According to researchers at Lancaster University, Northwest Universiy of China and the University of Bath, Pattern Locks can be cracked within five attempts and the more complicated the pattern, the easier it is to crack it open. “People tend to use complex patterns for important financial transactions such as online banking and shopping because they believe it is a secure system. However, our findings suggest that using Pattern Lock to protect sensitive information could actually be very risky”, said Dr Zheng Wang, Lecturer at University of Lancaster and co-author of the research paper titled ‘Cracking Android pattern lock in five attempts’....

When I first started out on rooting Android, I was crazy about boot animations. I would change it every week with new ones. I found it to be so cool. And, it still is. So, if you think the same then let me show how you can get Android N’s slick new boot animation on your Android. Pre-requisites: A rooted Android smartphone.A Root File Explorer. e.g. ES File Explorer or Root browser....

Why Would You Hide Things? Your first thought might be “adult” style apps, but you might want to hide things for more innocent reasons. For example, a friend recently purchased a pregnancy app. She hadn’t told her husband yet; she was going to make an elaborate presentation. He found out when he did an app update and asked his wife about the app. Oops. The same could happen with any family surprise....

In this post, we’ll show you how to hide and unhide the tagged photos from your Instagram profile. Also, stick around till the end if you want to know how you can avoid such instances in the future. How to Hide Tagged Photos From Your Instagram Profile Hiding a tagged photo or video from your Instagram profile is easy. Here’s how to do it. Step 1: Open the Instagram app on your phone and tap on your profile picture in the bottom-right corner to open your profile....

Rules and Alerts play an important role in structuring and organizing your inboxes. The feature lets you create actions that are applied to incoming messages . And, based on matching conditions they can be moved to specified folders, replied to automatically and a lot more. In short, they help you reduce manual effort. Now, chances are always there that you end up losing these rules due to some malfunction. These rules are stored as part of your outlook profile....

Importing data from the web into Microsoft Excel saves you from manually feeding the data or copy-pasting it. Once you connect Excel to the web data source, it imports the information you need and updates itself when there are changes. Here’s all you need to know about importing data directly from the web into Excel. Important Things to Note When Importing Data From the Web Into Microsoft Excel You need to meet two requirements to import data from the web into Microsoft Excel:...

To access the audio playback feature, you need to insert the audio file into your document. The process to insert the audio into your document is a little like what you would follow to insert a picture. Here’s how it works. Inserting Audio Files into Microsoft Word Now, if you’re inserting an audio file into Microsoft Word, the first thing to do is get your audio file ready. For Windows PCs, a Voice Recorder app always comes with the operating software and can be used to record audio....

stopped the development of Flash for Android devices starting from the Jelly Bean version. According to them, Flash had security issues and made devices more vulnerable to hackers. The Flash has now being replaced by something more stable and is what we all call HTML 5 . Many websites have moved on to HTML 5 but there are plenty of them still out there which continue to run on Flash....

Check With Apple’s Registration If you’ve registered your product with Apple using your Apple ID, they keep a history of all your interactions with them. Apple calls this your Support Profile. It’s kind of creepy at first, but it’s also very cool! You’ll need your Apple ID, password and two-factor device handy (if applicable) to pull up your support profile. Head on over to http://supportprofile.apple.com and put in your Apple ID....

Create Groups of Apps in Folders Keeping all your apps in one place isn’t efficient. Instead, create groups of apps just like you do on your mobile device. The process is similar on your Chromebook. From the All Apps view in the Launcher, drag an app on top of another app. This creates a folder with those two apps. Click on that folder and you’ll see Unnamed Folder at the top....

If you are quite busy, constantly opening the Google Maps app to check for the location of a friend can be distracting. An easy way to solve this is by enabling location sharing notifications on your Google Maps app. This way, when someone shares their location with you, you get notified when they arrive or leave a certain location. Here’s how to enable and add location sharing notifications for places on your mobile devices....

Setting up an Android phone or tablet to mirror its screen to a Windows 11 PC is quite simple. But doing the same on Windows 11 computer is a bit tricky. You’ll need to check and confirm a few things before you begin. We will show you how to mirror your Android phone onto your Windows 11 PC so you can easily share content from your phone or tablet on a larger screen....

If you’re browsing for recipes, it’s often hard to quickly filter out ingredients like dairy, gluten or meat, which then makes the whole experience frustrating. Plenty of websites also exist to cater to specific diets, but they don’t always suit everyone and the recipes aren’t always bountiful. One service, however, is dominating the space of customizable recipes. Yummly is a website and app that lets you choose ahead of time which recipes you want to see and which you don’t base on your dietary needs and preferences....

rand is used to generate a number between 0 and 1randbetween generates a whole number within a given range However, have you ever thought of selecting a random name or a random string from a given list? There could be various scenarios where you might need that. For instance, the editor of this blog plans to run giveaways soon. Excel can help him choose the winners in that case. However, Microsoft Excel provides no direct formula to get that done....

With the new feature, you aren’t bound to a selected few emoji reactions. You can react with fire emoji, kiss, hammer, or anything that you want. Emoji reactions will appear under your message on Instagram. Let’s see how to react with custom emojis in Instagram Direct Messages (DMs) on mobile and PC. How to React With Emojis in Instagram Messages on Mobile and PC Facebook recently rolled out a new version of Instagram messages that made it similar to Facebook Messenger....

I knew Apple had this app called Remote for getting the remote control thing done, but never bothered to check it out until I visited my friend Praval the other day. He was using it, and I was pleasantly surprised when I saw how smoothly it worked over Wi-Fi. Knowing about something is one thing, experiencing it first hand is another. Back home, I decided to set it up on my iPod touch....

To begin with, SearchMine is a malicious browser extension that typically gets installed on Macs without the user’s knowledge. Once installed, it will make searchmine.net the default search engine, show annoying ads, and send search results to advertisers. Furthermore, it adds a toolbar to the browser and starts tracking and collecting the user’s online activity to sell to third parties. Due to its lack of an application folder and lack of inclusion in the Finder’s list of installed programs, it is hard to find....

In the article, we will see how to install custom recovery and root the Redmi 2. The guide is divided into four sections for ease of use. Please make sure you follow the steps carefully and in order. Getting the Device Ready The very first thing you will have to do is get the phone in developer mode. To get that done, open the About Phone page and tap repeatedly on the MIUI Version....

While the Share Sheet on your web browser does feature the option to download PDFs to the Books app, the actual procedure can often feel confusing due to stark differences in user interfaces among browsers. Below, you are going to find out exactly how you must go about saving a PDF to the Books app on five major browsers on iOS — Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Opera Mini....

Outlook.com, the latest contender to Gmail too has this feature, but it’s disabled by default. Moreover, as we can connect social media services like Facebook to Outlook.com, we can save the chat history for them as well and use it for our advantage in the future. So let’s see how we can enable this feature and save our chat messages on Outlook.com Saving IM History on Outlook Step 1: Log in to your Outlook....