Beginners Guide to Basic Android Settings: Part 1

Welcome to the series of “Beginners Guide to Basic Android Settings”. This is the first part of the series which discusses about various settings you can play with related to Wireless & networks, in your Android device.

In this quick guide, you’ll find me discussing about various android settings like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Mobile Networks, Data usage, NFC, Android Beam, etc and help you get most out of your Android device.

TIP 1: HOW TO DISABLE MOBILE DATA ON ANDROID DEVICES

Using Mobile data to access Facebook, Twitter, and other applications which need internet access is not always a wise idea, until and unless you have subscription to data packages.

If you have subscribed for standard data packages then you need not worry about deduction of extra amount from your main balance. But if you do not have the subscription then you might consider disabling mobile data connection.

Besides, Keeping mobile/cellular data ON for a long period makes the battery drain quickly.

Read Also:
How to Disable App Notifications in Android

Method 1: Switch off Data Connection

The first method is to switch off the data connection. It is the best step you can do to ask your Android phone to not to connect to internet via mobile data.

• Visit settings
• Open data usage
• Toggle the setting from ON to OFF to turn of mobile data

Method 2: Delete APNs

Next thing you can do is to remove all the APNs being saved in your Android.

• Visit settings
• Open mobile networks
• Select access point names
• Delete all the APNs in the list

TIP 2: HOW TO VIEW WIFI MAC ADDRESS OF YOUR ANDROID DEVICE

Are you looking forward to register your Android phone in a wireless network, or have you planned to use MAC filter in your router at your home/office? There might be more but whatever may be the reasons, for all those purpose you’ll need the unique MAC address of your phone.

• Visit Settings
• Select Wifi
• Tap Options menu, and select Advanced
• Scroll down, and there you’ll have your WiFi MAC address. Eg, XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX.

There’s also another way to view the WiFi MAC address. Open Settings, scroll down to the bottom and visit About Phone > Status > Wi-Fi MAC address.

TIP 3: HOW TO VIEW ALL SAVED WIFI NETWORKS IN ANDROID

Whenever you connect to a Wireless network in your Android, the network name and its Security information is automatically saved inside your phone. The next time when you connect to the same network you won’t need to re-enter the security credentials, the system will automatically get connected to that particular network.

• Visit Settings
• Select Wi-Fi and turn it on
• From Options, tap Saved networks to view all WiFi networks

If you want to remove any particular WiFi network from the Saved networks, just select the network and tap FORGET option. That’s it! The selected network will be removed from the list of Saved networks. Now the next time you try to connect to that network, you’ll have to enter the security credentials again.

TIP 4: HOW TO TURN YOUR ANDROID PHONE INTO A WIFI HOTSPOT

If you happen to have subscription of mobile data package and want to make use of it to connect to internet on other phones/laptops or any WiFi enabled devices, then you might consider turning your Android phone into a WiFi hotspot.

There’s this “Tethering & portable hotspot” option in your Android phone, which makes it easy to share your phone’s mobile data over WiFi as a hotspot and other devices can connect to it.

• Go to Settings
• Depending upon the version of Android you’re using, search for the option Tethering & portable hotspot. In Android Lollipop, visit More > Tethering & portable hotspot.
• Before turning WiFi hotspot, First set up the settings. Tap on Set up Wi-Fi hotspot
• Enter Network name (which is SSID), select WPA2 PSK as Security from the drop down menu, enter the Password for the hotspot
• Finally tap SAVE to save our settings for the hotspot.
• Now Turn on Portable Wi-Fi hotspot

TIP 5: HOW TO SHARE YOUR ANDROID PHONE’S INTERNET CONNECTION

Did you know that you can easily share your Android phone’s internet connection with other devices via three ways: creating WiFi hotspot, USB tethering & Bluetooth tethering.

Via USB

First connect your Android phone to PC using USB cable.

• Go to Settings
• Depending upon the version of Android you’re using, search for the option Tethering & portable hotspot. In Android Lollipop, visit More > Tethering & portable hotspot.
• Turn on USB tethering
• Turn on Mobile Data Connection (Settings > Mobile networks)

Via Bluetooth

• Go to Settings
• Depending upon the version of Android you’re using, search for the option Tethering & portable hotspot. In Android Lollipop, visit More > Tethering & portable hotspot.
• Turn on Bluetooth tethering
• Turn on Mobile Data Connection (Settings > Mobile networks)

Now you can pair any bluetooth enabled devices with this Android device to surf internet on that particular phone.

