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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

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.

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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.

Easy way to open the link in new tab

July 27th, 2010 Vijay No comments

This is a quick tip to open the links in new tab. This tip works in all major browsers Chrome, Firefox and IE.

Formal way of right clicking the menu to get the link in new tab is relatively slow.

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Fast and smart way is…

If you have a Mouse with Scroll Button, then just click the link with the scroll button. This opens the link in new tab.

If you don’t have a Mouse with Scroll Button, then use Ctrl + Click on the link to open in new tab.

Easy to understand illustration on “How woman’s brain works?”

July 26th, 2010 Vijay No comments

Got an interesting mail from one of my friends on difference between men and women. Sharing here…

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How woman’s brain works?

This is a brilliant illustration I have ever seen(??). Click the image to zoom the picture.

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I hope these pictures would have helped you a lot. :) LOL

You can read more posts that help men here : Guide to men

How do they produce the Match Ball for FIFA World Cup 2010

June 22nd, 2010 Vijay 2 comments

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FIFA World Cup 2010 is on it’s peak now. Design and the specifications of the Match Ball of the world cup have always been special factors for any world cup.

This world cup’s match ball is named as Jabulani and it is the production from Adidas.

Jabulani means ‘rejoice in Zulu. If you translate literally, it means to celebrate.

Jabulani ball has 11 colours on it to represent 11 players in the team, 11 official languages of South Africa, 11 communities in South Africa. And of course the final will be held on 11th of July. :)

These balls are produced in China and the raw materials are imported from Kerala-India and Taiwan.

Jabulani is the first official  match ball that is moulded by to keep the complete spherical shape.

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Here is a cool video clip that details about the production process of match ball for World Cup 2010.

Have fun with Facebook Status using Flip Text

May 11th, 2010 Vijay 1 comment

Many of us are Facebook users. Updating Facebook status is almost like a daily/weekly routine for us. There are few who updates Facebook from Twitter.

How to merge Twitter with Facebook?

Updating the status with flip text will be more fun than the normal updates. How to get this?

Flip Facebook Status is a simple web app that flips your text. You can copy the flip text and update your Facebook status.

Flip text will look like this.

Vijay For Victory => ʎɹoʇɔıʌ ɹoɟ ʎɐɾıʌ

Flip web app URL : Flip Facebook Status

Update: www.upsidedowntext.com is another website which retains the upper case letters in flip format. Thanks to Jacob

Have fun!!!

Sleeping habits revealed by Innovative Twitter App

March 19th, 2010 Vijay 3 comments

Innovative Web App reveals Sleeping Timings

There are many twitter apps available to analyse the tweets, find the followers etc.,

Here is an interesting and innovative web app developed by Amit, that reveals the sleeping habits of any twitter user.

The results are amazing and many are agreeing that the web app gives accurate (almost) timings. I do agree with the result.

If you want your or your friends sleeping timings, then please login to www.sleepingtime.org and just enter the twitter id.

This is one of the most innovative web app I have ever seen in the recent past.