Windows tools that will help you to lock your keyboard and mouse

Many times when we move away from our computer someone else might search our stuff or some small kids could press some commands and make problems on our computer.

I had the experience with small kids. Once they were visiting me with their parents while I was in front of my computer. I moved away and when I came back, they've deleted some of the files, moved their order and more stuff. I was angry, but I did not tell them anything. After that I searched for tools to lock my keyboard and mouse. I found some usefull ones. Now my computer will be safe, at least they can do is to break my mouse or keyboard.

Here are 3 of them:

1. KeyboardLock

You don't have to install this app. Just download it, open the downloaded package and then double click on the .exe file. 
After you open it, press run. A window with password will pop up. The password by default is cake. You can change it in anything you want. After you type the password you want press start, type the password again and the keyboard and mouse are locked.
You can move the cursor in locked mode, but you can't select or do anything.
If you want to unlock them, type the same password correctly again and the mouse and keyboard will be unlocked.

Note that keyboardLock allows the Ctrl+Alt+Delete command, so someone who knows that can acess Windows Task manager and swith to open windows.


2. Child Lock

An icon in the systray is created by Child Lock at start-up, which has four buttons displayed in the main window. If you want to automatically lock the application, click Auto Lock, if it hasn’t been active in the last 10 minutes. Double-click the tray icon of Child Lock and click Cancel in the main window, if you wish to cancel this task.

Click Lock to block the keyboard and mouse immediately or press Shift+Alt+End. While they are locked, any key press or mouse click will turn the mouse pointer into the prohibited sign.

Click Allow Only to allow only a few keys to be pressed: Space, PageUp and PageDown, or Click Block Win Ctrl to block only control keys, i.e. Ctrl, Alt and Win key. This mode starts a few seconds after clicking its button to give you time to choose a window to limit the buttons inside it. The mouse pointer cannot be moved in this mode.

You can activate the Shift+Alt+Home key combination to unlock the keyboard and mouse. In the main app window, click Options to review the hotkeys for locking and unlocking, if you forget them. It’s not possible to change them.

Note that Child Lock allows the Ctrl+Alt+Delete command, so someone who knows that can acess Windows Task manager and swith to open windows.

3. BlueLife KeyFreeze

Since BlueLife KeyFreeze isn’t enclosed in a setup kit, you can double-click the .exe file from the downloaded package to run the program. It gets integrated into the systray.

Right-click the tray icon to lock the keyboard and mouse, and choose Lock All Keys or press Ctrl + Alt + F. There’s a small interruption before locking, during which you can cancel the task.

You can lock only the keyboard or the mouse (right-click the tray icon and choose Lock Keyboard or Lock Mouse).

Press Ctrl + Alt + F to unlock the keyboard and mouse. If you want to make changes to this combination (Ctrl + Alt + any letter or number), right-click the tray icon, go to Options, click the menu next to Hotkey for lock/unlock: and select the preferred combo. You can also block mouse movement (clear the Allow mouse movement box) or Hide mouse pointer (tick this box). Once you’re done, click Apply Options to commit alterations.

Note that BlueLife KeyFreeze also allows the Ctrl+Alt+Delete command.

Note: This can't stop the others to press the power button and switch off your computer and then log in again to acces your files.

Tell us about your experiences in the comments below.

source: TECHWORM

After Galaxy Note 7 explosions, now Samsung's washing machines exploded

One of the best smartphone makers, Samsung, is having a very bad time. We heard about a phone that exploded in a car and the car started to burn. Another one exploded while it was charging and many other cases with the same problem.

After all those incidents with Galaxy Note 7 phones that exploded because of their battery, now Samsung's washing machines in the U.S. exploded.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a warning to owners in regards to certain top-loading Samsung washing machines after receiving few complaints about the machines exploding.

More than a month after the federal class-action lawsuit was filed by the customers claiming their machines exploded during use, the warning was finally released on Thursday.

In a statement on their website, CPSC said it is “actively and cooperatively working with Samsung to address safety issues related to certain top-load washing machines made between March 2011 and April 2016.”

While the lawsuit did not specify which models are potentially dangerous, it alleged that there were at least 11.

