Xender PC Version

Xender is basically developed for smartphone platform to transfer your data between devices at very high speed keeping in mind the security associated with the data and no data loss occurs. But we the so called “Techno geeks” are still on that phase where we need a big 15.6” display laptop or PC to manage our smartphones while transferring the data. To overcome that hindrance, Xender came out with the most simple and decent way to keep a close bond between your smartphone and our PC, the Xender web portal. This is the latest feature called Web Xender which will help you to connect your phone with Windows PC and will let you transfer files between the devices.

There is tough a small concern for unfortunate Windows phone user as there is no option for them to connect with the desktop version of Xender. For them the in-built windows 10 continuum would be preferred as an alternative. Windows phone users need not install Xender for secure file transfer as Windows offer a much better and secure peer to peer connection between windows 10 devices over other platforms. But having Xender will have a little edge over the preinstalled. Where as in case of iOS devices having Xender app is must as their OS structure do not provide transfer of data over Bluetooth due to security issue with any other platform besides iOS or MAC. Xender web works with all the versions of Windows 7/8/10. This application can solve a lot of mysteries when it comes to file transfer and sharing. The whole user interface is very simply designed and you just need to follow on screen instructions as to do whatever you want to (and allowed by the app). Everything is setup simply and you will experience very high user experience while using it. In fact, 90+% of its users are recommending it to other users, which itself a great deal

Steps to connect your device with PC/Laptop :

• Both the devices should be connect with the same Wi-Fi network for Xender to work across platform. Update the version of Xender app in your handset.
• Open the browser on your computer and type the following address : xender web
• A QR code will be displayed for you to scan with your device to make a successful connection.
• Open the Xender app in your device and press the green button to connect. From there choose the option to make a connection with your PC.
• After successful connection you`ll see the Xender desktop interface with various tabs like music, videos and documents. The design of main interface is so refined that it even shows the OS version details of your device.
• Under the music tab, there is also an in-built music player. You could enjoy the tunes while transferring your data.
• With the upload button at top of each respective tabs, one could directly upload their data into the devices wirelessly.
• The transfer speed of data varies with the Wi-Fi speed. But on an avg 5Mb/sec was observed.

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Blustack Version:

There is also another way to use Xender for PC by the use of android emulator. Bluestack is one such emulator which is used to run the android version apps on PC. There are many android emulators present in the market. We would discuss the download and installation of Xender app on PC with Bluestack emulator. You can install Bluestack with the following requirements to be met by the PC/Laptop:

• You must be an administrator on your PC
• PC must have 2 GB of RAM, must have 4 GB of storage to store android apk files.
• Direct X 9.0 or higher must be installed.
• The graphics drivers must be updated for compatibility with Bluestack.
• PC must have .NET Framework 4.6 for Win 7 and above. For Vista and XP .NET Framework 4.0 is required.
• Vista Users must have Service Pack 2 or higher installed. XP users must have Service Pack 3 installed to operate Bluestack.

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To download and install Xender app with the help of Bluestack emulator follow these steps:

• Download Bluestack and install the app. It makes your PC/Laptop run as an android based tablet emulator.
• Double click the Bluestack icon and follow the on screen instructions and login into your google account like on android.
• On the left side of Bluestack, you`ll notice various options. Head over to install apk. To install from the apk file download from the net. Else head over to the Play store and download the Xender app.
• On successful download, open the app. Connect with the available devices by tapping on the send or receive button situated at the bottom of the screen of emulator

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Conclusion:

Xender can be seen on the “top free” list on all app stores. It’s among one of the most popular file sharing apps available on the web, it has been already downloaded few millions of times and has an overall good reputation among people who have tried it so far. One of the closest rival of Xender app is the Share It app. It also provides fast wireless data transfer across all platforms. Tough Share It provides a complete desktop app but Xender has went a way ahead and collaborated all the features of the desktop app and made it a web portal. Some of you might find it a little messy to work on a browser for data transfer but after constant usage, the web version of Xender stands out. Xender supports cross file transfer. It means you can even transfer file from android smartphone to iPhone. You can also use Xender for pc to transfer file between devices.

