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...

Worried About Privacy in Google? Try Scroogle.

Do you know Google knows you more than anyone?

Didn't Believe me? Try logging in to Google Dashboard. You will definitely change your view.

Just watch this video to know about Dashboard and Why Google created it.

Now, are you concerned about privacy? You don't have much options over it. All the Search Engines record your activities to provide a personalized search result. You may think of not logging into Google or other Search Engines while you search. Even that will not help you because search engines install small codes into your computer called Cookies to provide better results.

Still don't want to compromise on Privacy. Try Scroogle.org. This is a non-profit organization which queries your search terms on Google and returns the results on its page. The results returned are actually Google's results but there will be no Ads, no cookies, no user logins. So why don't you try your hands on it and enjoy searching with privacy.

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Meet you soon.

Hi-speed DNS servers for faster Internet Browsing.

If you have been using internet for some time now, I am sure that you would have faced some kind of a connectivity issue in your computer. One fine morning you switch it ON and try to browse through your favorite websites in your browser, only to see the "Page cannot be displayed" error on the browser. Otherwise your browser will take its own time to show you a simple website like Google. This problem may occur due to various reasons starting from network card issues to some cargo ship scraping over the underwater cable that brings the Internet link to your country.

However most of the time it is just a DNS server issue which can be solved very easily by yourself. Before taking you through the steps, let me explain what a DNS server is. 


DNS Server


Every network device in the Internet like your Laptop, Servers, Routers, etc.,  have to identify itself with a unique address called IP address. You have to use these IP addresses to access or identify a device on the Internet. Sometimes remembering these IP addresses can be very tiring particularly when it comes to remembering the address of a webpage. To make things easier, names like www.microsoft.com or www.google.com are used to represent an IP address of a website.  

In Windows 95 and 98, these names would get stored in your laptop or desktop, so that when you type www.google.com in your browser, it will replace the IP address of Google's web server and try to connect to it. Later this process of storing or caching the web addresses was shifted to distributed servers called DNS (Domain Name Service) servers. Now whenever you type a web address in your browser, a query is made to the DNS server and an IP address is fetched. If your computer cannot contact the DNS server or if your DNS server does not have the web address you typed cached in its database and could not find a website's IP address within the timeout period, you will get a "Page cannot be found" error.

So how will your computer know the IP address of a DNS server which is somewhere in the cloud. It would make a query to another server called DHCP server in your network to find the IP address of the DNS server. If you have a broadband connection in your home or office, your ADSL modem does the job of a DHCP server as well as the DNS server. So your computer will be using this DNS server most of the time to translate the Web addresses. But your modem does not always have enough buffer to hold and serve you with a web address you request. When you make a request for an address that your server does not have, a request is made to a DNS server which is above it - a server maintained by your ISP. So it is always a better idea to use a faster DNS server either from your ISP or from a Public DNS service provider to get your web pages found and loaded quicker.

Changing DNS Settings


Follow the steps given below to manually enter a DNS server address in your Windows PC.

1. Click Start button and then press Run.(Windows Key + R)

2. Type control netconnections and click OK. A window called Network Connections will open now.

3. Right Click the Network connection you use to connect to the Internet (eg. Wireless Network Connection or Local Area Connection.) and click Properties

4. Click the Internet Protocol version 4(TCP/IP) and click Properties.

5. In the TCP/IP properties dialog box, select 'Use the following DNS server Address'.

6. You can type two DNS server addresses in the boxes below it.

7. Type any of the DNS servers' address I have given below and click OK to the dialog boxes that are open to save the settings. I would recommend the Public DNS server address which are more reliable and faster.

List of DNS servers of the ISPs in India.

If you use Airtel Broadband Connection use any of the following DNS servers.

202.56.215.6

202.56.230.6

203.145.184.32

203.145.184.13
202.56.250.5

For BSNL use the following.

61.0.0.5

61.1.96.69

218.248.255.147

218.248.255.146

For Tata Indicom

203.197.12.30

203.197.12.42

For Reliance 

220.225.236.84


List of Public DNS Servers.

Apart from using the above IP addresses you can always use the Public DNS servers given below irrespective of your Broadband connection.


Google
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

Cisco

64.102.255.44

Level 3 Communications

4.2.2.1 

4.2.2.2
4.2.2.3
4.2.2.4
4.2.2.5
4.2.2.6

Verizon

151.197.0.38
151.197.0.39
151.202.0.84
151.202.0.85
151.202.0.85
151.203.0.84
151.203.0.85
199.45.32.37
199.45.32.38
199.45.32.40
199.45.32.43

GTE

192.76.85.133 

206.124.64.1

One Connect IP

67.138.54.100

OpenDNS

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Exetel

220.233.167.31

VRx Network Services

199.166.31.3

SpeakEasy

66.93.87.2
216.231.41.2
216.254.95.2
64.81.45.2
64.81.111.2
64.81.127.2
64.81.79.2
64.81.159.2
66.92.64.2
66.92.224.2
66.92.159.2
64.81.79.2
64.81.159.2
64.81.127.2
64.81.45.2
216.27.175.2
66.92.159.2
66.93.87.2

Sprintlink

199.2.252.10
204.97.212.10
204.117.214.10

iPad Killer from Google?

Apple, though it didn't invent the Slate, has created a market for the Slates with its iPad. The sales estimates are 50 million iPads by 2013. Now everyone in the IT industry want a piece of this pie and it is not surprising to see Google in this game which has put its hand in anything and everything in technology.

Google is planning to introduce it own Slate with its most successful Android OS. Android has already been acclaimed for its features and is starting to gain preference from users over the iPhone. It can multi-task unlike the iPhone and is an open source Operating System therefore has more flexibility  in terms of Application development. This makes the availability of more 3rd Party Applications for Android in the market. 

It also supports Flash and Java which is the platform formost of the Applications for the Web and the Smartphones. Google, which is already associated with Amazon, can also provide a wide range of Books and ebook formats to the Users than what iPad can give its Users today. This kind of a flexibility and options are not available on the iPad and that is an opportunity for Google to gain the Market.

On the other hand, other competitors for Apple like HP, Toshiba are preparing their Slates with Microsoft's Windows 7 on them. A tech review site has already reviewed HP's Slate with a leaked piece and the result is not a happy news for Microsoft or HP. Though the HP's new iPad alternate have device and application flexibility, it could not perform task quicker than iPad and the battery life is only half of iPad's.

The reason behind this is that iPad uses its proprietary iPhone OS which Apple had refined with its iPhone. Another reason why iPad is successful is it works more like a smartphone than a computer. And this is known to be the reason to why Google has now planned to design its own Slate around Android, a smartphone OS than it Chrome OS.

With its support to Opensource, Flash and Java, Google's slate would be a delight to the Users and Adobe. Apple has banned applications that use flash from its iPad App store citing security issues. Even flash contents  on the websites are not displayed on this new device from Apple. While all this is happening between Apple and Adobe, it is the Users who are affected who unable to the view content on the web and use some wonderful applications that are available that are available online.

So Google's Slate with its Android has all the possibilities of capturing the market that Apple had generated, provided Apple does not change its approach with its openness towards the Users and its applications. Either way that is a good news for the Users. Isn't it?

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