TIP 6: HOW TO SWITCH BETWEEN LTE, 3G & 2G IN YOUR ANDROID

If you’re still running in 2G or 3G then its time to upgrade your network type to LTE (if your mobile company supports this technology). You can also downgrade the network type! I’m not sure why anyone would like to downgrade their mobile network. But let me tell you that there’s a quick way to switch between these network types in your Android phones.

• Open Settings
• Tap Mobile networks
• Open Preferred network type
• Select the network type you’d prefer to use (LTE, 3G, 2G). The system will automatically switch to the new network type of your preference.

This is the first part of the series “Beginners Guide to Basic Android Settings”. Stay subscribed to our blog for further updates.

Nepal Telecom 4G for iOS, iPhone. Apple finally allowed to use 4G.

4G has been made available for Nepal Telecom

The 4G service works well in Iphone 5, 5c and 5s so far. But, there was problem in iPhone 6 and above, because the update foe iPhone iOS was not provided now the wait is over.

Telecom operators all around the world must sign an agreement with Apple to enable their customers to use devices such as iPhone and iPad on their networks. NT apparently has not entered into such a deal. The agreement basically allows a telecom company to synchronise its network with Apple devices that run on iOS, paving the way for iPhone and iPad users to use 4G service on its network. NT has said it has already requested the American smartphone maker to enable the ‘location code’. Finally apple allowed NT for it's service.

Follow the following procedure to activate 4G in iOS in Nepal.

1. Click here(this redirects you to apple's site) to go forward using 4G service in ios 6 and above.
2. Follow the instructions and download the file taking backup of your phone.

lastly,

      3. Go to General>Settings>Software Update and download beta version 

Now, you will be able to use 4G Network in your iOS 6 and above devices as well.

Finally, 4G has been made available for Nepal Telecom prepaid and post-paid users .To activate: Dial *444#NOTE:On activating 4G, one will get free data subscription of 4GB for 4 days. *1GB/day.

References:

Nepal Telecom

Online Khabar

Relevant articles:

evolution-of-5g

nepal-telecom-introduces-4g

4G has been made available for Nepal Telecom

Finally, 4G has been made available for Nepal Telecom prepaid and post-paid users .To activate: Dial *444#NOTE:On activating 4G, one will get free data subscription of 4GB for 4 days. *1GB/day.

For More Info Contact your nearest Nepal Telecom Office Or Call : 1498

NT had launched 4G service in the beginning of 2017. Around 50,000 NT postpaid service subscribers have switched to 4G service.NT, on October 21 2016, received permission to operate 4G service in Kathmandu and Pokhara from January 1,2017. Since then, NT has been conducting tests of the 4G service in both the places. During these tests, NT had, however, found that 4G service was inaccessible in Apple devices powered by iOS, a mobile operating system created and developed by the US smartphone maker.This means users of iPhone and iPad may not be able to use 4G service for the time being.Telecom operators all around the world must sign an agreement with Apple to enable their customers to use devices such as iPhone and iPad on their networks. NT apparently has not entered into such a deal.The agreement basically allows a telecom company to synchronize its network with Apple devices that run on iOS, paving the way for iPhone and iPad users to use 4G service on its network.NT has said it has already requested the American smartphone maker to enable the ‘location code’. While NT is all set to launch 4G service, Ncell, a privately-owned cell phone service provider, has not obtained permission to do so. The NTA is yet to extend the permission to Ncell, although both the telecom companies had formally sought permission in July to launch 4G service from the existing frequency of 1800 Mhz.

As part of the preparations for launching 4G service, the telecom giant had upgraded 308 of its Base Transceiver Station (BTS) towers in the Kathmandu Valley and 25 stations in Pokhara. The upgraded network allows consumers to use data at speeds of up to 32.4 Mbps. NT aims to eventually raise it to 100 Mbps. The Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) has authorized NT to offer 4G service with a bandwidth of 5 Mhz from the 1800 Mhz frequency band. NT has asked the regulator for another 5 Mhz bandwidth to increase the speed to 100 Mbps.

Once the pilot phase is completed, NT aims to launch the service in 15 municipalities in the first phase. The expansion will be based on the scale of demand and supply. The telecom service provider is of the view that people in remote places might not be in need of 4G service or may not want to pay more to get faster connectivity. As per the latest report prepared by the NTA, the state-owned telecommunication service provider has 13,536,114 GSM subscribers. The report states that the company has 7,504,457 internet service users using GPRS, EDGE and WCDMA technologies. There are 13.74 million internet service subscribers using these technologies across the country, according to the NTA’s data.

