with the 1.8 update, the application launches MUCH faster, making an already useful app more enjoyable.

I've used 1Password since v 1.0 and now that I'm using it with Lion and Safari 5.1 I've had to make some changes in my expectations. Apple's changes to what developers have access to in Safari has changed (breaking many extensions i relied on, like Ad Blocking, Cookie Management, and Flash Blocking). Luckily I went to the 1Password web site and read their blog post about the new extension. Once i understood how they'd planned for it to be used, I now find it to be superior to the previous extension. Check the developer's blog post at http://goo.gl/XHp6N

For those sites that didn't work with 1Password before, you now have all of the information in the browser and don't have to launch the app to get your password to paste into the web form. Very convenient.

Hostal makes editing your hosts file is really simple, plus DNS lookups, ad filtering and host blocking make this a fantastic utility. Speed up connections to web sites you visit frequently by adding them to your hosts file. Map local network resources (printer, TiVo, etc) to DNS names so you can refer to them by an easy to remember name instead of the IP address.

Excellent update. Despite having the software for a few years now, I hadn't put many books lately into it because the camera on my iMac was virtually useless (worked well with my external iSight cam with autofocus). With this update I'm scanning barcodes again.

Release Notes for Version 1.7.0 (03/01/2010) build 74956

• Japanese, Portuguese, Danish and Norwegian localization
• Faster search result highlighting
• Improved searching and highlighting of Japanese, Chinese and Korean characters
• New login screen with introductory video
• Fixed problems with the "Insert Table" sheet
• Fixed issues with the note sorting description in mixed and thumbnail views

(from the automatic update window)

disk image for 5.0.12 is corrupt (no mountable filesystems) for both the download on this page and the auto update from within the app.