Lost your password again?

How many times are you asked for a login name and password in a day? How many Personal Identification Numbers (PIN), door codes, digicodes, IDs do you have? How many of these do you remember each and every time?As far as I’m concerned, I havePersonal Identification Number (PIN) for:

• my mobile;
• my e-banking account;
• my 2 bank cards;
• my 2 credit cards;

Logins and passwords for:

• my WordPress blog;
• my Windows 2000 account at the office;
• my laptop at the office;
• my private e-mail account;
• my professional e-mail account;
• my professional FTP account;
• my personal FTP account;
• my numerous website accounts (Flickr, Amazon, LastFM, Listal, Remember the Milk, Technorati, Feedburner, eSnips, etc.);
• quite as much discussion forums, game accounts, etc.

Not to mention all these Medical insurance numbers, private and professional telephone numbers, addresses, names, and so on.Luckily enough, most of the applications (Mozilla, IExplorer, E-mail clients, FTP clients, etc.) have a “save password” functionality, which helps a lot to remember the login information. But what about the others? Can you imagine writing down all your passwords on a sheet of paper and check it every time you have to enter a PIN code on your cell phone or retrieving cash at an ATM? Not a good idea.The only option left is to learn these random sets of numbers by heart, either by developing your artificial memory through the use of mnemonic our memory aids or by visualizing them on a keypad, keyboard or any other support.Read more about the word of the week: mnemonic techniques.