Author: Swadesh Parasher

This device can fill 100 water balloons in a minute!

A creative Dad and Inventor Josh Malone, along with his kids developed a much faster way to fill up your balloons. You can get your inventory fully loaded way before your enemies, they would have no idea what is going to hit them.

The Kickstarter campaign is trying to solve a very real and pressing problem during hot summer days. Filling up water balloons is so time-consuming, which sucks because no one likes to wait. Filling up 20 water balloons by old-fashioned way i.e. waiting patiently by the hose to fill your balloons one by one really sucks.

Malone’s device, which can fill 100 balloons in a minute, attaches to the hose directly for one-time use. He calls it “Bunch O Balloons” and launched a Kickstarter campaign for the manufacture-ready project.

The truly amazing thing is what you do when the balloons are full. At that point, all you need is a gentle shake to detach them from the hose. A tiny O-ring keeps the balloons closed, no tying necessary.

inspiration for the project came from his eight children’s love of water balloon fights in the summer. With a family of that size, an easier way to fill and tie water balloons was sorely needed. Malone experimented with different methods, first using mini marshmallows as stoppers, then graduating to small rubber bands. From there, it was a quick jump to using a tube to hold the balloon open as it was filled with water.

pledge of $15 on Kickstarter gets you (or the kids, if you’re pretending you’re not buying it for yourself) a package of three Bunch O Balloons attachments, which is good for 111 water balloons; the early rewards are expected to ship between August and September 2014. The campaign ends August 21.

At the time of writing, the project had 4,701 backers with more than $150,000 pledged — more than 15 times its original goal of $10,000. The primary use for the funding, Malone says, is to “design and purchase” machines for mass production of the device.

July 24, 2014
Top 10 Trending Programming languages that offers job!

Learning a programming language is fun if you want to build your career in the field, where developing something with the initiative of your own idea is crucial. That feeling when you create something new, with your unique ideas and the ability to build something from scratch is something the programmers can die for.

If you are beginner and want to figure out which programming language you should learn first, this list can be really useful for you. If you’re interested in learning to code, for fun or financial gain, this interactive chart from IEEE spectrum can help you pick the first (or next) language to learn.

The website ranks dozens of programming languages against 12 weighted data sources: Google search, Google trends, Github, Stack Overflow, Hacker News, Reddit, Career Builder, Dice, Topsy, and IEEE Xplore.

Interestingly, Java and C (C++ and C#) are the most popular and trending programming languages than all, which offers highest jobs globally.

If you can’t decide which programming language to learn first, I think this list can help you decide.

[Source: IEEE]

July 15, 2014
[How To] find out which program is using your webcam to spy on you
If you are worried that someone might be spying on you using your webcam, then MakeUseOf has a list of steps you can follow to find out which program you have on your system that carries a spyware or malware, capable of triggering your webcam to spy on you.

This is a little “Do it yourself” method, but it ensures the spot on result. You’ll have to find the compromised software on your own. To do this, you’ll need Process Explorer, the awesome Windows Sysinternals tool developed by Microsoft for IT work. You can download the installer here if you like, or you can just run the application from their server.

With Process Explorer running, follow these steps:
- Figure out what your camera’s object name is by finding it in Device Manager. For Windows 7: search “Device Manager” in the start menu. For Windows 8.1: search the same thing in the Charms bar.
- Once you locate it in the Device Manager, double-click and go to the “Details” tab. Open the property drop-down and select “Physical device object name”, then right-click to copy the name.
- Return to the Process Explorer, or get it started if you haven’t yet. Then hit Ctrl+F and paste the camera’s object name into the search field and click “Search.” You should see whatever processes are currently using your webcam.
If you recognize the program which are using your webcam, like skype, hangout, webcam snap tool etc. then there’s no need to worry! If you don’t recognize the program, right-click it in Process Explorer and select “Kill Process“, then uninstall it from your machine. After the program has been removed, run a full-system virus scan to ensure your machine is safe to use again.
May 30, 2014
[How To] disable sponsored ads on uTorrent
There’s no doubt that uTorrent is the best torrent client that gets the job done in the most precise manner but it’s been quite a mayhem when uTorrent decided to force the banner ads for all the non-premium users. Some people find it a good way to repay the developers for their hard work, but if you are like me you would do anything (except going for the premium version of the application, of course!) to get rid of those annoying banner advertisements.

