When you create accounts on a website, it’s important to use unique passwords on those sites. There are many tragic examples of stolen passwords on one hacked website used to gain access to another site. I, like most people do not always follow best practices.
I’ve mentioned before how much I like
the 1Password password manager product. One of it’s great features is that it will create unique, secure passwords that you can use when creating accounts online.
While this feature is great, it becomes a hassle when you need to access a website from a remote machine. How do you retrieve your password?
The 1Password blog revealed that they are going to provide a solution to access your key chain anywhere in 1Password 3. The feature called Anywhere will allow you to have access to your key chain from anywhere on the Internet.
Rather than keep your key chain on a website, 1Password Anywhere assumes that you will manage the location of the key chain yourself. If you are traveling, you can store your key chain inside a Dropbox or on a USB drive. The point is, Anywhere only will decrypt the key chain eliminating a potential security hole of having your keychain stored on their website.
It’s a cool feature I’m looking forward to trying. In the meantime, this video shows you how it works.
You switched to a Mac because you like having a stable, fast, reliable system. However, it may sometimes be necessary to run Windows XP. If you need to run old applications or the occasional game, having a Windows box might come in handy.
Fortunately, Apple and some 3rd parties have devised solutions which allow you to do just that.
This videos shows you how you can run Windows XP using Bootcamp, VMWare Fusion or Parallels. All three are decent solutions. Bootcamp has the advantage of completely taking over the system. For games or other performance intensive applications, this is a good solution.
Parallels and VMWare Fusion provide what is called hardware virtualization. This software allows you to run Windows and Windows applications side by side with your Mac OSX system. While this might sound like a better solution, it comes at a small performance hit for both systems. This performance hit only happens when you are running the virtual machine.
Whichever solution you choose it’s great to know that you don’t have to abandon the investment you might of made in Windows software.
If you take a lot of digital photos, you know how challenging it can be to keep them organized. iPhoto, a free photo library application is included with Mac OSX. It does a great job helping you keep your library organized.
In iPhoto 9, Apple introduced a new featured called Faces which tries to identify and tag people in your pictures. With a little bit of training, it does this very well.
In this short video, Apple introduces Faces and shows you how you can start using it to track the people you love in your photos.
When you create accounts on a website, it’s important to use unique passwords on those sites. There are many tragic examples of stolen passwords on one hacked website used to gain access to another site. I, like most people do not always follow best practices. 
