jlc@atux01.UUCP (Jim Collymore) (01/19/91)
Well, I only received three responses to my earlier inquiry, and I decided to post them. However, as fate would have it, this month's issue of MacUser (Feb.? '91) has done a comparative review of the two packages! It is on page 74. Jim Collymore p.s. I've decided to stick with Smart Alarms. ================================================================================ Subject: Re: Which do you like better: Smart Alarms or Alarming Events Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc Organization: Departement Informatik, ETH, Zurich In article <149@atux01.UUCP> you write: >I am curious as to which program people prefer more and WHY they prefer it: >Smart Alarms by JAM Software, or Alarming Events by CE Software. > >Please send me e-mail on what your experiences are with either program and I >will post the responses. > >Thanks. > > Jim Collymore hi jim, i've used both smart alarms and alarming events. while alarming events IMO is much better than smart alarms, there is a serious drawback: when using sys 7 alarming events becomes so slow that typing a single word takes about 45 seconds. (that means if you have a long description you will end up missing you date while still trying to type it in :). now i don't know if they fixed that bug (i only had a demo version) but if they have, AE is a terrific program cheers, christian. =============================================================================== In article <149@atux01.UUCP> jlc@atux01.UUCP (Jim Collymore) writes: > I am curious as to which program people prefer more and WHY they prefer > it: Smart Alarms by JAM Software, or Alarming Events by CE Software. Note that the "Zedcor Desk" package comes with a DA called Desk Secretary which implements similar functions. Seems to me that there was something called "Comment" that had these functions in it, and there are also some shareware utilities. I used Smart Alarms a long time ago, and currently use the Desk Secretary part of Zedcor Desk. I don't know enough about the current versions of other packages to really compare Desk Secretary to them, though. Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu ============================================================================== In article <149@atux01.UUCP> jlc@atux01.UUCP (Jim Collymore) writes: > I am curious as to which program people prefer more and WHY they prefer it: > Smart Alarms by JAM Software, or Alarming Events by CE Software. I'm very fond of a shareware DA called Remember? by David Warker. The original Remember? was somewhat limited and buggy, but the latest (V2.1.1) is a very nice package. $20 shareware, an extra $5 gets you a disk with the latest version and some other bits and pieces on it. It's available on the Info-Mac archives at Sumex and various other sites. I haven't done a feature-by-feature comparison of Remember? and the packages you mention, but it certainly does everything I want.