In conjunction with the freeware title called sharedSecrets that we introduced yesterday, another problem in joining multiple websites is to generate random passwords. A few weeks ago, an advertising network company we are affiliated with started delivering porn ads to our system. They’ve eventually screwed up our account. So we’ve been looking for new ones these days. Some of them are too slow in responding. Some of them cannot be trusted. So we’ve ended up creating close to a dozen accounts. If you do it 10 to 12 times, it’s not fun manually generating random usernames and passwords, you know?

So we need help in generating random usernames and passwords as much as we need to comprehensively manage them. A couple of days ago, we ran into a freeware title called Password Builder. It looks nice. It even supports Greek characters to generate strong passwords. But… It will run only under Leopard. Hmm… So what are other choices do OS X 10.4 users have?

And we found another Mac freeware title called RPG (Random Password Generator) by David Kreindler. That’s what this software review is all about. So let’s see how RPG works.  Continue reading →