Organising contacts is an increasingly difficult task no matter who you are - if you add together all of the contacts on your mobile, e-mail and other external devices, it would probably be enough to go round the moon twice - or something like that.

Open Contacts is a brave attempt at trying to tie all these contacts together. The first thing that strikes you is that, it's not exactly the best looking program you've ever seen. It's more like an Excel spreadsheet with a few tasteless looking pink fields here and there. However, once you get working with it, you realise that it's not just an ugly face. The application has presets for various types of contact namely People and Companies. Both follow the same principle and the default layout gives you four fields within each one which you can move about. Each field expands into a whole page which allows you to enter just about everything from their eye colour to their favourite food if you so choose. In fact, few people will want or need to go into so much detail about their contacts but this is supposed to be a definitive kind of contacts book that you will refer to time and again although you get the feeling it's more like a police database at times. The program could have done with a few wizards to take you through the whole process a few times to begin with although the help file is extensive.

Open Contacts does help link and divide your contacts but it could do with a much better looking interface and a more simpler data fields for most people's needs.

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Total Organizer is a Personal Information Manager software that allows you to store all of your contacts, notes, and to-do lists. What's unique about the app is that everything is organized into categories (or 'folders') as a hierarchical tree and each item (be it a note,task,contact etc) may belong to several folders. This is known as 'tagging' and what's more, these tags may be hierarchical, meaning that Total Organizer refers to them as 'folders' and not 'tags'.

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Contact, calendar, appointment and diary are all a breeze to set up and edit (a handy bunch of wizards make sure of this) while offering a range of fields to play with. You can create groups and drag & drop freely to organize large of Contacts. As well as standard links to your browser and e-mail program, searching and dialer WinPIM can also generate useful summaries for your contacts perfect for printing.

The Appointments and the Tasks makes your time usage more productive and more rewarding. The Diary supports rich-text format contents, you can even add more than one diary to one day. And if they aren't enough you can add your own data into the 'information' section which makes WinPIM limitless in what it can store. And with SMS Messager WinPIM provided, you can even send your calendar to your mobile phone. WinPIM is perfect for personal use and more than sufficient for most professional users as well. As an added bonus you can download many reminder skins and schedules.

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Alive Organizer is a powerful system allowing you to manage your personal information, schedule tasks, maintain your address book, keep and publish your blog and much more. It is considerably better than its printed analogs as well as better than a lot of similar software because it provides you with a simple, effective and comfortable way to schedule your events, add contacts to your address book, create notes, keep and publish a personal blog. With Alive Organizer, you can easily generate your personal schedule for any date, get timely reminders about birthdays, anniversaries and holidays.

The features of Alive Organizer can be briefly described as "all in one". Indeed, Alive Organizer has all features necessary for such a description. Actually, Alive Organizer was designed to provide the user with constant control over all tasks, projects and contacts.

It should be specifically mentioned that Alive Organizer has a unique features allowing its user to keep and publish a personal blog on the Internet. This feature expands the horizons of using Alive Organizer because it often happens that our tasks, projects, ideas and plans are closely connected with what we write in our blogs.

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Organising contacts is an increasingly difficult task no matter who you are - if you add together all of the contacts on your mobile, e-mail and other external devices, it would probably be enough to go round the moon twice - or something like that.

Open Contacts Portable is portable version of Open Contacts which is a brave attempt at trying to tie all these contacts together. Of course, if you're on the move a lot and making contacts all the time, then this version is much more suitable because it fits neatly on a Pendrive. The first thing that strikes with Open Contacts is that it's not exactly the best looking program you've ever seen. It's more like an Excel spreadsheet with a few tasteless looking pink fields here and there. However, once you get working with it, you realise that it's not just an ugly face. The application has presets for various types of contact namely People and Companies. Both follow the same principle and the default layout gives you four fields within each one which you can move about. Each field expands into a whole page which allows you to enter more details although the portable version is more limited than the original which is no bad thing. Few people will want or need to go into so much detail about their contacts as the original allows and so I'd rather use this version anyway. Although it's simpler to use as a result, the program could still have done with a few wizards to take you through the whole process a few times to begin with although the help file is extensive.

Open Contacts does help link and divide your contacts but it could do with a much better looking interface although the simpler data fields in this portable version are actually an improvement on the original.

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My Gmail address book must be one of my most trusty contact lists that I have. I constantly refer to it because it's easy to use and intuitive.

However, it's also a pain to have to log into Gmail everytime I want to access a contact. iContact works by using Gmail/Google Apps contacts list as the central database for your contacts. You can still see and edit your contacts in Gmail but iContact allows you to have instant access to your contacts whenever you need them without logging into your Google/Gmail account - great for if you are travelling or don't have access to an internet connection. The program can also integrate with Microsoft Outlook to import your contacts directly from there and add them into Gmail. It also features integration with Skype and Google Maps and allows you to send contacts to your Satnav or TomTom device which is useful for contacting people on the move. iContact also doesn't care which machine or PC you are working on - you can access your contacts on all computers without the need to synchronize them.

