Working with RoboForm : 30 Min Tutorial

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You go to a web site that you haven’t visited in a long while and try as you might, you just can’t login. You try the four or five password and username combinations that you have, but not one works. You can make your browser remember your passwords. But is it really safe? And what if you want to have access to your information from another computer.

RoboForm is a tool that lets you manage all your login information as well as automatically fill out those pesky and usually cumbersome registration forms. It comes in both a downloadable as well as online version. The online version is better suited to keep passwords synchronized across different machines.

[00.00] Download and install RoboForm

Head over to www.roboform.com/download to download the application. The application interface is through a tool bar that integrates with IE or Firefox. During the installation, it will ask if you want it to be installed for all users and if you want the adapter for Firefox. Check or uncheck the box accordingly. You will also be prompted to enter a master password. Once this password is entered, you don’t need to remember any further passwords. The RoboForm installation wizard will also ask you to specify the time interval at which this password should be purged from cache. The default is after 120 minutes of inactivity.

[6.00] Make Passcards

Roboform saves login information in the form of passcard. Each passcard contains the username, URL and password for a particular web site login. To create a passcard, simply login to a web site normally. Roboform will prompt you to save the login into as a passcard. Change the passcard name (if you wish) and click Save. The passcard even automatically clicks the submit button so now, once you launch your browser, you simply need to click the passkey through the toolbar and it logs you into the web site with a single click.

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