Downloading videos from Youtube is easier than ever. Simply change youtube.com in the title bar to pwnyoutube.com when you’ve viewing a video. It will bring you to a page with the option to download either the standard quality or the high quality video. Just click one of the links to start downloading.

Here’s how the last digit of the final score of all 42 super bowls breaks down. Great for figuring out just how likely you are to win that squares pool at the office. Duplicate scores have been omitted, i.e. 4-2 and 2-4 do not appear on this list since statistically they’re the same thing.

Final
Score
Percent Occurances
0-0    
0-1 2% 1
0-2 2% 1
0-3 2% 1
0-4    
0-5 5% 2
0-6 5% 2
0-7 7% 3
0-8    
0-9 5% 2
1-1    
1-2    
1-3    
1-4 5% 2
1-5 5% 2
1-6 2% 1
1-7 2% 1
1-8 2% 1
1-9 2% 1
2-2    
2-3    
2-4 2% 1
2-5    
2-6    
2-7 2% 1
2-8    
2-9 2% 1
3-3    
3-4 5% 2
3-5    
3-6 5% 2
3-7 2% 1
3-8    
3-9    
4-4    
4-5    
4-6    
4-7 12% 5
4-8    
4-9 2% 1
5-5    
5-6    
5-7    
5-8    
5-9    
6-6 2% 1
6-7 2% 1
6-8 2% 1
6-9 2% 1
7-7 5% 2
7-8    
7-9 2% 1
8-8    
8-9 2% 1
9-9    

If you haven’t heard yet some scammers are harvesting passwords on Twitter through direct messages. You’ll get a direct message from someone you follow (whose account has already been compromised) that asks you to click a link, for one of many ever changing reasons. When you click the link, you’re taken to a page that looks like the twitter login page, but it is not at twitter.com. Unknowingly, many people enter their user name and password here at which point the hacker now has access to your account to send more direct messages.

Here’s where things get scary. A crafty hacker could also potentially break into your Facebook page, blog, or email. Once they have your user name and password, the can get your email address from your account details on Twitter. Then, they can head over to GMail, Hotmail or whoever you’re using and try logging in using the same password you use for Twitter. Unfortunately, there’s a good chance that this will work since studies have shown that many people use the same password for everything. So how do they get into your blog? If you’ve linked to your blog in the Web entry on your twitter account, the hacker now knows where your blog is, and they’ve got a relatively good password to try on it too. The same goes for Facebook, and anything else that you’ve ever linked to from Twitter, perhaps a Digg page or a MySpace page.

This is all speculation, but if you’re using the same passwords for more than one online service, be sure to change all of them if you’ve been affected by this attack.

The M@’s Picks section of this site has some of my favorite tips, applications and web sites that I use every day. I’ve keeping an eye on my computer usage recently and will be updating it with my favorite windows and windows mobile tips over the next few weeks. Be sure to check it out now, too, since there’s a lot of good stuff archived in there.

Add some holiday cheer to your monitor with Net by Matt’s Virtual Tree.


Initially intended to be a way to catalog all the ornaments that we have on our tree at home, I’ve decided to add a few features to it, such as different “trees” that you can browse and opened it up for everyone. Really not much more than a Christmas themed photo gallery, it became my first true adventure into Ajax. You can see this because the page never reloads, and if you’re pay close attention, you’ll see that only 8 ornaments are loaded at a time into the slider at the top of the page. There’s still some work to do on it, here’s what I plan to do:

  • More trees and ornaments (This will happen when I get photos of all the ornaments on our tree)
  • Search
  • Tags
  • Better back-end interface