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November 4, 2009

I Just Paid for Something That's Free

I love Lastpass. It's become a mission critical piece of software for me. I use it several times a day, everyday. It's installed on every machine I have- I even use the bookmarklets on my iPhone. Best of all, it's free.

But not for me. Today I paid for it.

Why would I pay for something I can get for free? It's not the benefits of a premium subscription. Those are rather limited to a couple of enhanced security features I'll never use and an iPhone app that kind of sucks.

No, I decided to cough up the dough because the people at Lastpass have created a kickass product. Not only that, but they continue to crank out cutting-egde features like Google Chrome support, Windows application support, etc. Lastpass has made such a great product, and i rely so heavily on it, that I actually feel guilty NOT paying them for it. It's one of the extraordinarily few products I can honestly say that about.

That's really saying something about their software. What free product/ service would you openly pay for, given the option?

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October 1, 2009

Welcome to Your New Default Web Browser


Well that's that. The two extensions which are absolutely critical to my web browsing experience (XMarks + LastPass) are now available for dev builds of Google Chrome. Actually, Chrome's bookmark sync works very well. XMarks is really only required if you absolutely need to keep non-Chrome browser bookmarks in sync. But now I can finally declare Chrome lord and master of my desktop.

Strange thing is, I always thought AdBlock Plus would be the killer extension. (Site note- holy crap. I just launched Firefox so I could look up the proper name for "AdBlock Plus". It took ~20 seconds to launch.) But honestly, I don't mind ads so much. I'm nearly completely desensitized to them now. Things pop up in my sidebar and I don't even see them. After staring at my screen for 10 mins, I still couldn't tell you what the ads said. Speed really does make for a much more pleasant browsing experience.

I've been using the Chrome dev channel builds for about a month, and aside from a crash here and there, the builds are remarkably stable. Firefox is still installed for only 1 reason- Fireshot is a great screenshotting app. But I'm sure it's only a matter of time before that's replaced as well.

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