[Clipmate-announce] ClipMate January Newsletter

[Chris Thornton]

Hello ClipMate Users,

Welcome to our January Newsletter, featuring news about the latest
ClipMate update, good news for Russian and Turkish 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_jan05.htm
And as an RSS feed: http://www.thornsoft.com/rssnewsletter.xml

Contents:
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ClipMate 6.5 - Available Now! 
Special Offering - Business Card Designer Plus by CAM Development 
ClipMate Tip - e-mail screen captures 
Translations - Russian and Turkish Translations
News for Mozilla / Firefox users
Updating 

ClipMate 6.5 - Ready Now!
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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. It also has a new
"URL Crunch" feature, which will re-wrap a badly wrapped URL. NOTE:
Registered users of earlier ClipMate 6 releases can just download the
trial version, and install over their existing 6.x version. It will
update itself, upgrade the database, and recognize your existing
registration key. NOTE: The latest release is v6.5.10.544, released on
January 26, 2005.

Special Offering - Business Card Designer Plus by CAM Development
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Is your business card out of date? It's never been easier to make your
own than with Business Card Designer 8 from CAM Development. It's
easy, inexpensive, and the software is truly a pleasure to use. We use
it here at Thornsoft, and we love it! Whether you're making cards
for just yourself, your business, or your whole department, you'll
appreciate what this great software can do. We invite you to learn
more about it and give it a try!
BUY NOW  (Use coupon CLIPCAM to save 10% before Feb 1): 
http://store.esellerate.net/a.asp?c=0_SKU1894304148_AFL2201645750 
LEARN MORE OR TRY FREE: 
http://www.thornsoft.com/affiliate/cam

ClipMate Tip - e-mailing screen captures
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You probably already know that ClipMate will capture the screen when
you press the PrintScreen key (whole desktop) or Alt+PrintScreen key
(current window). But you can also export them for easy sending via
e-mail. Many of you resort to pasting graphics into a program like
Word, saving as a file, and then sending that. But it's much easier to
just export the files directly from ClipMate. ClipMate can export
graphic files directly to JPEG files, by using File | Export Clips.
Just select the clip(s) that you want to send, then File | Export.
Select the option to save Bitmap files as JPEG, and also the option to
"open export folder when finished". Click OK, and you should now be
looking at the disk folder, containing your exported files. Now you
can drag those into most e-mail programs, and the ones that don't
support drag 'n' drop, can usually attach a file via a menu - just
attach the file from the export directory. Now you can send those
files as JPEG, without having to worry about the extra file bloat from
Word documents, etc. Another tip: don't bother trying to save space
by ZIP-ing jpeg files. They're already compressed, and are fine to
send as-is.
For more information in exporting, and screen capture, read these topics:
  http://www.thornsoft.com/HTML_help/index.htm?how_screencapture.htm 
  http://www.thornsoft.com/HTML_help/index.htm?how_emailscreen.htm 

Translations
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Translations for Russian and Turkish are ready, Chinese (Traditional
and Simplified) and German are a few weeks away, and work has begun on
French, Portuguese, Slovak, and Chinese. Visit this page to download
translations: http://www.thornsoft.com/lang/index.htm

Mozilla / Firefox - Source URL
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Are you a Firefox user? You will notice that ClipMate doesn't pick up
the "source url" from Firefox. This is a shortcoming in Firefox, and
there is a bug, and even a FIX for it. However, it's not in the
shipping Firefox product. Monitor progress on this FireFox/Mozilla
feature here:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244685

UPDATING
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The current release is v6.5.10 (that last part is a TEN, which follows
09), released on Jan 25, 2005. If you are running a registered copy
of any other 6.x version, you can just download and run the FREE
UPDATE, which will 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
But remember, it's a FREE UPDATE for registered version 6.x users. 
The current version of Darn! Passwords! is v3.1.03, release date 06/04/2004.

That's it for now! As always, please feel free to contact us with any
questions. If you would like to unsubscribe from this list, just let
us know.


Sincerely,
Chris Thornton, President
Thornsoft Development, Inc.
P.O. Box 164, Spencerport NY, 14559  USA
http://www.thornsoft.com

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