What is Sidekick? Sidekick is an application that automatically updates your laptop settings based on where you are. Just install the app, configure the places that you frequent, (home, work, a coffee shop, etc.) and never fuss with your settings again! Sidekick puts the world of entertainment at your fingertips. Get the latest entertainment news, movie info, music releases and event updates happening on the go. Sidekick combines all media, (TV, Radio, Film, Music e.t.c.) bringing them into a single platform were you can get informed easily.
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I am one of those people who gets classified as an 'early adopter'. I have an enduring optimism that things get better over time, and that the next great thing is just about to be discovered.
I love the thrill of getting a new toy, figuring out how it works, and then spreading the news. Hard experience would indicate that this optimisim is not well founded however. Has what they call the, the various phases that people go through when evaluating technology and its potential impact. I can simplify this into two phases - anticipation and reality.
Anticipation is wonderful because it is unconstrained by reality. All desires are satisfied. All features work.
Nirvana is at hand. Reality, as some others have observed, is a bitch. Which brings me to software. Microsoft's Borg-like domination of the planet has extinguished innovation in the core areas of word processing, spreadsheets, personal data bases, and email. Yes, there are still efforts going on, but the look and feel seems to have been locked in concrete, with most competitors releasing 'me-too' products rather than real innovation. The folks are doing a great job of providing an open source Office suite, but the goal seems to be duplication, rather than extension.
You do not have any tools at hand for managing and moving lists, unless you are managing names and addresses in Outlook. Shortly after I took delivery of my first IBM PC in 1984, I came across a marvellous program called Sidekick from a company called. This magic piece of code was the first commercial use of something called a TSR or terminate and stay resident program. Running on DOS, the program would pop up when a key combination was pressed, providing an editor (with WordStar keys), a calendar, and most importantly, a little flat file database. I can't describe how powerful it was to have all those capabilities at the touch of a key.
Instead of having to insert a floppy and wait for the program to load, Sidekick was memory resident. The ability to quickly and easily create a database and then export in.dbf or.csv or pretty much any format was something I took for granted. Windows came along, and the very thing that made Sidekick cool (TSR) became a liability. Borland the company was going through changes as well, getting broken up and sold in pieces. Eventually, Phillipe Borland started a new company called Starfish which was dedicated to reducing bloatware and writing software that was small and functional. Starfish came out with a Windows version of Sidekick that had all the original features, plus the ability to synchronize across the Internet. The best version of this software became Sidekick 98.
Subsequent versions were released, but they were actually worse. I was really happy that Sidekick was back, and used it to create contact lists, account and password lists, CD and vinyl lists, DVD lists, you name it. I didn't really care about the collaboration features. Flash forward to today.
Starfish got bought by Motorola during one of their periodic 'software vs. Hardware' moments of doubt. Getting bought by Motorola is usually the kiss of death for a team, which rarely survives Motorola's 'special' corporate culture. Indeed, all traces of Starfish disappeared. The web site hung around for a while, but then in April 2003, it started pointing to Pumatech, the people who were selling the Intellisync product.
Pumatech has since changed their name to, and appears to be concentrating on selling to enterprises and carriers for phone and PDA synchronization. A new PC user will inevitably conclude that his only choice for managing data is Outlook, since that seems to be the only program with which vendors concentrate on synchronizing. Unfortunately, Outlook is a primary example of bloat-ware, with rigid formats (you cannot define your own fields), and endless menus and options. Add to all that the fact that people like Palm didn't even include a proper database with their device, and you find yourself in the wilderness when it comes to managing anything other than names and addresses. What this is all in aid of is the fact that Sidekick 98 is still the easiest and most flexible piece of software out there for managing information on the fly, and for formatting it to move between different programs and devices. I have been able to take data originally entered on an Osbourne 1 running dBASE II under CPM, and move it to DOS, various laptops, Windows, Psion PDA's, and most recently, a shiny new Nokia Communicator 9500.
