About
DDH Software is a software business providing productivity solutions for mobile smartphones and handheld computers. The company has been in business since 1997, and has achieved numerous industry awards and brand recognition for its HanDBase software, a relational database for phones and PDAs.
Despite the success achievements, we’ve still remained a small company. This is likely having more to do with never having taken any outside investments or spending money we didn’t have. Those are two factors that almost guarantee rapid change in a business makeup.
It’s because of this small nature of our business that we seek to share our thoughts on a more personal level about our industry and topics that interest us. We love our customers too much to just simply put on the “corporate face” and stoicism and deliver prose that people just put up with as part of doing business. So please take no offense to the more personal nature of this blog, its just our way of saying we love you like family!
For several years I have been relying on HanDBase to get me through the day. My database with passwords and access codes has 650 records, without which I could not function. So IMHO, DDH Software can do no wrong. Still, DDH Software could do better.
Moving over to an HTC Touch Pro a couple of months ago, and installing Spb’s Mobile Shell, I have almost been freed from stylus slavery. Two stumbling blocks in particular remain. One is Spb Time’s own interface. It’s practically impossible to access the alarm settings without the precision of the stylus. I’ve raised this with Spb and hope for the future.
With HanDBase, my prayer is for an easier touch interface for scrolling the entries in the database. The present slider is too thin, too short, and too frustrating to operate with a finger (or finger nail). Another possibility might be a T9-type find/search interface that would enable entering “XYZ” and zeroing in on the desired record. It works so well with my contacts, it must be possible with HanDBase records.
A last plea, raised directly to DDH Software a year or two ago, is to either replace the gawdawful icon, or at least provide users with an option to choose between this icon and its predecessor. The current icon offends my aesthetic sensitivities. If it were not such a valuable application, I would never allow the cross between a Silly Putty blob and a pidgeon dropping appear on my “Favorites” screen.
Hopefully you will still love me like family!