This is not exactly a Web 2.0 app but it's about as close as you can come without actually being one and a much more convenient way to organise your contacts.

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Now that we can access the internet from almost anywhere and any device the difficulty is getting access to your information all at once. It can be store all online or you can keep everything synced up on all your devices.

EverNote is a application/service, still only accessible by invitation, which lets you capture, store and sync anything on multiple devices. EverNote works on any OS, whether PC, Mac or phone and can capture anything you throw at it, from notes, to images, media or passwords. All your information is stored in the program and you can use tags and notes to categorize it.

If you have EverNote installed on your devices, all it takes is having an internet connection and pressing the 'Synchronize' button from the menu, to ensure that you have the same information stored on all devices.

Although it's still a closed Beta, EverNote is a very promising application to capture, store and sync any sort of information on all your devices.

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Contact Organizer Pro is a flexible contacts management software for Windows users. The solution gives you an easy way to gather and organize information about all your business contacts: main contact information, business/account information, related contacts information, history of all activities, contact notes, and more.

For the database novice, Organizer's intuitive interface and its ready-to-use contact management solutions make it easy to set up and use. For the power user, Organizer affords the simplicity of wizards that make it easy to set up and use contacts management solutions that you create.

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VisualCron is a Windows-based program that works like the integrated task scheduler but has more features and flexibility. VisualCron is based on the Unix/Linux version of Cron.

This is what VisualCron has to offer:

• Add scheduled jobs in a visual/graphical mode
• Runs as a service, no need to be logged in
• Run job as any user
• Set process priority
• Run missed events, if server had a downperiod
• Run jobs randomly
• View active jobs in a list with name, description and current status
• View current time and status of jobs
• View next execution time
• Edit jobs easily with a rightclick
• Run job on demand
• Run job once
• Run jobs in hidden mode
• Second precision and year handling in job scheduling

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With ritePen, users can write on the full screen in smooth electronic ink and their handwriting is automatically converted into text. ritePen works with any Windows application, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Internet Explorer & more. ritePen recognizes unrestricted and continuous writing. ritePen provides natural editing gestures, list of alternative answers, and a custom user dictionary to further improve recognition accuracy.

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ContactKeeper is a free personal information manager to store contact information about your friends, family, and colleges in one database file. You will never forget a birthday any more thanks to the integrated birthday reminder!

The pick of the bunch is the possibility to let ContactKeeper generate a birthday calender based on the dates of birth of the persons in the database!ContactKeeper is consciously very flexible, for example, only first name or last name is required, but not both, ContactKeeper is also consciously equipped with only a few basic fields, you can put extra information in the Note field.

You have also the freedom under wich format you want to save phone numbers of an address, for that reason the address is stored in one field only and the street name for example isn't seperated from the postal code and city name. ContactKeeper can be very usefull in case you lose your gsm with all the numbers of your friends for example, so you still have a back-up.

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Exstora is a program which will help you take notes and keep the information ordered. Exstora is a notes manager and daily planner software.

Here is a brief list of the program’s features:

• Opening the editor window of notes manager within "two mouse clicks"
• Friendly navigation and flexible administration of stored notes and events
• Password-protecting one or several categories with records
• Built-in daily planner to remind you of scheduled events
• Long-term scheduling feature, checking the time remaining until completion of the scheduled task on the daily basis

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Keeping track of friends and family names and addresses is always tricky and I've never come across an app that really integrates well with my online activities. As far as offline apps fgo however, LS Addressbook does a good job of organizing your contacts in a compact and simple agenda. It has fields for the name, telephone number, address, e-mail and notes, etc.

There are many more options than you'll find in an agenda of a modern mobile phone, but the interesting thing is the export options. It supports TXT formats and XLS so you can export the data for simple backups at anytime or for printing. You can also import data from MS Access if you use it for contacts.

Simple and comprehensive with some useful export options, this is a solid contacts organiser.

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EssentialPIM Free is the award-winning, absolutely free personal information manager. Supported by a large community of users, EPIM has been widely acknowledged as the best personal information management system on any desktop or USB flash. It is not bloatware and has no spyware or adware.

Most important features:

Multiple modules for all needs

EssentialPIM can securely schedule your day, manage your contacts, keep track of your To Do plans and organize your notes, all within a mouse click or two.

Security

All data can be password-protected and the database file is kept encrypted with the advanced industry standard AES (Rijndael), 128 bit key

Versatile import/export capabilities

Data can be exported to HTML, RTF, CSV, and TXT. Complete import from MS Outlook or Outlook Express

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Running an office can be a thankless task. You almost need five brains in order to manage employees hours, schedule meetings, monitor staff, plan projects and keep on top of expenses. Luckily, there are a number of scheduling applications on the market, and Schedule It is among the best of them.

