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IN THIS ISSUE
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- TimeWise international beta now available for Macintosh
- You Asked Us: TimeWise year 2000 compliance
- TimeWise international office opens in Birmingham, England
- TimeWise FTP site now available
- Management Tip: How to have more effective production and sales meetings
- Share your TimeWise tip and win free telephone support
- Latest free patches to TimeWise now available
TIMEWISE INTERNATIONAL BETA NOW AVAILABLE FOR MACINTOSH
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Since we've launched our Web site, we've discovered that people from
all over the world are trying out TimeWise. However, if you live outside
the United States or Canada, you would have likely been frustrated that
TimeWise for Macintosh does not behave well when it comes to issues like
local telephone number formats, currency formats, and a host of other issues.
We created English-language international editions of TimeWise
for Windows and TimeWise Light for Windows and have now added this functionality
to TimeWise for Macintosh as well.
Unlike our Windows offerings, there is not a separate international
edition of TimeWise for Macintosh: rather the current TimeWise for Macintosh
beta release on the Web site simply includes the international features.
The international editions include profiles for many specific
countries in the world, as well as a general international setting which
will work anywhere. Even users in North America will find it useful, in
that it takes better account of regional issues, and allows you to set
personal preferences on date formats and other such issues.
So far, we have included settings for Australia, Canada (including
specific settings for Quebec and for the Atlantic Provinces), France, Ireland,
Israel, New Zealand, Panama, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United
States. With your help, we'll add more.
We've worked hard to have the profiles for each region address
local conventions on addressing, phone numbering, tax rules, currency formats,
and a host of other regional issues. And we want your feedback on how we
can improve upon what we've done to make sure that TimeWise is the perfect
fit for your organization, no matter where you are located. So, please
tell us if there is anything we can do to improve upon the profile for
your region...or if we have not included a profile for your region and
you would like us to do so, please contact us: we will be happy to do so
at no charge
to you.
To get your trial edition of TimeWise for Macintosh including
international features, go to
http://www.davidberman.com/timewise/timewise.htm .
If you have already installed TimeWise for Macintosh, you can
instead download a patch to upgrade you to the international edition at
http://www.davidberman.com/timewise/patch.htm .
We continue to be open to inquiries regarding potential international
distributors for TimeWise.
YOU ASKED US: TIMEWISE YEAR 2000 COMPLIANCE
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With the new year, we received this question many times in the last
month...
Question: Is TimeWise year 2000 compliant*?
Answer: TimeWise's data structures are 100% Year 2000 compatible, so all information in TimeWise will be unaffected by the turn of the millennium, without any hiccups during the transition. By June 1998, we will be releasing an upgrade with an interface allowing four-digit year entry so that all TimeWise users will have over a year to get accustomed to working with year 2000 dates. For more information on TimeWise's Year 2000 compliance policy, please refer to http://www.davidberman.com/timewise/faq.htm#2000 .
For more answers to other frequently asked questions, see the Frequently
Asked Questions section of our Web site at http://www.davidberman.com/timewise/faq.htm
and for questions specific to TimeWise Light see http://www.davidberman.com/timewise/lightque.htm
. We enjoy the opportunity to help you plan profit into every project.
Keep sending us your questions and we'll keep providing solutions!
TIMEWISE INTERNATIONAL OFFICE OPENS IN BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND
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In response to the popularity of our new international editions of
TimeWise, we are pleased to announce the establishment of our first agent
outside North America. TimeWise clients in the UK can now contact our UK
branch directly, and can purchase our products in pounds.
To call our UK office from within the UK, phone 07050 034860.
To call our UK office from outside the UK, dial 001 44 121 554 4298.
To fax our UK office, dial 0121 523 9564.
To email our UK office, contact Desiree Acton at uksales @timewise.net
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TIMEWISE FTP SITE NOW AVAILABLE
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To better serve our customers, we have established an FTP site on the
Internet at ftp://ftp.timewise.net . This gives you an alternative and
possibly more efficient place to find our most popular downloadable file.
