How to Play the Hidden Games on Android Lollipop

Android Lollipop:

We all love hidden games, did you know each version of Android has hidden Easter eggs popped in by bored developers? The latest Lollipop release is no exception. This time it’s a hidden version of possibly the most annoying surprise hit of 2013 a version of the FlappyBird game.

For anyone that spent the last year in an underground bunker, Flappy Bird was a simplistic side scroller created by a small Vietnamese developer. Despite it’s basic graphics, one click controls and extreme difficulty (many players never got past 1 point), it was a runaway hit across the globe. Even more bizarrely, the original creator removed it from the Apple and Google stores after a few months because he felt guilty that he had created such an addictive game that was wasting so much of peoples time. Other sources pointed out that the removal of the game was more likely to be because the developer used graphics of green pipes stolen from Super Mario to act as obstacles. To add to all the strangeness, phones that had Flappy Bird pre-installed then starting selling on eBay for ridiculous prices.

Now you can re-live the experience on any Android device running Lollipop (Android 5.0). Simply go to the Settings page and choose ‘About Phone.’ Tap and hold the Lollipop logo, be patient you may have to wait a few seconds, and the game should then just launch. If it doesn’t launch, try tapping several times on the Android version number and then tap and hold the Lollipop logo. A larger lollipop will rise up and the hidden Flappy Bird game should launch. It’s free to play but don’t expect your phone to now fetch an enormous price on eBay, that horse has bolted.

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How to swap Heads in Photoshop
How to get More Followers on Twitter
How to save battery life on smartphones (Specially iPhone)

Although the offending pipes have been replaced with lollipops and the bird is now the Android logo, this one is just as hard (and as annoying) as the original, enjoy the frustration, if you score more than five, you beat me!

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How to Swap Heads in Photoshop

Learn to Swap Heads on Photoshop:

Sometimes you don’t want to spend hours creating the perfect image, you don’t want to carefully fix every small mistake and make the most convincing photo collage the world has ever seen, sometimes you just want to stick someone’s head on someone else for humorous effect. Here’s a quick and simple way of doing just that.

We’ll use Batman and Robin as an example, the proper Batman and Robin, Adam West and Burt Ward. We’re using the caped crusaders for two reasons:

1) Because they both have very different colours and shapes in their heads and bodies, one is larger and all dark colours and wears a cowl, the other is smaller and all bright colours and just has an eye mask. This makes them a good example of changing heads on two very different individuals.

2) Because sixties Batman and Robin are cool. They just are.

Open your image in Photoshop, in this case we are going to swap the heads, it works much better when the backgrounds to the two heads is similar. Use the crop tool to select a square around one of the heads, copy it and move the copy over the other head. Resize and tilt the head so it roughly matches the head you are replacing, ideally make it slightly larger. Select the eraser tool, a brush size about a quarter the size of the head you are replacing, and a soft edge to the brush, about 30%. Now use the soft eraser to delete the square edges around your replaced head. If the background is similar you should get away with the two background blending, as we have here with Batman and Robin.

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Repeat the above steps for head two, erasing as close as you can to the edge of the head, but remembering not to actually erase any of the head, just enough of the backgrounds to blend the two together. It won’t win any awards, but it takes less than 30 seconds and if you are just trying to send a jokey email image, it’s an ideal little trick.

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How to Get More Followers on Twitter

Get Followers on Twitter Easily:

If you use Twitter regularly, you’ll have noticed that they are now pushing users into buying promotional packages. Twitter introduced promoted tweets way back in March 2012 and they have been met with mixed results from users ever since, many find them an annoyance, an invasion into their personal timeline.

Now Twitter are going the whole hog and offering a number of different variations on the promoted theme and at some point soon you will probably be prompted to try their new options when you log into Twitter, so expect to see more content pushed your way, whether you like it or not.

Don’t forget though, there are thousands of very successful accounts on Twitter, with a large follower base, that have never paid for promotion, so how did they manage it? Here’s some tips.

Good content:

OK, it might be obvious, but the real trick to having a successful Twitter account is by consistently writing clever, informative, original and interesting tweets. Packing maximum sparkle into every 140 characters. We can’t help you here, but bear in mind that all the other steps are essentially useless if all you are promoting is an account that tells people you had toast and orange juice for breakfast this morning. By all means tweet links and media, photos and videos now embed nicely on Twitter, but post things that have genuinely interested you, don’t just repost every popular video you see.

