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1Password in Cool Stuff on Mac Geek Gab Podcast

I was delighted to hear 1Password mentioned on The Mac Observer Mac Geek Gab Podcast in episode #162.

The original show was recorded on August 4th, 2008, so you can see I am behind on getting this post completed. In my defense, this podcast was released about the same time the iPhone version of 1Password was published so you can probably guess why I'm late :)

1Password was brought up by Dave Hamilton in the Cool Stuff portion on the show, directly following DropBox, a really awesome application that Roustem and I had planned to write but never had the time. We're delighted that Evenflow beat us to it!

1Password is discussed at about the 10 minute mark. Here are some excerpts:

"It's fantastic."

"I have Safari...Dude! The day I checked this out I realized how wrong I've been."

"What it does is it is a password manager, but it is a password manager on rails."

"I don't know how I could recommend it any more."

Thanks for the great show Dave!

Backup Strategies

We've all heard about the importance of having backups and we all believe that they are not empty words of advice. However, a lot of people add that to their lists of things that need to do one day and procrastinate for far too long on this. Sadly, those who are most diligent about backups are those that have previously suffered loss as a result of a catastrophic hard drive failure and had no backups. 1Password has a built in backup method but by default it uses the same hard drive as the main data file. This protects you against file loss but not against a drive failure. You can change this in the 1Password preferences.

However, today I want to talk about a more complete and whole disk backup stategy.