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Choose different passwords for different websites

November 3rd, 2010 1 comment

Maintaining strong passwords in online is always a challenge for everyone. Maintaining a same password for all websites is very risk. No matter how strong your password is, even if it is compromised in one website then you loose your data.

Choosing strong password is not so hard. There are many ways to choose strong password. Also you can check your strength of the password in various ways.

Mozilla come up with a video explanation on how to maintain different password for different websites in easy manner. These tips will help you protect your online data.

Have a secure surfing!

How does BitTorrent works? – Explained in plain English

September 29th, 2010 No comments

Peer-to-peer file sharing is a famous way of sharing large files over internet. BitTorrent is a protocol designed by Bram Cohen.

Here is an informative video that explains BitTorrent in plain English.

What is Augmented Reality? Explained in Plain English

August 4th, 2010 No comments

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.

History of Internet – An informative video

June 29th, 2010 No comments

"History of the internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to file sharing, from Arpanet to Internet.

Radio Frequency Identification – RFID in plain English

April 27th, 2010 No comments

What if barcodes were replaced by chips that could not only be read more quickly but could have their information updated as well? And what if those chips could communicate with other devices? These chips already exist and the technology they use is called RFID – short for Radio Frequency IDentification.

RFID from wiki …

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the use of an object (typically referred to as an RFID tag) applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. Some tags can be read from several meters away and beyond the line of sight of the reader.

Below given animation video is RFID in plain English and explains how it is rapidly becoming a key technology.

Isn’t an interesting explanation?

Just wondering the supermarkets like Asda & Tesco without any counters and queues!!! :)

Migraine – Explained in easy to understand terms

February 19th, 2010 1 comment

More than one person in 10 suffers from migraine, a complaint that can have a serious impact on daily life. Migraine, therefore, is more than just a headache.

This short film explains exactly what migraine is and what you can do to limit or even prevent the symptoms in easy to understand terms.

Video Link : Migraine

Twitter Search in Plain English

July 8th, 2009 No comments

How Twitter Search creates new opportunities for business feedback, tracking news in real time and discovering trends.