Hashtags:

Use popular hashtags every day, jump on bandwagons, try to add something new to existing memes. You can see on the left of your homepage what topics are trending that day, or dig deeper on Twitter and see what is trending locally. Create your own bespoke hashtags and use them consistently, but don’t overdo it, try and think up four or five that relate specifically to your account and something you tweet about regularly.

Following:

Follow other people, but be selective, don’t just follow every Justin Bieber fan that promises to #followback. What you really want are genuine followers who will occasionally read your tweets. When someone does follow you, thank them and consider following them back if they seem like they would be of interest. Build relationships. Having 100 real followers is better than having 20,000 fake ones who never see what you write or retweet you.

Profile:

Your profile is your chance to make a first impression. Have a good photo that says something about what you are about. If you are a plumber, use a photo where you are holding a tap wrench, it’s that simple. Fill in your bio, keep it positive, short and sweet, don’t try to be too funny, you’ll fail, just be informative, most people make a decision on following based on these few words. It helps to have an identifiable theme, or a one sentence tag-line that sums up what you and your business or account is all about.

Timing:

Here’s the real killer. Timing. When you tweet is more important than what you tweet. Some times are just much, much more likely to get you noticed. Take timezones into account, but just before people go to work and just after they go home are good times, so 8am to 9am and 5pm to 6pm, but the less well known one is 1pm. Always make sure you tweet at 1pm, it’s when many people are finishing their lunch break and will check Twitter one last time before getting back to work. 1pm, the golden time for Tweeting, remember it.

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Stick to all of the above and you might, without spending a penny on promotion, find yourself becoming the next big thing on Twitter. Watch out Justin.

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How to Preserve Battery Life on iPhone 6 Running iOS 8

Have you bought the new iPhone 6 or 6+? Perhaps after using it for a short period of time, you have noticed the battery life isn’t what you would like. Is iOS 8 is draining the life out of your new handset.

The latest software update makes the operating system work much harder. Although the newest iPhones are not as likely to suffer from this noticeable battery drainage, your older models that are running iOS 8 will probably be suffering from shortened battery life.

But whatever phone you have, you can benefit from having a more efficient battery life. Here are some ways to preserve battery life:

Find out what is draining the battery:

One of the latests updates in iOS 8, allows users to see a rundown of what apps use the most power. Go to Settings > General > Usage > Battery Usage to find out which apps are using the most power in the last 24 hours. Simply close the apps or delete the ones you no longer need. This will only work if your phone has been running for a few days as it needs enough data to use.

Turn off any location-tracking applications:

You don’t always need to be tracked. iOS 8 now allows users to choose a “While Using” option for certain apps (like Facebook).

Navigate to Settings > Privacy > Location Services. You can still leave on Find My iPhone from this menu. Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > Share My Location, to turn off another battery draining feature. You just have to remember to turn it back on if you want to use this feature again. Turning off Wi-Fi from the Settings menu, will also save your battery. You don’t need wifi if you are not using your phone.

Control notification widgets:

Accessing the Notification Centre is easily done by pulling down the menu from your top screen and customising your ‘Today’ view. Select which widgets you want to keep and which ones you can live without by tapping the ‘Edit’ button. Alternatively, you can navigate to Settings > Notifications and turn off notifications from apps.

Turn off Handoff:

If you are not planning on using two devices at the same time, you don’t need to run Handoff. Go to Settings > General > Handoff & Suggested Apps.

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Stop fetching:

Fetching allows email notifications to go to your home screen. If you are not bothered about this function, turn it off by going to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data.

There are lots of ways to preserve your battery, you just have to turn off any functions you don’t really need.

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How to use Samsung Galaxy Hidden Menu

There's a cool feature on the Samsung Galaxy smartphone that will render your user's manual useless.

A hidden menu, which you can access by dialing a specific string of characters, lets you troubleshoot hardware issues and check your phone's functionality.

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How to Install OS X Yosemite

Complete Installation of OS X Yosemite:

Apple released OS X Yosemite to the masses on Thursday as a free upgrade, so plenty of users are likely already busy preparing to install the new operating system.

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6 best Hacks for your smartphone

Ever since the iPhone found its way into the hands of consumers, people have figured out how to make the most of their devices, coming up with clever methods to access its full potential.

Now, users of all types of smartphones have discovered fun and creative ways to alter, modify and customize their phones to best fit their specific needs.

