Spyshakers-Online Bookmarks and Password Manager
We all use bookmarks and password managers in our personal PC. What if you want to access these bookmarked sites in your friends PC or in a PC in internet cafe? Spyshakers are the best solution for this problem. Spyshakers a web service built to safely manage your favorite websites and passwords from any computer.
Spyshakers can be easily used with Firefox, Netscape and and Seamonkey. There is a functionality called the Sidebar,which can be easily used with these browsers and there is no need to download anything to use the sidebar. For Opera users there is option Add Hot list.
Using the sidebar is pretty simple. Click on the sidebar link in the home page. This page has a link to add the sidebar to the bookmarks list. Once you add the sidebar to the bookmarks list, select the Spyshakers bookmark to get the sidebar and login to your account. Once you login to your account, you can see all the list of sites which you have added to it. After you finish browsing you can delete the bookmark from the system. Sidebar is currently not available in IE and Safari and its still in developing stage.
There is also another feature called Shaker List. Highly secure data can be stored in the shaker list. Shaker list is a list of websites or links which can be seen only if you select the right combination of links which was used to create it.
If the links used to create a shaker list is more, the more secure is the list. For example if you have 10 links in the home page, you can create a shaker list with any combination of links. Once you create a shaker list, you can access your account only if you select the correct links which were used to create the list and then submit it. Selecting wrong links two times will lock you account. Shaker list is like a trigger set on your account.
You can check out the demo movie for the complete details. Spyshakers claims to have first of this kind service in the industry and a nice way to manage your bookmarks and passwords. Spyshakers also provides total privacy (Trust-e certified). You can sign up for an account here to try out their features.
PS: This is a sponsored review.
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Jul 1st, 2007 at 1:14 am
I might use it for bookmarks, but since I don’t even use a password manager on my own computer I wouldn’t want them on someone else’s server. Maybe I’m just paranoid.
Jul 1st, 2007 at 9:34 am
I had one hell of a problem with SponsoredReviews because I forgot to add the trailing slash in the Spyshakers link and I got an error everytime I submitted
Jul 1st, 2007 at 12:00 pm
@Vijay,
I think you need to add those trailing slashes to all links, thats the best practice.
Jul 1st, 2007 at 7:36 pm
The trailing slash is basically used to indicate if the the link is to a directory or a file. If the slash is absent, the link is linking to a file, if not to a directory.
Jul 1st, 2007 at 7:38 pm
But that is just to indicate to the browser and help it load faster. A few milliseconds difference perhaps, I wonder why that would be compulsory?
Jul 1st, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Currently I use Keepass for password management. This one seems to be good. Will try it out.
Jul 1st, 2007 at 10:01 pm
@Vijay,
I never knew it was compulsory for submitting that review link.
Jul 1st, 2007 at 10:15 pm
I never use password managers, i don’t think that it is safe to store sensitive information on others server
Jul 1st, 2007 at 11:13 pm
For authentication, it is mandatory that sensitive information is stored on someone else’s server. Your online bank has a representation of your bank password on their server in some form. Same for your email service. Same for all websites. Do you ever wonder what preventions are in place to stop an employee at your online bank from stealing your password? Interesting to think about
Jul 2nd, 2007 at 9:54 am
@Ram,
I too never use password managers, online or off line.
@Apollo,
I understand your concerns, but these passwords should be stored in some server, moreover no one can access your password, its stored in encrypted form. Even when you ask fro a reset of password, its system generated mail. No one has control over the password for all online banks.
I’m not sure about Email services.
Jul 2nd, 2007 at 11:54 am
me too never tried any password managers…all passwords at one place no way..
Jul 2nd, 2007 at 1:00 pm
@nirmaltv,
You are correct. The important detail is how the data is stored.
@Shashank,
All passwords in one place is a decent argument against password managers. But if passwords are scattered about, it can be hard to keep track of all of them! I run into that problem haha.
Jul 3rd, 2007 at 9:37 am
@Shashank and Apollo,
There are advantages and disadvantages for both keeping the password in one place and keeping in different places.
If you keep in one place, chances that if one of your account is hacked, probably all will be hacked.
Now if you store it in different places, then chances of you forgetting the password is more.
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