Change (NEXT or PREV) the songs on the iDevice using volume keys (JAILBROKEN)

If you have a jailbroken iDevice(iPhone, iPad or iPod) then you can use the volume keys to change the songs while playing. You can either Next the playing song or Prev(Previous) the playing song. You just need a simple Cydia tweak known as 'Activator' to do so!

Activator is a simple but very important tweak developed by Ryan Petrich used for defining many tasks for simple gestures. It can be downloaded by adding this repo:

http://rpetri.ch/repo

After you've installed this tweak, following process commences:

1. Go to Settings > Activator.
   
   
   


2. Click on 'At Lock Screen'.
   


3. Scroll down to VOLUME BUTTONS section then tap 'Up Short Hold'.
   


4. A new menu appears, tap on 'Next Track'. This will allow to play the next track while playing the music.
   

NOTE: 

• The above process will work only on the locked iDevices. 
• Similar process can be carried out to play the previous track. Just tap on 'Down Short Hold' instead of 'Up Short Hold' and 'Previous Track' instead of 'Next Track'.
• This trick will only work on JAILBROKEN devices.

Are you ready to CATCH EM' ALL?

The Hype is Real. Pokemon Go is rolling out on ios and android. 

The Pokemon franchise is back with a bang with "Pokemon Go". For those who were not following Nintendo; Pokemon Go is an augmented reality mobile game which uses smartphone's camera and sensors and GPS that allows you to fulfill your childhood fantasy of becoming a pokemon trainer in real. 

Nintendo teamed up with renowned game developer Niantic who also developed the famous AR mobile game called Ingress.  Pokemon Go uses location based algorithms so that traveling to different places will let you catch new pokemons and battle in gyms and on top of that you will be helping yourself with daily exercise as well. You can buy a 35$ wrist wearable that will allow you to play the game without having to open your phone. 

You can download the game HERE.  

Restrict videos from autoplaying in your browser

It's annoying when you've opened six tabs and you cannot figure out how to close the playing video.

                        It's annoying when you are surfing the web with many tabs and cannot figure out where on earth is this video playing from and on top of that you are suffering from low bandwidth.
You can solve this in few steps without having the trouble of installing any software.

                                               


STEP 1: Navigate to the 3 lines at the top right corner and click on settings.
                                 

STEP 2: Scroll down and go to advanced settings and click on content settings.

 STEP 3: Now you can choose when to run those plugins manually and you can even manage exceptions for some sites as well like facebook videos. 

                          

STEP 4:  Disable the adobe flash player and then you are good to go. 

Next time you find yourself an auto playing video, you will get a gray box with a jigsaw symbol and if you feel like playing it then right click it and click Run this plugin. 

Download and Install XAMPP for Linux

XAMPP is one of the most convenient platform to install Apache distribution containing MariaDB, PHP and Perl. The package is open source and is easy to install and manipulate. By installing XAMPP, one can create an offline site to test their PHP skills, install offline WordPress and create an offline WordPress site, etc.
XAMPP is really easy to install, one just need to download suitable package from this website.
After installing the package, proceed to following steps:

1. Open the terminal: Ctrl+Alt+T


2. Locate the destination of package by 'change directory' command, i.e. "cd":
   

   
   cd location/location/.../location
   



3. Type the following commands and press enter key:

   
   sudo ./xampp.run
   

   

Note that the name 'xampp.run' might be different from the original package name that you've downloaded. Also that I'm doing the installation process for XAMPP for Linux 5.6.15 

4. You will be asked to give your password. Give the correct password and hit enter.


5. A new window of setup will appear after the logo of 'Bitnami' pops out.


6. Click 'Next' button and check(or cross) the 'XAMPP Core Files'. This will allow the installation to install the core files of Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl and their dependencies.
   


7. Click the 'Next' button till the windows wants. Click 'Finish' to end the installation successfully.
   


8. Click on the 'Manage Servers' tab. Then click on 'Restart All' button to start all the servers and database.
   


9. Open the browser and type 'localhost/dashboard' to proceed to your desired task.
   

Change permission of all the contents of a folder in Ubuntu

The method for changing the permission of specific file or folder was discussed in this post. However, if anyone is not allowed accessing multiple files or folder inside a folder then you might be trying the code for every single contents. That's just a waste of time in my opinion. Here's quick method of changing the permission of every contents of a folder:

• Open the terminal: Ctrl+Alt+T
• Change the directory by using the change directory command, 'cd' as:

  cd location/location/.../location

• Type the following codes(here, foldername means the name of the folder whose contents are to be accessed):

  chmod -R 777 foldername
  

• This will give you access to every contents of the folder.

