Password Puffery - Do Any Of These Look Familiar?

According to a recent study release by SplashData, an American password management data application, the 25 ‘worst’ internet passwords you can choose to use are:

1. password
2. 123456
3. 12345678
4. qwerty
5. abc123
6. monkey
7. 1234567
8.  letmein
9. trustno1
10. dragon
11. baseball
12. 111111
13. iloveyou
14. master
15. sunshine
16. ashley
17. bailey
18. passw0rd
19. shadow
20. 123123
21. 654321
22. superman
23. qazwsx
24. michael
25. football 

So if any of the above ring a bell you may wish to quickly change them.  You can also try any prospective password by running it through this test. I tried a new password out and was gratified to learn that it would take some 39,000 years to hack!

Word of caution: I would not however try out any existing passwords on a third party site such as this as you can not be sure how secure the site itself is.

Related articles

• 25 Worst Passwords of 2011 [STUDY] (mashable.com)

Beta and Beta

Here's the rub; Google Music was launched around the world yesterday with much fanfare but trying using it and you will join the majority of the global population in getting this message.

Google music offers some 13 million songs to the lucky few who can access it but does not have affiliation with one of the major labels - Warners.  Despite this, it aims to gazump Apple and Amazon and take the lead in the online music market.

It will be up to Google's Android services to match iTunes as music is stored on the Cloud rather than on your own device.  As a user you can can store up to 20,000 songs on Google's cloud servers and you will be able to share any songs you have purchased with friends on the Google+.

The cost of a song is US 99 cents and if you are an artist you can create your own space on Google Music and sell direct to the public.  That is, if they are in the USA.

Related articles

• Google Music online store officially launches for U.S. customers (news.consumerreports.org)
• Google Music Storefront Goes Live on Android Market (fool.com)
• How to get started with Google Music
• Google Music is open for business