A More Expressive Like Button "Reactions"

Facebook has started testing its new like button today called "Reactions" with 6 different emoji namely  Like, Love, Haha, Yay, Wao, Sad and Angry. 
Here is Mark Zuckerberg post and video on launching and explaining new like button:

Today we're launching a test of Reactions -- a more expressive Like button.
The Like button has been a part of Facebook for a long time. Billions of Likes are made every day, and Liking things is a simple way to express yourself.
For many years though, people have asked us to add a "dislike" button. Not every moment is a good moment, and sometimes you just want a way to express empathy. These are important moments where you need the power to share more than ever, and a Like might not be the best way to express yourself.

At a recent Townhall Q&A, I shared with our community that we've spent a lot of time thinking about the best way to give you better options for expressing yourself, while keeping the experience simple and respectful. Today we're starting to test this.
Reactions gives you new ways to express love, awe, humor and sadness. It's not a dislike button, but it does give you the power to easily express sorrow and empathy -- in addition to delight and warmth. You’ll be able to express these reactions by long pressing or hovering over the Like button.
We’re starting to test Reactions in Ireland and Spain and will learn from this before we bring the experience to everyone. We hope you like this – or can better express how you’re feeling!

Today we're launching a test of Reactions -- a more expressive Like button. The Like button has been a part of Facebook for a long time. Billions of Likes are made every day, and Liking things is a simple way to express yourself.For many years though, people have asked us to add a "dislike" button. Not every moment is a good moment, and sometimes you just want a way to express empathy. These are important moments where you need the power to share more than ever, and a Like might not be the best way to express yourself.At a recent Townhall Q&A, I shared with our community that we've spent a lot of time thinking about the best way to give you better options for expressing yourself, while keeping the experience simple and respectful. Today we're starting to test this.Reactions gives you new ways to express love, awe, humor and sadness. It's not a dislike button, but it does give you the power to easily express sorrow and empathy -- in addition to delight and warmth. You’ll be able to express these reactions by long pressing or hovering over the Like button. We’re starting to test Reactions in Ireland and Spain and will learn from this before we bring the experience to everyone. We hope you like this – or can better express how you’re feeling!
Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, October 8, 2015

Vulnerability in Android 5.x Can Cause Anyone to Bypass Lock Screen

On September 15, 2015 The Hacker News reported that a security researcher/hacker  John Gordon has found a bug in Android 5.0 and 5.1 (Build LMY48M) which allows anyone to bypass the password in lock screen of Android devices running Android 5.0 and 5.1 (Build LMY48M). This bug doesn't effect if you have chosen a lock pattern or PIN and also Google have released the patch for the vulnerability .

This is how it works as reported by The Hacker News

• Get the device and open the Emergency dialer screen.
• Type a long string of numbers or special characters in the input field and copy-n-paste a long string continuously till its limit exhausts.
• Now, copy that large string.
• Open up the camera app accessible without a lock.
• Drag the notification bar and push the settings icon, which will show a prompt for the password.
• Now, paste the earlier copied string continuously to the input field of the password, to create an even larger string.
• Come back to camera and divert yourself towards clicking pictures or increasing/decreasing the volume button with simultaneously tapping the password input field containing the large string in multiple places.

Android 5.0 & 5.1 Lock Bypass Video Demostration


 

How To Make Money Online By Doing Micro Jobs

Micro jobs are small tasks that are posted online so that the workers online can fulfill tasks and get paid.  Most of the micro jobs requires less technical knowledge and that's why even common internet user can do these type of jobs easily. There are lot of websites which are offering micro jobs but i will only discuss those which are legitimate or which i had already tested.

Note: I will not discuss the Fiver type of freelancing services where client selects the suitable candidate.

