CNET Editors' review
Avignon Concept provides is a fantastic tool for organizing practically every aspect of life. With simple layout and fantastic results, users will love having their entire lives coordinated into one program.
The program's interface was surprisingly simple, considering all of the elements it attempts to combine. With large icons for organizing media, contacts, and calendars, users can easily navigate through the program. Customization was equally simple, with intuitive fields to fill in and easily retrievable data. Users can most likely skip the Help file. The program divides itself into categories for books, music, movies, contacts, finance, documents, to-do, and calendar. Each category looks the same. Once entered, each item is cataloged and can be brought back up with a few mouse clicks. Some highlights include the capability to attach documents and open them from Avignon, the capability to open music and movies with Avignon's player, and a simple calendar reminder system, much like Microsoft Outlook's. The program's best feature was the simple way of getting information for your books. Users simply input the ISBN number and the author, and title and other important information automatically appear in the fields. A similar option for movies and music would have been a nice addition, but not necessary.
Thanks to its simple operation, excellent results and surprising features, we highly recommend this freeware program to help get organized.
Publisher's Description
From Gallieni Productions:
Octyx is a secure solution to manage all your collections and organize your personal data. Octyx has been developed to enable you to store data locally on your own computer. No viruses, no spam, no problems. It is software made to make your life easier. It is your personal software, with all advantages and no worries. Octyx comes with 100 predefined reports, which can be printed, exported to PDF, Excel or exported to your personal website. All reports can be filtered to match your personal needs. Octyx can also import and export data via XML. Interfacing with Outlook is very easy. All data is stored in the most secure way (encrypted and password enabled) on your own PC. Nobody else than yourselves can touch your data. Special functions included are the automatic Image Viewer, Weather Reports and the incorporated Google Maps © functions. Octyx is available in 10 languages, in English, French, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Real-time change of the language is included in the package.
What's new in this version:
- We updated the user interface. For large screen sizes (1280/768) a new menu is available, allowing much faster interactions.
- You can choose the color of the application.
- The E-book reading functionality has been greatly improved and can be used with a plug-in for Firefox. Fully integrated !
- The search functionality has been improved.
- For the 2012 version of Octyx, the following improvements were made :
- We developed a new User Interface, ... See all new features
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"Only the interface is good"
Version: Octyx 2009 build 9.081220
Pros
Lot of features
Cons
No means to select a directory and get the software to populate the database. If you have 1000 eBooks, load them one by one :) Happy Data entry!!!
Summary
If you are about to start a ebook/music/movie collection, this software MAY BE good. but otherwise... This is a definite NO. Absolutely no means to load all the files into this database in an automated manner. If you have your collection already in a text file, then yes, you can import... else try some other software.
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"Seems pretty good..."
Version: Octyx Build 8.080210
Pros
you can save your personal data, contacts, movie, book, banking, to do lists; has a calendar w/diff. views; print out info into various formats...
Cons
can't change font settings, colors, you know, cosmetic stuff...category headings, names, not too much on your own customizations...i'd like to have each category in different colors, but no-can-do!
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"A wonderful software program collection."
Version: Octyx build 7.061225
Pros
I like the lay out and ease of use. Everything is right there for you.
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