your favorite little computer program hoonja-doonja (mac version)

Fresh books is pulling from my bank, but its more so you can grab expenses for invoicing.

Following the soon-to-be-demise of Google Reader, should I go with Feedly or Taptu? Or something else?

(want a web version or Mac app to be available, not mobile-only).

do you care about syncing with iDevices? y/n?

just signed up to feedly. Looks nice but really slow and weird. Also signed up with Jolicloud, which aggregates dropbox, facebook, tumblr, instagram, soundcloud, instapaper but not RSS. I sent in a feature request though. It's really slick looking and if it could interface with an RSS feed app, or be one, I'd be happy.

Reeder is a great feed reader for mac, but not free

i love reeder

I have reeder but it's totally sync'd to Google. I couldn't remember if it worked without it. Will have to figure out if it's easy to transfer the feeds, or will just have to do it manually. Google let me download all my feeds, but I don't see how to upload that to Reeder.

reeder requires a server-side source. Currently, it supports Google Reader, Fever (a self-hosted one that is decent, but not so great that I ever switched), and Readability, which isn't really an aggregator. Presumably their statement means they're looking at putting in support for other Google Reader replacement sites ASAP

Vienna is a great reader if you don't need to bother with syncing (though it's built in, if you wish to use it) http://www.vienna-rss.org

Version 2.0 of Alfred is out.

Easily one of the greatest tools on OSX ever. And the new version is awesome.

I have Reeder now and had thought it was totally Google-dependent; if isn't, I'll hold on for a while and see what sites they start to support. Will check out your mentions, though, thanks. Caek - I'm not bothered about iDevices sync.

it's totally google-dependent, but it will work without changes until july 1, and the developer is apparently working on replacing the google reeder backend (according to a single tweet)

Replacing the backend not trivial if you intend to duplicate everything google did, don't envy them

iphone reeder already allows readability and fever sync fwiw

Reeder app is the only indispensable thing on my iPhone

what about 911

I'm not in the US, sorry

i'm still using my pre-adware version of NetNewsWire

braggin

does the registered version still exist? I bought that years ago, idk

yeah i think i have a license for it

i may be ready to take my first step towards a password manager. any recs?

i would like to a testimonial from someone who uses password management software. what is your life like now? tia

did your retirement account increase in value? did your cholesterol go down?

I just use "hacktheplanet" for all my passwords, easy to remember

ive been using lastpass, the jury is still kind of out

its i guess slightly less work than it was when i had several different 'memorable' alphanumeric passwords that could never really remember so i guess its better

I use 1password. It can be a little buggy at times, but is mostly rock solid. I use it for everything. Saving credit card info as well as passwords. The iPhone app is great, the application is great, sometimes it's autofill doesn't quite work right, if the webpage is weird, but tha happens with all autofill. Even then you can just login and copy and paste the password.

i use 1p

cosine

keep hearing incredible praise for 1P but still fail to get how it works - esp on iOS - is it just a secure listing of all your passwords? Why the steep price then?

Is the iOS app expensive? The whole point is the browser plugins. Any website I go to, I just right click and it gives me the options to enter passwords from 1password, or enter credit card info. You just need to know the 1 1password password. It's great, I have two paypal accounts, two discogs accounts etc. If you want it can generate super obscure passwords for you and remember them, or just remember your passwords. You can open the application and view everything, copy and paste, store credit card info, serial numbers etc.

what if someone guesses your 1password password, isn't this basically like just having one password for everything? makes u think.

i have one 'password' for everything and i don't think you'll be able to guess what my one 'password' is even though it's so obvious... ;) ;) ;)

Well it depends on how likely you think it is that someone will steal your computer and guess your password.

well, the idea is that first the attacker will have to have physical access to one of your devices (at which point the gig is probably already up) and THEN they'll have to figure out the master password (which should probably be strong enough to not guess)

w/r/t remote access, my 1p database is stored on dropbox which itself has a secure password. so, if the attacker somehow figures out my dropbox password, they'll be able to get my 1p database but then they'll have to figure out the master password. it's not perfect security, but it's enough security for me imo

reminds me, I was going to look into enabling two-factor auth on dropbox

I use 1pass, it's fairly awesome. I also use two-factor auth everywhere possible.

BECUZ I IS AFEARED OF DA GUVMIT

they've wiretapped your SMS messages fyi

the ios app is like 15 bucks, but you can buy a package with the os x app for a deal. sooooo worth it ime. even setting the security aspect aside, it's just v v nice to not have to remember ANY passwords. especially for my job, which requires me to know like 20 different logins/passwords which change on a regular basis.

Any other suggestions in the MoneyWiz space or is that the best? Mint is driving me nuts.

Re 1pass, does it do anything that lastpass doesn't, besides being prettier...?

What Tracer said.

Hi Tracer!

hi don!

sktsh i don't know, i've never used lastpass.

I looked at lastpass at one point, discovered the switching cost (time) would be a nightmare

yeah 1password was a bit of a bitch to set up at first, at least the way i did it, which was to generate new strong passwords for literally everything. but after that it has been very low-maintenance.

i think it was the great gawker hack of 2012 that finally spurred me to action. either that or last.fm. or the playstation network.

the #1 annoying thing about lastpass is that its really just a browser plugin/ios app, so you still need to copy-paste its passwords (and usually enter your master pass) into non-browser apps

i signed up for lastpass b/c its the one the lifehacker guys all use. the big diff i think is that 1pass is all locally-stored (so if you want to use it on multiple computers you need to put the database in dropbox) whereas lastpass is all in the cloud