Xender iOS

Today in this growing digital world, where are Prime Minister is urging the fellow citizens to be digitally educated, the rate for application development has increased drastically over a period of time. Most of us are now aware of the app development cycle by using SDK (software development kit) which is easily available for free. With the emerging apps there are many categories from which you could choose the apps to your liking and utility. One such category is the File Transfer application. Whenever you upgrade your cell phones, one instantly heads over to the app store to download one such app to transfer the data (audio, video, contacts, messages and etc) from previous device to the brand new for which one must have spent a handful amount. One must however choose the right and precious app to transfer data as you do not want any data loss while the transferring takes place. High speed, easy to use, data security and no disconnection must be the deciding point when downloading such apps.

Xender is one such file transferring application that is widely used. This article deals ultimately about Xender for iOS and its features. Xender is currently operable on Android, iOS, Mac, Windows Phone and Windows PC. It supports multi-platforms and such that sharing is made easy with just installing the Xender app on your device. Ensure that your friend has also installed Xender App in his device.

Download Xender for iOS:

• Download Xender for iOS application from the App Store.
• After installing, open the application and create a profile by filling the points of interest and create the profile of yours.
• Now you can start sending and receiving data and files from other iOS phones having Xender application.
• To exchange and share data you need to launch the Xender application in both the gadgets which you want to connect.
• After launching the application, tap on the icon and after that make a bunch of file in Xender that you want to send to other gadget.
• Now you need to tap the name of the gadget that you want to connect with and the application will start sending the data and information which you have already selected. This is how the application work to share and receive data between gadgets.

 Xender-Features:

Transferring of data is made easy with the Xender App. Therefore one need not require any external cable to transfer files from one device to another. Works better than the Bluetooth option regarding speed, quality and capacity. Its features are listed below.

• Xender can transfer files that include documents, photos, videos and complete application.
• Transfers file not only with iOS devices but also with other devices. It aims at multi-platform.
• Transfer without any data cables or with traditional tools such as Bluetooth or any software.
• Xender is a free application that moves everything without a USB cable.
• Xender works without the internet for free. Hence one need not worry about the web connection and data usage.
• Transfers files within a fraction of second without any loss in its original quality with speed of about 10 M/S.
• Supports sharing of records with a maximum of up to 4 members.
• Supports cross-platform file transferring and hence one could transfer between different devices including iOS to Android, iOS to PC and vice versa.
• Just slide or shake to transfer the data from your phone.
• There is no need of installing any additional software when it comes to moving data between PCs.
• Offline mode enables you to transfer data between phones to PC with high speed. It does not require any internet connection.
• Phone Replicate option is enabled as a new feature with which one could take a backup of the phone. Use this option whenever you change the phone. You could copy the contacts, pictures, music and all others from your old phone to a new phone easily.
• It is quicker and fast than Bluetooth in regards to information exchange and acts excellently through preparing.
• This can exchange record of Android gadgets and then Android to iOS without any unsettling influence.
• Empowers to send huge volume of data through Xender application for iOS.
• It can share and exchange records, archive, recordings, videos, pictures, applications and more between gadgets at lightning fast speed.
• You will never experience the occurrence of time postponement in Xender for iOS.
• It never uses portable information for information exchange.
• It is more astute and less demanding compared to other sharing apps.
• No close field correspondence is use with Xender, instead it makes use of wireless association for exchanging and sharing information.
• It offers up to 100Mbps speed.
• You can exchange and share to get records right away between iPhone, Android phone, PC and Macintosh
• Record sharing velocity is really quick or ultra-pace in Xender for iOS.

 

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Conclusion:

Xender for iOS is the best in class sharing application today that all iOS must have. It allows faster sharing and receiving of documents without hassles. Xender transfers files between two or more smartphones. But one major drawback that I noticed now is that the app is studded with numerous advertisements which hinders in the interface. Anyone could share data with each other quickly now with Xender app. It was designed by Xender Team in 2013. Having compared with other tools to transfer data, Xender works effectively and efficiently in handling the transfers.

