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Simple and elegant 



- Version: 1.1, 8/31/2006 09:14AM PST
jonathan smythe
I've been using MiniFonts Base for about six months now and it has become indispensable. It is very easy to use - once you get past the rather strict set-up wizard. I really love the mini keypad pin entry idea in the bottom left corner. It's okay if you are using a mouse, with a trackpad it gets a bit fiddly but you can always type in your password in regular fashion.
I use it for my credit card details and log-in passwords for various email and ftp accounts and can move the data file on a USB pen drive between my Mac at home and my PC at work. Yes, it could do a lot of other things but what it does it does well. Simple and elegant, that's what I like.
I paid the original $15 licensing fee and considered it to be a bargain at that.
I use it for my credit card details and log-in passwords for various email and ftp accounts and can move the data file on a USB pen drive between my Mac at home and my PC at work. Yes, it could do a lot of other things but what it does it does well. Simple and elegant, that's what I like.
I paid the original $15 licensing fee and considered it to be a bargain at that.
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- Version: 1.1, 10/27/2003 12:51PM PST
Shark Attack Design
I was a long-time user of VSE MyPrivacy under OS9 and became increasingly vexed by that company's seemingly stubborn refusal to port their software to OSX (claiming technical difficulties... I mean we're talking about a simple, text-only database app. But I digress). However, I searched in vain to find an OSX equivalent, ie. a password keeper that offered decent encryption and was NOT field-based so I could paste any information I wanted into it -- for example the full installation/registration instructions for shareware. Oh, and it had to be backwards compatible with OS9 (for those freelance days when I'm working on someone else's pre-X machine and still want to be able to look up my banking passwords).
MiniFonts Base! fulllfiled all of my criteria and has proved itself a worthy successor to VSE MyPrivacy. True, the OS9 and OSX versions are separate apps, rather than being a single carbonised app, but they can both use the same database file, so there is no need to maintain two databases full of information (which would have made it unusable). All in all an excellent little app, incredibly easy to use and does exactly what I ask of it. I agree that the icon is a bit abstract and the application's name is less than informative, but I'm not deducting stars for that. What I am deducting one star for is that it would be nice to have URLs entered in the database be clickable (would make it even easier to log into a bank site).
MiniFonts Base! fulllfiled all of my criteria and has proved itself a worthy successor to VSE MyPrivacy. True, the OS9 and OSX versions are separate apps, rather than being a single carbonised app, but they can both use the same database file, so there is no need to maintain two databases full of information (which would have made it unusable). All in all an excellent little app, incredibly easy to use and does exactly what I ask of it. I agree that the icon is a bit abstract and the application's name is less than informative, but I'm not deducting stars for that. What I am deducting one star for is that it would be nice to have URLs entered in the database be clickable (would make it even easier to log into a bank site).
I had been intending to use the encryption facility of iOrganize to secure bank account and credit card details and suchlike - until I discovered how easy it is in that program to lose the data for ever. So I searched for a simple way of encrypting notes and found this: I wish I'd come across it sooner. It's simple, versatile, powerful, secure: behaves exactly as described - and free!.