Do you have hard time coming out with a password for your online accounts or whatsoever? Passwordfire is the kind of service that help suggest passwords you can use by taking in few keywords (name, word, date) special to you, blend them around and throws you some suggestions. Keep on clicking on the suggestion until you are happy with one good combination.

Passwordfire is probably what I’ll be using if I’m not too keen in using my standard password and too lazy in thinking of a new password. Whether it’s a script generated or self-generted password, just make sure you keep yours private and safe.

Here’s few more passwords related entries we’ve mentioned before:

• How to prevent forgetting Windows login password
• How to retrieve lost Windows password
• Default passwords for WAPs, Routers, Firewalls
• Reveal password file in Google
• 10 common Internet password
• Are your passwords safe?

Does your mobile phone supports browsing? Well, you just got something that helps kill the boredom. Avot mV is a video delivery platform that allows you to plays video from all over the internet. It comes with functions where you can search and further personalize your account.

Just point your mobile phone’s browser over to Avot mV ’s Product site and there will be tones of videos available for you to watch. To avoid all the fuss of typing in the URL or names of movies you want to watch, Avot mV uses point and click so you can get to the movie you want in the shortest time.

Watching movies on Avot mV is fast, not to mention the video quality is very high as well. Movie clips are also maximized by removing all the unnecessary clutters from the mobile user’s screen. You can also organize your favorite videos in a playlist and play them anytime you want, just like how you can organized your favorite musics and albums in a playlist.

Visit Avot mVs Corporate site for more better idea on the product, or keep yourself update with Avot mV’s latest news over at their Official blog site.

Not all sites are able to take the Digg Effect, and if they don’t, their content are still available to be seen at DuggBack. DuggBack is a service that help you find mirrors and caches of digg.com’s dugged items.

Read Duggback’s addon for more information on how you can view mirror and cache pages, and also how to install DuggBack bookmarklets on your browsers.

Technorati has recently announced a new status call Authority to replace the each blog’s incoming link figures. According to Dorion Carroll, Technorati will no longer calculate the number of incoming links to your blog, instead it is now replaced with Technorati Authority – number of blogs linking to your website for the last 6 months. My Technorati Authority is now 681 as I’m writting this entry.

Wirefly has recently launched the “free cell phones“ promotion. Go over to the website and you will be surprised to find how many cell phones Wirefly are actually giving out for free with a subscription to telco account. Some packages come with more than just free phones; enjoy free shipping, cash rebates, free headsets and more. All depending on packages you take. Phones like Sony Ericsson W300, Motorola RAZR series are currently running hot.

1. Putting in the Time and Commitment.
2. Willing to Market The Blog
3. Be Interesting
4. Realize Its Not About You (its About Them)
5. Focus

Which one do currently have and which you are lacking of. I think I need more of ‘2′ and ‘5′.

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Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., is a User Advocate and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group which he co-founded with Dr. Donald A. Norman (former VP of research at Apple Computer). Until 1998 he was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer.

Dr. Nielsen founded the “discount usability engineering” movement for fast and cheap improvements of user interfaces and has invented several usability methods, including heuristic evaluation. He holds 79 United States patents, mainly on ways of making the Internet easier to use.

Continue reading for top ten web design mistakes made by bloggers.

1. No Author Biographies

Unless you’re a business blog, you probably don’t need a full-fledged “about us” section the way a corporate site does. That said, the basic rationale for “about us” translates directly into the need for an “about me” page on a weblog: users want to know who they’re dealing with.

2. No Author Photo

A huge percentage of the human brain is dedicated to remembering and recognizing faces. For many, faces work better than names.

3. Nondescript Posting Titles

Users must be able to grasp the gist of an article by reading its headline. Avoid cute or humorous headlines that make no sense out of context.

4. Links Don’t Say Where They Go

Many weblog authors seem to think it’s cool to write link anchors like: “some people think” or “there’s more here and here.” Remember one of the basics of the Web: Life is too short to click on an unknown. Tell people where they’re going and what they’ll find at the other end of the link.

5. Classic Hits are Buried

Remember to link to your past pieces in newer postings. Don’t assume that readers have been with you from the beginning; give them background and context in case they want to read more about your ideas.

6. The Calendar is the Only Navigation

Categories must be sufficiently detailed to lead users to a thoroughly winnowed list of postings. At the same time, they shouldn’t be so detailed that users face a category menu that’s overly long and difficult to scan. Ten to twenty categories are appropriate for structuring many topics.

7. Irregular Publishing Frequency

Daily updates are probably best, but weekly or even monthly updates might work as well, depending on your topic. In either case, pick a publication schedule and stick to it. If you usually post daily but sometimes let months go by without new content, you’ll lose many of your loyal — and thus most valuable — readers.

8. Mixing Topics

If you publish on many different topics, you’re less likely to attract a loyal audience of high-value users. Busy people might visit a blog to read an entry about a topic that interests them. They’re unlikely to return, however, if their target topic appears only sporadically among a massive range of postings on other topics. The only people who read everything are those with too much time on their hands (a low-value demographic).

9. Forgetting That You Write for Your Future Boss

Whenever you post anything to the Internet — whether on a weblog, in a discussion group, or even in an email — think about how it will look to a hiring manager in ten years. Once stuff’s out, it’s archived, cached, and indexed in many services that you might never be aware of.

10. Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service

As soon as you realize you’re serious about blogging, move it away from a domain name that’s controlled by somebody else. The longer you delay, the more pain you’ll feel when you finally make the move.

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