Lost your Gmail password?

It happens, I guess.

Everyone will lose their password at one time or another; and it’ll be made of suck. Come on, who here among you people hasn’t experienced the pain of sitting in front of your computer, trying to think up of whatever password you used up for that particular account? After the 10th try, I can imagine you guys giving out a huge scream of frustration, which may or may not involve a couple of flying objects, which may or may not land on the computer monitor/keyboard/mouse, which may result in broken computer peripherals and injury. In conclusion: losing your email password sucks, and trying to remember and failing can be more frustrating than the realization that you lost your password in the first place.

Fortunately for everyone, our favorite web mail client, Gmail, has ways of making sure that you don’t lose your password. Apparently, Gmail support is also deluged with support requests regarding lost passwords (I can pretty see this happening all of the time) and they even have a page for password assistance.

Heh. Now I don’t recommend you writing down your passwords, because everyone knows that writing your passwords down is a surefire way to get a security breach. I mean, anyone can check out the notebook or whatever you wrote your passwords on, and voila, instant hacking into your accounts.

If only there was a way for you to recover your passwords without having to go through loops.

And you know what’s even better? Password recovery via SMS. To turn this on for your account, just sign in, select ‘Change Password Recovery Options,’ enter your cell phone number and click ‘Save.’

Next time you forget your password, enter your username on the password-assistance page, and Google will text you a recovery code. No need to check another email account or even leave the page.