I actually love the RoboForm software myself. I use it all of the time and it takes all the menial everyday tasks that I have to perform on my computer daily and shortens them extremely! What once took me fifteen minutes to complete now takes me only one second because RoboForm does the same task with just one click. In fact I wrote a Report about a lot of RoboForm’s capabilities for use that aren’t even touched on in the User’s Manual for RoboForm. You can get that Report here:
http://www.booksbonkers.com/TheRoboFormReport!.html

All very well, Mr Byrd, but I'm not sure this is the right place to be trying to sell your work.

I once wrote a review of Roboform for something at techweb.com. Since the review seems to have disappeared from the net, I include it here:

Being a reasonably security-savvy techie, I try fairly hard to use a variety of passwords and userIDs on websites where I need them. I'm careful about which of my several email addresses I use, depending on how much I might want to see any email the relevant website throws at me. And having a brain the size of a planet, I have no difficulty remembering all the information so I can type it in at a stroke.

Okay, I lied. The place I keep my passwords isn't my brain at all.

There's a better way.

Roboform. http:\\www.roboform.com is the place.

It remembers my passwords and userIDs, and integrates into IE / Maxthon / Firefox / etc so that all I have to do is click the "fill and submit" button and it does its stuff.

It also integrates a rather lovely random password generator. I might quietly hate the idea of passwords like '75uy6skv3t' even though people have been telling me they're far more secure than remembering 'pa55word' or my mother's middle name, but how much better does it feel when Roboform will make one for me, to my specification (upper case, lower case, digits and symbols can all be included, or not, and the number of characters and a minimum number of digits can all be specified and will 'stick' until I change strategy so, unlike some, I don't have to hit six buttons first) and store it for me against the userID I've chosen for the site, so I simply DON'T have to remember it? Ever? I mean, wow.

It knows how to enter my address details into places where I need to provide that information. It also allows me to have multiple profiles so I can have it enter work details or home, and it protects everything it knows about me behind a single password, which is the only one I have to remember.

Which is all very wonderful on its own. The downside is that it's only really useful on a computer on which it's installed. Wander away to another machine, and all my passwords in storage are over there, thumbing their noses at me.

And then we discover there's a portable version. Install it on a thumbdrive, plug it into a USB port and it'll run from there, no PC installation required.

All this and you just know it's loved and maintained by its developers: hardly a week goes by without another minor update -- some big, some small -- and the installer just works, installs over the top of the last version in no time flat and just goes on working. Bugs -- there have been very few -- get fixed sometime yesterday, generally.

This is genuinely software I don't know how I ever did without. Small and unintrusive yet a genuine enabler, and I commend it to your attention. No, YOUR attention, I'm not writing generically here. Do It.

You just KNOW it's better than sticking Post-Its to your monitor, right?

-ends

And there's no charge for reading it.

Nice debate guys. Talking of portable apps, anyone seen the new PortableApps.com Suite 1.1?

The full Suite consists of portable versions of Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, ClamWin Portable, Pidgin (instant messaging), Sumatra PDF (PDF reader, KeePass Password Safe (passwords), Sudoku (game), Mines-Perfect (game), CoolPlayer+ (audio player), and OpenOffice.org Portable

I don't use Sunbird or Pidgin, I have Roboform and prefer it to anything else so can't comment on KeePass, last time I tried Sudoku it was too inclined to generate puzzles with multiple solutions and haven't tried it lately, and Mines-perfect and CoolPlayer+ I haven't looked at. Everything else I use, as well as a variety of other things from other sources. As a drop-in suite, it's good stuff; for the more technically-savvy, a more configurable launcher (like PStart) is probably preferable.

Oh, the "Eject" button on the new version of the launcher is a new feature and adds the only thing I like about U3 to the setup. In most respects, though, it looks and works much as before.

Overall -- it's worth significantly more than the asking price(!) You need a reasonably fast memory stick for the bigger apps, though; buy from somewhere like 7dayshop that quotes read/write speeds rather than somewhere that tells you little more than "fast" and USB 2.0.

Your FREE review is a pretty interesting concept. Sorry, but I thought all reviws were FREE! Where the hell have I been Tim.

On the other hand, "The RoboForm Report!" that I have created deals with meaty matters and not just ones opinion of the software. Everbody has one of those. Guess what else everyone has also! You get my point.

If you want to learn how to use RoboForm in your email marketing campaign to increase your marketing efforts, with link trades, to make classified ad submissions or how to integrate your favorite search engines into your RoboForm toolbar for easy one click access, you just might want to read "The RoboForm Report!"

It is only $7.00. Which is only in order to recoup what I spent to create, design and market the product. The first 100 downloads of the report was FREE. Adwords isn't FREE, even if your product is! Only after 100 downloads did I start to charge.

Since, I have Tim here trying to assassinate my character and intentions, I have decided to give a FREE copy to anyone who reads this post. Especially you Tim! Maybe you can give a better review after you read it!

You can get a direct download of the report here:

http://booksbonkers.com/duece023845/TRRpdf_5483.zip

Everybody thank Tim! If you feel that the report warrants the measly $7.00 that I now ask for it, then I would greatly appreciate your generosity, Tim. Enjoy!

Thanks Tim!

Thanks Tim!

hah, i have used roboform 1 years, great password manager.

Color me disappointed. Approximately a month ago I purchased the RoboForm Pro and RoboForm2Go programs. In the short time that I had the programs I've managed to corrupt the default user database no less than three times. Each time that I have scrambled the user files I have had to start again from the very beginning.

I haven't completely gotten the hang of logging on to a website using different identities. Within the last few days I learned that RoboForm did not have to immediately logon to a website when the website is first opened.

I guess I complicated things further by also installing Sticky Password at approximate the same time that I installed the two RoboForm programs. Sticky Password and the RoboForm programs are redundant in many aspects. Plus, both race to see which one can logon and open a website first. With the correct timing they can lock up my browser and force me to reboot my computer. I have pretty much mastered Sticky Password but when it comes RoboForm there many times that I have no idea what I'm doing.

I congratulated myself and started thinking that all is not lost when I saw "The RoboForm Report" mentioned on your website. Finally, a manual to go with a program - just like in the old days.
What could be better? An operating manual that I can download for free simply by reading your entire article.

Reading the article was not at all hard to do. In fact I read the complete article before seeing the offer to download "RoboForm Report" .

I followed the URL that you gave in your article and received a 404, page not found, error.

Might there be a way that I can still download the report free of charge? The "Report" sounds like it would be very useful to me. I appreciate your consideration of this matter.

I look forward to learning more about RoboForm operations especially in the area of using multiple identities to logon to the same website.

Jack Boyce
(my email address is not showing correctly on the above form) My email address:

kc4cop@gmail.com

You said you had decided to give a FREE copy to anyone who reads this post.

Hmm ?I also like RoboForm Pro.It is good to
deal with many things but it has a security

matter because it cannnot be used to as an

Anti-keyloggers tool.

vino622@gmail.com

My mail