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

Useful webapp to test your password strength is originally published by Vijay For Victory

Click on the image to zoom the map.

Image credit : www.many-eyes.com

Global Map of Social Media Networks is originally published by Vijay For Victory

Favicons are also a way of showing your blog/website’s niche. Here are some online tools that allow you to create a favicons of your own choice.

Favicon.cc

Getting a favicon has never been easier. If you don’t find one that has already been created and published on favicon.cc under the Creative Commons license, you can get creative yourself. It’s really easy.

Genfavicon.com

A favicon (short for ‘favourites icon’), are little icons associated with a particular website or webpage, shown next to the site’s name in the URL bar of most browsers. The most common sizes for favicons are: 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 128×128. Browse to the file’s location on your computer to select the image and press "Upload Image" button to generate a favicon for your site

RealWorld Graphics

Online favicon maker is a simple online tool to create high quality favicons. Create a favicon in easy steps.

DeGraeve.com

Favicons are the little icons that show next to bookmarks and in the address bar of most browsers. Favicons are 16 pixels square. Upload a picture and click ‘Make Favicon!’ to create a favicon for your website. This favicon generator supports alpha transparency.

Antifavicon.com

This site is an easy to use on-line favicon generator. Favicons generated here contain text instead of images in order to be descriptive, but are coloured to be nice looking.

Easy ways to create favicons online is originally published by Vijay For Victory

After the birth of computer keyboards, the following typewriting rules have been drastically reduced and people manged to input the text in their own way. Some of my friends don’t know the typewriting and they don’t follow the procedure and yet they can type faster.

The below picture is the typing guide that depicts the finger-key mapping for common keyboards(English-US).

A guide to Finger-Key mapping

If you are wiling to improve your typing skills, then you can visit the websites given below.

www.powertyping.com

www.artypist.com

www.software-giant.com

Typewriting – Nice to have skill is originally published by Vijay For Victory

Passwords are the keys to access your personal information, online banking accounts. Everyone in the online world likes to secure their passwords from hackers by creating a tough to guess passwords.

Having a strong password is always safer to protect your online accounts.

Microsoft provides you an easy way to check the strength of your passwords.

Visit Microsoft Password Checker and type your password to check its strength. It is one of the easy and secure way to check your passwords online.

Here is a note from Microsoft Password Checker page.

The security of the passwords entered into Password Checker is similar to the security of the password you enter when you log into Windows. The password is checked and validated on your computer, but is not sent over the Internet.

Link : Microsoft Password Checker

How to check the strength of your password? is originally published by Vijay For Victory

Suspended Account in Twitter

Follow me on Twitter : VijayForVictory @ Twitter

Suspended account in Twitter is originally published by Vijay For Victory

When I visited www.twitter.com, I got the following page stating that Twitter is down.

Twitter is down

Follow me on twitter once it is up.

Twitter is down is originally published by Vijay For Victory

GMail 5th Anniversary

1 April 2004, the day, GMail was launched to public with 1GB mail box quota. Today, GMail celebrates it’s 5Th anniversary.

GMail celebrates it's 5th anniversary is originally published by Vijay For Victory

Sometimes, when you try to view some videos in Youtube, you would have received an message “This video is not available in your country”.

In such cases, this trick may be of some help.

Let’s say http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abcdef12345 is your video URL, where abcdef1235 is the unique video id generated by Youtube.

Modify this URL as follows

http://www.youtube.com/v/abcdef12345

Enter the modified URL in the browser to view the restricted video. Now you will be able to watch the video.

This trick may not work for all videos. Not sure about the reason behind this. But this trick works for most of the videos.

Have fun!

How to watch restricted Youtube videos? is originally published by Vijay For Victory

Generating PDFs are no more a tough task. Plenty of softwares provide way to create PDFs.

Html-pdf-converter is a simple service to convert the web pages to PDF files. No need to install application on your computer and it is free without registration!

The output of this service is quite good when compare to other PDF creation softwares/services.

Here is the sample PDF, generated through Html-pdf-converter.

Original web page

PDF generated through Html-pdf-converter

How to convert any web page to PDF? is originally published by Vijay For Victory