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      Top 50 Gawker passwords are comically bad

      December 14, 2010 /

      Gawker password length.

      Every time a prominent site gets hacked, someone always goes through the trouble to analyze the passwords contained in the data leak, usually to my own comic amusement. With sites from the Gawker network, especially sites like Gizmodo and Lifehacker, where users commonly claim to be among the web’s most savvy users, you would expect the passwords to be a little better.

      Numbers one, two, and three? 123456, password, and 12345678. The full list is even funnier, though, and contains things like “letmein,” “princess,” and “starwars.” Well done, nerds of the internet.

      You can find more entries, along with some graphical analysis of the passwords included at the Wall Street Journal.

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      Radio Shack knocks $50 off its iPhones

      December 5, 2010 /

      Radio Shack.

      Radio Shack made an announcement this weekend that it would sell the Apple line of iPhone for $50 off the retail price, the only condition being that you’re eligible for a two-year commitment. The discount applies to all current iPhone models, so you can get the 3GS for $49.99, the 16GB iPhone 4 for $149.99, and the 32GB iPhone 4 for $249.99.

      On top of that discount, Radio Shack runs a Trade & Save program that allows you to trade in 3G and 3GS models for an additional discount. The phones have to be in good working condition and can’t be unlocked.

      As far as I know, this about the best deal you can manage on a new iPhone.

      Source: BGR

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      Netflix gets a price increase

      November 29, 2010 /

      Netflix rate hikeThere I was, late Monday night, getting ready to leave for Ohio the following evening. My girlfriend and I were going to drive through most of the night on Tuesday so we could miss the Wednesday traffic (sidebar: get it together VirginiaDOT – the 77/81 junction looks like it was designed by throwing spaghetti at a wall and letting a first grader draw the signage). As we both packed she said, “Sucks about that Neflix increase, right?” Check the email. Price increase. Back to packing.

      I was worried when she first mentioned it, but really, the extra dollar a month doesn’t bother me. I’ve been unbelievably happy with my Netflix subscription, so the extra $12 a year is like a tip for good service.

      On the flipside, though, I wish I could justify stepping down to the streaming-only plan. I would love a streaming video service that could rival my music service (MOG). Give me on demand everything, not just the old stuff. As it stands, I keep the DVD part of my Netflix subscription for those movies I want to watch while I work but can’t find elsewhere. I would love to get it all over the cloud, and would likely pay double my current Netflix fee to do it. Time for an industry shift, folks, and the first service to do it will get a helluva lot of subscribers.

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      Building lego creations with a 3D printer

      October 18, 2010 /

      I can’t count the number of hours I spent playing with Legos as a child. Hell, just last year my girlfriend’s parents got me a Lego set as a joke because I reference my favorite formative past time so often. You can imagine, then, why I think this is so damn cool. It’s a printer made of legos, but it doesn’t print using ink. It prints using Legos.

      Source: Battlebricks

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      Will apologies get Digg out of its hole?

      October 18, 2010 /

      Digg Down.The recent Digg redesign was controversial to say the least. The site’s new CEO, Matt Williams, hit the ground running his mouth with apologies for removing features, promises to restore those features, and a “please-won’t-you-take-us-back” attitude that frankly, surprised me.

      Now I know the redesign scared off a lot of the site’s most loyal fans, but the whole point was to make Digg more appealing to people who had never used it. How frustrating would it be to submit links just to have them downvoted into oblivion by the “bury brigades?” Burying is one of the features the redesign did away with that users most bemoaned, but why give it back? The feature flies in the face of the whole purpose behind Digg – to give airtime to news stories that we otherwise might miss.

      As Matthew Ingram points out over at GigaOM, “[Changing the fundamental function of a social site] only works, however, if enough new users arrive to justify the loss of that traditional fan base. By apologizing for and unwinding most of its recent changes, Digg appears to be admitting that it backed the wrong horse.” That’s where the apology comes in. As much as Digg needs to appeal to new audiences, the fact remains that Digg is heavily dependent on the power users that balked at the redesign. Twitter and Facebook have most of the market for this sort of thing locked up, and trying to snatch people away from those services by heavily reworking your own just isn’t a winning strat.

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