Saturday, October 09, 2004

Microsoft has a very eclectic collection of products aquired for all sorts of reasons over the years and which see the light of day (or not) by many varied means. Microsoft Expression, for example, is a pretty good vector drawing app a la Adobe Illustrator which you can download for FREE! It's listed as version 3.3 Beta and 'not for sale' but does not seem to fit into any family, and it's an app of a type currently missing from Office so maybe it might eventually end up there... who knows? anyway, its a very worthwhile - if large (57.6MB) - download. [Eric Hartwell: Ping]
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Password Scrambler Screen ShotPassword Scrambler by /n software inc is free and gives you a quick way to create unique passwords for all of the sites you visit by generating a one way hashed password based on your own private password and the target site's domain. Using it is as simple as clicking a new button on your IE toolbar. Nice! It looks like Keith Brown created a similar tool in a recent MSDN Magazine article. The last line in Keith's article says it all: What really matters is that you pick a password management tool that you trust and that you use it consistently. Don't settle for using the same password everywhere you go! [Scott Watermasysk 9/29/2004]
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