How To Make A Good Password

slavezero — Sun, 24 May 2009 15:27:05 +0000

This is a continuation on my previous post – “Protecting your account – Choosing the best Password”. This time a more complete and detailed on how you can choose the best password.

There are many password advice out there. It is very much advisable to equip your self with their tips on how you can fully protect your account. Besides, no lists have quite the same recommendations. The list of password DO’s and DONT’s below are the combinations of some of the password tips around the web.

Do NOT:

1. Use your account name or any data as a whole or part of your password.

2. Use any word or name that appears in any dictionary or any references.

3. Use any fictional characters, objects, events or place.

4. Use acronyms.

5. Use alphabetic, numeric or keyboard sequences such as “qwerty” or “12345″ Those characters are usually included in cracking tools password word lists.

6. Use Book titles, movies, poems, essays, songs.

7. Replace letters or numbers with like looking characters. Examples below:

A -> 4

a -> 2

C -> (

E -> [

E -> {

e -> 3

G -> @

h -> 4

I -> 1

I -> !

I -> |

l -> 1

l -> !

l -> |

O -> 0

S -> 5

S -> $

Z -> 5

0 -> O

3 -> ]

3 -> }

8. Use capitalize only the first or the last character of your password.

9. Use only vowels in uppercase.

10. Use only consonants in uppercase.

11. Use any personally related information.

12. Use anything you can imagine being collected into a list.

13. Use a publicly shown example good password.

14. Use great vanity license plates.

15. Translate words to other languages.

16. Repeat any letters, symbols or digits more than once in a row.

DO:

Use at least 8 to 12 characters.

Include a digit or punctuation.

Use a combination of uppercase and lower case character.

Choose a phrase or combination of words to make the password easier to remember.

Create two words separated by a non-letter and non-digit character.

May have non printing characters.

Use different sets of passwords on different computers.

Change your password regularly and don’t reuse passwords or make minor variations such a incrementing a digit.

Personally related information

Most people choose a password that are very easy to remember. The most easiest is to create a password that directly related to them. That is the most dangerous thing to do, those are considered poor password choice. Below is a list of related information that you must avoid using or including on your password.

Names and initials.

Account name/Username.

Family members.

Names or breeds of pets.

Birthday.

Family member’s birthdays.

Vehicle model.

Hobbies.

Job title.

Employer’s name.

Job related words.

Name of your friend.

Street names and numbers, city, county, state or zip code for home, work, family or friends.

Phone numbers.

Social security numbers for self or immediate family.

License plate numbers.

Birthplace including street address.

Name of your School.

Student or employee numbers.

How to rename multiple files at once

slavezero — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:21:57 +0000

This trick will enable you to rename a series of similar files all at once. This is very useful if you have lots of files especially pictures from a digital camera that has unrecognizable names.

Follow this simple procedure to rename several similar files at once without using a special renaming software.

Open the folder containing files that you want to rename.

Select the files you want to rename. If the files you want are not adjacent in the file list, press and hold CTRL, and then click each item to select it or use checkbox to select items. How to enable checkbox to select items.

On the File Menu select rename or right click the selected items and select rename or just simply press F2 to rename.

Type the name you want. I use the name pic for the example below.

Click anywhere and your files will automatically be renamed to the one you specified. All of the files in the series will be named in sequence using the new name you type. Look at the image below, I use the name pic, the first was named pic and the subsequent files in the series are named pic (1), pic (2), and so on.

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