Turn your old phone into a security camera

It's easy to forget that regular old burglars are still lurking around to steal from your home. That's why I'm a big fan of home security systems, especially ones that let you watch your home from a distance and alert you when someone breaks in. You don't always need a security system that covers an entire house. Maybe you want to watch a specific drawer or jewelry box, your cubicle at work, the door to your room or what's happening in your hotel room while you're out. In those and similar cases, you might be able to set up a quick security system for free with the right tools.

Getting started:

Main thing you need is a smartphone, a stand to keep the gadget upright and a monitoring app. Set up your gadget on the stand and point the camera in the direction you want to watch. Then start the app. If the app detects movement, it will alert you via email or text, take pictures of the thieves and even sound an alarm to scare them off. If you already have an old smartphone or tablet lying around, you can be up and running in no time. You can also use your main smartphone if you want to guard something overnight while you're sleeping, like a hotel room door.So, let's take a look at the apps that turn your smartphone into a security camera. At the moment, few monitoring apps work for both Android and Apple, so I'll tell you about one for each.

Android users can grab the free Salient Eye app. The name is a little odd, but the features are top-notch.It uses your phone's camera to sense motion and alerts you via email or text. Then it starts capturing photos of the thief and uploads them online to a free cloud storage account. A few seconds later, it triggers an audible alarm that, hopefully, scares the thief away. You need a password to shut off the alarm. Click here for a demonstration video.Notification and uploading features, you will need to have your gadget connected to a cellular or Wi-Fi network. Salient Eye can still capture images and sound the alarm without a connection, but if the thief steals the gadget, then it doesn't do as much good, aside from the fact that he’ll be running around with a smartphone that’s blaring an alarm.In situations where you know someone is coming in, like a cleaning person, you can turn off the alarm so you can see what they're doing but not alert them. You can also turn off notifications if you just want to use it as a motion-activated alarm.The developer claims Salient Eye can work up to 10 hours on battery alone, so it will work even in places where you can't access an outlet, like a drawer or jewelry box, or on a camping trip. There's also a paid remote-control app that lets you turn it on and off from a distance.

For Apple users:

Apple users will want to download the free Manything app to both their old iPhone and new iPhone or iPad. Like Salient Eye, Manything uses your gadget's camera to detect motion and trigger an alert.Unlike Salient Eye, it can capture video in addition to still photos, and it streams video live to the iPhone or iPad you have with you. It also stores up to 12 hours of video in a free cloud account.Manything has other fancy features, like adjustable motion sensitivity, programmable motion zones so it can watch very specific areas, easy time-lapse creation and a built-in remote control. If you're feeling really adventurous, Manything has IFTTT support for triggering updates to social media or even triggering Internet-connected home appliances like some LED light bulbs.Your only limit is your imagination. Use Manything to record activity around a bird feeder or know when a child leaves her room at night. Or just stick to using it for security. Manything is free, but it has some paid options that let you use it with more than one gadget at a time or get more than 12 hours of video recording storage in the cloud.

A smartphone security camera is good for quick security or a limited area. If you want to upgrade your home security, though, I recommend wireless security cameras.In addition to streaming video to you on the go and sending motion alerts, these have additional features like night vision, two-way audio and sometimes even pan and tilt control.There are plenty of options on the market, and I even sell a range of indoor and outdoor models that I've personally selected to give my readers the most security for their dollar. Click here to see the selection in my store.

Obama to cut short India trip to pay call on Saudi Arabia

US President Barack Obama will shorten his trip to India and divert to Saudi Arabia, paying respects after the death of King Abdullah and meeting with the oil-rich nation's new monarch, the White House said Saturday.The scheduling shift, announced just before Obama left Washington, underscores the desert kingdom's pivotal role in U.S. policy in the Middle East, including the military campaign against the Islamic State group.Saudi Arabia's status as one of Washington's most important Arab allies has at times appeared to trump U.S.

Concerns about the terrorist funding that flows from the kingdom and about human rights abuses.White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama would meet on Tuesday with King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud and other officials to "offer his condolences on behalf of the American people."The president called Salman from Air Force One to express his sympathies on the passing of his older brother. The White House said the king welcomed the news that Obama would be traveling to Riyadh.Obama's pivot comes two weeks after the White House faced criticism for not sending a high-level representative to Paris for a peace rally in the wake of terrorist attacks in France. The White House later said it was a mistake that someone with more stature than the U.S. ambassador to France had not joined the dozens of world leaders who marched arm in arm through the boulevards of Paris.

The schedule change meant that Obama, who arrived in New Delhi on Sunday morning local time, would skip a visit to the Taj Mahal, India's famed white marble monument of love.The rest of Obama's travel itinerary was to remain intact, including meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a summit with U.S. and Indian business leaders, and his participation in the annual Republic Day festivities marking the enactment of India's constitution.Modi, who took office in May, surprised the White House by inviting Obama to attend the parade as his guest, the first time that honor has been bestowed on an American president. In keeping with Islamic tradition, only Muslims attended Abdullah's funeral Friday. Other Western leaders were making plans to visit Saudi Arabia throughout the weekend.Obama made an overnight visit to Saudi Arabia last March and met with Abdullah at his desert camp outside Riyadh. The king was in frail health at the time and appeared to be breathing with the help of an oxygen tank.Saudi Arabia has been a stalwart U.S. partner in the Middle East for decades. But there have been signs of fissures during Obama's tenure, with the Saudi royal family growing frustrated with the White House's cautious approach to the Syrian civil war and skeptical of the president's diplomatic overtures to rival Iran. The U.S. has also become less dependent on Saudi Arabia for oil given production increases at home.

