Fitness Trackers Don't Improve Weight Loss, Study Says Say it ain't so.

Fitness Trackers Don't Improve Weight Loss, Study Says Say it ain't so.

SMARTPHONES Unknown   17:42:00

Like a good pair of sneakers, fitness trackers have long been considered a worthy investment for anyone trying to shape up. Unfortunately, a new study has found that wearing one might not help much for weight loss–in fact, it could hinder your results.

In a new paper for the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh spent two years observing 470 overweight or obese subjects between 18 and 35 years old and put them on a low-calorie diet with instructions to increase physical activity to 100 to 300 minutes a week. After keeping food and exercise diaries and attending counseling sessions, everyone lost weight.

After six months, half of the participants were assigned to monitor diet and activity online while the other half were assigned a fitness tracker (a BodyMedia Fit Core armband, which is worn on the upper arm and not the wrist like most trackers).

350 people (or 75 percent of the original group) completed the two years. Those without a tracker lost an average of 13 pounds (going from 210 to 197 on average) while those using a tracker for 18 months lost an average of 7.7 pounds (going from 212.3 to 204.5). The paper's lead author, John Jakicic, Ph.D. explained in a release that using trackers "may give people somewhat of a false sense of security that they don't pay attention to some of the key behaviors that they otherwise might pay attention to. They are relying on the device or the technology a little bit too much and that may be why we saw a little bit less weight loss in that group."

Considering the study's limitations–participants didn't start tracking activity until six months in, it was exclusive to overweight/obese subjects–this isn't a definitive call to stop using fitness trackers. Your FitBit may not be the key to dropping pounds, but if it motivates you to exercise, by all means, keep counting those steps.

How to Hack Admin Password using Guest login.

How to Hack Admin Password using Guest login.

LAWS AND LEGALITIES Unknown   22:04:00

Press shift key 5 times and the sticky key dialog shows up.This works even at the logon screen. But If we replace the sethc.exe which is responsible for the sticky key dialog,with cmd.exe, and then call sethc.exe by pressing shift key 5 times at logon screen,we will get a command prompt with administrator privilages because no user has logged on. From there we can hack the administrator password,even from a guest account.  

Prerequisites

 
Guest account with write access to system 32.

Procedure To Hack windows XP administrator Password

Method 1 (Change Admin Password)

Here is how to do that -

1.Go to C:/windows/system32

2.Copy cmd.exe and paste it on desktop

3.Rename cmd.exe to sethc.exe

4.Copy the new sethc.exe to system 32,when windows asks for overwriting the file,then click yes.

5.Now Log out from your guest account and at the user select window,press shift key 5 times.

6.nstead of Sticky Key confirmation dialog,command prompt with full administrator privileges will open.

7.Now type “ NET USER ADMINISTRATOR aaa" where “aaa" can be any password you like and press enter.

8.You will see “ The Command completed successfully" and then exit the command prompt and login into
administrator with your new password.

9.Congrats You have hacked admin through guest account. Method 2 (Access admin without changing password)

Also, you can further create a new user at the command prompt by typing “NET USER How to hack /ADD" where " How to hack" is the username you would like to add with administrator privileges. Then hide your newly created admin account by -

Go to registry editor and navigate to this key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList

Here create a new " DWORD value", write its name as the “How to hack" (the username that you entered in the previous step),now you can live with your admin account forever enjoy

Pokemon Go Hack: How To Find Exact Location Of Every Pokemon By Using This Map

Pokemon Go Hack: How To Find Exact Location Of Every Pokemon By Using This Map

pokemon on google map Siddiqui   00:56:00

Short Bytes: If you are tired of tracking down your favorite Pokemon, we’ve got a great hack for you. A developer has written a python script that lets you see the location of every Pokemon on Google Maps. You need to open the command line and follow his detailed instructions to get things done. To make the installation process more user-friendly, the developer is working to design a simple interface without any use of command line.

The fun of tracking down new creatures in Pokemon Go has turned into an addiction all across the globe. If you are probably feeling tired after playing Pokemon Go for hours, we understand that.

But, what if you get a map that shows the exact location of every pokemon around you, making the game very easy? Thanks to a bug in the game, someone has come up with a version of a Google Map that shows every pokemons around you.

Before going into more details, let me tell you that to view this map, you need to have the knowledge of command line. This project was spotted on Redditwhere a developer named Ahmed Almutawa posted the detailed instructions.

Somehow, he was able to pull raw data out of the game, including the locations of pokemons, gyms, and individual pokestops. Within a few hours, he plotted that data on a map and posted the project on Reddit and GitHub.

As said earlier, you need to open up your command line and run a python script. So, it’s not some smartphone application or web app that just invloves a simple click-and-install.

After getting things done, you’ll be presented with a Google Map that shows a bird’s eye views of every pokemon, gym, pokestop etc. around you. By tweaking a little bit with code, you can apply filters to locate specific pokemons.

Almutawa told The Verge that he and other developers are working to make this project more user friendly. They are working to create an interface that will let you install the map easily and avoid the command line stuff.

Thanks to the overwhelming populalrity of Pokemon Go, such projects and hacks are mushrooming all across the web. It’ll be interesting to see which approach will be adopted by Nintendo and Niantic.

“It is Niantic’s game and they’re free to do with it whatever they do,” Almutawa says. “I do hope that they’re fine with the map itself [and] it’s not causing them any issues.”

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