Saturday, December 10, 2016

How To Use Android Phone Camera as Webcam for PC

How To Use Android Phone Camera as Webcam for PC

Requirements

Steps To Use Android Mobile Phone As Webcam

Step 1. First of all install, the downloaded IP Webcam application on your Android mobile phone. Also, install the IP Camera Adapter on your PC.
Step 2. Now open the installed IP Camera app on your phone and you will see many options like username, password, screen resolution and much more which you can adjust according to your choice. Now after doing so just click on the Start Server.
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Note: This app uses back camera as default for better quality but you can also change camera mode to front but it will reduce your video quality.
Step 3. Now when you click on the start server then following that you will see an IP at the bottom of mobile’s screen. Now open this IP in your mobile’s Chrome or Firefox browser. If none of this browser is installed on your Android mobile and select Browser built-in viewer option.
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Step 4. Now open and install the downloaded IP camera adapter on your PC. Now in the “Camera feed URL” just enter your IP and port which you got from the app you installed on your phone and remember don’t delete /video feed and then click on Autodetect.
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That’s it ! you are done. Open any video conferencing application on your PC like Skype, Facebook messenger, Yahoo messenger and you will see the video streaming on your PC from your android mobile phone.

Method 2. Using Android Camera as Webcam through USB

You can use your Android as webcam even without WiFi. All you need to do is just to enable the USB debugging mode on your Android smartphone. Let’s know how to do it.
Step 1. First of all, you need to enable the debugging mode on your Android device (Settings > Apps> Developer options> USB debugging)

 Android Camera as Webcam through USB
Android Camera as Webcam through USB

Step 2. Now you need to download and install DroidCam from Google Play store on your Android device.

 Android Camera as Webcam through USB
Android Camera as Webcam through USB

Step 3. Now connect your phone to your computer via USB and then let your computer install the required drivers in the PC ( You can manually install OEM drivers by clicking on this link)
Step 4. Now you need to download and install the Dev47apps client on your Windows PC.

 Android Camera as Webcam through USB
Android Camera as Webcam through USB

Step 5. After installing the client, you will get to see the screen like below.

Android Camera as Webcam through USB
Android Camera as Webcam through USB

Step 6. Now simply select the “USB” icon just behind the Wifi in your windows client and then click on “Start”.

Android Camera as Webcam through USB
Android Camera as Webcam through USB

That’s it ! If everything went right, you will get to see the camera of your Android device on your PC and you can use it as a webcam too. You can even visit Droid47apps connect page to know more about it.
Android Camera as Webcam through USB

How To Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting

Step 1. Click Start and type “disk mgmt.msg” (without quotes) and press enter. Now a disk management window will appear.

Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting
Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting

Step 2. Here you can see all your drives which are being currently available. Choose one of the drives which you want to shrink or extend. For shrinking, a drive and creating a new one there must be some free space on that drive. Now right-click on the drive letter which you want to shrink Or take out free space. Now select shrink volume, & a little process will go on.

Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting
Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting

Step 3. Here you will see the current size of the drive, free space and size which you want to shrink. Now enter the amount of space which you want to free, note that size should not exceed the free space. Now click shrink button.

Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting
Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting

Step 4. In disk management window you will see an unallocated space at the right bottom corner. Right-click on it and select New Simple Volume.

Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting
Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting

Step 5. Now you will be taken to “New Simple Volume Wizard” here you need to create a partition. Simply click “Next” to continue.

Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting
Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting

Step 6. Now on the very next page, you need to specify the volume size. You need to add the volume size here. Simply enter the volume and click on next.

Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting
Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting
Step 7. Now you need to assign the drive letter. You need to drop down and select a letter of your choice.

Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting
Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting
Step 8. Now you will be taken to “Format Partition” page. Simply select the File system to “NTFS” and then Enter the name for your new drive and hit the “Next” button.

Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting
Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting

Step 9. Now it will format and you will see the summary window of your newly created drive. Simply click on “Finish” and enjoy.
Partition A Hard Disk Without Formatting

Turn Your Android into a Wireless Flash Drive for PC or MAC

1. To get started with the method, you will have to install up until the app named “Pocket share: Flash Drive / NAS” on your Android device. This app could be found on the Google Play Store so you won’t need to go through the websites to find it up.

Turn Your Android into a Wireless Flash Drive for Mac or PC
Turn Your Android into a Wireless Flash Drive for Mac or PC
2. This step is meant for the Windows Users and the Mac users need not apply this step on their device. This step is all about the initial setup required on the Windows for the method to work and this isn’t needed on the Mac PC. In this step, you have to head towards the settings menu inside the Pocketshare app on your Android device and from there click on the Configure Windows option. After that, you need to get up the URL by saving it from the prompt message.

