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How to create a strong password in 2021 (Part 2)

Jan

Thank you for joining us again! In part 1 we talked about when you should change your password as well as tips on reusing password and why you shouldn’t do it. Today we are going to get to commonly used passwords and best practices. So without further adieu lets get to it!

Commonly used passwords

According to SafetyDetectives, they analyzed over 18 million passwords to compile a list of most commonly used passwords in the world. These are passwords you should avoid.

123456

password

123456789

12345

12345678

qwerty

1234567

111111

1234567890

123123

abc123

1234

password1

iloveyou

1q2w3e4r

Best password practices

When it comes to passwords, length matters. You should aim to use at least 12 characters in your password. 12 should be your minimal length, the longer the better. Consider using passphrases by mixing various words together, add a number or two in between, and a special character.

For example, the word “December” is an 8-character dictionary word. It would take hackers just hours to crack this password. But if you mix a few memorable words together, such as “December2BearSlide^^”, then it becomes a 20-character strong password. Perhaps in December you saw on TV 2 bears sliding on ice, and it made you smile.

Do not use names of popular pop culture figures or your family members. The words or passphrases should be memorable but not things directly related to you. Here’s another example, “Rocket!Night4Station#”. Perhaps you saw the recent launch of SpaceX/NASA rocket carrying 4 astronauts through the night sky towards the international space station. This is a 21-character strong password that will be very difficult to crack.

In conclusion

Having a secure password is extremely important in the year 2021. We encourage you to follow some of these guidelines to best secure your online information. If we can be of any help or if you have any follow-up questions about password security, we would love to speak with you. Please call us at 1-800-232-3989 or contact us online.

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Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPinc Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

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How to create a strong password in 2021 (Part 1)

Jan

If you have not updated your passwords in over a year, now (at the start of 2021) would be a good time to consider changing them. Cybersecurity experts recommend passwords to be changed every 60-90 days. Cracking your password is how hackers can obtain your personal data. Securing your account starts with a strong password.

We are here to help you create a strong password in 2021 with a 2-part blog series.

When should you change your password

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) suggests forcing frequent password changes is counterproductive. It often leads to less secure passwords because users will take shortcuts and use common words they can remember. You should aim to update your password at least once a year, or anytime you suspect your account is compromised.

You should also change your password when:

You receive notices of data breach from stores you shop from, social media accounts you use, or financial institutions such as your credit card or bank.

You detect malware on your computer.

You’ve accessed your account using a public computer, as the computer could be infected with malware or keylogger.

Your email account receives tons of bounce-back emails and spam, it’s indicative your email account might be compromised.

Do not reuse passwords

You should have a different password for each account. When you change your password, do not reuse an old password because if a hacker cracks one of your old accounts, they will most definitely try the old password when attempting to crack your new accounts.

Say you had created an account with a department store many years back, you had forgotten you have that account. That particular department store had their data breached, and hackers obtained the password you used with that account. If you have reused the same password elsewhere, you are now at risk to be hacked. Even if you had changed the password slightly, often people would add a number at the end of their password when reusing a password. Since this is a common practice, hackers will try this when attempting to hack into your accounts.

Join us next time

Next time we will talk about commonly used passwords and best password practices. In the meantime, if you need help securing any of your PSPinc services please contact us. We have the best support team in the industry committed to serving our customers.

If you are not our customer, please consider us for your hosting needs, web / mobile app development projects, and cloud application services.

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3 Online Tools for Restaurants During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Jan

We may have turned the calendar to a new year, but we are still facing the same challenges that we had in 2020. Many industries have been hit hard, one of the hardest hit has been restaurants.

At PSPinc, we have developed a number of tools designed and developed to help struggling restaurants.

Customer feedback for your restaurant with Opinion Stand

Opinion Stand Customer Feedback

Price: Pay what you can

A service that allows restaurants to embed QR codes or text message codes in their posters, menus, table-tents, to-go flyers, etc. A patron simply scans or enters the code, click on an icon to rate their experience, and provide their information and additional comments on their service.

Restaurant owners can quickly evaluate their customer service, delivery experience, quality of food, and so much more! On top of that, they gain valuable customer information for future marketing and promotional efforts to encourage return visitors.

Learn More About Opinion Stand

ImaMenu Contact-less Digital Restaurant Menu

Price: Free

This is a brand new service to PSPinc that provides restaurants with the power of creating an online digital restaurant menu. It is totally free-to-use and once you sign up you can quickly add menu categories and each of your dishes. For each dish you can include an image, description, allergen information, and price.

Once created, restaurants can embed a QR code, or provide a URL to their digital menu web page anywhere and everywhere. It works perfect on your Google business page, your website (we will get to that later), coupons, promotional ads, and so much more.

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Price: $550

WebdeXpress is our easy-to-use web-builder tool that is included with all of our Dreamersi web hosting plans. It is built so you don’t have to know HTML, CSS, or JavaScript to create a fully functional website. However, not all people have the time or design sense to create a beautiful experience for their website visitors.

WebdeXpress DFY (Done For You) is an unbelievably affordable service where we do the heavy lifting for you. A customer simply chooses a pre-designed template (we have one specifically designed for restaurants), provides us with content and images, and we build the site for you.

