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FHteam
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# Posted: 4 Dec 2005 15:46
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Corel InfoCentral 7 by Corel Corporation
Business and Productivity → Business Specific → Sales
Corel InfoCentral 7 is designed to manage ALL the information you deal with at home, at work, or elsewhere. More than a personal information manager (PIM), contact manager, or electronic day planner, Corel InfoCentral 7 is a fully customizable Information Manager that lets the user determine what kind of information is important and how it should be arranged.
NOTE: the program download is still available but that's all, there is no documentation....
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CMSKS
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# Posted: 27 May 2008 07:13
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This will not work on Windows XP
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FHteam
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# Posted: 27 May 2008 15:18 - Edited by: FHteam
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You could be right CMSKS that's why our listing says "requirements: Win95, Win98" ;-)
The listing dates back to 2002 & the product is long gone from Corel's website, we suspect they simply forgot to remove the download!
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toddbot
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# Posted: 27 May 2008 23:16
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Quoting: FHteam You could be right CMSKS that's why our listing says "requirements: Win95, Win98" ;-)
The listing dates back to 2002 & the product is long gone from Corel's website, we suspect they simply forgot to remove the download!
it DOES work on XP. download available from http://www.macros.koenecke.us/InfoCentral/index.ht ml
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Mr_Z
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# Posted: 18 May 2009 16:07
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Of course it works under XP, and 2000 and other versions. You just need to coax it by pifediting it in properties top be compatible. I use it under Linux too with Wine. This takes more serious coaxing...
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vlc
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# Posted: 2 Jun 2009 14:04
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Works fine in Windows XP SP3. Just needed to set compatibiliyt mode to Win95 and copy the wpic.ini up from the 'local' directory to the same directory as the exe.
Does anyone know who the original designer or programmer was of this app? Is there a web version anywhere?
The ability to store details about the relationship between objects and to navigate in this way is quite rare. Database modelling software does a similar thing but not quite. Even something like a wiki also could come close but isn't structured enough (at least the ones I've seen).
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FHteam
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# Posted: 3 Jun 2009 01:57 - Edited by: FHteam
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"Corel InfoCentral - A personal information manager (PIM). Originally bundled with WordPerfect Office version 7, later distributed as freeware." it was a product of Corel Corporation, there's plenty of info about the company & its products but not about programmers who worked for them in the 90s.
There is one guy who *might* know more, Michael A. Koenecke has additional downloads for the program + the manual on his website here.
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Mikeslr
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# Posted: 12 Jun 2009 00:07
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Mr_Z: If you're known on another forum as DreamsToGo, please disregard this message. If you aren't, you probably know that DreamsToGo wrote the adaptions to XDG which enabled InfoCentral's use under Linux. I'm currently attempting to create a Puppy Linux Puplet designed around InfoCentral which can run on old, low resource computers. Currently, the available modifications require the use of KDE, Gnome or Xfce and OpenOffice, or its comparable KDE modules. Consequently, personally having little knowledge of programming, I must await his busy schedule and, I suspect, his belief that he and I are among the few who appreciate InfoCentral's potential. But if you are familiar with how InfoCentral has been further modified to use Abiword and Gnumeric, or would be interested in participating in our project,
please email me. michael.ksslr@gmail.com
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Mikeslr
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# Posted: 12 Jun 2009 00:51
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To expand on what FHTeam said, InfoCentral is both an object oriented relational database and a supplemental indexed operating system, with powerful search functions. As a relational database, you can create an object containing the information you want and link it to other objects, using your own definition for each link, thereby creating an "Information Tree." All item are automatically indexed enabling you to find any object either by expanding the node ('+") graphically reflecting that an object you recall having some relationship to the information you're seeking is connected to something, or using the "Find" function specifying a few letters of the sought-for object. But what makes InfoCentral especially powerful is that an object can be any file on your computer. From within InfoCentral you can call any other program and create a file which is automatically indexed. Or if you previously created a file, you can use InfoCentral's powerful Search function to locate it on your computer and, by connecting it to an object, bring it within InfoCentral's index to be later "found," opened, used or modified. InfoCentral can also copy files, automatically giving the copy a unique name which you can, of course, like all other data in its database, modify. But in addition to its "name" you can also provide it with a description --tags to distinguish it from similar files. Consequently, using InfoCentral you can build up a searchable database of "Boilerplate Language," reusable graphic elements, and/or reusable sound files. It is strongly recommended that the Manual be downloaded from Mike Koenecke's site and at least perused to get a feel for InfoCentral's full potential. The program itself can still be obtained there, or from Corel's public ftp site.
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