The Future Is Here: Sketchfab Puts 3D Models Right In Your Browser

With free, powerful 3D modeling applications like Blender and SketchUp, creating high-quality 3D models is more affordable and doable than ever before. Judging by the comments to my interview with Rafael Grassetti, there’s lot of interest in creating models and working in 3D. Sharing those models with others, however, remains tricky. SketchUp has its 3D Warehouse where users can share models, but the warehouse requires you to log in — and you must share the actual model, rather than a 3D render of it. Sketchfab is an interesting service that tries to solve this, by letting you upload 3D models...

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Internet Valued More Than Alcohol, Caffeine, Random Body Parts [We Ask You Results]

The Internet is an integral part of everyday life for many of us now, forming the central hub around which we live. You may consider that an exaggeration, but people work, play, date, and socialize online. Which is a pretty stunning revelation for a technology that only hit the mainstream in the 1990s. This means the Internet surely ranks pretty highly on a make-believe list of life’s essentials. But how highly? We sought to find out in last week’s We Ask You column, and the results were pretty illuminating. They suggest that there isn’t much that someone, somewhere wouldn’t give...

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How You Can Learn A New Language While Browsing The Web With Lingua.ly

If I look back at my day, I spend nearly all of it browsing the Web. I pick up a lot of information on the way. A new language isn’t usually one of them. The Internet has helped to do away with the language tutor – websites like Duolingo and Busuu can easily tell you if you have an ear for new languages; and how you can develop one. But once you get the basics right, you need to keep practicing. That’s what inspired me to write the article on how to learn a new language with the help of...

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How You Can Learn A New Language While Browsing The Web With Lingua.ly

If I look back at my day, I spend nearly all of it browsing the Web. I pick up a lot of information on the way. A new language isn’t usually one of them. The Internet has helped to do away with the language tutor – websites like Duolingo and Busuu can easily tell you if you have an ear for new languages; and how you can develop one. But once you get the basics right, you need to keep practicing. That’s what inspired me to write the article on how to learn a new language with the help of...

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Kopete vs. Pidgin: Which Linux Instant Messaging Client Has More Features?

While the idea of chat rooms aren’t quite as popular anymore as they used to be, instant messaging is still used by everyone. Whether it’s Yahoo, MSN/Skype, Facebook, and more, you need an application for your desktop that can handle all of these services while providing great integration. Under Linux, sticking with the applications meant for your given desktop environment is usually the best experience – but there are still pros and cons to the two major messengers. I compared Kopete, a popular KDE instant messaging application, with Pidgin, arguably the most popular open source instant messaging client, to see...

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How To Add Speech Recognition Capabilities To Your Website Search Engine [Chrome]

These days, the buzz-phrase on the streets of cyberspace is “voice recognition”. Everyone is going totally bananas about it. Google is racing to integrate speech recognition into as many of their products as possible, and there is nothing cooler than using a software app like Dragon NaturallySpeaking to control the Internet and your computer with your voice. It takes laziness to new heights as you can then sit back and dictate emails, website addresses, documents, and web searches, simply by opening your mouth. A keyboard? Pah! That is so 2000s! But this isn’t something solely confined to the realms of...

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How To Add Speech Recognition Capabilities To Your Website Search Engine [Chrome]

These days, the buzz-phrase on the streets of cyberspace is “voice recognition”. Everyone is going totally bananas about it. Google is racing to integrate speech recognition into as many of their products as possible, and there is nothing cooler than using a software app like Dragon NaturallySpeaking to control the Internet and your computer with your voice. It takes laziness to new heights as you can then sit back and dictate emails, website addresses, documents, and web searches, simply by opening your mouth. A keyboard? Pah! That is so 2000s! But this isn’t something solely confined to the realms of...

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Love Making Lists? Culturalist Is Going To Be Your New Best Friend [Beta Invites Inside]

Social networks are great, but most of what we find on them is irrelevant or not very interesting. Lists are another thing almost everyone loves. You can list movies, you can list books, and about anything else you can think up. But other than reading them and moving on, there’s nothing much to do with them. First world problem? I think so. Culturalist is a new website that’s going to solve this problem for you. It’s about lists, and it’s also social. Wouldn’t it be great fun to make your own top 10 lists about anything, share them, and explore...

