Amazon.com Product Description

Microsoft Entourage X for Mac seamlessly combines the easy-to-use tools in e-mail, calendar, address book, and tasks into one simple program. Check e-mail from all of your various POP, IMAP, and even MSN Hotmail accounts, without changing your current e-mail address or Internet service provider. Entourage's junk mail filter will sort and file all your unwanted mail, so you can read only the e-mail that is important to you.

Entourage X allows you to create and maintain multiple identities, so everyone that uses that computer can have their e-mail and other information saved securely and privately in different profiles. Use the Entourage calendar to keep track of all your appointments, meetings, and even vacations, all of which you can view by day, week, or month. The Entourage address book stores all your important contact information. You can add people's home and work addresses, phone numbers, spouse and children's names, birthdays and anniversaries, and even pictures.

With Palm handheld synchronization, you can bring your entire Entourage schedule and address book with you. One touch of a button and Entourage will synchronize with your Palm device so you always have the most up-to-date information. Entourage also works with all the Office X programs (Word, Excel, and/or PowerPoint) to add more functionality to your Office for Mac applications. ... Read more

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microsoft's best
I am an Apple fanatic, i had a strong belief that whatever apple makes is far more superior than any other product in the software market.. I always looked down at microsoft products as too commercial and inferior..
I have to say though.. that entourage is the only microsoft product that i find much better than anything else in the market.. it surpasses apple's mail, eudora, netscape... all
best email client you can find for the Mac, period. ... Read more

Features

• Simple tools allow users to puts their contacts into categories, add notes & maintain a history for them, and sort & search them by keywords or queries
• Edit and delete contact information whenever necessary
• Set your own activity reminders, add new users, run backups, arrange security and more
• You'll never miss another meeting, or lose another phone number, with Contact Manager Pro!

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Spyware!
Do not buy this or any Cosmi or Starshine software. It installs Spyware on your computer and it will take an expert to get rid of it. Don't make the same mistake I did! ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

The easy way to successfully manage your mailing. Print labels, envelopes, address books, and more. Easily import & export lists. ... Read more

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Mail List
When I purchased this product I thought it would save alot of time. Let's just say you get what you pay for.

Antiquated software
We used this software for our wedding invitations a while back. To be kind, it's antiquated. Note in the description that it is designed to run on Windows 3.x (which predates Win95, Win98, and Win2K) ... there is a reason why it says that. Although MyMailList can manage a mail list and print out a variety of label and evelope formats (including custom ones), the user interface is pretty clunky compared with current software. We're about to send out another mailing and we're not going to use this any more; we're looking for new software. ... Read more

Amazon.com Review

This affordable multiple-CD set from Topics Entertainmentstrikes a wonderful balance between education and entertainment,pulling together four already proven titles that cover everything frommath and problem-solving skills to art and reading.

Edmark's Mighty Math Zoo Zillions lets kids practice countingand number grouping in a colorful animated zoo, while Eurotalk'sSpanish Vocabulary Builder offers simple illustrated games thatreinforce basic Español. Simon & Schuster's CuriousGeorge Paint & Print Studio is a freeform art program that letskids decorate monkey-related scenes with thousands of stamps anddrawing tools. Finally, School Zone's Beginning Reading 1-2offers two interactive books, plus an audio dictionary and aCreate-a-Story program.

All four use intuitive visual interfaces that kids shouldn't have anytrouble tackling, and all provide at least some open-endedinteractivity. Beginning Reading lets you explore all thedifferent items on each storybook page, for example, and ZooZillions lets you fiddle with math problems as you go. Some of thisis a little complicated--Zoo Zillions lets you flip-flop quicklybetween structured questions and unstructured play--but adults willlikely find themselves more confused than kids. Also, most of theprograms feature vocal help in the form of purring tigers orhead-nodding Curious Georges.

A nice bonus: all of the programs except Beginning Reading runright off the CD, so no installation is required. And even if you'renot interested in all four titles, the price is hard to beat. --PaulHughes ... Read more

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Buyer Beware - Very Poor Quality Software
The software included in this set is of very poor quality. They will change your screen colors since they need to be run in 256 color mode. The games themselves are flawed with bugs. The answers to some of the questions were incorrect. I have an advanced degree in medicine, but even that did not help to address these shortcomings. I have also purchased the middle and High school math and Middle school math excelerator software and all of them are from the same company - TOPICS ENTERTAINMENT. I would recommend not to purchase ANY of the Excelerator titles, for not only are they a waste of your time and money, but they include two programs that are the same in both the Middle School and Middle School Math, which are the Pre-Algebra and Algebra programs. You would be better off buying another title from a different company....Buyer Beware!!!

speed up my 1st to a 2nd grader
This software was pretty good the zoo zollions I think was the best my daugther enjoyed the changellen, the print shop curious george was good also, the spanish was very good and to my surprise it was easy to change to a different language. But when it came to the reading part of it. it was borning and not that much changellen only in the creating your own story the dictonary was good. Only 3 stars because I wanted something more out of it for my 7 year old going into the 2nd grade. ... Read more

Features

• Choose from 11 award-winning voices
• Hear your appointments; listen to your upcoming tasks
• Speaks any information you enter into the Microsoft Calendar or Tasks
• Listen to information while your hands or eyes are occupied
• Customize your alert message; adjust the amount of time between alert and appointment

Features

• Test your gaming skills with Backgammon, Bridge, Chess, and Checkers
• Then up the competition with Go, Chinese Chess, Gomoku, Reversi, Shogi and 4-In-Line
• Play against the machine or against another person through an Internet or network connection
• All games features help options and adjustable difficulty levels

