1. Learn “what has been using the battery”
Follow these steps and learn about your battery usage.
1- Go to Settings
2- Go to About Phone
3- Go to Battery usage
This screen gives you complete information as what systems and applications such as voice calls, cell Standby, Wi-Fi, Android Systems etc. are using the most battery.
2. Use the Built-in Power Widget to Toggle GPS, Bluetooth, Wireless, and Screen Brightness
Android comes with a built-in Power Widget with which you can easily toggle the settings on or off. Hole the widget icon for a longer while to make it available on your screen or choose Widget then select Power Control to add it to the screen.
3. Use Battery saver Apps
Installing a battery saver app certainly worker for me. There are several apps out there to help you rescue your battery, among which the most prominent are:
> Green Power Battery Saver
> Juice Defender
> Battery Doctor
In our next post we will analyze in detail the best app for you!
4. Reduce brightness:
Like on any phone, you can save substantial battery by reducing its brightness. To do so, follow these steps:
1- Go to Settings
2- Go to Display
3- Go to Brightness
4- Adjust the level to the lowest acceptable level!
5. Turn-off unnecessary connections
Turn-off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections when not required. Usually GPS and Google apps such as Maps and Places are known to be battery eaters. Try to use them minimum.
6. Turn off unnecessary apps (Use task killers!)
There are many apps that will be running in background and you won’t even be aware of it! Always turn-off unnecessary applications to save your battery. A best way to accomplish this is to install Task Managers. Such applications, usually called Task killers will inform you about which applications are running on your phone currently and will also allow you to kill them.
> Advanced Task Manager
> Advanced Task Killer
> Watchdog Task Manager Lite
7. Set Apps that need to be synchronize to synchronize after large update- intervals.
8. Avoid live wallpapers! They will eat your battery!
You are done! Try these simple ways to enhance your Android Battery life!
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
Metasploit- An Introduction
f you are active in the community of Penetration tester/ethical hacker than you have heard about metasploit, because it is the most famous tool and used by the most penetration tester as well as used by the hackers. Metasploit is an open source security (Computer) project that contain the information about vulnerabilities.
If you just put all the available exploit in a single place than the phenomena of metasploit occur.
Metasploit framework is a sub project and is use to execute exploit code against a machine and get the desire task done.
Before discussing how to do all the things, you need to understand some basic terms like, vulnerability, exploit and payload. Vulnerability is a weakness or a hole by which an attacker can compromise a machine. Exploit may be a piece of code is an attack that takes advantage of a vulnerability. A payload is the piece of software that lets you control a computer system after it’s been exploited.
Metasploit project provides metasploit pro, metasploit express and metasploit framework. Metasploit framework is an open source and available for free for cross operating system platform (Windows, Linux).
How To Install Metaspolit
In this tutorial we will discuss how to get and install metasploit framework for both Windows and for Linux (like ubuntu), if you are using backtrack than you can find metasploit over there.
Install Metasploit on ubuntu:
We need some packages to install metasploit, open terminal and type exactly.
$ sudo apt-get install ruby libruby rdoc
$ sudo apt-get install libyaml-ruby
$ sudo apt-get install libzlib-ruby
$ sudo apt-get install libopenssl-ruby
$ sudo apt-get install libdl-ruby
$ sudo apt-get install libreadline-ruby
$ sudo apt-get install libiconv-ruby
$ sudo apt-get install rubygems
click here to download metasploit, in this case we have downloaded Linux-full.run file. You need to become a root user to run this installation on the terminal type.
$ sudo su
Now locate the directory where you have downloaded metasploit before and type.
$ ./name_of_file.run
Now just forward it accept the agreement, after installation, to run metasploit on the terminal type.
$ msfconsole
Install Metasploit on Windows:
If you want to install metasploit on windows than you need to download the executable file of metasploit click here to download: The installer includes the packages
Console2
Ruby 1.9.2
PostgreSQL
Java JDK 6
Subversion
VNCViewer
WinVI32
Nmap 5.6
So you dont need to download any other file, just run the installer and you are done!
If you just put all the available exploit in a single place than the phenomena of metasploit occur.
Metasploit framework is a sub project and is use to execute exploit code against a machine and get the desire task done.
Before discussing how to do all the things, you need to understand some basic terms like, vulnerability, exploit and payload. Vulnerability is a weakness or a hole by which an attacker can compromise a machine. Exploit may be a piece of code is an attack that takes advantage of a vulnerability. A payload is the piece of software that lets you control a computer system after it’s been exploited.
Metasploit project provides metasploit pro, metasploit express and metasploit framework. Metasploit framework is an open source and available for free for cross operating system platform (Windows, Linux).
How To Install Metaspolit
In this tutorial we will discuss how to get and install metasploit framework for both Windows and for Linux (like ubuntu), if you are using backtrack than you can find metasploit over there.
Install Metasploit on ubuntu:
We need some packages to install metasploit, open terminal and type exactly.
$ sudo apt-get install ruby libruby rdoc
$ sudo apt-get install libyaml-ruby
$ sudo apt-get install libzlib-ruby
$ sudo apt-get install libopenssl-ruby
$ sudo apt-get install libdl-ruby
$ sudo apt-get install libreadline-ruby
$ sudo apt-get install libiconv-ruby
$ sudo apt-get install rubygems
click here to download metasploit, in this case we have downloaded Linux-full.run file. You need to become a root user to run this installation on the terminal type.
$ sudo su
Now locate the directory where you have downloaded metasploit before and type.
$ ./name_of_file.run
Now just forward it accept the agreement, after installation, to run metasploit on the terminal type.
$ msfconsole
Install Metasploit on Windows:
If you want to install metasploit on windows than you need to download the executable file of metasploit click here to download: The installer includes the packages
Console2
Ruby 1.9.2
PostgreSQL
Java JDK 6
Subversion
VNCViewer
WinVI32
Nmap 5.6
So you dont need to download any other file, just run the installer and you are done!
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