I store all my passwords using 'Lastpass'. For one machine it's free, and you nly need to remember one master password. I think it's so brilliant that I've paid the $12 annual fee for the mobile / tablet version.

I store mine in a passworded excel spreadsheet on a memory stick.

I put them in a protected Word file and include a logo of the website against each password! Of course, backed up frequently.

I also use Last Pass.

However, I think it does have a weakness, in that it 'automatically logs you in' to certain web sites whan you use the Last Pass Vault tool to launch a new browser. The Last Pass Vault user does have a master password (MP) to allow access to the vault but one can tend to set the MP to leave the vault accessible for a period of time of several hours. Leave the machine during this time and someone else can easily access the vault instead of the user.

I also use KeePass

I cannot believe that I actually have 319 different entries on it. I guerss that is why one needs such a tool! Of these I would reckon 300 out of the 319 could easily be slung.

Having described the weakness of Last Pass above, one can also leave KeePass open for others to have access in much of a similar manner.

With any Password Robotic Assister one also has to use a certain amount of personal discipline.

It is far better to devise a personal password generating technique that is a technique for any and every site.

This will tell you what I mean: http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Password-You-Can-Remember

Password protected Word and Excel files offer no protection. They only stop casual viewers. You can break the protection in a few seconds via lots of free and paid for crackers. They don't crack the password, they just disable the protection. I have tried it myself as I used to hold passwords in a password protected Word file.

I record my passwords on paper with a pen so not a chance of an electronic security breach, and before you think what about a break-in just remember to put the A4 in your pocket when you go out.. and dress like a tramp i.e. like Alf/Cynic so less chance of a mugging -):

But can you find my memory stick! :-)

I hold passwords on an email sent to an external email account like yahoo, gmail, hotmail etc. To find them, someone would need to know the password of the email and potentially read hundreds of my emails with the actual one not being obvious with a general subject.

Try, Encrypting in Word on a Truecrypt file.

I have encrypted the majority of "work" on my laptop and also pegs used for copies.

But remember to put a spare copy of Truecrypt program somewhere so you can load it, if your laptop is "lost".

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Believe Truecrypt is highly rated and can be free.

Writing emails on paper is a very good idea. Anyone breaking in, is not there to steal passwords or pieces of paper. The low tech solution is best. Just don't lose the paper.

Stan - you might need this link

I'll have you know we are highly insulated here, so unless the bleeding insulation caches fire from spontaneous combustion or the electrics flame up we shall be fine.. but thanks for the heads up Skinny -):

Sorry to trouble you folks again but i would like just one more bit of help reqarding a FireFox problem.

Have finally got my new computer up and running exactly as i like it,running Win7 and FireFox,what the problem is that on my old puter when i opened a website it would appear down on the bottom bar and of course if i had multiple windows of say 6 then i would have the 6 icons showing on the bottom bar and this is how i have always liked it..

The problem that i am having and not sure how to get around it is that i can still open say 6 websites but these all show in just the single FireFox icon on the bottom bar,it can be done and i assume it just needs say ticking a box in setup but i cannot work this one out.Anyone help me on this one please.

Many thanks

The idea, MB, is that you merely 'hover your mouse pointer' over said Firefox icon and look at the 'thumbnails' of the web sites which then appear.

If you have, say Stockwatch on one web page and the Investors page on another and a Chart on another, etc, etc, you will then be able to see from the thumbnails which is which. Then move your mouse pointer up to the pertinent thumbnail to select it and the full screen of that thumbnail will spring open.

And here's a little trick for you: Press the 'Windows' key on your keyboard whilst at the same time pressing the Left or Right key. The pertinent 'open' browser window will then 'halve' and move to the left or the right of the monitor screen as the case may be.

You can make Firefox look like the old way by this add-on

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-make-new-firefox-look-like-old-firefox

Has anyone any experience of Apple TV or Google Chromecast?

Ever seen the 'little dinosaur'? You see it when you are using Chrome and your connection drops.

Well.....

1. Open a New Tab in the browser.
2. Click on the dinosaur which appears above the 'Unable to connect to the internet' message.

As soon as you do, the creature will start running across a desert landscape filled with cacti. You can jump these by pressing the Spacebar.

The further you run the dinosaur, the faster it gets and the more points you score.

NB. If the dinosaur catches on a cactus then it's 'Game Over!'

Woah! Chances are, you are now back online! :-)

I have Apple TV skinny; very Apple orientated obviously but you can use it for YouTube, Netflix etc. You can view stuff from your computer via AirPlay. I like it!

Thanks Kim - it's for my daughter - she was going to buy Apple TV and I suggested the Chromecast at £30 as a cheaper alternative.

Her main use is to view (I)phone media on her TV.

Being a woman - she went out and bought the Apple TV box yesterday afternoon - why ask me then!!!

Lol! A second opinion is always good, absorb it then ignore it! :o) She has made a wise choice though!