WebTrickz » tricks http://webtrickz.com A Blog where Technology resides Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:58:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Infographic – Check if a Credit Card is Valid or Invalid/Fake http://webtrickz.com/infographic-check-if-a-credit-card-is-valid-or-invalidfake/ http://webtrickz.com/infographic-check-if-a-credit-card-is-valid-or-invalidfake/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:52:56 +0000 Mayur http://webtrickz.com/?p=11380 We stumbled upon an interesting infographic and couldn’t stop us from sharing it with our readers. Credit Card or CC is an essential and prominent financial product these days, usually owned by a majority of users to buy goods and services. If you’re a Credit Card or Debit Card holder, then you must have noticed the 16-digit numeric code inscribed on the card. But as most of you might wonder, those 16 numbers aren’t given randomly but serves an important purpose. According to an amazing algorithm by Mint.com, one can simply crack the credit card code and determine if the card number is invalid or fake. Sounds weird? Just try it on your CC and make sure to do the math right!

How to Validate a Credit Card with your Mind -

Cracking Credit Card Code

We tried this trick on a valid Credit Card and a Debit Card as well (both Visa), and surprisingly the result turned out true as the final sum was divisible by 10. Do try this out and remember to follow the described steps carefully. :)

Source: Mint.com

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This is a pretty simple method that just requires rooting and not any complex tasks. It should work on most Android phones (rooted) and those running CM7. We’ve tried it on LG Optimus One with void #forever custom ROM installed and it worked perfectly.

Steps to Turn Off/Mute CyanogenMod Camera Sound on Android Phone -

1. Install ES File Explorer on your phone.

2. Run ES File Explorer, go to its Settings > Home Directory. Change the default value (/sdcard/) to (/).

3. Then navigate to bottom of settings and enable ‘Root Explorer’ option. Click Yes when the Experimental Feature box pops-up to grant it super user permissions. Also, tick mark the ‘Mount File System’ check box to mount the system as writable.

ES File Explorer_settings

4. Next, open the Local directory in ES File Explorer. Navigate to:

"/system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg"

ES File Explorer_local

5. Tap on the camera_click.ogg file and rename it to camera_click.mp3.

That’s it. Open the camera and take a snap. Voila! No more shutter sound. :)

Tip: If you’re using CM 7.1.0, then you can now quickly disable camera shutter sound from settings: Settings > CyanogenMod settings > Sound > Mute camera shutter.

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new google bar

Fortunately, a Google+ user ‘Maximilian Majewski’ has discovered a 100% working hack to enable the new Google bar right now. The hack can easily be applied on Google Chrome browser to edit a certain value and thus access the awesome new Google menu bar. Switching to the New Google bar is real easy, just follow the steps below:

1. Install the ‘Edit This Cookie’ extension to change cookies on Chrome.

2. Load Google.com, right-click on webpage and select ‘Edit cookies’.

3. Move to the "PREF" section and change its value to this: (exact code)

ID=03fd476a699d6487:U=88e8716486ff1e5d:FF=0:LD=en:CR=2:TM=1322688084:
LM=13226880­85:S=McEsyvcXKMiVfGds

edit cookies_PREF

4. Click on ‘Submit cookie changes’ at the bottom.

5. Reload Google and you have the new Google bar.

You will now find links to the most accessed services in a new drop-down Google menu nested under the Google logo. You can access additional services by hovering over the “More” link at the bottom of the list. Just click on your choice and you’re over to it!

Hope you liked this trick. Don’t forget to share it with your friends. :)

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]]> http://webtrickz.com/how-to-get-the-new-google-bar-right-now/feed/ 4 How to Get Back the New Inbox Style Tabs in Gmail http://webtrickz.com/how-to-get-back-the-new-inbox-style-tab-in-gmail/ http://webtrickz.com/how-to-get-back-the-new-inbox-style-tab-in-gmail/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:37:54 +0000 Mayur http://webtrickz.com/how-to-get-back-the-new-inbox-style-tab-in-gmail/ Few months back, Gmail introduced several new inbox styles with the purpose to let users manage their email in the best preferred way. The new inbox style tab has now been turned on for almost everyone, and is also available on the new Gmail look. This new style adds 5 different Inbox tabs at the top of your inbox. Indicated as – “Try on a new inbox: Classic, Important first, Unread first, Starred first, Priority Inbox”.

