Splash Wallet Suite for Palm OS
| Published 12/10/04
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Perhaps I should start out mentioning who this is not for. This product definitely is not for someone who uses their PDA only for contacts and scheduling. Others who will not benefit from the package are those with monochrome PDA’s. Color is so integral to the suite that those of us who are color-challenged would only go even more nuts. The Splash Suite breaks down into several constituent components. The components are discussed below. Splash Photo Previously known as "PDA Photo" this is one of the best photo-album programs I have ever found for the PDA. Being a loyal FirePad user from shortly after FireViewer’s first release, I was astounded at the quality, size efficiency and features included in the program. While I still use FirePad for special photograph collections and for certain multimedia types, I have switched my general "photo-album" to PDA/Splash Photo. The program works flawlessly and has tight integration with the desktop for easy album management. Splash ID Splash ID is "yet another" program designed to keep login’s, credit card numbers and passwords for you securely on your PDA. Splash ID’s main benefit is tight integration to a desktop client. I find this kind of program pointless thanks to Documents to Go’s ability to handle encrypted spreadsheets. I simply sync a password secured spreadsheet between the PDA and Desktop and avoid the need for this kind of client. It’s a neat idea for gizmo-fiends though! Splash Money SplashMoney is tightly integrated to Microsoft’s Money finance package. It works exceedingly well if you use MS Money. As this Geek uses Quicken, I’ve found that Splash Money does not have the same tight integration into Quicken as Landware’s Pocket Quicken has. If you are willing to work with it though, it may be a deal for you as Pocket Quicken has not updated its version in over a year, and as such, does suffer a few Graffiti 2 based glitches. As always, Splash Money is more reasonably priced then Pocket Quicken. I wouldn’t suggest a person use MS Money just to make use of Splash Money, but I would suggest using it as your portable checkbook if you find Pocket Quicken too expensive. Splash Shopper Splash Shopper for $19.99 (stand-alone) does exactly what HandyShopper does for free. What's the difference? Splash Shopper includes desktop integration along with a few extra bells and whistles. Since the software was free to me, I tried it out. Ultimately I found that when I was wandering around my apartment figuring out my shopping list, my PDA was the preferred input method, not sitting at my laptop to punch it in. One benefit I do see is you can use the desktop client to generate a hardcopy printout for those around us who are technology challenged. Altogether SplashWallet Suite contains a lot of useful programs if you want a simple comprehensive solution to all of your issues above. If you are like me and only need a piece of it, the suite is not so sweet of a deal. ______ Kevin Martin is Whim’s Resident Geek. PDA is his play on a boring class day. |
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