Shiny!

If you are like me, you may have too many online identities for your own good. I often want to swap between a vanilla-ish gmail account that I use for creating screencasts and a bells-and-whistles-all-my-email-redirected-here account that I use as my main workspace.

I used to have to have one account open in Chrome and one in Firefox to achieve this, but starting today, Google is rolling out the option to use multiple identities in the same browser. You just change a setting in your account settings and then you can select which account you are working with from a dropdown box in the top right of the screen in the place where your account name is usually displayed.

To check whether it is enabled for you, go to your google account settings. You will now have a “Multiple Sign In” option, like this:

Then when you select the “Change” option, you will be asked to acknowledge four points about using the sign-in, and then you are away…