“It was the loudest sound. It sounded like a bomb went off in my ear,” said Melissa Thaxton, one of the plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit. “There were wires, nuts, the cover actually was laying on the floor. I just remember covering my head and leaning towards my son and just screaming this scream that I didn’t even know I could scream.”

The explosions made big damages to the surroundings around them. Glass and other metal parts from the washing machines were being shot across the garages and rooms.

In a statement released by Samsung, it said, “We are in active discussions with the CPSC to address potential safety issues related to certain top-load washing machines manufactured between March 2011 and April 2016. In rare cases, affected units may experience abnormal vibrations that could pose a risk of personal injury or property damage when washing bedding, bulky or water-resistant items."

Samsung is recommending that consumers with affected models use the lower speed delicate cycle when washing bedding, bulky or water-resistant materials. There have been no reported incidents when using this cycle. It is important to note that Samsung customers have completed hundreds of millions of loads without incident since 2011.

With accidents like these Samsung is loosing it's market value. Last month they lost more than $26 billion.

source: TECHWORM

What exactly is deja vu?

Deja vu is a phenomenon that everyone of us have experienced, that creepy feeling when you enter a room in a new situation and you tell yourself:

"I've been here before. Here, everything is familiar to me".

It turns out that we can provoke forms of deja vu of subjects in experiments. Because of that there is a theory that tells us that deja vu simply cause fragments of memories that we've already stored somewhere in the brain, and they can be awaked with entering a new environment that is similar on something that we've already experienced.

Because of that we don't have to call on parallel universes, we don't have to call multiverse to explain the phenomenon of déjà vu.

Again, there is another question:

Would it be ever possible on any scale to turn between different universes?

And the answer is actually unclear.

Physicists believe, for example, that somewhere there really is a multiverse that exists even in our living room.

We are waves, vibration waves given from function. These waves vibrate, then divided into portions over time.


You can see more in the video below.

Watch videos on YouTube without using internet with the new app YouTube Go

Everyone uses YouTube-the most famous app for music, videos and films. With the new app YouTube Go you can download and watch videos with slow internet speed.

This is very usefull for the users with slow internet speed and also for all others.

This app was created most because of the very slow internet speed in India. Many people in India use YouTube to watch videos and listen music, but when they tap on the play button the videos doesn't want to load because they have 2G internet.

That's the main reason why YouTube created this new app.

In 2014, YouTube launched the app YouTube Offline, few months after that they made the new Smart Offline.

With Smart Offline you can watch the video that you want with tapping on the offline icon at any time of the day. You can find your videos in the "Saved Tab" under your account.

YouTube Go allows the users to save videos for offline viewing, giving options over quality and file size so it's clear how much data a download will use. The users of this app can use it for local sharing with other users nearby without using any data. YouTube Go build upon the Smart Offline feature that YouTube launched first in India, this year.

Indian users can sing up now to test YouTube Go, but we still don't know when the app will be launched in the country or anywhere else in the world.

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6 Sci-fi technologies you didn't know that already exist

Most of the science fiction we can see in the films, read in the books, see on the internet, but most of the things that were science fiction in the movies now are reality.


There are some good films that show about AI and for now that's sci-fi, but in the next 10 years or less that could be reality.

For example, the film Chappie is about scientist that make code for robots so they are able to feel, think, learn and do the same things like humans. He installs the code into a police robot that was thrown in the trash. The robot was able to learn, talk, thing and feel.

Another good film is Transcendence. It's also about scientist that got shot by a criminal group. The bullet contained radioactive metals and he wasn't able to live for a long. His wife and his friend, tried to copy him on a computer. After they transferred his consciousness on the computer he expanded on the internet. After long years of work, he created particles that regenerate and that are controled by him. he cleaned all the water, air, regenerated all the woods, but the people thought that he is a threat for the world and they shut down the internet.


1. Star trek comunicator => mobile phone

Early Sci-Fi flicks and tv shows of the often featured actors using some sort of devices to wirelessly talk to each other over long distances. For instance, the Communicator from Star Trek. We already use these communication devices and call them mobile phones. Yes, the future tech of the past has become a necessity for the common people now. And it is available as cellular phones. A popular name is a smartphone.

