iPassword by Creative Iye, Only $4.95

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.handango.com/brainstore/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=311&productId=102410' target='_blank'>http://www.handango.com/brainstore/...roductId=102410</a><br /><br /></div>"iPassword for Pocket PC is an easy-to-use utility to help you to keep track your passwords, credit cards and other confidential information. Do you have multiple e-mail ids for your personal, business and subscription reasons. Do you have paid subscription to your favorite News website or anything of that sort. Do you write down your Personal Identification Number (PIN) of your ATM or Debit card in a unsecured place in your wallet, just because you can''t remember and hate to confuse yourself when you try to recall them. Then you must be thinking about a Single Place where you can store all these details securely. iPassword helps you to maintain all your personal details securely with an 128 bit encryption for all your information which can not be seen outside iPassword. <br /><br />Key Features: <br /><br />• Keep your passwords, credit cards and other confidential information in a central place, easy to retrieve when they are needed. <br />• 128-bit encryption keeps your information secure. <br />• Even if your Pocket PC is stolen or lost, no one can read your information without your password."<br /><br /><img src="http://www.handango.com/include/pictures/290614/ipassword2.1.gif" /><br /><br />This is a new product that I haven't heard of before, but two things about it surprise me: first, it's only $4.95. For the digital wallet market, that's ultra-cheap. Second, it has become #1 on the Handango Top 10 list, almost overnight - I didn't see it there a few days ago. Anyone tried this application yet? What do you think of it? I'm still mostly happy with Two Peak's FlexWallet, although there are UI issues that continue to drive me insane... :?

[topps]

It certainly is cheaper. But for me, I'd need something that the others did not do. eWallet came free with the iPAQ - free is better than $4.95

What I am looking for is a wallet that will do two things:

1. Merge changes to two different copies of a wallet, with proper reconciliation of conflicts. My wife and I both use eWallet - there are quite a few passwords, account numbers that we have in common. At the moment, we have to maintain two different wallets because we add/make changes independently.

2. Store images in encrypted format. While some of these wallets allow you to add scanned images of say your credit cards, drivers licence etc, the images are stored in the clear.

It would be even better if this image were digitally authorised/watermarked in some way. Verisign interested? This would mean that you could dump your wallet entirely - no more credit cards to lug around etc. (Well, maybe one for magswipe, ATMs etc).

At present, I am down to two cards - drivers licence and credit card - so I guess that's pretty good.

I do get into arguments with petty middle managers of places like Chapters book store who sometimes insist on the card as proof, not the membership number. As far as I am aware, only my drivers licence out of all these cards is the actual 'legal document' - and that's because it also has other security features built in.

[yuit]

Second, it has become #1 on the Handango Top 10 list, almost overnight - I didn't see it there a few days ago.

Perhaps its some sort of bug on handango's part ? It went straight to #1 (nothing in betweek afaik), and is now nowhere on the top 10.

[William]

2. Store images in encrypted format. While some of these wallets allow you to add scanned images of say your credit cards, drivers licence etc, the images are stored in the clear.

8O http://www.laguna2.de/wbboard/images/smilies/errr.gif
I never realized that! Que horror! I've had my credit card scans on my PPC for years... Thanks!

[Jason Dunn]

Perhaps its some sort of bug on handango's part ? It went straight to #1 (nothing in betweek afaik), and is now nowhere on the top 10.

Hmm - you're right. How odd! :worried:

[SassKwatch]

1. Merge changes to two different copies of a wallet, with proper reconciliation of conflicts. My wife and I both use eWallet - there are quite a few passwords, account numbers that we have in common. At the moment, we have to maintain two different wallets because we add/make changes independently.
Have you tried using MightySync? I would think with that installed on the desktop, you could put a copy of one of your wallet files anywhere on the desktop that's convenient for both you and your wife, and both could sync to that same file.(???)

[Bob Anderson]

You know... the only major thing I'm waiting for in the PPC wallet world is password generation...

Everytime I go to a new website, I have to come up with some lame password... and it would be really cool if I could set some parameters, i.e., password length, digits & alpha & symbols, et. al., and then have the system create a new password for me...

That would be a truely useful and new feature that would make my PPC wallet even more useful!

Until then, I'm not going to give up on Ilium's eWallet!!!!

[Jacob]

Until then, I'm not going to give up on Ilium's eWallet!!!!

Why don't you suggest that feature to Ilium?

I might, now that I think of it.

[pschultz]

Perhaps its some sort of bug on handango's part ? It went straight to #1 (nothing in betweek afaik), and is now nowhere on the top 10.

Hmm - you're right. How odd! :worried:
I have my doubts about Handango's method of ranking software. For a long time, FlashFormat was listed on the updated list EVERYDAY and the Submitted date also changed, yet this wasn't a new version of FlashFormat. I start to think that they place software higher on their lists if they are paid more by that company to do so. Just my $0.02.

[senfeng]

Personally, I can't stand "Folder Tree" password apps. Ever since I switched to PPC about three years ago, I've been looking for something that doesn't look like Pocket Explorer. The apps that I have found with a decent GUI have been highly unstable. Oh well. :(

[fiveohhh]

anyone try the ckdwallet yet?
http://www.ckdsoftware.com/ckdWallet

[arbitrajeu]

I have my doubts about Handango's method of ranking software. For a long time, FlashFormat was listed on the updated list EVERYDAY and the Submitted date also changed, yet this wasn't a new version of FlashFormat. I start to think that they place software higher on their lists if they are paid more by that company to do so. Just my $0.02.
I think it's actually the software distributors who do this - all they have to do is update the description on their software (add/remove a space) and it becomes "updated today".

