Download/HomepageDataDuck is a Personal Information Manager, designed to act as a database
for contacts, appointments and tasks. It installs quickly and painlessly, and runs under
Windows 95 very smoothly indeed. The interface is windows-like, although for some reason
there is a question mark where you would expect to see the word help, and is so simple to
use you will be entering names and phone numbers within seconds of installing.
Unfortunately it soon becomes apparent that you have in fact downloaded only the skeleton,
the address book part of the programme. To add tasks, appointments and reminders you have
to go back to the site and download a further series of plug-ins. The address book itself
is fairly basic, it does allow you to give your own labels to the various contact numbers,
rather than the more usual pre-programmed ones. It also recognizes what kind of number you
are highlighting, and will launch your fax, mail or telephony software as appropriate,
without any tedious options to fill in before hand, and dial the number for you. It also
allows you to import a URL from your favourites folder, to add to the contact record. This
however takes as many mouse clicks as a cut and paste would.
The sort fields are limited to three, there are no categories of contact type and no place
for company name or any commercial information.As a PIM it has some good points, but is
sparse in scope and features. It uninstalls cleanly, and the shareware is fully
functional.
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