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Product Description:
Formation is a personal information organizer that harmoniously combines lists, notes, contacts, calendar, media browsers, scrapbook, smartlinks, and more, within an innovative customizable interface. Jot down some ideas, keep a journal, make a grocery list, track your DVD collection, manage passwords, or design entire creative projects. Formation can help you organize the many facets of your life, in an elegant and simplified way!
Within Formation's organizational power, you'll discover customizable lists, a built-in dictionary, smartlinks, tools to create rich text, a variety of icons, search tools, shelves to create pre-set topics, insert items for quick access to text, media browsers for viewing images, text, quicktime movies and audio files. Also features powerful drag and drop abilities, extremely flexible aqua interface and much more...
Within Formation's organizational power, you'll discover customizable lists, a built-in dictionary, smartlinks, tools to create rich text, a variety of icons, search tools, shelves to create pre-set topics, insert items for quick access to text, media browsers for viewing images, text, quicktime movies and audio files. Also features powerful drag and drop abilities, extremely flexible aqua interface and much more...
What's new in this version:
- Scroll Wheel support was redone and now scrolls the control under the cursor as expected
- Revised the popup menu navigation: When tabbing across cells you can use the arrow keys to select a popup menu item
- Better support for the Enter/Return key throughout the application
- Pressing Return while a Topic or Inspector item is selected enters text edit mode (Similar to how the Finder works)
- Adding popup menu items in the Inspector can be done continuously by hitting return. Enter confirms, Return confirms and creates a new item - Added "Company" and "All" as search options in the Contacts module
- Added a primary eMail column as an option for the Contacts list view note: You must create a new contacts module under Topics > Organizer > Contacts in order to access this option
- Added a short cut to toggle a Topics trash view. Topics > View Trash (command + R)
- Added a "Reveal in Finder" contextual menu to the Media Browser
- Made the Media Browser's columns resizable
- Changed menu item: Drop iToolbar/Center iToolbar to Hide iToolbar/Show iToolbar
- You can now double click the Topic or iToolbar resize handle to collapse/expand
- Changed the default file preference from "None" to "Last Opened"
- Added/Changed some key commands
- File > Import is now command + I
- Formation > Preferences is now command + ,
- Format > Size > Bigger is was changed from command + . to command + >
- Format > Size > Smaller is was changed from command + , to command + <
- Page Setup... is now command + shift + P
- Escape key now dismisses the contacts edit/create window - Search now loops after last found item
- Searching notes now fully selects the found word as oppose to the thin selection outline
- Added a new preference to set the default font for the Items, Media Browser, and Contacts lists
- You can now play .m4p files in the Media Browser
- Fixed a bug that some international users experienced while registering Formation
- Fixed a bug when saving an empty document
- Fixed a bug that caused problems when adding new items while in a Topics Trash View
- Fixed a bug that caused problems when moving Items up or down while in a Topics Trash View
- Fixed a bug that caused some key commands to stop working when opening multiple documents
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
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Download Formation Version 1.0.3 (File Size: 2.2M)
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| Overall Rating: |  (5.0) |
Features: | (5.0) |
Support: | (5.0) |
| Ease of Use: |  (4.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (4.0) |
Price: | (4.0) |
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New new version works fine - Version: 1.1.3, 5/28/2005 09:53AM PST
(1 of 2 users found this comment useful)
Trevor Harley
It now works, and so is back to the great piece of software it used to be. It's the most useful software I've found for storing and organising lots of small bits of information.
Great Information Organizer - Version: 1.1.3, 5/26/2005 03:56PM PST
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rwebber6828
Formation is one of the most customizable database tools I've seen from this genre. I like it and am delighted Radical Software has taken over development. Somehow my name was lost in the transfer of registered users when they acquired the program, but an email to Bryan was promptly answered with my registration code. I look forward to future developments.
Great but .. avoid this update - Version: 1.1.2, 5/11/2005 01:24AM PST
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Trevor Harley
First, Formation is a splendid piece of software at what it does; it's the best information organizer I've found.
However, the developer/owner has changed, and all this update does is change the registration mechanism. In effect what this means is that it turns your fully functional legally purchased software back into a demo! They say they'll email new new registration information shortly, but they haven't, to me at least. Nor has the new owner responded to requests. A disgrace, really.
However, the developer/owner has changed, and all this update does is change the registration mechanism. In effect what this means is that it turns your fully functional legally purchased software back into a demo! They say they'll email new new registration information shortly, but they haven't, to me at least. Nor has the new owner responded to requests. A disgrace, really.
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- Great but .. avoid this update
