Keeping on track in a new environment; a useful calendar program is made even more useful by Windows 3.0

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Small programs are starting to appear that run under the Windows 3.0 graphical user interface (GUI), and OnTime for Windows, $129.95, a scheduling and time-management package from Campbell Services, Southfield, MI, is an example. OnTime uses Windows' buttons and menus to make it easy and convenient to schedule reminders, breaking days into hours, half hours, or quarter hours. A user can make 'to-do lists' or set alarms. Attractive printouts are possible if a hard copy is needed. OnTime runs as a stand-alone or memory resident program. It requires at least 1 Mbyte of hard disk space. Another program that runs under Windows is Typing Tutor 5 for Windows, $49.95, from Brady Publishing of New York. The program is semi-intelligent: it monitors users' typing and adapts itself to an appropriate skill level. An included typing game called Letter Invaders helps users improve their typing skills.

Product/Service Evaluation, Time management, Calendars, Desktop accessory software, evaluation, Educational Software, Microsoft Windows 3.0 (GUI), Desktop organizers, Campbell Services Inc., Paramount Publishing. Business Information and Publishing Div., OnTime for Windows (Workgroup software), Typing Tutor 5 for Windows (Educational software)

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A mouse's history

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Software Marketing Corp.'s $79.95 Computerworks provides on-screen lessons on computers' internal mechanisms. The Windows-style menu offers 16 icons from which users can choose their subject of interest. Among the topics represented by the icons are: display systems, disk drives, printers and plotters, keyboards and input devices, software, history of computers and circuit boards. The Bookmarks feature allows users to save up to 10 places in a session and return to them later. Computerworks does not make experts out of beginners but it is a good start. Alki Software's $39.95 Alkiseek 2.1 file-finding utility for the Apple Macintosh is a useful program for those who want various ways to limit searches within massive databases. Like Retrieve It!, Alkiseek can open files and applications directly, and can therefore be a substitute for System 7.0's Finder facility.

Database searching, Online searching, Search Software, Software Marketing Corp. (Phoenix, Arizona), Alki Software Corp., Alki Seek 2.1 (Text search and retrieval software), ComputerWorks (Educational software)

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