Clone dreams do come true
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Kiwi Computer's OpenNote notebook computer provides a low-cost alternative to brand name laptops. Users can build their own computers, choosing from Intel, Cyrix or Advanced Micro Devices microprocessors and specifying the hard drive. The components used all conform to industry standards, not proprietary schemes. A 500MB Toshiba hard drive provides rapid, quiet performance, while the floppy drive is noisy but effective. OpenNote offers a single PCMCIA slot, limiting users to either a fax/modem, sound or network card. An external port supports a CRT, but users must run a software program within OpenNote to make it work. OpenNote allows for as many upgrades as users need and lets users upgrade in an incremental fashion. A SIMM slot is provided so users may replace the RAM. An OpenNote with 8MB of RAM, a 500MB hard drive and an Intel DX4 100 processor costs about $2,100.
Publication Name: Law Office Computing
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1055-128X
Year: 1995
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Give your billing program a Windows facelift
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ProSoft's Carpe Diem for Windows 1.02, priced at $3,000 for 10 users, is a flexible Windows front-end for legal-office billing programs like Elite and Juris. This package effectively lets offices hold on to their existing billing systems while moving to Windows' GUI environment. There are three main modules in Carpe Diem: CDAdmin for choosing interface and security options, CDEntry for expense and time data, and CDTracker for tracking time. This last module includes the SmarTimer stopwatch feature, which can be set to track the hours spent on a project, and may be interrupted to track additional or simultaneous projects, as might be needed if one case was interrupted by a phone call for another. Glossaries of shorthand terms for common phrases are included so that entering data in 'timesheets' is a simple process.
Publication Name: Law Office Computing
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1055-128X
Year: 1995
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Free-form information management with InfoRecall
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Phantech Software's $99.95 InfoRecall 4.0 is a versatile but somewhat problematic PIM package for Windows systems. Phantech touts the 'free-form' nature of this product, which uses hypertext to help users search through files by keyword, logical operands, phonetics and phrases. Cross-referencing of information is straightforward; users can easily create menu entries to associate entries. This product falters, however, when importing Windows-based word processor files. To prevent data loss and/or garbled characters, it is recommended that users import all such documents as DOS files. This product is not highly recommended.
Publication Name: Law Office Computing
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1055-128X
Year: 1995
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