Entrepreneur's Complete Guide to Software

TIME MANAGEMENT

FastTrack Schedule 7.0 for Palm OS
Vendor:AEC SOFTWARE
Phone number: (800) 346-9413
Street price (packaged): $99
Operating system requirements & features: Palm OS 3. View and edit multiple schedules, display hourly to yearly timelines, drill-down into task specifics, link bars and HotSync your schedules with FastTrack Schedule's desktop version.

AllTime
Vendor:IAMBIC SOFTWARE
Phone number: (800) 730-5370
Street price (packaged): $39.95
Operating system requirements & features: Palm OS 2. Time-, expense- and mileage-tracking tool. Filters records by client, project or activity, and generates billing and analysis reports. Allows several different ways to view time.

TimeReporter for TimeSlips
Vendor:IAMBIC SOFTWARE
Phone number: (800) 730-5370
Street price (packaged): $120
Operating system requirements & features: Palm OS 3. Capture time and expenses while away from your desk. Syncs data with Sage U.S.'s Timeslips, version 6.0 and higher.

UTILITIES

GoBar 2.5
Vendor:ALADDIN SYSTEMS
Phone number: (800) 732-8881
Street price (packaged): $14.95
Operating system requirements & features: Palm OS 2. Navigate your Palm like your desktop. Access your address book, schedule, reports and frequently used applications with intuitive buttons and icons.

HotTime 1.3
Vendor:ALADDIN SYSTEMS
Phone number: (800) 732-8881
Street price (packaged): $9.95
Operating system requirements & features: Palm OS 2. Adjusts your organizer's date and time to within a second of the time set on your desktop computer every time you HotSync.

BugMe!
Vendor:ELECTRIC POCKET
Phone number: (817) 548-2199
Street price (packaged): $19.95
Operating system requirements & features: Palm OS 3. Reminder tool. Type yourself a note with Graffiti and set an alarm, and the note pops up at the set time.

WORD PROCESSING

Wordsmith 1.0
Vendor:BLUE NOMAD SOFTWARE
Phone number: fax: (413) 740-8375
Street price (packaged): $29.95
Operating system requirements & features: Palm OS 3. Includes a full-featured word processor, a document viewer and an enhanced memo pad, and full document synchronization on MS Word for MS Windows. Supports synchronization on more than one desktop.

Documents To Go Professional
Vendor:DATAVIZ
Phone number: (800) 733-0030
Street price (packaged): $49.95
Operating system requirements & features: Palm OS 3. View and edit word processing and spreadsheet files on your handheld. Supports character and paragraph formatting, cut and paste, scrolling, find features and document beaming. Allows more than 8,000 rows, 243 columns and 64 sheets.

iambic Reader 1.02
Vendor:IAMBIC SOFTWARE
Phone number: (800) 730-5370
Street price (packaged): $19.95
Operating system requirements & features: Palm OS 2. Open and view documents, e-books and Web pages. Supports HTML text and tables, and allows you to rotate the screen for viewing comfort. You must download the free Desktop Tools version to your PC to be able to sync with Word documents or save documents directly to your Palm.

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This article was originally published in the May 2001 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Entrepreneur's Complete Guide to Software.