Expressing my love for Technology

Making Different Passwords for Different Websites

2010-10-21T13:08:00.000-07:00

Don’t want to use the same password with all your online accounts. Its also impossible for you to remember so many different passwords. What do you do then?

The security team at Mozilla has released an interesting animated video that offers some worthy suggestions on how you may choose strong, easy-to-remember and yet different passwords for your various online accounts.

The idea is that you abbreviate a familiar phrase (for example, “May the force be with you” becomes “mtfbwy”), add some special characters on either sides of the word to make it extra strong (like #mtfbwy!) and then add few characters from the website name into the original password as either a suffix or prefix.

For instance, the above password could become #mtfbwy!AmZ for Amazon.com, #mtfbwy!FbK for Facebook, #mtfbwy!YtB for YouTube and so on.

Thus, the base password remains the same and the prefix, or the suffix, changes based upon the domain or the name of of the website where you are applying that password.

Google remove out Naked photo of young Boy and Dead body image from Street View

2010-10-02T16:13:00.000-07:00

Google’s photo-mapping service Street View has been quite controversial in last few days.The Street View Service launched in a few more places, Brazil, Ireland and Antarctica recently .Users flogging to view the new imagery, though, got to see more than cute penguins.In the First case, three-year-old Louis was photographed going to the toilet with his trousers down, helped by his mother or nanny by Google's camera while it took pictures of roads in Britain for the search engine's Street View service. In the Second instance images of two dead bodies left in the streets one in Rio de Janeiro and the other in Belo Horizonte.

However, Google moved quickly and the images have been removed within an hour of being alerted by an internet user. The images have now been replaced by a black screen, like Google always does with offending Street View images.Google quoted "For us, privacy and user choice remain paramount. This is why we have put in place tools so that if people see what they believe to be inappropriate, they can report them to us using the simple tools and the images will be quickly removed. We apologise for any inadvertent concern this may have caused."

Claire Rowlands, 25, was shocked and horrified to see a picture of her nude son backside while he was butt naked in his grandmother's garden in Walkden shown on Google Street View, available for the whole Internet audience to see.

The registration plate of the car was blurred as shown above, on the driveway of the house in Greater Manchester, England, but little Louis's wearing nothing was uncensored.Though their software automatically blurs license plates on cars, it cannot distinguish human bodies.

Dead body images showed a partly-covered body lying on the side in Rio de Janeiro, and the other showed a covered body near police cars in the city of Belo Horizonte. The images were first published by a Brazilian newspaper and the news has spread rapidly online. Now, if you click the links Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte to see the locations on Street View, Google only shows a black screen, instead.

Google after removing the images from Street View Brazil stated "We take issues around inappropriate content in our products very seriously, and we removed the images quickly after being notified. For us, privacy and user choice remain paramount. This is why we have put in place tools so that if people see what they believe to be inappropriate, they can report them to us using the simple tools and the images will be promptly removed."

Google URL Shortener

2010-09-30T20:03:00.000-07:00

Google last night has opened its direct URL shortening service for the public absolutely free(as always) through http://goo.gl/ .However the service was introduced back in December last year when Google announced that it was something that they have specially thought of for the users exploring the Google Toolbars and its Feedburner service.Now it’s being offered to anyone much more easily through a dedicated web site.

Comparing it with market leader in URL shortening Bit.ly,I preferably take side of Bit.ly as it offers Customized URL shortening which Google not offered in current service release.I put my point in detail below.

Lets workout shortening a URL with both Goo.gl and Bit.ly first.example our blog : http://xpresstechnology.blogspot.com/

Google Dashboard show

And with Bit.ly it show as

In both cases, I have a record of what I’ve shortened. That requires having a Bit.ly account at Bit.ly. With Google, it requires signing in using your Google account. If you don’t sign-in, you can still shorten URLs, but Google won’t keep track of what you’ve shortened and provide easy access to statistics.

Here one can also see the number of clicks generated from the URL you’ve put out and over various time ranges, from two hours, through the past day, week, month and all time.

Bit.ly provides the same type of stats. I like that Google presents them in an at-a-glance view versus Bit.ly.

A great thing that both Google and Bit.ly do is allow you to shorten a URL and track the clicks you generate, using your unique short URL, versus the total number of clicks to the long “destination” URL that have gone through each system.

Considering this. Here’s the URL of Google’s blog post today on the new shortening service:

http://googlesocialweb.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-url-shortener-gets-website.html

When I shortened that URL, this is the short URL I was given:
http://goo.gl/BZWI

But Google also tweeted the blog post, with this URL:

http://goo.gl/k4Gj

That’s at least two short URLs leading back to the same page.

What’s missing? The ability to create custom short URLs. Google offers nothing like this, while Bit.ly offers three different options.This is what I talked about in beginning about advantage of bit.ly on goo.gl.

The first method, which is free, allows anyone to add a custom ending to the bit.ly domain.Now what I did by using “Customize, I was able to select a custom ending as shown:hrsht (A short form of my name Harshit) and it accepted.Wow!! that something which can be of big purpose.Google lacked here!!

http://bit.ly/hrsht

The custom domain service above called Bit.ly Pro offered free. There’s also third version called Bit.ly enterprise which is a premium service offered by Bit.ly which meant that if you have a custom domain and if anyone else tries to shorten your URL using Bit.ly, they’ll be given a shortened URL using your domain.