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

Have not posted for so long

Would not know where to start. I guess my photos have been my blog as a picture can say a million words but I wanted to touch base with my self again. I have started up some new web sites recently my most prized one that i am really happy with is http://www.myfunevents.com/ just been a joy to work on and I have an amazing partner that i work really well with. Its been allot of fun. I hope to see good things come from this one. Also been working on some more like http://www.weareinafight.com/ an interesting idea but not sure its as useful for people as its allot of negative stuff. I was hoping it would help people solve issues with there life's but kind of just more of a gossip board. But who knows maybe it will come around. Also started this one amoung others, a really easy one to search craig list in all cities at once. http://www.searchcraigslist.net/. This came out of the need of wanting to each all cities at once and all of the sites that did this had a million ads on it lol. So i created my own haha

Thats it for now. Holidays are here so much going on. This is a great time to be alive.

Wedding with Tina

Went to a wedding this sat with my friend Tina. Was some amazing food. Yummy. Got some good dancing in, and was allot of fun. I have known Tina for a good 8 years now. A really long time. Seems like we have been friends for ever. But I wish i saw more of her. Before seeing her for this wedding we have not seen each other since last summer. But thanks for the invite Tina. I had a great time.

Joenns House Party

Last night i went to Joenns house party. Maybe one of the best little parties i have been to in a long time. Met some cool new people and just had a great time. her porch was awesome. You could go kick it in the nice cool air. More karaoke then i expected also :-) Just an all around great time.

Easter Brunch

Went to a great easter brung at Carmels. The food was amazing. Then on to Britts for some more amazing food. I eat from 10am to 10pm at night. Yummy.

PJ Party

Well had what may be my last big house party. I really want to fix my place up and having house parties just does not fit that goal hehe. I have been slowly getting my place in nice shape. But this house party was a great way to go out. We had a ton of new people from all of these different groups of people. it was really great. Plus we got to dance all night. This is my favorite part of a party at my own house. I can play what ever music i like. Its like DJ'ing your own club. Who knows i may do another larger party again. But for sure no more huge 200 people parties like back in the day. my future parties will be smaller and will stick to mostly closer friends.

The crew

my living room

Catching Up

Got to see my good buddy Sha-Ru this Friday as she was in town from Philly. it was a fast visit but fun still. Also got to see my bro for a little bit. I never hang out with him even though we live in the same city. Kind of strange. We both always seem to be too busy. We need to fix that.

Weekend Of Guy Mayhem

So this weekend i went up to Oakland MD for a guys weekend out. We had i think a total of 18 guys or 20 something like this. We did this for my best boy Willis bachelor party. It was a truly fun weekend. First off when you get this many guys into a room you are bound to have practical jokes and mayhem and that we had. Like jack unscrewing Willis lights and turning the water off in his room. Willi came to me and was like i have no idea why these lights are not working hehe. We play poker, xbox cod, laster tag and even a egg fight in the forest at night that was truly fun and a little painful lol. The best part of the weekend was little talks on the sides with your friends. Just catching up and seeing how life is. Human communication , its the key to life. I am very glad i got to go to this. I can not wait for my boys wedding to see him off to a life of amazingness with his soon to be wife Shannon. The two of them make such a great couple. Cheers to you too and Cheers to all of my boys. Thanks for a great weekend guys.

Fellas

smoking cigars

king and jack

The fellas in the kitchen

sitting in front of the house

card games

late night egg war in the forest

eating well

paint ball with the guys

SHAMROCK FEST 2009

Every year i go to the shamrock fest and ever year i have a blast. This year i was a little colder then last years but we still had fun. We started out with a pre-party to keep down on costs of drinking ( ya smart right ) then all took the metro to rfk where the action was at. Whats fun about allot of people dressing up in green drinking being all crazy. Well ya all of those things plus the music ( lots of live bands ) and i just love seeing people in custom and being all festive. its all of fun. Will i go next year/ HELL YES :-)

I think this was one of my best videos to date


Pre-Party with the boys

More pre-party

The bands and vibe

Hangin under the big tent

Chilin with some of my boys

Working on my basement

Doing more work on my basement. Just put a frame in and now doing some recces lights and dry wall. Excited to see what it all ends up like.

A Chorus Line - National Theater

Saw A Chorus Line tonight at the National Theater with 14 of my friends. Very good show. You should check this out for sure. Highly recommended :-)

I did another trip to another random MEETin city. This time i decided to check out the MEETin Pittsburgh people. Let me say these guys were soooo fun. Very welcoming and so nice. We got to our hotel so find someone had left a booklet of things to do in the city with my name on it. I mean how cool is that. I stayed at a 4 star hotel for $65 a night. Then check out some cool museumes, went to a bar hop with these crazy fun people, then on sat more fun things to look at arround the city, then a huge 5th year annvsary house party. This was really aamzing. I got hit by a pie in the face and ran away from someone chasing me with a pie hehe. A truely amazing weekend. Thanks so much to the pittsburge people for showing me such a great time.

Some of the the MEET in Pittsburge crew

Us playing flip cup. This was fun.

Pies to be thrown

Brian got a pie in the face

Hangin with Mike and new friends

Yes i eat this..i know its huge ya ( thats what she said )

Got some amazing artys photos of the bridge and other sights

Hi Mom :-)