Turn Your Android into a Wireless Flash Drive for Mac or PC
Turn Your Android into a Wireless Flash Drive for Mac or PC
3. Open up that saved URL on your Windows computer using up any web browser and then from the proceeding web page that opens up you would see some kind of files listed. From that list, you have to select and download the ‘pocketshare_windows.bat’ file. Then rename the file to “Pocketshare.bat” and run it on your windows, you might be asked for some permissions so just grant these all. You will notice that after the execution of this file the Windows would be flashed and gets disappeared as soon. If that happened on your PC after execution of file then just restart your Windows and you are all done to set up the Wireless sharing!

Turn Your Android into a Wireless Flash Drive for Mac or PC
Turn Your Android into a Wireless Flash Drive for Mac or PC
4. Now before you start to share up the files between your Mac or Windows and Android device note that both these devices have been connected to the same Wi-Fi network. To share up the files first open the Pocketshare app , the server will start automatically and you need to select your computer’s name under the Devices tab in the Finder’s sidebar.

Turn Your Android into a Wireless Flash Drive for Mac or PC
Turn Your Android into a Wireless Flash Drive for Mac or PC
5. If you are using Mac or PC then head to the My Computer from where you shall be able to see a network drive named “Pocketshare“, just double click the drive to open it. From the windows panel that appears after that, you could easily transfer up the files and folders to your Android device or the vice-versa.

Turn Your Android into a Wireless Flash Drive for Mac or PC
Turn Your Android into a Wireless Flash Drive for Mac or PC
6. The files transferred from the computer can be checked or received in the Files tab of the Pocketshare app from where you can open it up or save it top the storage option of your device.
Turn Your Android into a Wireless Flash Drive for Mac or PC

How To Remove Write Protection From USB Or SD Card

#1 Method: Check Device For Virus


Check Device For Virus
Check Device For Virus

Sometimes there is the possibility that writes protection error can be because of some viruses which can easily harm your USB device. To remove this, scan your media with the best antivirus and then remove a virus from it. By this, your write protection will get easily removed.

#2 Method: Checking Write Protection Button


Checking Write Protection Button
Checking Write Protection Button

Many USB devices come with a write protection button. Sometimes when this button remains on the write protection, an error will get displayed on copying, pasting and deleting any file from the media device. To remove the error, check the button on the side of the SD card if the button is on then put it off and by this Write Protection of USB will get removed.

#3 Method: Using Command Prompt

In this method, we will remove write protection from Pendrive using commands in Cmd. This will fully clean the write protection of the Pendrive.
Step 1. Click on Start->Cmd. Type Diskpart and press enter.

Using Command Prompt
Using Command Prompt

Step 2. Type list disk.

Using Command Prompt
Using Command Prompt

Step 3. Type select disk 1 and this will select your Sdcard/USB Pendrive.

Using Command Prompt
Using Command Prompt

Step 4. Now type “attributes disk clear readonly” and press enter.

Using Command Prompt
Using Command Prompt

Now exit from cmd and format your Sdcard/USB Pendrive. This will remove write protection from your SD card or Pendrive.

How To Protect Your USB Pendrive With Password

#1 Method To Protect USB Pendrive With Password Using BitLock

Step 1. First of all, insert USB Pendrive into your computer.Now right click on the drive and select Turn on BitLocker.

Protect USB Pendrive With Password
Protect USB Pendrive With Password

Step 2. Now click on Use password to protect the drive. Now enter the password you want to set in both the password fields.

Protect USB Pendrive With Password
Protect USB Pendrive With Password

Step 3. Now click on next and next and print or save the key for future reference.

Protect USB Pendrive With Password
Protect USB Pendrive With Password

Step 4. Now encryption process will start and your drive will get secured with the password that you have set.

Protect USB Pendrive With Password
Protect USB Pendrive With Password


#2 Method To Protect USB Pendrive With Password Using Wondershare

Step 1. First of all download and install Wondershare USB Drive Encryption from here.

Protect USB Pendrive With Password
Protect USB Pendrive With Password

Step 2. Now open the software and insert the pen drive into your computer. Now select your drive in the program and select the amount as complete to fully secure your drive. Now click on install button.

Protect USB Pendrive With Password
Protect USB Pendrive With Password

Step 3. Now enter the username and password that you want to set for your USB Pendrive.

Protect USB Pendrive With Password
Protect USB Pendrive With Password

After this, click on Ok and that’s it ! You are done with protecting your USB Pendrive with username and password.

