computer as tool

[Thomas D. Seay, III]

>I have a couple of questions I'd like to ask, about maximizing my
>computer use.
>
>1. What communications programs do you find most useful with the
>internet? I am just using a cheap thing that is a part of an old
>"SideKick Calendar" program, to tie into through the University. I'm sure
>there must be something better, but what?
>
>2. I've never really gotten into scheduling my appointments on the
>computer; still use a Day Timer, and that works okay, but I've recently
>been double entering on SideKick, for fun. But it's sort of a hassle,
>because after I finish entering the information in my database, I then have to
>type in the same thing on the calendar. *But* I am not interested in
>re-entering all my 4000 some-odd records, by hand into a new database,
>just so I can tie into a calendar. Anybody found anything you *really*
>like, for scheduling (predominantly privated customer, in my case)?
>
>Bob Simmons, RPT

Bob,

With my Macintosh, I use Eudora for electronic mail, Netscape as a WWW
Browser, News Watcher for reading news groups such as rec.
music.makers.piano, and for my business and University record keeping, I
use FileMaker Pro from Claris.

You should be able to export the 4000 records in your present database onto
your hard disk as a tab-delimited text file, and then import them using
your new database. This is a very easy and uncomplicated thing to do - at
least on a MAC ;-)

Good luck

Regards,

Tom Seay
t.seay@mail.utexas.edu
The University of Texas at Austin