In a world of tabbed browsers, does the "length of visit" stat mean anything about a website anymore?

Not really. You can measure stickiness much better by how much people did while there - lots of page views within the site from the same visitor, and/or lots of activity on a web app. But even in pre-tab days, simply not leaving the site was a pretty useless metric, since if they just stayed on the landing page it often meant that you were stuck in a background window.

Thanks, that's what I was thinking, when someone gave me that stat like it meant anything.

Why would gmail forget all the senders' addresses from whom I want images shown?

Ouch, that grammar hurt.

Jon, mine has been doing that too.

Yeah, it's not just us: [link] and [link]

Remains of the Day: Happy 15th Birthday to Opera Edition

There is also a nice little cartoon about the birth of Opera.

password question.

As more and more websites need passwords/usernames/prompt questions, and each site having different requirements for length/numbers/capitals/ID questions/etc, I find my getting old brain is having trouble remembering them all. Is there a safe application that can store them all? I could make a FileMaker Pro database, but worried that it's not secure enough. Currently, I don't have *any* of them written down. Thoughts? Advice?

Oh, I'm on a Mac.

Applications -> Utilities -> Keychain Manager will probably fit your needs. If not, there are payware alternatives available.

General stuff about managing your passwords: Password Lessons and Tips from Our Readers

They seem to like KeePass: KeePass Password Safe

omnis,

I love 1password.

It is really fabulous for remembering all my passwords. The one area where it does not do well is multiple gmail passwords, but beyond that it has everything including my credit cards.

I also have it synching to another computer through dropbox and that works fine as well. it has an extension for firefox and safari.