https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/ en Thu, 17 May 2012 08:18:37 +0000 hourly 1 FeedWriter https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162560 Thu, 17 May 2012 04:18:37 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162560 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162559 Wed, 16 May 2012 23:01:55 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162559 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162558 Wed, 16 May 2012 21:47:52 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162558 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162557 Wed, 16 May 2012 18:58:19 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162557 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162556 Wed, 16 May 2012 18:13:16 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162556 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162555 Wed, 16 May 2012 17:42:10 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162555 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162554 Wed, 16 May 2012 16:23:35 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162554 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162553 Wed, 16 May 2012 16:13:35 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162553 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162552 PassKeeper. Created in 1999. It does almost everything that 'Fort' does in terms of safeguarding passwords, data, and site URLs as well as notes. It works on XP as well. And it was freeware over a decade ago. Not $30. Today, of course, it's not as useful as KeePass, which I run / sync on my Android Asus TF tablet and our family's Android HTC cellphones, i.e., KeePass on Windows devices, KeePassDroid on Android. Nor is Passkeeper as useful as Norton's current cloud offering: https://identitysafe.norton.com/ which Symantec is hoping to promote to the level of World Domination by offering it for nothing until much later this year (October, 2012) and maintaning it thereafter for nothing. (Or so it says. . .) I don't use Sticky Password because of startup drag and anyway, my Firefox browser is password-protected at entry level, so it's perfectly capable of handling urls without manual input from me. All of which is to say, in an era when even a browser can be locked down; when even a freeware like KeePass can function happily on Windows and Android; when Symantec has a cloud-based password and data manager accessible by any device, any operating system, from anywhere anyone happen to be; and when even an ancient, obsolete freeware like Passkeeper can still function quite happily on weverything including Windows XP . . . What on earth is the point of a $30 commercialware called Fort??? Me, I've absolutely no idea. Not only do I not know after trying it, the developer seems to have little clue either: the Fort website is noticeably casual in its approach to actually trying to persuade anybody that yes, here's a unique product, here is software with a visionary edge. It's as if its sales pitch was written maybe a decade ago. Thanks, GAOTD, but no thanks -- and especially as this is a one-time download which might conceivably need $30sworth of reinstallation in future, a pretty high price for the wheel, re-invented. To the developer: c'mon, this particular Fort is as redundant as all the castles that were ever built. The talent that went into developing this particular app could surely be deployed far more profitably somewhere else.]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 15:34:50 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162552 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162551 Wed, 16 May 2012 15:01:01 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fort4/#comment-162551