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Tinder, an API for interfacing with Campfire. - Roustem Karimov

What did I do before using a password wallet program on my computer? I can’t honestly remember. The horror of having to remember all the passwords for all the web sites, and yes, I’ve tried algorithms only to be bested by odd limitations that bump my perfect algorithm, like only 6 characters (not less or more) and other wacky things web sites do. - Roustem Karimov

"RoboForm is the only must-have app for Windows I can think of, but 1Password fills that void pretty well on the Mac," Sven Rafferty, founder the IT and Web solutions company hyperSven, told MacNewsWorld. - Roustem Karimov

1Password: Can’t remember every single password for every single program? A big hit on Mac computers, 1Password allows the user to sync all of the various alphanumeric passwords to be accessed via the iPhone. - Roustem Karimov

1Password is an amazing Mac OSX aplication that keeps track of all your web passwords, automates sign-in, guards from identity theft, and allows you to stop worrying about your safety while online. It is the only program that provides Anti-Phishing protection and goes beyond password management by adding Web Form Filling and Automatic Strong Password Generation. - Roustem Karimov

In his famous "what you need to know about secure password schemes" blog post of September 2007, Thomas Ptacek concluded by saying that the correct choice of key derivation functions is bcrypt. He was right; but from today onwards, the correct choice is scrypt. - Roustem Karimov

Because we have so many passwords guarding all those Web sites we access and programs we use, creating and remembering so many different passwords has become a real problem. Believe it or not, there's a lot of people out there using just one password for everything because they just can't remember a unique password for all the places they go and products they use. But having one password for everything is like having one key. It's a bad idea. - Roustem Karimov

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created this Surveillance Self-Defense site to educate the American public about the law and technology of government surveillance in the United States, providing the information and tools necessary to evaluate the threat of surveillance and take appropriate steps to defend against it. - Roustem Karimov

1Password isn’t just a plugin, it’s a whole password management service that comes with browser integration. The benefit of using 1Password is that you can automatically generally really strong passwords and the service will then remember and automatically fill them in for you. The service costs $39.95, but there is a free trial available - Roustem Karimov

Believe it or not, there's a lot of people out there using just one password for everything and they do it because basically they just can't remember a unique password for all the places they go and products they use. Yet having one password for everything is like having one key. It's a bad idea. Losing or forgetting a password is far easier to do than losing a physical key. It's a lot more common than you may think. People forget passwords every day. Just take a look at most websites that ask for your password. - Roustem Karimov

About two years ago, when someone hacked my ebay account and posted fifty designer sunglass auctions, I got a lot more serious about the strength of my passwords. I had always used strong passwords for work, but formed some bad habits with my personal accounts. There are a lot of tools and methodologies out there that promise to help, but none really worked for me until I tried 1Password on my Mac. - Roustem Karimov

This is the official Project Aiko website which talks about the making of a gynoid called Aiko. The original goal of Aiko was to help our aging population to do simple tasks like make tea and coffee, tell them the weather, read a magazine or remind them to take their medication at the correct time. There are many applications for Aiko in the home, office or public places. Aiko was built in my basement using credit card loans and my entire savings account as funding. One of my dreams is to make Aiko walk and do other house chores. I cannot do this without your donations and support. The donations will go towards new motors, sensors and mainboards to design Aiko’s new arm and leg systems. Aiko is the first android to react to physical stimuli and mimic pain. This technology could be applied to people born with or who have undergone amputations. Aiko is the first step towards a life-like mechanical limb that has the ability to feel physical sensations. - Roustem Karimov

Carpe diem on any duplicate content worries: we now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL. If your site has identical or vastly similar content that's accessible through multiple URLs, this format provides you with more control over the URL returned in search results. It also helps to make sure that properties such as link popularity are consolidated to your preferred version. - Roustem Karimov

Last year I bought the MacHeist bundle, mainly for Pixelmator, but in that package I also got a utility I would have else never looked at: 1Password. 1Password is the best password manager I’ve ever used! - Roustem Karimov

