1 stars (USB doesn't work) - I tried the CD to install the USB connection between pen and PC. Failed so many times. I tried for one month, I decided to return it. And I hope I still can get full refund. 1 stars (Doesn't work with OS X) - I want to like this thing, but I can't, for it does not work at all with OS X. So, if, like me, you run Apples, just pass on by this page because the thing will not work for you. 3 stars (Not as good as the C-Pen 800C) - I'm measuring, first and foremost, ease and precision of scanning. Speed of scanning and ease of installation on the computer are, in my mind, about the same for both this, the Wizcom QuickLink Elite, and the C-Pen 800C. They differ sufficiently, however, in the primary question of ease and quality of scanning. For the record, I bought both at the same time, with the intent of keeping the better of the two. You can just go ahead and buy the C-Pen 800C. I have had one horrible experience with a pen scanner by Siemens, the "Pocket Reader." It was truly useless. It scanned so poorly that I just put it aside. By the time I though to return it, Siemens was no longer making it, and I couldn't get customer service here in the U.S. The Wizcom QuickLink Elite is not so bad. It's serviceable. I don't think it lives up to its 95% accuracy guarantee, but perhaps meets a 90% threshold, measured impressionistically. It's interface is also reasonable and satisfactory. However, the C-Pen 800C is even more precise, truly approaching 95%. Moreover, if you discount errors in spacing from this accuracy percentage, its precision is even higher. Whereas the Wizcom is just as likely to make a content error, misread letters, etc., the 800C's errors are more likely to be the absence of a space when there should be one. A rare missed space doesn't make you puzzle over the text when you come back to it two months later. C-Pen is also lighter, and it's rechargeable, so while it's more expensive, in the long run, you'll save on batteries. Bo... Wizcom :: Presentation (Presentational) :: Form :: Reports (Reporting) :: Schedule Management (Scheduling) :: Accounting (Account) :: Bundle (Bundles) :: Office Suite (Suit :: Wizcom QuickLink Elite Pen Scanner (E04087)
4 stars (Works as billed) - Before I bought this pen I looked at most of the reviews for other hand held scanners on the market. It seems to be the case that either they works or they don't. In my case it seems to work perfect. Well perfect as in about 5 mistakes in about a hundred words, in other words abouth 1 in 20. This actually isn't as bad as it seems and perhaps I expected the worst but I find this quite tolerable and readable. In addition if the reviews I read are correct, there is a slight learning curve so hopefully it will get better. I haven't had a lot of time to play with the software but is seems to work pretty seamlessly in a Win XP box with SP 2 installed. Install the software, plug in the USB cable, plug in the pen and voila it works (actually it didn't work the first time but it turned out that I hadn't pushed the pen side plug in fully, it should click) Overall it works as billed and for $90-$25 rebate = $65 its a bargain in comparison to the c-pens which start at $165 !! The trick now is actually using it. If your interested here is a scan of a paragraph. Its about my third try. "Recently, digital information and new fonns of information technology have become the focus of tremendous amounts of attention and energy iaan our society. excitement penetrates not the business world and the general society. but also cademia, where computer scientists, cognitive scientists, social scientists are thinking about information and the arial impacts of information technology in new ways." 4 stars (Great gadget!) - After reading the reviews on this product and like products, I was considering another brand to find a good pen scanner, but I was only able to find this one locally, and the store keeper gave me the ability to return if I didn't like it, so what do I have to loose. How did I find it? EXCELLENT! It performs exactly as advertised. I can see how other users struggled with the device, but the package clearly states how to hold the pen an... Wizcom :: Fonts :: Multimedia :: Graphics (Graphic) :: Form :: Reports (Reporting) :: Schedule Management (Scheduling) :: wordprocessing (wordprocessors) :: Spell Checkers (S :: Wizcom InfoScan IS1000 Pen Scanner
1 stars (ACT! 2005...Gone BAD!) - Act has been a constant software companion for me since the 2.0 version with miles and miles of my most sacred business data. I always upgraded the product as soon as the new versions came out and for the most part was always happy with the new releases. But when ACT! 2005 came out I heard some bad stories from inital reviews so I waited....then an update for 2005 came out to correct many of the issues the original release exhibited. So I finally decided to upgrade, convert my old data over and expected to have a pleasant experiece with the latest features and supposedly speed that SQL use was to provide. WRONG! After working with my data for awhile I noticed the database was SLOW, I was missing fields, notes, history, etc. but not for all of my contacts, it seems interspersed throughout my database. In using the layout designer tool it has hosed up my layouts so bad that some fields do not even show up in the Layout Designer but in the Contact View are way over to one side. This has cost me many hours of work trying to get my ACT! 2005 to function properly out of the box. Do not buy this product, it is a waste of your money and will waste your time, especially if you used previous versions of ACT! and will frustrate the heck out of Advanced ACT! user. I am going back to ACT! 6.0, atleast there is support for it for a few more years and give me time to look at other products in the market place. 4 stars (What is going on?) - I first began to work with ACT! in 1987 when the original founders of Contact Software showed up in my office and presented their ACT! software to me for testing. At the time I was a partner with a Big 8 accounting firm working with startup technology companies. I thought enough of the software and the company to leave the world of public accounting and join the company as their president and CEO for a short time to get them focused and funded. Since that time, I have used ACT! as an executive sear... Sage Software :: Manager (Managers) :: Schedule Management (Scheduling) :: Project Management :: Bundle (Bundles) :: Office Suite (Suites) :: Database (Databases) :: Computer soft :: ACT- 2005 [Old Version]