If you’ve already saw this new inbox style then you must have noticed that the ‘Inbox-style tabs toolbar’ disappears from your Gmail interface after a while. Well that’s not a magic but smarty Gmail that removes those tabs bar, after watching you settled on a particular favorite style for about a week. However, one can easily change the inbox style from the drop-down menu next to the Inbox label or from Settings (Inbox).

gmail_inbox-style-tabs

Fortunately, there is a way to easily restore the Inbox tabs toolbar in Gmail if it has vanished automatically or you closed it using the cross(x) button. To get it back, just hover your cursor over the Inbox tab in left sidebar and click on the drop down menu. Then point at Inbox Type and click the ‘Try the tabs again’ option. That’s it.

gmail-inbox-type

Note: Apparently, Gmail has one stupid limitation which prevents you from getting the inbox-style tab bar again. What happens is, if you close the tabs bar twice then Gmail assumes that you don’t need it. Hence, on closing the inbox tabs bar for second time, the Try the tabs again option wont appear anymore and you cant get it.

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]]> http://webtrickz.com/how-to-get-back-the-new-inbox-style-tab-in-gmail/feed/ 0 Turn your Android Phone Home Screen into an iPhone 4S http://webtrickz.com/turn-your-android-phone-home-screen-into-an-iphone-4s/ http://webtrickz.com/turn-your-android-phone-home-screen-into-an-iphone-4s/#comments Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:19:47 +0000 Mayur http://webtrickz.com/turn-your-android-phone-home-screen-into-an-iphone-4s/ Android offers quite many options to easily tweak the look and interface of your device layout using wallpapers, widgets, launchers, etc. Now if you own an Android phone, then you might want to trick your non-techie friends into thinking that you’re using an iPhone. This can be simply done by installing a small app which transforms your Android phone entirely to the look of iPhone 4/4S home screen.

Fake iPhone 4S is a free and interesting app for Android that makes this task possible in just a single click. The app is a full-screen working replica of the iPhone 4 home screen which even replaces your phone’s status bar, thus removing the main visible signs of Android. It displays a high quality functional iOS screen with all the default app icons, most of which open up the relevant Android app when clicked. If there’s no suitable app, a sponsored message appears instead to support its development.

iOS-screen_android

fake iphone 4s

You can flip between 2-3 screens and the actual carrier name & time appears in status bar which makes it appear like real iOS. It also allows you to access the notifications by swiping down without leaving the app. To use it, just tap the iPhone app icon anytime and the iOS home screen will appear. Tip – Use this app in dark so that your Android phone is not clearly visible, to make anyone believe that you’re using an iPhone. :)

The developer is working hard to improve this app and aims to introduce new features frequently to make it more amazing. Just give it a try, you will surely like it!

Download Fake iPhone 4S [Has over 1 Million downloads]

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]]> http://webtrickz.com/turn-your-android-phone-home-screen-into-an-iphone-4s/feed/ 0 Now Disable Comments and Lock your Post Before Sharing to Google+ Stream http://webtrickz.com/now-disable-comments-and-lock-your-post-before-sharing-to-google-stream/ http://webtrickz.com/now-disable-comments-and-lock-your-post-before-sharing-to-google-stream/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:48:01 +0000 Mayur http://webtrickz.com/now-disable-comments-and-lock-your-post-before-sharing-to-google-stream/ Google Plus has improved a lot and has introduced variety of great features in a short while. Recently, they added the option to Download Photos in full resolution and Google has now added another nice and much requested feature. Google+ now provides the ability to “Disable comments and Lock a post” before sharing to the Google+ stream. Though, both the options were available earlier too but it was only possible after making a post. Now you can make use of these option before you share, and after too.

