Tag: life hacker
Gmail Detects and Warns You If Someone Else Is Using Your Account
by neetika on Mar.25, 2010, under Latest Web Technologies, Trends
Gmail launched a new feature this morning designed to detect suspicious activity in your account and notify you when a suspicious login has occurred in your account.
Now, if it looks like something unusual is going on with your account, we’ll alert you by posting a warning message saying, “Warning: We believe your account was last accessed from…” along with the geographic region that we can best associate with the access.
To determine when to display this message, our automated system matches the relevant IP address, logged per the Gmail privacy policy, to a broad geographical location. While we don’t have the capability to determine the specific location from which an account is accessed, a login appearing to come from one country and occurring a few hours after a login from another country may trigger an alert.
If you see the warning and click to Show details and preferences, you’ll see something like the image below:
…which prompts you to change your password immediately if something seems amiss. If it’s a legitimate access—say you’re traveling—you can simply click click Dismiss and everything will go back to normal.
Google Chrome Adds Support for Multi-Tab Aero Peek
by neetika on Mar.20, 2010, under Latest Web Technologies
Chrome: If you’re in love with the Aero peek feature in Windows 7 and wish it could show you all your Chrome tabs at once, you’re in luck. The feature is now active in the Chrome development channel.
Prior to this Chrome, like any other web browser or application in Windows 7, was available in the Aero peek view. You only saw the active tab, however, not all the tabs that you had open. This little tweak—seen in the screenshot above—let’s you see all your open tabs and jump right to them off the Aero peek view.
If you don’t like being an early adopter you’ll have to wait for the Aero peek feature to work its way from the development channel into an official release. Using the development channel build is a great way to get a taste of all the new features ahead of schedule and it isn’t as scary as it sounds.
