If you regularly mistype your password because it is too complex or you're in a rush, Visual Hashing (free, Firefox, Chrome) will turn your password into a colored hash to you can immediately see whether you've typed it correctly or not. After you install this add-on, you'll be able to see a four-color visual "hash" in password inputs all around the web. The hash will update as you type. You can think of the hash as being your password's "fingerprint." Over time, you'll remember the colors associated with each password, which will prevent you from mistyping your passwords. That way, if
Read MoreTo better understand social consumer, we asked 1500 participant about the product and services they had most recently researched online and how they went about it. We found that depending on the product or service, channel may have more or less influence on a social consumer's decision to purchase. Influence was measured as the degree to which each channel has impacted the consumer view of the product or service as part
We know that Wikipedia gets additions, edits, and deletions all of the time, but without a visualization we just have to assume that’s the case. With Wikistream, we can see exactly what’s happening on Wikipedia in real-time. The background image on the page updates randomly, and sometimes the stream goes so fast it’s impossible to even see what’s going on. It uses node.js, socket.io and redis to sit in the wikimedia IRC chat rooms (where updates are published), and makes them available on the Web in realtime. You don’t really have an idea of how much content gets tweaked on Wikipedia
Read MoreMost people know that BitTorrent is far from anonymous, but seeing all your recent downloads listed on a public website is still quite a revelation. This is exactly what Youhavedownloaded.com does. The developers of the site want to make people aware of the public nature of BitTorrent, and are currently working on a more anonymous version of the leading file-sharing technology. The site Youhavedownloaded.com keeps a huge database of millions of IP addresses and the many million files downloaded from these addresses. The site claims that it track about 20 percent of all public BitTorrent downloads. People who visit the
Read MoreDon’t get too comfortable with the keys you click while typing on your computer. Soon that keyboard you’re using may be made of touch-sensitive glass. The same can be said about your computer mouse too. Inventor Jason Giddings believes it’s time for computers peripherals to grow to the next level, and he hopes to achieve this with his new multi-touch keyboard and mouse, made from tempered glass suspended over a metal base. The multi-touch mouse from Giddings Product Development is made from tempered glass and a metal base, with technology that uses light and a camera to detect commands. Giddings
Read MoreChances are you had to look something up recently, so you Googled it. As simple as that may seem, some argue Google is changing the way we think and remember. Why does this happen? How does it impact the brain? Google has definitely made our lives so easy. Information that would need days to gather referring books are now just a single click away. But like every medicine having some side effects, does dependency on Google also have some side effects? Find out: via
The amazing Dave Cremin performs an impossible card trick in Times Square. We created the card trick project to show off our 3D creature effects skills. From the beginning the video was designed to appear completely candid, as if someone just walked up and started recording a street magician with their cellphone. In reality, the footage was shot with two Canon 5D Mark II cameras on two separate days. The majority of the people seen in this video were not planted in the audience. Other than the magician, only three of the dozens of people seen in the video were working
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