Popular OS X app 1Password has received an update to version 3.6, mostly adding support for OS X Lion and dropping support for OS X Leopard and PowerPC Macs. The main reason for the drop in support for the older OS and PowerPC Macs is that the number of their users running 1Password has dropped dramatically (less than 6% of 1Password users are using Leopard), making it quite pointless for the developers to keep them supported. Also, some new features that developer AgileBits wished to include such as Grand Central Dispatch, which was introduced with Snow Leopard, weren’t possible if they chose to keep supporting Leopard.

It was 1Password 3 that finally got my attention. I was talking to my friend Luis about my need for an application to store my bank PINs, endless set of card numbers, passwords, etc. After he finished counting backwards from ten to one and overcome the need to hit me in the head, he gently reminded me of this program he’d been telling me about for months. He showed me the Wallet feature of his 1Password local installation, and that was it; I was sold!

In celebration of Thanksgiving (and likely Black Friday as well), Agile Web Solutions is offering their iPhone app known as 1Password Pro touch to its customers completely free of charge (the app normally goes for $7.99). If you’re interested in this deal, don’t wait too long; the offer is only valid until December 1st. Even if you don’t use the Mac version of this app, 1Password touch is a great password manager for your iPhone or iPod touch

Do you have nightmares about people logging into your account on your Mac and accessing your personal data? Well, Upek has a product for the paranoid types, and it could prove useful for others in the coming days, as well. It’s called the Eikon To Go, and it keeps your user account secure without requiring you to memorize a War and Peace length password. This because the Eikon To Go is a fingerprint scanner.

Agile Web Solutions today announced the release of 1Password version 2.6.3 with new autosave in Safari, a new strong password generator window, the ability to generate non-web passwords, and other improvements. This update is free to all paid 1Password customers. What is 1Password? The most widely used password manager for Mac OS X (according to more »

Quite possibly the world’s best password manager, 1Password, has been updated to version 2.5.12 today with some new features, changes and bug fixes than need be listed. Those who like to be up-to-date with the betas will have noticed that 2.6 Beta 6 was also released. Beta 6 also includes some new improvements, including support more »

For those of you who missed out on the downloadable MacHeist Bundle, MacHeist recently announced that a hard-copy version will be for sale soon. At MacHeist.com, there is a teaser video, showing a vault with the Bundle in it getting robbed, and a line at the end that tells you to buy it before the time runs out. Below are more info on some of the apps with which I have had personal experience:

Cover Sutra: When paired with iTunes, Cover Sutra acts as a control for your music from the Desktop. You can customize its great UI to your preferences, making this a good looking, though fairly pointless, app all the better.

I’m an avid user of 1Password, and could not live without it. Sadly I was forced to wait between the amount of time Safari 3.1 was released and an updated version of 1Password was released. Luckily, the time between the two releases was only a few days. A new version, 2.5.12 was released, which of more »

Do you have an iPhone or iPod Touch? Then there’s good news for you. The makers of 1Password, Agile Web Solutions, are creating an auto-fill app for the iPhone. This means on your iPhone, typing passwords are a thing of the past. Instead, let 1Password fill it for you. They managed to do it best more »