Refrence:

Nepal Telecome 4G
Nepal Telecome
eKantipur

[VLOG] EXPLORE GADGETS: AWESOME TECH - February 2017

Explore Gadget is a trending YouTube channel which provides informational videos, unique gadgets ,tech accessories, android applications & games, iOS applications & games, tutorials, how-to and many more. On top of that this is the only tech channel in Nepal with such a huge number of subscribers and 80M+ views and growing.

As February is month of Love, Explore Gadgets presents cool gadgets for all the gadget lovers. On this video by Explore Gadget, they present us with Wireless Bluetooth Speaker, Yosh Car Mount, Sansi RGB Light, Eonfine Spider Web Case, and Aukley Table Lamp. Few features of these gadgets are included below:

Wireless Bluetooth Speaker

Wireless HO3 Bluetooth speaker with unique design and superior sound quality. The beautifully crafted tri-angular shaped Wireless Bluetooth speaker is made of brushed aluminium metal. It is powered by two premium 250mm drivers and passive sub woofers either side delivering deep bass. The premium features built into the design allows for effortless 3D HD sound delivered through the latest Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity. The controls are in the touch panel display which does resembles apples touch bar. In addition to Bluetooth it also supports NFC.

Yosh Car Mount

Perfectly polished surface with a carefully carved logo. This makes for a simple yet elegant design so you can easily install or remove it when needed. 

The body is fashioned from high-quality Type-50D Silicon, which is often used in various high-tech industries. The soft rubber feel of the silicon protects your air vent so it doesn’t get scratched or damaged. 

Contains a quadruple-plated nickel magnet that is powerfully magnetized. This extends the car mount’s life period and also holds your phone in place, so you don’t have to worry about it dropping off and breaking. 

Universal-design so it’s compatible with almost any device and air vent can even be used as a phone stand. Systems include : Android, Apple, Windows Phone. 

Sansi RGB Light

For your colorful life & healthy life

• Allow to customized light settings from over 16 million colors for any ambiance or mood, rich your life. 
• Support daily lighting- select natural daylight color for reading, warm white for relax, improve your life. 

Rich functions

• Music control: Light color changing along with the mobile phone local music. 
• Group control: A group of bulbs can be controlled by App at the same time. 

High tech

• Energy saving: 60w equivalently because of 10w bulb achieving 800lm. 
• Safe: Insulated inter ceramic shell, safe to install and remove. 
• Service time is 25000hrs 

Easy to setup

• Download the "Stellar Wi-Fi" app and install it into Android/IOS device. 
• Connect your mobile phone to the bulb’s Wi-Fi signal. 
• Open the App 

Eonfine Spider Web Case 

Upgraded Version

• Use top-level metal and TPU as manufacture material, uttermost reduce the effect to the signal to provide protection from scratches. Case comes with high touch sensitivity built-in screen protector. The transparent front and back cover for camera lenses enable high-quality, high-definition photos and videos.

Water Shock Dirty Dust Snow Proof 

• IP68 standard Waterproof, submersible to over 6.6 ft deep for 30 minutes; designed and tested to 2 meters high, protect your phone from drops and shocks. Full-sealed cover stop any dirty and dust into your iPhone 7.

Precise Cutout 

• The precision cutting fits iPhone 7 perfectly, all buttons and controls, like touch ID, cameras & speakers, power button, mute key, charge port and volume buttons, work great like there is no case. Please use original iphone 7 charge cable and earphones or corresponding size cables.

Best for Sports lover

• A must for Sports and outdoors. Fasten your iPhone 7 with the camping snap hook on your bag or wristband, then feel free to enjoy your swimming, skiing, diving, climbing mountains, other outdoor activities and daily use. Record the most charming moment in your life.

Aukey Table Lamp

• Touch activated table lamp, reading lamp, bedside lamp with 256 color changing LED lights 
• Tap the base to toggle 3 brightness settings - Soft, cool, and bright white light 
• Auto cycle 256 RGB color combinations or select a fixed color to suit your mood 
• 360° touch panel base provides full control to easily switch light modes and power on/off 

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NOTE: Products specifications may not be similar to the product because this is written per the specifications provided on the online market.

