I'll be writing about some of these apps more in the days and weeks ahead. (I didn't bother doing this with the iPhone 5S, which I also own, which should tell you a lot about how I feel about these specific devices and platforms.) And that means moving the SIM for my primary phone number to the Nexus 5 and installing and configuring all the apps I use regularly.

With the Google Nexus 5 here-see Google Nexus 5: First Impressions and Photos for more-I decided that I needed to use this device as my full-time smart phone for now in order to fully test it. I wrote about that functionality in Tip: Use Microsoft's Authenticator App to Protect Multiple Accounts. But last month, I finally took the additional step of configuring the Microsoft Authenticator app on Windows Phone to work with multiple accounts, in my case Google, Microsoft, Dropbox and LastPass accounts. I use two-step authentication on my Microsoft accounts and my Google account, as well as a few others, and because they all use the same underlying security technology, you can use a single app to supply codes to multiple accounts.Īs a refresher, Microsoft added two-step authentication to its Microsoft account last year, and I wrote about how you could use this security feature to protect your account in Enable and Use Two-Step Authentication with Your Microsoft Account.

Here's one way you can help manage your transitions between these two worlds: By using the Google Authenticator app on your Android handset or tablet.Īs with the Microsoft Authenticator app on Windows Phone, Google Authenticator is used to supply the second bit of information-the first being your password-when you enable two-step authentication on an account. With Android establishing itself as the Windows of the smart phone world, many SuperSite readers are using Windows PCs at home and work and Android devices on the go.

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