AAUG Reviews

by Dave Enders ,AAUG Member

1Password has been called Keychain on steroids ! I’d call it Popeye with a whole case of spinach !!

1Password can generate strong passwords, auto fill forms utilizing multiple identities, .mac integration and is compatible with most mac browsers. That is a few of the features that attracted me to 1Password. You can even take your passwords with you on your Palm PDA or iPhone.

With the help of Mac OS X Keychain, 1Password manages passwords for hundreds of websites. The nice thing about using 1Password to manage these passwords is that they are available in any supported browser. I frequently use both Safari and Firefox (OmniWeb, DEVONagent, Camino and Flock are also supported) in my daily routine. A password entered in Safari is immediately available in Firefox and vice versa.

I appreciate any application that supports .mac and 1Password accomplishes this via turning on Keychain syncing . It helps save time and frustration by keeping my passwords synchronized between browsers and computers. There were some reports on the 1Password blog of problems with the .mac support. In my two weeks of testing , I can report that 1Password works very well with .mac. In my opinion this was an Apple issue since I had many woes using .mac a few months ago. (more…)