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Doh! A new piece of software I couldn’t live without: Spotify.

1Password is a very powerful application for OSX to keep safe your passwords and identities. It works as a standalone application and as a series of plugins for several Internet browsers. It is capable of, among other things, autofill registration forms and save you a lot of time filling in the same personal information again and again. To autofill a login form, just click the 1P browser menu bar icon, choose a previously recorded identity and voila, 1Password logins in automagically with no further interaction.

All the harvested information is stored in a different keychain unlocked by a master key placed in the login keychain (See “Keychain access.app” for more information).

Macheist, in collaboration with Agile Web Solutions, is offering free licenses as a Christmas present here. You only have to create and account and click in the links below the tree to get your free license.

I’ve finally committed the crime :)

I’ve been looking for a new monitor for a lot of time. Given I’ve decided to use my new Macbook as my unique desktop system it turned necessary to buy a new display to exploit in a better way the capacity of this marvelous operating system, MacOSX. 

Starting with the idea of buying a simple LCD 20″ monitor and after asking a bunch of anonymous multimedia and imaging amateurs for advice I ended up opening my scope and buying a gorgeous 23″ FullHD Dell display.

The monitor arrived today. Connecting it to my macbook through VGA was easy as pie, it looks incredibly stunning at 1920×1080. One of the main advantages of this display is its aspect ratio. Having an AR of 16:9 allows you to get rid of the annoying black parts on screen while watching 16:9 TV shows downloaded from the Internet. This way, you get an actual full screen :)

Take my advice and if you have in mind buying a new display evade old fashioned resolutions such as 1680×1050 and enjoy the FullHD experience.

I’ve also bought a wired Apple keyboard&mouse which have improved my desktop experience even more, having now a comfortable desktop setup to enjoy even more one of the things I do more often, spending uncountable hours in front of my beloved computer.

That’s all folks!