One Man’s Blog wrote a post on Monday titled: How I’d Hack Your Weak Passwords. This document gives an interesting insight on how we humans follow a number of patterns upon choosing passwords. I must admit some of my weaker … Continue reading
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Unbl0ck Restricted Sites
Update: Site is down (permanently?). There are other proxy solutions E.g. nyud.net: http://stepheno.net.nyud.net/. Just a quick link post to Unbl0ck.com that allows you to unblock / access locally blocked sites. At my previous employer you could not access certain sites … Continue reading
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Got Milk, Get The Glass?
This Flash based board game: Get The Glass, caught my attention. A nice combination of some cute cartoon characters and 3D special effects. It seems to be a continuation of the Got milk? campaign I first heard of a couple … Continue reading
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Mindomo Online Mapping
Mindomo is another mind-mapping software, although similar to Bubbl.us Online Mapping which I mentioned last month, Mindomo is more advanced. The downside of this being it is not as simple and straightforward as Bubbl.us. Mindomo lets you add notes to … Continue reading
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Finding Complimentary Colors
Just a nice littl online tool, which may just help you out when you are busy designing some graphics and need some color assistance. Sphere over at ColorJack gives you several nice features regarding choosing colors for various uses. I … Continue reading
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Photoshop Soon Online Application
Adobe just recently released Photoshop Lightroom and I just read now over at TechCrunch that Adobe is planning an online version of the application Photoshop. (Ad supported and light?) I somehow also missed the fact that Adobe has launched an … Continue reading
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ASCII Art Action
I have always been fascinated by ASCII Art since my first days using a UNIX terminal. Spending hours making faces out of the character only console. One of the top bookmarks at Del.icio.us today was Glass Giant’s ASCII Art. During … Continue reading
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Visualizing your Dictionary
Your next dictionary of choice? VisuWords – Visualizing words in a visual online graphical dictionary. Linking words together finding similar meaning, or suitable verbs or nouns that are connected to the word you chose to lookup. VisuWords uses an open … Continue reading
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Bubbl.us Online Mapping
I have always been slightly intrigued regarding mind mapping. And there are a bunch of different software solutions out there. Personally I have often just used the good old paper method. But just recently an idea organization solution in the form of … Continue reading
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Yahoo! Pipes Like Command Pipes
If you have played in Apple’s terminal, or any other *NIX system the chances are there that you have done some piping with your commands. Remember: || … Now Yahoo! offers a service they have called Pipes: Allowing you to pipe various … Continue reading
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DIY Block Wall Posters
(DIY = Do It Yourself) Do you ever get tired of all the seemingly copies of posters on walls in peoples apartments or bedrooms. Those posters you buy in a roll at the mall. Well personally I like being original … Continue reading
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Walmart and Amazon + TiVo Online Movies
Among some of the hundred feeds I have been quickly skimming I was going to just mention partly for my own benefit that Walmart was now hitting the Online Movie market. Then listening to the radio I just recently heard … Continue reading