Visual Passwords… No need to remember passwords letters, just picture it!!!

Mininova, labs have come up with a new mechanism to password protect the resources. In this mechanism, you no longer need to remember the password letters, you would have to just remember various objects in a picture and click them in a the same order. passclicks

I think it’s a good idea to substitute the current password mechanism. If we adapt this mechanism such a way that every user can uploads a picture of his own interest and the server stores only the co-ordinates in the picture, it will provide both ease of usage and same level of security as current password mechanism.

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Google releases new Page Creator

Google Page Creator is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes. But it lacks many customization features, definitely it can’t be used a site builder. To me it fells like more of enhanced blogging!!!

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U.S. Grants Patent For Broad Range Of Internet Rich Applications

A patent has been granted to a relatively unknown California Web-design firm for an invention its creator says covers the design and creation of most rich-media applications used over the Internet. The patent holder, Balthaser Online Inc., says it could license nearly any rich-media Internet application across a broad range of devices and networks... Read on

Now any site that uses rich-media technology implementations, including Flash, Flex, Java, Ajax, and XAML, when the rich-media application is accessed on any device over the Internet, including desktops, mobile devices, set-top boxes, and video game consoles will need a licence. This might put a cap on the ever expanding internet applications and technologies.

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