Subscribe To My Blog
Password management finally done right!
Update: Apparently MashedLife is a direct (and poor) word-for-word rip-off of www.PassPack.com. Having written software that gets poorly copied by other companies, right down to the marketing material, I can relate to how annoying it is. Don’t use MashedLife. Use PassPack.com instead.
Just the other day, I was lamenting at the end of this post about how I’d have to use some sad password manager that only kinda did what one would expect.
And now, a new free service called MashedLife.com has been released that does it perfectly. You can now manage all your passwords online and login to any site with one click, from any browser, on any computer, with no downloads. This solves all the problems with logging onto web sites!
It’s sheer brilliance and I’m now switching to MashedLife for all my password management. And of course, I signed up with my new OtherInbox email account, so I can easily manage the emails they send. Within a minute of signing up, I put my OtherInbox login information into MashedLife and added the Login bookmark to my bookmark list. Now when I go to that site, I just click the bookmark and it logs me in. Genius.
By the way, the signup was really quick and they have the coolest “captcha” ever. The only problem is that their Terms Of Service didn’t open in a popup, so I had to fill in the form again, after I clicked it.
I feel like computers are finally starting to get useful after all these years!
Sphere: Related Content
September 17th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Hm, I haven’t looked at their website a long time but.. do you really trust such an external entity with all your passwords? Even if they are trustworthy what if they get hacked?
[Reply]
September 18th, 2008 at 2:22 am
Hello.
Glad you’ve discovered the world of online password management - it really does make life a lot easier. I’m a founder at Passpack.com, so keep in mind my comment here is biased. That said, I’d like to give you a heads up. I’ve been in this industry for nearly 2 years, and there are plenty of great products out there. IMHO, MashedLife is not one of them.
Have a look here:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/17/mashed-life-tries-to-help-you-manage-your-web-20-life/#comment-2472477
If you’d like to try a alternative, there’s Passpack but also Clipperz and some other newcomers, or even OpenID providers like Verisign PIP and MyOpenID.
Good luck in your search. I know I just made strong claims, so if you have questions or would like more info, I’ll do my best to answer.
Tara Kelly
Passpack Founding Partner
tara [at] passpack [dot] com
[Reply]
September 19th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Hello John,
Thanks for writing about OtherInbox on your blog. The TC50 conference in San Francisco earlier this month was a great forum to launch our new service to the public and we were really honored to be chosen to participate. We’d like to invite you to join our private beta that we announced at the conference, and we’re happy to extend the invitation to your readers as well! Because we’re in private beta, you need to have a special URL to sign up. This URL will work for 26 invitations, if you want to post as a followup on your blog.
http://beta.otherinbox.com/signup/cfe97
Please let us know if you have any questions about the service. Thanks again!
~ The OtherInbox Team
[Reply]
October 6th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
John
You say don’t use mashed life in one paragraph and praise it in the next paragraph and I appreciate and will honor ignoring of ads that speak ill of you and the other John. I wish I had said that myself
[Reply]
October 8th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Wow! Trying is believing!
When looking at Mashed Life slogans I thought yet-another hype, but it is really delivering a service I’ve been dreaming for years. I put 56 accounts in mashed life now, only one doesn’t work well, all 55 of them work like a dream.
About the security concerns, I use secure password generator to generate the random long ones, and store them in mashed life.
But I’m not storing my banking accounts there yet in any password manager.
Thanks for the great blog and the dream service!
[Reply]
October 9th, 2008 at 4:18 am
John,
I tried Passpack based on your recommendation. What a poor service it is!? I gave up during the painful signup process. I like your blogs but something is wrong with your judgment today? We are humans, not crypto robots! Never forget about usability. If it is not usable, it is not human, sorry I’m confused about your blog this time.
[Reply]