As your mother always told you, using one password for all of your online accounts is a bad idea. Keeping multiple passwords for all of your various accounts is one of the best bets for online security, but remembering all of them can be challenge in and of itself. One solution is to keep them all written down and with you in your wallet or written on sticky notes and posted in various places, but that’s probably a bad idea too. For some, the only way to make managing that plethora of passwords and other pertinent account info work is if they can keep all of them strongly encrypted with one robust password that you can remember and on a device you have with you nearly all the time. Enter SplashID ($7.99 In the App Catalog), an application that allows you to keep all of your passwords in one, (hopefully) secure spot.

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Having recently acquired iambic, SplashData announced in an email sent to iambic customers that they intend to expand their offerings onto new platforms. Specifically, Agendus, and specifically onto webOS and Android:

If you haven’t heard, SplashData has acquired iambic, combining the resources of two of the most respected and established developers of mobile productivity software. We are very excited to have the opportunity to work on Agendus and expand its features as well as bring it to new mobile platforms such as Android and webOS.

Agendus is iambic’s signature product and something missed by a great many Palm OS users after making the switch to webOS. When we’ll see Agendus on webOS and what condition it will be in is still up in the air, but it’s great to hear that it’s coming regardless. And trust us, as soon as we hear something more, we’ll let you know!

If you’re not familiar with Agendus, it began as a Palm OS app (back in the day when the were still called applications) that served as a replacement for the Palm OS Date Book. Agendus was more than just another calendar: it integrated with your memos, tasks, contacts, and more to bring it all into one tightly-knit package: your agenda. There’s even more to it than that – to see why Agendus was such a beloved Palm OS app, we’re going to point you to Agendus’ extensive feature list. If just one quarter of those features make it to webOS we’ll be exceedingly happy campers.

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Right now there’s no good way to sync or backup your data from SplashID on webOS, which is otherwise a perfectly good app. But without any way to backup your data, you’re left in a lurch if it ever happens that you have to reset or replace your phone. The good folks at SplashData recognize that and instead of pursuing the desktop sync function that has typified SplashID on every other platform.

Instead they’re going after the solution that typifies webOS: the cloud. SplashData will in the coming months release a cloud-enabled beta SplashID. The app will sync your passwords and other SplashID data to SplashID Live, the ecosystem’s online repository. Additionally, you can expect that in the near future the cost of SplashID will rise, likely to their standard $9.99. SplashData is currently asking just $4.99 for the webOS version as they didn’t feel comfortable charging the full price for an app with no desktop sync functionality.

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