You Can Get Hacked Just by Opening a 'JPEG 2000' file format

Researchers have disclosed a critical zero-day vulnerability in the JPEG 2000 image file format parser implemented in OpenJPEG library, which could allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on the affected systems.

Discovered by security researchers at Cisco Talos group, the zero-day flaw, assigned as TALOS-2016-0193/CVE-2016-8332. 

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS score of 7.5, categorizing it as a high-severity bug.

What is OpenJPEG?
OpenJPEG is an open-source JPEG 2000 (JP2codec. Written in C language, the software was developed for coding and encoding JPEG2000 images, a format that is often used for tasks like embedding image files within PDF documents through popular software including PdFium, Poppler, and MuPDF.

The JPEG 2000 file format is commonly used for embedding images inside PDF documents. This particular vulnerability could allow an out-of-bound heap write to occur, resulting in heap corruption and lead to arbitrary code execution. Talos has disclosed this vulnerability responsibily to the library maintainers to ensure a patch is available.

Hackers can exploit the security vulnerability by tricking the victim into opening a specially crafted, malicious JPEG2000 image or a PDF document containing that malicious file in an email.

The hacker could even upload the malicious JPEG2000 image file to a file hosting service, like Dropbox or Google Drive, and then send that link to the victim.

Once downloaded to the system, it would create a way for hackers to remotely execute malicious code on the affected system.

The flaw was caused "due to an error while parsing mcc records in the jpeg2000 file,...resulting in an erroneous read and write of adjacent heap area memory," Cisco explained in its advisory.

"Careful manipulation of heap layout and can lead to further heap metadata process memory corruption ultimately leading to code execution under attacker control."

The researchers successfully tested the JPEG 2000 image exploit on the OpenJPEG openjp2 version 2.1.1. The flaw was discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic from the Cisco Talos Security team.
The team reported the zero-day flaw to OpenJPEG developers in late July, and the company patched the flaw last week with the release of version 2.1.2.
source: TALOS, THN

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PicsArt adds Prisma-like effects to photos and video inside your phone

PicsArt today launched a brand new pair of apps for iOS, adding Prisma-like effects for photographs and videos to the visually stimulating toolbox that lives inside your phone. The company also launches a Remix Me feature, turning photo adjustments into a social experiment not entirely unlike what we saw with the now-defunct Dubble app.

Both apps process effects on your phone, rather than in the cloud, making the app significantly faster than Prisma.

Watch the video from Techcrunch:



Unfortunately the said apps is not available for Android as of now, but there is Art effect similar to Prisma but not as good as the new apps for iOS.

Update!  Just today PicsArt for Android updated now with Remix Me feature.

Watch my Sample (Android) :

 

source: via Techcrunch

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Jerusalem-based Lightricks, Enlight and also Facetune are the top photo app in the U.S

Jerusalem-based Lightricks knows what it takes to stand out amongst the thousands of photo apps. They’ve done it twice — with Enlight and also Facetune, which is currently the top photo app in the U.S. according to App Annie.

Facetune is a funny photo editor for making your selfies way more shiny and attractive. This is a highly complete application with plenty of tools to achieve the perfect result you were looking for.

Every photo could use a touch up. That’s why magazines use expensive, complicated tools like Photoshop to make people look their best. But now, there’s Facetune! Facetune provides easy-to-use, powerful tools (previously reserved only for the pros) to retouch and perfect every photo or selfie, making each one look like it came straight out of a high-fashion magazine.  

Lightricks “takes the retouching capabilities of Photoshop and makes them easy to use,” said CEO Zeev Farbman. He credits Facetune’s popularity to its simplicity.

How does it work? 
Select your preferred picture and try all the available tools to make your face brighter, remove those annoying spots and stand out whatever details you find beautiful. There are plenty of photo editors out there, but Facetune is probably one of the bests, ever. Everything you want, you will find.

Facetune, which costs $3.99 or  Php150.00 on both iOS and Android, evens out skin tone, whitens teeth and erases blemishes.

Another apps from Lightricks,  Enlight, which also costs $3.99, but is only available on iOS, is designed to make smartphone photography look professional. More than just filters, Enlight touts its precision in adjusting light and color, which can also be done by dragging one’s finger.

Enlight looks best for landscape or artistic photos. Enlight solve the issue having no mouse on editing via smartphone like erasing or blending  mixed photos...

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Prisma photo app arrives on Android: Turn your photos into awesome artworks

The finished Prisma app is now readily available on Google Play, giving anyone a chance to see what iOS users were excited about a month ago. Again, the big deal is the use of cloud-based machine learning to turn humdrum photos into hyper-stylized pieces of art -- vivid brush strokes and pencil lines appear out of nowhere. 