LOCUS 2017 "RENOVATING SOCIETY" ONE HUGE TECH FESTIVAL OF NEPAL

With the theme “RENOVATING SOCIETY” students of Electronics, Computer and Electrical Engineering from IOE, Pulchowk Campus are organizing "LOCUS 2017 14th NATIONAL TECHNOLOGICAL FESTIVAL" on 27th ,28th and 29th of Magh

Students, Faculties, Entrepreneurs and many Technology Enthusiasts are excited about Technology Fair are frequently being organized in the Country. After 6th KU ITMEET organized by Kathmandu University Computer Club  and CAN INFO TECH organized by Computer Association of Nepal, people are excited for the most awaited Tech Fair "LOCUS 2017". And the quest is finally here.

Find out here: How an idea of four scholars helped shape the minds of thousands of students who walk on their footsteps

Locus is an organization composed of students of Electronics, Computer and Electrical Engineering from IOE, Pulchwok Campus. With a group of brilliant minds from Tribhuvan University, LOCUS has been able to mark its prestigious event every year among the IT Community of Nepal. A dozen of major events are hosted in LOCUS 2017. Some of the major attractions are 

• LOCUS PROJECT COMPETITION :
  Locus 2017 will be organizing projects competition for theme and non-theme categories. All students interested to showcase their projects are requested to give quick response.
• HACK A WEEKLEARN · DEVELOP · WINHack-a-week is one of the pre-events being organized by LOCUS as a means to bring together developers, programmers and tech-enthusiasts and stimulate them to get involved in a competitive and innovative challenge. Hack-a-week aspires to become a hub to amass large number of enthusiasts coming from different disciplines working together to come up with impactful solutions in raging issues. It is a week long event in which a number of innovative participants engage in teams of collaboration to fashion out some product in forms of software development, business modeling and ambitious marketing campaign, which revolves around one of the three themes.
• ENERGY HACKATHON
  SOLVING ENERGY PROBLEMS
  Energy Hackathon is a complete platform for solving energy related challenges with a prime motto enabling Energy Access, Reducing Energy Waste and Improving Energy Efficiency and aims to solve the energy problems of Nepal through collaborative efforts of students and amateur working in Energy sectors. The three things you need to participate in the event are: Idea, Knowledge and curiosity. The participants will be provided with food, drinks(soft only), internet and mentors during the event.
• DRONACHARYA

  BECOME THE ULTIMATE DRONE MASTER

  Drones are the unmanned aerial vehicles capable of autonomous or manual flight. Drones have been emerging technology in the world and its use has been in widespread areas. Nepal also has been a part of this drone revolution and to further help Nepal grasp this technology LOCUS 2017 is going to organize drone competition named "Dronacharya" as the main event in the LOCUS exhibition.
• ROBO WARZ
  ROBOWARZ IS THE NEW ROBO-AKHADA
  Robo Warz is a war between two robots. The robots are vehicular with differential or omnidirectional drive. The game is about pushing the opponent robot outside the circular or hexagonal Arena. The Last Robot standing in the arena will be the Winner of the game.

And there are even more events like Art Competition, Photography Competition, Quiz Competition which you can browse on their official website. A link is provided in the Reference section at the end of the article.

CAN INFO TECH, LOCUS, and KU ITMEET are three such ICT Events which provides a platform of promoting IT student's project ideas and innovations. These are the only events conducted in our Country under ICT Category.  Increasing the number of such Technology Fair and Opportunities, Students could project their ideas among a huge mass of like minded professionals. This could be their gateway to their career and also an achievement for a country in setting milestones of development with new ideas and innovations.

Team Techjhola shares their warm wishes to the Organizing Committee of LOCUS 2017.  We wish all the very best for successful accomplishment of this Technological Fair.

Note: This event promotion is done by Techjhola with the approval from the Marketing Team of LOCUS 2017.
Reference LOCUS 2017

Get your Mediatek's MT7630e 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter working in Linux

In some laptops like HP Probook 450 G1, Asus TP300LD, the inbuilt wireless network driver is Mediatek's MT7630e 802.11bgn. After installing any version of Ubuntu, the WiFi list as well as 'Enable WiFi' option in the network list will not appear in such devices. Hence, we gotta go through following steps to get that working!

