Set Up and Use Touch ID, the iPhone Fingerprint Scanner

As the iPhone 5S was launched, there was an additional security feature that caught the attention of tech buffs around the world. It was the fingerprint scanner, a great security feature that secures your iPhone and can be operated only after you swipe your finger on the scanner and the scanner recognizes your finger print. This technology uses your finger print as your pass code, which means that chances of getting hacked are almost zero, as every human being is known to have a unique finger print.

To use this great feature, you need to first set this up and then go on and use it.

Setting up Touch ID: Configuration is quite simple, as you need to first set up a pass code. Even though usage of passcode is substituted by the finger print by way of this application, a passcode is needed while setting up this up, in order to register your finger print in the machine. It is also needed in case you decide to change your finger print by way of using a new finger.

The Steps are quite simple:

a. To set up the touch ID feature, go to settings-General-Touch ID & Passcode-Touch ID.

b. Have a clean home button and a clean & dry finger.

c. Hold the phone normally and touch the home button.

d. Place your finger on the home button, and hold it until it vibrates.

e. Once the initial scanning is done, make small movements to your finger so that all areas of the finger are covered.

f. In case you face trouble scanning one finger, try another finger.

How to use the scanner: 

This feature is like carrying the passcode embedded, not having to remember it. You can always use this as a combination as well, passcode and finger print scanning, but that is like making life difficult for one self. For the scanner to recognize your finger print, you need to ensure that you use the finger that you have already enrolled.

This feature though comes with a small problem. This might not necessarily work for those who are involved with working with bare hands, as the finger prints on such hands are in danger of getting changed frequently. Even a minute change can result in your phone not getting unlocked.

To use this scanner, press the home button once to activate your phone, and keep your finger lightly on the button. The phone shall be unlocked. If due to any error, the finger print is not recognised, you will have to try again. Do not try more than 5 times as the phone gets factory locked. In such a scenario, try using the passcode.

This scanning feature can be used as a substitute to your Apple ID when making purchases on iTunes, App store, iBooks or any such transaction on your iPhone as well. A couple of prerequisites for this feature to function seamlessly are a clean home button and a clean & dry finger. So always ensure that your iPhone is clean and dry at all times!

What would you do if your iPhone is stolen?

Now a day smart phones are commonly used by everyone. It becomes everyone’s dream. As everyone’s desire is to use smart phones, it gets more and more exciting every day. As the features increases the cost is also increases. iPhone is the most costly smart phone in India. So the cost increases the features as well as the security increases. Now a day almost all the smart phones support Anti theft feature. This is more common and must have feature in smart phone.

Everyone’s mobile consist of their personal data such as photos, videos, contacts, privacy password, and much more secure data. So to avoid the exposure of one’s personal data we use this anti theft feature to make their data safe and secure.

This feature can be accessed by many ways. Many paid and free apps allow for this feature. Also the system apps are installed previously to save your personal data. This also notifies the user if the mobile is missed or misplaced. This notification is done by the way that is preferred by the user. The commonly used anti theft ways are shown below.

Make a Pass code lock: 

The simple way is to use a pass code lock for your iPhone. The iPhone does not come with a default password. So the user has to choose a pass code to lock their devices. The pass code should not be guessed easily. The commonly used password such as 1234, 0000 & 12345 are easily guessed and can be hacked. To avoid those one must use a complicated password. Simply use a password with has alphabets (both small and caps characters), punctuations and numbers. For example the password should be like this “Iphone_5S_2013”. By this way the password will be safe and not easily hacked the others.

Also many software are used to lock your device. The apps are available in both paid and free versions.

Available apps for iPhone to lock your device are shown below:

• Snap
• WICKR
• Splash ID
• WISE ID
• mSECURE
• Secure folder PRO
• Find my iPhone
• Hot spot Shield VPN


The above apps are used to lock your device as well as the personal data. These apps encrypt your text messages, photos, videos, notes, mails and so on. By using these apps one can also use cloud to make a backup of their data. These are the common achieved features in those security apps.

This can be done before the device is lost. But if the device is lost before taking these measures then the following ways must be taken to save your device and to track them.

Device tracking: 

The device that can be tracked using the application named as Find My iPhone, which can be used to recover your lost or stolen device and there are many more applications present in the iTunes store to recover or track your lost iPhone.

Find My iPhone comes pre installed in the latest version of iOS and if you have an outdated version of iOS you can download it from the iTunes store and can be installed with the help of iTunes present on the system.

Know More About Mac Pro

For the last few years Mac Pro had not changed in appearance. With the new Mac Pro, Apple not only offers a new case, it shows its deep thinking for desktop computing. Mac Pro or otherwise Power Mac G5 is certainly beautiful and practical, but it nevertheless remained a desktop fairly conventional; a big box full of fans, disks and expansion cards.

While the general public enjoyed multiple avatars iMac all-in- one, Apple was conservative. The Mac Pro is the first Mac fully assembled in the United States in the last fifteen years. Even though it keeps the name of its predecessor, the new Mac Pro is not just another variation on the same theme. However the idea behind its design; you can observe the Apple’s research for over thirty years. This black cylinder replaces the gray towers and beige boxes in the role of computation module agnostic, which the user can expand and specialize functions according to his creative needs.

Apple's website suggests that the Mac Pro is black. The aluminum hood is a rather dark gray, aluminum mirror finish: with this pink paper, the Mac Pro takes a very slight tint of purple hue. Les pictures Worked Apple website suggests that the Mac Pro is black. The aluminum hood is a rather dark gray, aluminum mirror finish: with this pink paper, the Mac Pro takes a slight purplish hue. We can also trace the lineage of the new Mac Pro to Power Mac G4 Cube; the various organs were arranged around a cooling tower and protected by a carcass licked design.

