Malial

I'm a graphic designer/web developer and live by my billable time. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) my life is on my Pocket PC. If it's not on there...it may as well not exist. Since converting to the Pocket PC from Palm, I have been looking for a good time tracking and billable tracking software. I thought...Sure this would be easy to find. Boy was I wrong.

After searching and searching, I gave up and began using a convoluted Excel tracking sheet. Needless to say, using Excel on a Pocket PC is not an exercise in data management, but in sanity management.

I tried...I really did. I tried to stay up to date on this Excel sheet, but it was just too difficult. Power up the Axim. Power up landscape software to switch to landscape mode (I mean really, is it even worth trying to use Excel in portrait mode?). Axim soft resets to switch to landscape. Start up Excel. Load the spreadsheet. Scroll right to enter my time and description. Ooops. Entered it into the wrong row because I couldn't see the far left column after scrolling. Delete information. Re-scroll all the way to the right. Enter information. Check my totals. Oh no...my macros aren't working! My time is all off. Phone rings. Need to check calendar and appointments as well as access another software that doesn't work in landscape. Axim soft resets to switch back to portrait. Something goes horribly wrong....Axim hard reset! Everything is gone...everything! All my time, my contacts...my life.

Now I can't do my taxes correctly. I will be audited. My wife leaves me. My dog won't look at me...

Needless to say...This could all be avoided with this fantastic software...

*This is a fictional dramatization. Any resemblance to actual events is stictly coincidental...This means you IRS.*

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