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Great Games!
The chess program on this game CD is the famous Chess System Tal II, developed by Chris Whittington.This plays, and thinks, more like a human than other chess programs.Very interesting chess games. And impossible to beat! p.s.The other games on this CD are excellent.Hours and hours of fun.I have finally learned how to play bridge with 10 Pro Board Games. ... Read more

Features

• Business card productivity software with layouts, clipart, and fonts
• Create professional-looking business cards in minutes
• Choose from over 2000+ templates; import company logo
• Import graphics in formats including BMP, GIF, JPEG, and EPS
• Simple power tools provided to enhance the card; easy to use

Features

• Create you own unique look, with 800 fonts for your business cards, flyer, presentations, brochures and more
• Navigate the font library with a simple, built-in browser
• Select and install your fonts and change the size & color to match your needs
• Five different font categories -Script, Headline, Modern and Text

Features

• Create personalized calendars with your family photos through the Year 2100
• Over 40 sample calendars are included or create your own by adding personal photographs, clip art and special text effects
• Graphics and text may be rotated and scaled as desired
• Over 1500 quality clip art images and 140 fonts are included
• Clip art for all holidays and occasions plus hundreds of borders and backgrounds will make your calendars stand out with style

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Spyware alert!
Do not buy this or any Cosmi or Starshine software. It installs Spyware on your computer and it will take an expert to get rid of it. Don't make the same mistake I did! ... Read more

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Wish I read these reviews
This is completely useless software.Gives less features than any free online yellow pages service.I was hoping to enter in SIC codes and export a calling list.(Understandable since it advertises on the box *CREATE LISTS FOR DIRECT MAIL AND TELEMARKETING*)You can only look up a business by its name.I thought, well I'll look up all businesses with the word HONDA in them, but you can only look up by what the business name starts with.USELESS,....

Very disappointing!
This software was very disappointing to me.InfoUSA indicated to me that it was the replacement for thier 88 Million Households disc.That program had the capacity to search by address and this one does not.It is a real misconception and I could not achieve my goals with it.

30 Businesses at a Time!
I would have thought that you could search for "Bagel Stores" and get 250 listings and EXPORT THEM AS A TEXT FILE.Not with this software.You cannot Highlight or Print more the 30 Businesses at a time, YOU CAN'T EXPORT ADDRESSES, YOU CAN'T PRINT TO A FILE.

YOU DON'T BUY 104 MILLION BUSINESSES TO MARKET THEM 30 AT A TIME! THAT'S WHAT THE PHONE BOOK IS FOR. THIS SOFTWARE STINKS. ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

Make Microsoft Outlook work like a Franklin Planner. Integrate the tools and concepts taught in the Franklin Covey "What Matters Most" seminar with Outlook's powerful personal-management features. The software includes wizards you can use to identify your governing values and roles, develop a personal mission statement, and set long-range goals. It also makes your planning easier with powerful and simple-to-use daily and weekly planning tools and task-management features. ... Read more

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Lose-Lose Proposition
To be brief, the worst software I have ever purchased. I wish I could give the software less than 1 star.

Pass on this and save yourself some heartache
I bought this and really wanted it to work for me. Nothing but heartache. I installed the first time, had a ton of problems, then uninstalled it out of disappointment, and which caused even more problems, which led me to have to completely uninstall all of my Palm software plus reinstall Outlook 2000 to get back to where I was before I started.

Amazingly, when they came out with an updated version, I tried again, with similar, though not as disastous results, mostly because I pulled the plug on the product before it could do much more damage. I have the CD sitting in my drawer, and I look at wistfully because I want it to do what it promises, but it just doesn't work.

Worst software I have ever seen...
This is far and away the worst, most bug-ridden, and poorly tested software I have ever used. The current software has downloadable patches to try and fix some of the problems, but costs far to much in time to fix all the data coruption problems with it.

My advice, do not buy this software. There is good shareware software available to do the same thing.

very skimpy manual
i bought the version of FP for Oulook and Palm... and have been regreting my decision ever since. note that if you have Outlook 2000 -- which i have recently upgraded to -- it is incompatible; it also happens to be incompatible w/the Palm Pocketmirror sync ultility.

tech support was helpful and i was eventually able to upgrade FP for Outlook 2000 but the procedure was LABORIOUS.

one of the most useless function is the Master Task List, MTL, which i thought would act as an overview of the Daily Task List, DTL (the DTL only pops up on the completion date but only within the DTL on the Palm and NOT on the calendar)... it is not. the MTL will only work if you don't assign a start date to the task/project (??!!). i also have the same problem mentioned by the over reviewer about duplicated contacts and entries. this was a real annoyance to correct.

as i have noted on the subject line and mentioned by other reviewers, FP is not intuitive to set up or modify. i can only recommend a look if you have used/enjoyed Franklin Covey's products, otherwise i would stay away.

Run (don't walk) from this product
I have to say that this product-which is a wonderful idea-is the single worst software package that I have ever purchased. I have not see a product as poorly designed since I bought a Coleco (I hope spelled it right) Adam 15 or so years ago.

My experiences started with an installation that took multiple days (I have been a programmer for 15+ years). My irritation increased, as features that I felt should be better integrated (ie. The Weekly Compass feature doesn't sync with my PalmPilot, poor printing capabilities...). After duplicating my contacts-increasing them from 300 to 600-multiple times, dropping meetings from my PalmPilot and conflicting with other PalmPilot software, I chose to cut my losses and de-install this product. This was after half a year of trying to make it work!

As a "7 Habits" reader who believes in the message that Steven Covey has sent forth, I cannot believe that this product made it to the Market. As a positive, the people who provided technical support provided excellent support-making the software work as best it could.

Paraphrasing business writer Tom Peters "stick with your knitting." In this case, I would recommend that you buy software from Palm Computing and day planners from Franklin Covey. ... Read more