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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video from www.1passwd.com

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.

After contemplating modifying my Mac to run Ruby on Rails I decided against any system modifications. The main reason is any documentation on the web regarding installing Rails on the Mac was a little too out dated for my liking and very little support.

So what was I to do? Well I decided that using Locomotive from http://locomotive.raaum.org/ was going to be the safest and easiest option and I wasn’t wrong. Installing Locomotive was super easy and all I needed to do was download it, mount the dmg file and drag the Locomotive Icon into my Applications folder and Bingo! Ruby on Rails is ready to go.

The only thing to keep in mind is that you need to make sure you use the open up any terminals from within the Locomotive interface which is again pretty easy to remember. Locomotive at the time of this post uses the lighttpd web server by default when starting the web server using the command ruby script/server. If you prefer you can use the Webrick webserver with Locomotive by forcing it ruby script/server webrick. Supposedly Webrick is better but I’m no expert so I’m just using Webrick for any development.

The only other thing to keep in mind with Locomotive is that if you want to do more robust database work you’ll need to have MySQL installed on the Mac as the databases shipped with Locomotive aren’t really for a production environment.