Brief Hands-On Report--Freeware Calillona 2.0b1, An Amazon.com Catalog Browser

Calillona 2.0 Beta 1 from Trufsoft is a desktop application for Mac OS 10.3 that allows one to browse Amazon.com's catalogs. Version 1.x used to be a channel for Apple Sherlock. With version 2.0 Trufsoft is going further and Calillona is now a full desktop application. Calillona lets you browse Amazon's catalog in a different way. The experience, Trufsoft believes, is closer to the one you have while using the Apple iTunes Music Store. You can browse Amazon's catalog in different categories, like Books, DVD, Software, Camera, Computers, and more. Calillona 2.0 provides a new user experience for shopping online. With this version Trufsoft is supporting the following catalogs: Amazon USA, Amazon United Kingdom, Amazon Germany. Calillona is freeware.

We downloaded, installed and tried out Calillona on Amazon.com USA. It works well and has a very nice GUI--definitely cool Mac software if you buy from Amazon.com. It has a search box and one can sort the catalog entries by Featured Item, Best Selling, Customer Review, Price (up or down) and Alphabet (A to Z or Z to A). Calillona seemed very fast to us. Trufsoft told us that, "We will have a new version coming in the near future. We will be adding a few more categories for each catalog and we will add support for Amazon Japan too." [Bill Fox]