WizzerSays

It can be a nightmare – login names and passwords are required for virtually every site you visit!

Blogging Beginners obviously have their WordPress blog admin logins and passwords plus the admin area at Blogging Beginners as an absolute minimum. But what about all those social sites, like Digg, Stumble Upon not to mention Squidoo and Blip and countless others.

Do you use the same logins and passwords? Is that really a sensible thing to do?

And if you use different details each time how do you remember them? Do you write them down? Do you have a spreadsheet?

Or do you do what I do?

Without doubt 2 of the most useful tools I use are Roboform on my PC and 1Password on my Mac.

These programs securely store the login user name and password for each site and automatically populate the boxes each time I visit.

I was prompted to write this when somebody told me today they couldn’t remember a login password nor could they find where it was recorded.

Both of the programs I use have a free option – but this restricts the number of sites that can be recorded. I bought both – Roboform I’ve been using for years and has hunders of passwords stored. I’d be totally lost without it. Oh, yes, you can get a memory stick version (Pass2Go) that you can take with you and plug in to any computer and access your sites.

Now that is really cool. I wouldn’t want to write a list on a piece of paper and run the risk of losing it. The memory stick can of course be password protected so nobody could access your sites if you lost it.

If you struggle with passwords this could be the answer to your prayers!