I am happy to report that Sidekick 98 runs fine under Windows XP, a testament to Phillipe Borland's design goal of simplicity and usability. I just wish he was still making great software. I've been using Sidekick '97 since '97. Just bought a Win 7 computer.
Looks like Microsoft has finally killed Sidekick - can't find a way to get it to run under Win 7 (compatability - BAH!). I'm intrigued by your comment about moving the data. I've found no way to get my data out of Sidekick so that I can use it in another program. If anyone's been able to get Sidekick '97 to work under Win 7, I'm interested. Looks to me like it's finally time to pack it in, but I can't find an alternative, nor can I see a way to rescue the last 12 years of my life (sigh). I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium. I tried to install from the original Sidekick '97 install CD.
When I run d: disk1 setup.exe (D is my DVD RW drive), I get the message 'This version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Etc' and then they want me to contact the publisher. As I said, I used every available compatibility setting back to Win 95. The system itself suggests xp sp2, which is what I was running it under. Based on other comments I've seen, I also copied the directories to my C: drive, with the same result. From this, can you tell me what the difference is? Can it be that Pro will run it & home premium won't?
I long ago transferred the Sidekick install files to a single zip, which has the original floppy disk hierarchy of Disk 1, Disk 2 and so on. I copy the file to the target hard disk, then go to Disk 1, and run setup. Never had a problem. There were patches issued during the life of Sidekick '97 that need to be applied BTW - one replaces the SK.exe file, and one replaces a.dll. Am travelling so don't have it in front of me. Would be surprised if different flavours of Windows are the problem.
I have installed it on Windows XP Home which runs on a netbook, and have installed it in multiple flavours of Windows running in virtual machines I use. You also mentioned getting the data out - Sidekick supports exporting extremely well - you can write to everything from dBase to Excel to.csv - your data should not be trapped. I only use it for Contact (database) files, so not sure about Calendars, but I believe there is export for that as well.
Hello all, seeing the comments, no one has realized there is a difference, as announced by microsoft. Window 7 Home edition do not run legacy software. Microsoft said only Window 7 Professional and higher will run legacy software. Sidekick 98 is considered legacy software due to origins of design (runs under window 95 and 98.
Yes as stated earlier, configure to run 98 under compatability mode (in pro version). I am hoping that Microsoft relent and release something (such as update/special program) enabling home versions to handle legacy software (ah will not hold my breath). Hi all, I am a die hard SK98 user. Nothing compares, I use almost all the components including webpublishing of the calendar. I haven't tried to publish from win 7 tho. It is working as a pim on my windows 7 home. I can't remember what I did to get it to load.
I to have the 6 disks. I however, am having problem with the calendar and the mast:wk error. I have looked everywhere for the patch. Anyone know where to find it? P.s I run SK98 on xp pro, vista and win7 home. I heard it will run on wine (ubuntu) but I couldn't spend the time getting it to work. I am one of the die-hard user of Sidekick 98 (after Sidekick 95).
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I replacd sidekick.exe and yintl.dll with a new version I found in the net.Under Win XP it worked with some problem with due date a.s.o., Installed on a Win 7 Home Premium 64, worked, but today it opens, but has frozen. Task manager says 'it does not respond' (translated from Italian).
Yesterday OK, today KO. Someone could help me?
Luckily I have a netbook with Win XP, so I can work,but this is not a solution. As M said:I will keep my sidekick till I die.
I am a die-hard Mac user but I still keep an old dinosaur of a Dell laptop around (it's like picking up a brick!) for the sole purpose of using Sidekick 98. It is the only program I have ever found that gives me an operational year view so that I can quickly schedule my year calendar at a glance AND print it out. I basically do this once a year when I have to plot out my year in advance. My intention has been to run Parallels or some-such program to install Windows and run it off my Mac. Has anyone done that? I cannot believe that some software developer hasn't jumped on this project and filled the gaping hole left by Sidekick. Thanks for all of this info.
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