Daaaaaamn. I run my Lenovo Ideapad plugged in all the time, and I get about 3.5 hours battery life, give or take.
I spent a little extra to get the biggest, baddest battery Lenovo had available for it.
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Gudanov - Nov 30, 2011 10:31:01 am PST #18677 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2011 1:26:57 pm PST #18678 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
People who use Windows password vault service/etc--which would you recommend? LastPass or Keeper? No need to bother with KeePass, since it's for my sister, and the complexity would turn her right off.
If there's another easy option I'm missing, I'd love to hear it.
I initially went with LastPass because LifeHacker spoke highly of it, but it's highly browser integrated, and it took forever and technical support for me to make it even open up with the Wi Fi connection dead. However, it natively supplants the password manager on IE, Chrome, and Firefox (poor Opera!), as well as providing a lookup feature. It just doesn't seem to cater much towards passwords that *aren't* for websites, either.
Now I'm exploring Keeper on Windows. It's what I have on my Android devices, so we'll see.
Ginger - Nov 30, 2011 1:30:22 pm PST #18679 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I've been using LastPass for about two months, ita ! It was erratic in how well it imported my passwords from my old password manager, but otherwise seems to work pretty well. It is very web based, as you say.
Jessica - Nov 30, 2011 1:38:58 pm PST #18680 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I've been getting dozens of calls every day from a number that shows up only as Blocked/unknown. Sometimes they even leave (empty) voicemails. I accidentally answered it once and there's nobody on the other end. I'm guessing it's some kind of auto dialer gone haywire since I'm pretty sure I don't have a stalker.
Any idea how I can block this? Its already showing up as a blocked number but obviously it's still ringing.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2011 1:57:09 pm PST #18681 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm having a real disconnect with an application that wants you to fire up a browser to work even if you don't have an internet connection. It's WEIRD, dammit.
Gris - Nov 30, 2011 2:30:07 pm PST #18682 of 25501
Hey. New board.
I love LastPass, but I only use it for web passwords. I can see how it might suck for other passwords.
le nubian - Nov 30, 2011 2:40:20 pm PST #18683 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I love 1password: it is available for windows, but I use it on the mac and iphone and I really dig it.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2011 2:45:26 pm PST #18684 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nah, I'm not spending $25 on password software on her for Christmas. It's kind of anticlimactic.
le nubian - Nov 30, 2011 2:49:23 pm PST #18685 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
then is there a secure note application? that might work the same way as a password app that she might not want to save in the browser?
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2011 2:52:24 pm PST #18686 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What I like about the password app is that it calls out URL, user ID, password, etc.
Of course, you could just do it in a password-enabled spreadsheet, but where's the fun in that?
I'm probably going to go with Keeper. I'll have to stare at it some more when I get home.