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First Look: Daylite Touch
Marketcircle has made a name for themselves with their Daylite Productivity Suite, which is a powerful customer management, calendaring, and project management tool. On Tuesday, Marketcircle announced the availability of Daylite Touch, an iPhone / iPod touch companion to Daylite, in the App Store (click opens iTunes).TUAW is currently working on a full review of the latest releases of Daylite, the new Daylite Server, and Daylite Touch, so this is just a cursory overview of the iPhone app. From what we've seen during the last few weeks of use, the app is a worthy companion to Daylite and offers much of the powerful capabilities of the desktop package in a handheld format.
Perhaps the most impressive tool in Daylite Touch is its ability to sync to a remote Daylite Server. Daylite Server is required if someone wishes to use both Daylite on the Mac and the iPhone, and it has just been shipped with the new Daylite 3.9. The sync capability includes a remote wipe function, important for organizations that have deployed groups of iPhones loaded with Daylite Touch and syncing to company-proprietary information.
Daylite Touch is free for download, but requires that a $49.99 annual license be installed on the server. While this may seem a bit expensive, it's an absolute bargain for any person or organization that wants the power of Daylite in their pocket or purse. Stay tuned for our upcoming full review of Daylite 3.9, Daylite Server, and Daylite Touch.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tony said 7:58AM on 4-06-2009
Look forward to the review. Having waited to try daylite for months (wanted the iphone bit too), I have downloaded 3.9 and server stuff, only to have it crash multiple times and corrupt my address book database at the same time. An automated response to the submission of the error report generates a response from the vendor saying
"Thank you for taking the time to report this problem with Daylite 3. This information will be gathered and reviewed to make improvements in future releases.. .
Be advised that our latest version is 3.8 b1631 and it includes many bug fixes. If you are using a previous version, your issue may well be resolved by downloading the latest version from our site:
http://www.marketcircle.com/downloads/
Sooooo, apparently 3.9 doesn't exist really! no wonder it doesn't work!
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Marketcircle said 3:51PM on 4-06-2009
@Tony, thanks for pointing out our auto-responder error. I've asked them to update the email.
Have you tried contacting the support team to resolve your issue? The auto-response you received was from our crash report, which isn't responded to normally.
Please send an email to support [at] marketcircle.com if you haven't already done so, so that we can assist you with your issue.
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pan_nikdo said 1:30PM on 4-17-2009
Taxation without Representation!!! A single $49.95 price to own this product is too much for the small app for the iphone. $50 per year is sheer malice for you user base. You should be ashamed to try to charge so much. There is no hosting of this program on your part, it is stand alone. And where are the import and scan capabilities as in Evernote. That might make the subscription fee worth it. I for one am reconsidering the whole Daylite product because of this contempt for your customers.
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