Few Tricks All The New iOS 7 Users Should Know

Swipe Down For Search:

Gone are the days of having to swipe or tap your way to iOS’ dedicate search page. You can now access Spotlight search from anywhere on the homescreen. Just swipe down in the middle of the screen.
You can use Spotlight to quickly search across your device’s apps, emails, and contacts — but curiously, it seems that Apple has removed Spotlight’s ability to search the web. I’m pretty sure I never actually used that, but this is the Internet so I’m supposed to complain now that it’s gone.

Swipe Up For Toggles:

Toggles! At last!
Fixing what is perhaps one of iOS’ most glaring, long lasting omissions, iOS 7 puts one-click access to things like Airplane mode and WiFi/Bluetooth toggles just one swipe away, instead of hiding them away in settings.
To get to the new Control Panel, just swipe up from the bottom of the screen anywhere you might be. You’ll get buttons for Airplane mode, WiFi, Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb, Orientation lock, and sliders for brightness and media control. Oh, and there’s a flashlight in there. If you were thinking about building a dedicated flashlight app now is probably not a good time.
(Pro tip: The control panel is available from the lockscreen. Also: if the control panel is sliding out and interrupting your Candy Crushin’ time, you can block it from sliding out while in an app in your settings.)

Reveal iMessage and SMS Timestamps:

iOS has always been kind of weird about telling you when a message was sent or received. It’ll tell you when some messages came through — but only if it’s the first one that’s come through in a while in a given thread. If you sent a bunch of messages around 12:45, for example, you’d normally only get that first 12:45 timestamp.
With iOS 7, you can reveal the timestamp for each and every message. Just grab one of the speech bubbles in a thread and swipe to the left. Tada! Timestamps! Never argue about exactly when a message was sent again! (Because, yeah, I’ve had those arguments. Seriously. Sigh.)

Built-In Level:

Building a house boat? Hanging a picture? Just want to show off one of the stranger new tricks that your iPhone has picked up?
iOS 7 has a built-in bubble level, of all things. I thought it was a pretty strange addition at first… but then I found myself using it one day. Then again the next.
To get to the level, open the compass app. Though not immediately obvious, there’s a second page to the app; swipe to the left, and you’ll be at Apple’s level.
(Pro tip: Double tapping the screen resets the level to consider whatever angle the phone is currently at to be 0°. That design choice, expressed through a series of colored flashes, isn’t super intuitive)

Swipe To Close Safari Tabs:

Safari has a new, scrolling 3D tab interface that allows for just about as many tabs as you want.
Alas, these tabs also have new, tiny “X” buttons that make closing them quickly a bit of a pain.
Forget the X button — it’s for chumps. Swipe the tabs away to the left, instead. It’s a whole lot faster, and requires less precision when you’re trying to dump a bunch of tabs on the go.

Call/SMS/Facetime Blocking:

“Surely, there’s got to be a way to block phone numbers”, said every iPhone user ever.
Really, just type “How to b” into Google and let it autocomplete. First result? “How to block a number”. Second result? “How to block a number on iPhone”. Third result? “How to be happy”. This feature is in greater demand than happiness! Happiness!
Yet until now, there hasn’t really been an easy way.
With iOS 7, it’s finally a pretty straightforward process to block people from calling, messaging, or FaceTime-ing (FaceTiming? Facing? Agh.) you. You can find the block list at Settings > Phone > Blocked, Settings > Messages > Blocked, or Settings > Facetime > Blocked. Note, however, that the block list is universal — block them in the phone settings, and they’re blocked on FaceTime, too.

App By App Cell Data Usage/Blockage

Want to see which app is using up all of your cell plan’s precious megabytes? Want to keep Pandora from streaming unless it’s on WiFi?
Pop into Settings > Cellular and scroll down to the bottom. You can see which apps have used the most cell data, and block any app from using cell data at all. (Note: An app needs to have used cell data at least once for it to show up in the list.)

