Now Up to Date & Contact Manager 4.0 Review

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(More customer reviews)Now Up To Date & Contact (NUTD) is a contact manager and calendering program written for Mac users. First written for Mac OS 9, it was the best choice when there were few options. Windows users had Act! but Mac users did not yet have iCal or Entourage. NUTD is simple enough to start using quickly. It is has a number of options to let you customise the data fields, create your own templates for letters and faxes and it can be net worked with other members of your company or organization. It can be used with Palm devices but NUTD conduits conflict with iCal and Entourage conduits. The NUTD support site lists the other conduits with which it conflits.
Because of all the ways you can customise reports, it is a great way to maintain and print an address book or customer list. It is easy to insert a contact`s name and address in the program`s word processor. The word processor is very basic and lacks most of the features a Word user might expect. But it does link the saved document to a contact's file. If you use Word, you will have to link manually. NUTD has templates to print envelopes and labels as well. There is a telephone dialer built into NUTD. Clicking on the telephone icon in a contact's record will dial the number, open a new dialogue box for notes, date and time and when closed, link the data to the contact record.
NUTD has not had a major upgrade in years. In MAC OS X it is quirky and unreliable. The servers that allow users to share files crash and corrupt their data base. The NUTD site has extensive help files to show users how to re-install and restore the servers. There is a reason for all those help files, you will be using them. The NUTD support site use to have a user discussion board. Before it was taken down, some users expressed a lot of dissatisfaction. I have lost my calendar server so many times I gave up trying to use it and went with iCal because it is reliable. In using the contact manager, I am frustrated by the programs tendency to generate error messages when making calls or writing letters. Some letters are corrupted when saved. The technical support staff does respond to email inquires within a day or two. However, they can not do anything about the program's limitations. If your data is gone or corrupted, you have to start over.
John Wallace, President of NUTD, said in a email (February 2005) that version 5 of the program is in beta testing and should ship in the next couple of months. It would be worth looking at the update. But there is a new player, DayLite by Marketcircle. DayLite seems to have more momentum with frequent updates, enhancements, new add-on programs and even a Yahoo user group. NUTD is in damage control mode and vapor ware - sort of like the Windows ware that drove me to Macs in the first place.

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