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Protect Your Photos From Hackers on iCloud

Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Ariana Grande are among the high-profile celebrities who apparently fell victim to a massive alleged iCloud hack late Sunday night, when someone exposed collections of nude photos that they had purportedly saved on their Apple devices.

What iPhone owners might not realize is that they may have already told Apple to back up all of your photos on its iCloud servers. It's easy enough to enable the "My Photo Stream" feature — then forget that it's running in the background, uploading every picture you take.

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Speed Up Your Android Phone in 3 Easy Steps

If you’ve noticed that your Android smartphone is not at its best, then we’re here to help you give it a check up. It may be that your handset is running slow or just not performing as well as it used to, either way, don’t put it off any longer. These three easy steps are sure to get your smartphone back on track and working as it should.

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Earn Money on Facebook on fixing bugs

For years, Facebook has maintained a bug bounty program to reward those who find problems with its platform. Now, it's expanding that program to Oculus Rift, which it acquired as part of Oculus VR for $2 billion in March.

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How to Activate 3G in Pakistan [Tutorial]

While we are going to have 3G services in Pakistan with-in few days, its important to know the process of activating 3G services on your smartphone.

We are assuming that you understand that 3G is for mobile broadband, and that there are charges involved with 3G services, especially because internet speeds are high on 3G and consequently data charges may go significantly high if you haven’t opted for a data bundle.

First thing you need to have is a 3G ready phone. No, not all handsets are 3G ready.

You can check compatibility of your handset with 3G networks by simply checking the network specification of your respective handset on GSM Arena or any other similar website.

Let’s take Huawei G610 as an example. According to GSM Arena, its network specifications are as following:

2G Network: GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 – SIM 1 & SIM 2
3G Network: HSDPA 900 / 2100 – SIM 1
So its apparent that Huawei G610 is 3G compatible and hence can be used for activating 3G services on the phone.

Activating 3G on Phone

Note: We are using this Android phone running Android 4.3 for this Tutorial. iOS users and those using other platforms can follow the steps given at the end.

Go to

Settings
click “More”

Now click on “Mobile Networks”

Now on next screen, click on “Network Mode”

Here you will have to select “WCDMA (preferred) / GSM. This will enable your handset to search for 3G networks as well.

You are all done now, and 3G services will be activated on your phone whenever they will be available.

If your network is providing 3G services in your area then your phone will automatically switch to 3G network, otherwise it will switch to GSM / 2G network in case 3G isn’t covered in any area.

You can also select “WCDMA Only” option to remain on 3G network only, however, this way when there will be no 3G service your signals will disappear and you won’t be able to make/receive calls. Hence it is preferred to use “WCDMA (proffered) / GSM” option only.

Once your phone is connected with 3G network, you can go to Settings->About Phone->Status to see “Mobile Network Type”, which in my case was HSPA.

Activating 3G service on iOS Devices

Simply go to Settings –> General –> Cellular –>  Enable both “Cellular data” and “3G”

And you are done. Your iPhone will switch to 3G where ever it will be available.

Activating 3G service on Windows Phone Devices

Go to App List
Go to Setting
Select Network Type
Select 3G
Hit back arrow and go to home screen.
And you are done!

Activating 3G on Asha Phones

Go to Settings
Select “Device”
Select “Network Mode”
Select “Dual Mode” or “3G”
And that’s it.

Activating 3G on Symbian Phones

Go to Tools
Select “Settings”
Select “Phone”
Select “Network”
Select “Network Mode”
Select “Dual Mode”
And you are done.

Note:
APN Settings, and all other settings on 3G networks are going to remain the same as they were on 2G (GPRS / EDGE) networks.

[images via Propakistani]

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Check Availability of 3G Services in Your Area

Check Availability of 3G Services in Your Area

While we know that 3G services will be commercially launched – in major cities of Pakistan – with-in few days, it would be a good idea to check if 3G services are already available at your location or not.

This can be specifically good because cellular companies are already testing 3G services at major locations in Islamabad / Rawalpindi, Karachi and Lahore. In Multan too, we have heard.

One more thing, at least two operators are allowing its customers to experience 3G services. Meaning that you can just join their 3G networks and start using 3G services.

Here’s a simple way to check if 3G services are available at your location or not:

3G Ready Phones

First of all, to use 3G service, you need to have a compatible 3G handset. No, not all handsets are 3G ready.

You can check compatibility of your handset with 3G networks by simply checking the network specification of your respective handset on GSM Arena or any other similar website.

