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Google just launched two-step verification for all Google accounts, a system which makes your Google/Gmail account—the account possibly containing the lion’s share of your private communication online—considerably more secure. In fact, we’d encourage everyone who uses Gmail (the @gmail version or your Google Apps version) as their primary email provider to start using this feature as soon as possible. Here’s why, and then how.

What’s Two-Step Verification?

The only thing standing between a hacker and your Google account—and more importantly, your sensitive information—is your password. Even if you had the strongest password you could possibly randomly generate, if someone were able to discover that password, they’d be in.

Two-step verification offers a more secure way for Google to verify that you are who you say you are when you’re logging into your Google account on a new web browser, through a new application, or on a new mobile device. With two-step verification, your password isn’t enough by itself. As Google put it:

2-step verification requires two independent factors for authentication, much like you might see on your banking website: your password, plus a code you only use once. continue reading…

Would you like to view documents, presentations, and PDFs directly in Google Chrome?  Here’s a handy extension that makes Google Docs your default online viewer so don’t have to download the file first.

Getting Started

By default, when you come across a PDF or other common document file online in Google Chrome, you’ll have to download the file and open it in a separate application.

It’d be much easier to simply view online documents directly in Chrome.  To do this, head over to the Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer page on the Chrome Extensions site (link below), and click Install to add it to your browser.

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Ever notice that when using Chrome to view some RSS feeds it works ok and on others it just displays the Raw data as a bunch of lines of text?

I didn’t think so but for the one person out there who does, this is for you.

So when you click on an RSS feed like this one http://lucas719.info/?feed=rss2 you get this:

Now this is caused by Google Chrome not autodetecting the RSS feed.

We can use this extension for Google Chrome to support the ability to autodetect RSS feeds. https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd

and now instead of just seeing Raw text data we see this:

I needed a VPN service, I needed it to be both secure and relatively easy to setup and maintain.

I tried OpenVPN, Hamachi, OpenSSH, and a few others but none of them seemed to stand out and were hard to maintain.

I stumbled across GBridge and it is pretty awesome and I wanted to share it with you.

http://www.gbridge.com/

Gbridge is a free software that can connect multiple computers. It forms a VPN between multiple computers and provides remote computer access, folder synchronization, automatic folder backup, remote computer control and/or screen sharing, and chat. Gbridge can use Google’s Gtalk network to connect remote PCs and requires Gtalk (Gmail) accounts.

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