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April 14, 2008

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Keep your license and registration close at hand

Posted Apr. 14, ’08, 8:59 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Software

licensed.jpgI have a lot of software. A lot. Most of which, to be fair, I don’t even use that much. Even so, it’s a good idea to keep track of all of the licenses to the apps you own, even if you use them only infrequently—after all, you paid good money for them at some point.

But where to keep that information? If you use what I like to describe as the “Centralized Information Monolith Model” that I use, you keep it in your mailbox, along with every other piece of vital information you own. The more organized among you (coughDerikcough) use some namby-pamby fancypants app like Yojimbo.

Here’s a third option for the in-betweeeners: Amar Sagoo’s new Licensed, a free app that keeps track of all your software licenses. It’s really a pretty simple app, but it does sport some neat features: for example, dragging an application icon from the Finder onto Licensed’s app will automatically fill in much of the information about the app for you (though, in my tests, it didn’t input the license key itself—I still had to do that by hand). I’m not sure I’m about to take the time to dig through my information monolith to transfer all my data into Licensed, but for those among you looking for a new solution, have at it.

[via Macworld]


3 Comments

Sam said:

Is it really that hard to just have a text file with applications and keys? Geeze.

April 14, 2008 10:55 AM
Paul Martin said:

I actually use Keychain Access (built into the MacOS) to store personal data, making sure that the password to open the Keychain is very secure.

You can do this by creating 'secure notes' in keychain access, and with .Mac syncing every mac you use (and sync with) will have the information there (even if you're using a friend's computer or guest account). Very useful.

Paul

April 14, 2008 12:58 PM
Andrew said:

It's a licence! A licence, I say! Ah, you heathen American spellers!

April 14, 2008 8:27 PM

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