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From: Nemesis on 5 Jun 2010 07:55 http://www.essentialpim.com/?r=products&pr=essentialpim&prr=screenshots http://www.snapfiles.com/screenshots/effpim.htm
From: Jeffrey Needle on 5 Jun 2010 15:27 Nemesis wrote: > http://www.essentialpim.com/?r=products&pr=essentialpim&prr=screenshots > > > http://www.snapfiles.com/screenshots/effpim.htm To folks on this list, since Efficient PIM is payware, it doesn't much matter, does it?
From: Don Kirkman on 5 Jun 2010 19:33 On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 21:34:14 +0200, FredW <fredw(a)blackholespam.net> wrote: >On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:27:40 -0700, Jeffrey Needle ><jeff.needle(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>Nemesis wrote: >>> http://www.essentialpim.com/?r=products&pr=essentialpim&prr=screenshots >>> http://www.snapfiles.com/screenshots/effpim.htm >>To folks on this list, since Efficient PIM is payware, it doesn't much >>matter, does it? >I always understood there was a free version: >http://www.essentialpim.com/?r=download >(EssentialPIM Free 3.53 - 18 May 2010 - 4.91 MB) But "efficient" is not a synonym for "essential," is it? -- Don Kirkman donsno2(a)charter.net
From: Jeffrey Needle on 5 Jun 2010 20:12 FredW wrote: > On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:27:40 -0700, Jeffrey Needle > <jeff.needle(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Nemesis wrote: >>> http://www.essentialpim.com/?r=products&pr=essentialpim&prr=screenshots >>> >>> >>> http://www.snapfiles.com/screenshots/effpim.htm >> >> To folks on this list, since Efficient PIM is payware, it doesn't much >> matter, does it? > > I always understood there was a free version: > http://www.essentialpim.com/?r=download > (EssentialPIM Free 3.53 - 18 May 2010 - 4.91 MB) > Is there a freeware version of Efficient PIM? I don't think so. As I said, Efficient PIM is payware. You pointed me to the free version of EsssentialPIM.
From: VanguardLH on 5 Jun 2010 20:25
Jeffrey Needle wrote: > Nemesis wrote: > >> http://www.essentialpim.com/?r=products&pr=essentialpim&prr=screenshots >> http://www.snapfiles.com/screenshots/effpim.htm > > To folks on this list, since Efficient PIM is payware, it doesn't much > matter, does it? There is a payware AND freeware version of EssentialPIM and EssentialPIM. For a comparison between them, go read: http://www.essentialpim.com/?r=products&pr=essentialpim&prr=provsfree http://www.efficientpim.com/freeedition.htm The restriction of supporting only 1 e-mail account in the freeware version of EssentialPIM is what eliminates it as a choice for me since I have 6 accounts to monitor. I haven't bothered to look at EfficientPIM; however, I don't see any mention of e-mail features in their comparison list or in their screenshots. E-mail is the primary function for why I use MS Outlook. EssentialPIM is a decent substitute except the freeware version only supports 1 e-mail account. EfficientPIM doesn't even have an e-mail function so it would never qualify as a substitute for Outlook. I have no idea what the OP meant by "copy". Maybe he meant a ripoff of EssentialPIM (but guess he missed that EfficientPIM has no e-mail support). One link shows screenshots for EssentialPIM. The other link shows screenshots for EfficientPIM. Different products. Notice the download link goes to a file on the SnapFiles page, not to an author's web site. If you follow the link to the "review" (sarcasm intended since it is just a rehash of what the software publisher told SnapFiles to publish), their web site is as http://www.efficientpim.com/. That a program looks identical to another or highly similar isn't something new. Easeus' Partition Manager looks highly similar to Powerquest's PartitionMagic (now owned and killed off by Symantec). Since EssentialPIM is not an abandoned program, it would be up to its maker to take action against EfficientPIM in stealing the GUI for EssentialPIM. While there is a lot of similarity in the screenshots for EssentialPIM and EfficientPIM, they aren't exactly the same. There are lots of programs that look similar because they adopt similar GUIs (i.e., the ones that users have shown a preference), like Thunderbird and other e-mail or newsreader programs copying the 3-pane layout of Outlook Express. That they have similar product names is not a copyright infringment anymore than WordPerfect steps on the Word product name or MathCAD steps on AutoCAD. They're both PIMs, that program category was included in the product name, and one starts with Essential while another starts with Efficient. |