There are a number of regular offenders in this - Performance Quest's junk publications, SoftWinter (Sentry 2020), CNetX (Pocket Slideshow), Mastersoft (Money 4.12, again and again and again), Valksoft Space Reclaimer, etc.

I make a point of not buying from these guys if there is an alternative - their cynical actions just makes my life harder in trying to find genuine updates. I'd happily recommend alternatives to anyone considering their applications and similarly annoyed.

[rhmorrison]

I think it's actually the software distributors who do this - all they have to do is update the description on their software (add/remove a space) and it becomes "updated today".

There are a number of regular offenders in this - Performance Quest's junk publications, SoftWinter (Sentry 2020), CNetX (Pocket Slideshow), Mastersoft (Money 4.12, again and again and again), Valksoft Space Reclaimer, etc.

I make a point of not buying from these guys if there is an alternative - their cynical actions just makes my life harder in trying to find genuine updates. I'd happily recommend alternatives to anyone considering their applications and similarly annoyed.
I agree although Handango should share some of the blame. The software should ONLY be shown as updated if the version number of the software changes. This won't prevent such abuse but it would certainly reduce it significantly.

[alex_kac]

I can say with considerable authority that Handango does not sell places in the top 10 and to get on the update list you have to upload a new file. Changing version or descriptions do not make the app show up on the updated list.

[redifrogger]

You know... the only major thing I'm waiting for in the PPC wallet world is password generation...

Everytime I go to a new website, I have to come up with some lame password... and it would be really cool if I could set some parameters, i.e., password length, digits & alpha & symbols, et. al., and then have the system create a new password for me...

That would be a truely useful and new feature that would make my PPC wallet even more useful!

Until then, I'm not going to give up on Ilium's eWallet!!!!


This software does this - there's an option to generate a password. Even better, when you're pocket pc is connected to the pc, it will input the username, password, and click the 'ok' button for you. So you don't have to even look at the pocket pc to look at the generated password. This is pretty cool!
:mrgreen:

[rapidnet_rick]

[quote]

This software does this - there's an option to generate a password. Even better, when you're pocket pc is connected to the pc, it will input the username, password, and click the 'ok' button for you. So you don't have to even look at the pocket pc to look at the generated password. This is pretty cool!
:mrgreen:

Ok, what software are you refering to, since this thread mentions 3 wallets so far. I've glanced at them all so far, and haven't seen that feature. Unless you are being sarcastic. :)

[ludzh]

I purchased this a while back. The $4.95 price was the biggest draw for me.

I had a heckuva time with it- sometimes the info would store and sometimes it wouldn't, and I would be required to enter the same information two or three times before it would stay put.

I didn't rely on the app for storing my passwords, etc because I didn't think it was reliable enough to do this.

I actually removed the program from my ppc last week and purchased Flexwallet.

Just my 2 cents- other users might well have had totally different experiences.

--Heather

[redifrogger]

rapidnet_rick wrote:
Ok, what software are you refering to, since this thread mentions 3 wallets so far. I've glanced at them all so far, and haven't seen that feature. Unless you are being sarcastic

I was referring to the software that this thread is about - iPassword.

Here's a quote from their help:
Generate your password - you can generate a password by clicking on the Generate button.

The generation of passwords is useful if you are setting up a new account or when you are changing the password of an existing account.

MobiPassword features a state-of-the-art password generation utility generating strong passwords, so if you have to create a new password, please, generate it with MobiPassword – it is going to be safer than anything you can come up with yourself.

In the "Generate" section you can select the Length of the password to be generated (between 6 and 30 symbols) and what kind of symbols will be used for password generation.

As far as I can see, this is only on the PC, not the Pocket PC, but when you're using it tandem, it doesn't matter to me. :)

My bad - this is MobiPassword. I went to handango and thought I got iPassword, but ended up with MobiPassword. Still a good app I think.

[rapidnet_rick]

rapidnet_rick wrote:

[quote]My bad - this is MobiPassword. I went to handango and thought I got iPassword, but ended up with MobiPassword. Still a good app I think.

Not a problem. The feature sounded cool, almost too cool to be real.....


Store passwords on the PPC, browse on the PC....and passwords get pulled from the PPC, entered into the PC.....


Sounds magical... :)

[MoelBrain]

I'm curious, has anyone tried the aol info they give? I doubt it works but it would be pretty funny if they gave away their info with a product supposed to protect it.

[sripathi]

anyone try the ckdwallet yet?
http://www.ckdsoftware.com/ckdWallet

I was using www.ivory.org/whisper.html. I like it for its simplicity and its free. But its only a desktop program. I had ewallet and flexwallet. These programs have lots of bells and whistles and icons, but lacks import functionality and the data entry is too tiresome. Also, I guess the biggest feature missing is record level syncing. So I hardly uses flexwallet or ewallet. Still depend on email (send emails to my self to add the new userid and password) and whisper. Recently I found http://oubliette.sourceforge.net/ and it had import function.

Looks like ckdwallet has the very important features I am looking for: record level syncing and import function. I am going to try this and the price is right: $7.95 for both desktop and ppc editions.

I think we shouldn't be struck with one programs features. So while using a new program, I try to avoid features that looks cools, but other programs may not support so that when I switch I don't loose the main functionality.