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26 Sep, 2012

Tricks to Recover PDF Password

Today, where there is cyber crime reached at its peak, protecting data became the major concern for all computer users. Keeping this fact in mind, various computer applications provide the option to password protect their files. One of which, is Adobe PDF or Portable Document Format file. PDF is global format for virtual sharing of rich data from any application on any system (computer), anywhere. The PDF files can be protected with passwords at two levels, which are user password and owner password.

6 Jun, 2012

3 awesome productivity apps

Being productive is something that comes along fairly easy these days, but staying productive…well, that is a whole different subject altogether. We live in a busy bee world, but we also live in a world that is constantly occupied by distractions. With the entire internet being available to us, at our beck and call, at all times, it is tough to stay focused on tasks, and it is even tougher to remember every little thing we have to do in one day. But, because the world is more connected than ever before, we can also use those very same distracting computers for good- such as helping us remember everything we have to do in one day and to help us become more productive no matter where we may be at any given time.

19 May, 2011

Password verification by the rhythm and speed of typing

Most of you are concerned about using a strong password with a mix of letters, numbers and special characters. Passwords are the main key to verification on the internet and one should be very careful while setting it. Researchers at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon are working on a system that would enhance password security that would be concerned with verifying passwords not just by what is typed but also by how it is typed.

11 Feb, 2011

Passwords in iPhone or iPad devices can be retrieved within minutes

Do you own an iPhone or iPad? You must have had tens or hundreds of iPhone applications installed on your device and may be using them to access online services that require your credentials. Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology(SIT) test laboratory in Germany have demonstrated how your lost iPhone or iPad can be jailbreaked to gain access to its command shell.

29 Oct, 2010

Wordperss plugins for adding Konami code easter eggs to your blog

Many popular websites have been added interesting easter eggs that are triggered by the Konami code. If you are fairly good at programming, you can implement the Konami code Easter egg on your blog directly with the Konami-JS on Google Code. If you want things to be easy, there are a handful of Wordpress plugins which let you add and create Konami code eas ter eggs. Here are some Wordpress plugins for inserting Konami code to your blog.

7 Jun, 2009

Blogging with write4net

For many people, blogging is a part of their daily lives. But there are other people too who don’t get into blogging seriously but want to write something off and on. Now you can also blog with just your Twitter account. No sign ups required and all that’s needed are your Twitter credentials. Write4net makes that possible.

23 May, 2009

Schedule your tweets

You might want to say good morning to all your followers in Twitter as soon as you wake up. Or you’d like to remind your friends of the league matches every weekend. But everytime you may not remember to do these. But do you know that that you can also schedule your tweets to be posted on a precise date and time? Sites like FutureTweets and Twuffer let you easily schedule your tweets.

9 May, 2009

Online text encryptors

Encryption is basically a process of transforming data (referred to as plaintext) using an algorithm (called cipher) to make it unreadable to anyone except for those possessing special knowledge, usually referred to as a key. The encrypted information or the ciphertext is the end result that can be changed to the original form using decryption process (the reverse of encryption). Encryption has its wide use when it comes to transferring data securely. There are some online text encryptors as well that are available for free.

8 Nov, 2008

Some thing that may annoy you in Windows XP

Prevent password expiration for your username: After using Windows XP for a couple of time, you might have come across a message saying-“Your password will expire in 14 days. Do you want to change it now?”. You can overcome this problem.

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