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Ijamsville, MD –May 3, 2005 – KnowItAll® receives The National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) “Organizers’ Choice Award” for “Best Technology Product” at the 20th Anniversary Conference and Organizing Exposition 2005 in San Diego, CA! NAPO attendees immediately saw how simple and easy KnowItAll® is to use and were completely amazed! “I can’t believe this…This is so easy it’s absolutely amazing!” said Kim R. Pastor, Organizing Consultant, Speaker, and owner of B Organized, Inc. www.borganizedbykim.com . “So many of my clients would love this; it’s perfect and it just makes sense!” said Jill Rothstein, owner of Organize for Success…and the kudos went on!

A few of the perceived competitors of KnowItAll® were Paper Tiger, Paper Highway, Scanalog, and Microsoft Outlook. Although these products have some similarities to KnowItAll®, none of them offer the complete and unique features for the low price that KnowItAll® does. It’s a great value and can save an unbelievable amount of time and money!

Additionally, KnowItAll® is being successfully used in over 30 distinct markets such as information technology; Booz Allen Hamilton, car dealerships; Fitzgerald Auto Mall, and banking and finance institutions; Fidelity & Trust Bank…just to name a few. KnowItAll® continues to get rave reviews from all over the world!

For more information, please contact Sheila Kohlhepp at (301) 874-3611 X3280 or visit the KnowItAll® website at www.KnowItAll.biz to download a FREE limited trial version.

Local software developer awaits approval of patent

By MICHELLE COOK, Messenger staff

As an employee, how much would it be worth to you to have a vast volume of company information readily available by simply typing a word or two? As an employer, how much would you save by not being interrupted several times daily by employees asking questions? Local software developer Dave Tucker has developed just such a program called KnowItAll he feels will revolutionize the business and private world of information.

The basic concept of KnowItAll is simple. The owner of the program can add items of information to the system and create a keyword linking to particular pieces of information. Typing a keyword will bring up all the information on the system related to that word. If the information is too vast, the employee can narrow the search.

Here is an example. I am a new employee. On my first day, I need help with the phone system and I need to get all my paperwork into Human Resources. With the KnowItAll software and without bothering anyone else in the office I can type “phone” and get all the information I need. When I am finished, I can type “HR paperwork” and work right through my to-do list. I have worked my entire first day without bothering anyone.

This is not just for new employees. KnowItAll will continue to provide a paperless information pipeline for the existing employees based on the level of “rights” given to each employee by the “owner”. For example, KnowItAll can be set up to deliver sales updates to the sales staff or marketing information to the marketing staff with minimal time delay.

You can even use KnowItAll to create a binder of information for a presentation with minimal keystrokes.

This software is not just for the office; this product can even organize you at home. Let’s say you have a big, multi-documented home project. Our project will be a new garage on our house. I can put everything associated with this project in the KnowItAll system. Since the program can accept all types of media, I am able to scan in the proposals and blueprints, download the digital pictures and track the expenses in an Excel spreadsheet and create a list of contacts. Now if I have a question on where the electrical wires run, I type “garage pictures” and I can see where the wires are located on the finish project. Best of all, the paper associated with this project is not taking up space in my home.

David Tucker is the CEO and president of Sensible Software Inc., KnowItAll, LLC, and CLIP. The Nationwide Registry’s Who’s Who of Executives and Businesses lists him as an honored professional. Since 1987, he has been in the information technology and software development business.

Tucker developed KnowItAll in 2003 and released it to the market in June 2004. It is already a hit for several big businesses. Tucker said, “KnowItAll makes sure the right people know the right stuff at the right time”. Booz Allen Hamilton has been very happy with the program and are ordering several more copies for their business. Gary Huss, manager of Fitzgerald Auto Mall said, “Time is my most valuable commodity and KnowItAll is freeing up more of it.”

KnowItAll was such a huge success for Sensible Software, Inc. it became its own company KnowItAll, LLC. In May 2004 the United States Trademark and Patent Office issued patent pending status to KnowItAll. The official patent process began in February 2005 and Tucker expects to be approved by August 2005.

In October 2004, the program also received the “Proven Competency” award from Microsoft. According to their website, “this award is given to software companies that meet high standards and submit their software for independent testing”.

KnowItAll can be purchased for home or office use. The product is very affordable and all versions of the product are available on the Website.

KnowItAll is located in Ijamsville. For more information, call Sheila Kohlhepp at 800-635-8485 x3280 or e-mail Sheila.Kohlhepp@knowitall.biz.  You can visit the Website at www.KnowItAll.biz .

KnowItAll helps educate new employees!

By Ed Waters, Jr.
Frederick News-Post Staff
Staff photo by Ed Waters, Jr.

IJAMSVILLE — Sometimes one\'s future career turns out to be something you never thought of.

For Dave Tucker, his life began in Mexico where his parents were missionaries. He later returned there as a missionary himself, but found that career just wasn't for him. He had experience in the computer field and eventually founded www.Clip.com, which sells and maintains software he designed for lawn maintenance firms. "My brother-in-law owned a lawn maintenance firm in the area," he said from his office at 9639 Doctor Perry Road.

Since 1988, www.Clip.com grew from 300 to about 8,000 users in the "green industry," as Mr. Tucker calls it.

He said his software is designed to help businesses operate -- even when the executives aren't there.

Working with the "green" industry, he said landscapers and lawn care professionals now use cell phones, global positioning systems and even bar codes on signs on properties so they know exactly what maintenance to do. One of the recurring problems in his own office was that new employees were constantly interrupting him with questions, often about mundane things where the answer should have been easily found.

So he designed, and patented, KnowItAll.

The new software helps not only a business, but works well for a personal computer, as the user can put in information and set up a key word or words that can retrieve the information quickly.

Mr. Tucker demonstrated by showing how his employees ordered pizza. When the regular "pizza guy" was off and another employee was asked to order the food, everything went wrong. Mr. Tucker put into the office network the information on where pizza is normally ordered, the time for delivery or pick-up and employees even added their preferences on toppings.

Another example was for his bicycle. The shop where he purchased it offered some free maintenance, but required the purchase slip. "I knew if I took it home it could end up anywhere," he said. So he scanned the receipt into his KnowItAll system and uses key words like "bike" to retrieve the image and have it available for the shop. "It is a knowledge-based product, and instead of having to go through a lot of information to find what you really want, you simply use a key word and there it is," he said.

By installing the system, customers can find information faster and there is less need for technical help. "My tech support team went from five to two people, and the response time from 1 1 /2 hours to 12 minutes," he said. It helps new employees to get oriented sooner. "There is no time wasted in telling them how to find something, they just use key words and the information is there."

The software currently costs $99 for single/home use, $399 for small business use, $1,800 for enterprise use. For more information, visit at www.KnowItAll.biz  or call Sheila Kohlhepp, VP Business Development, at 800-635-8485, extension 3280.

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