How to Enable Facial Recognition in Your Google Photos

Facial recognition is one of the most popular features on Google Photos, Facebook Photos, Apple Photos, which recognize face and automatically arrange your photos based on people's faces. Facial recognition is available inside Android, iPhone, iPad and the web version of Google Photos. If you are not seeing it in your account yet, because your accessing Photos from outside the United States. 

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A footnote on the Google Photos website says that “Facial recognition" feature isn’t available in all countries, probably due to privacy laws, but there’s a simple trick that will help you bring face detection in your Google Photos. 

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How to Enable Facial Recognition in Your Google Photos

• Go to your Android phone settings, select “Apps”, then select “Photos” under the “Downloaded” section and click the “Clear Data” button to reset your Google Photos app.

• Go to the Google Play store and download Tunnel Bear or Hola or any of your favorite VPN apps.
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• Open the VPN app and connect. It will essentially trick Photos into thinking that you are connecting from US, a country that is supported by Google Photos for facial recognition.

• Open the Google Photos app, scroll past the wizard screen and then under Settings, enable the option that says “Group Similar Faces – Auto Group photos by matching faces.”

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Now you can uninstall or disable the VPN app, launch Google Photos again and tap the blue search button. You should see a list of faces that Google Photos was able to detect from your uploaded photos. And the feature will automatically become available on photos.google.com as well.

How to Expand Your Phone Storage with Wireless USB stick

If your smartphone or tablet is running low on storage for your apps, photos, videos, music and other files, perhaps you have received an error message suggesting you have insufficient storage available. When your mobile phone has limited storage and there's no option to add an external SD card. 

To overcome this situation, you have clouded based services like Dropbox or Google Drive that add virtually unlimited storage to your phone but you've to be connected to the Internet to access your files. Another solution for this problem is Use a wireless USB stick from Sandisk that adds storage to your phones and tablets much like a regular USB drive. 

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How to use Sandisk wireless USB stick

1. Plug the USB device into your laptop or desktop computer and let it charge for about an hour or two.
2. Once the device is charged, you tap the little power button on the stick to turn it on.
3. Now install the Sandisk connect app on your mobile phone and go to WiFi settings on your mobile phone and connect to the WiFi hotspot created by the USB stick.

 Advantage of using Sandisk wireless USB stick

1. You can assess content of the USB drive like stream audio, video files, photos, PDF Files and other document.
2. You can easily transfer files between the phone and the wireless drive. 

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3. You have an option to add a USB WiFi password to prevent other nearby devices from connecting the USB stick.
4. Sandisk Connect USB stick requires no Internet connection.
5. Multiple devices can connect to the same USB drive over WiFi.
6. Act as a bridge between the iOS and Android device.
7. Sandisk connect is compatible with both Android and iOS devices and is available in various capacities from 16GB TO 128 GB.

You can buy Sandisk wireless USB stick from Flipkart or Amazon. 
 

How to Find Your WiFi Network Password

Your computer is connected to WiFi network and you forget the WiFi password that you had earlier used to connect to this particular WiFi network. Whether you've misplaced your home network's password or you're visiting someone house and don't want to ask them for the password. Maybe you forget the password or maybe the network administrator entered it directly without revealing the actual password to you. You would now like to connect a second device like your mobile phone, laptop, Tablet to the same WiFi network but how do you find out the WiFi Security Key.

You can either send a password request to the WiFi admin or you can retrieve the saved password with some easy steps given below.

Find the Default Password Printed on the Router

Modern WiFi routers offered by many Internet Service Providers comes with a default WiFi network name and password. To find default password, just examine your WiFi router and see a sticker somewhere on it that contain both the Network Name (SSID) and Wireless Security Key (Password).

Also See : How to Create a WiFi Hotspot in Windows 10

Find the WiFi Password on Windows

To look up a WiFi network password on Windows, open the Control Panel and Click "View network status and tasks" under Network and Internet. Click the name of the current Wi-Fi connection to the right of “Connections”. 

Click the “Wireless Properties”  button in the Wi-Fi Status window that appears. 

Click the “Security” tab and activate the “Show characters” checkbox to view the hidden password.

You can also use Command Prompt to retrieve your WiFi network Password. Open the command prompt in administrator mode. Type “cmd” in the Run box, right-click the command prompt icon and choose Run as Administrator. Now enter the following command and hit enter to see the WiFi password.

netsh wlan show profile name=digital adda key=clear

Remember to replace digital adda with the name of your Network name or Wireless SSID. The password will show up under the Security Setting section > key content.
 