Prisma, the sensationally popular iOS photo manipulation app that's been second only to Pokémon Go in terms of summer hype, has now arrived on Android.

Prisma transforms your photos into artworks using the styles of famous artists: Munk, Picasso as well as world famous ornaments and patterns. A unique combination of neural networks and artificial intelligence helps you turn memorable moments into timeless art. 

Give it a shot if you don't think your smartphone's usual photo filters are enough.

Be an artist! Turn your photos into awesome artworks:
- Modern art filters!
- Stunning photo effects
- Fast sharing 

When Prisma Labs said you wouldn't have to wait long to use its Android app outside of the beta test, it wasn't joking around.  Download Now!

Updated: July 24, 2016
Size: 7.0M
Current Version :1.0
Requires Android :4.1 and up
Offered By: Prisma Labs, inc.

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VLC for Android can now play videos from your local network

VLC for Android just became much, much more useful if you like full control over how and where you play your videos. The newly released VLC 2.0 rolls in a few big features that you may well have missed, most notably network browsing. Yes, you can find that elusive movie on your home media server. The upgrade also brings a pop-up video window that's helpful for tablet owners eager to multitask.

 
Other big improvements? The Android TV version has a fresh interface (and has merged with the regular mobile app). You can create video playlists, and it doesn't need as many permissions to play nicely with your device. All told, VLC has matured enough that it's worth considering if your existing Android media app just isn't cutting it.

WHAT'S NEW?
VLC on Android 2.0.0
2.0 introduces a large number of features, notably network disk browsing (Windows shares, UPnP, NFS, FTP, SFTP...), favorite folders and URLs, video playlists, popup video, new permissions support, subtitles download, rewritten notifications and control, and a rewritten history.
The Android TV and Android versions were merged, so that every device can optionally get the updated Android TV interface.
Finally, it should be faster to decode and playback all video types.


source : VideoLAN (Twitter), GooglePlay,

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SCR Screen Recorder Pro 2 (Root/No Root) HD

With Best Screen Recorder No-Root HD you can easily capture your phone/tablet screen to a MPEG4 Full-HD video + audio file at a high frame rate.
It is the best screen recording software for Android! Tested on my own  smartphone No Root.

SCR Screen Recorder Pro 2, the Android most comprehensive screencast recording app.
SCR Screen Recorder supports all Android versions since 4.0 and utilizes the best encoding method available on each platform. Since the first release in early 2013 SCR Screen Recorder is frequently updated and new features are added regularly.

Many users utilize this app to record:
1. All types of GAMES with Very High Frame Rate!
2. Video Tutorials
3. Video Calls
4. Promotional or demo videos for their apps
5. Incoming/Outgoing Phone calls
6. Hundreds of other purposes!

In the Settings Menu there are advanced settings that you can customize like Resolution, Frame Rate, Video Bitrate, Starting Countdown, record with or without Audio and the Video Duration.

Here are some other COOL features:

• SYSTEM AUDIO (requires root) - On most devices you can directly record in-game audio without quality loss caused by microphone recording speakers output. The "Internal + Mic" option allows to add a microphone commentary to the system audio recording. At the moment this feature is not available on Android 4.2 but it'll be added soon.

• FACE CAM - Share your emotions by adding a front-facing camera to your video. You can move the camera overlay around so that it doesn't obstruct important controls.

• NO ADS - Unlike other "free" screen recorders SCR never display any ads. Development of all my apps is supported only by donations.

• SETTINGS - No mater if you prefer to select simple presets or manually tweak every setting we've got you covered. SCR supports many customizations and provides performance and stability stats.

Example: 



 
This app records screen without ROOT access on ALL supported smartphones! ( Tested on Lollipop NO root )

SCR Screen Recorder is now distributed as direct APK download because it got removed from Google Play™ for alleged policy violation. For more information visit SCR thread on XDA forum.

Download : Google version

Google Drive

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How to make color splash effect to your photo Step by Step - Aviary

What is Color Splash Effect ? - The Color Splash Effect let's you create images that mix black and white (B&W) with color. For instance you can take a photo of a Jamaican cherry (manzanitas) and render it in complete B&W except for the red of the Jamaican cherry. 

You can also do this with several colors at once, so that you might, for instance, preserve the red of Jamaican cherry along with the green of the leaves that are now black and white. It’s a really cool and easy effect and this tutorial breaks down how to use it, step by step, so that you can be a color splash pro in no time at all!

We've found a great, free tools to add colour splash to your photos.

Photo Editor by Aviary
Aviary is a powerful photo editor which we created because we wanted a quick and easy way to edit our photos on the go with no fuss.  Easy to use, very versatile, perfect for mobile phone photographers for Instagram post.

