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Hide It Pro: Hide all of your Personal Data on your Android Devcie

August 13, 2013 By Satwant Singh Leave a Comment

Let me start by saying that privacy is the most important thing for an individual. We try our best to keep our personal data and information away from the eyes of others. On the other hand, we’re talking about android which is the leading Operating System today with over 850,000 applications and 48 billion downloads. Android Operating System scans all of your data like images and videos from you file manager and show it all in the Gallery. And anyone can see your gallery and so our images and videos. So where’s the privacy?

In this article, I’ll be showing you all that how can you hide not only your personal images and videos but also applications, messages and calls in your Android device. For this we’ll be using a third-party application “Hide It Pro” from the Google Play Store which allows you to hide all of your personal data easily and very cleverly. Hide It Pro is like another galley in your device which is accessible by only you. Others can’t even find this gallery.

Below is the proper guide of using “Hide It Pro”:

Setting Up:

Download the Hide It Pro from the and Install it.
After complete installation, you’ll see an “Audio Manager” icon in your drawer. Now you must be wondering that you didn’t download the Audio Manager. It should be Hide It Pro. Here’s the clever part comes, the actual Hide It Pro app is disguised behind this fully functional Audio Manager.
Launch the Audio Manager, you’ll see all audio managing functions with a message on the top “Tap and hold on the logo above to launch the actual hide it pro app. This message will disappear next time you launch the app.” So as it was in the message, tap and hold the logo and the actual Hide It Pro app will appear.
Now you have the Hide It Pro setup on the screen. You have two options to lock. One is Pin based and other is Password based. I’ll be showing the Pin based.
Tap on the Pin based option, type the Pin code and save it.
Now you’ll be asked to enter a recovery email. You can skip this setup but it’s better to enter an email in case you forget your Pin.
Now Hide It Pro app will make its settings. After complete setting up, it’s done. Next time you’ll try to access the Hide It Pro, you’ll have to enter the Pin.

Hide Pictures and Videos from Android Gallery:

Go to galley and open the picture (or video) you want to hide (You can select multiple files). Tap on “Menu” and then “Share”. You’ll see the “Audio Manager” option, tap on it.
Now you’ll be directed to the usual Audio Manager. As explained before, tap and hold the logo and the actual Hide It Pro app will appear. Enter the Pin to access the app.
After entering the Pin correctly, you’ll be asked to create or select the folder. Tap on create “Create Folder”. And then name the folder and select whether you want it as a folder or album.
Now the picture (or video) you selected before is hidden. You can access the picture by usual procedure of accessing the Hide It Pro app. There’ll be different categories for different media files.

Hide Apps:

To hide apps, you need a rooted device. If your device is rooted, then you can hide apps from “Hide Apps” icon on the main screen of the Hide It Pro app. But if your device is not rooted then you cannot hide the apps. You’ll get this warning when you’ll tap on Hide Apps icon.

Hide Messages and Calls:

To hide messages and calls, you’ll have to download the SMS and Call Blocker Plug-in. When you’ll tap on “Messages” icon from the main screen of the app, you’ll be asked to get that plug-in.

Other Main features of “Hide It Pro”:

Categorize media into folders of your choice
Delete, Share, Unhide or Move pictures between albums
Sort files by Date, Size or Name and sort folders by Count or Name
Gallery Zoom Features: Pinch to Zoom, Double Tap to Zoom, One finger hold and move zoom
Slide show with Fade, Zoom and Swipe effects
Send/Share Pictures
Special Optimization for low-end phones.
Disappear from the recent app list
Video Player with all important supports
Built in encryption tool
And lot more

So overall “Hide It Pro” is the best app which sets perfectly with our privacy needs. This app has been rated 4.8 out 5 which is really impressive and this clearly shows that users are really satisfied with performance of “Hide It Pro”.

So what are you waiting for? Download this app from and keep you all private data hidden and safe from others. It is certainly one of the best Android apps to hide personal data.

Tutorial on External System Calls from PERL or TCL/TK Program

June 16, 2012 By Rahul Miglani Leave a Comment

Tutorial on External System Calls from PERL or TCL/TK Program

There are several ways to call external system calls from inside the PERL or TCL/TK Program, we use many of these in several of our Integration Line Areas such as SCHAPI Software, Perl Programs etc.

1: Using System function : We use system function when we don’t want to capture the output of the command run, we can only get to know that whether the command succeeded or not.Ex: From our JOB where it just triggers the external program and doesn’t capture the output of PROGRAM.

system ‘ls -l $HOME';
if ($RUN_TYPE eq “I” || $RUN_TYPE eq “S” ) {
if ( $RUN_TYPE eq “S” ){
system(“perl D:\\scmwrk82\\J2EEServer\\config\\CRM\\Poller_Libra\\ShutDownPoller.pl ‘E'”);
}
else {
system(“perl D:\\scmwrk82\\J2EEServer\\config\\CRM\\Poller_Libra\\ShutDownPoller.pl ‘I'”);
}
}
2: exec
It is same as system function except that it does not start child process, The exec function causes the Perl process itself to perform the requested action.Ex: From our Script to call our external script of Unix.

button .frame_bottom.ok \
-relief raised \
-text “Yes” -font $MediumFont -fg red \
-borderwidth 2 \
-command { exec /opt/gemini/prj/oper/bin/cleaning_maestro.sh &
exit }

3: backticks
We want to capture the output of the command,
Like : my $now = `date`; # grab the output of date
print “The time is now $now”;
Backquotes in list context , If the output from a command has multiple lines, the scalar use of backquotes returns it as a single long string containing newline characters. However, using the same backquoted string in a list context yields a list containing one line of output per element.

my $who_text = `who`; ( stores the output in singe long string)

my @who_lines = `who`; (stores the output in list context)
4: Using open function ( process as Filehandles)
When we want to pipe the command (as input or output) to the script.There are 2 ways to do it :

a : capture the data of a command (syntax: open(“command |”))
b: feed an external command with data generated from the Perl script (syntax: open(“| command”))

open DATE, “date|” or die “cannot pipe from date: $!”;
here we are trying to run the date command and piping its output to DATE file handle
now we can read the output : my $now = ;

open MAIL, “|mail merlyn” or die “cannot pipe to mail: $!”;
Here we are trying to send data to the mail process,

print MAIL “The time is now $now”; # presume $now ends in newline;
close MAIL;
die “mail: nonzero exit of $?” if $?;

Now one small question arises ,why do we use processes as filehandles? (when the same task can be done using backquotes ? , Well, it’s the only easy way to write to a process, based on the results of a computation. If you’re only reading, backquotes can be easier , to manage unless you want to have the results as they come in.Example :

open F, “find / -atime +90 -size +1000 -print|” or die “fork: $!”;
while () {
chomp;
printf “%s size %dK last accessed on %s\n”,
$_, (1023 + -s $_)/1024, -A $_;
}

The find command is looking for all the files not accessed within the past 90 days and larger than 1,000 blocks. While find is searching, Perl can wait. As each file is found, Perl responds to the incoming name and displays some information about that file for further research.Had this been written with backquotes, we wouldn’t have seen any output until the find command had finished. It’s comforting to see that it’s actually doing the job before it’s done.