How To Make Money on YouTube

However, the process of becoming a YouTube partner is not as trivial as becoming an AdSense publisher. Below you’ll find the basic steps you need to go through:

1. Make Sure You Have an AdSense Account

      While the process to be able to display ads on your YouTube videos is a separate one, your earnings and stats will go together with your AdSense account, so you need to have one.
     In theory you could apply to become a YouTube partner before having an AdSense account, and in case you get accepted you would then follow up with an AdSense application. I believe the other way around is much simpler, though.

2. Grow Your Audience on YouTube

       One of the most important criteria the YouTube guys will use to evaluate your application is the audience you reach on YouTube. They don’t reveal what are the requirements, but I’ve seen many people say these are the ballpark numbers you need to have before getting accepted:

• at least 1,000 subscribers
• at least 1,000 views on all your videos
• at least 10,000 channel views

      These are the very minimum though, if you want to make sure you’ll get accepted I would aim for 5,000 subscribers, 50,000 channel views and over 1,000,000 upload views total.

3. Get Videos Out There Regularly

      If you only have one or two videos uploaded your chances of getting accepted are low, even if those videos went viral. That’s because YouTube is looking for people who are planning to work with them over the long term.

    The more regularly and frequently you upload new videos, the better. For instance, someone who uploads a new video every day will have a better chance of getting accepted than someone who uploads one every couple of weeks.

     You also want to make sure you have at least 100 uploaded videos before applying to become a partner (though some people say 50 will be enough).

4. Develop A Brand Around Your Videos

    This step is not essential, but I think it helps a lot on getting approve. You need to remember that, once you meet the technical guidelines, it will be a person on the other site deciding on whether you are a good fit for becoming a YouTube Partner or not. In other words, the more professional you look the higher your chances.

Practical tips include:

• Create a website to host your videos and give your audience more wayts to interact
• Create a nice logo and use it everywhere
• Use a watermark on your videos with your logo
• Consider getting a professional intro made for your videos
• Customize your YouTube channel to make it look professional

5. Make Sure Your Content Has Zero Copyrighted Material

       If there’s one thing that will get your application rejected on the spot is copyright infringement, so make sure you have zero copyrighted material on your videos.

       This includes images, graphics, logos, video clips and audio. For instance, even just using a music on the background which you don’t have permission to could get your application rejected.

6. Apply to Become a YouTube Partner

     After you followed all the previous steps you are ready to apply. You can do that via the official YouTube Partner Program page. It might take a while to get your application considered due to the load of people applying, but once you get accepted you’ll be able to start displaying ads on your videos right away.

Nearly 8% Android app are “vulnerable” to attacks

   

         According to the findings of a new computer security research carried out by 

German researchers, nearly 8 percent of Android apps are "vulnerable" to attacks because of weak SSL implementations; and are apparently leaking the users' personal details, including their bank account information and webcam access.

        Going by the study's results shared by researchers at the Leibniz University of Hannover and the Philipps University of Marburg, tests of 13,500 free and popular Android apps - available form the Google Play Store - showed that the coding used by as many as 1074 apps, or 8 percent apps, was either incorrect or inadequate; thereby increasing their vulnerability to attacks.

      The researchers elaborated that the 8 percent "vulnerable" Android apps chiefly contained SSL/TLS code which can potentially increased their risk of threat from what is called a Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack.

      Highlighting the findings of their research in a paper titled "Why Eve and Mallory Love Android: An Analysis of Android SSL (In)Security," the researchers said that since SSL/TLS are cryptographic protocols used for securing online communications, the implementation mechanism of these protocols as well as their dependence on a trusted third-party Certificate Authority make many apps susceptible to attacks.

       Affirming the findings of the German researchers, security firm Sophos' Paul Ducklin said that a badly written app seemingly has a rather low "barrier of entry"; and added: "You can occasionally stumble across stuff which really shouldn't be in the Play Store."

Hack any skype account in 6 easy steps

Vulnerability of Skype's password reset system.
The only thing you need to obtain full access to any Skype account is primary email of that account (the email which used when the Skype account been registered).
Following guide contains both - how to steal an account, and how to protect your account (scroll down for that). 

For example, I know somebody's email - crackme33@yahoo.com , let's hack his Skype!

1. Go to the Skype website, register new disposable account. In email field, put target's email.

 

If the email, you typed into form, attached to some skype account, then it will say that "You already have a Skype account", that means you can hack it!

So, complete the form, provide some fake BOD, gender, country, answer to question "How do you intend to use Skype?" as personal, fill any skype name (REMEMBER IT), it will give you some suggestions of not taken ones, assign some password  (REMEMBER IT), solve the captcha, proceed forward - push the continue button. 

You will be redirected to you new account dashboard. Logout from it.

  

2. Run the Skype application with those new credentials.

3. Since we just logged in to a fresh account, at home screen of the Skype application, there will be advertisement "Find your friends and say hello", click somewhere to bring focus on that part of screen (I clicked where the red cross is drawn):

Then push F5 button on your keyboard, it will refresh the home screen. Do that 3-4 times until you see "Bring your Facebook friends into Skype" advertisement. Click "No thanks, blah-blah-blah".

