“Accessing Cloud storage, authenticating accessing and uploading files using cloud storage”

Cloud storage is generally used for large storage purpose in which a virtualized pool of storage data is used.

Hosting companies those who want their data to be hosted they buy or lease storage capacity from them.

•The data center provides the storage capacity according to customer needs.

•The safety of files totally depends upon the companies who host the data.

Accessing Cloud Storage: 3 Use Cases:

1.Software Developer Application use RESTful API for writing to cloud storage.

2.Many IT Administrators Can Use Cloud Storage For Addressing their Data growth and protecting your data.

3.Business Executives Can Use a Browser to Store and Manage Files.

Authenticating, Accessing and Uploading Files

Cloud Storage Token are the equivalent of user IDs and passwords. In this a token contains all credentials which is used to enable a request. The Most Important credentials that are required to successfully authenticate include a Subtenant ID, User ID ,Shared Secret and Host/API URL ,the address through which your client sends you request to upload and download data .While migrating to cloud storage be sure about the strategy which you are going to use.

Architecture:

Cloud storage is:

•It comprises of distributed system but act as one.

•Redundancy of data cannot be done.

•Highly durable through the creation of versioned copies

•Data replicas cannot be done.

Advantages:

•User generally pays for the amount he/she had used.

•Storage maintenance tasks are done by service provider.

•Cloud storage provides users with immediate access to a broad range of resources and applications hosted in the infrastructure of another organization via a web service interface.

Weekly Technology Tip - "Spoofing" and "Phishing" Emails

E-Mail Spoofing is the biggest threat now-a-days because anybody can send you an e-mail saying “You have won millions of dollars” or “You are hired by MICROSOFT, GOOGLE, or FACEBOOK, etc”. It is also used in phishing as attacker can send you an e-mail saying that anybody sends you a friend request and you just click on it and it asks for login-id and password and instantaneously obtaining your confidential information. It could be serious issue if scammer does this with an intention of hacking your accounts.

“Spoofing” and “Phishing” Emails – How it is done?

Note: This is for education purpose only. Do not commit any cyber crime.

Step 1: Go to link http://emkei.cz/ .

Step 2: Enter the From Name field. For example: Mail from “Microsoft” .

Step 3: Enter the From E-mail field. For example: billgates@microsoft.com .

Step 4: Enter the E-mail id you want to send the in To field. For example abcabc@gmail.com.

Step 5: Enter the Subject field. For example: Microsoft hires you.

Step 6: Upload any file you want or just leave it.

Step 7: Enter the text that you want to enter in Text field. For Example: Just Joking.

Step 8: Enter the right captcha and send it.

This is how spoofing is done. You can also track whether the mail you received is from true sender or not !!

Read more about How to identify a Phishing or Spoofing Emails

Get extra 10 GB space on your Google Drive for free !!

Users who needs to work with Microsoft Office Documents in their mobile phones are fully aware of Quickoffice, a shareware application for working with Microsoft Office documents. It gives users the facility to access their documents using mobile phones with ease. This week big news is, Google made Quickoffice free for Android and iOS, a big perk from Google for all !!

Read how you can grab this extra 10GB space for your Google Drive by downloading a new copy of Quickoffice for your smartphones here Link with Quickoffice to get extra 10 GB space on your Google Drive

Weekly Technology Tip !!

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Tip : Performing Simple Animations using NSTimer class

Here is a simple tip on how we can perform simple animation on objects in Xcode using the NSTimer class to create timers that call methods at regular intervals.

Using the NSTimer class -

There are many ways to perform simple animations. One of the easiest ways to perform animation is to use the NSTimer class. The NSTimer class creates timer objects, which enable you to call a method at a regular time interval. It also allows you to update the position of an image at regular time intervals.

Read full Article on our Technology Blog here - http://www.singsys.com/blog/performing-simple-animations-using-nstimer-class/

Smartphones new software can now identify users based on Touch

Smartphones new software technology ‘SilentSense’ can now identify its users based on touch. SilentSense software is developed by Cheng Bo and his colleagues at the Illinois Institute of Technology and has demonstrated 99% accuracy in tests.

Apart from many other ways for smartphones protection including passwords, pattern matching etc. used by smartphones to identify users, US based scientists have developed a new software to recognize users known as ‘Silent Sense’ which will do identification by the way users tap and swipe on the device screen.

Read full Article here http://www.singsys.com/blog/smartphones-can-now-identify-users-based-on-touch/

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Tip : Playing video from the server, application bundle and you tube embed code in iOS Applications.

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http://www.singsys.com/blog/playing-video-from-the-server-application-bundle-and-you-tube-embed-code-in-ios-applications/

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Facebook Adds New API to surf Real Time Conversation !!

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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of giant social networking site Facebook is introducing a set of social tool – the Keyword Insights API and the Public Feed API to get some insight into what is hot and trendy on facebook. This will be accomplished by two tools.

One of the tool uses the keywords to track those topics that are more interesting going on Facebook on a worldwide basic. While the other tool will be picking data in statistical form from pages of Facebook. This is done to find out what is newsworthy and trendy going among users on Facebook. It will include searching for user’s demographics concerning the comments givers.

Read Full Story here Facebook Adds New API to surf Real Time Conversation !!

Google Chrome turned five and introduces Chrome App for desktop

Google Chrome, one of the most popular browse has turned five and Google has updated the functionality and features of its Chrome apps. Google Chrome would now have the ability to launch the apps from a window desktop.

The new app will have many amazing features. It will work offline, connect to the cloud, launch app directly from your desktop and also will be able to interact with USB and Bluetooth devices. It will be updated automatically so that you get all the latest features.

Read full Article on Singsys Technology Blog here Google Chrome App Run on your Desktop now !!

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