Sometimes you come across articles that make you go “Huh! Wish someone told me that earlier” . Here are two that will help you create highly secure, usable and easy to remember passwords.
Hope these help you to create usable, secure and easy to remember passwords 
Finally succeeded in downgrading flash player from version 10 to flash player version 9. I had reached a point where I was pulling my hair out and then I found this gem on Adobe’s website – Technote kb402435 .
I tried the following steps to install a lower version of the flash player
All browsers, except for Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7), accepted the flash player. IE7 as usual gave me a hard time. This was primarily because of the ActiveX used by IE.
To resolve this, all I had to do was type the following in the command line
uninstall_flash_player.exe /clean
A detailed explaination can be found at Adobe’s website – Technote kb402435 – Safe versions security restrictions when installing Flash Player (Internet Explorer on Windows).
Additional resource that may help
Technote 14157
How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and ActiveX control
Technote 19166
Troubleshoot Adobe Flash Player installation for Windows
Ever wanted an application that would help put your thoughts down in a more logical sense? or searched on world wide web for a tool that would help you visualise a work flow or an idea?
If that was a yes “nod” to all those questions then this article titled “Hive Five: Five Best Mind Mapping Applications” by Jason Fitzpatrick at lifehacker.com may just be what you are looking for.
‘SixthSense’ is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.
Quote from wired.com
Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they’re done.
Watch video of student Pranav Mistry who is described as the brains behind the project. Mistry wears the device on a lanyard around his neck, with coloured Magic Marker caps on four fingers (red, blue, green and yellow) which helps the camera distinguish the four fingers and recognise his hand gestures with software that he created.
More at the SixthSense website.
The iPhone 3G and what it lacks for SMS/Text messaging:
For the good parts, the iPhone 3G does have some pretty useful applications available. I have been using the Map application and Twitterific extensively. Also, the WiFi allows me to check emails, use Twitter, Facebook, download podcasts directly to my iPhone, all using my internet connection at home. This way I save on the data usage allocated by my service provider and can use it on the road the next time I’m lost again
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“alt” attributes are NOT “alt” tags.
Phew! now that it’s out of the way lets proceed.
During our team meetings, I often hear developers and designers throw in the term “alt ” tags when referring to the “alt” attribute. A few years ago, I too, used to refer to the “alt” attribute as an “alt” tag. Infact, even the Human Factors International website incorrectly refers to these attributes as tags, well, they also incorrectly refer to the “longdesc” attribute as tags.
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So the why force10x you ask me? It was a dark moonlit night, 300 years ago…oh well, I wish .
It was the year 2000. I was employed at a leading IT and Telecommunications firm. The year of the Dot com (.com) Bubble burst that saw many IT firms go down and out. The firm I was employed with was affected just like any other and it was at this time that I got my hands on Andy Grove’s “. A book that the then CEO of Intel had written about the changes and the ups and downs of a business. In this book Andy speaks about changes so enormous that influences the market dynamics. These changes are said to be 10 times or 10 fold the normal/usual change. Andy terms the force that makes such a change as a 10x force. (Which means ten times x). An example of such a force would be Television in the era of radio, or, the internet which revolutionised the way we communicate. Email as a 10x change compared to snail mail. (oh well! you might as well as get the book and read all about it.)
I like the idea of this 10x change. At that time there were not many online communities for designers and creative folks in India. I thought why not start one. An online community that would not only facilitate knowledge exchange but also help bring out the much needed change in the design industry. Design, whether that be print, interactive or online media, at that time was all about making products: websites, Intranets, interactive multimedia presentations, web applications look pretty. Whereas, I thought of design as a combination of art and science. After all design not only makes products look pretty but also makes it easy to use with for the user.
I had envisioned the online community to act as a resource for the industry and help set standards for good design. I thought it would be the one place were professionals and amateurs could share experiences and techniques and get their daily dose of design mantra.
With this idea in mind I purchased the force10x domain. At that time, due to personal constraints I could not go ahead with this idea of the online community.
So there in a nut shell how and why I got the domain www.force10x.com