Author: Chaitanya

A lot of Websites are hidden from Search engines or are kept secret from spying agencies using .onion domain extension. Now, these .onion domain network is known as Tor and is completely an encrypted network. Thus, due to this encryption these secret or .onion websites are not directly accessible on public internet. Thus, You will need to connect to Tor network to access these sites. Besides, Tor even helps you to bypass censorship and protects you from spying & tracking too! . Following is a tutorial on the Easiest way on How to use Tor on Android to open or access .onion websites (lollipop, marshmallow, nougat) using Fire.Onion Tor browser-

Easiest Tutorial on How to access or Open Tor Network .onion websites on Android by Fire.Onion browser  – 

• The official method to open or access the tor network using Orbot & Orfox for Android is quite complex as it requires two separate apps to work, and even if one app is at fault your network is not secured.
• So, in order to overcome these issues we use Fire.Onion tor browser for Android which has an inbuilt-tor connection maker + browser , thus doing all the work in a single app.
  Click here to Download Fire.Onion browser for Android from Google Play Store
• After you have downloaded and installed the app. launch the app, it will now automatically start connecting to Tor network as soon as you launch it! as shown in the image below –

  

  Please wait for a while until it gets connected.

• Voila! as soon as it gets connected it will automatically open the “Duck Duck Go” online search provider’s .onion website as shown in the image below –

  

  That’s it thus, you can now easily access all .onion & secret web websites as well as bypass censorship using Tor network by using Fire.onion Browser on Android.

• Note If in case you might be worried about your privacy or security, you are behind Tor’s secure network on Fire.onion browser – You can visit https://check.torproject.org to verify your connection security on Fire.onion which successfully worked for us as shown in the following image –

  

  Thus, this is perhaps the most secure & easiest method to access .onion websites on Android phones, The official method isn’t easy while the Tor Proxy sites don’t work for all .onion websites e.g Official facebook Tor address http://facebookcorewwwi.onion doesn’t work with tor proxies but it does work with Fire.Onion, hence we widely promote the Fire.onion one. Incase if you face any difficulties or have any doubts feel free to comment!

Recently I was in International roaming, and had to call the roaming country’s phone number but my sim didn’t had any outgoing over there in the foreign country. But still I was able to call over the Hotel Wifi only because of WhatsCall App, I had it verified and it was neatly able to call a local number over Wifi for me. So, here comes the WhatsCall review -an app which gives Free Worldwide calls over wifi to any phone or mobile number.

Salient Features of WhatsCall – 

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  WhatsCall lets you call any landline or mobile number over your WiFi or internet connection totally for free!.

• It does so by charging you on WhatsCall credits which can be earned easily by using the WhatsCall app itself no money required!.
• There are lots of easy ways to earn Free WhatsCall credits –
  • You get Free 1000 Credits on Signing-up & downloading the app –
  • Click here to Download WhatsCall app from Play Store or Apple app Store.
  • Free 300 Credits to complete your profile.
  • You even get credits to Download apps, from the “Credits” section.
  • Watching Video ads gives you 50 credits.
  • and many more…
• Thus, its really one app which will be really handy, as it will help you to call online to offline phone incase you run out of balance / talktime.

Review & Pre-requisites –

• First of all download & install the WhatsCall app from the link below –
  Click here to Download WhatsCall app.
• Now, since it requires mobile number verification, Please enter your mobile number and verify using the verification code sent on it.
• WhatsCall is ready!

How to place a free call via WhatsCall ?

Since, I didn’t had the screenshots ready on my foreign trip, i tried to simulate and create the same scenario –  Local offline phone calls over internet using WiFi with Airplane mode on!

Now, since AirPlane mode ensured my phone won’t be receiving any signals, I connected to WhatsCall over Internet using Wifi and then started calling from the dialling screen as shown below –

• On the dial screen, as shown in the above image – Select the Country which you want to call.
• Type in the mobile number whom you want to call.
• Press the call button.
• That’s it ! now wait for some time, until your call is magically connected over the internet connection to non-internet number , as shown in the below image –

  

  Call Quality of the app is awesome : Infact the normal mobile calls over Wifi sometimes show distortion on Docomo, Jio but WhatsCall did a good job!. The Clasrity depends on your internet connection though, it requires a decent internet connection.

