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Useful webapp to test your password strength

August 30th, 2010 Vijay 2 comments
How secure is my password

Brute Force attack is one of the popular hacking techniques that cracks the password using trial and error method. Do you want to know the time required to crack your password? One page webapp will give you this time required.

How secure is my password is a simple webapp that gives time to crack your password based on mathematical calculations.If your password is really strong enough it takes billion,trillion,quadrillion,etc., years.

You can safely type your password in this page as this will not transmit. This webapp will not share/store your password,

Yes. No data is stored or transferred anywhere

How to check the strength of a password? and How to check the strength of your password? are other webapps that help you to choose a strong password. I hope these webapps together will help you to secure your password.

Webapp Link : How secure is my password

Awesome video about Mad Maths

August 29th, 2010 Vijay No comments

Mad Maths is always fun. False proof of obvious things will make this more interested.

Here is an amazing Maths comedy video to prove 7 times 13 is 28.

Four Interesting comparison charts

August 16th, 2010 Vijay No comments

Graphical representation is always a nice way to compare things. Here are four interesting comparison charts that will make you yes.

Movie Trilogy Meter

Movie Trilogy Meter

Time spent after argument

Time spent after argument

What are your daily needs?

What are your daily needs?

What is your IMDB usage?

What is your IMDB usage?

China is to build new straddling bus

August 8th, 2010 Vijay No comments

China Straddling Bus

Chinese designers have come up with an innovative cost-effective public transport system: the tunnel bus.

The remarkable bus straddles two lanes of traffic, allowing cars to drive underneath while it carries up to 1,200 passengers.

Check out the 3d video demo of the Tunnel Bus.

Very impressive design.

What is Augmented Reality? Explained in Plain English

August 4th, 2010 Vijay 1 comment

Augmented_Reality Augmented Reality is a word that is becoming popular after varieties of Smart phones hit the market.

What is Augmented Reality?

Wiki defines Augmented Reality as,

Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery.

Lee provided us a brilliant video to explain the jargon.

How to behave with your parents – Touching short film

August 2nd, 2010 Vijay 1 comment

How to behave with your parents when they are old is one of my favourite stories. I just happened to see the video version of this. Hence sharing…

I hope you like this.

How to control YouTube playback using keyboard shortcuts?

July 28th, 2010 Vijay No comments

While watching YouTube videos, you may tend to skip to next 10 or 15 seconds. Also you would also like to go back to few seconds to repeat the same scene.

You might find it difficult to do this using mouse.

This tip would be useful when you watch videos on YouTube.

Youtube_Player_Active_Bar

Arrows (computer keyboard) 

You can control the movie playback using keyboard shortcuts. Using LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys you will move the flash player seek bar backward and forward.

This will be very handy when you watch the clips in full screen mode. Even in normal window mode this tip works as long as the focus is on the YouTube flash player.

Also you can Play/Pause the video using SPACE BAR in the keyboard.

Few more YouTube tips are here.