Review: 1Password best Mac password manager around
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jan 23, 2008 at 6:33am
How many passwords do you have to keep track of? I have, at last count, approximately one kazillion. If you’re in the same boat, you’ll appreciate Agile Web Solutions’ 1Password, the best password manager for the Mac that I’ve tried.
1Password browser extensions support Safari, Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb, DEVONagent, NetNewsWire, Netscape Navigator, and Flock (yes, Flock). All browser extensions share the data stored in the keychain which means you never need to manually copy your passwords between browsers or from the password. The newest version of 1Password, 2.5.8, integrates directly into the Firefox 3, beta 2. This means Firefox 3 users can now save their web form data directly in the browser, as well as fill out credit card information with a single click.
1Password is easy to use and has a variety of useful features. It provides anti-phishing protection and web form filling and automatic strong password generation. All your confidential information, including passwords, identities, and credit cards, is kept in one secure place provided by the Keychain app that comes with Mac OS X. The app also prevents keylogging since you’re not typing.
1Password costs US$29.95 for a single user license is US$29.95. A family license is available for $39.95. 1Password requires Mac OS X 10.4 (“Tiger”) or 10.5 (“Leopard”). The software is Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.
Macsimum rating: 8 out of 10.
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
