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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Nearly two years ago, we reviewed an application that helped fill in forms and password boxes within Firefox and Safari. Back then, it had the cool UNIX-like name, 1Passwd (passwd is the *NIX command you use to create or modify passwords) was trying to make a name for itself in the Mac world. This year, it was at Macworld and if you missed its booth in Tiny Town, then you missed probably one of the best password applications, not just for your Mac, but for your iPhone, too!
With its recent update, and changed name of 1Password, the password manager exploited iPhones Safari JavaScript abilities and essentially created 1Password for the iPhone. Locally. Almost as if it were a native application. Using this brilliant accomplishment to get past the barbed wire fence of native applications on the iPhone, 1Password gives you easy and quick access to everything that is available on your the version that sits on your Mac. All passwords, wallets, and secure notes are there. And to help move things along, you can simply search for your item instead of using the iPhone native interface to drill down to find your card. All very nice and very cool to have on your iPhone.
We love 1Password for the iPhone, but a problem does arise when you start surfing the web and you come to a site that requires you to log in. Okay, open a new page, get 1Password up, log in, enter search terms, find card, memorize your credentials, page back to the other web site and enter the information. Doh! Invalid login. Ugh, back to 1Password, verify what you did wrong, go back to the other web page, try again, bingo!, you’re in. Repeat when necessary. Why couldn’t this be more like its big brother on the Mac? That’s what co-authors Dave Teare and Roustem Karimov thought and with the latest beta, they said, “Make it so.” And so it is.
With the next official release of 1Password, you will be able to use the iPhone login bookmarklet feature which invokes a pop-up window, much like on Safari or Firefox on the Mac, with a choice of possible matches to a site you are at for login. Now, this will require you to tap on the bookmark called “1Password Logins” to bring up the pop-up; however, no longer will each site require you to perform the switch-and-memorize game as described above. It’s all automatic. Finally!
This great feature is included with the desktop version of 1Password and is available today as a beta. Point your big boy browser to 1Password’s site and download this bad boy for some good boy work on the iPhone today!
January 29th, 2008 at 23:23
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