Showing posts with label messenger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label messenger. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 03, 2015

Whatsapp tips and tricks for whatsapp on computer, backup messages, blue ticks and other hacks

Whatsapp was the first successful mobile messaging platform tied to your mobile number. All the other options like Telegram, Hike, Line, WeChat and Viber tried so hard, but lost the battle to popularity. In fact, Whatsapp was never the best option. Most of the others had voice call and seome even video call long before whatsapp did. Some had better group management and more people could be put in a group. Almost ALL the other were definitely free, unlike Whatsapp which is free for only one year(more on that later)


But Whatsapp got lucky enough to get on the popularity bandwagon a t the perfect time to set it sailing up in an exponentially increasing subscriber base, even though it was FREE for only one year. So successful that Facebook bought it for 16 billion dollars.

Here are some Whatsapp tricks to help you get the most out of it :

1) Back up and transfer your chats

On Android, your WhatsApp chats are backed up automatically on the device every day. On iPhone, go to Chats then Chat Settings and tap Chat Backup to connect the app with iCloud. This means you can quickly restore your conversations after reinstalling the app with a couple of taps.

When moving to a new iOS device, just sign in with the same iCloud account (and mobile number). Android users need to either transfer their microSD card over or use a third-party app to copy the data from /sdcard/WhatsApp/ to the new phone (WhatsApp says Google Drive integration is on the way).

2. Stop saving media and save bandwidth

On iOS, anything that gets sent to your WhatsApp inbox automatically gets saved to your phone’s Camera Roll and from there on to all the other photo services you have synced with it (like Dropbox or iCloud). If you don’t want this to happen then it’s simple enough to disable.

From the Settings tab, tap Chat Settings and then toggle the Save Incoming Media button to off. On Android, your shots are saved to a separate folder that isn’t the main Android gallery. 

If you want a text only experience you can block media files from downloading at all on both platforms to save bandwidth.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Insert Special Characters like heart and music symbol in chat and facebook


Click the above image to see the text clearly



To obtain an ALT Character:
  1. Make certain that the Num Lock key has been pressed to activate the numeric key section of the keyboard.
  2. Depress the Alt key.
  3. While the Alt key is depressed, type the proper sequence of numbers (on the numeric keypad) of the ALT code from the table above.
  4. Release the Alt key, and the character will appear.
  5. On a laptop computer, there usually is no numeric keypad. So, instead, depress the Fn (function) key, then the Alt key, then the numerical code sequence. The numbers are on the fronts of certain keyboard keys: M=0, J=1, K=2, L=3, U=4, I=5, O=6, 7=7, 8=8, and 9=9.






It is very simple to add the various special characters like these into status updates on orkut or facebook and also to chat messages and stuff.


Just press the [Alt] key on your keyboard and tap out the number sequence, then release the "Alt" key. The special character would come up in the place where the text cursor was.


Shapes and Shading

CharacterName of CharacterAlt CodeCharacter CodeName CodeNumber CodeShortcut KeyAccent Code
Upper half blockAlt + 223
Alt + 9600
2580
Lower half blockAlt + 220
Alt + 9604
2584
Full blockAlt + 219
Alt + 9608
2588
Left half blockAlt + 221
Alt + 9612
258C
Right half blockAlt + 222
Alt + 9616
2590
Light shadeAlt + 176
Alt + 9617
2591
Medium shadeAlt + 177
Alt + 9618
2592
Dark shadeAlt + 178
Alt + 9619
2593
Black squareAlt + 254
Alt + 9632
25A0
White squareAlt + 963325A1
Black small squareAlt + 964225AA
White small squareAlt + 964325AB
Black rectangleAlt + 22
Alt + 9644
25AC
Black up-pointing triangleAlt + 30
Alt + 9650
25B2
Black right-pointing pointerAlt + 16
Alt + 9658
25BA
Black down-pointing triangleAlt + 31
Alt + 9660
25BC
Black left-pointing pointerAlt + 17
Alt + 9668
25C4
LozengeAlt + 967425CA
White circleAlt + 9
Alt + 9675
25CB
Black circleAlt + 967925CF
Inverse bulletAlt + 8
Alt + 9688
25D8
Inverse white circleAlt + 10
Alt + 9689
25D9
White bulletAlt + 970225E6

