Switchers' Blog

Safari 3.0 Support Comes to 1Passwd

The beta version of Safari 3.0 was announced by Steve Jobs at WWDC on Monday. The interest to the new version of Safari was so high that within the first hour of being announced by Apple's CEO, Agile Web Solutions received hundreds of messages from 1Passwd users clamoring for integration with their favorite browser.

Given Steve's amazing sales pitch of Safari and these speed numbers, it is not surprising the demand was so high.

1Passwd 2.4.5 Released With Huge Improvements

Roustem and I released 1Passwd version 2.4.5 late on Friday. Despite the minor version bump it actually includes a huge set of changes "under the hood", and several key improvements.

I'll detail the "noticeable" features below, but from our perspective the most important change came in the codebase itself. Specifically, Roustem has managed to find a way to merge the WebKit and Mozilla codebases. While this might not sound like much, it was a very hard nut to crack and now with this out of the way, the door is open for us to greatly improve all the extensions and allow development of cool new features.

While we're on the subject of code, I should let you know Roustem and I will be attending Apple's WWDC this week and look forward to meeting a lot of cool new folks. We'll be at the Delicious Generation WWDC party as well.

We're looking to expand the size of our development team so if the thought of "merged codebases" (i.e. DRY) makes you as happy as it makes us, please get in touch. Drop us an email and if you're at WWDC we'd love to meet you in person.

1Passwd on MacBreak Pick of the Week: Merlin Says "Me Too!"

I was absolutely thrilled to learn today that Merlin Mann picked 1Passwd on this weeks on MacBreak Weekly!

Merlin Mann is one of my heroes — his 43 Folders website is full of great GTD techniques and he is the one that taught me how to survive the onslaught of email using his Inbox Zero tricks.

It was a real hoot listening to Leo and Merlin banter on about how much they like 1Passwd. Here is a transcript from the MBW #42 show:

Creating New Profiles in Firefox and Flock

It's funny how support questions tend to group together.

Yesterday I wrote a tutorial on how to kick-start keychain syncing with .Mac after 3 .Mac related questions were asked this week alone.

Now today we have had 2 Flock install related questions come in, so I figured I'd write this tutorial before the 3rd question arrives :)

If 1Passwd ever fails to install its toolbar into Flock or Firefox, it is most likely that your Firefox/Flock profile was created (or migrated from) an older version of Firefox that had a bug when assigning folder names. Let me explain.

dotMac Syncing Howto: Forcing Keychains to Sync

.Mac is fickle sometimes. In just this week alone we've had 3 customers report problems syncing their keychain with .Mac accounts. So, I thought I'd share a little tutorial on the first step I always try when .Mac gets out-of-sync: Manually reset your .Mac keychain data with the correct data.

When .Mac refuses to sync, sometimes it just needs a little coaxing. The following steps will force .Mac to update its data to keychain from your one Mac and force .Mac to update the keychains on your other Mac.

As always, the first step before any change is to backup your information. The keychains are stored in this folder:

/Users/your-user-id/Library/Keychains

Back that folder up on both your machines.