AUTOMATED FORM FILLING DOES PASSWORDS AND MORE
You're surfing the net at blazing speeds, gathering information,
locating products and services, buying and selling and all of a
sudden it all comes to a screeching halt. You've just surfed into...
The Form Page Zone. Within you find those seemingly endless
fill-in-the-form pages asking you type in your first name, then your
last name, then your address, then your Zip Code and on it goes.
Pages that ask you to fill in repetitive personal data can ruin your
online day.
Granted that modern browsers offer some kind of automation when it
comes to filling in forms but even the best of them only perform
rudimentary fill-in-the-form processing. What you need is a utility
that has been specifically designed to manage and process just about
any kind of form the Internet can throw at you, including all of
your passwords. After you've created a few passwords, you tend to
forget what they are unless you use the same one everywhere you go,
which is really a very bad thing to do. And writing down your
passwords can be just as risky.
One of the most popular fill-in-the-blank utilities is RoboForm. It
will automatically fill in any form it comes across, typing the
correct information within the proper field in any form page you
access. RoboForm remembers relevant data when you visit a website
for the first time so when you visit it again, the data will
automatically be filled in. And for many first-time accessed pages,
RoboForm can still accurately determine much of what goes into which
field based upon what each individual field is asking. You can speed
up online shopping, job searches, sweepstakes entries and so much
more. But what if you need to do all of this on someone else's
computer? Siber Systems, the publishers of RoboForm has got you
covered there as well with their RoboForm2Go.
Using an ordinary USB Flash Drive, all of your sensitive data
including all of your online passwords are encrypted and stored
within one of these devices. Normally a Flash Drive plugs into an
available USB port and acts like a small hard drive. But with
RoboForm2Go, the Flash Drive acts more like a key. Just plug it into
any computer's USB port and all of your RoboForm data is instantly
transferred to that computer's Internet browser. So now when you
surf to a form page, everything about you is instantly entered into
the corresponding fields. This includes all of your personal
information including items such as your name, credit card numbers
and passwords. It even stores all your bookmarks. And when you are
finished using that computer, all you do is remove the Flash Drive
from the USB port. Once done, not one single item about you will
remain on the computer. All of your personal data, passwords and
identities are instantly removed and surfing over to any forms page
will leave it totally uncompleted. RoboForm2Go gives you complete
security, absolute portability and the very same automation that
you'll become used to when surfing on your own personal computer
using RoboForm.
If having to fill in form pages makes you feel like an automaton
doing the same things over and over again, then you'll quickly
discover how much better it is having automated form-filling
utilities such as RoboForm and RoboForm2Go. Free 30-day unlimited
trial versions are available for download. See the website for
pricing information and site licenses.
Let your PC be the robot you never wanted to be.
www.RoboForm2Go.com
| Craig Crossman is
a McClatchy-Tribune newspaper columnist writing about computers and
technology. He also hosts the nation's longest running nationally syndicated radio talk show on
computers and technology, Computer America, heard on both the Business TalkRadio
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