Data Encryption Standards

Introduction

Data Encryption Standards or better known as DES is the block cipher which takes a fixed-length string of plaintext bits and transforms it through a series of complicated operations into another cipher text bit string of the same length. It is a symmetric encryption technique which means both sender and receiver use a shared key to encrypt and/or decrypt the data. The only problem with this technique is that if the key is known to others the entire conversation is compromised. In this, the block size is 64 bits it also
uses a key to customize the transformation, so that decryption can supposedly only be performed by those who know the particular key used to encrypt. The key basically consists of 64 bits however, only 56-bits of these are actually used by the algorithm. Eight bits are used solely for checking parity, and are thereafter discarded. Hence the effective key length is 56-bits, and it is always quoted as such. Every 8th bit of the selected key is discarded i.e., positions 8,16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64 are removed from the 64-bit key leaving behind only the 56-bit key.

History

The DES is the algorithm used for encryption of the electronic data. It was developed in the early 1970s at IBM and based on an earlier design by Horst Feistel, the algorithm submitted to the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) to propose a candidate for the protection of sensitive unclassified electronic government data. It is now taken as unsecured cause of its small size and a brute force attack is possible in it. In January 1999 distributed.net and the Electronic Frontier Foundation collaborated to publicly break a DES key in 22 hours and 15 minutes. The algorithm is believed to be practically secure in the form of Triple DES, although there are theoretical attacks. In recent years, the cipher
has been superseded by the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).

The key schedule for encryption is the algorithm which generates the sub keys. Initially, 56 bits of the key are selected from the initial 64 by Permuted Choice 1 (PC-1) and the remaining eight bits are either discarded or used as parity check bits. The 56-bits are then divided into two 28-bit halves, each half is thereafter treated separately. In successive rounds, both halves are rotated left by one or two bits (specified for each round), and then 48 sub key bits are selected by Permuted Choice 2 (PC-2) i.e. 24 bits from the left half and 24 from the right. The rotations (denoted by “<<<” in the diagram) mean that a different set of bits is used in each sub key, each bit is used in approximately 14 out of the 16 sub keys.

The key schedule for decryption is similar, the sub keys are in reverse order compared to encryption. Apart from that change, the process is the same as for encryption. The same 28 bits are passed to all rotation boxes.

Security and attacks

The most practical attack to date is still a brute force approach. There are three theoretical attacks are possible which, while having a theoretical complexity less than a brute force attack, require an unrealistic number of known or chosen plain texts to carry out, and are not a concern in practice.

Brute force attack

For any cipher, the most basic method of attack is brute force i.e. trying every possible key in turn. The length of the key determines the number of possible keys, and hence the feasibility of this approach. For DES, questions were raised about the adequacy of its key size early on, even before it was adopted as a standard, and it was the small key size, rather than theoretical crypt-analysis, which dictated a need for a replacement algorithm. As a result of discussions involving external consultants including the NSA, the key size was reduced from 128-bits to 56-bits to fit on a single chip.

Advantages and disadvantages of DES

Advantages

• DES has been around a long time (since 1977), even now no real weaknesses have been found: the most efficient attack is still brute force.
• DES is an official United States Government standard; the Government is required to re-certify, DES every five years and ask it be replaced if necessary. DES has been re-certified in 1983, 1987, 1992.
• DES is also an ANSI and ISO standard – anybody can learn the details and implement it.
• Since DES was designed to run on 1977 hardware, it is fast in hardware and relatively fast in software.