• Click here to Download WhatsCall app from Google Play for Android or iPhone app Store (Auto-detect).

Android Smartphone camera’s have come a long-way to be able to compete with point & shoot camera’s. The Phone cameras however, lack a bit when it comes to competing with low/mid-range DSLRs due to absence of many customisation options present in DSLR’s such as lenses, panning, zoom, Exposure ratio , shutter time and many more. Now, changing the shutter speed helps you capture a lot of creative photo’s especially the motion one’s such as blurring motion, or panning (blurring non-motion things) and many more. Here’s a simple tutorial on How you can change the Shutter speed on your Android phone for free using Camera FV 5 lite app

Tutorial to Change Camera Shutter Speed in Android by Camera FV-5 Lite App

• Changing the camera’s shutter speed is not enabled by default in many stock camera app’s and very few support them for free, one of them is Camera FV5 Lite, so we need to download and install the app.
  Click here to Download & install Camera FV5 lite App from Google Play.
• Now, after you have downloaded and installed the app, launch the fv 5 lite app, it will show you with a shooting screen as shown in the below image –

  

  Now, as shown in the above image tap on the “P” icon in the left hand side bar to change the shutter speed type.

• After you tap on the “P” icon it will show you with the field labelled “Program Mode” as shown in the image below –

  

  Here tap or select the “S” program mode.

• After you select the Program mode by tapping on “S”, it will now ask you to select the shutter speed as shown in the image below –

  

  Here tap and select any of the values, you want the shutter to remain open.

• Now, you after selecting the shutter speed, you will again be redirected to shoot screen as shown below, here simply focus by touching the area on screen. and to capture photo click on the “shoot” button as shown –

  

   

• That’s it ! you have easily changed the camera exposure shutter speed on your Android Smart phone ala DSLR!
• Note – Increasing the shutter time captures motion, and causes the shutter to remain open for a longer time which generally blurs the motion . Since the normal hand cannot remain stable for 1 second, it may blur the image hence usage of tripod or any stable base for phone is highly recommended!

Recently I wanted to capture my WhatsApp chats with a friend, but unfortunately there was no option to capture complete chat at once as it didn’t fit in a single screen. Now, to overcome I started looking for options and found one using “Stitch & Share” app. Read on below for the complete method on How to Capture long big scrolling screenshots in Android & MIUI . Besides this method works on all famous android versions such as 4.4 kitkat , 5.1 lollipop and 6.0 marshmallow too

Tutorial to capture Capture big & long scrolling screenshot of chats in Android –

• In this tutorial we are going to “stitch” the captured screenshots , so first capture a sample screenshot which you want to start with
  (Note – Incase you don’t know the method to take a screenshot try the combination of volume down + power key simultaneously) 

  Now after you have captured your first screenshot, Please scroll down and take another screenshot.
  Note – Please make sure the last message of the first screenshot is again repeated in your next screenshot. Thus overlapping the texts as shown in the example images below –

  

  The last message of first screenshot is to be repeated as shown in the next image below –

  

  Now using this message repetition technique capture as many screenshots you intend to stitch into a single one.

• Now inorder to stitch them up, Download & install “Stitch and Share” screenshot app from Google Play from the link below –
  Click here to Download Stitch & Share Screenshot app from Google Play Store.
• Once you have installed the app it will now prompt you with two options as shown in the below image –

  

   

• Now from the file gallery window which opens, select the most recent screenshots which you have taken and want to stitch and tap on OK.
• Now in the preview window, tap on the “plus +” icon to append the next screenshot as shown in the image below –

  

  Note – In MIUI , you will need to select screenshots one by one by tapping on OK to add one screenshot and again adding second by same method

  • The Screenshots you added will automatically be stitched! as shown in the below image –

    

    That’s it ! Thus all of your chat is now combined into a single long big screenshot. Tap on the Green arrow highlighted by “blue arrow in the above image” to export your chat!

• That’s it ! you have now saved your entire chat conversation into a single big long screenshot. Do let me know if you face any problems or encounter any issues.