1. Firstly, confirm that your wireless network adapter is Mediatek's MT7630e 802.11bgn. To do so, open the Terminal(CTRL+ALT+T) and type:
   

   sudo lshw -C network

   
   There you can see under '*-network':
   
   description: Wireless interface
   product: MT7630e 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter


2. After you confirm that your wireless network adapter is Mediatek's MT7630e 802.11bgn, carry on following codes:

   sudo apt-get install git build-essential
   git clone https://github.com/neurobin/MT7630E.git
   cd MT7630E/
   chmod +x install test uninstall
   sudo ./install

So there you go! Neither you should restart your machine, nor any extra application needed to get the WiFi adapter working!

CAN INFOTECH 2017 | क्यान इन्फोटेक-२०१७

सुबिसु केबल नेट प्रालीले शीर्ष प्रायोजन र सामसुङ एसोसिएटले सह प्रायोजन गरेको क्यान इन्फोटेक–२०१७ माघ १३ देखिन माघ १८ ,२०७३ तदअनुशर जनावरी २६ ,२०१७ देखि जनावरी ३१ ,२०१७ मा भएको थियो । क्यान इन्फोटेक भनेकै सूचना प्रविधि सम्बन्धी सम्पूर्ण सामग्री र सेवाको नविनतम जानकारी दिने थलो हो।कम्प्युटर एसोसिएनस अफ नेपाल (क्यान) महासंघले हरेक वर्ष आयोजना गर्ने गरेको मेलाको यो २३ औ संस्करण थियो।


सूचना प्रविधि क्षेत्रका नविनतम वस्तु र सेवाको जानकारी दिने उद्देश्यले सुरु भएको मेलामा स्वदेशी र विदेशी गरि २ सयभन्दा बढी कम्पनीले सहभागीता जनाएका थिए । ६ दिनसम्म चलको मेलामा विभिन्न कम्पनीहरुले आफ्ना नयाँ उत्पादन, सेवा र उपभोक्ता योजना सार्वजनिक गरेका थिए । विश्वस्तरिय ब्रान्डका नेपाली अधिकृत विक्रेतादेखि स्वदेशमै सफ्टवेयर, मोबाइल एप्लिकेसन, वेब एप्लिकेसन, सूचना प्रविधि प्रणालीलगायतका सेवा विकास गर्नेहरुले मेलामा स्टल राखेका थिए । मेलामा कुल २ सय २२ स्टल थिए।हरेक वर्ष हुने यो मेलाको २२ औं संस्करण ३ लाख ६३ हजार ४ सय ५६ जनाले अवलोकन गरेका थिए । यसपाली भने ४ लाखभन्दा बढीले अवलोकन गर्ने लक्ष्य राखिएको थियो

Google Apps: How to Exchange Your Domain Mail with Google Mail App?

Whichever be the ISP that provided you a domain name, you will only get limited size of space for your email. I registered my site from ohodomain and it provides me about 50MB of space for mail exchange and I use webmail to view my emails. Unlike many email browsing application/ email service provider like outlook, thunderbird, yahoo and gmail, webmail is one of them. 

Today in this blog I'll list out the step by step guide to setup widely used Google's Product Gmail Application for using it to browse your email provided by your domain provider.

After the email is setup you can simply enter your email "email@domain.com".

You can than reach to your email login screen by typing "mail.google.com" .Where you will enter your email email@domain.com and your password.

In order to reach your admin panel which is also provided by Google, your URL will be something like this https://google.com/a/domainname.com

G Suite Account Setup

Below are the step-by-step  guide to perform the mail exchange:

• First you need to sign up at G Suite for Google Apps.
  G Suite is powered by Google Cloud which provides your business with Gmail, Docs, Drive and Calendar.
• During the Registration you need to provide your Personal as well as Organization Details like (Name, Current Email, Business or Organization Name,Number of Employees, Country. Region)
• Next you will be directed to configure your domain. There are two options where you can either register your existing domain or buy a new one from google.
  Select your existing domain 
• Next You will be asked for a username and password to register a new account at G Suite.

This completes the first part of our set up. Now you need to verify your ownership of the domain you just registered. This can be done by following the email you received after the registration got completed.

Domain Exchange

Now that you have your G Suite Account you need to verify the domain and do the mail exchange i.e. you need to point your domain email server with Google's provided mail server exchange links. We will proceed to the step-by-step guide to do the mail exchange.

