IBM PC USERS Group InfoSelect Presented by Herb Shear 17 October 2005

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IBM PC USERS Group InfoSelectPresented by Herb
Shear 17 October 2005

• Herb Shear presented InfoSelect
• On 17 October 2005, IBM Facility, Menlo Park, CA
• Lots of practical and useful ideas on
• How to store and retrieve various forms of
  information using InfoSelect
• Plus showing storage examples

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InfoSelect (Microlog.com)

• Offers no trial copy
• But there are a number of options
• Current version price 249.95
• Subscription Price 49.95 per year
• Check out these prices at their website
• www.microlog.com

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InfoSelect Prices from Website
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InfoSelect More than a DB search product

• Personal address book functions
• Store location directions phone numbers
• Use your imagination to meet your information
  management challenges
• Herb goes into the details of a general purpose
  filing system and demonstrates it with pictures
  and forms
• Herb showed us one designed to eliminate the
  CDshuffle problem.

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InfoSelect Screen Shotsee http//www.innovationto
ols.com/Tools/SoftwareDetails.asp?a68
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InfoSelect Screen Shotshttp//www.miclog.com/
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Cabinet with InfoSelect sources
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CD Storageby index number
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Floppy Diskette Storage
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InfoSelect Powerful Search Engine

• Content searches not just file name
• Boolean search capabilities
• Search within even closed files
• Search by type font
• Field of gray identifies the number of hits with
  red dots

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Additional Products

• Herb presented lots of practical ideas.
• Other products for use with InfoSelect
• Clipmate from Thornsoft.com
• used as an extension of Windows Clipboard
• Label Factory
• used for printing labels on CD sleeves,
  envelopes, etc. to store the physical objects
  indexed by your InfoSelect