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  • Beats selling cheap plastic headphones at premium rate might not be true

    Beats is a name that has achieved great credibility among the music lovers, the company also provides some of the top notch headphones which has been loved by its fans and widely accepted. That is what makes it so special, and popular. 

    Recently, the company was criticised for selling cheap plastic headphones at high price, which otherwise would have costed only $17 to manufacture — and definitely not worth the $200 that we spend on it. 

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    The engineer who tore down the headphone, claimed that Apple Beats by Dr. Dre is simply a rip off. He performed a complete tear down of the said headphone and concluded that the company is using cheap materials in manufacturing process, which includes adding metal components inside the body to increase weight.

    However, it is now being speculated whether the headphone that Avery Louie ripped apart might just be a Knockoff. He didn’t mention the model of the headphone that was dismantled, and core77 believes that it was a discontinued version of Beats Solo HD headphones.

    According to the article posted on Core77, there are several reasons that points out the claimed teardown was based on the fake beats product.

    A reddit user also posted a detailed comparison of a fake beats headphones and a real one. 

    Furthermore, the Redditor also explained why Beats headphones use those metal components.

    “Those metal parts aren’t just to add weight; they serve a functional, structural purpose as both the headband extensions and the hinge,” vantt1 said.

    The ripoff nowadays have packaging and overall design, which are very smilar to the read product. It often succeed to fool even a trained engineer into believing he or she is dealing with the real thing.

    One thing that would have indicated that the product that Louie ripped off is a fake one is absense of additional speakers. The product that was dismantled has 4 drivers, while the teardown only had 2.

    This particular detail seems to be a strong indicator that the pair of Beats headphones used to demonstrate how the company is selling $17 headphones at $200, is completly false.

    However, if the price set by the company for a pair of headphone is justified is still unclear. Beats fans will always jump in favor of their daily companion of ‘beats,’ while others would still question the quality vs money they are paying for this product. 

    We would like to point out to the LifeHacker’s post about beats headphones again, which pointed out that it might simply be a garbage. 

    Don’t forget to watch the videos, explaining the difference between real and fake beats headphones.

    Image: Flickr, aqeelkolla95

  • [How To] Send Fake Emails, on behalf of anyone

    [How To] Send Fake Emails, on behalf of anyone

    If yes, then you will be pleased to know there are tons of great online services available for this job. Take EMKEI.CZ for example. This website offers the feature to send emails to any email ID, on behalf of any one (that is, from any email ID)

    This is a prime example of email spoofing, taking benefit of the fact that the SMTP servers aren’t providing any mechanism for the authentication of the senders’ email. But you don’t need to know all these jargons, just fill the required details, and you’re ready to go. 

    The interesting part of this whole trick is, when the receiver gets the email, and replies to it, then that reply goes to the real owner of that email ID. The email passes any filter and doesn’t land in the SPAM folder.

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    To know that if you stand on the other side of the prank, all you gotta do is, view the source of the email, and look for the IP address of the sender, you can then visit sites like IP2LOCATION which can help you trace the location of the sender, the ISP, domain and other useful information, this can be enough to figure out if the email is genuine or fake. 

  • 5 Fake Facebook templates and pages for student projects

    Facebook is the place that kids hang out after school. Heck, it’s the place many of them hang out during school. It is definitely a platform they are comfortable with communicating on. Why not use student enthusiasm for Facebook to generate learning opportunities in the classroom?

    I have seen several classes in the past few weeks work on Facebook projects. Students love them. These projects appeal to students because it is communication at their level. What I like about the project is that creating a fake Facebook profile requires a great deal of higher level thinking. Student have to take information and transform it. This forces students to be very creative. A fake Facebook page is an excellent way to see if student understand the concept behind a book, character, historical figure or even a science concept.

    Science might be a little harder, but imagine students pretend that they are a part of a chemical reaction. They could create a profile for a certain compound and tell it’s part in the reaction through the wall posts. This might sound a bit crazy, but I think students would really get into it.

    There are several different platforms for doing Facebook projects in the classroom. Here are some I have looked at in the past week:

    Fakebook: This online app is the best I have seen. It is web based and easy to use. Students fill in the blanks, upload pictures and write status updates for the different people on the wall. I have not yet used this app with students, but I plan on using it this week. Sometimes, when a bunch of students use an app like this, we see how good it really works. I’ll be sure to let you know.

    My Fake Wall: This is a cool template, much like Fakebook.  I really like how it is set up. The app is web based and allows students to build as big a page as they like. The one draw back is that it doesn’t seem to work consistently. I have used this with several classes now, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t which creates quite the headache if this is the plan for class on a particular day. That having been said, it is still worth a try because it is so much fun.

    PowerPoint template:  This page template opens in PowerPoint, but functions surprisingly as a Facebook page. Adding pictures and status text is quite easy without creating a mess of the page. This is a three page template giving students quite a bit of creative license in a non-web based platform.

    MS Word template: This template is a little harder to use and doesn’t look quite as good as the others, but it is another option. It does work in Word which is a plus if that is what students are used to using.

    PhotoShop template (PSD): This one represents the most recent design of templates and rubrics for a Facebook project using a template created with Photoshop. This looks like another great option depending on your goals for the project.

    If anyone knows of other fake Facebook applications or ideas for using these templates,  leave a link in the comments.