Password Wallet
So, I bought the iPhone, but I’ve been hanging onto my Treo 600. There it is, tucked into my Tom Binh bag (it’s the only bag I use to carry my Tom Binh in). The Treo gets to ride shotgun with me for one reason only: it supports a little app called SplashID, which stores my – no lie – 475 different website logins, server credentials, frequent flier numbers, and all the other bits of digital identity that I need to survive in this crazy world. SplashID on the Treo syncs with SplashID on the Mac, so whether I’m at the keyboard or on the go, my important digits are never more than a few keystrokes away. For all its whiz-bangery, my un-hacked iPhone still can’t sport a utility like this.
Or so I thought. The good folks at iPhoneAtlas mentioned a Mac app called Password Wallet the other day that looks like it may let me retire the Treo once and for all. Password Wallet has the ability to send an encrypted bookmarklet to the iPhone that is viewable in Safari. I can’t add to or edit my password list, the way I can with SplashID, but just being able to view the list would be close enough to good for me.
The only gotchas I’ve encountered so far: it takes way too long to display all my passwords through the bookmarklet. Even if I export only a subset of about 150 passwords, the list still takes about 20 – 30 seconds to display fully. I’ll really have to slim down to the bare essentials in order to have a usable experience.
Also, Password Wallet doesn’t support as many fields as SplashID, so the import function didn’t bring over all my info. That means I’ll have to go back and manually update a good portion of the records. Still, I suppose it’ll be worth it to save a few more ounces of bag weight.
Mmmmm…. bricking…
Don’t Do It Man! Don’t Update After Installing Third Party Apps! You know what will happen. The dead rising from the grave. Human Sacrafice. Fire and Brimstone hailing down from the sky. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria. Real wrath of god stuff.
Plus bricking.