Secure Gmail at public CPU

Do you find yourself using the public library computer? What about the local University computer? You just want to hop on and check the Gmail. You can't wait to see if you won that newest StarWars gadget off of Ebay.

Well I stumbled across this tip at Lifehacker, Ithink. I love the simplicity of it all.

When you type in the URL just add an s like : https://gmail.google.com. That way you are using the Secure 128-bit encryption.

Another little suggestion to beat "keyloggers" is to amid typing in your password, type random alphameric characters into other fields. So the password "secret" could end up s45tedfchurxze98top. The red characters being actually typed in the password box and the others being typed in the search box, another window, or the url bar.

It takes a little time but what is your security worth? I want to get a flash drive all configured, so I can just plug and work. Once I get that going I'll post. So anyone got that "Gdrive"?