How To Close Apps:

We’ve had a bunch of requests for this one since this post first went up, so here you go.
Apple changed the App Switching/App Closing mechanism up a bit with iOS 7. It used to be that to close an app, you’d double tap the home button, wait for the app drawer to slide out, then press and hold on an icon until the little “X” appeared.
With iOS 7, the whole thing looks and works a bit more like webOS of yesteryear. Double tap the home button to bring up the fullscreen app switcher, which provides a screenshot of each running application in a sideways-scrolling carousel. To close an application, simply swipe the app’s screenshot up and off the screen.
(Note: You really shouldn’t need to close apps all that often. Unless the app has crashed and refuses to fix itself or it’s doing something that is eating your battery, iOS 7 is designed so that most apps use little to no resources when in the background.)

Hacker rate Iphone5s security

1. iOS Security Since iPhone 4s: Tough To Crack
Where smartphones are concerned, recent generations of the iPhone are quite secure, provided they've been correctly configured. "A powered-off iPhone 4s or later with a complex passcode is a freaking vault," tweeted security researcher Dino Dai Zovi, CTO at Trail of Bits and co-author of iOS Hacker's Handbook iOS Hacker's Handbook. "Apple did very well w/ passcodes + on-chip crypto."

2. Security Improvement: 64 Bits
Apple's switch to a 64-bit processor for the iPhone 5s will also have security repercussions, not least for jailbreakers, who combine exploits against various iPhone bugs to gain root access to the devices. "Best part about everyone switching to 64bit ARM, it'll likely invalidate heaps of stockpiled 0days," tweeted the Grugq, a Bangkok-based broker between bug buyers and sellers.
But frustrating current zero-day vulnerability seekers will likely be only a short-term scenario. According to a related Reddit discussion, for example, "since the new iPhone 5s has a different type of chip, it will probably have new, specific bugs and possible exploits in [its] kernel / bootrom / software."

3. Screen Grab: Lifting Fingerprints
One potential -- and potentially elegant -- attack against the fingerprint reader would be to retrieve a user's fingerprint from the touchscreen and repurpose it to unlock the phone, in what's been dubbed a potential "phish finger" attack.
"The first thing I would try would be attacks against the thumbprint reader, like try and take prints from elsewhere on the phone and figure out how to replay those to the sensor to log in to the person's phone without having them around," Zovi told CNN. Another potential attack might be launched against the software used to digitize the thumb image.
Latest-generation fingerprint readers include "vitality" checks -- meaning the RF signal interacts with a finger below the skin layer and works only with "live digits." But reportedly this can also be spoofed. "The capacitance technology is relatively easy to defeat -- it's just a 'dumb' sensor detecting the appropriate Farad change," said Richard Henderson, security strategist and threat researcher for Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs, via email.

4. Biometric Data Secreted In A7 Processor
What about simply grabbing the stored fingerprint scan directly from processor memory and using that to spoof a user? In fact, directly accessing the biometric data could prove difficult: the A7 processor in the iPhone 5s includes a tailor-made area called Secure Enclave, which is designed to encrypt the fingerprint scans made by the device. As a result, the encrypted information reportedly can only be retrieved directly from the processor and can't be exported off of the device.
Despite that secure storage, Trail of Bits' Zovi recommended that security-conscious iPhone 5s users not rely on Touch ID until security researchers have had a chance to give it a full shakedown. "Until I know how data protection is keyed from Touch ID, I'm still recommending complex passcodes," he said.
But for any user who's currently not using a passcode on their phone -- perhaps Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who earlier this week revealed that she doesn't lock her smartphone with a passcode -- Zovi emphasized that using Touch ID is better than nothing at all. "Half of iPhone users don't even enable a four-digit pass code," he said. "If Touch ID makes more people use pass codes and data protection, it's a win."