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How to Track Gmail Messages with Google Analytics

The video tutorial explains how you can use Google Analytics to track your outgoing Gmail messages and get notified when people open and read your email messages.

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This story, How to Track Gmail Messages with Google Analytics, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 24/09/2013 under GMail, Google Analytics, Email

Remove Native Apps From Windows 8 Installation Using Windows 8 Apps Remover

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About six months ago, we discussed how to remove all native Modern UI apps from a Windows 8 installation without the help of third-party tools. The method involves executing a command from the Command Prompt and is fairly simple. The only downside of the method is that you need to execute separate commands one-by-one in […]

Relive The Golden Age Of Animation With Free Vintage Cartoons [Stuff to Watch]

They just don’t make ‘em like they used to. Literally. The age-old technique of using hundreds of hand-drawn cels of animation to produce cartoons has long been replaced with more robust digital techniques. But like photographs shot on film and vinyl recordings, traditional animation retains that warm and rustic feel where even the imperfections are celebrated for their almost organic nature. Thanks to the Internet Archive and Film Chest, there’s a small collection of vintage cartoons to trawl through featuring the likes of Popeye, Woody Woodpecker, and Betty Boop. Betty Boop Somewhere around half of the cartoons included in the...

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YouTube Fans

If you have a popular YouTube channels with more than 5,000 subscribers, you'll be able to find more about the people who love your videos. "The Fans page shows a list of some of your most engaged and most influential fans, based on their public interaction with your YouTube channel. By default, the list is sorted by a combination of subscriber count and engagement level, but you can also sort by either factor on its own," informs YouTube.

"For each person on the list, you can see how many subscribers they have, how engaged they are with your channel, an example comment they've left on one of your videos, and how long they've been a subscriber. Engagement is based on that person's public interactions with your channel, such as commenting, liking, subscribing, etc."



You can also create a Google+ circle for your top fans in the insights page. "See what other videos and channels they're into, and reach out via Google+ to ask a question, start a conversation, share behind-the-scenes photos, or upload a private video just for them."



{ Thanks, Stefan. }

The New My Yahoo Gets A New Design To Emerge As An iGoogle Alternative

Yahoo isn’t putting on the stops in its efforts to personalize the user experience for you. In the latest move, it has dusted off My Yahoo and given the personal start page a fresh look. The new design is a refreshing change from its static avatar of recent times. The start page is meant to be the portal that ties together all of Yahoo’s offerings — email accounts, calendars, stock portfolio, sports scoreboard, weather, Flickr, and web content delivered by Yahoo or a web search. The latest redesign also puts My Yahoo in the contention ring of iGoogle alternatives. Google...

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Chrome to Gradually Drop Support for NPAPI Plug-ins

10 years ago, browsers were a lot less powerful and you had to install plug-ins to watch videos, play games, open PDF files. Applications like QuickTime, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Adobe Reader, Java installed plug-ins that added missing features. Now browsers can play audio files and video files without plug-ins, some of them include PDF viewers, many of them render interactive 3D graphics natively. NPAPI plug-ins are no longer that necessary, they have plenty of security issues and the NPAPI plug-in architecture from the Netscape era is now outdated.

Google addressed some of the NPAPI issues in Pepper and bundled a Pepper version of the Flash plug-in with Chrome. Pepper is also used by Native Client and the PDF viewer.



Chromium's blog announced that the NPAPI support will be gradually dropped next year. "NPAPI isn't supported on mobile devices, and Mozilla plans to block NPAPI plug-ins in December 2013. Based on anonymous Chrome usage data, we estimate that only six NPAPI plug-ins were used by more than 5% of users in the last month. (...) Starting in January 2014, Chrome will block webpage-instantiated NPAPI plug-ins by default on the Stable channel. To avoid disruption to users, we will temporarily whitelist the most popular NPAPI plug-ins that are not already blocked for security reasons:" Silverlight, Unity, Google Earth, Google Talk and Facebook Video. Java is already blocked by default for security reasons. "In the short term, end users and enterprise administrators will be able to whitelist specific plug-ins. Eventually, however, NPAPI support will be completely removed from Chrome. We expect this to happen before the end of 2014, but the exact timing will depend on usage and user feedback."



A simplified version of Google Earth is now available in the new Google Maps, while the Google Talk plug-in will no longer be necessary in Chrome when Google Hangouts switches to WebRTC.



