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From: Nick Naym on 8 Aug 2010 01:34
In article i3lc58$rvc$1(a)news.eternal-september.org, Salgud at
spamboy6547(a)comcast.net wrote on 8/8/10 12:34 AM:

> On 8/7/10 12:57 PM, AES wrote:
>> In article<C882ED5A.61FD4%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>,
>> Nick Naym<nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>> Yet another reason to hate the worst calendar app I ever saw. Even the
>>>> early versions of Outlook let me delete appointments!
>>>
>>> By far the best PIM I've ever used is Palm Desktop. It's fully integrated
>>> across 4 modules (Date Book, To Dos, Addresses, and Memos), and each has a
>>> degree of flexibility that leaves nothing to be desired.
>>
>> I'd put in a good word for the Now Contact/New Up to Date combination,
>> which I used since it first emerged.
>>
>> Can't say much about their characteristics as an integrated package,
>> since I'm not a fan of getting entangled in the behavior of integrated
>> packages for any purposes. The individual apps have always been easy to
>> used and absolutely reliable, however; and I have yet to learn of any
>> address list app with anything like the enormously handy "QuickContact"
>> menu applet that Now Contact has (why don't any other database apps have
>> this kind of module?!?!).
>
> Never heard of "Now Contact". Googled it, and found a "Now Software"
> company no longer in business. Never heard of "New Up to Date" either.

Now Software made Now Contact and Now Up to Date. Similar in many respects
to Palm Desktop, AFAIR. I never used it, so I can't comment.

It was due for upgrades, with dates repeatedly announced, and repeatedly
missed. "Now X," aka "Nighthawk," was supposedly to be the best thing since
sliced bread...but it never got off the ground: It crashed and burned at
launch, along with Now Software itself, within the past year. At least, that
was my impression.

> Don't know what you're referring to "individual apps", unless you mean
> iCal and Address Book that come on the Mac. Both are barely minimum for
> what they do. Wall calendars have more features than iCal - they have a
> pretty picture on them!

--
iMac (27", 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) � OS X (10.6.3)

From: AES on 8 Aug 2010 13:13
In article <i3lc58$rvc$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
Salgud <spamboy6547(a)comcast.net> wrote:

> > I'd put in a good word for the Now Contact/New Up to Date combination,
> > which I used since it first emerged.
> >
> > Can't say much about their characteristics as an integrated package,
> > since I'm not a fan of getting entangled in the behavior of integrated
> > packages for any purposes. The individual apps have always been easy to
> > used and absolutely reliable, however; and I have yet to learn of any
> > address list app with anything like the enormously handy "QuickContact"
> > menu applet that Now Contact has (why don't any other database apps have
> > this kind of module?!?!).
>
> Never heard of "Now Contact". Googled it, and found a "Now Software"
> company no longer in business. Never heard of "New Up to Date" either.

I guess that as of March 2010 Now Software is indeed no longer in
business:

<http://www.nowsoftware.com/>

<http://www.nowsoftware.com/letter.html>

Sorry to learn that -- their two primary products (an address book app
named Now Contact and la inked calendar app named Now Up to Date) were,
in my experience at least, excellent.

Now Contact in particular had a menu icon or menulet (if that's what one
calls these things) named QuickContact, which gave you full access to
the address book data without having to open the full Now Contact app or
have it running in the background.

The QuickContact menu icon opened a small drop-down menu that allowed
you to search for entries in the full address book that contained a
given string; see a list of "hits"; view their primary data (company
name, address, phone numbers, email address, etc.) in a small window;
and copy that data from any of them if desired. You could also add a
user-editable list of "favorites" to this drop-down menu. There was
also a similar QuickDay menulet which I never used.

Very handy -- if there are other databases of any kind that have a
similar capability, I haven't found them.
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