For $550 you not only get the website, but you get 1 year of hosting, email, and an SSL certificate. For each additional year, all you pay for is the low hosting price!

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We Are Here To Help!

If you are interested in any of the above services or have a specific need that you think we can help solve with software development please contact us. We have the business and technical experience to solve problems your company may be facing.

Contact us by phone at 1-800-232-3989, online at PSPinc.com, or email us directly at contact@pspinc.com.

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1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPinc Creates Tools For Your Business

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PSPinc What’s New Newsletter Vol.44 "Marketing Activities for 2021"

Dec

Vol. 44

For the coming year, PSPinc has set a new marketing goal. It's not difficult, but the first thing we're going to do next year is to double the traffic to the homepage of our service every three months.

Here is the list of sites we want to double our traffic to:

https://pspinc.com
https://dreamersi.com
https://webdexpress.com
https://sandiegotown.com
https://losangelestown.com
https://yourhost.com
https://parcomweb.com
https://newsmail.com
https://sendmegamail.com
https://imamenu.com
https://passwizard.com
https://opinionstand.com
https://bloguru.com
https://clickitaudio.com
https://japanese-online.com
https://informakers.com
https://pilot.pspinc.com/

We would like to see access to these sites grow and we would also like to use the information obtained here to provide support to you.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
info@pspinc.com
1404 140th Place NE, Bellevue, WA 98007 USA
800-232-3989
425-957-0808

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1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPinc Creates Tools For Your Business

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PSPinc What’s New Newsletter Vol.43 "Create your own website with WebdeXpress!"

Dec

Vol. 43

WebdeXpress ( WDX - https://webdexpress.com ) is a website creation and editing tool developed by Pacific Software Publishing, Inc ( PSPinc - https://pspinc.com ). This tool is available for free on PSPinc's hosting service, Dreamersi ( https://dreamersi.com ). You can easily create a website by selecting a theme, writing the necessary information, and uploading an image.

WDX makes it easy for anyone who doesn’t know how to use HTML or CSS to create a website.

What kind of website can you create?
Uchikura & Co., LLC ( https://uchikura.co ) is an example of a website made with WDX, it was created and regularly updated by our President. The system is also built to allow for professional updates to be made. Our company website (https://pspinc.com) was created using WDX. If you want to create a new website or update an existing one, please give WDX a try.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
info@pspinc.com
1404 140th Place NE, Bellevue, WA 98007 USA
800-232-3989
425-957-0808

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1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPinc Creates Tools For Your Business

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PSPinc What’s New Newsletter Vol.42 "Why Bloguru is Free"

Dec

Vol.42

We launched our ad-free blog site, bloguru.com, on September 1st, 2004 and have been running it ever since. Bloguru is not run by advertisements like other blog websites, so you won’t see any ads within the system. This means that we do not receive any income from running Bloguru. So why do we run Bloguru?

We are in the business of hosting websites. We have 45,000 domains in our data center, mostly in Japan and the US - this is our source of income. In addition to hosting, we also design and develop websites.

Needless to say, it is important for a website to be seen by many people. As a way to attract more people to your website, you need to be listed on search engines like Google. It’s not easy to be ranked at the top of search engines with just your website alone.

So how do you promote your website? We developed Bloguru as a way to attract people to your company or an individual and then lead them to your website. The absence of advertisements makes it easier for search engines to find and list you.

There are many people who think that Bloguru is not effective. There are many people who believe that having everything on their own website is better for search sites. However, the content written on Bloguru is often ranked higher by search engines. Please give it a try.

Bloguru is also available for free to those of you who are not hosted by us. To sign up, please visit https://bloguru.com.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
info@pspinc.com
1404 140th Place NE, Bellevue, WA 98007 USA
800-232-3989
425-957-0808

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ImaMenu contact-less digital restaurant menu released for free to help restaurants during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Dec

We have released an all-new service designed specifically to assist restaurants during the Covid-19 pandemic.

ImaMenu is a contact-less digital restaurant menu application. The web-based tool was developed in an effort to help restaurants combat Covid-19 by moving away from paper-based menu systems and avoid direct physical contact with customers where possible.

With ImaMenu, restaurant owners have the power to create a digital menu complete with pictures, descriptions, prices, and allergen information. They can then embed an automatically generated QR code into posters and flyers. This allows customers to access a menu directly from their smartphones.

ImaMenu works on any modern device and supports multiple languages for bilingual businesses. Restaurant owners can group and organize their dishes into various categories and add an unlimited number of menu items.

Due to the ongoing global Covid-19 pandemic, Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. has made ImaMenu completely free-to-use in an effort to support restaurants who are struggling during these difficult and uncertain times. Restaurant owners can sign up directly at ImaMenu.com.

If you are a restaurant owner or manager and want to give ImaMenu a try - it is totally free! What are you waiting for?

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPinc Creates Tools For Your Business

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2021 Pantone Colors of the Year

Dec

At the end of every year, the Pantone Color Institute picks the "Color of the Year". The process isn't arbitrary and they take into consideration a trend analysis. It is a result of experts reviewing world influences within many genres such as art, fashion, entertainment, and travel to name a few. They also take into consideration the 'emotional history' of the color.

