With in the increasing number of web based applications that have become essential to everyday life, keeping track of logins and passwords has become a losing battle for the technologically inclined. In years past it was manageable to keep track of two, perhaps 3 logins: email, the bank, a forum perhaps. Today though? Blogs, flickr, social networking: fragments of our online existence are scattered among databases far and wide.

Neccessity dictates that we find a more robust way to catalog the information we use to prove we are indeed ourselves to the many services we now hold dear. There are a variety of offerings out there, and I’d like to give a shout out to a little OSX app I’ve discovered called Pastor. Password protected, RC4 encrypted, and blatently free, Pastor allows the user to store their login information in a fashion that not only ensure you’ll be able to find it again, but that no one will be able to stumble upon your password to the “Saved by the Bell” fan fiction archive.