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Download yvReminder v.1.9, freeware (1898k)
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v.1.9 , last changed: August 30, 2002 |
This multilingual program reminds you about future (and past) anniversaries of days of births and weddings. Information is taken directly from the Address Book of MS Outlook Express (or from Contacts of MS Outlook), this allows you not to duplicate the same information in several places.
To edit the list of contacts (i.e. friends) and their anniversaries you continue using Outlook Express. However you may change (and view) full information for any contact and connect to him directly from yvReminder.
With a single click, you may:
- send new message (E-Mail) to selected contact, with the help
of Your Mail Program;
- go to his (or her) Personal or Business Web Page in the Internet;
- make a phone call dialing any personal, mobile or business
phone number by your Telephony services (TAPI);
- export the whole table of events to the HTML file.
So you may copy or print the list with your Internet Browser...
yvReminder doesn't substitute any of these programs - instead, it cooperates with them, making routine operations for you.
yvReminder launches automatically each time system starts
(its shortcut is placed in the "Startup" folder).
It scans for the dates and closes in a case nothing
was found (due to the "AutoClose=1" command line parameter).
To launch yvReminder without any conditions,
click it's shortcut
on your Desktop.
Records it the table may be sorted by any column, in ascending or descending order. To change sorting order click on title of an appropriate column. Change size of program window and widths of columns as you wish. Your settings will be stored.
The program is supplied with many user interface languages: Dutch, English, German, Croatian, Italian, Polish, Russian and Spanish-Argentina with very easy procedure to add your language, if it's not in the list.
That "Address Book of MS Outlook Express" is called Windows Address Book. In order to use yvReminder with MS Outlook, your computer has to be configured "To share Contacts between Outlook and Outlook Express". See the above link for more details.
If the address book is configured to share contact information with Outlook Contacts, you may use yvReminder and don't bother about "What address book yvReminder is looking in" - the information is the same and you may, as stated above, edit individual contacts through yvReminder!
Characters in the "What" column mean:
"B" - Birthday;
"W" - Wedding Anniversary.
If both Bithday and Anniversary dates are indicated for one contact, that contact will have two lines in the list (one for each event)!
1. Download ZIP-archive of the program and unZIP it to any temporary directory. There is only one file to install inside the ZIP-archive: yvReminder_Setup.exe
2. If you're upgrading the program from previous version, you have to "Remove yvReminder" first and then "Install yvReminder".
Try to think of Address Book as of Book Of Contacts (as I do) and not as a list of emails.
Each contact (each person) in this book needs to have his own record. It's naturally, because each record have only one field for name, not only for birthday and anniversary.
There is no any problem, when more than one person (and so more than one record in the address book) have the same email. So when, for example, my friend and his wife have the same email, I create records for each of them with the same email. In the case they decide to have personal email for each of them (for any reason), I'll have to change email only.
Looking at address book this way, there is also not a problem, when someone doesn't have any email. I don't count this record as a "fake email" but rather as a person, who (for now!) can not be contacted by email. In a case he (or she) will get one, I'll have only to add the new email to the existing record.
Of course, to organize your address book for convenient access you have to create "Folders" in the Address book and move records to that folders. For example, I have folders "Business", "Travel", "Programmers", "Rare", so I don't have to scroll the whole long list every time. Note, that if you didn't experiment with folders in Address Book before, you better make a backup of that Address Book before you start changes. It's usially called yourlogin.wab (yuri.wab in my case).
To change language of the program's user interface, go to the "Language" menu and select your language from the list of available languages.
If your language is not in the list of available languages yet, you may use any language from the list as a template for translation (or customization) of any program message or string. Select that language and then select "Language->Edit language strings" menu item to start editing.
Please note, that in order to see all characters of Your language right (with "umlauts" etc.) you may need to change "Character Set" string in that language file (in the line 10001=... )
To be sure, that your custom language strings won't be overwritten during next program upgrade, save your language's strings file in the same directory, as original one (usually c:\Program Files\yvReminder\Language\), but with different name, starting with "strings_" and ending with ".txt". For example, save "strings_en.txt" file as "strings_custom.txt".
Select the same language in the "Language" menu to see the effect. You may see that your language name appeared in the list of languages (that name is stored in the line 10002=... ).
If you've translated messages (or even this page with program description) into new language, please send them to author to be included in the next version of this program.
Freeware, i.e. at no cost.
The program is distributed "as is", without any warranties explicit or implied.
(c) 2001-2002 Yuri Volkov, Moscow, Russia
The installation package has usual yvReminder_Setup.exe that includes everything needed to install yvReminder on your computer.
If both Bithday and Anniversary dates are indicated for one contact, that contact will have two lines in the list (one for each event)!
New language of user interface: Spanish-Argentina.
One new column in the list: Day of week of the event
3 new languages of user interface: German, Croatian and Italian.
Export table with events to HTML file.
4 new columns in the list: E-mail; First, Middle and Last names.
Width of program window is resizable - easy to fit all the columns in it.
2 new languages of user interface: Dutch and Polish.