New software helps E-mail users avoid that boxed-in feeling
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Connect Software Inc's $79 E-Mail Connection simplifies the task of accessing commercial electronic mail systems and exchanging messages with subscribers on other systems. The Microsoft Windows-based product has a graphical interface that replaces the proprietary interfaces for CompuServe and MCI Mail. E-Mail Connection also makes it easy to use the Internet to contact people on other e-mail systems. The software can also be used with in-house e-mail systems based on Microsoft or Novell network software. Users can maintain a single, easy-to-use address book and filing system for messages sent and received on both systems. E-Mail Connection does a top-notch job of archiving and storing messages. Installation is simple. Connect Software plans to remedy the program's few weaknesses, including the lack of a connection to AT and T's e-mail service and the inability to send and receive in the background while another program is running.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1993
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PC users can take a whack at the deficit
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Citizen's Toolbox' $39.95 Saving the Dream: Hard Choices for Americans and Banner Blue Software's Uncle Sam's Budget Balancer are software programs that let users balance a simulated US budget. The programs have users take baseline deficit projections for the years through FY 1997 and then add options, chosen from a menu of about 300, for cutting or spending. The software tracks the effect users' choices have on the overall budget and tallies the amount by which the national debt is reduced. The main drawback to the programs is that they do not take into account the political pressures that legislators experience when they try to balance the budget. The Committee for a Responsible Budget is also expected to produce a budget-balancing program for $25 in Nov, 1992. Uncle Sam's Budget Balancer is free to all CompuServe and America Online users.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1992
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If writing fiction is your dream, software may help
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Screenplay System's $400 Dramatica Pro is designed to help writers create more interesting plots, characters, and scenarios. The software does not produce any prose, but it asks questions to aid character development and plot structure, and organizes that information. The application also offers synopses of great works of literature for inspiration or comparison. Dramatica Pro's main drawback is its near-mathematical complexity: the software can produce charts of story elements that resemble scientific tables. Dramatica Pro offers a basic overview of the components of a good story, and puts the user through methodical steps to story development. The program installs easily and has an intuitive user interface. Screenplay Systems also offers a simpler version, the $150 Dramatica Writer's DreamKit.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1997
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