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How to secure your Gmail account

Google recently learned a lesson in security when it found that hundreds of user e-mail accounts, including ones belonging to U.S. and Chinese government officials, had been hacked.Hackers are professionals in their field who prey on unknowing (and sometimes even tech-savvy) individuals. With the rise

KNOWLEDGE IS AMUSING

[1] FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks). [2] POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened. [3] MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'. [4] BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody. [5] DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix 'with' was dropped.. [6] NEWS refers to information from Four directionsN, E, W,

How to create secure password

With most websites requiring you to create an account, do you find yourself in a bit of a pickle when it comes to inventing passwords? Many people use the same password for all their online accounts and often forget the password they came up with months ago. Hands up who doesn't feel like banging your head against the wall trying to remember the password you created months ago?Let's face it - everyone

Test for Idiocy

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Below are four (4) questions and a bonus question. You have to answer them instantly. You can't take your time, answer all of them immediately . OK?Let's find out just how clever you really are....Ready? GO!!! First Question: You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in? ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ Answer: If

101 useful websites

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01. screenr.com – record movies of your desktop and send them straight to you tube 02. bounceapp.com – for capturing full length screenshots of web pages. 03. goo.gl – shorten long URLs and convert URLs into QR codes. 04. untiny.me – find the original URLs that's hiding behind a short URLs. 05. localti.me – know more than just the local time of a city 06. copypastecharacter.com – copy special characters