2015 Oscar Predictions: Best Pictures

Hoy Breaking News will provide updates of our predictions for the 87th Academy Awards through February 22nd, when the winners are announced.
Here is our current prediction for the Best Picture Oscar race, with commentary to come. Check out our predictions in other categories here.

The Nominees:
1.American Sniper (Clint Eastwood)

 


2.Boyhood (Richard Linklater)

3.Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu)

4.The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)

5.The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum)

6.Selma (Ava DuVernay)

7.The Theory of Everything (James Marsh)

8.Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)

Gold Bull Spits In Fed’s Face By Breaking Out During Worldwide Depression

Last week's historic Swiss move, today the Godfather of newsletter writers, 90-year old Richard Russell, proclaimed that the gold bull has just spit in the Fed's face by breaking out of its massive base, even as the worldwide depression continues to grind on.The world depression has settled down on mankind. In the meantime every nation is struggling to cheapen its currency. One way of doing this is that central banks are creating new trillions of assorted world currencies. It’s rapidly dawning on the wealthy one percent that the fiat currencies they hold are fast becoming worthless.

The worst of the fiat currencies have suddenly come into question. The reaction of big money is to swap their garbage currencies for the only currency that has held its worth in all of history.Already you can feel the sweep of the new rush into gold. The base is now complete for the resumption of the bull market in gold. Years of QE has loaded the world with a variable notion of fiat money. The avalanche of fiat money will be lighting a fire under the world’s stock markets.Owners of fiat money see the chance of buying real, trustworthy money (gold) and will be moving heavily into gold as the days pass. As I write now, gold is up $14 to 1294.70.  I think it will only be days before gold hurdles resistance at 1300 and moves to new highs.At the same time, the Dow is only a handful away from 18,000, and could easily rally to new record highs. The Transportation average, helped by the collapse in oil prices, is up 97 points.

PK Breaks Records of Dhoom 3 Box Office Collection with 557 Cr.*

PK Box Office Collection Report, PK Break Box Office Collection Records Of Dhoom 3, and now PK is highest earning Bollywood film. Amir Khan’s film once again made new history and record over Bollywood Box Office. Now Film PK has been even made Tax Free in some of the states of India like Uttar Pradesh etc. Mulayam Singh Yadav loved this movie so much that he is keeping Premier Show for his friend to watch this film. He was the man behind making film tax free the in Uttar Pradesh. But there are many controversy over film that Amir Khan has made this film to hurt the Hindu Religion, and many saints protested against this film. Even Swami Ram Dev Baba (Yoga Guru) also said Amir Khan should be sent to Jail. Even we heard some news that PK Team offer 8 Cr to director of OMG Film as movie script is related to that. This all different Controversy gave Film PK a good boost and made it a super Hit Block Buster Film.
PK is seems to be unbeatable now. PK has earned 294 Cr Domestic, Which took the total to 423 Cr Gross. PK International Collection is 134 Cr Gross. So Total went up to 557 Cr Gross Earning Collection Report.

Now Top 3 Bollywood Box Office Movies According to Collection are
PK (2014) – 557* Still going on Gross Collection
Dhoom 3 (2013) – 542 Gross Collection
Chennai Express (2013) – 422 Gross Collection

Mystery 'Woman in Black' ends journey in Virginia, USA

Mystery woman dressed in all black who has been spotted strolling along highways in the U.S. Southeast and Midwest needed police assistance after she was surrounded by a group of about 50 curious people in Virginia, authorities said on Wednesday.

Police, Virginia took the person who wears flowing robes and has been dubbed the "Woman in Black" on social media to an undisclosed location and fed her after the incident on Tuesday evening."She has expressed to officers that she wants to be left alone and is asking that the public respect her wishes. Police did not release her name but she is thought to be Elizabeth Poles, 56, who used to live in Georgia and is originally from Alabama.

The woman has garnered attention in recent weeks from TV stations, police and 51,000 followers on a Facebook page on which she has been tracked walking with a black bag and stick in hand on a nearly 850-mile (1,400-km) journey from Ranger, Georgia, to Winchester. Poles is a U.S. Army veteran, mother of two children and a widow from Motts, Alabama, who had been receiving treatment at Veterans Affairs hospitals to deal with the deaths of her husband in 2008 and her father in 2009

Aamir Khan's PK look: Jokes on his nude poster go viral in social medias

The perfectionist Aamir Khan does it again. After crossing the 400 crore mark at the box-office with Dhoom 3 last year, Aamir is back in news and all set to give tough competition to other Khans. As the poster of his upcoming movie PK got unveiled last night, it has become the most talked about thing on social networking sites. 

Within minutes of him posting the poster where he is nude with a strategically placed vintage boombox, the poster became viral. The poster elicited a roaring response from the Twitteratis, and many B-Town celebs too lauded the actor for pulling off the look with ease. Well though he has been lauded for his look, there were many who made fun of him and his nude poster. Let us have a laugh at some jokes that became viral.