You will get the home screen with some banner. 

4. Go to Skype's password reset system.Put the target's email. In my case - crackme33@yahoo.com .

Click "Submit button", and after several seconds, you will see Skype's pop-up notification - "Password token".

5. Go to Skype application, on the home screen you will see Password token, click on "more info", go to "temporary code link":

6. Browser will open page, where you can select any skype account registered to target email, in my case there are two account - my disposable and target:

Choose target's account and click "Change password and sign me in":

 You will be redirected to login form:

You are all set!
P.S. I have changed primary email for that test accounts, so do not try hack them. Just in case. =)

How to protect your accounts

You already changed password for the target account, know the skype login, and able to use that target skype account. But somebody could take it back from you, just as you did (owner for example).
To prevent that you need to change your primary email to some address, unknown to anyone.

To do that:
1. Sign in on skype website.
2. Go into the "profile" link (click to enlarge):

3. On account information, go down, to "Contact details", click "Add email address":

4. Add your email address, which unknown to anybody, but you:

Click save button at the bottom of the form. After page reload, refresh page again to prevent some strange glitches of the site (if you will not reload the page, after you do following steps, it will forget steps 4 and 5 and discard that little work).

5. Scroll to Contact details again. Click on "Add email address" again. Switch primary email to the new one:

Click "Save" button at the bottom of the form, again.

It will ask you for your password. You know it already. Type password and click button by mouse, not by "Enter" key.

After page reload, refresh page again to prevent some strange glitches of the site (described above).

6. Scroll to Contact details again. Click on "Add email address" again. Delete (with backspace and/or delete buttons) all emails but primary:

7. Click "Save" button at the bottom of the form. Make sure all your changes applied (it sometimes require two or more attempts, since the site is developed by curly-handed programmers).

8. Tell to friends how to protect a skype account. ASAP

At the time there is no other way to protect your skype account, except changing of primary email to some unknown address.
Once account is stolen, it has ability to retrieve all your IM history from other peers.
If you already lost your account, contact to all your necessary contacts and tell them to remove you from their contact list. It prevents IM history interchange (if it is not already happened).

There is how mailbox of target looks like:



Thus target will receive notifications regarding password change, but initial owner have less than one minute to understand and take action, it is almost impossible to login into skype website, change emails, when a hacker already there. 

Rovio releases Angry Birds Star Wars

Nov 08, 2012

Angry Birds Star Wars is now available on iOS, Android, Amazon Kindle Fire, Mac, PC, Windows Phone, and Windows 8.

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ngry Birds Star Wars, the new game from Rovio Entertainment and Lucasfilm, is now available on iOS, Android, Amazon Kindle Fire, Mac, PC, Windows Phone, and Windows 8. Along with the game, the company has also released a new trailer for the game and merchandise in select retailers worldwide.

“It’s a banner day for us,” said Peter Vesterbacka, CMO of Rovio Entertainment. “This is our best Angry Birds game yet, and we’re excited for our fans to finally meet Luke, Leia, and the rest of the gang! But it’s more than just a game launch: we think fans are going to just love the new animated trailer and the Angry Birds Star Wars products, sure to be a big hit this holiday season.”

The game follows a plucky group of Rebel Birds in their fight against the evil Imperial Pigs. Fans will use the Force, wield a lightsaber, and blast away Pigtroopers on an intergalactic journey from the deserts of Tatooine to the depths of the Pig Star -- where they’ll face off against the terrifying Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Pigs.

“We can’t wait for fans around the world to experience the fun of launching the Angry Birds characters into the Star Wars universe,” said Colum Slevin, Vice President, Head of Studio Operations for Lucasfilm Ltd. “This is the kind of creative partnership that has helped Star Wars remain vibrant and beloved for over 35 years.”

Rovio claims that with more than 80 levels in locations such as Tatooine and the Pig Star, the game features hours of gameplay, all new gameplay mechanics, the ability to level up birds, free updates, plus lots of secrets and hidden features. Fans can also train in the 'Path of the Jedi' in-app purchase to become a Jedi Master.

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Concurrently with the game launch, Rovio and Lucasfilm have also introduced tie-in merchandise and a new cinematic trailer, which retells the classic Star Wars cantina scene with Angry Birds Star Wars characters in the starring roles. Angry Birds Star Wars merchandise, ranging from Hasbro toys to apparel to plush toys, is available now from select retailers.

Rovio Entertainment released a new and extended gameplay trailer for Angry Birds Star Wars on iOS, Android, Windows 8, PC, and Mac yesterday. In this trailer, we can see a variety of Angry Birds in their new Star Wars avatar flaunting their skills with lightsabers. The Bad Piggies, as expected, are from the Dark Side, and they too wield lightsabers. 

The game aims to combine all the fun of the classic Angry Birds and Angry Birds Space with the characters, stories, and settings of the epic space fantasy Star Wars.

Tooling Around With Windows 8

Windows 8 has been designed for touch. You need a new, multitouch-compatible computer to take advantage of this, but you can get a feel for the experience on a mouse-based computer. For example, place your cursor over a tile, then hold the left mouse button down and track the pointer so it drags the tile to a new location on the Start screen. Release the left mouse button, and the tile will be relocated.