Longtime readers of my column know that I’ve lamented more than once about the disappearance of Ecco, my favorite “PIM” (Personal Information Manager), a cool outliner/datebook/contacts manager that fell by the wayside as Outlook became the monopoly standard. Small communities of Ecco devotees have survived, and the program still works fine, but keeping the faith with a program that hasn’t been developed for five years is not easy.
My heart raced as I read the subject line on a reader e-mail that “Ecco Pro is back! ” It’s not quite like that. The good news is that NetManage, the company that purchased Ecco from its original developers and then orphaned it, has made the program available for free (it’s still copyright, still under license, but apparently anyone can go download it). There’s info here. But there doesn’t seem to be much more going on than that. Still, it’s a perfectly functional Win32 application. Go check it out if you’re looking for a good PIM.
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