• To Perform the mail exchange you need to login to the admin panel (call it as CPanel or administration panel, just login to the page where you do your domain's modification). NOTE:I can do the modification from my domain admin panel as well as through Cloudflare. Because I monitor my domains HTTPS , SSL Certificated through Cloudflare. So I can add any email exchange point from here only.
• In you Admin Panel, Go to the Email configuration Section. Click on Configure your Domain Name to use our Name Servers.There you need to add MX Record. NOTE: A MX record identifies registered or assigned with your domain.
• Now add following MX Entry for your server domain which is provided by google cloud. Also donot forget to add their priority:
  PRIORITY MAIL SERVER1 SPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM
  5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM
  5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM
  10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM
  10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM

To know more about verifying G Suite Domain follow this link : G Suite Quick Fixes Help

This completes your second part of cnfiguration. Now that you have the verified G Suite account and you completed your Mail Server Point Exchange Completed, you can login to the admin panel og your G Suite through this link: https://google.com/a/domainname.com.
There you can add users in your business. After the complete setup of G Suite you can not only login to email but GSuite provides a package of Gmail, Docs, Drive and Calendar. You can have access to these applications.

By default Google Cloud Provides 30 GB of cloud storage which is now your secure and convenient store for domain communication.
For a corporate Organization the cost  should not be expensive as well. It chager $5per user/ per month.
Also you can try the free version to review if migrating to Gmail Apps is worth it or not.The free trail version is available for 15 days

References:
blog.chapagain.com
gsuite.google.com

TORRENT: Leech, Seed, Peer, Everything To Know About

In simple words, You are a Leecher/Peer until your download completes. You become a Seeder once you have 100% download.

Mostly, all of us are well known what torrent is and where we use it? But, What exactly is torrent? How does BitTorrent work?Why torrent? Is torrent legal? How are large files hosted on the Internet easily?

An American Computer programmer Bram Cohen came up with the concept of sharing a file over the Internet with different hosts. BitTorrent was first released by Bram Cohen back in 2001, but it took two years before the new file-sharing protocol gained a notable audience. In the years that followed millions of torrent files were downloaded and shared billions of times. Bram Cohen designed a peer to peer communication protocol for distributing data over the internet termed as BitTorrent protocol. Peer-to-peer file sharing is different from traditional file downloading. In peer-to-peer sharing, you use a software program (rather than your Web browser) to locate computers that have the file you want.Because these are ordinary computers like yours, as opposed to servers, they are called peers.The BitTorrent protocol divides a large files into small chunks allowing users to download sections of it and to exchange the sections between themselves until the file download completes. This protocol uses less bandwidth from the file's creator. This is a great advantage for its distribution in the long term.

How does BitTorrent work?

Unlike some other peer-to-peer downloading methods, BitTorrent is a protocol that offloads some of the file tracking work to a central server (called a tracker). Another difference is that it uses a principal called tit-for-tat. This means that in order to receive files, you have to give them. With BitTorrent, the more files you share with others, the faster your downloads are. Finally, to make better use of available Internet bandwidth (the pipeline for data transmission), BitTorrent downloads different pieces of the file you want simultaneously from multiple computers.

Its a fairly simple concept, When you download a torrent, you aren't downloading the file from one specific person, but rather from many different sources who share the file, for example; lets say I am downloading a movie from a torrent thats around 300 megabytes, at 200 kb/s speed from 10 different sources, that would mean that the average transfer rate per person is 20 kb/s, so from each person you are downloading the same file (but different pieces of it) at an average 20kb/s.

The thing is that some people have slow Internet, so you made download faster from others, lets say you have 10 different sources but 5 of them are on dial up, and you only receive a max of 5 kb/s, that means the other 175 kb/s would come from the other 5 Internet users who may be using broadband or higher.

Its the same concept for seeding, once you download the file, and you allow to seed it, a lot of people are connect to your computer since you are hosting the file, not just one person, lets say you are seeding a file for 30 people, but your upload speed is at 150kb/s each of them are receiving an average of 5 kb/s upload speed for each person.

Your friends Internet connection impacts the speed of the download, and also He may be getting unlucky and downloading from sources that have slow Internet speeds, (it happens)

Is torrent legal?

As long as the item is copyrighted and you don’t own it and if someone else is the owner then downloading it for free is not legal. But via torrent it is legal. The protocol itself is perfectly legal. Torrent may be primarily used for privacy at the present mainly because of its decentralized nature. However there are many legal uses of BitTorrent, like many Linux distros prefer torrent to push out updates as it reduces the stress on their servers. 

What is seeding?