Some Chrome extensions include NPAPI plug-ins. Google will no longer accept new Chrome extensions with NPAPI plug-ins starting today and will unpublish these extensions from the Chrome Web Store in September 2014 if developers don't remove the NPAPI plug-ins.



"There are several alternatives to NPAPI. In cases where standard web technologies are not yet sufficient, developers and administrators can use NaCl, Apps, Native Messaging API, and Legacy Browser Support to transition from NPAPI. Moving forward, our goal is to evolve the standards-based web platform to cover the use cases once served by NPAPI."



It will be interesting to see if Google will actually drop NPAPI support next year. There are still many sites that rely on plug-ins and some of them are no longer updated.

Unable To Log In To Your Bank Account? Try These Tips

While banks usually do a good job of making it as easy as possible to log into your bank account online, it’s never entirely perfect. There’s always going to be a time when there’s some technological reason why you can’t log in even though you’re using the right credentials. Yes, sometimes it’s the bank’s fault, but a good number of times it’s a problem at your own end, and it’s something that can be easily fixed. Here’s a little checklist which you can follow step by step to make sure that it’s not an issue with your computer. If there...

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Unable To Log In To Your Bank Account? Try These Tips

While banks usually do a good job of making it as easy as possible to log into your bank account online, it’s never entirely perfect. There’s always going to be a time when there’s some technological reason why you can’t log in even though you’re using the right credentials. Yes, sometimes it’s the bank’s fault, but a good number of times it’s a problem at your own end, and it’s something that can be easily fixed. Here’s a little checklist which you can follow step by step to make sure that it’s not an issue with your computer. If there...

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How To Use Start Screen As Start Menu In Windows 8.1

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In Windows 8.1, Microsoft has made a couple of changes to the Start screen, the Start menu replacement introduced first with Windows 8. Microsoft has introduced a new Apps view in Windows 8.1 which displays all installed apps and desktop programs. But with default settings, when you press the Windows logo key on the keyboard […]

Upgrading Your PC for Windows 8.1? Prep It First!

Windows 8.1 is going to be available to all Windows 8 users as a free upgrade in less than a month, on October 18. Windows 8.1 makes significant changes to Windows 8 and it’s a worthy upgrade whether you’re using Windows 8 on a desktop PC, a tablet, or something in between. How you’ll upgrade depends on which version of Windows you’re upgrading from — Windows 7, Windows 8, or even the Windows 8.1 preview release. Is Windows 8.1 worth upgrading to from Windows 7? That’s a tough question and everyone has a different opinion, especially given Microsoft isn’t offering...

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9 BuzzFeed Articles Guaranteed To Lift Your Spirits Any Day

Feeling down, bored or restless? That’s exactly what BuzzFeed is for. It might not be an overly intelligent website, nor is it very original, but the content it curates is just right for those moments when you’re staring at the screen but can’t seem to get anything done. The good thing about BuzzFeed articles is that they don’t take much time to go through. Image-heavy as they are, you can go through an entire post in about 5 minutes, and if you find the right ones, you’re guaranteed to feel a bit better when those 5 minutes are up. Unlike...

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What is Dictionary Attack and How to Secure Against Dictionary Attack

In our last post we discuss on Brute Force Attack. So Today we discuss about Dictionary attack.

Dictionary attack is the part of cryptanalysis and in this we break the secure password by entering every word from a dictionary as a password. A dictionary attack can also be used in an attempt to find the key necessary to decrypt an encrypted message or document.

A dictionary attack is more efficient than Brute Force Attack because it will take less time and victim chooses ordinary words as passwords such as smoking, playground, password etc.

In dictionary attack it uses a targeted technique of successively trying all the words in an exhaustive list called a dictionary, instead in brute force attack it will systematically check all possible key space. i.e. dictionary attack tries only those possibilities which are most likely to succeed but in brute force attack it will check all the possibilities of words.

How to increase Security against Dictionary Attack:

There are two ways to secure your password against online dictionary attacks.

• Delayed response: Given a login-name/password pair the server provides a slightly delayed yes/no answer (say not faster than one answer per second). This should prevent an attacker from checking sufficiently many passwords in a reasonable time.


• Account locking: Accounts are locked a few unsuccessful login attempts (for example, an account is locked for an hour after three unsuccessful attempts.) Like the previous measure, this measure is designed to prevent attackers from checking sufficiently many passwords in a reasonable time.

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