2. Fingerprint and eye scanners => biometrics

Remember those movies featuring secret locations of security agencies which could only be accessed using fingerprint recognition or by scanning the face of a person.

Other than fingers, there were eye scanners. Steven Spielberg’s Minority report showed Tom Cruise replacing his eyes to hide his real identity. He also kept his original eye so that he could get past the eye scanner system. But that’s not possible in the real world even if you manage to remove your eyes or fingers. This is because modern eye scanners can detect whether the eye is alive or dead.

3. Batmobile => Autonomus cars

There was a Batmobile in the 1960s Batman tv series. Batman used a remote control to call it to pick him up. The 2002 Tom Cruise movie Minority Report also featured a self-driving car which was custom designed by Lexus. In reality, the car was a computer-controlled vehicle which also had manual driving options. Now, we have the Google Self-driving cars and the Tesla Model S with the autopilot feature.



4. Food Replicator => 3D printer

Remember wow the Jetson's machines threw food at the press of a button. And now, we have 3D printers which can be used to make houses, bridges, prosthetic limbs, etc. We can expect a food making 3D printer in the coming years.

Barcelona-based Natural Machines is working on a 3D printer that can throw delicious dishes at the push of a button. Known as Foodini, the 3D food printer is based on an open capsule model in which the user has to put ingredients inside the capsule and place it inside Foodini. It’ll figure out the rest.

5. Rosie - The robot maid => Robots

Another Jetsons tech was Rosie, the robot maid. Self-sufficient robots have been visualized in movies since the early 1900s. Now the robots are real and they have human characteristics. Thanks to the development of AI that these robots can interact almost like normal humans. But it’s a long road for them to understand human emotions. Movies like Ex Machina are a significant depiction of the advancement in robotics and AI.

6. The transformers

Everyone knows about the famous autobots from the Transformers movie series. Most of us have watched it. Until now the transformers were unreal, but a Turkish company named Letvision had developed its own transformers known as Letrons.

source: FOSSBYTES

100 million dollar search for alien life by Zuckerberg, Hawking and Milner

On the internet, on TV, in different books we can read lots of stories about aliens. Some of them claim that there are aliens somewhere in the space, but some of them doesn't agree with that.

There are stories about pictures from aliens in caves drawn by the cave mans.

In the hunt for making contact with alien life Mark Zuckerberg, Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner are joining their forces.

They will be listening to signals from the planet Proxima B that is 4 light yeras far from the Earth.

It is thought that there are similar conditions for life on Proxima B, like the conditions on Earth.

The $100 million (£76 million) project dubbed as “Breakthrough Listen” will use the world’s most powerful telescopes to listen to sounds from potential extra-terrestrial life on Proxima B. The costly scientific mission is being funded by the above world’s richest and intelligent trio.

Last month, astronomers found clear evidence that our nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is the sun to another Earth-like world.

“It came only a few months after Stephen Hawking and I, with Mark Zuckerberg’s support, launched our Breakthrough Starshot project, which aims to launch a tiny spacecraft to Alpha Centauri within a generation,” Mr Milner told the Daily Mail.

“At the time, we hoped there was a planet in the Centauri system, but we didn’t know. Now we have a definite target. That makes the mission feel more tangible.”

Thousands of new planets have been discovered before, but unlike the others, scientists say Proxima B is believed to be the closest to our solar system. But for now the scientists aren't able to reach there.

Professor Hawking always been certain alien life is out there. He says he is backing the project as he believes that it’s better for us to find them before they find us.

Even though adding we should be cautious of reaching out to extra-terrestrial life if we find it, he said: “Gazing at the stars I always imagined there was someone up there looking back. Hawking says during a film, titled ‘Stephen Hawking’s Favorite Places’.

“As I grow older I am more convinced than ever that we are not alone.”

This should stop us from looking, Milner says.

“I’ve always been fascinated by the existential questions of life and the universe,” he said.

“It is fundamental to understanding our place in the big scheme of things. You can’t know who you are without having others to compare yourself to.”

“They could well be right. But they could also be wrong.