Google Playstore Link : 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aviary.android.feather&hl=en

Quick Guide :

Step 1: Open a Photo
Open Aviary apps browse a photo on gallery select Color Splash from the effects menu, which you can access through the effects icon in the menu bar of the editor.

Step 2: Brush the Selected Area 
Simply brush over the area of the image where the color should remain the true color, then you can also use the ZOOM so you can brush clearly. Once your than its ready to upload on your Instagram.

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Lately I use to photograph with my smartphone and I really like macro shoots. I  like to explore ways to tweak a image. Really Mobigraphy change the way we  take photos just one click  you have a photo, and a few clicks more you have amazing effects. There are a lots  app now available for Android and iOS, like PicsArt, Snapseed, Photodirector and many more to explore.
 

Here's More Photo I edited:

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Extend laptop's display to your phone and pad

Extend or mirror your windows laptop to your phone and pad with EZCast apps installed in both sides. Extend your view wirelessly.

EZCast now supports casting to EZCast
Since 1.8.0, EZCast supports mirroring display and streaming multimedia across Windows, Android, iOS and Mac platforms.
 

EZCast application for Windows version, developed by WinnerWave, displays your Windows embedded PC and Notebook wirelessly via EZCast devices or platforms.

Requirements:
Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1/10.
Supports Extension and Mirror with audio transmission.
Supports music and video streaming.
Do not support Windows starter version.

Extend your view wirelessly

 EZCast apps must installed in both sides

You can also direct Cast a video to your TV screen

                  WATCH VIDEO DEMO



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Reverse Movie FX - magic video

Reverse Movie FX is an app that lets you create a reverse video that looks like a magic trick! First record a video of someone (or you): walking, drinking orange juice, talking or any other idea that comes to your head! After that select a desired movie fragment and press start! The app will reverse your video: you will see people walking backwards, your friend spitting the juice out, people talking backwards!

A few ideas of video reverse:
- item kinetic attraction (you have to throw an item)
- tear a sheet of paper
- throwing a sheet of papier to the toilet
- drinking a juice (and spitting it out as a result)
- spilling a juice
- money attracting
- etc.

Reversing options:
- Add music
- reversed + original
- original + reversed

Example Video :

Give it a try, you'll be amazed! You can share the result with your friends of course anywhere you want: facebook, e-mail etc..  (link for Android only )

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Windows 10's game DVR tool capture video in any app

Microsoft introduced the Game bar to Windows 10 as a means for recording gameplay sessions on PCs. But that’s not all it’s good for, as it turns out: you can also use the new Game bar recording function as a quick and dirty screen video recorder for other apps. In fact, this could work as a basic alternative to third-party options like Camtasia, as BetaNews first discovered.

The new feature only works in more recent updates to the Windows 10 insider preview or the latest Windows 10 RTM build 10240.

You can call up the Game bar by hitting the Windows logo key + G. However, you can’t call it up anywhere. In our tests, for example, you wouldn’t see it on the bare desktop, File explorer, or Notepad. Try it out in anything else—such as a modern UI app or the Steam dashboard—and it should work. In other words, this feature appears to be limited to apps and won’t work for system level activities.

Once you hit the Game bar shortcut, a pop-up window will appear as seen above that says Do you want to open Game bar? The only option is a checkbox that says Yes, this is a game.

Click that checkbox and the Game bar will appear. Now you can just hit the red record button to start your recording session, or you can use the keyboard shortcut Windows key + Alt + R. 

That’s about all there is to this feature. You can find your saved videos in the Game DVR section of the Xbox app, or inside your user folder under Video > Captures.  

NOTE:  
Your PC needs to have one of these video cards to run Game DVR:
AMD: AMD Radeon HD 7000 series, HD 7000M series, HD 8000 series, HD 8000M series, R9 series, and R7 series.
NVIDIA: GeForce 600 series or later, GeForce 800M series or later, Quadro Kxxx series or later.

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Watermark a Batch Photos in 1 minute with Watermark Software

Watermark is the most effective way to protect your photos' copyright from unauthorized using. Just do a few clicks, Watermark Software will provide the indelible protection for your image files.

Still waste a whole day to add watermark to batches of photos? Watermark all your travel, party photos in one operation, batch watermark over 300 photos within 1 minute...

The newly-designed watermark software, protect and retouch your photo & video all with a few clicks

•      Text watermark with rich effects
•      Image watermark (150 watermarks, QR code supported)
•      Support invisible watermark - EXIF information
•      Batch process + Smart fit
•      Photo frame, crop, batch rename, resize

 

 

As for software-watermark main features: 

 
1. Fastest watermark photos.
2. BATCH watermark photos, such as, Rename photos, Resize Photos, Add Frame and etc.
3. Support Strong Protection like tiling watermark.
4. EXIF: Support invisible watermark.
5. Support auto FTP Uploading to web after finishing wartermarking.

