Let’s face it, memorizing a dozen or more passwords is tough to do and it’s not very secure to use just one password for every website login. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to fill out the forgotten password form on a website because I couldn’t remember which one of the passwords I used or if I happened to use a brand new one. This is a process I hate doing and is the primary reason why I started searching for a password management program. Also, I certainly wasn’t about to switch to using just one password for everything because that would not be very secure.

My journey to find a good password management program has been in the works for a long time. In fact, I tried a program called KeePass a couple of weeks ago but after using the program for a while I found an unacceptable defect in the program. There were several websites that no matter how I set up the program it would not perform an automatic login. While it’s helpful to have a program that remembers all your passwords, it’s certainly not efficient to have to copy the password off of a password entry and paste it into your browser because the auto login feature doesn’t work.

After getting fed up with that program (I never really used it a whole lot because of the defect mentioned above), I set out on another quest to find a great password management program. This time I finally found something that works wonderfully, RoboForm. The program ties in with internet explorer or firefox and saves your login information every time you log into a new website. All passwords are then managed from a master password.

The amount of time I’m going to save in the future while at the same time keeping my websites more secure will be substantial (lol yes, I really do fill out way too many lost password forms). I highly recommend this program and while I’m only using the trial version for now, from various reviews I’ve read the trial version should work out well enough for me. Granted I am still in the trial period which offers me full program functionality and I may end up paying for the full version after this period ends. It may be worth it so long as I don’t have to ever click another link to reset my password, then click a link in an email to reset the password, then login with the random password and have to change it again only to repeat the process later on down the road. For such a simple concept I really am excited to be using this program and highly recommend it.

Here is a Direct download link or if you want to read more reviews on cnet first check out this link here.

While this week’s blogging tip isn’t entirely related to blogging it will help you save time that you can put towards blogging and not filling out forgotten password forms.

Do you use a password management program yet?

Now let’s be honest, fax machines suck. I’m just going to come right out and say that I hate them. My wife and I only have cell phones because we don’t see the need to pay an extra $20 a month for a home phone line when people can simply dial the person they want to speak with. Anyway, the last time I was required to fax in my W9 form for a publisher program was last month for Vibrant Media (intellitxt) and I didn’t want to stop at Kinko’s or my parents house to send a simple fax out. So being the lazy person that I found a website that allows you to send a fax for free and this was what I found:

FaxZero.com

The free fax comes with ads on the cover page but who cares as long as the fax reaches it’s destination? So what I did to sign my documents was simply open the pdf into photoshop and pull out the pencil tool and use my mouse. Using my mouse to write a signature doesn’t look that good and the date looks like it was written by a first grader but it doesn’t matter as long as I don’t have to go find a fax machine.

I have already verified that this site works and am about to fax off my W9 form to an affiliate program now.

Be honest, how many of you haven’t tried doing this before?

Side note: I wasn’t paid to write this review. I just thought this website would help you save some time.