#3 Method: Using DiskCrytor

DiskCryptor is an open encryption solution that offers encryption of all disk partitions, including the system partition. The fact of openness goes in sharp contrast with the current situation, where most of the software with comparable functionality is completely proprietary, which makes it unacceptable to use for protection of confidential data.
Step 1. You need to open DiskCryptor after installing and then click on the USB drive and from the interface you need to click on “Encrypt”

Protect USB Pendrive With Password Using Wondershare
Protect USB Pendrive With Password Using Wondershare
Step 2. A popup window will open and ask you to select the encryption process. Let it be what it didn’t alter any change unless you have something special in your mind. Then simply click “Next”

Protect USB Pendrive With Password Using Wondershare
Protect USB Pendrive With Password Using Wondershare
Step 3. On the next windows, you need to enter and confirm the password. Make sure! You put a strong password there and then click on OK to start the encryption.

Protect USB Pendrive With Password Using Wondershare
Protect USB Pendrive With Password Using Wondershare
Step 4. After the encryption process completes, click on the USB drive and then click on “Mount”
Protect USB Pendrive With Password Using Wondershare

How to Turn your Home Computer into a Web Server

Steps To Turn your Home Computer into a Web Server:

  1. First of all open the Opera Web browser on your PC and then from the lower left corner of the browser, select the Opera Unite service and enable it.
  2. Once the service has been enabled successfully then you will now need to add up your particular files or folders etc to this service so that you can host them on it. To add up the files which you want to host, double click on the File sharing link from the Opera Unite and then select up the folders and files that you want to share on the web.
  3. The selected files will be then shared or hosted and hence can be accessed over the internet on either any specified device or to every device publicly. This privacy you will be setting afterwards and you can also set that up easily through the provided options inside.
  4. If you feel like that your files or folders that you share are not secure then you can also add up the passwords to them or just get up the direct share links for them without any passwords.
    Create PC into Web Server
    Create PC into Web Server- source: labnol.org
  5. Keep in mind that while your PC works to host your files, it will have to be running all the time so that you can have Access of your files on the other devices through the links. You should also take care that your PC should be connected to the live internet connection so that it can host up the files unless it would fail to work.
  6. Opera Unite won’t be caching any data from the internet, therefore, you won’t have to worry about the collection of trash files or data by the working of the software.

How To Trace Location Of Any Person On Facebook & WhatsApp

1 Tracing IP Address Of Person On Facebook Chat Using Command Prompt

By using command prompt, you can actually trace out the IP address of a person whom with you are chatting on facebook. Just follow the steps below to proceed.
Step 1. First of all, start chatting with your friend whose IP address you want to get and make sure that all other apps and background process must be stopped. Now press Win+R of your keyboard.

Tracing IP Address Of Person On Facebook Chat Using Command Prompt
Tracing IP Address Of Person On Facebook Chat Using Command Prompt
Step 2. Now type cmd and hit enter.

Tracing IP Address Of Person On Facebook Chat Using Command Prompt
Tracing IP Address Of Person On Facebook Chat Using Command Prompt
Step 3. Now in the command prompt that appears type netstat -an and hit enter.

Tracing IP Address Of Person On Facebook Chat Using Command Prompt
Tracing IP Address Of Person On Facebook Chat Using Command Prompt
Step 4. Now note down the IP address of a person.

Tracing IP Address Of Person On Facebook Chat Using Command Prompt
Tracing IP Address Of Person On Facebook Chat Using Command Prompt
Step 5. Now you need to scan that IP address to know the actual location of the person that you can check out from http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/

#2 Creating Tracking Link To Track Location Of Any Person

In this method, you will be creating a tracking link that you will send to suspect and that records the location of the person while opening that link. Follow the steps below to proceed.
Step 1. First of all create a free hosting account from any of these sites :- Hostgator, My3gb or 000webhost. Now login to your account and go to File Manager there. Now download the zip file : Tracking Zip File on your computer

 Creating Tracking Link To Track Location Of Any Person
Creating Tracking Link To Track Location Of Any Person
Step 2. Now extract the file and you will see three files in the extracted folder.

 Creating Tracking Link To Track Location Of Any Person
Creating Tracking Link To Track Location Of Any Person
Step 3. Now upload all three files in the root (public_html) folder of the file manager of your hosting account.
Step 4. Now send your hosting link to the suspect that you want to track (your link will be like Techhacks.my3gb.com etc).
Step 5. Now tracking details will get saved in the log.txt file of your root folder, which you should keep on checking that file to get the details.

 Creating Tracking Link To Track Location Of Any Person

How To Fix “Windows Not Genuine” Error Message

Step 1. First of all press windows button and then type cmd. Now right click on command prompt and click on run as administrator.

Using CMD To Remove "Windows Not Genuine" Error
Using CMD To Remove “Windows Not Genuine” Error

Step 2. Now there type  SLMGR -REARM and press enter.

Using CMD To Remove "Windows Not Genuine" Error
Using CMD To Remove “Windows Not Genuine” Error

Step 3. After this, you will get a message asking the command is complete successfully and you have to restart the machine to reflect the changes.  Simply restart your computer.
Using CMD To Remove "Windows Not Genuine" Error