Dingbats

CharacterName of CharacterAlt CodeCharacter CodeName CodeNumber CodeShortcut KeyAccent Code
White smiling faceAlt + 1
Alt + 9786
263A
Black smiling faceAlt + 2
Alt + 214
Alt + 9787
263B
White sun with raysAlt + 15
Alt + 9788
263C
Female signAlt + 12
Alt + 9792
2640
Male signAlt + 11
Alt + 9794
2642
Spade suitAlt + 6
Alt + 9824
2660
Club suitAlt + 5
Alt + 9827
2663
Heart suitAlt + 3
Alt + 9829
2665
Diamond suitAlt + 4
Alt + 9830
2666
Eighth noteAlt + 13
Alt + 9834
266A
Beamed eighth notesAlt + 14
Alt + 9835
266B

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Earn money by reading free SMS

http://www.mginger.com/index.jsp?inviteId=7841

This website lets you earn money by just reading SMS !!!

Think of it. Just read SMS coming from
http://www.mginger.com/index.jsp?inviteId=7841

and pay your mobile bills using that !

Cool huh ?
free SMS. Free offers and much more.

Just join under my affiliate id ok. Please
Free SMS money making scheme

There is also a paid to read email scheme with the same guys.

Check that out too.
http://www.mginger.com/index.jsp?inviteId=7841

Free SMS money and cash offer
And tell me if it works.

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Run messenger without installing - Yahoo, MSN, Googletalk,

For those who came in late - there may be lots of situations when you cannot install an IM client but have to use it ....

Well, here's how to do it ....

Use messenger without installing - meebo , iloveIM...

Though most of these - Yahoo , MSN, etc have web messenger , they might require some plugin like flash or some active X plugin or sometimes JAVA to work.

And these might not be installed in the computer - especially if it's a public computer in the guest account or a library computer or an office computer.

Anyway - here are the ways to access Yahoo messenger or MSN messenger without installing
Use messenger without installing - meebo , iloveIM...

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Use messenger without installing - meebo , iloveIM and the like



Oftentimes, you'll have to use a computer which does not have your preferred messenger is not installed. What should you do ? Downloading and installing the messenger may not work out if you are not logged in as administrator.

One option is to use that messenger's web service. I know that Yahoo and MSN have it.
http://webmessenger.msn.com/
http://messenger.yahoo.com/ See the bottom of the page "Launch Web Messenger"

But these require Java to be installed and enabled and ther computer I'm using now doesn't even have Java or Flash installed.

That's when u use
meebo.com or iloveim.com or ebuddy.com or others

I really don't know how trustworthy these sites are to give your password and login information and I would really appreciate it if anyone can clarify this.

By joining meebo, you'll have access to all of your previous IM conversations. You'll also be able to save preferences such as logging into multiple screen names at once, sounds and appearance customizations.

And it's completely free!

Here's what Danny says in their about page :
I’m Danny, and I wrote this quick and handy guide that should help answer some questions and get you started.

First off, what’s meebo? No, it’s not a Star Wars character, nor is it a tropical three-toed animal (kudos if you can make it one though…) meebo connects you with your instant messaging buddies from absolutely anywhere for free. Whether you’re at home, on campus, at work, or traveling foreign lands, hop over to meebo.com on any computer to access all of your buddies and chat with them, no downloads or installs required!

So … who uses meebo? meebo users come from all walks of life and from all over the world. meebo users are high school and college students, soldiers stationed abroad, young professionals, librarians and teachers, and bloggers and techies. meebo lets you instant message your buddies everywhere. Hop on any computer, go to meebo.com, with no download required, chat with your buddies on a bunch of IM networks. Yahtzee.

