Be Aware of online Frauds:

Common Types of Fraud and Scams:

A scam is a fraudulent scheme targeting an individual's confidence to release information.

There are three types:

Phishing ,Vishing,Smishing

Phishing: 

Phishing is a type of Social Engineering used by identity thieves using emails.

For Example: In phishing, you receive an e-mail from what seems to be a familiar financial institution or company you have an account with (Bank ,E-Commerce site for example), asking you to check your account due to an alleged error or problem. You will then be asked to click to a webpage that looks legit. On the page, you'll be asked to verify personal information, such as your account number, password and Social Security number. In another variation, you'll be asked to email your personal or financial information.in this they will get your data stored in their database and they can easily do hacking.

Vishing:

Phishing over the phone is known as vishing. Instead of sending an e-mail, scammers will call you and get your deatils about your bank or another institution you trust, and will ask for a password or Social Security number.

SMiShing:

 Smishing is accomplished through text messages on a cell phone by asking you to call a particular number or click on a link that could contain malicious code that could potentially steal information stored in your cell phone without your knowledge.

How to avoid phishing, vishing and smishing:

• If you're asked to provide personal or financial information, don't bite. Email and phone is not a secure method of transmitting personal information, and no honest company will ever ask you to transmit such info to them over email or the phone.

• Look for inconsistencies. Maybe there's some bad misspellings in the message, or the company name is capitalized when it should be in lowercase. Phishers are getting better at writing "realistic" copy, but often strange grammar is another giveaway.

• Is the URL suspicious? If you get a message that claims to be from Amazon but you end up linking to a website without amazon.com in the URL, you're probably being taken for a ride.

• Go straight to the source. If you're suspicious about a request made of you, go straight to the official website of the company in question (not the link given to you in the email) and log into your account. If you have an official customer service number on hand, call it and double-check.

• Protect your email. Make sure you're up to date on anti-virus software, firewalls, and email spam filters ? a good defense will often prevent you from even seeing a phishing attempt, let alone getting victimized by one.

• Review your credit card and bank account statements regularly.If by chance you do happen to get hooked by a phishing scam, you should be able to detect illegal activity on your account through reviewing your statements. Many credit cards have extra protection against credit theft ? check with your card to see what's available.

• Get the word out. If you receive spam that is phishing for information, send it to spam@uce.gov and to the company, bank, or organization impersonated in the phishing email. Most organizations have information on their websites about where to report problems. If you believe you've been scammed, file your complaint at ftc.gov, and then visit the FTC's Identity Theft website at www.consumer.gov/idtheft.

Install phonegap and creating new project

install phonegap to create andriod project:

Install ing phonegap and creating a project:

1.Download node.js and install it,

2.download and install git client.

3.open node.js cmd prompt and type  npm install –g cordova

4.enter cordova

5.path of the phonegap  upto bin.

6.cordova create hello com.example,com hello world Enter

7. project created in workspace.

8. project name ex: cd hello enter

9.cordova platform add android enter

10. if you need for ios then type cordova platform add ios

11 check list of platform by “cordova platform list”

Get UDID without itunes

Go to safari browser in ios device type udid.io and click tap to get UDID and instal profile service(provisional profile),it automatically redirect to safari browser to find udid,imei,product,version,and serial number.

add photos and videos to iphone or ipad simulator

go to libarary ,Application Support,iphone simulator,version you choose,media ,DCIM,and create  100APPLE Folder and paste your photos and videos there after that come two step back and delete  Photo data folder and quit simulator and run .

instal cocos-2d in xcode

download the folder from cocos 2d as stable

and open terminal
find the path of downloaded and type ./install-templates.sh -f and click enter

google analytics for ios,iphone,ipad

Download the analytics sdk for ios such as gai.h etc

 after that
 import gai.h in main file after that

 page view Analytics

id<GAITracker> tracker = [[GAI sharedInstance] trackerWithTrackingId:@"xxxxxxxxxx"];

    

    [tracker trackView:@"sdajsbdbjjdhdkbfk"];

Event Analytics:

id<GAITracker> tracker = [[GAI sharedInstance] trackerWithTrackingId:@"xxxxxxxx"];

    //[tracker trackEventWithCategory:@"action" withAction:@"xxx" withLabel:@"xxx" withValue:1];

    [tracker trackEventWithCategory:@"dewdedewddr"

                         withAction:@"ewrewrfew"

                          withLabel:@"ewfrewtete"

                          withValue:[NSNumber numberWithInt:1]];

How to promote your iOS application on AppStore

The necessity for companies and developers to market and promote their individual applications has never been more important than ever, and is often absolutely crucial to an app’s success.

Now we have absolutely different situation we have a flooded App Store with various applications and an imposing mass of competition. With more than 300 apps being released on a daily basis, it is much more difficult to gain free press at niche websites as well as make it into the Top 100 charts. This is where the practices of marketing and advertising are absolutely essential to survive in the App Store.

To begin with you should be ready with your precise plan of your further action. Your plan of attack should really begin before you even open Xcode. As with any other business model, you must cover all grounds including research, design, artwork and branding, coding and hardware, and advertising and marketing.

Pre Launch marketing

Building a buzz around your app and allowing users to become aware of it’s release will add to the success of an application. You can do this promotion and marketing yourself through iPhone forums, social networking platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, and creating individual web pages dedicated to the application itself.

Aside from word of mouth promotions, pre-launch hype also begins with advertisement campaigns and website takeovers. Nothing is better than having your application branded across a website for a certain amount of time. Other ways to gain recognition are Press Releases, demonstration videos on YouTube, and user reviews.

App Launching on AppStore

So you have your ready iOS application and the next step you would like to begin with is to upload it to the AppStore and start its promotion there. Below some tips how to make it in a better way.

Here I would like to highlite that this is the most important part of your iPhone marketing mix. Most people look for cool new apps either on their iPhone/iPad, or through iTunes. Why? It’s the most convenient! That’s why it is so important for iOS application developers to focus on app in-store appearance most. When I use term “in-store appearance” I mean the following components:

App name should be concise enough to attract attention, but should also contain the most important keywords. It is one of the most important factors in search result ranking within the App Store.

Customer Reviews & Ratings it is important to make sure that your application doesn’t look like noone’s ever downloaded it. No reviews, no downloads in the eyes of iTunes users.

iPhone App Marketing Services allow you to build a positive image for your app and attract more downloads across different country app stores.

Colorful and interesting screenshots - Important factor in relaying info about your app. Great screenshots make users be interested in further downloading of the app and trying it in the action.

App description – it is make sense from a search result perspective. Should start with a bullet point list of important features, followed by a text description

Also one more thing we should pay attention to is Application Icon. Make sure that you have an attractive and eye-catching app icon that best represents and sells your application to the user. If your application icon lacks any attention, your product branding awareness is doomed from the start.

There are some smaller ways to gain attention across the net and within the App Store. So you can cause your app to jump back into the “new” charts by changing the release date of the app to the date at which your update was approved, which allows your app to be released in the next batch of updates that hit the App Store.

Also one more great idea is to offer “lite” versions of your application, especially if they are higher priced. It will offer not only free promotion but if the user is impressed enough, they’ll spring for the full version. Think “try before you buy”. Make sure the lite version includes a majority of the features offered in the full version, otherwise a user will move on and you potentially lost a buck to begin with.

This is some of the basic tools covering the first steps you need to do while promoting your application on the AppStore. For sure using AppStore as a core tool to promote the application is not the only variant but at the same time this is the most important playground for further application promotion campaign.

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