Sometimes, due to technical problems or a configuration issue at your end,
you may be having difficulty getting a file you require as quickly as you
desire it. If so, simply look in the pub folder at the FTP site for the
file you need. If a file you require is not on the FTP site, email support@timewise.net
and we'll put it there for you.
Another benefit of the FTP site is that it offers a place for you to
send large file to our technical support team so they can with a problem
you have encountered that requires us to examine your data to solve. Should
this occur, our technical support staff will give you instructions at that
time on how to use this facility.
MANAGEMENT TIP: MORE EFFECTIVE PRODUCTION AND SALES MEETINGS
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It is fairly common for firms who handle many projects to have regular
production meetings, where everyone involved walks through a list of the
jobs in progress to confirm that all is well with deadlines and other commitments.
TimeWise Jobs lists (from the Jobs menu) make excellent agendas for such
a meeting: you can print a copy for each attendee and they can retain the
lists as a quick reference to job numbers when completing their timesheets.
You can also use the Memorized Jobs List from the TimeWise Jobs menu to
customize the appearance of this list, and to filter which jobs should
appear.
As well, if you would like to keep track of which jobs are at risk for going over budget or past deadline, a manager at the meeting can be equipped with the Work In Progress Report, which will allow them to follow along as each job is discussed, checking to see where the job stands with respect to the total budget and schedule.
TimeWise can also be a big help at sales meetings: users of the full
commercial edition of TimeWise can create a Memorized Jobs list that shows
only Estimates. Even if you don't use TimeWise's estimating features, opening
an estimate for each job that you are pursuing will result in them appearing
on such a Memorized Jobs List. The list then becomes a focused agenda for
the sales meeting, giving you the opportunity to discuss each potential
project and how you can best go about winning the contract.
When you are awarded a particular job, simply use the Change Estimate
Into Job command on the Actions menu to convert the estimated job into
an actual job in progress.
SHARE YOUR TIMEWISE TIP AND WIN FREE SUPPORT
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Do you have a tip to share with other TimeWise users? Send it in...if
published, we'll give you three months of free personal telephone support.
Or let us know how you think we can improve TimeWise and how you have integrated
our system into your organization.
LATEST FREE PATCHES TO TIMEWISE NOW AVAILABLE
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You can get free updates to the latest maintenance release of TimeWise
from our Web site. Installing patches will not harm your existing TimeWise
information in any way. However, depending on your situation, it may or
may not be worth the bother... a summary of the latest tweaks appears on
our
patch Web page ( http://www.davidberman.com/timewise/patch.htm ) so you can
decide whether to patch your TimeWise.
TimeWise for Windows: no new patches (latest edition still release 5K7)
TimeWise for Windows International: Release L6
- profiles for many international regions added
- purchase orders, check requests, and insertion orders can now be
more than one page long
- "File LOGOFF not found" intermittent error message fixed when running
two TimeWise sessions at once on one CPU fixed (only an issue on Windows)
- improvements to how sales tax messages are suppressed when not appropriate
- improvements in telephone number handling, especially for New Zealand
- various small fixes
TimeWise for Macintosh: Release 5L4
- profiles for many international regions added
- support for user override of regional preferences in config.fpm now
included
- purchase orders, check requests, and insertion orders can now be
more than one page long
- improvements to how sales tax messages are suppressed when not appropriate
- various small fixes
Don't forget that you can register for automatic e-mail notification
of new patches by clicking a button on the patch page ( http://www.davidberman.com/timewise/patch.htm
).
HOW TO GET PERSONAL ATTENTION FROM US
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You can send mail to "It's About TimeWise" at editor @timewise.net .
To get more information or to download shareware, free 30-day trials, patches for registered users, or to inquire about redistributing TimeWise shareware or trial editions, visit the TimeWise Web site at http://www.timewise.net or email info@timewise.net .
or write us at:
David Berman Developments Inc.
340 Selby Avenue
Ontario Canada K2A 3X6
Or fax: +1 613-482-4777
Or phone: Toll-free sales line 1-800-665-1809 (North America)
(613) 748-1453 (country code 01 if outside North America)
Or email: info@timewise.net
ABOUT "It's About TimeWise"
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