It's not surprising that because of the year we have had in 2020, the selection process for 2021 was anything but normal. Instead of choosing 1 Pantone color of the year, the Institute chose 2! The official colors of the year are Pantone 17-5104 Ultimate Gray and Pantone 13-0647 Illuminating (yellow).

To the average person, it may represent perhaps a gray start to the year with the "illuminating" hope of what could come.

In reality, gray represents wisdom and dependability. Illuminating is symbolic of energy and light (no surprise). The pair represents how we need optimism and positivity, but to get there we need strength and wisdom.

What do you think of the official 2021 Pantone Colors of the Year?

At PSPinc we focus on design when we develop websites every day. So we are always looking at future trends and technologies.

If you have a website that is in need of a design refresh, let us know.

We have professional designers on staff that are here to help you start 2021 off right. You could say we have the wisdom and dependability of Ultimate Gray to build your next Illuminating website!

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What do you think of the Pantone Color Institute's choices for Colors of the Year?

Announcement: NewsMAIL Emoji Support Update

Dec

Dear valued customer,

Thank you for choosing Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

We will update NewMAIL services to add support for the use of emoji in newsletter as scheduled below.

Please note that there will be around 30 minutes downtime for NewsMAIL services during the update period below.

The schedule is as follows:

* USA Pacific Daylight Time
- Dec 16th (Wed) 12:00pm-2:00pm

* Japan Time
- Dec 17th (Thu) 5:00am-7:00am

* Details: Add emoji support to insert emoji into newsletter contents/title by

Click emoji icon from text editor
Windows OS: shortcut key of Windows + Period
Mac OS: shortcut key of Control + Command + Space

PSPinc provides services with uptimes of 99.9%

If you have any questions, please contact us at 1-800-232-3989 or email us at support@pspinc.com.

We would like to answer your questions by phone call.

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PSPinc What’s New Newsletter Vol.41 "Post-coronavirus"

Dec

Vol. 41

The United States and the world are in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic. The number of people infected with the disease is higher than when the virus first became widespread. The number of people not only infected, but also brought into the ICU, is seriously high. The presidential election was held during this current situation. There appears to be irregularities that have come out that are not being reported in the media. The United States is becoming more and more divided.

Even if Biden were to become the president, at least half of the country would not admit it. On the contrary, if Trump remains president, the other half will not. In that sense, the media will have no choice but to continue with its posture that there was no election fraud, but it is certain to backfire on itself as well.

Given this context, the good news is that the distribution of the vaccine has begun. This will reduce the number of people infected with the coronavirus and reduce its impact on the economy. It won't be long before people can leave the United States and go to Japan. I hope that this will happen soon.

What will your business do once the coronavirus pandemic is over? Are you going to do the same thing you did before coronavirus? Are you thinking of something new? My company is a software development company, so the only thing we do is think about and come up with new services. Also, the software we develop is designed to encourage more people to use our data centers and rental servers. Our post-coronavirus project is to think of new services, develop them, and introduce them to you before coronavirus is over.

What do you have in mind for post-coronavirus? By the way, if you need to update your website or develop a cloud database program, please contact us.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
info@pspinc.com
1404 140th Place NE, Bellevue, WA 98007 USA
800-232-3989
425-957-0808

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1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPinc Creates Tools For Your Business

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How to create a strong password in 2021 (Part 2)

Commonly used passwords

Best password practices

In conclusion

How to create a strong password in 2021 (Part 1)

When should you change your password

Do not reuse passwords

Join us next time

3 Online Tools for Restaurants During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Opinion Stand Customer Feedback

ImaMenu Contact-less Digital Restaurant Menu

WebdeXpress Website Done For You

We Are Here To Help!

PSPinc What’s New Newsletter Vol.44 "Marketing Activities for 2021"

PSPinc What’s New Newsletter Vol.43 "Create your own website with WebdeXpress!"

PSPinc What’s New Newsletter Vol.42 "Why Bloguru is Free"

ImaMenu contact-less digital restaurant menu released for free to help restaurants during the Covid-19 Pandemic

2021 Pantone Colors of the Year

If you have a website that is in need of a design refresh, let us know.

Announcement: NewsMAIL Emoji Support Update

PSPinc What’s New Newsletter Vol.41 "Post-coronavirus"

introduction

bloguru friends

calendar

latest comments

hashtags

history

freespace

Sign up for our newsletter

Commonly used passwords

Best password practices

In conclusion

People Who Wowed This Post

When should you change your password

Do not reuse passwords

Join us next time

People Who Wowed This Post

Opinion Stand Customer Feedback

ImaMenu Contact-less Digital Restaurant Menu

WebdeXpress Website Done For You

We Are Here To Help!

People Who Wowed This Post

People Who Wowed This Post

People Who Wowed This Post

People Who Wowed This Post

People Who Wowed This Post

If you have a website that is in need of a design refresh, let us know.

People Who Wowed This Post

People Who Wowed This Post

People Who Wowed This Post

introduction

bloguru friends

calendar

latest comments

hashtags

history