Lost password; lost identity

I'm really tilt

[tilt2]

I registered about a year ago as tilt. I posted as recently as a couple of weeks ago.

Then my pc crashed and Opera presumably lost its cookies. The next time I visited Webmasterworld, it didn't know me.

I tried all my passwords unsuccessfully. I tried having my password emailed to me, but I never got the email. Maybe I registered originally under a different email address...?

Anyhow, can I get my original identity back?

[Marcia]

Sorry about that (especially the pc), we'll check it out and get back to you. And it won't take tilt2 morrow, either.

[DaveN]

marcia :0

[ukgimp]

LOL

Thats funny marcia

On asked why I was laughing I had to pretend it was doing somoething else

[Brett_Tabke]

I got it - if you didn't get the email, then there is a problem with your email...

[Marcia]

I lose passwords all the time. I think up something easy to remember and catchy, jot it down on the nearest paper, never to be found again.

[Macguru]

I write down all my passwords in a innocent text file. White on white.

Dont tell anyone hidden text can have a legitimate purpose... Shhh!

[tilt2]

Marcia, thanks for the chuckle!

Brett -- I didn't get any email. Did I use the same email address for tilt that I used for tilt2? It's a pacbell.net address. Maybe they have some purported ant-spam script that's being over-zealous.

[Brett_Tabke]

Nope, same as your home page domain under tilt.

[tilt]

Brett, you're a genius! Well, actually, I'm an idiot!

That email address got so overwhelmed with spam that I stopped checking it and forgot all about it. Gee, I really missed all those personal confidential offers from Sierra Leone.

Now I'm going to edit my profile and put a pwd that I can remember and an email address that I actually read!

By the way, my trick for remembering pwds is to use the first letter of each word from a song or a phrase.

Thanks! :-)

[rogerd]

I've started using a password keeper on my PDA... it has really helped, and it doesn't matter whether I'm at home or at the office...

[Brett_Tabke]

off topic: which os pda and what's the program roger?

Glad you got back in tilt.

[rogerd]

It's a Sony Clie with Palm 4.1 OS, and the program is YAPS, which I think stands for "Yet Another Password Safe". It is password protected, and will time out back to a password needed mode if you leave it open without any activity (so you don't inadvertently leave the program open while you go to lunch or something).

It's probably the app I use most frequently other than the AvantGo newsreader (though the calendar and phone book get a pretty good workout, too.)

[Laisha]

I use a nifty program called PassKeeper, which is freeware (no nags). While I sometimes still get lazy and figure "oh, I'll remember this one," it usually helps.

[rogerd]

oh, I'll remember this one

Laisha, I don't know how many times I've said that, only to have to go through some kind of password recovery procedure! :) Now, I've become fairly compulsive about recording passwords, account numbers, PIN numbers, etc. It's a nifty tool... and I back up both at home and office to be sure they don't all go down the drain at once.

[jackofalltrades]

>It's a nifty tool...

yeh, post-it notes are great, arent they? ;)

JOAT

[Hawkgirl]

I've started using a password keeper on my PDA...

Me, too - I use "Strip" (Palm OS). A friend beamed it to me and it has saved my (virtual) life more than once now.

[jatar_k]

I have to admit I actually have a tiny little notebook that I carry most everywhere I go.

What a bad idea but it works, I guess it's the archaic pda for those of us that don't have them.

I also use real words and change the letters to numbers or symbols and alternate caps/lower, makes it easier to remember.

[mivox]

I have a freeware app called LockBox on my palm... You can organize items by category, and each entry has fields for title, user, password and notes.

For simple things like most website access data though, I just keep my user/pass in the URL database I built.

hehehe... If I ever forgot the password to the PDA itself, or the lockbox program, I'd be really hating life though. ;)

[andreasfriedrich]

I always use the same password beginning with a double a and ending with an n ;) No PDA, no hassle, no security, but itīs easy and it works. ;)

Andreas

[ann]

I use robo form...works great plus I still write everything down in case of drive failure....which happened two months ago..:(

Ann

[caine]

roger,

i just drueled at the suggestion of keeping all the passwords and sensitive info in a PDA, never even occured to me before. Will have to get one, now that i have a reason

[rogerd]

Yeah, caine, my password safe is probably the most useful PDA app overall. I was forever forgetting usernames and passwords between home and office. I'd be working at home, and need account info I had created at the office, etc. Major productivity improvement.

Other apps I rely on are the usual contact manager and appointment calendar. In addition, the app I spend most time in is my AvantGo newsreader - I can catch up on news from a variety of sources at lunch, or while waiting in someone's office, etc. Saves me 50 cents every time I don't buy a newspaper. :)

[Hawkgirl]

Rogerd, I gave up on AvantGo because the download times were really starting to get to me. And I only downloaded a few items ... I can't imagine downloading a lengthy bit of news.

[rogerd]

Hawkgirl, I usually have very quick download times - a whole Hotsync usually takes less than a minute. I usually sync early in the AM or late PM, though. I have noticed a few times when I sync at midday that some services seem to be slower and may time out.

Maybe try syncing at some odd times to see if it is a time of day problem, or something else? I've become an even worse news junkie in the months that I've had my PDA...