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Bigfoot conference!

Nick Loadholtes — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:21:09 +0000

According to USAToday.com there is a Bigfoot conference going on in Texas this weekend.

Of course, if you had my Sasquatch News Dashboard Widget you’d know about this. Here’s a screen shot of what the news looks like now:

The Sasquatch News widget

Nick Loadholtes — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:31:56 +0000

I’ve created another widget, this one pulls the latest headlines for Sasquatch and Bigfoot and brings them to your OS X Dashboard! This fun and free widget can be downloaded from here. Enjoy!!!

Thank you anonymous donor!

Nick Loadholtes — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:33:39 +0000

Someone left a present for me in the Tip Jar! Thank you so very much who every you are! (The Amazon sites doesn’t show me who it was, just a transaction number.) I’m really excited, this is such a big boost for my morale. I mean simply getting the Password Maker widget done and out the door was a big thing, but now that someone has liked it enough to donate to the cause, that has kicked me into orbit. I was feeling pretty motivated before, so watch out now, I’m gonna be coding up a storm this weekend!

And as a side note, my next widget is almost done and I’m hoping to have it published this weekend. Keep checking back here for the latest news!

A widget is born!

Nick Loadholtes — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 01:32:00 +0000

I’m proud to announce that I have created a widget for the OS X Dashboard!

Its called PasswordMaker and it is designed to help you create reasonably secure passwords that are easier to remember. For example, when making a new password, people will usually pick something that they can remember like the name of their dog. The problem is that if your dog’s name is "Maddie" then there is a chance that a hacker could guess that word. Then the password is no good!

PasswordMaker takes your word and "mangles" it so that it looks like the old word, but isn’t. Take the name "Maddie". If you feed that into PasswordMaker it would produce "M8dDI3" or "M8ddIE" or even "MADdEYE3". These suggestions make better passwords because they contain numbers, mixed case, and even special characters.

PasswordMaker is setup to be random, so you can feed in a word and hit the "Make a password" button several times until you get a combination that you like (i.e. one that you are sure you’ll be able to memorize).

Best of all, the widget is free! Can’t beat that price with a stick. So swing by my website and download it today !

Tags: OS X, Widgets