Top 10 Password Management Apps To Keep Your Digital Life safe and Secured

1. Password (Free)
One of the most well known names in the business, 1Password makes it simple to store usernames and passwords, as well as credit card information, addresses and even simple notes. It’ll easily generate new passwords for you before filling websites with the information in a couple of taps. A pro service offers additional categories such as bank accounts, and driver’s licenses, for a fee.

2. LastPass (Free)
LastPass simply requires you to remember one password, before doing the rest for you, automatically filling in your logins, and even allowing you to sign in via TouchID. Offering a place to store membership details, IDs, software keys and pretty much everything else you want to keep private, the app is a Swiss Army Knife of security features. It’ll even give you a heads up when other sites or services have been hacked, reminding you to be extra vigilant.

3. SplashID (Free)
SplashID is a well established password storage system, providing a place for all your secure data. With a choice of cloud syncing or Wi-Fi syncing, you can be in complete control. Secure sharing also means you can share content with other SplashID users, plus there are attachment options and a photo capturing service.

4. Dashlane (Free)
Dashlane offers a stylish interface while keeping your passwords secure. It syncs across all devices easily, while encrypting your data at all times. Autofill login makes browsing different sites a breeze, while still allowing you to use highly complex passwords. An auto-lock feature keeps things safe even if you lose your iOS device, too.

5. mSecure Password Manager ($9.99)
Offering a one time price rather than requiring a subscription, mSecure Password Manager provides the typical features of password generation and 256bit encryption. An auto-backup reminder keeps on top of things, while a series of templates makes it super easy to enter new data and information.

6. Enpass Password Manager (Free)
Available on multiple platforms, Enpass Password Manager embraces TouchID making it easy to unlock your content at a tap of your finger. No subscription is required with a number of preset templates ensuring your data is easy to enter, before being kept secure. Folder support makes it a breeze to navigate too.

7. PasswordWallet ($4.99)
PasswordWallet prides itself on the fact you don’t require iTunes or any special software to easily backup, restore, and view your data on any PC, while also managing your passwords. It’ll easily sync up with PC or Mac, as well as work across multiple files and computers, being a particular advantage to more complex needs.

8. Keeper (Free)
Keeper takes seconds to set up, storing unlimited number of passwords, only accessible via your fingerprint. It’ll generate new ones, as well as auto-fill content in apps and websites. You can store files, photos and videos within a private vault, ensuring everything on your phone is safely tucked away. Two-step verification can also be set up for added security.

9. eWallet ($9.99)
eWallet offers a place to store your passwords, credit cards, and bank account numbers all behind high end encryption. A password generator is included, along with an auto-locking feature, TouchID support, and extensive syncing functionality. It’s optimized for the iPad too, providing multitasking support for added ease.

10. DataVault Password Manager ($9.99)
A well known name in the field, DataVault might look dated but it’s pretty powerful. The app offers AES encryption, Touch ID support, iCloud syncing, and automatic backups. It’s possible to set it up so everything is wiped after too many incorrect login attempts, but there’s always the option of a hint too. A series of templates makes it ideal for multiple forms of data.

Top 5 ways to be a better programmer in 2016

Coders make resolutions, no? If your to-do better list is still empty, consider these ideas from other programmers to put to use in the new year. Even the smartest folks have room to grow.

Great tips to help you sharpen your programming skills.

1. Check Your Code First Before Looking to Blame Others

Question your own assumptions and the assumptions of others. Tools from different vendors might have different assumptions built into them so too might different tools from the same vendor.

When someone else is reporting a problem you cannot duplicate, go and see what they are doing. They may be doing something you never thought of or are doing something in a different order.

