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- From: bsardis@netcom.com (Barry Sardis)
- Subject: Re: First Things First Offer: Worth It?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.235256.20153@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1eg5okINN72c@lester.appstate.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:52:56 GMT
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- WHITESR@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (*Steve White ) writes:
-
- >Recently I recieved an offer to purchase First Things First
- >for $45 (total). The deal includes Kaboom and DynoPage Lite.
-
- >Any thoughts re whether this is a good deal, strengths,
- >weaknesses of FTF? Does it conflict with other software,
- >eg Quickeys' timer options?
-
- >Has anyone created this type of functionality within Excel?
-
- >Thx,
- >Steve
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- >stephen r. white -- whitesr@appstate.bitnet -- whitesr@conrad.appstate.edu
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-
- I bought it, so I guess I thought it was a good deal. The Kaboom
- is a special version, not the full set of sounds, with an offer to
- get the full package. I haven't installed DynoPage Lite yet so no
- comment.
-
- I don't have Quickeys and haven't noticed any real problems. When
- there is a reminder it uses a "floating icon" which stays on top of
- everything else. In some applications part of it might "float away"
- as you scroll a document window. Just a little messy, not a real
- problem. If I had a screen larger than the 9 inch on my SE I'd
- probably never notice it. There doesn't seem to be a way of entering
- items not associated with a date, but that is probably a good thing,
- and you could stick them well off into the future if you don't want
- to deal with getting reminded all the time. I'd say it is a pretty
- well thought out utility product. I also just installed System 7 and
- it seems that Kaboom doesn't understand aliases which is not
- ordinarily an issue, except that I have System 6 on another disk
- and wanted to have only one copy of the data (sounds).
-
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