Tag: LOGIN

It's not really a secret the Microsoft had planned on bringing bits of Windows Phone 7's Metro UI to Windows 8, but we haven't seen a lot of really telling evidence. However, with the Windows 8 milestone 3 build now available to Microsoft Connect partners, it was really just a matter of time before we started to get a peek. Thanks to Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott, we've now had a glimpse ...

If you enjoy the unbeatable security of two-factor authentication, you're in luck: Google has now begun rolling it out to every user. Check your Account Management page to see if you can turn it on -- and, to be brutally honest, once the roll out completes, every single one of us should use it. Two-factor authentication uses your password and another proof of identity -- which in this case is ...

1Password -- the popular secure password, note, and wallet app for Mac, iOS, and Windows -- is now available for download from the Zune Marketplace. If you've got a Windows Phone 7 device and have been waiting for a way to tap into your Dropbox-synced 1Password data, now you can! Once you've signed in to your Dropbox account and entered your master password, you'll have access to all your ...

Sure, it's fun to post comments on websites and converse with your fellow readers, but there's always a little danger involved. Why? Because sometimes the sites where you post those comments rile up the wrong people and wind up with a big security breach -- like the one at Gawker. One of the biggest lessons to be learned from the Gawker fiasco is this: don't use the same password everywhere. ...

Keeping your online accounts secure is a must, and Google will soon begin rolling out an improved authentication system to its Apps customers. Beginning with Google Apps Premier, Education, and Government users, you'll soon be able to utilize a smartphone-generated verification code as a second layer of account security. It's a bit like the dedicated RSA SecurID fobs some enterprises use for ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/08/03/google-begins-rolling-out-multiple-account-sign-in/'; For ages, Google power users have been lusting after a multiple account sign-in option. Many of us have at least two accounts with Big G, after all, and while it's easy enough to fudge your way through logging in to them all (say, via your browser's normal and private browsing mode ...

Google Operating System reports that Google is testing a feature for signing in using multiple accounts. While the post itself has a screenshot (which you can see above), it does not include any instructions on how to enable this functionality. This is obviously a limited or closed-beta test; the question is just how limited it is. This functionality is not just "useful" – it is often ...

Yesterday I shared video of my trusty Gateway LT21 booting my Chromium OS build, and today it's on to step two: the login screen. Chrome OS will provide three basic options: signing in to an existing Google account (Apps for domains accounts are supported), create a new account, or browse without signing in. Take the jump to check out the videos of the different login options! ...

A bit of welcome news for Linux users who browse with Google Chrome: a change has landed in the Chromium source code which adds support for the built-in, secure password stores for both GNOME and KDE. Why is this a big deal? Using Chrome's built-in password manager, anyone can click into your options > personal stuff > show saved passwords and view anything you've stored. Call me crazy, ...

Luxand Blink is a free application (or so it seems -- I couldn't find a purchase link anywhere) that lets you log in to your Windows Vista/7 PC using your face instead of a password. I was unable to test it because it doesn't support x64 Windows, but it seemed interesting enough when I compared it with the only other such solution that I know of, KeyLemon (which costs money and has rather ...

Over in his personal blog, Aza Raskin ponders the question of identity. And I don't mean the philosophical or gender sense of the word here; what he says is quite interesting: When you Google the words "sign in", you get about 1.8 billion hits. And every site implements log-in functionality on its own, and somewhat differently. Yes, single sign-in solutions are available (such as XAuth or OAuth), ...

About 10 years ago I bought an incredibly expensive Samsung X10 laptop. It was one of the first powerful Centrino 'ultra lights', and along with the Sony Vaio range it cost a stupid amount of money -- but it rocked! It was fast, it could run games, and it only weighed 2 pounds! And it had a fingerprint scanner. 'Ooooh!' Yeah, it was slick, it was silver and fast -- but really, I'd just paid ...

If you have more than one account on a website, it can be a pain to log out and log in again to check another account. Wouldn't it be easier if you could log into multiple accounts at once, without logging out or having to manually switch between them? That's what the Multifox add-on for Firefox can do for you. By right-clicking a link or by using the file menu, you can open a new window with a ...

Here's a bit of ground breaking news for you. Facebook, known for their popular social networking website and recently flurry of product and service enhancements, has made possibly the biggest change yet. With over 50 million vanity names reserved since the social networking website started allowing users to pick their own unique URL, they have now announced that the names can be used to sign ...

Changing a desktop image on a Mac is no big thing. You can open System Preferences from the Apple menu or the Applications directory, or you can go straight to the desktop prefpane by right-clicking on your desktop. Changing the picture you see when you log in should be just as easy, but it's not. If you want to learn the Terminal commands to do it, then more power to you. For the average user, ...