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      Strong and confidential passwords are essentials to us. Not only for financial banking sites but also for the Social Networking sites.
      With the social networking sites like Facebook and twitter a possible cause would be using your personal information, posting a fake status about you, subscribing/following to anonymous websites/blogs/users etc.

Key: Have strong Passwords.
      One of the most important key to protect your online security is to have the strong passwords which can change frequently. Since, to set the strong passwords is bit tricky and even to remember the passwords for various sites is more challenging for us.
      One of the way to create these strong passwords is to set a phrase which can be used to enter as password. But doing this you may feel time consuming for entering the complete phrase. So, either way you can use the initials of the phrase. For instance, "IboTNu#B.C" for 'I blog on technology network using blogger.com'. While doing this you are aware of the variants like upper-case, symbols and letters used with there meaningful presence in the passwords. Microsoft has an excellent suggestions on password creation and a password strength checker.
More Tips:

• Don't use same passwords for all sites :  
         Even if you create a strong passwords, don't use same for it every sites. Since, if hacker steals your passwords from any of the sites you logged in. It can be used to break into accounts for your other sites. Hence, you need to be more tricky here while using your strong passwords for different sites such as you may use the initials of the sites in your string passwords. For example: for Google account you could have "Go" lying somewhere in your password and "Fb" could be used for Facebook Account.
• Do have Extra Security for your financial Websites:
         Here your may strengthen your password more by inserting some more letters, symbols or numbers.

For More information on passwords you may like to visit the below links:

• Facing the Pain of Passwords.
• Tips to create strong passwords.

Hopefully, after reading the above post, we all might have configured our strong passwords.

      When URL shorten came out, many of us take the advantage to shorten our long URL's. Also, it helps spammers to shorten their malicious URL too.

      So, URL shortner has pros and cons. But there are websites which helps us to identify or preview the short URL 's for their complete expansion.

      Here below are the some URL expander sites which u would like to visit and differentiate the Malicious URL.

• Long URL
• URL X-ray
• Sucuri

      Else, Install for Firefox or Chrome extension to Expand bitly links (and many other short links) on any web page to see page titles and links to bitly Info pages before clicking. 

      Tout, a real-time social video update service which let you share 15-seconds video clips with your friend and followers. Its like video-twitter-short video updates to share with your followers.

      It allows you to share 15-seconds long clips so its about real-time conversation in video rather than text. Its an combination of real-time blog and rich clarity videos. The site has been testing with over 2,000 users, and went live on Tuesday.


      Tout's uses are flexible, and to an extent, unknown. In many ways, it plugs into the pre-existing model of social interaction online by allowing people an outlet to give updates on their life. But the video element may prove to have unexpected results.

      Downing also envisions that as tablets and devices like the Apple TV continue to catch on, that Touters could gather followings commensurate to something like television channels--real-time, highly personal reality TV for a future generation.


      But, its an simple way to keep updated about your followers and friends with brief video messages.

      Recently, Jesse Stay, a programmer has developed a browser plug-in to that will allow to Like the tweets. Apart from the reply and Retweet buttons an Like button too will appear on the stream.

      It is done using Facebook's iframe code which can be used only with browsers like Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer.

      To accomplish these you need to do install the plugin, and then you can start liking the tweets as shown below Like buttons looks out of its place.

      The developer planning to work on 'Post to Facebook' by inserting an checkbox below an twitter status update box. Also, to synchronize the Twitter and Facebook profile picture.

      The plug-in can be downloaded here.