Written by Ken Quigley

January 01 2017

"Failing to plan is planning to fail" is a well know business montra, that has made Project Management such an essential part of any business operations. Sadly, most users can’t afford the time or training to tackle the learning curve involved, and products like MS Project, while great, are often inaccessible to most people based on cost and...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 22 2016

• CASL

Are you ready? CASL offenders risk criminal & civil charges, ... and penalties up to $10 million.In July of 2014, the Canadian government introduced the Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation, commonly known as CASL, which was far and away the most aggressive legislative move to combat spam in the world. CASL shifted the...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 14 2016

On December 13th Keystroke's Michael Kadlub, Victor Krahn, and James Young hosted our annual Act! Virtual Road Show featuring the soon-to-be released Act v19. During this 2-hour presentation, we also featured a demonstration of the features of our latest release of Handheld Contact, as well as ouir Act4 family of products.With only one...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 13 2016

On December 10th the team at Keystroke assembled in Toronto at the Marriot to celebrate the holidays, and we had over 70 people in attendance, with families included. The team from Montreal charted a bus that morning to drive here, and experienced some immediate turbulence as one fo the tires blew just outside the city limits. Thankfully a new bus...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 12 2016

• HHC
• IOS

At the November Act! Conference we announced a number of updates to Handheld Contact for Android, IOS, and Blackberry. We're pleased to say that the Android & Blackberry versions were released within a week of the conference, and the only bug found was fixed within 3-hours.The feedback for HHC 3.0 for Android & Blackberry has generally...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 30 2016

Keystroke is pleased to announce the release of Act4outlook, the Actcessory designed to enhance your Act!-Outlook integration needs, while breaking the shackles of the performance sucking Act!/Outlook Address Book.Finally you can disable the Address book integration between Act! & Outlook that can create such system overhead. Act4outlook...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 24 2016

Keystroke is pleased to announced that HHC 7.x for IOS has been released to our internal beta testers, and we expect to incorporate their feedback early next week, with a plan to submit it to Apple for approval early the following week. This new IOS release contains all the new features of the Android version of HHC 3.0 released earlier this...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 22 2016

Ya, we said it!It’s the Orange is the new... "BLACK FRIDAY" Sale, and it’s truly an Apeeling offer!From now until the end of November, we’re offering 10% off all new & upgrade purchases of Act! Pro & Act! Subscription. What’s more, both purchases entitle you to the next release of Act!, namely v19...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 13 2016

We are very excited to announce the biggest upgrade to Handheld Contact in years! Based on user demand, we’ve added many new features that will take your mobile Act! experience to a new level.  These new features are the first taste of many that we are planning, as we chart an ambitious roadmap over the weeks and months to come! 

Written by Ken Quigley

November 13 2016

Keystroke recommends that all hosting clients implement the best practices outlined below in order to ensure maximum security of their databases. These guidelines should be interpreted as "high level" security measures, and not an exhaustive list of all security tools available. Act! supports many different levels of security including login...