How it Works?

1. Load your local photos which you want to watermark

2. Enter words or import/select the image to watermark your photo file at will..

Customizable Watermarks:

Text Watermark
Simply keystrokes to create text watermarks that support rich fonts, symbols, shadow and effects. Then Watermark Software will put into photo as watermarks automatically.

Image Watermark
Embed a special symbolized image to protect your photos' copyright, which is definitely a necessary measure for your creative works. Watermark Software allows you add any image file as a watermark, like the company logo, personal avatar and etc.

Combined Watermark
Far more than only adding watermark, you can add several text/image watermarks to combine and arrange as you will, making your photo meet your wants.
What's more, multiple-layer mode is available for your customized watermarks.

Photo Frame/Cover 
You can add frame...Various frames/covers have been embedded

3. Rename a batch photos

4. Save your watermarked photos with 1 click..

FTP upload is supported

Exclusive Feature - Upload all of processed images to your web server automatically via FTP.

Simplify your job - If you want to add watermark to 500 photos for your website/blog/online storage, just run Watermark Software and then enjoy a cup of coffee, everything will be done when you get back.

For some special purposes, you need to protect your shared photos to avoid copy and unauthorized using. However, we can't prevent from the reproduction and dissemination on the internet.

Hope you like this amazing software especially for Photography Blogger..

 

Download trial for FREE : http://www.watermark-software.com/

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Freemake YouTube Downloader

Freemake YouTube Downloader lets download online videos to PC free and fast. The software supports video download from YouTube, Vimeo, Vevo, Facebook, Dailymotion and over 10,000 sites. Grab streaming any videos in original quality or convert them to MP3, AVI, MKV, WMV, 3GP, for iPhone, iPod, PSP, Android. Easy setup, no fees, no signup, no limitations.

Features: 

Best Free Way to Save Videos Offline

Freemake Video Downloader helps copy your favorite YouTube clips to a hard drive. So you will never lose them and be able to watch any time without Internet connection. The program is free, without any hidden costs or limitations. Just install it to your computer and download online videos via easy URL copy-paste.

Universal Video Downloader from 10,000 Sites

Capture videos easily from YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Vevo, download Dailymotion, Veoh, and other streaming services. Download video clips, how-to's, TV shows, series, cartoons, films, etc. Extract any embedded video no matter where it's hosted. See all supported sites The list is being constantly enlarged!

Turbo Fast Download Manager

You can easily download YouTube videos with one click. Just switch on "One click mode" and set batch parameters for video quality, format, destination. Free YouTube Downloader will automatically rip videos in accordance with your settings. It's very useful when you download multiple videos to one and the same format.

Download YouTube Playlists

Download any YouTube playlists, channels, favorites to watch on desktop. Save music collections from artists' channels and directly send MP3s to iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad. Choose what videos and in what quality to download. If your Internet connection isn't good, set the download speed limit to restrict the consumed bandwidth.

YouTube Converter

Eager to download YouTube videos to MP3? Try Free YouTube MP3 Boom. Find any YouTube song inside the software and download it straight away in the original audio quality, without any re-encoding.

Convert to MP4, AVI, MKV, iPhone, Android

Freemake Video Downloader is an all-in-one tool to download and convert online videos. You can convert YouTube to MP4, AVI, MKV, WMV, WMV, 3GP, Vimeo to MP3 or get videos prepared for the playback on iPhone, iPod, iPad, Sony PSP, Android and other portable gadgets.

YouTube Downloads in HD, HQ, Full HD

Choose from 14+ different qualities available for YouTube video download: 4K, 1440p, 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p, 180p, MP4, WebM, 3GP, FLV. Obtain the original video "as-is" or convert it to multiple formats and devices: MP3, AVI, MKV, WMV, iPhone, Android, PSP.

Protect Your Online Security

Use proxy server to rip videos unavailable in your region or hide your web identity. Unlike online services, our software doesn't depend on browser settings. So you can rest assured that your web profile is not connected with download activity in any way. Switch on parental control option to block downloading from adult sites.

Grab YouTube Videos Without Ads

Freemake YouTube Downloader automatically removes any ads placed or going along with YouTube videos. Save favorite videos, download TV shows without annoying pre-rolls, captions, or annotations.

Download YouTube Private & Embedded Videos

Download YouTube private videos to which you have access. Catch YouTube videos embedded into other websites. Just start the video streaming, copy the link of a page with it, and paste into the program to download.

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