BY RUSSELL KAY ,
(March 12, 2001) When a piece of software promises to make my life and work simpler, I'm eager to try it out. Each week, I get word of three to six small utility programs. Many of them are shareware, meaning you can try them out for free before you buy them. Most, in my experience, turn out to be of very limited use. But a few are extraordinarily helpful because they either do something wonderful or they do something fairly trivial but necessary in a tidy and efficient way.

Quick! Grab That Address

The first of these programs is also the most recent I've found, Address Grabber Standard, by eGrabber Inc. (www.egrabber.com) in Saratoga, Calif. Suggested by a colleague, this $49.95 program is one of the handiest items I've seen in a long time. Basically, you just highlight a name or address block in any window, then click on the Grabber button. The program captures the copy, looks it over and figures out what the name, title, company, phone number or e-mail is and presents it to you for an OK. Then, with a single additional click, it sends the information to your address book. Why didn't someone think of this before?

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