For a contact manager you might also want to check out DayLite. I downloaded a demo version and it looks like it has a lot of neat features. You can probably find it on versiontracker.com.
> On Feb 8, 2005, at 0:04, Frank Hammitt wrote: > >> Three years ago I switched form Dell to a Ti PowerBook G4 667MHz, >> 512M RAM and have been pleased. There have been some gaps in total >> satisfaction because I could not find a Mac equivalent to some of the >> Windows based software I was using, specifically: ACT! (a contact >> manager database); > > I'm not up on what ACT!'s specific strengths, but Now > Up-To-Date/Contact is a pretty good contact manager. > (http://nowsoftware.com) It was light-years in front of the pack until > it got taken over by a software holding company (poweron software). > >> MS Project; > > Can't help you there. > >> Visio; > > You might look at Omnigraffle as a good diagram drawer. It makes > things which look a sight nicer than what MS Visio can produce. > (http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle) > >> Synchronization with a handheld Compaq IPAQ; plus several proprietary >> applications. >> >> I gave in to MS Office for Mac v.X to maintain some viability with >> my clients (all use Windows) and tried Virtual PC (VPC) 6.1 which >> runs embarrassingly slow, virtually unusable in front of clients. > > You might try VPC 7. It is a bit faster, though not to the speed of > VPC 5 under MacOS 9 (which ran nearly as fast as a slightly old PC). > >> >> Some of you must face the same issue, how do you work around the >> issue? Also, what Apple laptop configuration in terms of CPU speed >> and RAM will I need to run VPC 6.1 adequately? VPC 7.0 is getting >> lukewarm reviews. I travel a great deal and lighter is better so I am >> considering the new 1.5MHZ 12? PB with 1G RAM. Does anyone know what >> that will emulate in Windows? > > I'd think it would do pretty well on anything that doesn't need fancy > graphics. VPC 7 is slow but tolerable (to me, and I'm tolerant) on my > dual 800 G4... and it is too brain dead to use more than one of the > processors. Thus, it's like it is running on an 800MHz machine. You'll > undoubtedly have better luck. From what I've heard, it does best with > WinXP - which is not surprising, since it is now owned my M$. > > Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