Let’s take Huawei G610 as an example. According to GSM Arena, its network specifications are as following:

2G Network: GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 – SIM 1 & SIM 2
3G Network: HSDPA 900 / 2100 – SIM 1
So its apparent that Huawei G610 is 3G compatible and hence can be used for below test.

Checking 3G Availability in Your City

As we mentioned above, cellular companies are already rolling out 3G networks in major cities. During this, you can switch to their 3G network and start using the service even before the commercial launch.

P.S. I am using 3G network for last few days, and experience has been smooth so far.

Note: We are using this Android phone running Android 4.3 for this Tutorial. iOS users and those using other platforms can follow the steps required with their own menus.

Go to

Settings
click “More”

Now click on “Mobile Networks”

Now on next screen, click on “Network Mode”

Here you will have to select “WCDMA (preferred) / GSM. This will enable your handset to search for 3G networks as well.

Now go back to “Mobile Network” screen and click on “Service Providers”

Now your phone will search for all available networks (both 2G and 3G) at your location.

When I searched, below was the result shown to me:

As it may appear to you, Ufone and Telenor networks have enabled 3G services at this location. Warid, Zong and Mobilink have just 2G networks here.

If your network has 3G enabled in your location and it is appearing in the list, then simply select the 3G version of your operator and you are done.

Once your phone is connected with 3G network, you can go to Settings->About Phone->Status to see “Mobile Network Type”, which in my case was HSPA.

Please Note

While we have confirmed that 3G services during the trial period are free, you must keep an eye on your balance to make sure that you are not charged with any data services. Data charges with 3G networks can be explicitly high.

Do let us know if you were able to experience 3G network in your area or not.

[images via Propakistani]

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Register Any Version of IDM (internet Download Manager) for Lifetime

IDM is the best Internet download manager available on internet but its not free and its cracked or patched versions contains viruses. Using this hack you can register the Internet Download Manager (IDM) for free using you own credentials i.e register on your Name and email ID. I am explaining the manual hacking method because most of the patch and keygen contain viruses.
Now suppose you have updated your IDM (Internet Download Manager) and if you are using cracked or patched version, after updating IDM, it shows an error message that you have registered IDM using fake serial key. And after that IDM exits and hence it doesn't download anything....
Let's start the tutorial, How to hack or crack IDM manually.
Steps Involved:

Step 1: Download the IDM trial or If you already have IDM installed Update it by going to Help---}} then to check for Updates.
 If you don't wanna update your version, Just click on Registration.

Step2: When you click on registration, Now a new dialog appears that is asking for Name, Last Name, Email Address and Serial Key.

Step3: Now Enter you name, last name, email address and in field of Serial Key enter any one from the following Keys:

RLDGN-OV9WU-5W589-6VZH1
HUDWE-UO689-6D27B-YM28M
UK3DV-E0MNW-MLQYX-GENA1
398ND-QNAGY-CMMZU-ZPI39
GZLJY-X50S3-0S20D-NFRF9
W3J5U-8U66N-D0B9M-54SLM
EC0Q6-QN7UH-5S3JB-YZMEK
UVQW0-X54FE-QW35Q-SNZF5
FJJTJ-J0FLF-QCVBK-A287M

And click on ok to register. Now restart Your Computer.

Step4: Now  it will show an error message that "you have registered IDM using fake serial key" and IDM will exit. Now here the Registeration starts.

Step5: Now Go to START --}} Then go to RUN  and type the following text and click enter:

notepad %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

like that:

Step6: Now copy the below lines of code and add to end "localhost" hosts file:

127.0.0.1     tonec.com
127.0.0.1     www.tonec.com
127.0.0.1     registeridm.com
127.0.0.1     www.registeridm.com
127.0.0.1     secure.registeridm.com
127.0.0.1     internetdownloadmanager.com
127.0.0.1     www.internetdownloadmanager.com
127.0.0.1     secure.internetdownloadmanager.com
127.0.0.1     mirror.internetdownloadmanager.com
127.0.0.1     mirror2.internetdownloadmanager.com

like that:

After adding these piece of code, save the notepad file. And exit from there.

Now start your Internet download manager, and now you IDM has been converted to full version and specially when you update next time, your registration will not expire. That means it will remain full version for life time and you can update it without any problem.
I Registered latest Version of IDM 6.19 Build 3 as u can see below:

If u have any problem email me at: mrzeeking@gmail.com
Thanks.

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