Amazon Mechanical Turk
Amazon's Mechanical Turk is the best website for doing micro jobs as it has thousands of tasks for workers ranging from $0.01 to $100 or more. Registration on website is simple and easy all you need is Amazon account, after logging in to your account you can starts doing "Hits"(job offered in mturk are called HITs). The bad thing about mturk is that the workers from United States and India can transfer the earnings to their bank account but workers from the other countries can only withdraw/transfer the amount to Amazon Gift Card balance which is somewhat disappointing unless you want to purchase something from Amazon.

MicroWorkers
Microworkers is one of the best alternative to mturk but the number of tasks offered in Microworkers are not that much in numbers as compared to mturk but the good thing is there are different withdrawal options available like paypal and skrill, once your payment reaches 9$ + fee you can place withdrawal request but on your first withdrawal you have to verify your home address by entering PIN send by the Microworkers. In Microwokers you have to maintain 75% or more acceptance rate.

Clickworker
Clickworker is also a good alternative to mturk as it has number of tasks offered but Clickworker is not available in Pakistan and Bangladesh. In Clickworker before starting project you have to pass base assessment and project assessment tests. The minimum withdrawal amount for paypal customers is $5 and for SEPA bank account the minimum withdrawal amount is 10$.

Rapidworkers
Rapidworkers is not as good as some of the websites discussed above are due to number of reasons in which some of them are:- there are some spammers out there which decline your tasks after you submit them without any solid reason, another reason is the job titles are misleading and many job are only for western countries. The minimum withdrawal amount is $4 + fee the amount can be withdrawn using paypal or payza.

Download Free Android App Source Codes

If you are learning Android application development and want to download free source codes then Android Experiments is the best place for you to download source codes of some creative Android apps.
Android Experiments was launched on 12/08/2015 by Google where developers can submit their experimental apps and they can also download and make use of code already submitted.

Initially Android Experiments have 20 experimental apps, this is what they said about the initial 20 apps in their blog.

The 20 initial experiments show a broad range of creative work–from camera experiments to innovative Android Wear apps to hardware hacks to cutting edge OpenGL demos. All are built using platforms such as the Android SDK and NDK, Android Wear, the IOIO board, Cinder, Processing, OpenFrameworks and Unity. Each project creatively examines in small and big ways how we think of the devices we interact with every day.

Some Frequently Asked Questions About Heartbleed

You may have heard of heartbleed the famous bug that spread the panic all over the internet world so you may have some questions in your mind which I tried to answer by doing some research which are:

What is heartbleed bug?

The Heartbleed is a bug that allows hackers to read the memory of any system using OpenSSL encryption, allowing them to retrieve server ssl private keys which includes a private master key through which attackers can decrypt current or stored traffic in server memory which is data that have been send through Secure servers by using encryptions.

This bug can also cause hackers to hack unencrypted parts of users' sensitive requests and responses, including any form data in users' requests, session cookies and passwords.

From how long this bug is present

This bug is present in OpenSSL 1.0.2-beta, as well as all versions of OpenSSL in the 1.0.1 series except 1.0.1g, so we can easily say that it can be more than two years since this bug has been existed as these versions are in use from more than two years.

What should I do?

If you are owner of secure web server you need to test your server using different online methods in which some of them are

• Qualys SSL Labs
• Filippo
• Lastpass

If you have found vulnerability you can patch it by using OpenSSL version 1.0.1g or you can recompile OpenSSL with -DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS, which will disable the vulnerable feature.

If you are a common Internet user your area of concern would the service you use like email, social networking, Online banking facilities or any other so the chances that you may have been affected by the bug as most of famous websites which includes Facebook, Google, Wikipedia, Twitter, Yahoo, Amazon and other famous websites also got affected, although Facebook and Google have patched the vulnerability. From here you can checkout the top 1000 websites that are affected by the bug according to scan performed on April 8 by github user.

Should i change my password?

Most of the top websites have patched the vulnerability so you may get notification to change your password which you should but if you are using services which are not that famous then chances are they may not inform you that you need to change your password or they have resolve the issue, so before changing passwords on these type of sites first check the vulnerability through Online tools which I mentioned earlier, if bug is still there then changing password will be of no use so you have to wait until the bug has been fixed.