{"id":10753,"date":"2007-07-06T08:28:23","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T15:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/07\/06\/contact.html"},"modified":"2007-07-06T08:28:23","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T15:28:23","slug":"contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/06\/contact.html","title":{"rendered":"Contact!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting ready for my shift from the PalmOS-based Treo to the Blackberry, due to arrive (I hope) Monday.&nbsp; I&#8217;m going to miss the Palm platform; for all its flaws and increasing single-threaded obsolescence, a lot of my life has been spent (and stored) in it.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the apps I actively use on the Treo have Blackberry versions.&nbsp; Another old chapter being closed, though, is my Contact software.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been using a program called PSA Cards for&nbsp;about as long as I&#8217;ve been using a Palm device.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a simple, fast, powerful contact manager that does just what I want &#8212; stores addresses, phone numbers, and notes about folks, and can sync up with the Palm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I found it much more convenient than using a Windows contact manager.&nbsp; At the time, Windows had multiple of them (not to mention various approaches even within Outlook), and every new release of Windows or Office would create something new.&nbsp; PSA Cards was a lot faster and, unlike Outlook, didn&#8217;t require opening an overly-bloated e-mail\/PIM every time I wanted to look up an address.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, PSA Cards is no longer supported (the market for small, fast, easy, compatible contact managers being, apparently, a trivial one), and my old installation doesn&#8217;t do anything with the Blackberry.<\/p>\n<p>The Contacts setup in Outlook has largely stabilized, mercifully, but I still had problems with using Outlook for all my contact info, since it&#8217;s a humongous app, and I didn&#8217;t want to spend a couple of minutes for it to load up just to check a number (similarly, I didn&#8217;t want to leave it loaded all the time just for that).<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve downloaded and am trying out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tenmilesoftware.com\/ContactsPlus\/contactsplus.html\" target=\"_blank\">Contacts Plus<\/a>, a separate application that just accesses the Contacts in Outlook (and, if you&#8217;re offline, will use the offline file as a source).&nbsp; It still load a scosh slowly (it&#8217;s a huge file), but it&#8217;s a cleaner interface than Outlook and has a much smaller memory footprint, making it much more acceptable for not-in-the-office use.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I have all my data exported from PSA Cards to Outlook&#8217;s Contacts, I&#8217;ll let you know how it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting ready for my shift from the PalmOS-based Treo to the Blackberry, due to arrive (I hope) Monday.&nbsp; I&#8217;m going to miss the Palm platform; for all its flaws and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-computer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/18\/mail_in_my_palm.html","url_meta":{"origin":10753,"position":0},"title":"Mail in my Palm","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Oct-05 11:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't necessarily want to be connected 24\/7. 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