Tracking contacts

This week, the focus is on software that helps you keep track of contacts, business or personal. There needn't ever be a missed birthday or appointment from now on.

Barracuda

Barracuda has lots of powerful features using which you can record customer information, record every significant detail about each customer and build job quotations and send them by fax.

The user also has the option of maintaining balance and transaction details, spending histories, service requests, and record, allocate, schedule and track customer service requests.

You can also log meetings, phone calls, faxes, e-mail, correspondence and literature, besides scheduling follow-ups, visits, meetings and courtesy calls.

Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000

Filesize: 11.73 MB

Download Location:www.coralsea.com.au/

barracuda/overview.htm

Purchase Info: Shareware

A-book

A-book is a full-featured contact manager with an Explorer-like interface. You can keep information on all friends, family and business contacts in a single, organised and clear environment.

A-book combines two approaches in its interface: a user- friendly treeview representing a hierarchical structure of multiple user-defined 'books' and a tabbed alphabet bar for quick filtering of the contacts.

You can easily manage your books and contacts using drag-and-drop. Each contact record stores plenty of data such as name, phone numbers, e-mail, addresses, birthdays, job and family information.

And if you make frequent calls to certain phone numbers, it will create a speed dial list of those numbers and quickly make calls using it.

A-book also lets you preview and then print phone lists, cards and envelopes, and import and export data in native and commonly used file formats.

Platform: Windows 95/98/NT/2000

Filesize: 1.07 MB

Download Location: www.dualitysoft.com

Purchase Info: Shareware

Manage Your Contacts

Manage Your Contacts is a powerful Windows-based contact management program with features that simplify the task of managing your contact list.

You can search, filter, and sort your entries as you please using a handy search/filter wizard, print to a variety of popular labels, quickly print envelopes and generate useful reports.

Platform: Windows 95/98

Download Location: www.nstarsolutions.com

Purchase Info: Shareware

Easy Phonebook

This is an easy telephone directory with a convenient and basically clean interface that helps you store information about your contacts.

All standard fields are included such as e-mail, homepage and ICQ. It enables flexible sorting and search, printing, automatic dialling, integration with e-mail client and Web browser. Database backup, restore and copy functions are available, as are export and import of data.

Platform: Windows 95/98/NT/2000

Filesize: 5.04 MB

Download Location: www.one.com.ua

Purchase Info: Adware

Easy Pocket Address Book

This is another telephone number and address book to enter, sort, search and categorise all of your contacts. It automatically formats your entries into a handy pocket-sized phone book.

Platform: Windows 95/98/NT

Download Location:

www.softcircuits.com/rodent/addrbook.htm

Purchase Info: Shareware

Contact Networks

This free software helps you enter and manage your own information and helps your contacts do the same. Everyone is kept constantly updated whenever a change is made, via the product, not e-mail.

You can control who sees what information, and how much they see. If you change your home phone number, all the contacts you had granted permission to see the number are automatically informed.

You can also share personal information, photos, voice recordings and more with any of your contacts. And best of all, there is no need to abandon an existing electronic address book or spend time re-entering data; Contact Networks synchronises easily with most popular contact managers. It also provides a secure back-up for all the contents of your address book.

Purchase Info: Freeware

Platform: Windows 95/98/NT/2000

Download Location: www.contact.com

Contact Buddy

Another free contact manager, this one provides all required features for maximum productivity. It lets you store and retrieve contact info, send them mail and comes with many more features.

Purchase Info: Freeware

Platform: Windows 95/98/NT

Download Location: http://pages.infinit.net/kaufman/Index.htm

Compiled by C. Ramesh

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