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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Password Manager and Form Filler - JD COOL!

The best way to describe this application is to describe my experience with it. Obviously, being the IT geek that I so adamantly proclaim not to be, I spend the majority of my work day on the web.

Need an answer? Search the web!

What's new? Search the web!

Check your mail? Use the web!

So as time goes by you tend to wonder off into distant 'worlds' that you did not know existed. You find fascinating articles and amazing newsletters. You want to join various groups, forums and check your daily routine sites.

My initial frustration began with internet banking. Each time that you log onto your bank's website, you need to enter the excessively long and completely illogical user id and pin and secret phrase and account number and whatever other means of frustration that can be conjoured up by the cruel security experts.

Knowing that you cannot possibly remember all this info for each site, I decided to keep a small log of various logins. Very nice, I thought! I wonder if anyone else has thought of that?

mmm...seems like a number of people had...but no one quite as well as RoboForm.

Heres what you can do with RoboForm:

Manage Passwords
Fill online forms with one click
Encrypt passwords
Generate secure passwords
Backup and Synchronise passwords between computers
Fight Phishing and Defeat Keyloggers

So now, I keep a list of all the sites that I frequently visit that require logging in, in RoboForm. Every time I have to fill in a new for online, I use RoboForm. If I restore my PC for any reason or buy a new one, I automatically synchronise this information using RoboForm. RoboFormworks on most browsers and is available for free (with limitations). I downloaded the free trial, which has no expiry and ended up buying the Pro version very quickly. Do yourself a favour. Get your free trial now!