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- It happens every year. Sometime after the last of
- the wrapping paper has been thrown away, Uncle Sam
- favors us with a thick pamphlet filled with words
- that seem to translate into, "Give me all your
- money!" Or, if not all, whatever is left. There's
- not much the *StarShip* can do about that, except
- to make it easier for you to figure out exactly how
- much that is, or perhaps help you get organized.
- Along those lines, among many fine public domain
- and shareware offerings in the *StarShip* Library,
- are the following:
-
- ACESDEMO.LHA (File #21730) -- This checkbook
- program by Kent Smotherman is billed as a "complete
- and full-featured personal and small business
- financial management and tracking system." It uses
- a point-and-click interface to track deposits and
- payments in multiple accounts, and can generate
- reports based on the category or memo fields. ACES
- is demoware; fully functional, it will stop working
- after 50 transactions. The author is available on
- GEnie as K.SMOTHERMAN.
-
- ECONKNOW.LHA (File #22150) -- EconKnow, a shareware
- program from George Kell (G.KELL), is a
- multifunction financial program with investment and
- loan calculators. Need to know how long it will
- take to pay off that Visa? No problem. EconKnow
- will prompt you for the amount and number of
- payments, annual interest rate, and will give you
- the bad (or good) news right quick. You can also
- calculate the size of the payments necessary to pay
- off a loan within a given amount of time, track the
- future value of investme nts and annuities, and
- calculate the "equivalent uniform annual cost" of
- items.
-
- STICK103.LHA (File #22053) isn't an earth-shaking
- program, but it might be just the thing you need
- for all those facts and figures scrawled on little
- pieces of paper strewn about your desktop. StickIt
- is an electronic variant of the Post-It note pad.
- It lets you create notes, all instantly accessible
- from Workbench. If you toss StickIt into your
- WBSTARTUP drawer, it will be there -- as will your
- notes -- every time you boot.
-
- SCHEDULER101A.LHA (File #22015) -- Looking for a
- phone database/dialer and calendar/scheduler
- program? Then take a look at Scheduler by Ben Owen.
- It consists of a phone and address book,
- appointments book, and personal organizer. You'll
- need Workbench 2 or later for it. The
- point-and-click interface eases the task of
- organizing names and numbers, adds numerous bells
- and whistles -- like the ability to track incoming
- calls by Caller ID -- and helps you organize
- numbers and appointments by group.
-
- LABELPRINT201.LHA (File #22041) -- You'll probably
- be suffering from writer's cramp after wading your
- way through form 1040. If so, LabelPrint (LP) will
- print labels for you with just a few clicks of the
- mouse. This shareware program from the *StarShip*'s
- own Chris Papademetrious (CHRIS.P), lets you create
- a database of addresses, and then print selected
- items. Addresses can be sorted by any field. As
- many as 10 fields can be defined, and any field can
- be made unprintable.
-
- If you use a commercial financial management
- program, check the *StarShip* Bulletin Board for
- late-breaking developments including the 1993
- forms. Category 4 is home to a number of relevant
- topics including Home Management Pro (Topic 11),
- financial management software (Topic 16), and
- PHA$AR (Topic 24). Of course, since you own an
- Amiga, the world of Macintosh and MS-DOS software
- is also available if you're running an emulator.
- You'll find Mac and PC hints elsewhere in this
- issue of LiveWire. In the *StarShi p*, discussion
- of A-Max, various bridgeboards, and PC-Task can be
- found in Category 14. The Emplant Macintosh
- emulator is discussed in Category 31.
-
- Too Taxing
-
- If you find all this too taxing, stop by the
- *StarShip* Library and pick up BUTTONMATCH.LHA
- (File #22030). This match-the-colors game by Syl
- Lutnes, is a pleasant diversion that will take your
- mind off your troubles. It requires Eagle Tree's
- Helm or HELMPRESENTER.LHA (File #21957). And
- remember, you can stop by at any time. The IRS may
- be closed, but we're open all night!
-