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DESCRIPTION
Contactizer Pro is the amazing all-in-one solution for managing, sharing and organizing your personal and business information. Following the prodigious success of it first release, Contactizer Pro 3.8 raises your contact management experience to be more efficient, productive and enjoyable. Contactizer Pro brings a wealth of powerful PIM features, an innovative interface into a clean, elegant and intuitive package specifically built for Mac OS X.
Core Capabilities:
- Ability to manage projects and track their progress.
- Summarizes automatically all contact-related information in a single view.
- Link Apple Mail email messages to appropriate contacts in real time.
- Impressive collaborative Sharing via Bonjour. No more server requirement.
- Tag contacts, tasks, events, communications, projects with multiple category labels.
- Interconnect all Contactizer objects including reciprocal relationships.
- HTML email template builder included.
- Event Manager with meeting organization and more.
- Invitation follow-up management for Tasks & Events.
- Task type definition connected to concrete follow-up actions(phone call, send fax, write email,...).
- Synchronization with iSync that makes data available for digital devices.
- All Contactizer lists support Smart Groups that make your data even more organized.
- Built-in Google Map Search service for contact addresses location.
- Bluetooth phone pairing for incoming calls notifications and direct dialing.
- Quick edit any Contactizer data direcly in the Detail View.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.8.3: Improvements:
- Added a setting in the Preferences to disable Mail invitations scanning.
- Clearing message cache (from the preferences > Email pane) is now dramatically faster.
- Searching contacts with the search field is now faster.
- All modules now support "type select" in the list. Select for example the First Name column, type "joh" and the first contact with first name Joh(n) will be quickly selected.
- Several enhancements have been brought to the calendar view to make text much more readable: bigger, bold, font size and less fuzzu font.
- A setting to force black/white text color for event blocks in the calendar view has been added in the Preferences > Appearence > Events pane.
- Tasks with no start nor due dates are now displayed in the Event module.
- Deleting emails in the communication can be dramatically faster.
Bug Fixes:
- Mail invitations scanning is more reliable & faster.
- Detached events with alarms do not generate background exceptions when edited from the details view.
- Contacts Birthday scanning is much faster and much more reliable.
- You should not get "inacessible object from store" error nor "multiple validation error" error messages.
- Fixed a potential exception related to the tasks in event module.
- Fixed a potential exception when importing VCS file.
- Merging a lot of contacts now consume less memory.
- Fixed a problem with unsavable photo in the contact window.
- A potential crash related to birthday events has been fixed.
- Fixed a crash when unsubscribe or refreshing subscribes.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5.4 or later.
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| Contactizer Pro User Reviews (71 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Sep 30 2009 |
CENTROVELA Do you think Adobe, Apple or Microsoft are stupid to make manuals for their software? If you want to be serious think it over.......
(Version 3.8.1) | |
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 | Sep 30 2009 |
MISHA Have you gone to the Help menu inside the app and chosen "Contactizer Help"? It has a fairly extensive of the software and how to use it.
(Version 3.8.1) | |
| Oct 2 2009 |
CENTROVELA Help is good, BUT is not a Manual and has a different way of use.
(Version 3.8.2) | |
 | Sep 9 2009 |
This version requires a licence upgrade for pre-v3.5 licensees. This is strange, given that we are not up to v4 yet. Be prepared to downgrade after trial period runs out.
(Version 3.8) | |
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| Sep 7 2009 |
TANKKNIGHT When I got fed up with NUDC I tried several alternative and finally settled on Contactizer Pro. It has been working pretty well and I've gotten used to its quirks. I actually have no problem even to recommend Contactizer Pro. However, while I recommend the application and will keep using it I would strongly recommend that any time the app wants to update or MU shows an update to backup/copy your current version and in your library to backup/copy the application support folder. Its happened 3 times to me where the new/latest version will have some strange bugs and it has been extremely nice to just trash it and go back to the previous version. I don't know if it is my PPC Quad G5 showing it uniqueness (again) or that the support team for this app doesn't care, but they have never responded to any bug reports that I have submitted. So I just go to my backup and wait to try the next version. MU is showing version 3.7.5, but Contactizer Pro states that version 3.8.0 is available. It has several major problems on my Mac, so I filed the bug reports and dropped back to 3.7.5. As usual I haven't received a response, but than I don't expect one.
(Version 3.7.5) | |
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| Jul 15 2009 |
SAMPLER OS X 10.4.11 (fresh), PB G4, no import managers or application enhancers Import of a single Calendar with about 50-60 events for 14 months has stalled for over an hour while "saving database". Console shows a program "atos" inside the Contactizer has crashed with only the following in the crash log Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Symbolication.framework/Versions/A/Symbolication Referenced from: /Applications/Contactizer Pro.app/Contents/Resources/atos Too bad. I guess I'll terminate the process and uninstall Contactizer. And, no, I don't feel it necessary to write to support about an app that I registered but never had a chance to try. My only other comment is that I would have liked the ability to restrict the import of email and ical events by date.
