, you can download the uninstall
feature from the company [source: Norton].
Running an uninstall utility can make removing
a program much easier.
You should be aware that removing an
unbundled program by moving it into the trash
can leave behind orphan files on your
computer. Preference files are usually small
and you might want to ignore them if you're
just trying to free up disk space. Background
files or support files can be larger, especially
for multimedia programs like Garageband
[source: MacRumors ]. These files are likely to
reside in Library folders in your hard drive or
Home folder. They will usually be labeled with
the name of the program, like Office or
Acrobat, or the developer, such as Microsoft
or Adobe. You can search for the relevant
names using Spotlight, which is included with
the Mac OS. Drag the files you find to the
trash to get rid of them [source: The,x Lab].
Check out the next page for tips to make your
uninstall go even more smoothly.

How to take a Screenshot on a Mac

You might occasionally need to capture the
image on your computer screen so you can
save or share it. If you've used a PC designed
to run Microsoft Windows, you've probably
used the Print Screen key on the keyboard to
do this. If you're using a Mac, though, you'll
notice Apple doesn't include such a key. Don't
worry, though, because we're about to look at
the keyboard combinations and built-in tools
you can use on your Mac to capture what you
need from the screen.
First, let's look at the keyboard combinations
you can use to capture the image on your
screen. The keystrokes for screenshots are
multiple keys that should be pressed together.
When you do this, press and hold the first key,
then the second, and so forth, and immediately
release all keys after pressing the final one in
the sequence. The following are the keystrokes
to remember for screen capturing:
Command+Shift+3 captures the entire screen
and saves it to a file on your desktop.
Command+Shift+4 temporarily replaces your
mouse cursor with a tool to select any
rectangular portion of the screen. Click and
drag the tool to make your selection. Your
cursor immediately returns to normal after
that selection.
Control added to the start of either of these
sequences saves the image to the clipboard
temporarily instead of to a permanent file.
That allows you to copy and paste what you
see on the screen into an application, such as
image editing software.
If you don't use the Control key, your Mac
saves these keystroke captures to your desktop
by default. When you're capturing images this
way, you won't see any system or app
notifications to verify success. Instead, the
system just plays a chime that sounds like a
film camera snapping a photo. To see the files
you're saving, you'll have to either open your
Finder or minimize your windows to find the
images saved on the desktop.
Mac OS X traditionally saved keyboard-
generated screenshots as tagged image file
format (TIFF) files. Macs switched to portable
document format (PDF) starting in the 10.2
release of OS X, and to portable network
graphics (PNG) files by 10.6. Later, we'll look
at how you can convert any of these images to
other file formats.
While keystrokes let you get a quick capture
from the screen, they have limited options for
what you're capturing. That's where the Grab
utility comes in. Next, let's take a look at how
to use Grab, including how to capture a
specific window and how to time the capture
to include things like mouse-over text or drop-
down menus.