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Goodbye old Yahoo Messenger

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Goodbye, old Yahoo Messenger . Yes, Yahoo is closing it’s old Yahoo Messenger platform on 5th August 2016.

Since its beginning in the year 1998, I’m an active user of Yahoo Messenger which initially named as “Yahoo Pager”. I still remember those days when people spent many hours on Yahoo Public groups in Yahoo Messenger to find out the opposite sex for personal chatting. ASL (Age, Sex, Location) was the buzz word in those days.

Now Yahoo has decided to stop it’s old Messenger platform completely from 5th August 2016. Last Year Yahoo launched new Yahoo Messenger, which has new age features like Group Messaging etc.

Unlike Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, and other popular messenger application, new Yahoo Messenger focussed more on speed and quality of streaming photos into the conversation.

When you tried to share a photo from your Gallery first, a small preview of the image will be shared and later the high-resolution, the complete photo will be shared. Not only innovative photo sharing concept, but it also hosts plenty of new features required for modern messaging requirements.

Still, people around the globe using the old Yahoo Messenger, which in turn became problematic for the latest Yahoo Messenger platform. Keeping this in mind Yahoo decided to stop old Messenger platform completely in a couple of months. So the past is the past, no more ASL requests, no more Yahoo Public groups, if you want to use old Yahoo Messenger for another few days before it completely stopped this is the right time to explore it again.

IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad revealed Cyber Crime statistics in India

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More than 8000 Indian websites hacked the first three months of 2016 according to the details Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad furnished to the Parliament today.

Below are the statistics mentioned in his written reply to the Lok Sabha.

Total cyber crimes including fishing malicious code, website intrusion, denial of serive, scanning, etc. occurred in the last four years.

2013 – 41,319 incidents
2014 – 44,679 incidents
2015 – 49,455 cases
2016 (till March) – 14,363 incidents

And statistics for the Indian website hacking incidents are below for the last four years.

2013 – 28,481 websites hacked
2014 – 32,323 sites hacked
2015 – 27,205 sites hacked
2016 (till March) – 8,056 sites hacked.

And the minister has also provided the statistics for the spam emails reported to the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In). Below are the details:

2013 – 54,677 spam emails
2014 – 85,659 spam emails
2015 – 61,628 spam emails
2016 (till March) – 13,851 spam emails.

Here you can read his statement.

“The National Cyber Security Policy is released for public use and implementation by relevant stakeholders. The objective of the policy is to create a framework for comprehensive, collaborative and collective response to deal with the issue of cyber security at all levels within the country,” he said.

Here in India, the vast majority of the cyber crimes will not be reported to any Govt. Agency. Myself, I don’t know where to report on cyber attacks, so we have to consider above statistics as the formality Govt., providing to the general public.

Govt. Should bring full awareness of cyber security and other precautions across the India, people using technology without having sufficient security knowledge. Govt. has to focus on that. Otherwise, unreported cyber crimes will increase at a faster pace.

How to Track your Good Habits with Android App

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The app demonstrated in this video is a powerful one that can be used to track habits, accomplish your goals and finally rewire yourself.

• Streaks
This app is based on Seinfeld’s productivity secret, which involves building long streaks of days. These streaks that you build will motivate you to keep moving forward.

• Calendars
This app comes with full featured calendar view for every habit to track and visualize your chains.

• Reminders
Do you keep on forgetting that habit of yours ? No worries !! This app comes with a powerful reminder system that will help you stay on top of all your habits.

• Notes
Want to keep a journal ? How about keeping track of your daily achievements !! With this app you can add notes to any day you want and even read all the notes sorted by the last week, month or even year !!

• Flexible goals
Do you want flexibility in your habits ? Do you want to go for jogging just on the weekends or hit the gym 4 times every week ? This app comes with very sophisticated scheduling system that can track any habit you can imagine.

• Category
This app comes with the ability to categorize habits according to various aspects of your life to keep you sane and focused !!

• Widgets
Track your habits and goals right from the home screen with two beautiful widgets for FREE !!

• Graphs
Want to know how you have been doing with those goals/habits ? See the big picture with the help of graphs. Gain insights into what’s working for you and what’s not working. Get a break down of all the successful and failed days by weeks, months or years.

• Backup
Backup your data to the cloud with Dropbox backup.

• Import
Already using other apps ? Import your tracking data from apps like habits streak with just a click.
How it works ?
1. Setup your habit
2. Mark the days on calendar every time you perform the habit.
3. Soon you will build a chain.
4. Don’t Break the chain !!
Your life is essentially the sum of your habits. What you repeatedly do is ultimately the person you become. Big goals are never reached by big leaps, but by many small steps. This app help’s you in taking these small steps and ultimately reaching these goals.

To help you reach these goals this app lets you set daily reminders and even provides with graphs that help you stay motivated along your journey. On top of this every morning when you wake up, Rewire sends you nice little motivational quote 🙂

With this app your task is to build a long streak of days for the habit you are working. The longer your streak, the better it is !! It will take a couple of months to build a solid habit, but don’t give up, stay at it !! Be consistent and it will work.
So what are you waiting for ? REWIRE YOURSELF !!