4 stars (This program made me a "switcher") - I've been using contact managers since the late 1980's. I've always been partial to Act! in all of it's incarnations because it was fast and flexible. Goldmine has a ton of great features but it's difficult to use and its interface STILL seems to be trying to break free from its DOS roots. Until now, I've had to remain on the PC platform because it's been difficult for me to justify using a Mac because I couldn't find a program that could handle my contact management in a way that I was comfortable. Daylite solved that problem for me and I recently switched to the Mac. For me, the "killer" feature was the ability to assign "roles" to various contacts in the database. I'm a real estate broker and can frequently have a contact who is a home buyer and a home seller -- two completely separate roles. I've never been able to find an off the shelf solution that would allow me to easily create a project or opportunity and assign the same contact to 2 different roles in the same database. The depth at which you assign roles, categories, keywords -- and even create CUSTOM FORMS and data fields -- makes this program incredibly flexible! But it also means, as the previous reviewer stated, that there can be a bit of a learning curve. I'm the kind of person who never reads a manual -- I just plunk down and figure out a program. That wasn't the case here. So be warned that if you really want to experience the power, there's some book reading to do. I'm giving this application 4 out 5 stars for a couple of reason. #1 - as was previously mentioned; you need to buy the DMI module separately. Linking your e-mails is ESSENTIAL in today's business world and not including that as part of the program just doesn't make sense. The second reason I'm not giving Daylite 5 stars is because of its lack of easy import/export to the basic Mac OSX tools like the calendar and address book. It does have impor/export capabilities but not "... Marketcircle :: File Conversion (Convert) :: Manager (Managers) :: Schedule Management (Scheduling) :: Calendars (Calendar) :: Mac Macintosh Machintosh Apple :: Bundle (Bundles :: Marketcircle DayLite CRM for Mac OS X
1 stars (Amazon does not have a 0 star rating.) - I have used Quicken & Quickbooks products since the early 90's. I have purchased several add on products during that time. Quicken & Quickbooks started out as great products but have declined greatly in the last few years. They also offer extra cost products on many of their "upgrades" which were included in earlier products for free. Customer Manager is a different issue. I started out with version 1. Description on box seemed to offer a usefull product. However, the program was so limited that it made more work than it eliminated. Like a fool I bought V2 when it came out because the concept seemed good & many improvements were promised. I was wrong. It has more bugs, hardly any real improvements than V1. The feature for sending e-mails is worse than useless. It takes several steps to put it into history and often doesn't work at all. You can see from all the other reviews that there are lots of other issues as well. I have experienced them as well. 1 stars (Do not buy!) - The price is good, but I guess you get what you pay for. It works fine for a while then it screws up and you can't use it anymore. You click on it and it gives you this garbage and it won't open. I had to uninstall and reinstall. Inuit was helpful, but it didn't solve the problem. I don't understand how a big company can make such crap. We have no problems with quickbooks, but customer manager is just a waste of our time and computer space. 1 stars (TOO SLOW, TOO MANY BUGS!) - This is, on paper, an excellent idea and has lots of potential. Unfortunately, it SLOOOOOWS your system down to a crawl -- which is frustrating to the point where I don't want to use the product. As I said, its a great idea for me. I have been searching for a product that could help me track my many projects without the overkill of a MS Project. It also has many annoying bugs that need to be addressed. The program has great potential and if it worked as it claims I wou... Intuit Inc :: Presentation (Presentational) :: Calendars (Calendar) :: Schedule Management (Scheduling) :: Accounting (Account) :: Bundle (Bundles) :: Office Suite (Suites) :: :: QuickBooks Customer Manager 2 0
1 stars (Lost Data & Synchronization Did not work) - If you have remote salespeople, do not use this software. The synchronization was totally off with hdq number of records different from remote number of records. What broke the camels back is when we lost the data from a major account, it was the record with the most data. We have converted to an online ASP CRM product and have had no problems. We spent too much time with technology rather than selling. The ASP online product allows us to spend more time selling and it is easier to use. 1 stars (Not the latest Version) - I just bought GoldMine. This version is 6.5 but the latest version is 6.7. GoldMine requires you to pay extra to get that. Given that Amazon advertises this as "newest version" this seems pretty bogus. 5 stars (very good package for knowledgeable PC users) - Get this product if you're a savvy PC user. Then, you'll be amazed at it's functionality. If you half-the-time can't figure out how to make your PC work, then don't get this progranm as it will blow you away. Simple fact--the more powerful the software, the more knowledgeable the user must be to harvest the functionality and this is one powerful package. I run a mutil-million dollar company with it and used it when there was just one employee. So it's grown with the needs of a rapidly growing company. Other people that wrote reviews here complained about the support. If you need lots of support, again--this is not the package for you anyway. Their support is not good but who cares--can you read a manual? They have trained consultants throughout the US if you do need face to face support or customization. ... Goldmine Software :: Schedule Management (Scheduling) :: Computer software (programs) :: :: GOLDMINE 6 5 Customer - Contact Management- 1 User
