When I am looking for the latest computer games, I often find new and interesting products. Product Snapshots gives you a quick overview of the most useful products I have found during the last month. (Please note that these are first-look reviews; I have not conducted exhaustive testing.)
GOLDMINE 3.2
GoldMine 3.2 is a personal information manager (PIM) application that offers excellent contact management features. With GoldMine 3.2, you can enter contact information, such as telephone numbers and e-mail addresses, for all of your business associates, and you can access this information quickly and easily whenever you need to contact someone. You can even maintain a contact history. For example, if a customer called you to report a problem with your company's product, you could make a note of the problem in GoldMine 3.2, along with the customer's contact information. Then when you called this customer back, you could refresh your memory by referring to the note you recorded.
GoldMine 3.2 also allows you to schedule appointments and tasks. For example, if you needed to call one of your company's suppliers on a particular day, you could enter this information in GoldMine 3.2. You would then receive a pop-up message on that day reminding you to call the supplier.
In addition, GoldMine 3.2 allows you to import data from your company's World-Wide Web site, such as contact information for users who have completed an online form requesting a product brochure. GoldMine 3.2 allows you to create corporate reports as well. For example, when customers purchase your company's product, you could ask these customers how they heard about the product. You could then enter this information in GoldMine 3.2, which would generate a report showing the most effective marketing methods based on customer feedback.
GoldMine 3.2 supports Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and 3.51, Windows 95, and Windows 3.x. You can purchase a standalone version of GoldMine 3.2 through retail channels at the suggested retail price of U.S. $295. You can also purchase a network version of GoldMine 3.2 beginning at the suggested retail price of U.S. $895 for a five-user license. In addition, you can download a demo version of GoldMine 3.2 from http://www.goldminesw.com/html/download_evaluation.htm.
For more information about GoldMine 3.2, visit GoldMine Software's web site (http://www.goldminesw.com). You can also call 1-800-654-3526 or 1-310-454-6800.
FIXCFILE 1.21
FixCFile 1.21 from Midnight Technologies Inc. allows you to recover data from corrupted files on an IntranetWare or NetWare 4 server. If a hard drive or memory module fails, these files can become corrupted and, therefore, are impossible to decompress. Because you cannot decompress a corrupted file, you cannot access the data stored in the file.
FixCFile 1.21, however, recovers this data by creating a temporary file. FixCFile 1.21 then writes the data from the corrupted file to the temporary file. Although some files may become so corrupted that the data cannot be recovered, FixCFile 1.21 can usually recover all or some of the data stored in most corrupted files.
To use FixCFile 1.21, you enter a command that loads the FixCFile NetWare Loadable Module (NLM) and specifies where the corrupted file is located on the server. For example, if you wanted FixCFile 1.21 to recover data from the PROPOSAL.WPD file and this file were located in the SYS:\DATA\MARKETING directory, you would enter the following command at the server console:
LOAD FIXCFILE.NLM SYS:\DATA\MARKETING\PROPOSAL.WPD
FixCFile 1.21 would then recover data from the corrupted file. In addition, FixCFile 1.21 would generate a log in the server's SYSTEM directory. This log would show how much data was recovered and could be extracted from the temporary file created during the recovery process.
FixCFile 1.21 supports IntranetWare and NetWare 4. You can purchase FixCFile 1.21 through retail channels at the suggested retail price of U.S. $795, and you can download a trial version of the product from http://www.midnighttech.com/free30.htm.
For more information about FixCFile 1.21, visit Midnight Technologies's web site (http://www.midnighttech.com). You can also call 1-801-572-0928.