WebDesign&Such

Well I’m a designer, (duh), so I work with color every day. There are a ton of different tools to make using color easier both on and offline. I was going to make a post about the top 5 sources/ tools that I use for color palettes, picking, etc… but I’ve decided to take them one at a time.. I think they are so important that they are all worthy of separate posts. Then maybe I will create one post summarizing them all.

I’m going to start off with my favorite. This is a Firefox Add-On (mental note.. create a Firefox Add-On post), that I use almost daily. It’s called ColorZilla.

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Yesterday I talked about KeyMaster, a Password Management System. Article Link

Today I’m going to show another quick add on that can help speed up the password creation process. If you have a Mac (if you don’t I’m sorry for you!), you know about widgets. Quick little programs such as a clock, ski report, dictionary, etc. I found a password generator widget, so now creating passwords is as easy as opening the dashboard and hitting Generate. Copy, paste into Keymaster and you are good to go. I love little programs like that.

Download the password generator widget here.

If you’re like me, you have a million passwords and user names for a ton of different websites and services. I decided it was time to organize these into some sort of a system. Sure, they could be put in a Word or Excel doc. But I figured there must be a simple program out there made specifically for this..so I went Google hunting.

After looking at a few options, (crossing off anything that cost money), I found a nice solution. KeyMaster 1.0.2 password manager for Mac OSX did exactly what I needed.

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