Monthly Archives: June 2015

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10 Made Up Words That Every Online User Should Know

As civilization progresses, and technological advances make their way into our everyday lives, certain character traits induced by the technology arise – unique, time-stamped peccadillos if you will, for which there are simply no adequate words – yet. We’ve selected 10 words that really ought to exit, and shared them with you. For the full list, see this website.

And as usual, if you read to the end of the post, there’s a little bonus: a sentence that uses all new words… Enjoy!

Passfusion

(n) When you experience password confusion, especially when you have many accounts

Cellfish

(n) An individual who continues talking on their phone so as to be rude or inconsiderate of other people.

Sloading

(v) Loading so slowly that it puts you to sleep

Internest

(n) The coccoon of blankets and pillows you gather around yourself while spending long periods of time on the internet.

Textpectation

(n) The anticipation felt when waiting for a response to a text.

Unkeyboardinated

(adj) When you’re unable to type without repeatedly making mistakes.

Nerdjacking

(n) Filling a conversation with unnecessary detail about one’s passion to an otherwise uninitiated, uninterested layperson.

Onlineness

(n) Maintaining a constant online presence, in order to be able to instantly react to any new Internet developments, no matter how insignificant. Onlineness is a gateway to loneliness.

Typerventilating

(adj) Sending messages through instant messaging in a rapid sequence.

Paddict

(n) Person who spends an inordinate amount of time on their tablet

 

And as a reward for reading this far (and hopefully sharing), here is a sentence that includes all the new words:

While at home in his Internest, typerventilating away in his typical unkeyboardinated fashion while waiting for House of Cards to sload, Neal – the cellfish paddict, was careful to nerdjack the conversation away from babies, and steer it carefully towards his latest pet topic: the positive long terms of effects of brussel sprouts in combatting passfusion and onlineness.

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Fedora

Fedora 22 Security Update: fusionforge-5.3.2-4.fc22

Resolved Bugs
1226872 – CVE-2015-0850 fusionforge: incorrect input validation in Git plug-in
1226873 – CVE-2015-0850 fusionforge: incorrect input validation in Git plug-in [fedora-all]<br
Security fix for CVE-2015-0850
CVE-2015-0850: Prevent arbitrary command execution via clone URL parameter of the method to create secondary Git repositories. Found by Ansgar Burchardt .

AVG

Are these the world’s greediest apps?

On a typical business or vacation day, my phone barely makes it through the day: A bit of Googling here, a bit of research there, some email and gaming in between and before I know it, my battery life is down to 10% and it’s only 4pm!

It’s not necessarily my smartphone’s fault, but likely a consequence of the demanding apps that I run, often completely invisibly in the background. These apps drain not just battery life but also fill up my storage or cause a ton of mobile traffic.

Turns out, I’m not alone.

When looking at one million of our anonymous AVG AntiVirus and AVG Cleaner users, we discovered the most resource-hungry apps in the first quarter of 2015. Plus, we found the most-used apps in each category! Curious as to what’s new this quarter?

 

Key findings:

Dating & chatting apps surge into the Top 10

Android owners worldwide were trying to meet Mr or Mrs Right in the first three months of 2015. POF Free Dating entered the Top 10 and there was a new entrant at number six from the chat category, OoVoo Video & Text, which also had a noticeable impact on battery life.

 

Facebook Messenger is now the top communication app:

Facebook Messenger has previously been ranked as the third most popular communication app behind WhatsApp and Google Mail but has since overtaken them and now sits top of the pile.

Facebook Messenger

 

Samsung Knox, Samsung Push, and Beaming Service are the top battery drainers

Samsung’s KNOX security service drains the battery of your Galaxy smartphone invisibly in the background.

Knox

In addition, the built-in Samsung Push Service now also runs in the background and made it to 7th position. This service is required for ChatON, a WhatsApp rival that packaged with almost all of the company’s handsets. The good news for your batter is that Samsung turned it off on February 1st.

The top spot among battery draining apps is a background service called Beaming Service by Mobeam Inc., which also comes bundled with many Samsung phones.

Tip: See our all-new AVG Android Optimization Guide to identify and turn off such resource-hungry apps.

 

Cleaning and security apps that drain your phone

People looking to protect and clean their phone should know some of the top used apps, including Lookout Security & Antivirus and Clean Master, show up in the top spots on our lists of top battery drainers and traffic consuming apps. What’s interesting is that 88% of all measured apps in the traffic consumption category consume less traffic than Clean master, which clocked in at several hundred megabytes of data per user.

Clean Master

 

New gaming style on the rise: casino games start a new trend

In the first three months of 2015, we identified a massive spike in the use of card and casino games as well as big blockbuster arcade games.

While the casino category didn’t even exist previously due to its low usage, in the January to March period of 2015, it featured as up to 7% of usage, and arcade games also grew to 12% usage from 1.6% in the previous quarter. Solitaire and Zynga’s Livepoker stood out as particularly popular.

Conversely, we spent far less time playing casual, strategy, puzzle or family games. See graph below:

Usage Chart

Find a full list and all the data in our app report here.

 

So what are you supposed to do if you’ve got one or even many of our resource drainers installed? Our AVG Android Performance Guide will help you out with great tips to improve battery life and clean up space in no time!

For highlights from the report, check out the infographic below.

Android App Report Q1 2015