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i5m 2010-01-26, 22:48 #1
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Subject: Lastpass
I don't quite know how I missed this one for so long, suffice to say it's not new news, just new to me. Anyway, count this as a New Year resolution, but I decided to sort my passwords out and stop using the same passwords for so many different services.

I know Madra likes 1Password, but since my main platforms are now Windows (work) and an iPod (I hardly ever go on my mac now, leaving it to my missus and Facebook, occassionally going on to use Aperture when I've got some films back and to log into the admin account to backup), 1Password would be a waste of money for me. Anyway, Lastpass is cross platform and (almost completely) free!

If you are just using Lastpass on a computer then it offers lots of free plugins for browsers (even Chrome, and bookmarklets for browsers where plugins aren't available, such as Camino) and so in this respect is completely free. And allows you to use Lastpass on all platforms you might use. The Chrome plugin is good, although apparently not as good as the Firefox one, but it still fills in login fields automatically and prompts to save new login details. 

The iPhone app, which itself is free, requires you to have a premium account at $12 a year. I consider that a fair price for such an awesome service. The app is full featured (features password generation, etc), but is not beautiful - it's not a "Apple/mac" app. The web app is a bit like that; not ugly, but a bit 'old', reminds me of a C-Panel interface, etc. So if I was reviewing the iPhone app itself I'd give it 4/5 - it is stateful (i.e remembers where you were when you relaunch) which is very handy and it offers bookmarklets for mobile safari to automatically login to sites (using Lastpass saved credentials without even leaving Safari) - I don't even know if 1Password does that?

If you are mac only then I'm quite sure 1Password provides the best user-experience, but if you are cross-platform then Lastpass is definitely the way to go.
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i5m 2010-02-05, 10:28 #2
since Feb 2006 · 2110 posts · Location: Super Up North, UK
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Loving this, as it allows multiple profiles for the same domain (i.e. think multiple gmail logins), and the bookmarklets for mobile safari also work. So I can go to gmail, for example, select the lastpass login bookmarklet and it asks which account I want to login as. Pretty ace, because Safari on it's onw will only remember on set of details.
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madra (Administrator) 2010-02-05, 13:10 #3
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1password does this too. 

i like the convenience of 1password - you just hit apple+backslash on a webpage with a login screen and it automatically fills in the details.  no messing about clicking elsewhere or selecting things from menus.  you can also choose whether to automatically submit the login form too - tho' i usually leave this off, after a frustrating incident when i'd saved the wrong password and got stuck in a loop of rejected logins.

for a domain where you've got multiple logins [like google], hitting apple+backslash brings up a menu allowing you to choose which one to use.

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[if you're wondering why i have so many weird google logins, it's because every year i have to demo to new students how to set up a blogger blog for their digital studio logs, which involves me creating endless new google accounts.  :grin: ]
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Oisín 2010-02-05, 22:49 #4
since Feb 2006 · 1236 posts · Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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Quote by i5m:
Pretty ace, because Safari on it's onw will only remember on set of details.

Eh? No, it works fine with multiple sets. I have two different Gmail accounts that I check (one of my own—a spam mail—and the account for the dorm network admins), and Safari remembers both of them just fine.

I just have to key in the first letter of the user name I want, and it auto-fulfils the rest of the user name and the password automatically.
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i5m 2010-02-05, 23:09 #5
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Mobile Safari does? Stupid thing has never done it for me, it's just lost the other set of details.
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Oisín 2010-02-06, 09:31 #6
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Ah, mobile Safari. Haven’t tried it on the iPhone (just use tthe mail app for both there), so you may be right on that.
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