5. Biometric Security Backup
Further complicating would-be biometric attackers is the fact that Touch ID isn't an all-or-nothing proposition. To use Touch ID you will also have to create a passcode as a backup. Only that passcode can unlock the phone if the phone is either rebooted (for example, in the case of a full battery drain) or hasn't been unlocked for 48 hours, according to an anonymous post to Quora about Apple's new Secure Enclave. "This is a genius feature that is meant to stop set a time limit for criminals if try to find a way to circumvent the fingerprint scanner," the post read.

6. Enterprise Environments: Will Fingerprints Count?
But will business users tap Touch ID? Adoption may be complicated if fingerprints don't pass enterprise muster. As one network operations specialist and Information Week reader pointed out in an email, where biometrics fall down is Exchange compatibility. "Those systems with security policies in place to require a passcode on the mobile device will find the fingerprint reader is not compatible with Exchange EAS," he said. "Users will have to use a PIN anyway, much the same way swipe unlock is not supported on Android devices."

5 Security Apps For Your Brand New Apple Device iPhone 5-Mobile phone recycling

Kryptos

This is a great app for your iPhone 5 if you believe that you could benefit from knowing that all your mobile phone conversations are secure, without the possibility of your calls being listened into or intercepted. This may all seem a little over the top for many of us and our day to day conversations but for some of us whose business may require secure voice communications, Kryptos will provide you with military-grade AES-encrypted phone calls. To ensure your privacy, both the caller and the receiver will need to be using the Kryptos application which is free to download but requires a $10 (about £7) per month subscription fee.

Norton Snap

This is an app to protect you from malicious QR codes, which are the little boxes with black and white pixelated patterns in. These are increasing being used by companies on their promotional materials as a quick and easy way to direct you to their website simply by scanning the code using a QR reader on your smart phone. Unfortunately, hackers and criminals are recreating them but then directing you to a malicious and potentially damaging website. The Norton Snap app is a QR reader that allows you to review the URL that you are about to be directed to before you visit the site, so that you get a chance to decide whether or not you want to go to the site. The app also checks the URL against a database of known fraudulent websites which is constantly being updated.

Find My Phone

This is a great free app that you will definitely need to download to your iPhone 5 as it may help you to track down your iPhone 5 and increase your chances of finding or recovering it in the event that it has been stolen or mislaid. All you have to do is log into Apple’s website and register that you want to find your phone and it will then use your phones GPS to identify the location of your iPhone 5.

Foscam Surveillance Pro

If you like the idea of being able to keep an eye on your home whilst you’re away, why not take a look at the Foscam Surveillance Pro app which when used in conjunction with an inexpensive IP camera and an internet connection will give you the ability to do just that. The app will work with up to six different cameras which can be displayed on your iPhones screen and if you’ve bought a camera that can tilt and pan, you can even control this on your mobile using a virtual onscreen joystick.

Sony introduces 'state-of-the-art' smartphone

Sony has reportedly introduced two new series of digital cameras, which look like small SLR lenses but can also be clipped as well as wirelessly connected to a smartphone.

The Sony Cyber-shot DSC QX-10 is an 18-megapixel camera and the DSC QX100 20-megapixel with a 3.6 x zoom lens feature, are cylindrically shaped point-and-shoot cameras and also have the ability to store photos and video on memory cards.

According to Fox News, these digital cameras can also allow the user to wirelessly pair to Android or iOS smart phones and through that, the user can compose the photos as the cameras lack LCDs or viewfinders.

The new digital cameras can also be clipped onto the bottom and top edges of a smartphone and a user can separate each camera from the smartphone or tablet and control it remotely through the mobile device.

The report said that the highlight of these cameras is their better still picture and video quality as compared to the mobile device cameras.

A user would require downloading the Sony's Play Memories Mobile app onto the mobile device to use the camera function.

The cameras' memory card can also copy photos and videos to the smartphone via Wi-Fi, but do not include an on-board or pop-up flash feature

The report added that the Cyber-shot QX10 priced at 250 dollars and the Cyber-shot QX100 at 500 dollars, will be available in late September.