“Either way the answer would be incredible. We humans are curious beings who like to know the truth. So, why not look?,” he added.

Using the Parkes Observatory in Australia, the Breakthrough Listen team will begin to look for radio emissions that vary from the natural background noise early next month.

The same observatory was used to receive live televised pictures of the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.

“It is difficult to predict how long the search will take, but we know that all the conditions necessary for life to arise on Earth are ubiquitous in the universe,” Andrew Siemion, Director of Berkeley SETI (Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research Center told the Daily Mail.

The team hopes to avoid false alarm similar signals to the ‘alien’ signals that were picked up by the RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya, Russia, but they say this could be complex than it sounds.

Andrew Siemion, Director of Berkeley Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence Research Centre, said:
“Terrestrial technology is a challenging problem.

“Our notion of what types of emission are produced by technology is informed by our own technology…our own technology presents a significant interfering background.”

Using the Green Bank Radio Telescope in West Virginia and Lick Observatory”s Automated Planet Finder in California, the Breakthrough Listen team has already collected data on other star systems.

Breakthrough Listen can collect data over a 10-year period from a network of the world’s most powerful radio and optical telescopes to produce huge, full-sky signal monitoring.

Search capacity is 50 times more sensitive, covers 10 times more of the sky, 5 times more of the radio spectrum, and at speeds 100 times faster.

What would Milner do if we did hear signals from an alien civilisation?

“I will take a bottle of champagne out of the fridge and start thinking about the message back,” he says.

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source: TECHWORM

5 reasons that make Google Allo better than WhatsApp

Many of you use WhatsApp. Even if you don't use it, you must have heard about it.
WhatsApp is the most popular instant messeging app with about 1 billion active users per month.
Google has made a new instant messaging app Google Allo. This new app can take the place of WhatsApp. 
Here are 5 reasons why Google Allo is better than WhatsApp:

1. Google Assistant

The search giant’s biggest play is Google Assistant which announced at the Google I/O. Assistant is included in Google Allo as a preview version. Unlike WhatsApp, you can search people, places, food joints, etc. inside your instant messaging app.

WhatsApp’s daddy Facebook is working to enable alerts for various purposes like flight timings and bank notifications. This intention was revealed when WhatsApp announced that they will be sharing your contact number with Facebook.

The Assistant is directly aimed to compete with other virtual assistants like Siri and Cortana. But the Google Assistant has a lot to learn before it could challenge the biggies. Google has plans to put Google Assistant in place of Google Now in its Android OS.

2. Smart Reply

The smart reply feature analyzes your conversations and then suggests reply texts accordingly. This comes handy when you don’t want to type much for instance while you’re driving. Although, I won’t recommend you to do that. The smart reply feature can also analyze images and make a reply suggestion about them.

3. Send Free SMS

You can message your friends who have a WhatsaApp account. But what if you want to contact someone who doesn’t have the WhatsApp installed on their device. You won’t be able to send the message. But you can do so in Google Allo. Your contacts who don’t have the Allo app installed can receive texts as SMS. And it will cost nothing to you or the recipient.

4. Incognito Mode

News has been floating around that Google will not be sticking to their earlier decision of not keeping user conversation details on its servers permanently. Earlier, Google said it would be beneficial to users’ privacy if the data is stored temporarily. With Allo coming into existence, it seems Google doesn’t care about the aforementioned privacy drama. Now, the company gives the reason that the conversation would be used to fuel their Smart Reply feature and make it more efficient and useful.

At least, Google Allo has the advantage of the “Incognito Mode”. Using incognito mode in Google Allo would disable Google from storing any of your messages on its servers, in fact, reading them at all. Also, the messages would disappear from the recipient’s device after the specified time limit.

5. Whisper/Shout, Emoticons, and fresh Stickers

Google Allo has got some amazing formatting features which you’ll love and one of them is Whisper/Shout. Press and hold the send button to change the size of the text and emoticons using the slider. The app also has some great emoticons and fresh sticker sets out of the box. On the other hand, WhatsApp also has some cool text formatting features which most people don’t know.

Tell us about your experiences with these apps in the comments.

source: FOSSBYTES