Graystatic Tech

How to Write a Good Password

Making passwords is something everybody on the web does.  The art is in making good, secure passwords that you can also remember easily.  There are two methods I have found really effective.  There are tons of passwords I use that I have to be able to recall at any time.  Most people would resort to [...]

reCAPTCHA

So I was on a site the other day and was prompted with a not so uncommon captcha prompt.  A major 3rd party supplier of these (including on the comments here) is reCAPTCHA.  They actually have an interesting twist of it.  reCAPTCHA’s motto is “Stop Spam, Read Books”.  So apparently what they do is use [...]

Youtube Adds “Audio Preview” to Comments

Youtube has now added an “Audio Preview” button to it’s comments form.  Apparently this was inspired by a the mention of such a thing in the comic “xkcd” check out the comic here.

Google Advertises G1 on Front Page

It’s rare that Google changes the standard links they have on their front page.  I guess it not unusual they would use such a highly visited page to promote their new G1 phone.  It looks like a pretty good phone from the pictures I’ve seen and the reviews I’ve heard.  They did a good job [...]