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- Short: Contact Manager, a centralised addressbook for everything
- Uploader: wiz@vapor.com (Simone Tellini)
- Author: wiz@vapor.com (Simone Tellini)
- Type: comm/misc
- Version: 1.1
-
- The Contact Manager is a kind of diary or system address book which allows
- you to store all your favourite user informaiton, web sites, ftp sites and
- IRC server/channels. It is designed as a replacement to all the different
- bookmarks, addressbooks and similar GUI's that are built into the many
- different Amiga Internet and comms programs.
-
- It offers a number of features over a lot of the internal
- bookmark/addressbooks:
-
- * You can store a range of different information for one user. In the user
- section, for instance, you can include their address, email address, phone
- number, fax number, web site, ftp site and so on. All these options can be
- utilised by other software.Voyager can use the web information,
- Microdot-II can use the email address, STFax Pro can use the fax number
- etc.
-
- * One GUI, many programs. You can store all the information you require
- within one interface. No need to worry about Microdot-II's addressbook,
- Voyager's bookmarks, STFax Pro's phonebook, AmFTP's server list etc.
-
- * Interacts with other software. Microdot-II, AmIRC, Voyager, AmFTP, STFax
- Pro, DOpus Magellan and IBrowse (available separately) will all add
- information to the Contact Manager from within these programs.For example.
- find an email address when reading a mail within Microdot-II? Just click
- 'add to addressbook' and the email address will be added to the Contact
- Manager.
-
- Some of these programs will use the Contact Manager in additional ways.
- For instance Microdot will call the Contact Manager when you press to: or
- cc: when writing a new message.
-
- Textinput (the built in Vapor text editor that ships with Microdot-II,
- Voyager, AmIRC, STFax Pro amongst others) now supports the ability to
- insert Contact Manager information into any document. For instance, say
- you were writing a message with Microdot-II, you could insert a name,
- email address, phone number or any other Contact Manager field, directly
- into that document. You will never have to remember a friends email
- address ever again!
-
- * Groups and sub-groups. The Contact Manager allows you to create groups
- for different kinds of users/addresses. AmFTP, for instance, does not
- allow you to create groups or sub-groups within its server list, however
- this can be achieved via the Contact Manager.
-
- * Multi-user support. If you are using Genesis as your TCP/IP stack, the
- Contact Manager will support and allow multiple users within one
- interface. If there are more than one user in your house (family members),
- each user can have their own configurations (with password) so that their
- information remains private.
-
- * Plugin links. AmIRC (from v2.1) now ships with an internal Contact
- Manager plugin. This allows you to add users to the Contact Manager from
- within AmIRC (based on the current userlist), add interesting channels to
- your Contact Manager channel list and even search for entries within
- Contact Manager from within AmIRC.
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