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Awards and Reviews
Time & Chaos has been a popular program with magazine editors and reviewers. We
have put together a list of all the stories, reviews and awards we know of on the Internet
to help you make a purchasing decision of which information manager program is right for
you.

WebAttack.com has given their Editor's Pick to Time & Chaos 5.6.5, their
top rating for the best software products available!
Time
& Chaos is also an Editor's Pick at
SoftwareSeeker.com .
PC
Magazine featured Time & Chaos 5.5.0 in the cover story of their
September 17, 2002 issue as one of "the answers to your 34 top
questions" as a solution for using shared databases on a small office or home
network.
Consumer
Guide featured Time & Chaos and offered their "Recommended" status
to our product for anyone evaluating Personal Information Manager
products.
Time & Chaos 5.4.0
was one of three nominees for the 2002 Shareware Industry Awards in the Best Business Application or Utility category!
Pocket PC Life
gave a 5-star, "must have" rating to Time & Chaos with our new ChaosSync for Pocket PC
utility! (April 22, 2002)
Time & Chaos was picked as a Microsoft-WUGNET Shareware Pick of the Week for Windows ME and Windows 2000. Time
& Chaos was also admitted into WUGNET's Shareware Hall of Fame.
The Ziff-Davis Software library gave
Time & Chaos their top
rating. Time &
Chaos is also a two-time winner of the yearly Ziff-Davis Shareware Award for best Personal Productivity program.
The popular Soft Seek web site
honored Time & Chaos with an Editor's Pick award, signifying their recommended top choices in downloadable software.
Windows
Magazine named Time & Chaos one of the
50 Best-Ever Shareware programs.
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Smart Computing |
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Smart
Computing featured a review of our Time & Chaos 5.3.8 program in
their November 2000 issue! |
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PC Computing
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The Screen Savers |
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PC Computing featured a head-to-head comparison of popular commercial
applications to
shareware applications in their January 1999 issue. Time & Chaos was put to the test against Microsoft
Outlook and was hailed as an example of shareware being better than the commercial alternative.
As a
follow-up story, on February 18, 1999, ZDTV's "The Screen Savers" program
featured the applications tested by PC Computing and talked about the usability tests and
the comparison of Time & Chaos to Microsoft Outlook. Andre Leach of PC Computing
shared that, surprisingly, Time & Chaos actually was better than Microsoft Outlook,
according to their independent testing.
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Pass The Shareware
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Time
& Chaos made the software list at Pass
The Shareware, which only lists programs considered to be the Best of
Class! |
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RocketDownload |
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ROCKETDOWNLOAD.com
gave Time & Chaos 5.3.8 a
rating on their site, noting how Time & Chaos is designed to meet
the needs of both individuals and businesses. |
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PC Computing Online |
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PC Computing Online featured a round-up review of shareware
organizers on February 15, 1999 and gave Time & Chaos the best rating of all the
schedulers/contact managers reviewed. |
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AARP Webplace |
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The AARP featured
Time & Chaos and had a write-up of its benefits. |
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Shareware Junkies |
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Shareware Junkies posted
a review of Time & Chaos32 on August 19, 1998. |
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ZDNet's Hotfiles.com |
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In May 1998, HotFiles.com featured a Toolkit of the Cheapskate's Office Suite,
with the best programs for office applications as an alternative to purchasing a
commercial suite such as Microsoft Office. Time & Chaos32 was the featured
component for Information Management. |
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PC Magazine |
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PC Magazine posted a review of Time & Chaos 5.3 on their web site. Here
is a portion of what they had to say: "Long the reigning shareware PIM favorite,
Isbister International's Time & Chaos 5.3 ($45 street) has a new look and
some smoothed-out edges. The result is a PIM with no-brainer simplicity that
fully covers the basics of managing personal information." |
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BOOT IT |
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The 1997 BOOT IT Shareware/Freeware Awards honored
Time & Chaos32 as one of the five top shareware programs of 1997. BOOT IT is a site
devoted just to reviewing a small number of hand-picked programs, but visitors to the site
were also given an opportunity to vote for their choices. |
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Jesse Berst's AnchorDesk |
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Jesse Berst's AnchorDesk
highlighted Time & Chaos32 as one of 1997's Top Downloads of the year. |
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PC Computing |
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PC
Computing
called Time & Chaos32 "simply the best shareware PIM around" in the 1001
Downloads area of their Web site. |
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File Mine |
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CMP's File Mine did a review of the top shareware PIMs and
named Time & Chaos32 v5.2.9 "simply the best bauble in the bag." |
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Mydesktop.com |
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Mydesktop.com, a site devoted
to supporting users of 32bit software, has given Time & Chaos32 5.2.7 their top rating
of AWESOME! |
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Computer Shopper |
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Computer
Shopper reviewed 8 PIM's in their February 1997 issue, including Time & Chaos32, which they describe as the "essence
of elegance in software". |
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Win95 Magazine |
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Win95 Magazine
listed the "96 Top Shareware Titles of 1996" in their February 1997 edition. Time & Chaos had the highest ranking of
any personal organizer and was #26 overall. |
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Preston's Picks |
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Time
& Chaos32 made the list of Preston's Picks for January 1997. Preston's Picks are found on Ziff-Davis' Software Library
and are recommended by Preston Gralla, ZD's "software guru". The January list includes the best downloadable
software to "get the most out of your time and money in the coming year."
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AOL Software Center |
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AOL's Software Center (keyword: software) named Time &
Chaos32 one of their "Best of 1996 Applications." |
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HomePC |
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The October 1st issue of
HomePC contained reviews of "The Best Shareware for Windows 95--26 programs that cost
nothing to try and pay off if you buy" and included Time & Chaos32 on the list. |
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Shareware.com |
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made Time & Chaos one of their Business Application Selections and
even said, "If you could keep a driver's license and a $20 bill inside this program,
it would be more valuable than your wallet!". |
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PC Magazine |
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The August 1996 issue of PC
Magazine gave a short review
of Time & Chaos32 v5.1.5 with the most unique word ever used to describe Time
& Chaos - quadripartite (go look it up!). |
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Ziff-Davis Shareware Awards |
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Time and Chaos was honored in both 1995 and 1994 by the
Ziff-Davis Shareware Awards as the best Personal Productivity program. In their
descriptive terms, "Time and Chaos Professional by iSBiSTER International -- A simple
and very helpful tool that organizes even the busiest person's life. This comes complete
with address book, calendar, to do list, auto-dialer and appointment scheduler and
out-values just about any Personal Information Manager on the market." |
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Windows Magazine |
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 Windows Magazine named Time and Chaos 4.07 as one of their famed
"1996 Win 100" of all software products available for 1996! The only other
"shareware" application honored in 1996 was Netscape Navigator.
Windows Magazine also reviewed Time and Chaos 4.07 in their First Takes
section of their
December
1995 issue if you want to take a look. |
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