One of the most popular ways for securely encoding passwords is using MD5. Many online services use it as well as some applications because it is an efficient way to securely store a user's password. For example, if your password was "admin" the MD5 hash would look like "21232f297a57a5a743894a 0e4a801fc3."
Multiple email services offer the feature to create contact groups, but today we're concentrating on creating them in Gmail and why they are useful. One of the things I don't like about Gmail is that when I go to compose an email, there's no way to have my contact list pop-up so that I can select the contacts that I want to send the email to from the compose screen.
As 2007 comes to an end, sites like Yahoo and Google are releasing their "top of 2007" types of lists where they note the top trends and searches for the year. As you can imagine, there are a few search queries that landed on both lists like the iPhone, YouTube, and Facebook. All three were certainly "buzz" words for the year and drew huge amounts of attention.
There are still people who are doing everything they can (maybe even fighting?) to get their hands on the Wii before the holidays. If you're one of these people who just can't seem to get to the store at the exact right moment when they get stocked, there's still hope! I've got some good and bad, but more good news for you. We'll start with the good first...
In the past we've written about some of the free apps that Handango has given out on Fridays, and today's program is a real gem. They are giving away Pocket Informant 2007 (for Pocket PC's) completely free. Believe me, it is worth every penny. ;)
Ever since Google became... well... Google, we've known them as the company whose goal is to index and organize information from around the world to make it more easily discoverable and accessible. Never did I think Google would be the ones providing the content, but their new tool that they are calling "knol" changes things.
Welcome to Daily Downloads brought to you by CyberNet! Each weekday we bring you the Windows software updates for widely used programs, and it's safe to assume that all the software we list is freeware (we'll try to note the paid-only programs).
I think it's safe to say that many of you who are reading this right now consider yourself a geek and you couldn't be more proud. Today we're asking what kind of geek are you, and I think Scott Johnson's 56 Geeks Project will help you answer that question. He designed all of these geeks after a sketch or two inspired him to come up with as many geeky stereotypes as he could.
