Google Multiple sign-in

It’s been a long time. And in spite of many of my friends and colleagues saying my blog was useful to them and their friends, my business schedule did not allow me to think or write. Now here I am - after managing to create some time to blog - back with my posts. Keep following my blog. 

I am one of those who use multiple Google accounts to access different Google Services(for various reasons). I used to have trouble with them as I can only login to one account at a time or have to use a different browser or privacy mode in the current browser to access other accounts. Again your options are limited and if you have more than 4 or 5 accounts you are stuck. So what is the solution?

Enable Gmail’s multiple Sign-in.

Here is how you can do that.

• Go to https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount
• You will be asked to login to your account.
• Type in your Google user-id and password and login
• Under personal Settings you will have an option “Multiple Sign-in”

• By default, it is set to "Off". You can use the "Edit" link next to it to change this setting.
• On the next page select the ON radio button and select all the checkboxes below it.

• Then click the “Save” button to bring it to effect.
• Then click on the "Back" link to go back to Google accounts management.

• Now, you can see that your email id which was displayed as a bolded text would have changed to a link with a small drop down arrow next to it.

• When you click on the dropdown arrow you can find an option where you can “Sign in to another account”.

• Once you are logged into multiple accounts you can use the same drop down arrow to switch between accounts.
• Make sure you don't sign out of the default account i.e., the first account which you logged in as signing out of the default account will actually make you sign out of the remaining accounts too.

Please note that the account with which you have signed in first, must have the “Multiple sign-in” enabled to make this work. So you might have to enable “Multiple sign-in” to all your accounts.

After you have done this, you can access multiple Google accounts (services) in different tabs of the same browser. Hope this is a helpful tip to you.

will catch you soon...

Facebook Photo Zoom

If you socialize with Facebook, you might have felt it irritating every time you have to click a photo - Profile Photo, Albums, Wall photos etc.,- to enlarge it and then hit the back button in the browser to continue. This can be easily fixed by customizing the browser by installing a Facebook Photo Zoom Plugin to it. After the installation, the browser starts showing the enlarged picture when you move the mouse pointer over the picture.


This Facebook Photo Zoom plugin is available for both Firefox and Google Chrome Browsers. If you are using any of these browsers install the plugins from the links given below which surely enhances the Facebook experience. 

Facebook Photo Zoom at Work

For Firefox you can click here, click "Add to Firefox" button and then restart the browser to start using this addon.
And for Google Chrome go here and click the "Install" button to enable the extension.

After using it for almost a month now, I find it very useful and addictive that I take my mouse over the thumbnails in other websites like Google images, imdb.com and expect them to show the enlarged picture.

Try these plugins in your browsers and give your feedback.


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until next time.