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Re: What is 1Password?

David A Teare — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:56:50 -0000

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

Re: What is 1Password?

David A Teare — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:01:28 -0000

In addition to what Chris mentioned, 1Password has the unique ability to provide a *unified* password manager across all the major browsers.

For example, Keychain does not work in Firefox, and Firefox's "remember password" does not work in Safari. You therefore need to remember which browser you were using when you saved a password, and it makes it a lot harder to switch between all the great browsers on OS X.

With 1Password you no longer need to manually keep your browser password databases in sync and can switch between browsers as frequently as you want.

HTH

--Dave Teare
Co-author of 1Password

Re: 5 Things to Love and Hate about the New Apple Laptops

David A Teare — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:09:33 -0000

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.

Re: 1passwd peeps, Agile Solutions, letting users giveaway a copy.

David A Teare — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:29:34 -0000

Aye :)

Cheers!

--Dave Teare
Chief "1Passwd Peep" ;)

Re: iPhoneinCanada.ca Black Friday 1Password Giveaway!

David A Teare — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:14:29 -0000

I am thankful for my family, health, and country. I am also thankful for the wonderful community that exists around Mac.

No free license for me though please; I already have a few ;)

Re: Adiaphora and Community

David A Teare — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:33:15 -0000

I agree you can be black, white, Asian, Hispanic, or whatever, but no way can you be a Canadian! Damn, that just couldn't happen. Those canucks spend 1/2 the year in hibernation and the other half collecting food for the next winter. They have no time to code! I am not even sure if they have Internet access from their igloos :)

Re: The horror of password management

David A Teare — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:58:03 -0000

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

Re: The horror of password management

David A Teare — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:41:24 -0000

I'd love to support all those apps too :) The OS X Keychain handles this already, so it would be a hard sell to get all these apps to use 1Password instead.

What I personally do is create Wallet items and Secure Notes to store the passwords for these apps and then let applications use the login keychain. This way, when I move to a new Mac, all I have to do is setup 1Password and then I have access to all the passwords I need to setup everything else. Technically I could migrate my login keychain too, but I like to start fresh.

Cheers!

--Dave Teare
Co-author of 1Password