Switchers' Blog

Easily Get More Disk Space With Monolingual

With 250GB disk on my iMac I rarely complain about the disk space. However I know some poor Mac users running out of space with a measly 80GB on their laptops.

OmniWeb Support Now Available in Prerelease

We released a new prerelease tonight with OmniWeb support. DEVONagent support has been included as a bonus!

1Passwd Adds OmniWeb Integration!

I mentioned in the last post that Roustem and I have taken a few days off to recover from the hard work we’ve been pouring into 1Passwd 2.0.

You may have thought I was a little odd for writing some security articles during my time off, but what do you think Roustem has been up to?

Keylogger and Phishing Defenses

Over the last week Roustem and I have been taking some time off from all code we’ve been slugging out improving 1Passwd.

During my break I thought it would be fun to write some informational websites about Keylogger and Phishing attacks and how to protect yourself from them.

1. Mac Phishing Protection
2. Mac Keylogger Protection

Both of these sites explain the techniques used by criminals to steal your information, and provide some Mac-centric defenses for you to use.

Most security discussions cause people to glaze over, so I tried to make the sites as fun as possible. I reference Stephen Colbert and even have a cute little Lego criminal performing a “stickup” :)

Firefox 2.0 'Tips of the Hat' and 'Wags of the Finger'

I’ve been using Firefox 2.0 for a few weeks now and have seen some good things and some not-so-good things. With the recent RC 3 release we are likely very close to the final release the public will see.

In honour of Stephen Colbert, I thought I’d ‘Tip My Hat’ to the Firefox engineers, but sadly I need to ‘Wag My Finger’ too.

Tip Of My Hat: TextArea Spell Checking

It was so nice writing a blog comment today and seeing that I fat-fingered the word “submit”. Up until recently, I have been copying all my comments into TextMate just to see if everything was spelt correctly.

Back to Tiger (for now)

If you are thinking about trying the latest development build of OS X 10.5 Leopard (9A283) be warned that many popular applications do not fully support it yet.

I had problems with Skype 2.0.0.3 (no incoming/outgoing voice/video calls), SnapNDrag 2.0.4 (crashing when trying to save the screenshot), DevonThink 1.2.1 (couldn’t mount the DMG file), 1Passwd 1.5.3352 (Safari extension does not work).

Other than that, the new version looked great — sorry, I can’t tell you much more than that because I signed an NDA.

1Passwd 1.5 Got Dugg

It is great to see 1Passwd 1.5 mentioned on Digg. And it is described very well, better than we ever did ourselves:

With the explosion in the number of websites we rely upon it has become impossible to securely keep track of all your passwords. The old techniques of password memorization and password reuse are no longer acceptable practices in today’s security conscious environment. But most users continue to rely on bad practices in order to remember their passwords.

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Play the Web Like iTunes Plays Music

I toyed around with Songbird today; it is an extended version of Firefox that adds the ability to play songs, listen to the radio, watch videos, etc, while still being a full-featured web browser. I am amazed at how well they were able to skin Songbird to look nothing at all like a standard OS X app. They are obviously much better at Cocoa than I am; I hope to get to their level someday.

The Unarchiver

I am still a relatively new Mac user and I was always surprised to see so much hatred towards StuffIt application even from the most loyal Mac aficionados.

Today I saw this “friendly” message:

New Version of 1Passwd Available

We just released a new version of 1Passwd. While no major new features were added, this update contains several important improvements and bug fixes. The detailed changelog is below.

The new AutoUpdate feature will make upgrading very easy for everyone. If you allowed 1Passwd to automatically check for new releases, you will automatically be asked if you would like to install the new version. For those with AutoUpdate turned off, you will need to manually select “Check For Updates…”.