Hangin with the peeps in Fall

I do love fall with my new backyard. You can light up the fire place and sit around it under the stars sipping apple cider with rum all why keeping warm by the fire. Then dip into the hot tub later to really relax the muscles. Very fun time. Also this night i made some chicken soup for my friends. Was extra good. Tried something new. I added some coconut milk to it after it was completed. This really gave it a nice flaver. I am gonna try this again for sure with even more next time.

Mal and jens B-day

Wow its been another year can not believe it. Last year i throw a sweet surprise party for my buddy mal. Can't believe how time flys. Mal is a very dear friend now, we hang out allot and I hope he is someone i will know for the rest of my life. Life has strange ways of plying tricks on you but would will be nice if its true. Happy b-day brother.

Berlin Art

I loved Berlin so much. This city is truly amazing. The people are friendly and artys, very cool place. Went to so many cool little bars that were out of the way. One issue i had with Berlin was the smoking. There is a smoking ban but its unenforced and everyone smokes in the bars, clubs. Not fun. Sucks walking out of a place smelling like smoke.

Karaoke in Prague

Sat night in Prague we got to do karaoke. All of my friends know how much i love karaoke so this was big for me. Really happy i was able to do it. Karaoke really gives you all things. Dancing singing and happiness :-) what else can you ask for. PS we met some cool people on the dance floor in this club. Was so much fun.

Keeping people out of your gmail

Have not posted on my blog for a very long time. Just been so busy but this had to be posted.

So one of my friends just had her gmail hacked yesterday. She lost all of her emails and her contacts. This had me thinking shoot there had to be a better way to protect your email from hackers. I started to research the rsa access to gmail and came upon the way Google was doing this then a friend also posted more info about this on a message board and one thing let to another where i was able to figure out how Google can secure your email way better then just a password.

There is an easy way to secure your account with your cell phone.

1) go to your settings at gmail https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount
2) under security Using 2-step verification
3) In here you will be prompted for your cell phone. Type if in. I pkcked to be notifyed by phone message as the text did not work. I researched this and apparently lots of complains on this. The text gets to fare behind.
4) Make sure you put a back up phone number in like a loved one in case you lose your phone and need to get into your email. Should be someone you trust.


This is really cool how this works. What will happen is when you log into gmail next time Google will call your cell phone with a code. You type this code in when you log in. So a hacker would need this code to ever break into your account. So no cell phone no breaking in. Also if someone tries to break in you will get a call to your phone so you will know someone tried to get in.

Now you are asking well then i need my cell phone on me every time i go into email. No you have the option to "remember this code" when logging on so that pc will always remember it endless you hit log out.

Where this helps big time is if you are on a strangers pc or a library you can log into your email and log out knowing even if someone had tracking software on that pc you are safe.

That's pretty much all there is too it. Please pass this email on to your friends loved ones to make sure they do not become victims of hackers.

Mikey

update:
Looks like you can get the gmail backup tool here
http://download.cnet.com/Gmail-Backup/3000-2369_4-10903796.html