Disadvantages

• The 56-bit key size is the biggest defect of DES. Chips to perform one million of DES encrypt or decrypt operations a second are available (in 1993). A $1 million DES cracking machine can search the entire key space in about 7 hours.
• Hardware implementations of DES are very fast; DES was not designed for software and hence runs relatively slowly.
• As the technology is improving lot more day by day so there is a possibility to break the encrypted code, so AES is preferred than DES.
• As we know in DES only one private key is used for encryption as well as for decryption because it is symmetric encryption technique so if we lost that key to
  decrypt the data then we cannot get the readable data at the receiving end.

AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)

Introduction

AES is a new cryptographic algorithm that can be used to protect electronic data. Specifically, AES is an iterative, symmetric-key block cipher that can use keys of 128, 192, and 256 bits, and encrypts and decrypts data in blocks of 128 bits (16 bytes). Unlike public-key ciphers, which use a pair of keys, symmetric-key ciphers use the same key to encrypt and decrypt data. Encrypted data returned by block ciphers have the same number of bits that the input data had. Iterative ciphers use a loop structure that repeatedly performs permutations and substitutions of the input data.

Why AES came into existence?

AES is the successor to the older Data Encryption Standard (DES). DES was approved as a Federal standard in 1977 and remained viable until 1998 when a combination of advances in hardware, software, and cryptanalysis theory allowed a DES-encrypted message to be decrypted in 56 hours. Since that time numerous other successful attacks on DES-encrypted data have been made and DES is now considered past its useful lifetime.

Conclusion

• The new AES will certainly become the de facto standard for encrypting all forms of electronic information, replacing DES.
• AES-encrypted data is unbreakable in the sense that no known cryptanalysis attack can decrypt the AES cipher text without using a brute-force search through all possible 256-bit keys.
• Security is no longer an afterthought in anyone’s software design and development process. AES is an important advance and using and understanding it will greatly increase the reliability and safety of your software systems.

10 Cool Tips and Tricks for Telegram Messenger

Hello guys here I am once again back with you to share some new Tips and Tricks of the instant messaging app Telegram. This is a never ending debate as to who is better and bigger giant WhatsApp or Telegram. Today I’ll discuss the latter, so let`s start with the basics.

To install Telegram one simply has to pick up his/her device and go to either app store on iOS , Google Play on Android devices and Windows store on Windows devices. Hit the search bar right on top and type Telegram and install it on your respectable devices.

Telegram

Registration Page

Once you install the app just press the app icon on your screen and you`ll enter the registration page and there add your registered mobile number as telegram uses it to authentication and within seconds you`ll receive your OTP (one time password) . That`s all you are done with the registration part. Many of you can skip this part who already know it and use the social media rigorously. Telegram app has already a user base of 100 million and is expanding on day to day basis. Now let us discuss some amazing cool tips and tricks of the app so as to be more familiar with it. Today we are only checking this amazing app on iOS platform and that too on 3D touch devices. Let’s get going without further delay.

1) Profile Picture: Telegram offers a new way to display your profile picture or as now we call it display picture (DP).As soon as you set up an online account you instantly want to upload your pics, so here you go. Telegram stores your pics on its server and by clicking on the pic we could easily see the no. of pics you have uploaded. So if in any case your precious pictures were removed from your phone you could still retrieve them. 

Display Picture

2) Hide Last Seen: Here we go, one of the best features nowadays that everyone wants to use.Telegram sure does help you with this feature in a bit more extensive way as compared to WhatsApp. In telegram you have the ability to hide your time stamp either from everyone or from a particular group of people. Keeping in mind your comfort and privacy Telegram does come out great with this feature. You can find this option under Settings->Privacy and Security->Last Seen. Choose the option that best suits you. One can also delete his/her account if not using it for 6 months or so. 

Privacy and Security

3) Session Termination: A cool and very handy security feature makes it way to the top of the list. If privacy and security is your top priority then Telegram is your life saver. Some of us our tech savvy and keep on trying new devices, which means new apps on new device and erasing out the previous data for security reasons. But somehow sometimes it gets neglected and one can read your chats. To protect you from this Telegram has this feature to end all last session on devices that are no longer accessible to you. Simply click on Settings->Privacy and Security->Active Sessions. Here you see the “Current Session” and “Active Sessions” 

Active Session

4) In-app Browser: Telegram offers a smooth in app browser, which means after clicking a link you won`t be taken to a third party browser installed on your device. Simply click on the link and visit the page you want. The browsing is smooth and nowhere a lag was experienced. For iOS devices featuring 3D touch, you could just press the link and the in app-browser would show you the preview of the page.