Seeding is where you leave your BitTorrent client open after you've finished your download to help distribute it (you distribute the file while downloading, but it's even more helpful if you continue to distribute the full file even after you have finished downloading). Chances are that most of the data you got was from seeds, so help give back to the community! It doesn't require much - the client will continue seeding until the torrent is removed (right click the torrent, then hit Remove). Proper practice is to seed until the ratio of upload:download is at least 1.00.

What are seeds, peers and leeches in Torrents' language?

SEEDERS are those who has downloaded the file already or initially only one person who uploads the torrent seeds to others. You may notice that after your download is complete the torrent turns from DOWNLOADING to SEEDING. Seeder is someone from whom you can download a piece of file. Hence they affect the overall availability of file on P2P (Point to Point) network.

PEERS are those who are downloading and uploading at the same time. They do not posses the whole file. They only posses parts of whole. Peer is someone who is involved in file sharing activity. It is a generic term.

LEECHERS are those who don’t have all parts file and are not able to share you the required part of the file. If there are zero seeders it is doubtful that you will ever finish downloading that torrent. Very rarely you can download the whole only by leechers. Leecher is someone who has downloaded a file but is not sharing it back to P2P (Point to Point) network. Hence, overall availablity of file decreases.

In simple words, You are a Leecher/Peer until your download completes. You become a Seeder once you have 100% download.

What is their inside Bit-torrent file?

The address to one or more trackers and information about the files. The tracker is a server that knows which users have the real file.

The basic principle is:

• Your BitTorrent program, that opens the BitTorrent file, connects to the tracker(s) and gets a list of people who have the file. 
• Your BitTorrent program connects to the people and request pieces of the file. 
• You are now also on the list, so any user opening the BitTorrent File after you will get your address as well and can download the pieces from you that you already have downloaded. 

How the first seeding starts in torrent? 

• You create a torrent using any torrent client 
• add trackers (to manage a list of all the swarms and peers) 
• distribute the .torrent file 
• users (torrent clients) read the .torrent file and then obtain a list of peers and seeders from the trackers by querying the unique hash of that torrent 
• Before the connections are made to those peers, various information like: total pieces, piece size, names, hierarchy of files etc are saved from the .torrent file 
• connection setup and downloading starts 

What is the first seeded torrent file?

The Oldest Torrent

The torrent file that has been around for the longest time according to our knowledge is The Matrix ASCII. We already crowned this one the oldest torrent back in 2005, and as of today(Nov 7, 2010) it is still active with a few downloaders and only one seeder.

The torrent file in question was created in December 2003 when sites like isoHunt, The Pirate Bay and Torrentz.com were only a few months old and when Facebook and YouTube didn’t yet exist. Thus far, this torrent has survived a mind boggling 2500 days.

What is the largest torrent file?

When we refer to the largest torrent we mean the single .torrent file that downloads the most data, not the size of the .torrent file itself. There are several huge torrent files active at the moment, but the record goes to a torrent with a 746.70 GB collection of all 2010 World Cup soccer matches (~ 6GB per half).

Refrences:

1. Timeline of file sharing 
2. What are seeds peers and leeches in Torrents Language
3. How seeding works in torrent
4. UTORRENT FORUM
5. Wiki : BitTorrent
6. Wiki : Torrent File 

Assistive Domotics: Logical Design of Automated Door in a Smart Home

Background

Assistive technology is the form of home automation which includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and also includes the process used in selecting, locating, and using them. Microsoft Corporation’s C.E.O. Steve Ballmer once said ”The number one benefit of technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do.It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive.” The US Census Bureau has projected that by 2010 13% of the population will be 65 or older (Cheek 2005). The bureau has also projected that by 2030 there will be 9 million Americans older than 85. Providing the physical facilities of health and security personnel will be a tough task because the cost will be massive.So automated machines will be the best cost effective alternative.

History of Assistive Domotics

Today every embedded device are automated to some extent in order to ease the users. Nikola Tesla’s design of first remote-controlled boat(1785 A.D) is the first known automated device in history.Mentioning about home automation in the early 1930s World’s Fair models fictional were exhibited in order to excite the spectators. Then the invention of Complex Number Calculator (CNC) in 1940, mouse in 1964, Mac OS in 1984, first wireless system in 1989 are other different development in automation.In 1984, home automation technology spreads to garage doors, security systems, infra-red control , fiber optics and many more. Likewise a separate section named as assistive domotics was started and it emphasized the development of automated appliances for the elderly and disabled people.