Don’t worry, I got you covered here. You can turn off these advertisement on your client by following some simple steps. It might not be just a single click away, but uTorrent developers didn’t completely disabled the option to turn off the sponsored content according to the preferences of the user.

See Also: Remove uTorrent Sponsored ads with single click

Instructions:
- You’ll need to change some values in Advanced settings to achieve the results. To get to the advanced settings, Go to Options > Preferences > Advanced.
- Now Search for the following names by entering it in the filter box situated in the preferences window. Make sure to set the values to “false” for each of them.
-bt.enable_pulse
-gui.show_notorrents_node
-sponsored_torrent_offer_enabled
-gui.show_plus_upsell
-left_rail_offer
- Now Click “Apply” or “Ok” Button and Restart uTorrent.
If this method is little tricky for you, feel free to head over to this post which basically allows you to remove uTorrent ads with single click.
May 9, 2014
New search engine lists all illegal underground websites you can never reach out before!

Update: Grams search engine was shutdown on December 2017.

If you have been searching for the underground websites in the cyberworld which offers “All things illegal” then a new Google-like search engine “Grams” can end your quest. Hidden websites running under Onion Network, has been a new way to buy illegal stuff anonymously.

Underground websites offer illegal high-quality drugs or rifles, hacking tools, or any illegal services, until now you needed to type long, complex and specific Tor Browser URLs directly into the browser which is quite difficult to remember. Grams, can really save all the trouble and additionally allows you to find more sources matching your quest.

It is as simple as you might think – you can search for the keywords and the Google-like search engine will return the results matching your queries, listing all the sellers on Onion Network.

“I am working on the algorithm so it is a lot like google’s it will have a scoring system based how long the listing has been up, how many transactions, how many good reviews. That way you will see the best listing first,” Grams’ creator who calls himself Gramsadmin wrote on Reddit. He also added, “I am going to add a filter market this week so a user can search only the markets they have accounts for.“

April 27, 2014
Install FireChat if you want to chat with people around without any internet!

Nowadays chatting with people is a common scenario but it all requires one thing without which nothing can be done. Its the Internet. But now a new app has been launched in the market which allows people to chat with others around in a particular range even when there is no internet connection.

Firechat is the name of the new app, which sounds quite fabulous. The creators of this app are known as ‘Open Garden’ and using the company;s mesh networking technology this app was made successful.

The app can be easily used wherever there are people around and then a user has the power to chat with them without any internet connection. The capability of this app shows us how limitless are the applications of peer to peer networking. The best places where this app can be used are Beach, subways, At a big game, trade show, camping in the wild or even a concert etc.

First the app was launched only for iPhones but now it has now been made available for Android devices also since it became really popular after it was launched two weeks ago. The app actually broke many records since it is now among the top 10 social networking apps and has already spread across 80 countries.

In the words of Open Garden’s CEO, ” I am proud to say that we are now able to deliver a best-in-class peer-to-peer chat experience to anyone with an Android device. And thanks to its multi-hop capabilities, FireChat may extend the range of peer-to-peer communications significantly.”

One can also consider the importance of this app since it doesn’t require any internet, it can be very helpful during the conditions of emergency, disasters or any other common place where you don’t know if you are going to get a reliable connection.

FireChat has many other features that makes it better than other messaging apps. The app also works as easily with internet as it does without it. One can talk to everybody at a time or only the people present nearby using the different modes. The app is really user friendly since it does not require any email logins, no passwords etc and all of that without any significant amount of Battery loss.

If you are wondering where the hell did this company suddenly pop up on the tech radar, then its important that we inform you that this was the company who won the Grand prize at the GMIC Startup competition in October 2013. Within this small time only, there are about 4 million users of apps made by this company around the world.

April 6, 2014