Facebook supporting now the stronger encryption

It has been now demonstrated that sometimes left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. Facebook is now pushing for stronger encryption.

Facebook now lets  users to add OpenPGP public keys to their profile, and to sign up for encrypted Facebook notifications.

Though legal for decades now, intelligence agencies have warned that widespread use of strong encryption could endanger their data-gathering efforts.

How it works: Facebook now allows users to upload their public keys onto their profile, where they can be made visible to friends or to the public, just like other contact information is. Facebook  further offers the option of encrypting notifications it sends to your email account. This provides some added protection, and also prevents your email provider from learning what you’re doing on Facebook.

If you use Gmail and have configured Facebook to send you all the notifications you can possibly configure in your Facebook settings to your Gmail account, obviously Facebook would be feeding Google ... lots of interesting information that Google could stuff into [its] database.

Using this feature further means that if your email account is hacked, or messages intercepted in transit, your Facebook notifications will be safe from prying eyes. Thorsheim believes that password reset requests are where this is most important.

Microsoft HoloLens ... a see through holographic computer

Microsoft HoloLens is the first holographic computer running Windows 10. It is completely untethered – no wires, phones, or connection to a PC needed. Microsoft HoloLens allows you to pin holograms in your physical environment and provides a new way to see your world.

 

Microsoft HoloLens features see-through, holographic, high-definition lenses and spatial sound so you can see and hear holograms in the world around you. Complete with advanced sensors and a new Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) that understands the world around you, Microsoft HoloLens is able to run without any wires while processing terabytes of data from the sensors in real-time.

 

Holograms will enable you to make decisions more confidently, work more effectively, and bring ideas to life before your eyes.

Transform the ways you communicate, create, collaborate, and explore.

Use your movements, vision, and voice to interact with content and information in the most natural way possible. 

The world’s most advanced holographic computer built on the same core as the Windows 10 family.

What is NFC Chip and How it works?

If you’re a Samsung smartphone user, you might want to know more about the controversial chip before falling for viral videos urging you to remove it.

In recent days in Pakistan, many videos claiming that the chip placed inside the Samsung smartphone battery is responsible for the posting of your private information including the photos and videos in your phone have published on social networks and on the internet. Many peoples named it with spy chips, etc...

To answer this million dollars question either the chip is spying your smartphone, Samsung explains everything about its newest NFC Chip.

The use of NFC chips in smartphones and tablets has increased over the past couple of years. Samsung has always at the forefront when it comes to the usage of latest communication technologies in its devices. The Galaxy S2 was one of the first Android smartphones to use an NFC chip and since then there have been improvements in the hardware as well as the software related to NFC features.

Know more about this NFC chip and how it works and what is the core objective to utilize in the smartphones, click on the following link:

Samsung explains everything about its newest NFC chip

http://www.sammobile.com/2014/11/29/samsung-explains-everything-about-its-newest-nfc-chip

How to convert .avi/.wmv/.flv to .mp4 file through FFMPEG using VB.Net

There are lots of software and utilities available on the internet that can convert your video or audio files into the another formats like .avi, .wmv, .wav, .flv, .mov, .mp3, .aif, .3gp, etc...

Most of them are with paid features and if you could not pay then those softwares places some watermark on your vidoe files which looks awkward.

FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It contains libavcodec, libavutil, libavformat, libavfilter, libavdevice, libswscale and libswresample which can be used by applications. As well as ffmpeg, ffserver, ffplay and ffprobe which can be used by end users for transcoding, streaming and playing.

We can use FFMPEG in our code behind using vb.net or any other programming launguage and can make our life easy in order to processing video or audio files.

Below is a sample code for your reference that how we can call this ffmpeg.exe file in our code behind and process our required video or audio files.

Protected Sub btnSave_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSave.Click   

    Dim strArgu As String, strNewFileName As String
       
    '--- Converting into MP4 file
        strArgu = " -i """ + Server.MapPath("<Source Directory>/" & <source file name>) + """ -s 480x320 -vcodec libx264 -acodec libfaac -ar 16000 -r 13 -ab 32000 -aspect 3:2 """ + Server.MapPath("<Target Directory>/" & <target file name.mp4>) + """"
   
    '--- Converting into MP3 file
    strArgu = " -i """ + Server.MapPath("<Source Directory>/" & <source file name>) + """ -f mp3 -acodec libmp3lame -ab 192000 -ar 44100 """ + Server.MapPath("<Target directory>/" & <target file name.mp3>) + """"


        Dim proc As New Diagnostics.Process
        proc.StartInfo.Arguments = strArgu
        proc.StartInfo.FileName = Server.MapPath("ffmpeg.exe")
        proc.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = False
        proc.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = True
        proc.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = False

        Try
            proc.Start()
        proc.WaitForExit()
        Catch ex As Exception
            Throw ex
        End Try

End Sub

Click here to download FFMPEG file.

How to remove empty folders by only ONE CLICK

Sometimes we get annoyed to see plenty of empty folders in our computer. Do you wanna delete those by only one click? Let's see how we can do that under a batch process by following a few steps:

1. First, download and install a freeware software REMOVE EMPTY DIRECTORIES.
2. Press now the browse button and select the target directory location.
3. Press the Scan button and wait for few seconds. (It depends on your speed of computer).
4. After scanning, on right side of the screen you will find the list of empty folders/directories.
5. Right click on the folders to Open in Explorer, Protect or Add to Ignore list.
6. Press Delete Folders.