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PasswordMaker: safe, secure, simple, site-specific, smart password management

I ran out of adjectives starting with “S” to describe what I believe is the very best password management solution currently available, PasswordMaker. PasswordMaker is an implementation of the on-the-fly site-specific web password hashing system.

How many accounts/passwords do you have? One for your Email? Bank(s)? Credit card(s)? Phone companies? School? Work? Utilities? Google? Yahoo? Facebook? MySpace? Amazon? Ebay? NYTimes? Torrent trackers? That annoying website that made you register just to use the simplest feature? (Oh wait, every website is like that nowadays.) I think you get the point. Even the average, casual Internet user can easily have dozens of accounts/passwords. In this day and age, computerized password management systems are absolutely necessary for even casual Internet users, and PasswordMaker is the king of password management.
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Minify and compress Javascript/CSS with minimal CPU overhead

With modern web designs, especially those with AJAXy features, you’d be shocked to find that Javascript and CSS contribute significantly to the amount of data your browser downloads for a webpage. Usually, the Javascript and CSS files are larger than the HTML webpage itself. Continuing my trend of debunking popular or common beliefs, read on for why on-the-fly JS/CSS compression that you read about on Digg often will actually crash your site hard when you get Dugg. I also present a simple yet more efficient way of compressing your files.
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