Blogging tips, browsing tricks, and computing hacks

What’s the best password to use for your login? You wouldn’t use any of the following would you?

Your partner’s name
Your child’s name
Your pet’s name
Any of the last digits from your social security number
123456
“password”
Your city
Your college
Your football team
Your date of birth
Your partner’s date of birth
Your child’s date of birth
“god”
“letmein”
“money”
“love”

Surely not? Well some of you may do, as these are, according to IT Security, among the most popular …

Fancy free and full access to magazines, such as Car & Driver, Men’s Health, Penthouse (whatever that is), Popular Mechanics, and PC Magazine? Well, Amit Agarwal over on Digital Inspiration reveals a neat hack that involves changing your web browser settings so that when you visit the magazine’s website you can surf right in.

The trick is to download and install Apple’s Safari browser (it may work with Firefox and …

Now that you’ve upgraded Firefox to version 3, you’re probably wondering what all the fuss was about, well Mozilla itself, as you’d perhaps expect, has a nice round-up of the new features. But, fellow bloggers have highlighted dozens of features you may not have got around to testing yet.

enbite highlights one of the big new features, the Smart Location Bar, which the blog refers to as the …

Previously, I’ve explained how to find the apparently secret Feedburner count for a blog that doesn’t display the Feedburner chiclet. Now, here’s another little hack that allows you to display the count for any given day, as well as click through numbers and the reach of the blog on that day. Simply create a URL with the feed name of the blog of interest and append the …

Anyone who says they have never had a problem with email spam is either my Dad, who has never touched a computer in his life (bless him), or they have staff to read their emails. Spam is ubiquitous in the online world, it is everywhere, and it is omnipresent.

If you’re using Google Mail you may not see much, the spam filters on that system are very good (at least …