In order to meet the demands of managing a busy office the program counts on a large number of tools for taking care of different tasks, each of which can significantly improve efficiency one you've mastered how to use it. There are lots of neat additions that make the scheduling process more bearable, such as a drag-and-drop function, which allows you to click on the start time of an employee's shift and drag a bar down to the time they finish.

Schedule It provides you with a number of different ways of looking at your schedule, including daily, weekly, monthly or yearly views. They can even be colour-coded to make them easier to read. Security and back-up is also taken care of very well and you can apply password-protection and restore data with ease. Perhaps the only thing that lets Schedule It down is that its reporting section is quite limited compared with other similar products.

Overall, Schedule It proves to be a very useful suite that can dramatically improve the efficiency of your office scheduling.

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MSD Tasks Multiuser is a graphics work planner that allows you to visually schedule work tasks. The difference between this and the standard MSD Tasks program is that this version allows several users to share information in a local area network with user access control. It's great for bosses, managers and staff that need to collaborate, organise a rota or working schedule. The program can be used as an electronic appointment calendar, administer customer contacts or help project manager when organizing the activities of a team.

The developers assure that security is guaranteed as all data can be protected and encrypted by password. You can assign it to automatically manage work order numbers and print work order reports. All the records in the program can contain an unlimited history meaning you need never lose another rota or shift pattern.

The software is basically based on two concepts - the working groups on one hand and their tasks on the other hand. It does not however play a role as to whether a team works together on a project or individual coworkers separate tasks. The progress of individual projects can be pursued in detail and so in a glance, you can see how well a team is doing. All data is presented in graphical form and to leave despite innumerable factors clearly to present itself.

MSD Tasks Multiuser is a great tool for those that have to manage sizable teams or want to find a better way of tracking employee progress.

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A good organization is one of the keys to success in your student life, be it at high school, university or postgraduate studies. This is why qOrganizer can be really useful for you.

This personal information manager features all the tools you need to organize your work, some of which have been especially developed for students. You can enter your class schedule, jot down assignments or track your marks, to name a few.

The program's simple interface makes it easy to use, although I missed having some more format options in the note editor. Also, the calendar tool didn't highlight days with assigned tasks in any way, something that would make tasks easier to track. On the upside, I was surprised to see that qOrganizer supports FTP synchronizing and can save your data to an SQL database.

qOrganizer helps students manage their classes and assigned papers in a more efficient way.

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MSD Organizer is a complete, powerful and easy to use personal and professional information manager with the following features:

• Personal and professional information manager, with calendar, contacts, alarms, tasks, cards, diary, property, budget, health and music.
• The Network messenger allows to send private or broadcast messages to other program users in the local area network. The messages are stored in trays like in the mailing programs.
• Provides tools to communicate with the contacts by phone, web, electronic mail and SMS messages, and allows to send customizable emails to contacts and email lists.
• All the records in the program modules can contain an unlimited history. The possibilities of this unique feature are countless.
• Find your information easily, using powerful filtering and searching tools.
• Data security, provided by password control and data encryption.

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The great ease of use of ABIX makes it a tool of choice for personal use at home for all the family. After only 1 hour of use, you will be familiar with all the functions of ABIX. ABIX is also powerful enough to be used at the office and is perfect for small enterprises and home offices. ABIX can also be used on a network. Being an integrated program, ABIX keeps the same functioning and the same clean interface in each of its main functions, making it easier to learn and use.

You can enter as much information as you want, and classify it in as many categories as you want, there are no limits. And each item (calendar event, address, inventory item, etc) has a <Note> field which can accept up to 20 pages of text! A data backup feature is integrated in ABIX. This feature allows you to easily backup all your ABIX data on a floppy disk or other, protecting them against computer failure or other problems. You can even program ABIX to remind you to make a backup of your data, at a specified time interval chosen by you. You can also protect the access and confidentiality of your data with a password at each startup of ABIX.

To save time and paper, all reports can be previewed onscreen, and some functions have a search engine, allowing you to easily find the desired information and print it.

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Lantiv Timetabler is probably one of the most complete organizational tools you can find for your primary school, high school or any other type of education institution. The program saves all the necessary data (teachers, students, subjects, equipment, etc.) into a database and then uses it to elaborate timetables and detect any possible conflicts.

The application has so many options and displays so much information that the interface, despite its eye-catching design, sometimes seems too cluttered. You may also feel a bit confused with so much data!

Fortunately Lantiv Timetable includes interactive tutorials and a collection of tips to help you start using the program, as well as a sample school that gives you an idea about how it works.

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