Top 5 ways to manage your many, many passwords

3. RoboForm

RoboForm
RoboForm has several different packages for different types of security password protection. RoboForm Everywhere gives you unlimited access to all of your saved data on multiple devices.

The basic idea of RoboForm is the same as many of the other applications: keeping your passwords safe, but still easily accessible. There are several different types of the RoboForm system – RoboForm Everywhere, Desktop, Mac – which work by storing user passwords either on a RoboForm server or on the users’ desktop. There is also the RoboForm2Go, which stores important information on a USB password stick. It’s worth noting that with RoboForm, once you lose your master password, the game’s up: there is no way to retrieve it.

Cost: RoboForm is free to download and lets you recall a password 10 times for free. After that, you have to buy the password manager with packages that range from $9.95 to $39.95 a year.

Where it works: On your desktop, laptop, or mobile device

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Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.

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