What a pleasant surprise this morning to find an upgrade to this fantastic program that included some huge new features. As everyone has mentioned, the new groups feature has greatly expanded what was already a great tool. I use it everyday all day in the course of doing e-mail support. I was using iSnip in addition to TextExpander to keep some collections of URLs and Short URLs organized by group. With the addition of groups combined with labels, TextExpander now essentially replaces many of those other clip managers as well. So iSnip is now history since I can now have these types of items available without using a key sequence but rather use the menuet to easily paste them. They've all made it easier to add other snippet sets such as the autocorrection one. (now included without additonal download)

My current stats show that I have expanded 5,887 snippets and saved 455,619 characters of typing. If you do a lot of typing, you MUST own this program.

Not only can you expanded pure text, you can insert graphics and other rich text format items. I've used this for many months now and never read any documentation. Very intuitive and I was up and running in minutes.

Finally, the price is not an issue for what you get. No one knocks a Lexus because it doesn't cost the same as a Kia. Do you want a Lexus or do want a Kia? In my book, TextExpander is a Lexus.

Click that Download button and go get this one.

Sometimes it is the little things that make life great. 1Passwd falls into this category. After switching to Mac in the fall of 2005 I started the journey to "replace' all of my PC applications with Mac equivalents. Some were easy such as Microsoft Office. However, at the end of a few months it became clear that there simply wasn't a replacement for Roboform for Windows. I searched long and hard and after almost a year, I ran across 1Passwd.

While 1Passwd is not Roboform, it is certainly a trusty replacement. It is being actively improved and provides the main functionality of Roboform. So what does 1Passwd do you for you?

Very simply, 1Passwd is a smart web password manager and form filler. What distinguishes this application from "other" OS X password vaults is its integration with the browser. This is the real power of 1Passwd. Once you start using 1Passwd you no longer have to remember your hundreds of web logins. You only need to remember 1 main password. (thus the name) When you browse to a site, simply hit Command and the username and password are automatically filled. (and submitted if you choose)

More importantly, unlike Safari's auto-fill, it actually works on banking and financial sites that block Safari's auto-fill. 1Passwd also allows you to fill web forms for orders, registrations, etc. using multiple identities. All info can be synced to multiple machines using Apple's .Mac service. Finally, 1Passwd has recently added Secure Notes to save your registration codes and other private information.

To summarize, 1Passwd does what no other Mac password manager does and will cure the addictions for those switchers who miss their Roboform functionality.