Apple - iMac - Design

Apple recently released a shiney new version of the iMac and personally I think it looks very nice and as usual Apple does a good job of marketing that they have great design. The specs look pretty reasonable for the price even if I could build a linux machine at half the cost with probably alot more kick under the hood, but I’ve always been a sucker for stylish design even it’s not the best hardware in the world.

So why buy a Mac, well personally I really like OS X (Apple’s Operating system) and with Leopard coming out in October, a new Mac kitted out with Leopard would be pretty sweet. For the past few years I’ve been using an iMac G5 for most of my work, Ubuntu Linux for a small part of that and practically zero Microsoft Windows.

As good as it might look with all it’s shiney aluminium and glass, I really don’t expect it to be perfect. I’ve yet to buy a computer which hasn’t had a problem regardless of what operating system platform I was using. In fact my current 3 year old iMac had a ram failure within a couple of months of leaving the showroom and even now I think the fans are too noisy so hopefully the latest genration iMacs have been around long enough now to iron out any design faults.

So Apple has definately dressed to impress, and I hope it’s as good as it looks. This time, I’m quitely confident that it will be.

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When you spend so much time on the web like me, you find that you are always trying to remember login details and passwords to the host of sites that you’ve registered to. I’m registered on so many sites these days that it is becoming a challenge to keep up.

To add fuel to the fire, I like to have unique passwords for all the sites I visit so coming up with new passwords, writing them down and all that becomes really, really tedious and sometimes you just can’t be bothered to come up with a new password so you end up using a common one alot of the time.

I have been trialling for a month or so now a password manager for Mac however I wasn’t really happy with it, as it was a bit clunky and the company didn’t reply to my email so off I went looking for alternatives.

I found 1passwd.com has written this cool mac password manager and form filler application that integrates into Firefox, and Safari on Mac as well as a range of other browsers. It automatically records your passwords when you enter them in your login forms so you don’t ever have to do it again and all you need to do is remember one password, hence the name.

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With so many spammers and scammers out there trying to steal your information you need to have a tool that takes the headaches out of your password security and 1passwd does just that, and at only USD$29.95 it’s a steal.

I downloaded the free version and after using it for a few days I went back and bought it for myself. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.