Monday, October 23, 2006

Yahoo Messenger nsl-school virus - De vile Messenger




If your computer is infected , this is what you do


  1. Download the file http://www.fundazone.com/antivirus/registry/registry-enable-regedit.reg
  2. Copy these instructions to notepad or word or note it down. Close Internet Explorer ( and Yahoo messenger) . Double click the .reg file and click yes when it asks whether you want to merge the file to the registry. This will enable the regedit and task manager tools and restore your home page and other settings.
  3. Then restart the computer
  4. After restarting Press Ctrl + Alt + Del . Click Processes.
    End the process svhost32.exe . ( may be more than one process is running )
  5. Start> Search > Files and folders. Search for svhost32.exe , svhost.exe and enet.exe
  6. Delete the files found.
  7. Restart for good luck.
Use firefox http://www.fundazone.com/software/firefox/
Firefox is a fast and nice browser with tabs and RSS feeds and cool stuff.


So, the story behind this post ? Once again, another virus spread in all the computers here.
This time, it was a virus using Yahoo Messenger (tm) or MSN messenger to spread itself. (The previous one I wrote about was using a popular social networking site - www.orkut.com . Now this one uses a chatting software (chatting, file sharing, photo album sharing, video conferencing(I even used it for webcasting !), much more) Yahoo Messenger.

Now, How do you know that your computer (or yur friends') has this virus ??

It sends out messages like

(Don't try any of these links !!!)

  • damn, she is so cute http://nsl-school.org?id=miss_world
  • oh my god , i've won a 20000 usd lottery http://nsl-school.org/?id=winning_list . Come to my house tonight for a party !!
  • Just check out my new personal website : http://mytermex.com c0ol !!!
  • check this link for me : http://nsl-school.org?id=forum . Why I cannot surf this site ???

And when you click on these links, it installs the virus in your computer too.



Here's what Suresh Kumar says. ( forums.sureshkumar.net/showthread.php?t=7790 )

I've copied it here for you.

If you are infected with it what is going to happen ?

1: It sets your default IE page to nsl-school.org, you can’t even change it back to other page. If you open IE from your comp some malicious code will automatically executed into your computer.

2: It will disables the Task manager / reg edit. So you can’t kill the Trojan process anymore.

3: Files that are gonaa installed by this virus are svhost.exe , svhost32.exe , internat.exe.

you can find these files in windows/ & temp/ directories.

4: It will sends the secured & protected information to attacker

How to remove this manually from your computer ?

1: Close the IE browser.

(IE - Internet Explorer. First copy this article into MS Word or Notepad or something )

Log out messenger / Remove Internet Cable.

2: To enable Regedit

Click Start, Run and type this command exactly as given below: (better - Copy and paste)

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

3: To enable task manager : (To kill the process we need to enable task manager)

Click Start, Run and type this command exactly as given below: (better - Copy and paste)

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

4: Now we need to change the default page of IE though regedit. ( regedit is very dangerous if you randomly change stuff in it or delete important setting, so be careful - or make a backup before editing (file -> Export) )

Start>Run>Regedit

From the below locations in Regedit chage your default home page to google.com or other.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

HKEY_ LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

HKEY_USERS\Default\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

Just replace the attacker site with google.com or set it to blank page.

5: Now we need to kill the process from back end. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del

Kill the process svhost32.exe . ( may be more than one process is running.. check properly)

6: Delete svhost32.exe , svhost.exe files from Windows/ & temp/ directories. Or just search for svhost in your comp.. delete those files.

( Svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs).( meaning there is an original svchost.exe that is part of Windows - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314056 )

7: Go to regedit search for svhost and delete all the results you get. ( Be careful )

Start menu > Run > Regedit >

8: Restart the computer. That’s it now you are virus free.


I don’t know whether any removal patch that works for this Trojan/virus. But we can easily delete it manually.


And - use Firefox or something ! Most viruses are written for Internet Explorer ...

Don't open these URLs !!!
Possible Domains Owned by the Developer of this Trojan
http://www.nsl-school.org
http://www.giftshop.vn
http://www.myglobal-news.com
http://www.italiandirectory.com

You can block these URLs in your browser's Security settings.
A good idea for places where many users will use the same computer and inadvertently click the link.

In Internet Explorer , Tools -> Internet Options -> Security -> Restricted Sites -> Sites

Add the above sites in the list !!!

Ah, the tragedy called viruses ...


Use firefox http://www.fundazone.com/software/firefox/
Firefox is a fast and nice browser with tabs and RSS feeds and cool stuff.

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