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March 9th, 2007
Pros
Very user friendly interface, easy to install and use. Keeps accurate records, easy to look up saved dates and countdowns.
Cons
Sometimes difficult to save countdowns, but not on a regular basis.
The Bottom Line
This electronic version of the original Date Wheel is an excellent purchase. It’s very simple and easy to use, and helps you keep track of countdowns to those important dates.
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Full Review
Creative Algorithms recently released the newest version of Date Wheel, the time between dates calculator for palm OS and Treo smartphones. We had the opportunity to give Date Wheel a try and enjoyed it quite a bit. Date Wheel 3 can not only tell you the time between dates, it can also count down the days, business days, weeks, or months until a special event you have planned, and can even save your tasks. Reload them later for a quick and easy way to keep track of deadlines.
Date Wheel combines simplicity and ease of use and the result is a great program that can help anyone make plans and keep track of them. Creative Algorithms stayed creative, but didn’t overdo it when designing Date Wheel. The layout is simple. At the top of your screen, you have your start date. Enter either today’s date or the date at which your project will start. In the middle of the screen you have the duration of the event. Here you enter how many days your project will last, or how many days will pass until the event begins, or whatever you want. Calculate not only days in the duration period, but also business days, weeks, and months, which is a great feature of the new version. Immediately after you enter the duration, the program will automatically calculate the end date and display it at the bottom of the screen. All dates are displayed in the format of “2/19/07″ and “Mon Feb 19, 2007.”
The layout is very simple, with just 3 bars. The Start Date, Duration, and End Date. One of the greatest things about Date Wheel is it’s navigation. It utilizes all of the 5-way navigation tools (fingers, stylus, keyboard, keypad, and graffiti) and all of them can be used no problem. Personally, I loved being able to use the on screen finger buttons best since it only required one hand and the buttons are big enough so that I don’t make any mistakes.
Overall
Date Wheel is an excellent program to help keep track of the time between important dates. It has very simple user friendly interface, using it is a breeze, and you can carry it with you everywhere on your Palm Treo or Palm OS. Creative Algorithms hit the nail on the head with this program, it’s designed with all consumers in mind and is definitely a purchase you won’t regret.
Price: $14.95
Platform: Palm OS and Treo Smartphones