(Version 3.7.5) | |
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| May 19 2009 |
SCOTT.GARDNER Watch demo video at http://optimacinc.com/services/contactizerpro.html
(Version 3.7.4) | |
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 | Apr 6 2009 |
PHALERON Contactizer (which I have been using since its debut) could always be more, so I will not rate it from a wish-list perspective. At the time I wanted to get Daylite, which I could not afford. CP came at my budget's borderline and I bought it thinking I was getting second best. Since then I have seen CP refine the interface and workflow and add features that could have well justified a version upgrade (or two). The app is extremely stable. I cannot remember it ever crashing on me, not even during a period of severe hard disk issues. It is the app that is always running in the background (though I recently discovered it does not need to), allowing me to stay on top of my business. The interface is comprehensible and relatively easy with a good depth of features. The custom email templates are great. Associating one client to another is easy. Everything is so easily accessible, emails, URLs, work files, related contacts, related tasks, etc. There are some weak areas like the ability to form custom client checklists and ratings, gant charts, sending batches of more than 20 mails, yellow page support for all EU countries, but I anticipate the next version will not disappoint.
(Version 3.7.2) | |
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| Apr 6 2009 |
DENNY DOUBLEPLUS MARKETING This one is a love-hate relationship. The power of Contactizer Pro is VERY real. It has a lot of ins and outs for storing and accessing information. I recently used it's bulk email capability and was completely impressed! My major concern is however, how difficult it is to move around this program. The GUI (graphic user interface) is a bear to work with. Buttons just don't seem to be in the right place, and the icons are completely indeterminable as to their intended function. It's better than a Windows app, but it just hasn't move to the Mac standards. Some spit and polish on the GUI would help this one rise a star or two.
(Version 3.7.2) | |
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| Mar 28 2009 |
SCOTT.GARDNER Contactizer Pro is easy to overlook because their site lacks depth of tangible product info. However, do not pass this one by! CP provides an extraordinary feature set and a streamlined user interface--you don't need all the pop-up windows they show in the screenshots, as there are comprehensive right click menus and keyboard shortcuts. The number of clicks that it takes to get things done is significantly less in CP than any other CRM software I've used. For example, email integration is automatic after setup. Another example: to edit a card (contact, appointment, etc.), just double-click on any white space. To save those changes, double-click again. This level of intuitiveness surpasses even that of OS X Leopard, and is truly groundbreaking. There is no user guide or training videos yet, although my understanding is that they're working on this. Despite the lack of these resources, I was able to get up and running very quickly, digging deep into the extensive functionality. This is a real credit to CP's intuitiveness. I have not yet thoroughly tested network sharing, nor the email- and letter-merge capabilities. They look easy to configure and use, and robust like the rest of the application. More to come as I explore this functionality further...
(Version 3.7.1) | |
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| Jun 12 2009 |
ZEB B Nonsense! If you think that double-clicking to save an item is "intuitive", show me another app where it is standard behavior.
(Version 3.7.4) | |
| Mar 17 2009 |
BUMBLEB Daylite has more sales-related features, but Contactizer can really be customized, to suit your needs. I use categories, custom fields and different process workflows to make the Projects module in Contactizer behave like Daylite, with its Opportunities module. Contactizer has a much sweeter interface than Daylite. Means a lot to me, because I don't feel overwhelmed, but happy and inspired. Contactizer also has the ability to send newsletters / maintain mailing list, with each mail being sent separately (so it's not bounced as spam) with merge keys, so each mail is personal. And it works wonderfully. So, from the price, you can subtract whatever you'd otherwise pay for mailing list software. There are so many hidden features. Many users cry for a manual. Personally I think it is relatively easy to figure out myself. It's just not cookie-cutter easy. If it was, it would not fit the various workflows of different small businesses. What can be improved? Multi-user features / sharing / syncing. I look so much forward to the improvements to the sync features that the developers are hard at work, improving upon. Basically they are moving away from Apple's buggy Sync Services technology to Apple's new Calendar Store (I believe it's called something like that) which makes sync much more reliable and effortless.
(Version 3.7.1) | |
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| Mar 16 2009 |
ANG What about adding the tasks in the custom projects (it's possible to add steps, but under each step, we have to add each time the repetitive task) ?
(Version 3.7.1) | |
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| Mar 17 2009 |
BUMBLEB I recently gave the developers some ideas for how this could be improved, and they were very open, so expect to see this improved in the nearby future.
(Version 3.7.1) | |
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