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How to Protect Your Outlook.com Account with Two-Step Verification
Four digits were not enough in 1967. You needed radioactivity, too.
To get money out of the first automated teller machines, one punched in a four-digit code just as one still does today; one also had to deposit a cheque, though, doted with carbon-14 (the isotope also used for radiocarbon dating) to match the code.
With Outlook.com, you can get two-factor authentication similar to this, too. Then, a password is not enough to get to your emails and account; it takes a phone, too, for example, or another email address you can access:
›› Render your Outlook.com email account more secure: two-step verification requires you—and, more importantly, potential hackers—to enter not only your password but a second code generated just for the occasion and received by email at another address, phone, SMS text message or app.
| How to Protect Your Yahoo! Mail Account with Two-Step Authentication
Porcelain on wooden sticks dots the landscape next to steel on beams also made of wood. Especially outside, porcelain is a magnificent electrical insulator—still working, say, inside an early electrified railway's installations.
That's porcelain. Amber, actually used in electric machinery only rarely, is 1,000 times as good an insulator.
Now, a strong password is porcelain; add to that some amber and you get strong insulation from hackings—insulation you can actually use:
›› When Yahoo! Mail encounters a suspicious log-in attempt (from a new country, say, and computer), it can put up a second authentication hurdle after the password: two-step verification demands a code received via mobile phone or answering security questions.
| How to Block a Sender by Email Address in Outlook.com
The zoo in the street at the corner includes a pelican, of course, and—one of the newer additions—the puffin. Where bicyclists roam, the toucan, too, cannot be far.
While zebra, pelican and puffin crossing are for pedestrians alone, at the toucan crossing ("two can..."), both pedestrians and bicyclists can cross the street—or not, when the red light is on.
Want to turn the red light, too, on certain senders? Outlook.com lets you block emails from crossing into your inbox by email address:
›› Block senders in Outlook.com and ban their messages from your inbox. When you have a message at hand, blocking (and deleting) is particularly easy. You can also block any address or domain manually, though.
| Add Links to Signatures in Mac OS X Mail (From the Archives)
Vienna's Zentralfriedhof, the central cemetery, is anything but: hearses got stuck in the snow on the long road to Simmering; people living on the road got depressed. For the better part of the day, they saw processions of coffins pass by.
Franz Ritter von Felbinger, a civil engineer, and the architect Josef Hudetz knew the solution: a pneumatic underground. Oversized Lamson tubes would transport in minutes what previously took hours — preferably early in the morning to disturb no one.
The pneumatic coffin tube from 1874 was, alas, never realized. To this day, Vienna's Zentralfriedhof is almost as far from the city center as the airport — and a bit more difficult to reach.
Now, speaking of airports: you don't want a web site or blog as difficult to reach as an airport from downtown, do you? Fortunately, you don't have to build Hanson tubes to establish a fast and easy link from your email signature:
›› Insert a text link to your site into your Mac OS X Mail signature — or link images even.
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