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Hackers Explore New Territories for Cracking Your Password

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Ars Technica reports that hackers are expanding their password cracking frontiers into Wikipedia, YouTube, song lyrics, and other works of literature or writing. With multiple characters, up-and-down capitalizations, and spaces, phrases from your favorite books or movies seem like the perfect hacker-proof solution.

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the script, before jumping into the how-to of widgets, the screencast will give some context, of course. " Since this is a movie or visual, it has to be explained in a visual way. Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. Here's the script from the screencast written back in October. Maybe it is more like moment capture. (It