If you would only like to see the password and not the other information, use the findstr command:
netsh wlan show profile name=digital adda key=clear | findstr Key


Also See : How to access Your Router if You forget the Password

Find the Password on a Mac

Both Windows and Mac allows you to view the current network WiFi password, however mobile devices like Android smartphones and Apple's iPhone and iPads don't allow you to view your Current WiFi network password.

To find the Wi-Fi password on your Mac, press Command+Space to open the Spotlight search dialog, type “Keychain Access” without the quotes, and press Enter to launch the Keychain Access app.

Locate the name of your Wi-Fi network in the list, click it, and then click the “info” button — it looks like an “i” — at the bottom of the window.

Click the “Show Password” checkbox in the window that appears. You’ll have to enter your username and password to gain access to the password. You’ll need an administrator account for this.Click the “Show Password” checkbox in the window that appears. You’ll have to enter your username and password to gain access to the password. You’ll need an administrator account for this.

You can also use Terminal to retrieve WiFi network password. Open Spotlight (Cmd+Space) and type terminal to open the Terminal window. At the command line, enter the following command (replace baatkar with your WiFi name), then enter your Mac username and password to access the OS X keychain and the Wi-FI network password would be displayed on the screen in plain text.

security find-generic-password -wa baatkar

Find the WiFi Password on Linux

Open the terminal and enter the followind command (replace baatkar with your WiFi network name). The value of the field psk is your WiFi password.

sudo cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/baatkar | grep psk=


If you don’t know the network name, use the following command.

sudo grep psk= /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/*

Start WLAN AutoConfig 

If you are using this technique to retrieve the WiFi password on a Windows computer but getting an error that says – “The Wireless AutoConfig Service (wlansvc) is not running” – here’s a simple fix:

Click the Windows Start button and type “services.msc” in the Run box to access Windows Services. Here go to the WLAN Autoconfig service and make sure that the status is Running. Else right-click the WLAN AutoConfig service, select Properties and go to Dependencies. Check all the dependencies to make sure they are all running.

Reset Your Router to its Default WiFi Password

If you don't find your WiFi network password and don't have access to your router's web interface, You can reset your router and force it to use the default WiFi password printed on the router once again.

Look for a small “reset” button on the router. It’s often a pinhole button you’ll have to press with a bent paperclip or a similarly small object. Press the button down for ten seconds or so and your router’s settings will be completely erased and reset to their defaults. The Wi-Fi network name and password will be restored to the default ones on the router.

How to Prevent Blogger from redirecting to Country Specific Domains

Google redirects their Blogger blogs to country specific domain extension since 2012. For Example open socialmedialoud.blogspot.com in your web browser, you will be redirected to socialmedialoud.blogspot.in if you are located in India or socialmedialoud.blogspot.fr if you are accessing the blog from France. Blog redirection only occurs if you are on a blogspot domain and country specific redirection not apply to custom domains. 
From my blog traffic log, it is sure that country specific redirection in Blogger is live in at least 15 countries. They are Argentina (blogspot.com.ar), Australia (blogspot.com.au), Brazil (blogspot.br), Canada (blogspot.ca), Germany (blogspot.de), India (blogspot.in), Italy (blogspot.it), France (blogspot.fr), Japan (blogspot.jp), Mexico (blogspot.mx), Portugal (blogspot.pt), Spanish (blogspot.cl), Sweden (blogspot.se)

 
To avoid country specific redirection in your Blogger blog, follow these simple steps given below.  

Login to Blogger account. Click on Template > Edit HTML > Press Ctrl + F to find <head> and press enter. Now copy one script from given below and paste it after the <head> and click on "save template". Now your Blogger Blog will always serve with the blogspot.com URL.
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<script type="text/javascript">
 
  /* Get the full URL of the current blogger page */
  var blog = document.location.href.toLowerCase();

  /* Do not redirect if the domain is .com already */
  if (!blog.match(/\.blogspot\.com/)) {

    /* Replace the country TLD with .com and ncr switch */
    blog = blog.replace(/\.blogspot\..*?\//, ".blogspot.com/ncr/");

    /* Redirect to the new .com URL in the current tab */
    window.location.replace(blog);
  }
 </script>

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<script type="text/javascript">
      var blog = document.location.hostname.split(".");
      if (blog[blog.length - 1] != "com") {
      var ncr = "http://" + blog[0] + ".blogspot.com/ncr";
      window.location.replace(ncr + document.location.pathname);   
      }
    </script>
 
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<script type="text/javascript">
var blog = document.location.hostname;
var slug = document.location.pathname;
var ctld = blog.substr(blog.lastIndexOf("."));
if (ctld != ".com") {
var ncr = "http://" + blog.substr(0, blog.indexOf("."));
ncr += ".blogspot.com/ncr" + slug;
window.location.replace(ncr);
}
</script>
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How to find the Person Behind an Email address

There are more than 100 billion message sent each day with the help of most popular forms of electronic communication that we called email. When you received an email from a person with whom you have never interacted earlier and thus before you take the conversation forward, you would like to do some research on the Internet to know more about the person. 

