Mr Kissell’s Take Control of Passwords is the latest in the Take Control series, and it is a well written and well researched ebook that is going to give you a lot of information that you need, even if you’re not sure you need it; a lot of very good advice; and a coupon for a discount on 1Password. The coupon is worth almost the entire price of the book, so go buy it and read it. You’ll educate yourself and get a price-break on an excellent software product in the bargain.
Jul 312009
I’ve been using Safari off and on since it first came out in parallel or in place of Firefox. I used it exclusively for quite some time because Firefox did not support the OS X keychain, but now I have 1Password, so that is not an issue.
Well, the 4.0 version of Safari has finally been released and it features a lot of improvements. In fact, with the addition of Glims and Adblock and ClicktoFlash it is a worthy replacement for Firefox in nearly every regard. However, there is one thing that I really hate in Safari, and that is how it handles typing in the address field. Continue reading »
May 122009
Over the last decade the average person’s need for passwords has increased at a phenomenal rate. It’s quite possible that in 1999 you didn’t need a password at all, or you just had a password for your email account. Today, most people online have at least a couple of email accounts, a Myspace page and/or Facebook page, a Paypal account, an ebay page, and maybe as many as a couple of dozen websites where they login. Add online banking to this mix and maybe a twitter account and most people with much of an online life are juggling at least a dozen and maybe up to a hundred logins. Continue reading »