A lot of Pastie users (including me) wanted a private version. Snippy fills that void – enjoy. I wrote it using Ruby on Rails 2.1 as a weekend project (about 2 months ago and I’m just now getting it out). I felt like one of the best features of Pastie is code highlighting so I made it a priority. Code highlighting is accomplished using a custom renderer with Ultraviolet. The Thinking Sphinx plugin has been on my radar for a little while now so I felt like it was a good time to throw that in. - Roustem Karimov

Use tools running on M-Lab to test your Internet connection. - Roustem Karimov

Completion Dictionary is a free Xcode plugin that enhances Xcode’s built-in code completion mechanism. You simply type a few letters - either the abbreviation of a macro or the initials of a symbol name - and press the completion shortcut. Completion Dictionary will do the rest. - Roustem Karimov

In Xcode 3.0, you can integrate doc sets for your own products into the Xcode Documentation window. By providing your documentation as a doc set, users can take advantage of all the Xcode documentation-viewing features to browse and search for information in your documents. - Roustem Karimov

Command-Line-Fu is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again. Delete that bloated snippets file you've been using and share your personal repository with the world. That way others can gain from your CLI wisdom and you from theirs too. All commands can be commented on and discussed - digg-esque voting is also encouraged so the best float to the top. - Roustem Karimov

All my research pointed me to only one feasible solution: 1Password from Agile Web Solutions. 1Password is an absolutely amazing piece of software that eases your life in many ways. It is worth the 39.95$ Agile Web Solutions is asking for without a single doubt. - Roustem Karimov

In this edition of MacMerc.TV, I take a look at 1Password from Agile Web Solutions, and discuss what goes into making a strong password. - Roustem Karimov

The Missing Manual - Roustem Karimov

Everyone that works at Last.fm is typically connected to our IRC server. We have different channels per team, as well as a company-wide channel, and a few channels dedicated to automated monitoring. Sometimes it makes much more sense to discuss / ask questions on IRC instead of email, and it’s useful to be able to raise people who are not in the office. That said, the main reason I’m writing this post is to mention the dev-support bot we use: irccat. - Roustem Karimov

Powerful keyboard remapper for Mac OS X. In addition to simple key remapping, it has special remapping modes like Emacs-mode, SandS-mode (Space and Shift). - Roustem Karimov

The purpose of HotCocoa is to allow you to use the flexible syntax of Ruby and its dynamic nature to simplify programmatically constructing user interfaces on OS X without an Interface Builder. - Roustem Karimov

ngIRCd is a free open source daemon for Internet Relay Chat (IRC), developed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It's written from scratch and is not based upon the original IRCd like many others. This version is used in private IRC networks and is known to run quite stable and flawless although it is not tested in huge IRC networks under heavy load yet. There are still missing features, but the current version should provide everything you need during "normal" IRC sessions. - Roustem Karimov

As many of you are undoubtedly aware - given the recent glut of advertising - this Friday, like every Friday-after-Thanksgiving for the last 40 years, is known as Black Friday. Regarded as the inauguration of the traditional holiday shopping season, Black Friday boasts a smorgasbord of sales. We at TidBITS have been awash in Black Friday announcements and deals, and we wanted to share the best of them with you. - Roustem Karimov

Founded in 1980 and headquartered in Darien, Connecticut, Euro Pacific is a full service, FINRA-registered broker/dealer that has historically been recognized for its expertise in foreign markets and securities. Through its direct relationships with countless foreign trading desks, the firm's clients are able to avoid the large spreads often imposed by domestic market makers of foreign securities, thereby substantially reducing overall transaction costs. Peter Schiff, the firm’s president, and a renowned pioneer in the field of international investing for individual investors, leads a team of investment professionals and support staff dedicated to the highest levels of customer service, a team literally searching the world over for valuable investment opportunities. - Roustem Karimov

It is well known that a jostled string tends to become knotted; yet the factors governing the “spontaneous” formation of various knots are unclear. We performed experiments in which a string was tumbled inside a box and found that complex knots often form within seconds. We used mathematical knot theory to analyze the knots. - Roustem Karimov

The point of this post is whether your headphones are rubbery or plasticky should be irrelevant to the effectiveness of keeping them untangled, because you should be following the One True Way Of Headphone Wrapping. Wrapi-do in Japanese, I believe. Also affectionately known as The Devil Horn Method. All snark aside (momentarily at least), this little hack really has kept my buds tangle-free for years now. - Roustem Karimov