Tip of the Week - Track Down Zombie Accounts

This blogger mentions SplashID Safe as a tool to use in the fight to protect your online identity. Old so-called "Zombie Accounts" are one risk to keep in mind. You need to be vigilant in order to track all the user accounts you create online and make sure they don't come back to haunt you.

http://nixonvs.com/zombie-accounts/

Tip of the Week - Homeowner Calendar

Along with doing your taxes, there are other things you should probably be doing around the house this time of year to keep your home in top condition. You may not even be aware of some maintenance tasks you should be doing. And if you want to have a nice garden this year, early spring is calling your name. To help you stay on top of all these seasonal tasks, we created Homeowner Calendar. It's name speaks for itself, and it's only 99 cents on the iOS App Store.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/home...323129437?mt=8

Tip of the Week: Valentines Ideas in a SplashShopper List

In honor of Valentine's Day, Chester came up with a SplashShopper list of budget-conscious ideas for gifts to get your loved one. You can download and import this VSH file and many others from our SplashShopper Lists page:

http://www.splashdata.com/splashshopper/lists/

Tip of the Week - Now is a good time to change your passwords

For important passwords like bank logins and email accounts, it's a good idea to change them periodically. Ideally you would change them every 3 months, but that can be inconvenient, so January is a good time to browse through your SplashID Safe database and pick out a few high security records to edit. 

We've talked about it before, but here a some pointers on making good passwords:

- use a combination of letters and numbers and at least one uppercase character 

- use different passwords for different sites

- stay away from the easily guessed passwords like Jen123

- since you're using SplashID already, try to use the password generator to get truly random passwords

Tip of the Week – Create SplashID Safe records that do not sync to your device

You might have some SplashID records that you want on your desktop only and you do not want to have on your device.

To do this, you can create an extra user in SplashID > User menu > Edit Users.

The User name has to be in email format but does not have to be a valid email address. You could use test@test.com.

Then you can put any record under this user that you do not want synced over to your device(s).

Tip of the Week - New Years Resolutions in SplashShopper

It's that time of year again - time to put away the guilty pleasures of the holiday season and focus on self improvement. SplashShopper is here to help you feel good as you check off those life changing to do items!

Chester has created a sample list of New Year Resolutions you can import into the SplashShopper desktop. You can find it on our sample list page, along with many others:

http://splashdata.com/splashshopper/lists/

Tip of the Week - SplashShopper Holiday List

I like to keep track of the gifts I purchase my friends for the holidays. I keep a history over the years and I do this in a SplashShopper list.

For this holiday list I use Recipient for Custom field 1 and I use category as the year that I purchased the particular gift. I keep track of the price and the store where I purchased.

-Laura

http://splashdata.com/splashshopper