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Keep Your Passwords Safe on a Piece of PaperYesterday

If you use the same password on multiple websites, your may be in for some trouble.

Say your password for website badwebsite.com is the same as the password for goodwebsite.com. Now if the website badwebsite.com gets compromised (or the owner is malign to start with), they’ll know your password. Chances are that your username is the same (email address) for both websites so the badwebsite.com people can can easily log in to your goodwebsite.com account and impersonate you.

Yeah, there are quite a few reliable Password Managers that serve as a strong room for your complex passwords but that they require you to install specific software on the computer. What do you do when you want to check your web email on a different computer where you do not have your security tools installed and you do not remember your secure, random, email password?

In addition, I doubt you can memorize all your passwords for each and every website, if they are secure from brute-forcing and unique, that is.

Write your passwords down on a paper

What I am trying to solve is to give users a simpl

Make Your Own Laptop Bag with a HoodieYesterday

Got a jacket with a hood? Then watch this video as it explains how you can quickly turn your hooded jacket into a laptop carrying bag.

Announcing Winners of the Intel Tips ContestYesterday

Thank you all for participating in the Intel Contest. The winners are:

Week 1: Eeshan Chatterjee from Manipal, Karnataka

Week 2: Viren Mehta from Mumbai, Maharashtra

Week 3: Namita Guj from Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra

Week 4: Sidharth Bhan from Bangalore, Karnataka

Grand Prize: Namita Guj from Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra

The weekly winners will receive a Sony digital music player each while the grand winner will get a Core i5 powered Laptop computer from Intel India.

Congratulations! Please send me your complete postal addresses (with phone number) so that the prizes can be delivered to your place.

I do plan to publish some of the entries on this blog so stay tuned!

Announcing Winners of the Intel Tips Contest

Originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.

  

A Short Documentary on GoogleYesterday

We think of Google as a search engine but they are an advertising company. This short documentary on Google will give you a good idea of what Google is trying to do and how the different pieces fit together.

They want to own the cables that deliver the Internet and also the electricity to power them.

Not every number or statistic that you see in the movie may be true but it is still a good recap of Google’s constantly growing list of products and features. The movie originally aired on Australian TV show – Hungary Beast.

Thanks Andrew Vande Moere for the tip.

Also see: Google’s Master Plan

A Short Documentary on Google

Originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.

  

Turn your Images into Spreadsheet ArtYesterday

This time-lapse video captures how the Google Docs team turned an online spreadsheet into sort of a painting canvas by filling individual cells of the sheet with different colors simultaneously.