Tips, Tricks and Information for the Modern Technologist

Category: Social Media


Using the PayPal/Verisign Security Key with OpenID for Two-Factor Authentication

Posted 17th April in Hardware, Security, Social Media. 14 Comments

As soon as I heard PayPal would be offering a $5 Security Key for additional security while logging in, I jumped on it. A few days later, it arrived in the mail. It’s a great idea, but I decided that carrying a little secure key that generates special numbers for the 3 times a month [...]


Using Twitter as a Feed Reader

Twitter is a great social tool – halfway between an Instant Messaging client and e-mail. You can leave messages for people publicly or privately, and you can even import RSS feeds into your own twitter stream. It has blog integration in that you can have your blog put every post you make into your Twitter [...]