My personal rule is that if I have a bug I can’t pin down, and I’m starting to think it’s the compiler, then it’s time to look for stack corruption. This is especially true if adding trace code makes the problem move around. Multi threaded problems are another source of bugs that turn hair gary and induce screaming at the machine. All the recommendations to favor simple code are multiplied when a system is multi threaded. Debugging and unit tests cannot be relied on to find such bugs with any consistency, so simplicity of design is paramount

2. Continuous Learnig

Read books, magazines, blogs, Twitter feeds, and websites. If you want to go deeper into a subject, consider joining a mailing list or newsgroup.

If you really want to get immersed in a technology, get hands on—write some code.Always try to work with a mentor, as being the top guy can hinder your education. Although you can learn something from anybody, you can learn a whole lot more from someone smarter or more experienced than you. If you can’t find a mentor, consider moving on.Use virtual mentors. Find authors and developers on the Web who you really like and read everything they write. Subscribe to their blogs.Get to know the frameworks and libraries you use. Knowing how something works makes you know how to use it better. If they’re open source, you’re really in luck. Use the debugger to step through the code to see what’s going on under the hood. You’ll get to see code written and reviewed by some really smart people

3. Don’t Be Afraid to Break Things

Don’t be afraid of your code. Who cares if something gets temporarily broken while you move things around? A paralyzing fear of change is what got your project into this state to begin with. Investing the time to refactor will pay for itself several times over the lifecycle of your project. An added benefit is that your team’s experience dealing with the sick system makes you all experts in knowing how it should work. Apply this knowledge rather than resent it. Working on a system you hate is not how anybody should have to spend his time. Redefine internal interfaces, restructure modules, refactor copy-pasted code, and simplify your design by reducing dependencies. You can significantly reduce code complexity by eliminating corner cases, which often result from improperly coupled features. Slowly transition the old structure into the new one, testing along the way. Trying to accomplish a large refactor in “one big shebang” will cause enough problems to make you consider abandoning the whole effort midway through.

4. The Professional Programmer

The single most important trait of a professional programmer is personal responsibility. Professional programmers take responsibility for their career, their estimates, their schedule commitments, their mistakes, and their workmanship. A professional programmer does not pass that responsibility off on others.

If you are a professional, then you are responsible for your own career. You are responsible for reading and learning. You are responsible for staying up to date with the industry and the technology. Too many programmers feel that it is their employer’s job to train them. Sorry, this is just dead wrong. Do you think doctors behave that way? Do you think lawyers behave that way? No, they train themselves on their own time, and their own nickel. They spend much of their off-hours reading journals and decisions. They keep themselves up to date. And so must we. The relationship between you and your employer is spelled out nicely in your employment contract. In short: your employer promises to pay you, and you promise to do a good job.

5. Take Advantage of Code Analysis Tools

The value of testing is something that is drummed into software developers from the early stages of their programming journey. In recent years, the rise of unit testing, test-driven development, and agile methods has attested to a surge of interest in making the most of testing throughout all phases of the development cycle. However, testing is just one of many tools that you can use to improve the quality of code.

Back in the mists of time, when C was still a new phenomenon, CPU time and storage of any kind were at a premium. The first C compilers were mindful of this and so cut down on the number of passes through the code they made by removing some semantic analyses. This meant that the compiler checked for only a small subset of the bugs that could be detected at compile time. To compensate, Stephen Johnson wrote a tool called lint—which removes the fluff from your code—that implemented some of the static analyses that had been removed from its sister C compiler. Static analysis tools, however, gained a reputation for giving large numbers of false-positive warnings and warnings about stylistic conventions that aren’t always necessary to follow.

The current landscape of languages, compilers, and static analysis tools is very different. Memory and CPU time are now relatively cheap, so compilers can afford to check for more errors. Almost every language boasts at least one tool that checks for violations of style guides, common gotchas, and sometimes cunning errors that can be hard to catch, such as potential null pointer dereferences. The more sophisticated tools, such as Splint for C or Pylint for Python, are configurable, meaning that you can choose which errors and warnings the tool emits with a configuration file, via command-line switches, or in your IDE. Splint will even let you annotate your code in comments to give it better hints about how your program works.