Shahid Online - Tech Corner

Yes. It is long overdue. So here's another for the bookmarks: bit.ly (http://bit.ly) An absolutely brilliant tool for shortening a URL. Particularly when sharing long links to websites in your blogs, tweets and emails. Need I say more?

Most probably the best website you cannot go without is TechRadar ( http://www.techradar.com ) When it comes to latest gadgets, they are sure to have a review and an in-depth look at them, as well as latest news all tech. A brilliant website that should be among your bookmarks.

A hectic start to the new year. People having problems with their routers, hacked accounts and miscellaneous computing tidbits has kept me busy. After reading an article on T3 about online banking , got me thinking about security. It is amazing that people still reuse old passwords everywhere, most of them fairly easy for a hacker to break. Not only are consumers facing such grief, many corporations who let people choose their own passwords are (in a way) prone to an attack of some sort. Because, when left to their own devices, their choice of passwords are not very strong. So it is in this vain that my choice of a recommended site is PC Tools' Password Generator . This tool is absolutely brilliant at generating strong passwords and also presents phonetics to the password in case of misreading. Check it out at: http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/ Happy securing.

In continuing the theme of useful websites that are worth revisiting again and again, my next pick is: recycle-more.co.uk ( http://www.recycle-more.co.uk/ ) A brilliant all-round website that is useful, not just for the home, but for businesses and schools. There is a lot of information on recycling different types of waste and a search facility to find the relevant recycling centre that is local to you. This website is truly a one-stop shop for all things recycling. So if you're looking at turning a new leaf for next year, let the environment be one of the items on your list.

There's so much usefulness to the World Wide Web, that I'm bursting to yell out my favourite website for this month: searchfreefonts ( www.searchfreefonts.com ) With an extensive search facility and categorisation of all those free fonts, you're bound to find the right font for your needs as there are well over 13,000. There are still references to commercial fonts, if you manage to not find anything.