Forgot your password?

A password is a secret word or string of characters that is used for authentication, to prove identity or gain access to a resource.

The goals when creating a secure password should be to create a password which:
• Is long (at least 8 characters)
• Does not use a dictionary word
• Is mixed-case
• Contains at least one digit
• Contains at least one non-alphanumeric character
Check your password strength here.

There is no point in choosing a very secure password if in the end it is too difficult to remember,It is hard to say what is the lesson here, whether you should memorize your password better, or choose an easier to remember.
A good way to have your cake and eat it too is to create a complicated password based on some memory trick. Instead of remembering the password, you could associate it with something easy to remember in itself – no not your personal data! 

n<7Plc8c could be memorized as “no less than 7 People like chocol8 cake” The sentence itself does not make sense, but that might just make it easier to remember!

There's also another way to manage your passwords....that is done with Passpack.

This gives you tools  to organize your passwords all in one place, the way you want them, even with tags, also its free for home users. Finally be able to secure every online account with a unique password, since you no longer have to remember them all.Passpack is specifically built for secure sharing of passwords with partners, clients or family.With Passpack 1-Click Login button you can login in to your online accounts, no remembering or typing passwords!
So go and Sign up for a free Passpack account here.

MNP in India

   Mobile Number Portability (MNP) is a facility which allows you to change mobile network without  changing your mobile number.MNP will be available from 20th January, 2011.It is applicable for porting between mobile operators only, in the same telecom Circle. Also, by regulation, customer can port-into another operator only if he/she has been with that operator for at least 90 days.

    The procedure for mobile number portability is the same for prepaid and postpaid connection in India.TRAI has stipulated  19RS/- as the maximum charge for changing a number to another provider.

   Steps to avail MNP

1. To begin with, you need to send a SMS as PORT <your Mobile Number> to 1900(charges apply)
2. Then you will receive an SMS from 1901 giving 8 digit alpha-numeric Unique Porting Code (UPC) and it's expiry date
3. And this code has to be submitted with your new connection application at your new operaters outlet.Existing offers and balance amount in a prepaid number will not be carried to the new network.
4. Also before applying for MNP, you should clear all their exiting bills with the current provider.The new operator will then send an SMS on your old/existing operator’s SIM (existing connection) intimating about the porting date and time, i.e. the date and approximate time till when you can continue to use your existing operator’s SIM card 
5. There will be a 2-hour ‘no service period’ which will begin after the porting time as given above. The ‘no service period’ will be between 12 midnight to 5 am during which your mobile service will not be active on any SIM
6. After the ‘no service period’, you can replace your existing operator’s SIM card with the new SIM card in your handset.

 The maximum time allowed for the service providers to make the transition is 7 days from the date of application.Please do poll on the bottom right of this page

Google wishes Happy Sankranti...

Google doodle on Jan 14, 2011

Wish you all a very happy and prosperous Makar Sankranti ,today on the eve of Makar Sankranti the search giant Google surprised all us with it's new doodle.Google decorated its home page in India with flying kites and balloons.Makar Sankranti is celebrated in many parts of india to mark the transition of the sun into Makara rashi(Capricorn) on it's celestial path.

Google's first doodle

Generally, Google makes changes to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists and scientists.A group of Googlers regularly get together to decide the events and holidays that will receive doodles. The ideas for the doodles themselves are gathered from numerous sources including Googlers and the general public. The doodle selection process aims to celebrate interesting events and anniversaries that reflect Google's personality and love for innovation

The doodle team is open to user ideas, requests for doodles can be sent to proposals@google.com

All doodles can be found at www.google.com/logos

How Google Work

Today I would like to tell you how the the search engine Google founded by the two young brains Larry Page and Sergey Brin works...

The life span of a Google query is usually less than half a second, yet involves quite a few steps that must be completed before you see the most relevant results. Now lets get an idea of how this is done when you search Google, you're not searching the live web. Instead you're searching Google's index of the web which, like the list in the back of a book, helps you pinpoint exactly the information you need..

 Google has three distinct parts:

• Google-bot(also known as spider), a web crawler that finds and fetches web pages.

• The indexer that sorts every word on every page and stores the resulting index of words in a huge database.

• The query processor, which compares your search query to the index and recommends the documents that it considers most relevant.

       
     PageRank is Google’s system for ranking web pages. A page with a higher PageRank is deemed more important and is more likely to be listed above a page with a lower PageRank.Google considers over a hundred factors in computing a PageRank and determining which documents are most relevant to a query, including the popularity of the page, the position and size of the search terms within the page, and the proximity of the search terms to one another on the page.

For more info click here