Contest 5: Enterprise

It is nice to see that NSBasic applications are running in various fields. Many entries here are truly professional tools and written for specific targets. It seems that applications in this category are getting more popular in the market.

The winner is listed first. Other entries are listed in alphabetical order.

HandEvent by John Malvey
HandEvent is a service that lets conference and tradeshow managers provide conference material to their attendees on the their Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs).

Judge's Comments: This could be very handy for exhibition visitors. Well prepared features and the program could easily thrive by working with different exhibitions.

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Other Entries

		Annals.org Reader for Palm OS by Bob Badgett This application puts on the leading medical journals, Annals of Internal Medicine, onto the Palm PDA. Judge's Comments: Well executed program for browsing the data collection. Very easy to use. Website
		Birthday1.81 by Toshiro Takeuchi This program manages people's birthdays and displays their ages. This is a updated version of the program entered in NSBasic's third programming contest. Judge's Comments: Good improvement from the last entry. Need Japanese device. Download
		ExMan by Hideji Kitamura This program is to record and manage incomes and expenses on Palm. It is possible to output data into a file to make it available on desktop. Judge's Comments: Nice tool to record petty cash spendings. Need Japanese device. Download
		FlashZi+ by Max L. Schmidt FlashZi+ is a flashcard system for Chinese characters. It is a program to memorize Chinese characters in GB or Big5 in a fast way. It is very easy to use and different from other flash card systems. Judge's Comments: With this tool you can learn Chinese characters anywhere. Different modes to help you learn better.
		JMapNavigator by Toshiro Takeuchi With this software you can memorize locations and capital cities of Japanese prefectures. It displays a Japanese Map and is capable of writing memo for each prefecture. Judge's Comments: Too many prefectures in the country! Nice tool for adults as well as kids to learn Japanese geography. Download
		Lehrerhandbuch67 by Katja Kostrzewa A program to help a teacher collect pupil's data for every lesson. It also helps to summarize the data in different ways. It's possible to import/export data to Excel. Judge's Comments:This is a good start: the hard part of collecting and displaying seems to be done. The next step to to polish it more: add some nice icons, build it into a single executable, etc.
		PedBase by Mike Verive PedBase is a database of over 550 pediatric diseases, ported from the original HTML format and iSilo format to NSBasic-readable format. PedBase takes advantage of NSBasic's keyed access for quick response even on the slower devices, and adds beaming, DOC and MemoPad export, and printing using PalmPrint or SCSPrint. Judge's Comments: Very fast look up. Clean and nice database app example. Download
		RMRBank (Palm) by RMR Software RMRBank (Palm) - Personal Accounts Program is a comprehensive finance package for the Palm OS series of platforms. As well as the usual functions of Transaction storing and statement reconciling, Archiving, Standing Orders/Direct Debits and Categories, it also has full multi-currency support, optional password protection, auto-counters and default transactions. Judge's Comments: Many features, yet straightforward. Seruos personal accounting application. Download
		RPDatabase by Mark Sharp RPDatabase is a radiopharmaceutical database/health physics calculator written in NSBasic 3. The program contains a database of package insert information for about 80 radiopharmaceuticals. You can look up radiopharmaceuticals by drug name, or by targeted organ system. Judge's Comments: Well designed. Good amount of content. Easy to navigate.
		Solfeggio ! by Jean-Philippe Pasquier Musical theory learning, for individuals or schools. Solfeggio ! is a software to improve your musical theory level. Judge's Comments: This is a simple little program that could certainly be expanded upon. It's a great concept! Download
		TimeXing by Max L. Schmidt Time and Payment tracking, billing, flexible data export on Windows to Excel, Access and more. Up to 99 Projects. Judge's Comments: Well designed, project-based work organizer. Need Palm OS 5.
		UBI Realty by Paul Stewart Designed for use by Real Estate Professional and Real Estate Investors. It provides a complete mobile solution for evaluating and collecting data on real estate you are interested in purchasing while on the road. It is especially helpful in purchasing distressed real-estate and allows you to catalog repairs against the property, taxes owed, purchase prices and calculates estimated profits on the fly. It collects the following groups of data pertinent to real-estate. Judge's Comments: Many features. Well laid out. A search function would make it handier, yet it's a high quality application.