Why We Love the New Flickr; Build Better Security Passphrases; and Watch a 5M-Piece Lego X-Wing Landing

Important Stories and More from PC Magazine     By Dan Costa     May 27, 2013

View in browser 8 Things We Love About the New Flickr We finished our review of the new Flickr this week and we liked it a lot. If Instagram is worth a billion dollars with nothing but smartphone selfies, imagine what Flickr is worth now that it offers 1TB of storage for high-quality images. The Flickr makeover goes way beyond redesigning the homepage, although that was certainly overdue. PCMag's Michael Muchmore explains why you should log back into the site. Share This:     ADVERTISEMENT 5,000,000-Piece LEGO X-Wing Lands on Times Square You never know what will come up in our morning news meeting. New security breaches, the latest patent fight, a five million-piece X-Wing fighter landing in Times Square. Half of the staff wanted to head over to cover the Lego event, but we have products to review around here. Instead, we sent our staff photographer, Eddie Shenckloth, to shoot some photos. He did one better by mounting a GoPro to his mobile D-SLR rig. Check out the photos and videos. Share This: Forget Passwords, Use Passphrases for Extra Security There is a fundamental problem with passwords: No matter how good your password is, if it is a word, it can be broken via a brute force attack. Adding some numbers is great, but then they are hard to remember. If you are smart, you will use a product like LastPass to handle all of this for you. And that LastPass password should be a passphrase. Find out why. Share This: How Do the Xbox One and PS4 Controllers Stack Up? Microsoft spent a lot of time this week talking about the Kinect and voice recognition features on the Xbox One, but what about the new controller? After all, when it comes to gaming, the controller is the most important piece of hardware. ExtremeTech pits the new Xbox One controller against the upcoming PlayStation 4 controller to determine which one will have the edge. Share This: MORE STORIES Ask Alex: Can I Reply to Calls by Text? Editors' Choice Review: Galaxy S 4 for Sprint Top 10 Projectors Intel Says Haswell Will Provide a 50 Percent Boost in Battery Life That is What's New Now for now. Come back on Wednesday for more top headlines from the Ziff Davis Network. Dan Costa Editor-in-Chief, PCMag.com @dancosta eNewsletter Information You are subscribed to What's New Now with the e-mail address pctipworld@gmail.com. Click here to unsubscribe from this newsletter. To subscribe to other e-mail newsletters from Ziff Davis, change your delivery format from HTML to text, or change your email address, click here. Copyright © 2013 Ziff Davis, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Ziff Davis, Inc., 28 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016 IN THIS ISSUE  8 Things We Love About the New Flickr  5,000,000-Piece LEGO X-Wing Lands on Times Square  Forget Passwords, Use Passphrases for Extra Security  How Do the Xbox One and PS4 Controllers Stack Up?