...and I can't remember what I was going to write about. That's what I get for having put off running vinegar through my drip coffee maker for the past month. It's running through now, so I'm stuck with a Diet Pepsi instead of what Natural Selection intended -- fresh ground coffee. I'm destined to surf the web for an hour, then shower and head into work.
Oh. Now I remember.
RoboForm. It's great. Yeah. I'm one who has a thing about having a totally unique password for every site. I know people who have one password, or at least one main one, for everywhere they go. Uh uh. That's just asking for trouble. Yet, I've had an Internet connection since 1993, and was online in local BBS's since 1986...so suffice it to say I have a few online accounts racked up out here. RoboForm handles the problem of remembering them all very nicely. It installs a toolbar (eeek, not another toolbar...yeah) in your browser of choice, then it remembers all your login information for you. You set one password to remember, and RoboForm fills all the others in for you, including login names, wherever you go. It'll also remember all the form-filling information you want it to, such as your phone number, email address, street address, name, age...whatever, then you can use it when you visit a "sign up" page. Very handy for entering those online sweepstakes, opening up yet another web account, etc. It also allows one to save multiple identities, and it allows for multiple users on the same machine. And one can look at one's login information, for any site, at any time (just make sure no one is standing behind you when you do, as all the passwords show up in all their textual glory).
Of course, they hooked me with their free trial, then it disabled itself. At that point I usually say to myself, "That was fun," then uninstall whatever it is. Not this time. I bought three licenses, for three PC's in my house. I use their nifty little GoodSync tool to keep the encrypted files sync'd up among my PC's via a secure USB flash drive.
Check it out at http://www.roboform.com/.
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