Version 5 Of Now Up-To-Date® & Contact® For Macintosh Now Shipping

NUDC for Mac Provides Major Upgrade Including New Group Scheduling Features, Easier Import and Export, New Interface and Support For Apple’s “Tiger” – Mac OS 10.4

COLUMBUS, OHIO — June 21, 2005 — Now Software today introduced Now Up-to-Date & Contact 5 for Macintosh, a major update to its cross platform calendar and contact management solutions.  Version 5 provides a wide selection of new features and improvements, including advanced group scheduling features, new server management tools, easier import and export, and improved interface features.

“We are very excited to roll out version 5,” said John Wallace, president of Now Software.  “NUDC remains a critical tool for thousands of users and we believe that this update and these new features will make a difference for people managing complex schedules, organizations, and projects.”

Version 5 introduces the new Schedule View, which allows meeting planners and managers to select multiple users and display their calendars simultaneously for a given day.  This quick, at-a-glance view is ideal for tracking staff availability, activities, and for selecting and scheduling meeting time. 

Also new in version 5 is the Now Server Manager.  The Now Server Manager makes installing, configuring, and managing group calendars and shared contacts simple for anyone – even non-technical users.  Now Server Manager’s interface allows users to install and manage any number of calendar and contact servers, greatly simplifying the management of a single office or department or the differing needs of a large organization.  The Now Server Manager also allows for virtually one-button, automatic web publishing for calendars and address books, a feature used by thousands of schools and businesses worldwide.

Users will be pleased to discover the new import and export features that provide drag and drop support for iCalendar and vCard standards and allow for the subscription to published iCal calendars.  Using NUDC’s Sets feature, users can easily create and switch between multiple calendar views displaying sport team schedules, movie releases and holiday schedules provided by sources such as icalshare.com.

In addition to these major features, NUDC 5 sports a redesigned interface including customizable toolbars, dozens of general enhancements and improvements, and also provides support for the new Mac OS X version 10.4 – “Tiger”. Later this year Now Software will release Tiger specific features for NUDC, including Dashboard Widgets and Spotlight support as free updates for users of version 5.

Take Control of Now Up-to-Date & Contact
New with version 5 is a totally new user manual written by best-selling ebook author Joe Kissell, one of the experts responsible for the acclaimed Take Control series of electronic books. This new, in-depth guide will be available soon as a free PDF that's designed for easy onscreen reading. A hardcopy version will be available for sale as well. For other Take Control titles about Mac OS X and other topics, visit http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/.

Compatibility
Now Up-to-Date & Contact for Macintosh 5 is compatible with NUDC for Windows version 4.5.2 and the previous Mac OS X version (4.5.3).  It also continues to support the “Classic” Mac OS with NUDC version 4.0.3. The new Now Server Manager can support all of these listed versions seamlessly or version 5 clients can access existing version 4 Now Up-to-Date & Contact servers.

Pricing and Availability
Now Up-to-Date & Contact 5 for Macintosh is currently shipping and is priced at $129.95 for the boxed version, or $119.95 for the online download version.  Upgrades are available to licensed users of version 4.x for $49.95.  In addition, Now Software is providing a wide free upgrade window, providing free upgrades to anyone that has purchased Now Up-to-Date & Contact on or after March 28, 2005. Volume licensing is also available for education, business, organizations with multiple users, and government customers.

For more information about Now Up-to-Date & Contact 5 for Macintosh, or any of Now Software’s other productivity products, visit http://www.nowsoftware.com.

 

About Now Software:
Based in Columbus, Ohio, Now Software is the developer of the Eddy Award-winning Now Up-to-Date & Contact. For more information about Now Software, visit www.nowsoftware.com or call 1-614-413-4000.

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