Passwords can be a real pain.

Can't live with them …  can't live without them.

The more you use the Internet the more passwords you gain. Often different website require different passwords – some with numbers, capitals or special characters.

It becomes harder and harder to remember them all or you start using the same password all the time. Just imagine what happens if one of those websites you sign up to captures your password and starts using it all around the Internet.

My solution to this issue is ROBOFORM … see http://www.roboform.com/ – which is a password manager which remembers all your passwords for you. You simple have to remember one master password.

Better still Roboform works from inside your Internet Explorer or Firefox Browser to give you a list of website you may wish to login to. You select a website, it takes you there, logins you in and off you go. All in just one click.

Better still it can make up passwords for you. They are nice and complex as well as unique to every website you register on. Better still as it remembers them for you it doesn't matter how complex they are.

Using lots of different computers including public Internet cafe computers – try Roboform portable version. This is installed on a memory stick which you plug into any computer and it links in with the browser on that computer automatically. When you are done remove the memory stick … it cleans up after itself so no-one can login after you have gone.

At $29.99 it is an essential productivity and security tool at an affordable price.

What does it look like?

Roboform adds itself to you Internet Explorer or Firefox menu as a toolbar. You can then see a list of the most recent website I have logged in to (A), so I can quickly go back to them. On the right you can also see the organised list of websites I have stored away.

Need a new password – use the generate option to create and store a nice complicated, unguessable password.

As a bonus, Roboform also includes an automatic form filler to make it easy to register on all the sites you need to. Even makes buying things online easier by completing your credit card details if you wish.

All in all – highly recommended and good value.