Revue Municipale n°57 - Ville de Landser

(Continued from page 2)Recently, Google has allowed users to sign in with multiple Gmailaccounts. This is good since it can allow you to have one email addressfor personal use, and another which can be used when you registerfor a website. This keeps your personal account basically spamfree. To enable multiple account sign-in, log in at http://google.com/accounts and under "profile" select "Multiple sign-in". At the moment,this feature is only available for desktop browsers and not all GoogleServices currently support multiple account sign-in.good job of handling your passwords, and some for very minimal cost,but I like AnyPassword and only needed a way to solve this synchronizationproblem.I believe I have found a simple, and free way to handle this, and anysimilar file-sync or sharing problems. The Cloud service I am using iscalled SugarSync. It is free and has a large space allocation (5 GB)that suits my needs. I have placed the data file for my password programin the folder that I setup for sharing.Creating bookmarks in Firefox is easy, and can be rearranged justabout any way you want them. We all have a lot of favorites whichmeans a lot of bookmark. In Firefox you can add a folder for each ofyour favorites and group them all together.Open Firefox if you don’t have it open and click on Bookmarks thenOrganize bookmarks. Choose where you want to add the folder. If youwant to see the folder when you click Bookmarks in Firefox click onceon Bookmark Menu. Right-click and select New Folder. Name thefolder and give it a description if you want, then click Add. The descriptionis only for you to see and is good to use when you have a lotof sites and can’t remember exactly what you liked about it.The folder you created is now listed under Bookmarks. To add a newbookmark to your newly created folder right click on the folder andchoose New Bookmark. Put the name of the website in the Namefield. Type the web address in the Location field. In the Keyword youcould put “ws” for example for Worldstart. In the address bar in Firefoxyou can just put “ws” (without the quotes) and press enter and itwill take you to that site. Just a little shortcut if you want to save a fewkeystrokes. Add a description of the bookmark if you want and clickAdd. If you check the box, Load this bookmark in the sidebar thatmeans if you click on View – Sidebar – Bookmarks this folder will belisted.Now to add bookmarks to the folder for sites you already bookmarked.Click Bookmarks and Organize Bookmarks. Click on the correctfolder on the left holds your bookmarks. Simply drag and drop thebookmark into the new folder. To drag and drop, click once on thebookmark with the left mouse button and hold it down. Drag it to thefolder and then let the button go. The new bookmark will be in thefolder you created. If you want to add more than one bookmark at atime, you can hold down the CTRL key and click on each bookmarkthen drag them to the new folder.the end of the storyKeeping it all in “Sync”a Sweet Synchronization IdeaBy Art Gresham, Editor, UCHUG(Under the Computer Hood User Group), CaliforniaMarch 2011 issue, UCHUG Drive Lightwww.uchug.org1editor101 (at) uchug.orgAt the February 2nd, 2011 meeting of the UCHUG during our discussionsabout Computer Health, I talked about how to automate some ofthe processes that can keep your system running well. I mentioned thatI had long been searching for a way to keep my passwords safe, whilestill being able to access them from computers at different locations.The program I use on my primary home desktop system is called Any-Password (v1.44). It keeps the information in an encrypted, passwordprotected file, but if I want the current updated copy on my system atwork I have to email or transfer it by some other means manually eachtime I want it refreshed. I know there are other programs that do a3I opened the AnyPassWord program with my laptop. There I showedthe basic structure of the password program, and opened a sample key(this is a game-site, not any critical data here). I made a simple changeto the free text comment section. I then clicked save.I explained that that within a few moments that this very file, with thechange, would be resident on my desktop computer (named 'Dakota')at home, which I had left running before coming to the meeting.So as soon as I got home I opened the password program, and went tothat key. The result is shown here. As you can see the comment sectionhas the text 'note from the uchug meeting.’ This was the text Ityped in at the meeting, and without any physical action on my partthe data 'magically' is present on the hard drive, in my shared folder onDakota.(Continued on page 4)the end of the story