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Filling out web forms for online applications is something we all need to do to get most things done while using the World Wide Web. Most of the useful information on the Internet requires us to login to our user account to access it.
Good web security practices dictate that we should never use the same password at more than one web site that we frequent often. If we used the same password on every site then a hacker who compromises one site could use your credentials to access your membership on another site.
There are limits to how many secure passwords the average person can remember let alone think of.
Do you really want to risk using the same password at more than one site?
The answer to this particular problem would be a software solution that:
- Works with your favourite web browsers (IE Internet Explorer, Firefox and Netscape)
- Generates secure passwords (no dictionary words guessable by hackers)
- Remembers all your passwords so you don’t have to
- Stores all your passwords in a secure encrypted manner
- Easily allows you to backup your passwords
- Lets you fill out web forms with preset values
- Lets you define multiple user profiles so that you can fill out a form with the right information for the right role:
- Personal
- Professional
- Online Chat
- Online Banking
- Gaming
- Web Master for your site
- Blogger
- Shopper (even stores your credit card number securely)
- Complete contact information
- Partial contact information (eg. hiding your email or phone number)
- Let’s you store notes in a secure manner
- Offers free upgrades for life
- Let’s you save the contents of a form to reuse on similar forms.
(This one is ideal for submitting a web site to directories.)
- Let’s you define pseudonyms for form fields to use on other web page forms that are similar in purpose but simply use different form field names for fields with the same purpose (eg. username instead of name, or email_address instead of email.)
- Protect all this information with a master password
- Multiple users on the same computer can have their own set of passwords, profiles and safe notes
- Be of high quality and never crash
RoboForm does all these things and even more. I can’t tell you how much time it has saved me. You can even use it for information request forms on your intranet at work for requesting services from within your organization.
You can save the effort you put in to filling out an especially large form. Sometimes after a lengthy session of filling out a form on a poorly designed site, it times out your session before you could submit and all your values are lost, you hit the submit button and your get an error; when you hit the back button the form is empty and you have to start over in this contest of beat-the-clock-fill-out-the-form. RoboForm allows you to be able to resubmit once the server session has been restarted if you save the form once you have filled it out.
RoboForm allows you to leverage the effort you made to fill out the form once and preserves it allowing you fill out similar forms in sub second times when you need to fill them out again.
RoboForm is rock solid and has never crashed once even though I have used it for over 2 years. If you need to switch computers you can just drag the folder to the new computer install the software and enter your master password and you are back in business.
There is even a free trial that lets you store up to 30 user ids and password sets.
Love your computer again!
You simply have to give it a try.

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