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keyFinder is a simple frontend for osx’s keychain.

Here’s the background.

I was using quicksilver with the keychainmodule. Quicksilver is a great app and everything worked out just fine. Thats until i upgraded osx to leopard and the keychain module broke. After that i heard somewhere that the author of quicksilver said that development will never be continued. From that momemt i decided that i needed another way of handling my passwords (even do i got the module to work).

I have tried a dussin of password-apps but no one seems simple enough, all i asked for is something i can bring up with a simple key-combination and then search for the password i want and hit enter to copy it to the clipboard. I dont need anything else…..

About a month ago i decided that to get what i want i have to build it my self and here we are now. I have decided to share my little app with the rest of the world. Maybe there is someone with the same issues i had

keyFinder v0.5 screenshot

I’ve always loved keychain but “keychain access” is not that user friendly. Anyway,  keychain felt like the natural way of storing password so thats what i use as password-database-backend.

When choosing keychain as backend all i needed to do was a simple frontend

Feutures: 

• Global-shortcut to bring the app to front (Option + Command + P).
• Smart search (Like in Textmate).
• Search passwords in every keychain.
• Minimizes when password is copied to clipboard.
• Asks to unlock keychain if locked.
• Automatically checks for updates.
• Reset your search with backspace.

Missing feutures:

download: keyFinder_v0.5.dmg () added: 02/08/2008 description: keyFinder v0.5 - Experimental release