The ‘Disable Comments’ prevents everyone from making a comment on a specific post and the ‘Lock this post’ restricts everyone from re-sharing your post with others.

disable-comments-lock-post_google-plus

When you disable comments on a post, other people will no longer be able to leave comments (but they can still +1 and reshare it).

When you lock a post, people you’ve shared your post with will no long be able to reshare it with others or mention people you haven’t shared it with.

To implement these options before posting an entry to Google+ stream, just tap the grey down arrow button as shown in above image. Then choose the preferred options.

An official demo video can be seen below:

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]]> http://webtrickz.com/now-disable-comments-and-lock-your-post-before-sharing-to-google-stream/feed/ 1 Now Disable Notifications for Specific Posts on Facebook http://webtrickz.com/now-disable-notifications-for-a-specific-post-on-facebook/ http://webtrickz.com/now-disable-notifications-for-a-specific-post-on-facebook/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:26:24 +0000 Mayur http://webtrickz.com/now-disable-notifications-for-a-specific-post-on-facebook/ Apparently, Facebook has introduced a lot of new features lately of which some are really impressive and useful. While navigating through Facebook, I just noticed a new option “Unfollow Post” that lets you Stop receiving notifications for a particular post when someone makes a comment on it. Certainly, this is a nifty addition and would be used by a lot of people who participate in a certain post and then receive a bloat of notifications related to it. Now you can just unfollow any post made by you or someone else and get rid from the frequent notification pop-ups.

Note: The ‘Unfollow Post’ option only appears on Facebook when you post a comment on a post. Also, it seems that the option can be seen only if the person at whose post you’ve commented, is friends with you or you’ve subscribed to his/her updates.

unfollow-post_facebook

You can easily ‘unfollow post’ to stop getting notified when someone comments or select ‘Follow Post’ option to get notified again.

follow-post_facebook

I hope Facebook adds it for everyone, regardless if someone is your friend or not.

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]]> http://webtrickz.com/now-disable-notifications-for-a-specific-post-on-facebook/feed/ 0 How to Add a Dynamic QR Code to each Blog Post http://webtrickz.com/how-to-add-a-dynamic-qr-code-to-each-blog-post/ http://webtrickz.com/how-to-add-a-dynamic-qr-code-to-each-blog-post/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2011 06:21:02 +0000 Mayur http://webtrickz.com/how-to-add-a-dynamic-qr-code-to-each-blog-post/ Certainly, QR code have become substantially popular with the introduction of Android phones. Using a QRCode, one can easily open any link or app URL on supported mobile phones just by scanning a specific QR code using the camera and QR code reader app.

A QR Code is a matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code), readable by QR scanners, mobile phones with a camera, and smartphones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on white background. The information encoded can be text, URL or other data.
With the growing user base of Android smartphones, the application of QR code has apparently increased a lot. Here is a nice tip for all webmasters and site owners, specially beneficial for sites targeting users looking for mobile phone related stuff.
 
You can consider adding a Dynamic QR Code to your site pages which includes all your articles. This can be simply done by adding a short code to the preferred location on your site. After adding the script, a dynamic QR code gets generated for each post. Whenever users scans the code from their mobile, that particular webpage will open up.
 
qrcode_android
 
To embed the script for QR Code, just copy the below code and paste it any where in your website. That’s all. To change the image size just modify the “size=150×150” to what ever equal value you want.
 

<script type="text/javascript">

var uri=window.location.href;

document.write("<img src='http://api.qrserver.com/v1/create-qr-code/?data="+encodeURI(uri)+"&size=150x150'/>");

</script>

You can also create a table and add a short description on how to use the QR code, making it easier for users. Just check the demo right away in our blog sidebar. :)
 
Thanks ClassicTutorials for this amazing tip!

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