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- {subhead} MegaBook 4.2{def}{p}
- Review by Renne Nissinen
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- MegaBook is a simple address book for OS 2.04+. At first glance it looks
- a bit rough, mainly because of topaz and GadTools. The button bar is very
- clear: you can load, save, print and search the phonebook and of course
- add & delete entries and browse through them. Starting a new phonebook is
- as easy as it can be; just click a button and then enter the data. That's
- about all you need to know to get started; everything about MegaBook is
- pretty self-explanatory.
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- There's not much you can do about the GUI; it's supposed to accept any
- fixed-width font, but I only got the system default font (XEN 9 on my system)
- working in addition to topaz 8. Selecting a font caused it to just use topaz,
- or if it was on its own screen it used topaz and trashed the window drag bars.
- I've been told that a new version should be released soon, so it'll probably
- be fixed by then.
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- You can also change the field names ("Name", "Address" etc.) except for the
- country field :) The two string gadgets in the bottom left part can be filled
- with anything, and you can select their meaning with the cycle gadgets on the
- left. The possibilities are: tel, fax, home, work, email, data, URL or empty
- (not specified). But I'm surprised that you can't enter all of them, just two
- of your choice. There are also ARexx scripts that you can use to launch a fax,
- email or WWW client directly from the program, with the corresponding field
- given to it as a parameter. And finally, you can also add extra notes for the
- entry with a text editor.
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- MegaBook is very simple to use and fast. You can also import and export
- many different types of phone books. The lack of configurability makes it a
- bit limited, and for some purposes inadequate, but it's very well suited for
- regular phone books and you can start using it right after unarchiving :)
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- Available from: Aminet:biz/dbase/AAA_MegaBook.lha{p}
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- Overall: 75%
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