Here at Ilium Software, we now have three RSS feeds: the one for this blog, the one for our News Page , and the one for our ListPro List Exchange. These work great in desktop RSS aggregators like NewsGator, FeedDemon, or in Windows Mobile software like our own NewsBreak.
I’m not much of an early-adopter. I bought my car as soon as it was introduced because I needed a car, I bought my shiny Apple iMac Core Duo because a refurbished one went on sale for a good price, and I bought my first PDA because I was going through that age where I wanted to buy everything that was a gadget. These things were coincidences; I didn’t intentionally jump on the bandwagon while it was still a skateboard, I just happened to step on it and didn’t fall off.
RSS aggregators confuse me, because they take content from a website and shove it into one little new and special place that still makes me open up the original website in a browser. Most websites don’t post entire articles to their feeds, so why not just go to the site and read the whole thing? (Incidentally, I don’t like RSS aggregators on the desktop, but on a PDA? I’m all for packing information into a compact central place.)
That changed when I discovered Google’s Personalized Homepage. The idea is similar to portals such as My Yahoo!, where all kinds of stuff like weather, news, photos, stock quotes get aggregated onto one page you can set as your browser homepage. It’s been around for a while, and jumped out of Beta less than a while ago, but now is as good a time as any to mention it to anyone who wants to try out RSS without investing in a complete standalone program.
You get a simple website that shows news headlines from various websites (and other information), in classic Google bare-bones style, and you can add anything you want to it. It’s right in your browser, something you already use all the time.
That said, our RSS feeds go great with it. You can click on the following links to add them right away:
Blog: 
News:
List Exchange:
You don’t even need a Google account to use these – it can work with cookies in your browser to recognize you when you go back to the Google homepage. Of course, My Yahoo! has become a similar service, and they basically offer the same features with a Yahoo! flavor. I’m not promoting Google for any reason besides the fact that I like them and I know about them. Google Homepage, NewsGator, Yahoo – similar ideas, different flair.
I want to encourage you (the user) to subscribe to our RSS feeds somehow, because they help us tell you interesting and important things without having to send out mass-emails. When you subscribe to a news feed, you are in control. If a company sends out mass emails, they have to figure out how to avoid being marked as a spammer or blacklisted for putting out 10,000 emails in one day, and it’s often hard for you – the user – to control whether or not you get the email.
Imagine: instead of hoping that an upgrade email that we send out makes it through the muddy waters of the internet and through spam filters, you simply open your browser and right there, “Ilium Software announces a new program that will do everything for you!”. We’re not there yet, but if you subscribe, you’ll find out when we are.
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Another request for Blackberry version. I think you would sell a lot of downloads!
Add me to the long list of Blackberry users above that want their eWallet back…
I also am a longtime user of eWallet and ListPro. I switched to the Mac environment because Vista is a resource-hogging non-performing already obsolete product. I really miss it on the Mac. I stll use it on one PC that I cannot dump because I still need it for these applications.
Pleeeeeeease make a Mac version soon, i’m willing to pay the price !
I also used eWallet for a long time, but due to my change to mac, I need to look for another solution. I also changed from Windows mobile to Nokia Symbian… the only product on the market, which seems to support these both plattforms is splashid.. and compared to ewallt it’s a huge step back… but at the moment there seems to be no better alternative… or ?
Real shame there is no Mac OS X support, I’ve used eWallet for many years on the Palm and PC but moving over to the Mac I’ve had to go over to SplashID. Bye bye eWallet. I also have a relative with the same problem as they’ve also moved to the Mac.
Well, like the others, I am expressing my interest in the a Mac/Blackberry version. I use the Palm version for a couple of years…miss eWallet. thanks.
Like so many, I am in for OSX and BB version of eWallet. So refreshing to see so many folks moving to OSX. Having been a PC user for so many years (finally jumped to OSX 2 years ago), I am glad I am not alone requesting this great program to become a OSX program!
Please, please, please make an OS X version of eWallet!
Add me to the list, eWallet for Blackberry that syncs with the desktop version please!
Add me to your list as well… had eWallet for several years and have yet to find a comparable product. Have Blackberry Curve and Mac OS X…. Helpppppp!!!!
Another plea for ewallet for BB. Am switching over today. Love the program, have been using daily for two years, hate to say bye-bye.
Chalk me up for eWallet for the BlackBerry. I’ve sorely missed eWallet since moving to BB. I’m presently using MiniSafe on my BB. While it works well enough, it pales in comparison to eWallet. I’d switch to eWallet in a nanosecond. And as you can tell by all the e-flowers you’re getting on this blog, most of us would probably pay a decent price, too!
Please mark one more for a blackberry version of ewallet. I used the pocket PC version for 5 years and miss it.
do ewallet for blackberry please!
Almost perfect replacement for eWallet is SplasID. It runs under Palm OS, OSX and Pocket Windows OS. This year there is to be issued the version 4. I go for Splash ID and recommend it.
Rob
Just switched from XP to OSX/MBP. Will NOT be going back. +1 vote for OSX version of ewallet.
I also used to own an iPAQ and found eWallet a fantastic piece of software but have upgraded to a Symbian Nokia… I cannot find anything suitable for my Phone and i still use eWallet on both my work and home PCs as it is great for securing cards for online shopping etc… I have to copy wallet files onto my Nokia and take them too and from work ;o))
Any news on a Symbian version? I would pay through the teeth to get hold of it…