The similarities are striking, but this time Apple has pushed the idea at its peak and the new Mac Pro is nothing more than a pre calculated module, without any form of internal expansion. Towering drives have been replaced by tiny flash drives, race GHz gave way to the race for hearts and graphics cards are equally used by hardcore gamers looking for FPS by scientists looking for a God particle. The Mac pro carries the SSD and you can notice that there would be room for other in second array. The Mac Pro is designed from the inside to the outside.

"Thermal heart” is the backbone of the machine, a radiator triangular prism shaped charge to dissipate the heat of the components attached thereto. Fresh air is sucked from the bottom of the Mac Pro, rises along the thermal heart, and warmed by the top. A single fan at the top of the machine is required to operate the cooling system. The memory modules are distributed either side of the card with processor "hidden" behind the ports.

Each side of the heart receives a thermal daughter board; one for the processor, the other for the two graphics chips, the components which form the true heart of this machine by providing capabilities in general and specialized in computing at very high frequency or massively parallelized. The new Mac Pro only has a single Intel Xeon processor E5 Ivy Bridge -EP, but the hyper -threading "transforms" every physical heart in two logical cores. When starting the machine port groups are lit progressively. In normal operation, only the power button remains lit unless the machine is running.

The Mac Pro contains an accelerometer that serves nothing but detects this movement and triggers the illuminating LEDs. The other specialties are grafted onto these cards, as added accessories where there is enough room for it. The SSD takes place on a graphics card. Memory is four in number only at the side of the processor board. The essential and imperative interface between the internal power and versatility external input I / O, are the dark iridescent armor knights of Mac Pro.

The First 9 Things You Should Do When You Get a New iPhone

Wow, I got an iPhone! Great feeling, though I must say more and more are getting used to this feeling nowadays. With better and higher disposable incomes; iPhones are more common nowadays. When you do get one as your dream buy, there are a lot of things that you need to learn and a few really important things that you need to do as soon as you start handling your phone. I would classify them as the First 9 things to do.

1. Activate your new iPhone: As in the case of any new handset, activation is the first and foremost thing you need to do, as only post activation can you do anything else on your favourite phone.

 2. Install iTunes: iTunes is a great music app that not only allows you to store and play your music but also organize albums, add and remove music, video, photos, apps etc.. A great way to use your iPhone.

3. Create an Apple ID: You got an iPhone because you wanted to enjoy the multiple benefits that come with an Apple phone. An Apple ID is quite mandatory in such a case, as the Apple ID is the best way for you to download a lot of apps on your iPhone and use them. Stuff like iTunes, App store, iCloud and Facetime can be downloaded once you have an Apple ID in place.

4. Set up and Sync your iPhone: Once you have your iPhone, lets sync that up with your PC, as this will help you organize your phone with all your favourite stuff, something that can be really handy when you travel the next time. So connect, sync, transfer and enjoy.

5. Configure iCloud: This is a cloud computing and allows you to organize all your stuff under one single cloud. So once you buy any thing from the app store, it is available on the cloud and can be downloaded any time you need them.

 6. Find my iPhone: This is a lost and find option on your phone that allows you to locate the phone if you have misplaced it, lost it or if it has been stolen. So set that security feature up and rest assured, help is on its way if it goes missing.

7. Built-in Apps: While you may want to buy so much from the app store one you activate your iPhone, there are so many built-in featres that are so interesting and handy. So discover the joys of an iPhone and you dig deeper. Some interesting ones include, email, photos, music, calling, and so many more.

8. Go to the App Store: Once you are settled in, go to the app store and pick up whatever you want depending upon your interests. A great place to shop, literally!

9. Insulate from Adult content: A great feature of the iPhone is the feature that allows the phone to block any adult or pornographic content. This is all the more critical if the iPhone is being used by your child.

DoAT, the iOS app help you to post Google+

You have an iPhone, you read something really interesting on your phone and want to share it on Google+. But, alas, you do not have a way to do it. Fret not, there is something interesting out there and it is called DoAT. Pronounced Do@, this wonderful application allows you to share and post on Google+ on your iPhone.

The latest application from the iPhone stable, supports sharing of content from within this app to Google+. Now you may ponder as how this is possible, as sharing from within one app to Google+ has always been impossible. DoAT uses the mobile version of Google+ for enabling this sharing. This is how you go about it.
When you are browsing on your iPhone using the app and find any page which you feel is very interesting and would want to share it on Google+, all you need to do is hit the G+ icon and a new web browser will open within the DoAT application. What happens next is the surprising part. The name of the page you are planning to share along with a link will automatically be inserted. It will also notify that the sharing is happening from your iPhone via the DoAT. That’s smart marketing, especially when you are introducing a new app in the market. In fact, the social area of DoAT now includes Google+ as well, apart from Facebook.

Let me tell you that this app is not something I can call very legitimate, as it uses a bit of trickery to go around Google+ and with very good reason. This is because Google has not released an API for accessing Google+ and that is exactly the reason DoAT goes around and uses the mobile version to get its work done. This app blends social websites and information portals, thereby picking a category that most matches your phrase or key word as you enter it.

A new app is always a great asset, no matter what value it brings along. Every app will find users and more so when it is connected to Google+, which has around 20 million users worldwide, a number not easy to ignore. All said, two big companies in tech world will not approve of such a bridge so easily, especially coming in the wake of some fierce battling in the tech skies of late, and if you think you want to buy it from the apple app store, then this might take more time than anticipated. There are of course different app stores from where you can pick this up.