Technically the process of tracing a person through an email address is known as reverse email lookup and there is no definite method to do this. Google is the most obvious place for performing reverse email lookup, just Google for the email address but if the email address doesn't use in any website, Public forms,  Google can not help you enough and you need to perform something else. 

Reverse Email Search 

1. Find the sender's location : Open the header of the email message and look for lines that says "Received from" and are followed by an IP address in square brackets. Now paste the IP address in this trace route tool and you should get a fairly good idea about the approximate location of the email sender.

Also See : How to fake your Location in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox

2. Reverse email search with Facebook : Just paste the email address of the person into the search box and Facebook will instantly tell you if a profile exists with that email address or not. 

If you find the person on Facebook, download the profile picture and then upload it to Google Images to do reverse image search and you can locate his other social profiles. 

3. Reverse Email Lookup on all other Social Network : You can use a service like Knowem to quickly determine if a profile with a particular username exits in any of the Social Network. 

Gmail users can install the Rapportive add-on and find the Twitter and LinkedIn profiles associated with an email address, if any of them exist.

4. People Search Service : If none of the above tricks work, you should try a people search service and email lookup like Pipl, Spokeo, Intelius, Spock and Yasni.

How to improve the security of your WordPress blog

WordPress is one of the most popular self hosted content management system (CMS) on the Internet and therefore most popular target of hackers. WordPress software is open source, hosted on GitHub and hackers are always looking for bugs and vulnerabilities that can be exploited to gain access to other WordPress website or blog. 

An investigation revealed that about 70% of WordPress website or blog are vulnerable to hacker attacks.To ensure your WordPress website or blog security, Keep updated version of WordPress installation, Themes and plugins. Here are some other things to improve the security of your WordPress website or blogs.

 Secure WordPress account Login

When you install a WordPress blog, the default username is "Admin". You can either create a completely random username or enable single sign on with Jetpack.  

Don't show your WordPress version

When you install WordPress blog, it shows the WordPress version that make it easier for people to determine if you are running an outdated non patched version of WordPress. To remove WordPress version, delete the readme.html file from your WordPress installation directory. 

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Don't allows others to "Write" to your WordPress directory 

To see a list of all open directories where any other user can write files, Login to your WordPress Linux shell and execute the following command.

find . -type d -perm -o=w

To set the right permission for all your WordPress files and folders, use these two command in your WordPress Linux shell.

find /your/wordpress/folder/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find /your/wordpress/folder/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

For directories, 755 (rwxr-xr-x) means that only the owner has write permission while others have read and execute permissions. For files, 644 (rw-r–r–) means that file owners have read and write permissions while others can only read the files.

Rename your WordPress tables prefix

By default the WordPress tables have names like wp_posts or wp_users, to change the prefix of tables in WordPress to some random value use Change DB Prefix plugin.

Password Protect the Admin Dashboard

To make your WordPress Admin Dashboard more secure, create a password in wp-admin folder to protect it. Once protected, authorized users will have to enter the two passwords to log in to their WordPress Admin dashboard. 

Track Login activity on your WordPress server

You can use the “last -i” command in Linux to get a listing of all users who have logged into your WordPress server along with their IP addresses. If you find an unknown IP address in this list, it is definitely time to change your password.

Also, the following command will show the user login activity for a longer period of time grouped by IP addresses (replace USERNAME with your shell user name).

last -if /var/log/wtmp.1 | grep USERNAME | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq -c


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Prevent users from browsing your WordPress directories

Open the .htaccess file in your WordPress root directory and add the following line at the top.

Options -Indexes

It will prevent the outside world from seeing a listing of files available in your directories in case the default index.html or index.php files are absent from those directories.

Update the WordPress Security Keys

Go here to generate six security keys for your WordPress blog. Open the wp-config.php file inside the WordPress directory and overwrite the default keys with the new ones.

These random salts make your stored WordPress passwords more secure and the other advantage is that if someone is logged into WordPress without your knowledge, they will get logged out immediately as their cookies will become invalid now.