Web Talk

Yesterday I was browsing YouTube videos, looking for something funny to put on the blog. Among the other things I found something quite amazing. If you want to eat pop-corns but you don’t have any microwave oven around, here is a very original but “disturbing” way to make them. I wonder if this is what happens in our brain when we make a phone call…

There are a lot of ways to become vulnerable while you are surfing in the Internet. You can get a virus, a spyware, a trojan, you can be so silly to be deceived by some phishing email convincing you to send your bank account to somebody you don’t know etc. There is anyway another stupid, really stupid way to put your security in jeopardy: using well-known passwords. Wondering if yours is one of them? Here is the list:

1. password
2. 123456
3. qwerty
4. abc123
5. letmein
6. monkey
7. myspace1
8. password1
9. blink182

As usual, in order not to use any silly password for your most important accounts, keep in your mind these simple rules:

• Use long passwords (at least 7-8 characters)
• Don’t use regular, easy-to-guess, simple passwords such as: colorado, newyork, dogandcat, mycomputer, johndoe, ondacivic etc. That’s because there are special software that in order to find out what passwords you are using, scan the whole english vocabulary, also mixing and combine its words.
• Don’t use any of your sensitive data in your passwords such as: Jenny09/10/1978 or marknewyork1454a, bettymegan212-267-1033
• Use special characters, numbers and capital letters in your passwords. A password like this: MyC@mP&t#r89 is more difficult to guess than 123456john…of course.

Bonus

• Don’t give you passwords to anybody.
• Change your passwords often.
• Don’t write your passwords in your cellphone, don’t put your passwords in your wallet, don’t write your passwords in a file on your computer.
• Don’t write your passwords on a piece of paper and stick it under the keyboard.
• Don’t write your passwords on a piece of paper and stick it on your computer’s display. (I saw this dumb thing on some computers of a military base…incredible, isn’t it?)

WinRAR is one of the most famous compression and decompression utility in the Internet. It lets you compress any kind of file to save space on your computer. WinRAR allows users to change the feel and look of its main window by using themes. If you use Windows Vista and you want to use a WinRAR theme which uses the same icons and colors of the new Microsoft’s operative system, here is a nice theme:

Vista ULTIMATE Revamped theme with 48×48 toolbar icons: Vista_Ultimate_48×48.theme.rar
Vista ULTIMATE Revamped theme with 64×64 toolbar icons: Vista_Ultimate_64×64.theme.rar
Vista ULTIMATE Revamped theme with 80×80 toolbar icons: Vista_Ultimate_80×80.theme.rar
Vista ULTIMATE Revamped theme with 96×96 toolbar icons: Vista_Ultimate_96×96.theme.rar
Vista ULTIMATE Revamped theme with 128×128 toolbar icons: Vista_Ultimate_128×128.theme.rar

So, this year Spam is 30 years old. The first spam ever emailed was sent on the 3rd of May 1979 by Gary Thuerk, owner of Digital Equipment Corporation (which doesn’t exsit anymore). Gary Thuerk had free access to Arpanet which was the USA defense’s Network (Arpanet is considered to be the first Internet ever invented). Basically, he managed to sent “just” 393 emails to people belonging to this network to promote some of his new products. People who got this email didn’t react very well and, of course, there were a lot of complaints, including the ones from the Arpanet administrators. If you want to know more about the first spam, the people involved and what happened, click here. Continue reading »

This is the most viewed video on YouTube. This guy, who is really good at dancing, has got something as 76 millions clicks on his video!