You Can't Coach That

Free Software

While reading Hamarana, another great Aussie blog, I found a link to Comodo’s free products. One particular program that looks interesting and that I will be trying out over the next few days is iVault. Here’s what they have to say about it:

iVault saves time by providing instantaneous logins to any username/password secured web pages such as online banking and email account sites. It also doubles up as a 256 bit secure storage for private and confidential information such as credit card details and social security numbers and protects against the very latest key-logging Trojan Horse viruses.

This looks very much to me like Roboform which would have to be the most useful piece of software I have ever bought (actually my Dad paid for it - thanks Dad). I currently have 142 user name and password combinations saved by roboform and they all allow me to log into 142 different web pages with only one click. I would be absolutely lost without it.

Up until now I haven’t always recommended Roboform to others because of the cost but now there may be an alternative. I will post again when I have tested it.

“You can’t coach that”

I’ll be waiting for your final on this one.  There are times I could just pull my hair out.  I have way too many usernames and passwords…

Another technology we’ll probably be seeing more of in the future is OpenID - http://openid.net/ - quite a few sites are already using the framework that provides user-centric digital identities to web users.

Never heard of roboform...I’ll check it out

Hate to admit it but I’m worthless at coming up with combinations of username/passwords - but it would appear that you have a natural ability - 142 different combinations!!  I am seriously impressed.

Strange, I always thought Roboform was free - I remember a while back when I was using Avantbrowser you had the option of installing Roboform.

OpenID seems a good isea but I have found that very few sites accept it - there are sites that are openID but that means you can use that User/Pass on other sites - I just haven’t found other sites (hope this makes sense).
Wordpress is one of them offering openID

http://goldcoaster.wordpress.com

Comedy+: might take me a while to test ivault but so far i like the firewall and antivirus. also have a look at keypass for passwords etc. Opensource so its free too.

Andy:openid looks like a great concept - will keep an eye out for more on it.

Arnie: not necessarily 142 different user name and password combos which is what I said. Some of them are used more than once but there are 142 logins stored together with the url to the log in page. i would be lost without it. Roboform does create random passwords if you want so I really should use a unique one for each site.

goldcoaster: Roboform can still be used for free but there is a limit on the number of passcards saved - 10 from memory.