7 Things You Should Know About Online Passwords

As online technology has advanced, so have hackers techniques for getting into your accounts and stealing personal information. Hackers break into computers 2,244 times each day by figuring out weak usernames or passwords, according to University of Maryland data. If you’re still using the same password you made up when you opened your first email account, you are setting yourself up to be a hacking victim. But don’t worry; read on and learn how to set those Internet geniuses-gone-wrong up for failure by knowing the essentials about online passwords.

How to protect your cloud storage from hacking?

The concept of cloud storage has become more common these days especially when offered commercially since it's more cost effective for a large corporation to store data on an off-site data center. It is cheaper and they don't have to worry about finding space for storing data on server which can be the size of a warehouse. However, at individual level, it is preferred less over local storage devices like flash drive, hard drive and disk drive.

What is cloud storage?

To talk about the security level of cloud storage, we'll first have to talk about what cloud storage is. Cloud storage is an off-site data warehouse where data is transferred and stored. It can be accessed anywhere in the world provided an Internet access is available. You can store virtually anything in a cloud storage model. I say virtually, because you are transferring it over the Internet on a web-based interface or Application Programming Interface (API) so it makes it seem like it is stored virtually.

Audio, video, documents, and any other forms of data that you can think of can be stored on a cloud storage location. You also have the option of choosing to share files with others. Saving messages or draft on your email is actually a type of cloud storage. However, to store data on it, you'll have to pay according to the storage capacity and other factors as imposed by cloud storage companies.

Import Orkut Photo Albums to Google+

If you have photos album on orkut and you want to import that album on google+. then follow these steps:-

1. Login to Orkut account
2. Click on the link now "http://www.orkut.co.in/AlbumsExport"
3. Selects the album which you want to import on google+ and click on Import Selected
4. Now open your google+ profile and see the photo album, change the album sharing options.
5. done..!

Access Facebook if Blocked by Proxy

1. First go to the http://translate.google.com
2. now select from language to "English" and then To language into other languages excepts english. For eg. "Spanish"
3. now enter the text as "www.facebook.com" it will appear a link in the right hand side shows actual link.
4. click on that link.
5. After translating it will display new page that shows translating result that also displays facebook logo.
6. click on the facebook logo and it will display facebook page..!

A solar clock that isn’t a sundial

Hack a Day’s very own [Jack Buffington] is throwing his hat into the ring for the Buildlounge laser cutter giveaway with his solar clock that isn’t a sundial.
The theory behind [Jack]‘s clock is pretty simple. The light from the sun will be captured by a camera obscura/pinhole camera. The sun’s rays shine on dozens of optical fibers that lead indoors and up to the clock. These glass fibers go to pinholes in the face of the clock which light up, showing the time.
[Jack] already cut out the face of the clock on his (awesome) home-made CNC router. He hasn’t gotten around to cutting out the mechanics of the clock face so the clock can be adjusted throughout the year. We’re okay with that, because we’re really not ready to see [Jack] fiddle with his gnomon. At least before [Jack] gets his hand on the Buildlounge laser.
The next major hurdle of the build is the solar collector that collects light into different optical fibers. That’s going to involve a lot of math using the equatorial coordinate system. Help is available, though.
Check out [Jack] cutting the clock face on his router after the break.