Passwd Composer solves the problem of creating unique passwords for different sites, so that a compromise of one site doesn’t lead to all of your logins being compromised.

Password Composer combines a master password with the site name (using an MD5 hash) to generate a unique password for each site.

Sounds great, but if it were too cumbersome too use it wouldn’t have value. The magic of password composer is a Firefox extension or IE Bookmarklet that makes the master password functionality just a click away.

Google Local guys, if you are listening:

The beta Mobile Google local results are much better for mobile devices than the PC pages, but still are not truly mobile friendly, at least for a device like the Blackberry. The overview map at the top of the page takes up too much precious “above the fold” screen real estate, for example, and there’s too much white space between hits.

Nonetheless, a promising start.

There is a beta version of Mobile Google Local available now.

This was first mentioned in SearchEngineWatch as a UK only feature, but US addresses work as well.

These results may well be good enough to get Berry 411 out of the content reformatting business for yellow pages results; Berry 411 can focus purely on being a very convenient front end. I’m going to try plugging it and gather feedback.

I especially like the mobile friendly Google maps.