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3 months ago
in The horror of password management on kentlai | technoriment
Congrats on replacing your 3 password variants! I used to do the exact same thing :)
You're right about the Change Password screens being tricky for 1Password to detect. If the web site doesn't ask for the original password or does not ask for a confirmation, it's hard for us to decipher the change password form other form types.
The good news is if 1Password ever misses a change password form, you can simply update your old Login when the Autosave prompt appears. Also, as a safety net, the Password History section in the main 1Password application contains a history of all the passwords you ever generated just incase you ever forget to update a Login.
As for a "single point of failure", we hear that a lot and so we've set things up so you'll never be locked into 1Password. You can export your data however you want, plus we have automatic backups just incase anything happens, as well as the ability to print your data (printing to paper is not needed; you can "Print" to a PDF). Of course you should also backup your keychain to a remote drive as well as insurance against a disk crash.
Cheers!
--Dave Teare
Co-author of 1Password
You're right about the Change Password screens being tricky for 1Password to detect. If the web site doesn't ask for the original password or does not ask for a confirmation, it's hard for us to decipher the change password form other form types.
The good news is if 1Password ever misses a change password form, you can simply update your old Login when the Autosave prompt appears. Also, as a safety net, the Password History section in the main 1Password application contains a history of all the passwords you ever generated just incase you ever forget to update a Login.
As for a "single point of failure", we hear that a lot and so we've set things up so you'll never be locked into 1Password. You can export your data however you want, plus we have automatic backups just incase anything happens, as well as the ability to print your data (printing to paper is not needed; you can "Print" to a PDF). Of course you should also backup your keychain to a remote drive as well as insurance against a disk crash.
Cheers!
--Dave Teare
Co-author of 1Password
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8 months ago
in 5 Things to Love and Hate about the New Apple Laptops on ATLChris
My #1 complaint is the new trackpad. I used to be a "thumb clicker" and the new trackpad makes this nearly impossible. The constant affordance of the trackpad makes it hard for your thumb to feel where the click needs to be placed; I often find myself trying to click on the aluminum edge.
Worst of all, you cannot click with your thumb unless you first raise your index finger. Hopefully this is a software issue that can be fixed, but for the moment I enabled "tap to click" and am trying to retrain my brain.
With that venting out of the way, I must say I love my new MBP and would not trade it for anything! I tried logging into my old machine to test something and I couldn't believe how crappy it is compared to this beautiful new beast.
Worst of all, you cannot click with your thumb unless you first raise your index finger. Hopefully this is a software issue that can be fixed, but for the moment I enabled "tap to click" and am trying to retrain my brain.
With that venting out of the way, I must say I love my new MBP and would not trade it for anything! I tried logging into my old machine to test something and I couldn't believe how crappy it is compared to this beautiful new beast.
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MikeNiles
I'm glad your having a track pad issue as well.. IM LOSING MY MIND !! &*^@!&*^!@ over this damn track pad !
8 months ago
in What is 1Password? on ATLChris
Thank you for the great post Chris! I'm elated to hear you love 1Password as much as we do :)
Cheers!
--Dave Teare
Co-author of 1Password
Cheers!
--Dave Teare
Co-author of 1Password
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Chris Lentz
Thanks for a great product!
I'm sorry if the blog post sounded vaguely negative. I understand that it was very hard for 1Password to detect change password forms. I'm grumbling more about the websites than the application itself.
I really appreciated the password history section. It really helped a lot to remember what was the last generated password in case it was not saved/detected by 1Password. But I avoided the autosave feature, instead going back to the login page and saving the form again. When I tried out the autosave feature, I noticed that for one particular site, additional fields were added from the change password page (it shared the page with the change profile section).
And yes, it was really good that 1Password offers data export. I did a superdupr backup of my drive after changing all my passwords, and then after that export the password in a text file, copied it to my thumbdrive, and threw it into my drawer. I do hope I would never need to refer to that!
All in all, a great application! Though I do wish applications like Adium, iTunes, Mail, NetNewsWire, etc could integrate with it seamlessly, but that's hardly the fault of 1Password :)