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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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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

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!!!

How to display all the Environment Variables in Windows and Unix?

March 12th, 2010 Vijay No comments

Environment Variables

Environment variables are a set of dynamic named values that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer.

This is a quick tip to display all the environment variables defined in the computer.

Windows: Open command prompt (DOS Prompt) and just type set to display all the variables

Unix: Type env to display all the environment variables in the console.

How fast can you clear your StumbleUpon shares?

February 1st, 2010 Vijay No comments

stumbleupon_logo StumbleUpon is a great way to share the web links with your friends. This offers a tool bar to instantly share, like and dislike web pages you come across.

StumbleUpon toolbar can hold a maximum of 500 links. If you don’t clear the shares and reaches the limit, your friends will not be able to share the new content with you. You may loose some interesting stuff.

How quickly you can clear the stumbles? If you are familiar with StumbleUpon toolbar then, this tip would help you to give better stumble experience.

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Click the Stumble Button by holding Ctrl key will open the page in new tab. Or you can use the mouse scroll button to open the content in new tab.

This will allow you stumble faster and help you to clear the shares.

You can follow my stumbles at http://vijayforvictory.stumbleupon.com