In App Browsing

5) Multiple Chat Head Options: When it comes to chatting with your loved ones or having a enormous group of friends then Telegram is sure your bit. Unlike WhatsApp which offers a mere 256 participants in a group, Telegram allows you to add up to 5000 participants which means you are never out of your friends. To use them simply click on the “new message” icon under “chats” and there you`ll see 3 options: “New Group”, “New Secret Chat” and “New Channel”.

Multi Chat Window

6) Secret Chats with Auto destruct timer: The “secret chat” option was the latest addition to the app and it has found quiet a popularity among the youngsters. This feature comes with end-to-end encryption which provides a complete privacy to the users. When using this chat option, no conversation is saved on the Telegram servers and the users have got a special feature also by which they can self-destruct their messages by choosing the time slots. To do this simply type your message and by the end of the bar there is a stopwatch like icon press it and select the time duration of the message.

Secret Chat with Auto Destruct Timer

7) Storage Management: This feature comes in pretty handy and personally I like it. Telegram lets you manage your files so as to have a better storage management on your phone. Under the storage option in “Settings” there are three options which entitles you to keep your data 1 week, 1 month or forever. If the data is deleted from your phone but you have stored on the Telegram cloud then you could easily re-download the data (pics, music, documents and video files). In iOS devices unlike Whatsapp,Telegram lets you remove the unwanted cache storage right from the app which helps in increasing your device storage if having 16Gb iPhone variants, With this built in feature you don`t have to remove the app and re-install it again to clear out the memory. To experience this feature one has to head up to “Settings”à “Data and Storage”

Storage Management

8) Text Management: Telegram does come out with some amazing text decorations. Text styling is in-built in the keyboard. One could make a word or a sentence in either Bold or Italics or both. To use this feature you have to press on a word or select the entire sentence and there you`ll have the option to decorate your texts. Here you don`t have to add any symbols or special characters to lighten up your conversation.

Text Styling

9) Message Searching: Searching a message can be time consuming and irritating as you have to scroll up and down to locate a particular message. Telegram sorted that our pretty good for you. Just tap on the name of the person you are chatting with and there comes three options “Search”, “Edit” and “Info”. Clicking on search brings a tap down menu with a search bar where you could type and search the message you are looking for. “Edit” would help you with the personalisation of the user as to what all is your requirement. In this tab you could “mute” or “unmute” a conversation for a particular person or could set custom “tones”. Info provides you with the details of the contact and the type of file that has been shared.

Message Searching

Alert Notification

Shared Media

10) Add-on Stickers: Telegram offers you a vast variety of sticker’s pack which would help you in expressing yourself more precisely with emoticons. The stickers are free of cost and the app provides you another cool feature by which you could add your personalized stickers, but here comes the trick, there is no way you could add the stickers inside the app for that you need to use the@Stickers bot, which in turn uses the third party apps. To enable the stickers in your conversation you need to head up to the “Settings” and from there click on “Stickers”à”Show Stickers Tabà ON”. A bunch of stickers comes pre-installed with the app and could be used but if you want more just click the “Trending Stickers” and a complete new list will appear. Tap the “+” which pack you want to add. iOS devices using 3D touch technology have a new way to view stickers, long press anyone of the stickers and it would preview on your screen. If you wish to remove any pack just click on “edit” and delete that pack.

Stickers

These are some of the few tips and tricks to guide you through your way into instant messaging apps. Either you could sit back and struggle with your old apps or make way for new innovations and try it out. If you come across any issue please feel free to drop in your concerns and I’ll answer them accordingly.

Thank You