5 free copies of Ilium Software’s eWallet up for grabs!

unfortunately, we rely on our diminishing brain power to remember our account and password information at my household. naturally, you can imagine how frustrating that can be at times.

i have been looking into a varitey of solutions for this problem. perhaps ewallet is the answer.

Currently on my Palm Tungsten E|2, I created a note that is masked and can only be viewed by you guessed it, a password! If I ever forget the password to my password file, I’ll be in big trouble!

[Edited at July 01, 2008 11:32:55 AM.]

I tried one of these a long time ago and was so frustrated I dumped it. This one sounds better; but like Mark, I become addicted to ‘tweaking.’ So, if I win, it sounds like I will be busy tweaking for awhile. ‘Must get the logos and looks just right…. then it crashes… >:-0

For a while I used SplashID on my Zire72 and synched it to my old laptop, but I haven’t yet installed the software on my new laptop or the app in my Centro. So nowadays I’m relying on scattered notes on a secure folder in my laptop. Not the best practice, I know.

Well back when I was a naive young paduan learner I used to put all of my critical info of this sort into Outlook contacts that synced to my Treo, because I KNEW I would never lose my phone.

Then when a smash and grab crack-hound thief broke into my rental car in SF and took all of our loose possessions as well as the low battery Treo that I had left charging in the car (out of site under the seat) I learned a quick lesson in taking better care of guarding my info. After a week changing accounts and passwords I eventually started putting all of my info into password protected notes in my replacement Treo.

From the review eWallet looks like the answer to my needs. I downloaded and tried out the Palm version, but apparantly you need to buy a Windows version in order to sync the data from your PC. Otherwise you thumb-type everything in AGAIN into the Treo.

If I am so blessed with one of the freebies I’d love to get the Windows version.

I’ve used hard copy to keep track of all my logins and passwords for YEARS – I originally did it as a word .doc and printed it out but since then I’ve just been scrawling in updates… YIPES! If I ever lost it I’d be in deep dooooo!!

I downloaded a trial version of ewallet and LOVE it! But, I really want the more robust version that allows you to input and update on your PC – since I have a few hundred I don’t want to have to enter them on the tiny Treo650 “keyboard”

I have a hard copy notebook like an old fashioned reporter which I occasionally back up into an encrypted word file. since I don’t have my “black book” with me I usually use an “algorithm” to create my passwords. ie I take initials from the website the use the “$” and add a 4 digit number, usually from my childhood phone number which is so burned into my mind I couldn’t forget it if I wanted to. This often allows me to guess the password for a particular site knowing that I use a certain rule. I still use a palm TX, but will likely be getting the 3g iphone like an earlier poster.

I also have 2 or 3 passwords that I usually use. Definitely a bad security method, but if I use a different one for each site/use, and use the very secure types that are recommended (upper/lower case, no words, using symbols/numbers, etc), I would never be able to remember them all.

[Edited at July 04, 2008 05:36:22 AM.]

In the “olden days” on the Palm IIIx, etc, for free-format encrypted notes I always just used MemoSafe – the simplicity of the Palm memopad with an “encrypt” tick box. When it finally broke on my Treo 680 I switched to Cryptopad, very similar (and freeware!) except that you have to open the menu to select encryption – one extra click. Even so, I like the way all your notes are in one place and you password protect / encrypt what you don’t want prying eyes to see.

Nowadays, for fixed format records (web sites) I also use iSecur (also freeware).

And to (hopefully) avoid Alan’s scenario, I protect the whole Treo with Warden.

Currently, I use windows to rely on keeping a copy of my passwords and codes which sometimes it not always a good thing, if my computer is ever destroyed. I would be totally lost in trying to remember passwords. This is why it would be nice to always have a backup copy were you can have excess to them in other places.

Hi Julie! I am currently not keeping track of my codes passwords etc. Forget them so often that I would really really like to win this contest!