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SOHO Contacts

SOHO Contacts - 5.0.5

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Current Version: 5.0.5
Release Date: 2006-02-09
License: Update
Downloads (this version): 1,884
Downloads (all versions): 3,121
Price: $49.99

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Product Description:

SOHO Contacts is the most powerful contact manager for Mac OS X. Use it to manage relationships with your clients, family, and friends. It supports all the conveniences of a modern contact manager including phone dialing, call logging, automatic relationship links, auto-completion, map generation, iCal event and to-do linking, etc. You can attach unlimited call logs, notes, follow-up appointment, tasks, and documents to contacts. Best of all, you can synchornize your contacts between multiple computers, cell phones, iPod's, and Palm handhelds. SOHO Contacts is as equally suitable for the sole proprietor with a single computer as the small business with a few dozen networked computers. This all new contact manager is based on a commercial database engine for high-performance and reliability. Its client/server design makes sharing contacts over a network easy for workgroups. Mobile users can take shared contacts with them when they disconnect from the network, so they always have access to the shared information. When they reconnect to the network all of their changes to the shared contacts will automatically synchornize with the master list of shared contacts.

What's new in this version:

  • Added an Add Block button to bottom of the main viewer window to quickly add blocks to the contact card
  • Added a Show/Hide Empty Blocks button to bottom of the main viewer window to quickly show/hide empty blocks
  • Added ability to attach notes of different types (movie, audio, Web archive, etc.) from within SOHO Contacts
  • Added insert date & time commands in the Format menu
  • Added seconds to the timers in the phone call windows
  • The software update system now provides additional information regarding cost and system requirements of updates
  • FixesFixed crash that would sometimes occur when synchronizing an offline database to the server database
  • Fixed bug where contacts with nicknames couldn't be linked to in the Relationships block
  • Selecting either a date or time in the timer section of the phone log windows sets both the date and time
  • Fixed crash when importing the same vCard file twice
  • Fixed problem that occurred when the primary address for a contact didn't yet have a country code
  • Dates in the Date block can now be left blank
  • Fixed problem where new, unsaved contacts wouldn't link to existing contacts in a database
  • Added warning in the Sync preference pane to notify user that enabling note syncing while disabling contact syncing may break note to contact links
  • Added ability to synchronize the created and modified dates for notes
  • Added the SOHO Sync version number to the sync log
  • Increased the timeout of sync sessions from 30 seconds to 1 hour to avoid dropped sync sessions
  • Made major performance optimization to the synchronization of contact and calendar multi-value data
  • Added a workaround to the Sync Services bug where sync sessions that take longer than 10 minutes to start are inadvertently dropped
  • Added a workaround for an Apple bug where cleared addresses, phone numbers, etc. cause Apple's Address Book sync client to quit mid-sync
  • Fixed problem synchronizing addresses, phone numbers, etc when the contact itself hadn't yet been synced
  • Fixed problem where some attendees attached to events showed up as "common name" instead of their real name
  • Fixed problem where adding an attendee to an event in a shared database sometimes resulted in the wrong attendee being synchronized

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later

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SOHO Contacts Reviewstay away!!! - Version: 5.0.5, 2/9/2006 11:34AM PST

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jellegard

what the last reviewer posted is EXACTLY the kind of support you will get from this company (Adam is the only emplyee i think). he is rude, obnoxious and couldn't care less about helping customers. he lies. he said a converter to convert from older versions of SOHO (used to be calle organizer and consultant before that) would be out in a week or two at MacWorld, as of now still no conversion tool and i am certain none will come anytime soon b/c Adam couldn't care less about his customers. STAY AWAY FROM ALL CHRONOS SOFTWARE - YOU WILL BENEFIT GREATLY FROM THIS ADVICE. i have learned the hard way (with my own $$$$) i am hoping to save you yours....

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SOHO Contacts ReviewInteresting idea, but not ready for use yet - Version: 5.0.4, 2/1/2006 11:13AM PST

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glawrie
SOHO Contacts is part of a suite of applications designed to work closely with OS X and its ssynchronisation services - effectively promising a superior function to the built in Address Book and iCal arrangement, but preserving compatibility with these so you get the best of both worlds etc.

In general the apps appear to deliverr on their promise - and it is clear that when finished these will be a powerful set of productivity apps - making it esasier for small groups to work on common activities together.. The SOHO NOtes app is particularly appealing, allowing for users to share access to files and other documents, and tag these to contacts in the ADddress book. Very powerful when it works. But...

A key benefit offered is the ability to synchronise multiple clients to one or more shared databsases - so you can share multiple address books and calendars among a small group.

Sadly although the software shows potential, it seems there are serious problems in tthe code used to drive the synchronisation process - both between apps on a single mac and between multiple macs. Not only do these prevent reliable synchronisation, they also can lead to data in AB or iCal being damaged.

Indications are that the writers are aware of the shortcomings and are working on a fix - but general levels of support seem low. Supplied docuementation is clearly written but not very comprehensive - particularly when the software goes wrong.

Keep an eye on this app - b ut wait for an upgrade before you try to use it as a real world app...
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