[Clipmate-announce] ClipMate Newsletter - September 2004

[Chris Thornton]

Hello ClipMate Users,

Welcome to our September Newsletter, featuring news about an upcoming
ClipMate update, a security alert, good news for Mozilla/Firefox users, a
Special Offer, and as always, a ClipMate usage tip.

HTML Version - This newsletter is posted at our website in HTML
format at: http://www.thornsoft.com/newsletter/newsletter_sep04.htm
And as an RSS feed: http://www.thornsoft.com/rssnewsletter.xml

Contents
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 ClipMate 6.5 - Coming Soon! 
 Security Alert - mxtarget.dll 
 Mozilla/Firefox URLs 
 Special Offering - FeedDemon by Bradbury Software 
 ClipMate Tip - Backups
 Updating 
  
ClipMate 6.5 - Coming Soon!
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Scheduled for in Mid-October, ClipMate 6.5 adds Search & Replace to the
editor, including a "RegEx" option.  And have you ever wanted to
paste a clip as plain text without all of the formatting that often
accompanies data copied from web pages and word processors?  The
new "outbound clip filter" will allow you to easily paste any (non-
graphic) clip as plain text, without destroying the original HTML
and Rich Text formats.  The beta team has it now, and it'll be
available to you in a couple of weeks.

Security Alert!  "mxtarget.dll"
-------------------------------
We've gotten 5 different reports this month of ClipMate filling up
with "garbage" URLs pointing to master.mx-targeting.com.  The users
had already scanned with Ad-Aware and Spybot, to no avail.  This is
NOT a ClipMate problem or bug, and ClipMate will start acting normally
once you remove the offending adware DLL.  Here's a knowledgebase
article that will give you the latest info that we have:
http://www.thornsoft.com/hwp/question.php?qstId=98

Special Offering - FeedDemon by Bradbury Software
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If you were the king of the world, you wouldn't have to search the
web looking for interesting and relevant news articles - someone
would find them for you, present you with a list of headlines and
articles, and would fetch more info on the articles that you wanted
to learn more about.

With FeedDemon, it's like being king of the world.  It taps into
"RSS Feeds" on news sites, blogs, and forums to pull down the
headlines that you're interested in.  Then just click to view more,
in the browser pane.  Set up "watches" for keywords that you're
interested in.  

We invite you to Learn More About FeedDemon and give it a try!

SPECIAL OFFER for ClipMate Newsletter Subscribers: Save $5 on
FeedDemon (regular price: $29.95). To qualify for the discount,
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LEARN MORE: http://www.thornsoft.com/affiliate/fd/index.htm

Mozilla / Firefox - Source URL
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When you copy HTML from Microsoft's Internet Explorer, ClipMate
records the "source URL" of the original clip, so that you have a
record of where it came from, and you can easily re-visit the
original page.  ClipMate can't get the URL from
Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape because the URL isn't present in the data
on the clipboard. But that's about to change.  David Gardner, a
developer in Australia, is adding this capability to the Mozilla
project. It's not known when this code will make its way into the
released Mozilla "trunk", but it's definitely in the pipeline.
We've tested David's build, and it works well.  We'll keep you
updated with this newsletter.  To monitor yourself, here's the
Bugzilla ticket:  
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244685

ClipMate Tip - Backups
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Make sure that you allow the backup to run occasionally - check the
option in Config | User Preferences | Databases.

While ClipMate can make the backups automatically, it does NOT
delete the old ones.  Check your "my documents" directory (unless
you've directed the backups elsewhere), and you'll find backup
files with names like: ClipMate6_DB_My Clips_2004-09-27_2110.ZIP

That's the backup from September 27, 2004.  Each backup file is a
self-contained copy of the entire database, and it does not require
earlier backups to be present in order for you to restore. In other
words, they're not "incremental" or "delta" backups.  So you can
restore to any point in the backup history, with a single file.  You
can delete any that you decide you don't need.

Tip:  You may want to keep one backup from each month, quarter, or
year, for archival purposes.
 

UPDATING
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The current release is v6.3.08, released on July 23, 2004. If you are
running any other 6.x version, you can just download and run the
installer to update your existing copy. Your registration key, and
data, will remain. If you are running a registered copy of version 5 or
earlier, we invite you to download version 6 for a free, 30-day trial.
You can purchase an upgrade key for version 6 for only $19.95 with
this link: http://www.thornsoft.com/buynow.php?prod=CMU&ec=DIGIBUY

The current version of Darn! Passwords! is v3.1.03, release date 06/04/2004.

As always, please feel free to contact us with any questions - use either
sales at thornsoft.com or support at thornsoft.com (do not reply to this note).
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Sincerely,
Chris Thornton, President
Thornsoft Development, Inc.
P.O. Box 164, Spencerport NY, 14559  USA
http://www.thornsoft.com