New KeySoft 5.1 Now Available
Pulse Data International is proud to announce KeySoft version 5.1, the latest innovation in software technology for the BrailleNote family of products. The major new feature of KeySoft 5.1 is the completely re-written Planner application, supporting recurring appointments, and synchronisation with Microsoft Outlook.KeySoft 5.1 is a free upgrade for all version 5 customers. For clients having a software maintenance agreement, it will not decrement your SMA count.
KeySoft 5.1 gives you one of the most powerful planners on the market today, yet in the familiar friendly KeySoft style where you don't have to grapple with graphical interfaces to get the job done.
KeyPlan in KeySoft 5.1 uses a single database to store all planner entries, rather than the separate year files that are used in KeySoft 5.0 and earlier versions of KeySoft. The first benefit of this is that the boundaries between years no longer exist. If you wish to reschedule an appointment from 2004 to a date in 2005, this is easily done.When you make appointments, you can now specify an end time, as well as a start time, for appointments. This allows you to block time in your Planner, and you will be advised if you attempt to make an appointment which conflicts with an existing one. You can choose to accept the conflict or reschedule one of the appointments. The end time can be on a date that is different from the start date, allowing you to schedule appointments that span more than the one-day.
KeyPlan in KeySoft 5.1 allows you to specify the location of an appointment, to mark time as free, busy, tentatively scheduled, or out of the office. Some minor changes, such as the Next Appointment feature that now advises you how many appointments you have remaining today, make the Planner even more useful.And most significantly, KeyPlan will support a wide range of recurring appointments. You can schedule your appointment according to dates, or patterns of days, weeks, months or years - for example an event may be on the 25th of every month, or on the third Thursday of every month, or every 25th of March, or every day at 9am, etc. There is a pattern of recurrence to cover just about every type of recurring event you could think of.
A new version of KeySync, version 1.1, will mean that you can synchronize appointments with Microsoft Outlook.
We've also added the much-requested Word Count feature to KeyWord, allowing you to determine the number of words in a document without having to perform a spell check on the document. For Braille keyboard machines, this is obtained by pressing Space with I from within KeyWord, and for Qwerty machines by pressing Control with Read with I. This will take you to an Information menu, which in addition to allowing you to get the title of the document now lets you obtain a Word Count.