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Passpack Hits NBC-TV With “PC Mike”

Sep. 19, 2008

“PC Mike” Wedland not only posted a great Passpack review on his blog but did an NBC-TV segment on us too. Thanks PC Mike!
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Comments Off By Louise | Posted in In the Press

Passpack’s New Additions: Yahoo! and Facebook

Sep. 17, 2008

Passpack recently gave users the option of signing in with their OpenID, Google or Windows Live account. Now you can use Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! and Facebook with Passpack.
Keep in mind that if you’re not a Passpack user yet, you can sign up for an account using any of the above. And if you are a [...]

11 comments By Louise | Posted in Announcements, Company & Product News

Passpack’s Servers Move to Canada

Sep. 11, 2008

Passpack’s servers no longer reside in Switzerland – we have moved to a data center in Canada. We are progressively strengthening the backend which requires a stronger architecture. After some searching, we found one.
Users may have felt some light turbulence along this bumpy Transatlantic trip, one of which has been the 1Click Login. There are [...]

Comments Off By Louise | Posted in Announcements

Passpack Sponsors Rome’s First Girl Geek Dinner

Sep. 9, 2008

What are you doing on September 26, 2008? If you are a girl and you are a geek – Passpack is proud to sponsor the first ever Girl Geek Dinner in Rome, Italy!
We Passpack ladies are looking forward to socializing with our fellow technologically-inclined female friends. If you want to know a little more about [...]

Comments Off By Louise | Posted in Announcements, Passpack Lounge

SSL Certificate Issues With Explorer 7

Sep. 9, 2008

Passpack recently upgraded it’s SSL certificate to an Extended Validation Certificate. Everything was working fine, however Internet Explorer 7 was not showing the typical “green bar“.
Upon installing the library for Apache which fixed the issue for Explorer 7 (last night), the certificate started showing as invalid for other browsers.
We’ve now removed the Explorer 7 specific [...]

Comments Off By Tara | Posted in Maintenance

Tara Talks on Words Cause Radio

Sep. 8, 2008

Tara was interviewed by Words Cause Radio on Saturday. If you are curious to know a little more about Passpack’s co-founder and the beginnings of Passpack, you may want to check out the Words Cause Radio show which features Passpack’s very own Tara who was asked to speak about how she has helped make passpack.com [...]

Comments Off By Louise | Posted in In the Press

OpenID, Google & Windows Live: Welcome to Passpack

Sep. 2, 2008

It’s here at last, you’ve been asking for it and we finally managed to get it up and running:

Who’s next?
So how will it all work? Good question, I’ll try and guide you through the first steps and general process.

If you have any one of these accounts you can sign up with Passpack using them
If [...]

18 comments By Dani | Posted in Announcements, Company & Product News

Passpack And OpenID: Under the Hood

Sep. 1, 2008

Happy September everyone! Last week we threw around some ideas on which OpenID providers to accept and more importantly which not to accept.
There was a ton of feedback (thank you!) and in the end we decided that instead of a “whitelist”, the Sign In page will display icons of OpenID providers which work well with [...]

Comments Off By Tara | Posted in Company & Product News

Maintenance Aug. 23-25

Aug. 23, 2008

Over the next few days, Passpack will be undergoing intermittent maintenance.
You will be able to connect to Passpack as usual during the entire time, no significant gap in service is expected. However you may encounter short periods where your account is read-only.
This means you will continue to have access to your account, but you [...]

Comments Off By Tara | Posted in Maintenance

How Passpack and OpenID can complement each other?

Aug. 1, 2008

Passpack plans on contributing to the spread of OpenID by becoming a consumer! By the end of the summer you will be able to use your OpenID to login to your Passpack account.
You heard it straight from the horse’s mouth.
OpenID In A Nutshell
OpenID is an open source authentication system which allows websites to identify you [...]

Comments Off By Louise | Posted in Announcements