Showing posts with label web tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label web tools. Show all posts

Monday, March 31, 2008

19 Free Online Password Generators and password Strength checkers

Password Generators

Choosing your password can be a difficult task if you want to make it strong and also easy to remember. Thats where password generators can help us. With a single click we can generate single or multiple passwords and if you don't like the password just click again to generate another.  It saves a lot of brainstorming especially if you are used to think up a few new passwords everyday for new registration, unless you use a single password for all your accounts. (which is very risky IMO, imagine if you lose the password, you lose all your accounts!)    

Here's a list of online password generators and strength checkers which you can use to make a stronger password.

You can set the length of the password (min 4 but it recommends min 12 for a strong password) and other parameters to include like numbers, case of letters etc and also what characters you want to exclude. Select your options and hit generate your string password would be generated instantly 

To quote them
The PC Tools Password Generator allows you to create random passwords that are highly secure and extremely difficult to crack or guess due to an optional combination of lower and upper case letters, numbers and punctuation symbols. 
The interface is almost similar to the above one. select your options and click generate to get your strong password. It would even display the phonetics of the password. 

Specify which type of letter you want to use in your password. Including string letters, case to use, digits to use and symbols. Select the desired length of the password and click generate.  

Just select the length and whether symbols to be included or not and click on 'Generate Password'. Your password would be generated along with a hint to remember it. Like the one in the picture. '

No configuration to make. The webpage would provide you with ten randomly generated passwords when its loaded. The passwords includes alphabets and numbers though I didn't see any symbols in them. 


To quote them 
It was originally designed to help make up passwords that would be easy to remember but relatively difficult for nefarious types to guess. The best way to do this is a pattern of letters that sounds like a word but is not, in fact is total nonsense. The generator now supports two phonetic patterns. With either one, it will probably take a few tries to find a password you like
You can select options like what you want to include in your password (vowels, consonant, numbers and special) and also the pattern and then generate your password. 

It generates a password using a set of random data such as  your browser, window position, timer, mouse etc. You can also provide your own random string. 
You can select the password length and the bit strength and generate your password. It would also show how strong your password is once its been generated and also how effective protection it would give you. 

Apart from presenting you with 10 random password when the page is loaded,  you can also choose from options like the length of the password and characters to include and generate passwords.

Similar interface to most of the password generator sites. Choose your options and generate the password. You can also generate multiple passwords at once just by selecting how many passwords to be generated. There is also a short guideline on how to create strong passwords. 

Very similar interface with most of the online password generator but with a few different type of memory aids to chose from so you can remember your password easily. 
The page loads with long list of generated passwords. Refresh the page to get a new list. 

Select the length and how strong you want your password to be (Everyday Use,  Medium Strength, Strong Encryption) and generate your password. 

Set the password pattern  and length to generate your password. 


Password Strength Checkers 

Just enter your password in the text box and you can see the strength (weak, medium, strong, best) in the bar below

Enter your password and see how strong is it in a progress bar with starting value of 'Weak' to Ending value 'Strong' 

Enter your password and view how strong it is. It would also tell you details like charset size, 
entropy and give you tips on improving your password if its found to be a weak one. 

View the strength of the password in the color bar below as you type it. 

Simple password strength checker.

It shows the strength of your password in % and also gives detailed information like different chars used, cases used and many more. 


Note : Given the debate that is always on about the dependability of password generators and strength checkers and the risk factors involved (if at all) of using these, use this tools only at your own risk. However I really don't see much of a trouble to use these stuffs and in fact these should come in handy.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Free Blog Pinging Tools

Pinging is important for bloggers as it notifies dozens of services which track blogs that you've update your blog. Some blogger platform has this facility built in where they notify the servers automatically whenever you update your blog. In case you need to do it manually, there are lot of free services which makes the job a lot easier for you. Just enter your blog url and they will ping dozens of servers. It saves a lot of time as you don't have to manually ping them one by one. Below is a list of few mostly used free pinging services.

Autopinger is a free service to help you ping your blogs and podcasts to most available blog/podcast search engines and aggregators remotely and automatically.





PingMyBlog.com pings all the major blog directories in one go so that everyone knows about your latest blogs. It saves you the time of having to do each one manually!



Ping your blog, feed, or podcast for free!







Pingates is a service that pings or notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them.






Pingoat is a service that pings or notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them. By pinging, you let the services know that your blog has been updated and hence, they crawl and index your site, publishing your blog contents, thus increasing your blog's popularity.










Ping.IN is a blog ping service that pings or notifies Weblog Services such as Blog Search Engines and blog directories that your blog has been updated.






Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated.




Enter your blog name and URL and select the services you want to ping.




King Ping is a free automatic pinging service that makes pinging faster and easier for bloggers and online publishers. Enter your blog URI to start pinging.







BlogBlip - Just enter blog URl and ping.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Free Online Guitar Tuner


Click here if you are looking for free standalone guitar tuner softwares.

Hot Frets Guitar Tuner
Easy to use online guitar tuner based on flash. You can even download a copy on your desktop or embed it on your webpage.

Online Guitar Tuner
Tune your guitar or bass with the most popular tunings.
The tuners avialable are :
Standard Tuner
Half Step Down Tuner
One Step Down Tuner
Standard 7 Strings Tuner
Drop D Tuner
Open D Tuner
Open G Tuner

jamcenter
Simple tuner with standard tuning

Get-tuned
A free online guitar tuner to tune up your guitar with many tuning presets.

Online 12 string guitar tuner
A 12 string guitar tuner for the standard eEaAdDgGBBEE 12 String Guitar tuning

Guitarhour Online Guitar Tuner
Online Guitar Tuner with guitar and piano tones.

Gieson
A cool little utility to help tune your guitar by ear.

Don't Fret Online guitar tuner
Simple online guitar tuner

Online Bass Tuner and Guitar Tuner
tunemybass.com online tuner provides tuning notes for guitar or bass guitar in any tuning.

How to Tune a Guitar
Online guitar tuner with many presets. There’s also a guide on how to tune your guitar.


Saturday, January 26, 2008

Free Online PDF Converter - Create PDF Online

Convert MS Word , JPG, PNG ,MS Excel, BMP, TIFF, MS PowerPoint , HTML , WMF, EMF, GIF, TXT etc. to PDF
http://www.pdfonline.com/index.htm
Cconvert MS Office, Images, Web Pages, Vector Graphic Formats files to PDF
http://www.freepdfconvert.com/

Document Converter eXPress
Neevia Document Converter eXpress makes it possible for anyone to instantly convert files to PDF or Image without the need of installing special software.
http://convert.neevia.com/

PrimoOnline
Simply browse to the file to be converted on your machine and upload it for immediate conversion to PDF. Once converted, the resultant PDF file is made available via email.
http://online.primopdf.com/

pdf24-online.converter
Convert documents of different formats online into pdf-files - for free!
http://www.pdf24.org/en/convert-online-document-into-pdf-for-free.htm

Create PDF from your web feed
RSS 2 PDF is an online tool which lets you enter the URL of any feed (RSS, atom, OPML) and generates a PDF file with the content of that feed just on a click of a single button. You can view the PDF online or save it on your hard disk.
http://rss2pdf.com/