Machines for Assistive Automation

A Home Robot

A home robot is a mobile device for moving about, performing tasks such as vacuuming, measuring, communicating, fetching objects etc. This device is useful for the elderly people who have problem with ageing and back pain. Many of their daily activities will be solved by this home robot.

Assistive Bed

Assistive bed is an externally monitored machine special designed for elderly and disabled people with spinal cord disabilities or paralysis.This device functions when the user rests in the bed, the string like structure will expand and contract calculating the mass weighed by it.

Designs in Smart Home

The development of home automation is in its early stage.Many researches in the filed of automation is going on.There are obstacles in building a completely automated system. None of the existing system in the world are completely automated by itself. The main reason behind it is machine needs external factors like human, electricity to begin its function.

Design of Automated Door

Scenario

A security code must be entered in order to open the door and enter inside the house. Same scenario is represented below with the help of context diagram and transition diagram.

State Definition

Here automated door is deterministic in nature and the system consists
of three states: Q = MainDoor,PasswordCheck,MainHall,

two input symbols authorized as ’1’ and unauthorized as ’0’ i.e. ∑= 0,1

starting state q0 is MainDoor i.e. q0 = MainDoor
and final state F is MainHall i.e.  F= MainHall
A transition table of illustrating the states involved while entering to main
hall is represented below.

Context Diagram

Below is the context free diagram which clearly shows the work mechanism of an automated door:

Transition Table

Transition Table of automated door as per the context diagram is shown below:

Transition Diagram

Transition diagram of the automated door is shown below:

Conclusion
This research was conducted as a partial fulfillment of course "Automata and Formal Languages". The topic was chosen seeing the potential of automation in houses and business complex. Now with this logical design we can simulate the result using functional/procedural programming languages like LISP and PROLOG for convenience. I've also designes another logical implementation of the movement of wheel chair within a smart house. This can be seen in the reference paper.

Reference:

Assistive Domotics: Logical Design of Automated Home and Movement of Wheelchair in a Smart Home, Sanjog Sigdel,Published on: Research Gate,  [accessed Jan 29, 2017].

NOKIA 6: BIG DADDY IS BACK AGAIN

Nokia has crossed over 1 million registrations in China on JD.com where the smartphone is exclusively available. The number of registration is currently listed at 1,11,5351. The first ever android of Nokia and HMD company has massively hit the market in China and may be the trend goes on with the other countries too.

The Nokia 6 smartphone sports a 5.5 HD display with 2.5 Gorilla Glass protection, runs the Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 processor coupled with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage, which is expandable to 128GB via microSD. In terms of pricing it costs Yuan 1,699(approx Rs. 16,800)in China.

And for the camera lovers on the front, the Nokia 6 packs a 16MP PDAF rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, coupled with 8MP front camera.The Nokia 6 also has a 3000 mAh battery, a fingerprint scanner embedded in the home button and supports Wi-Fi, USB-OTG, GPS and Bluetooth v4.1. The phone also has dual amplifier speakers with Dolby Atmos technology. The Nokia 6 smartphone runs Android Nougat 7.0 OS which is the latest android version.

As expected, the Nokia 6 went out of stock within a minute. No announcement for its next sale is made yet. For the Nokia and android lovers Nokia 6 can be your choice.

Source:YIBADA: Latest World News

How to Free up Google Photos Storage From Google Drive

Over a period of time your phone definitely takes tons of photos and if you’re using Google Photos to backup your photos then I’m sure the storage might have been used to some GBs. Google Drive allows you to store max 15 GB of data (Drive, Gmail & Google Photos). For high-quality photos, Google gives you unlimited storage. But if the images are stored in original size, the upload quota is limited.

So if your photos have been accumulated in your drive account in original size and the storage is about to bid you byebye, well here’s a way-out to free up Google Photos storage from Google Drive.

FREEING UP GOOGLE PHOTOS STORAGE

You can download all of your Google Photos to your local machine using Google Takeout.

Visit Google Takeout page and select the app Google Photos and click the “next” button to grab all the photos from your Google Account.

After you’ve downloaded all your photos (make sure you have all of them), delete the online copy of photos from Google Photos app.

Now within Google Photos app, visit settings > backup and select the quality of photos to “high quality”. Selecting high quality gives you unlimited storage quota for backing up your photos in Google Photos.