Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Password generator: site specific passwords

Password generator
This is bloody brilliant. Talk about a modest guy -- Nic doesn't put much on this plain page -- except a JavaScript tool that
will concatenate two fields and MD5 them. The idea is that you choose one master password to secure all your others, and then generate passwords for each site, server, router, &c. by putting a completely obvious name for that resource in the "Site name" field.


It doesn't work with IE, but IE's unsafe on the public net anyways. I love his comment on IE "... too long for Internet Explorer which I believe to have been written by trained otters" A harsh slur on otters though.

macosxhints - Use wildcards to build iPhoto smart albums

macosxhints - Use wildcards to build iPhoto smart albums

? and * are wild cards in smart albums
[] are escape characters to search on wildcards

macosxhints - Keyword Assistant -- iPhoto keywords made easy!

macosxhints - Keyword Assistant -- iPhoto keywords made easy!

If htis works, it will be tremendous. I'll test and update here.

NASA's earth observatory image collection: for when your desktop needs a makeover

EO Newsroom: New Images Index

macosxhints - Paste multiple bookmarks into Safari

macosxhints - Paste multiple bookmarks into Safari

If you paste a text block containing URLs into a Safari bookmark folder, it will create separate bookmarks for each url.

macosxhints - Queue songs into iTunes' Party Shuffle from the Library

macosxhints - Queue songs into iTunes' Party Shuffle from the Library: " If you are playing songs using iTunes' new Party Shuffle playlist, just control-click any song in your iTunes library and select 'Play Next in Party Shuffle'. The song will appear in Party Shuffle next to the song currently playing."

macosxhints - Delete photos from an iPhoto album and library

macosxhints - Delete photos from an iPhoto album and library: "If you want to remove a photo from a specific album and from the entire library at the same time, all you have to to is:

1. Select the photo
2. Hold down Command and Option, then press Delete."