Weekly Article 10.25.2012

The 25 Worst Passwords of 2012:

• If any of your passwords are on this list, then shame on you -- and go change them now.

• SplashData, which makes password management applications, has released its annual "Worst Passwords" list from common passwords that are posted by hackers. The top three -- "password," "123456," and "12345678″ -- have not changed since last year.

• You should have different passwords for every different account.  

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Wiki Questions

        

Wiki Questions:

       What are the benefits of using a wiki?

• Some benefits of using wiki is it may help you do any reports or homework. It also gives you birthdays of famous people and their background of their life.

        How can we create one in this class and utilize it?

• How we can utilize this is my class is because this provides you to open unlimited pages, students can create and account without their e-mail, easy navigation, tags to organize you pages and files, projects for group work & lots more.

        
        What experience do you have using or creating wikis?

• I have never created an wiki account but I use to use Wiki a lot for homework and some other information it was helpful and most of the time the information is very accurate. 

Weekly Article 10/19

Google Doodle Celebrates ''Little Nemo" Comic:

• The doodles that spice up Google's plain white home page keep getting more detailed. 

•  Web users awake on Monday to find an animated doodle.

•  The 107th anniversary of "Little Nemo in Slumber land" A pioneering comic strip by the illustrator Winsor McCay. 

•  The Strip focused on Nemo's nightly dreams, which took him on a incredible adventures before he woke up in the last panel.

•  Users can click in tabs to expand the strip, which adds more animated panels as Nemo falls through a colorful dream world.

•  Google has been adding interactive, animated doodles to its home page with more frequency in recent years. 

    ~For more information click here!
 

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Google Street View Adds 250,000 Miles Of Roadways:

• Apple's decision to replace Google Maps with its own mapping,This was announced on Thursday the biggest upgrade in the street view tool.

• The street view allows you too see a real-world 360-degree view of locations.

• You can see any where around the world thats what makes it entertaining.

• This can be seen on computers and mobile devices.

• This makes it much easier for you too find locations that you need to go to. This tool is really helpful so use it wisely. 

   To see more information click here.

Weekly Article 10.4.2012

Face book Wants You To Pay $7 To Promote Your Posts 

• On Wednesday a small group of U.S. users, allows you to pay Face book to promote any interesting pictures or any announcements that caught your attention.

• The price tag is a part of this exciting experiment, they are considering any prices for now.

• Face book does not say how may U.S users they are accepting they say for now that it is "limited subset."

• You are very soon going to start seeing "Promote" all over your posts and your friends posts, but for now its unclear. 

• This is a "test experiment" thats what Face book calls it, some people say "I can't imagine how I would pay to promote my personal posts."

      For more information click here