Comments on: eWallet for iPhone Answers III

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:33:35 +0000

Very nice software to have on my iPhone. Since you are coming out with an update, my I suggest the following-

With the “card” format of eWallet, it really should display in landscape mode. Just displaying in portrait mode, the text size often is about 5 point or less and the text only uses up about 1% of the screen. Use that fine iPhone screen with bigger font sizes in landscape mode. Make it easily readable.

By: David F.

David F. — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:24:21 +0000

@Marc: Thanks for the reply. I’m sure you know this, but if not, Firefox support plugins, which should enable “AutoPass” functionality.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:58:37 +0000

@David: Although we support FireFox for live links, we don’t support it for AutoPass yet. The reason is that IE gives us a handy API that lets us talk right with the browser very easily. FireFox doesn’t. We are looking for AutoPass solutions for FireFox but I don’t have anything I can say concretely yet.

By: David F.

David F. — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:48:50 +0000

@Marc: Yes, eWallet offers similar functionality to the wallet program I was referring to, and I used to use eWallet. But after finding the other program and getting used to the ability to save templates, and to have template changes inherited by existing cards based on that template, it’s going to be hard to go back to the old way of doing things. Kind of a moot point anyway since the desktop sync isn’t available yet anyway. Speaking of which, for the desktop version, do you have any plans to support Firefox?

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:35:07 +0000

@Juan: We’ll notify folks if they’ve registered their software with us. In addition, you will receive the usual “app update” notification on the phone side.

@David: eWallet already offers much of this. You can have multiple password fields, you can’t have “as many fields as you want” but some cards have up to 40 fields. You can’t move fields around but then again you can make different fields used for different things – so if it is Password URL Phone you want Phone URL Password, just make the first field a Phone type and the last field a password type. Same basic results in the end.

Template changes aren’t inherited and at this point we don’t have it setup so you can save your own templates but we’re working on this for future versions. (We offer the template saving on our other platforms.)

By: Juan

Juan — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:29:10 +0000

How will we know when its out? New App version? Or Desktop function?

By: David F.

David F. — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:02:59 +0000

I have a couple of questions concerning templates. I’ve used several different wallet programs over the years, and the one I like best allows me to customize templates in almost any way I want. I can create fields, delete them, have multiple password fields, and I can have as many fields as I want. On the “card” view, I can even move them around to place them where I like. One of the other things about this software is that if I make a change to a card template, then any cards based on that template will inherit the template changes (which really saves a lot of time).

So, will eWallet off this kind of flexibility with modifying templates, or will it be limited to a fixed number of fields and the ability to just change the “description” for a field?

If it can, then I’ll be interested in moving to eWallet for the iPhone.

Thanks,

Dave

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:11:12 +0000

@Alan: It’s coming Alan. I’m certain we said August for the release and while I was shooting for mid-August that was never a firm release date. We’re still on track for an August release, however. I’ve seen nothing to suggest otherwide.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:34:31 +0000

It is August 13th where is the sync function????

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:13:53 +0000

@Kenneth:
We never requried a password for deletion for a simple reason really. If the person already has your device in their hand, it’s probably better to let them delete it than leave it hanging around ont he device. At that point you’ve already lost the wallet by having the device taken.
We are going to make a chance to the next version althgouh I couldn’t say if we will require a password or simply offer an “are you sure” confirmation.
As for the My Wallet – that’s a bug. It is getting fixed int he next update as well. eWallet keeps recreating the sample wallet and it shoudln’t.

@Alan:
You can’t sync your wallet to the phone yet.