Change permission of specific file or folder in Ubuntu

Sometimes user might not get access to read/write a file or folder. This is due to the fact that the user is not granted full permission to modify them. The simplest method to change the permission for files and folder in Ubuntu are given below:

• Open the terminal: Ctrl+Alt+T
• Change the directory by using the change directory command, 'cd' as:

  cd location/location/.../location

• Type the following codes:

  chmod 777 filename_with_extension/foldername

• This will give you access to the specific file or folder.
  Click here to know how to get access to all the contents of a folder.

What's on my Android mid 2016!

                      

Hey what’s up guys its second quarter of the year and there are some apps i can’t afford to uninstall. These are in no particular order and here it goes.

The first in my list is Ampere.

                Ever felt like you travel adapter is charging your device slowly lately? And wondered why your juice is decreasing while your charger is plugged while you are using your phone, its because your charger is not supplying enough amp as your device needs. No worries because Ampere can help you out. This app shows you the mA your charger is supplying and discharging current when you are using while charging. Sometimes it because of the poor Usb cable that is causing the problem and you can check each adapter with usb cables and determine which is the best one. Now you will never buy low grade charger or cable; be sure to keep this app with you.

The second app on my list is Doze.

                The first thing i missed badly while reverting back to lollipop from Marshmallow was the doze feature of google. I can leave my device in 100% juice and wake up in morning with 99%. I was looking for certain feature in lollipop and doze does it what it says. Doze enables your device to give good standby while its not in use so you can save its battery. While doze is on it restricts the apps from sending or receiving data and when you unlock your device it automatically closes and your apps are good to start. You can use Aggressive mode as well, what it does is it creates a VPN and blocks the apps from sending and receiving and thus sets the CPU to rest. Its better than battery saving mode in lollipop because you get to miss all your animation and your apps can only resume when you manually open then but doze allows your apps to resume as soon as you unlock your device.  In stock marshmallow, the device atleast needs 15 minutes after the screen is turned off to enable doze feature but Doze allows you to enable when you need it right away, pretty neat. 

The next app is Flashify. (This is only for root users)

                When you are tired of booting into recovery for every time you want to flash something, Flashify can be your best app. You can flash your zip files, recovery.img and boot.img with couple of taps and boom you are good to go. Be sure to use Nandroid backup or titanium backup if you are using for the first time.  Furthermore this app allows you to download and flash custom recoveries and Gapps lots of kernals for tweaking and many more. But this app has a limit of 3 use per day and extend with in app purchases.

My list won’t end without a Wallpaper app. The name of this app is Wallpapers for Me.

                I’m a wallpaper freak and i can’t stand the same wallpaper for more than 4 or 5 hours. I basically tried every wallpaper app in the play store and Wallpapers for Me is the best until now. The wallpapers are awesome and there are a wide variety to choose from; from cartoons to sci-fi to minimal and even 3D; you name it.  The wallpapers are updated timely and you won’t regret installing this app. It’s a complete no-brainer for all. Believe me, your phone won’t look the same with this wallpaper in your device menu.

If you are into customization then snap Swipe Drawer is a new app that allows you to add custom widgets into your notification drawer. It works on version 4.1 and up but looks classy on lollipop and marshmallow.  If you are a busy person then this app will help you swipe from the status bar and bring the widgets of app that you must glance every once in a while. If you are working in as a cashier then having a working calculator on a swipe away is the most handy as it can get. This

App can be a little gimmicky for some but a must have for those who want to add productivity and use android to its fullest.

Let me know how many of these were worthy to stay on your gadget and comment if you want to share your must have apps on android.

Installation of Debian(.deb) package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Following are the simple steps to install the Debian(.deb) packages in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This process will work on other versions of Ubuntu also.

1. Open the terminal by hitting Ctrl+Alt+T.
   
2. Type the following codes to get the 'superuser' access. This means the current user will be switched to root user:

   
   sudo su
   
   

   After you hit enter, you will be asked to give your password. Type the correct password and hit enter.
   
3. Locate the package destination folder by using 'cd', i.e. change directory command as:
   

   
   cd Location/mypackage
   

4. Type the following code to start installing the Debian package:
   

   
   dpkg -i [packagename.deb]
   
   

5. That's it! You just have to wait till the installation completes! Below is the image of step by step installation of 'viber.deb' in my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: