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<p>The First Major Organizer Comes to Mac OS X</p>
<p>Park City, UT - October 16th, 2001 -- Chronos LC today proudly announced<br />
Personal Organizer 4.0, the first and only modern organizer for Mac OS 8,<br />
9, and X. Personal Organizer 4.0 delivers where it really counts. According<br />
to Jerry Halls, V.P. of Sales at Chronos, "Personal Organizer 4.0 is like a<br />
fine sports car. It's fast. It's easy to use. And it's great looking. It<br />
makes you want to get organized!"</p>
<p>Chronos calls its product the "Swiss Army Knife" of productivity software.<br />
It integrates a calendar, address book, word processor, memo taker,<br />
personal journal, phone dialer, and alarm clock into a single easy-to-use<br />
application. To top it off, it synchronizes with all Palm and Handspring<br />
handheld organizers. Personal Organizer 4.0 is a modern organizer with<br />
modern underpinnings-not decade old legacy code. This allows it to<br />
integrate all the above features in a single application which incorporates<br />
technologies like the internet, speech, e-mail, Aqua, English translation,<br />
and Mac OS X. Users only have to learn one application, not two or more.</p>
<p>A previous version of Personal Organizer won the Macworld Eddy Award as<br />
"Best Data Management Product." How could an already great product be<br />
improved upon? When Chronos engineers set about developing version 4.0,<br />
everything they did had to conform to a specific philosophy: 1) Make it<br />
feature-rich; 2) Make it fast; 3) Make it easy to use; and 4) Make it<br />
beautiful.</p>
<p>MAKE IT FEATURE-RICH<br />
--------------------<br />
Personal Organizer 4.0 adds a wealth of new features including a built-in<br />
customizable spell checker which will spell check word processing<br />
documents, journal entries, memos and notes.</p>
<p>A new completely resizable Button Bar sports drag and drop customization<br />
allowing quick access to program features. Favorite applications may even<br />
be dragged to it from the Finder. The Button Bar may be oriented<br />
horizontally or vertically. Plus, users may place an unlimited number of<br />
Button Bars on the screen at once using different orientations, sizes, and<br />
buttons.</p>
<p>Like Mac OS X, a Personal Organizer file can contain multiple user<br />
accounts. A custom picture can now be assigned to each user account in a<br />
file including public accounts. Account pictures make it easy to<br />
distinguish who an activity or contact belongs to whether it be mom, dad,<br />
or the family. A new progress dialog now prominently displays which account<br />
is being opened and the file it belongs to.</p>
<p>Over 30 new features have been added including a new Administration dialog,<br />
an auto-open account feature, new Account Bars, new Palm Sync Setup, HTML<br />
online help, adjustable mini-calendars in the Day View, default account<br />
options, a Switch Primary Account dialog, and much, much more.</p>
<p>MAKE IT FAST<br />
------------<br />
The speed of nearly every aspect of Personal Organizer 4.0 has been<br />
dramatically improved. Depending on the computer, files open and close 200%<br />
to 1000% faster than the previous version. Files import 300% faster.<br />
Modifying the attributes of record batches occurs 300% faster. Mirror files<br />
and backups save 500% faster. And finally, Personal Organizer now<br />
synchronizes with Palm connected organizers 400% faster.</p>
<p>MAKE IT EASY TO USE<br />
-------------------<br />
A new Account Administration Wizard makes setting up Personal Organizer<br />
easier than ever. The new wizard makes it easy to create private and public<br />
accounts complete with account pictures. The wizard steps users through<br />
assigning access privileges and includes a new feature for specifying which<br />
accounts should automatically be opened for each user.</p>
<p>The new Palm Sync Setup Wizard offers best in class synchronization setup<br />
and management making it easier than ever to synchronize Personal Organizer<br />
with a Palm handheld. The wizard uniquely solves category synchronization<br />
issues by actually asking the Palm handheld which categories are being<br />
used. The user can then select the categories to synchronize which<br />
eliminates the all or nothing problem most PIMs face. Personal Organizer<br />
can even synchronize memos, a common deficiency in other PIM products.</p>
<p>A new Account Bar displays which file is open as well as the account(s)<br />
being accessed. Users may quickly and easily open additional accounts via a<br />
new dialog. This dialog does not require the user to enter a name or<br />
password since Personal Organizer 4.0 uses a new security mechanism based<br />
on access privileges rather than passwords.</p>
<p>Personal Organizer 4.0 comes with a new comprehensive HTML-based online<br />
help system. The help is based on the 250+ page Personal Organizer<br />
Reference manual and is fully searchable using Apple's Sherlock technology.<br />
Personal Organizer 4.0 retains its one-of-a-kind context-sensitive RealHelp<br />
system.</p>
<p>MAKE IT BEAUTIFUL<br />
-----------------<br />
Personal Organizer 4.0 is stunning. It incorporates Mac OS X's standard<br />
Aqua interface elements and then takes things to the next level. The Day<br />
and Multiday Views display appointments as aqua objects. Banners in the<br />
Month View appear as aqua bars. The Button Bar and Account Bar use<br />
photo-realistic icons which are resizable from small to very large sizes<br />
including 128x128 pixels.</p>
<p>Personal Organizer 4.0 comes with several new interface themes or skins<br />
which handsomely customize the look and feel of the software. Version 4.0<br />
ships with 8 new background pictures and 23 new account pictures.</p>
<p>SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS<br />
-------------------<br />
Personal Organizer 4.0 requires Mac OS 8.6 or above including Mac OS X. The<br />
application takes 13 MB of disk space and runs in as little as 5000 K RAM.</p>
<p>PURCHASE<br />
--------<br />
Chronos believes users should have the opportunity to try the software for<br />
free before they purchase. A 30 day trial version can be downloaded from<br />
Chronos' completely redesigned website at <a href="http://www.chronosnet.com" title="www.chronosnet.com">www.chronosnet.com</a>. Personal<br />
Organizer 4.0 may be purchased for $59.99.</p>
<p>Current Personal Organizer users may upgrade to version 4.0 for only<br />
$39.99. For an additional $10 they can get StickyBrain, "the best utility<br />
you never knew you needed." For more information visit Chronos at<br />
<a href="http://www.chronosnet.com" title="www.chronosnet.com">www.chronosnet.com</a>. Special note: Group Organizer 4.0 will be released the<br />
week of October 22, 2001. Details will be forthcoming then.</p>
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