[Clipmate-announce] ClipMate December Newsletter

[Chris Thornton]

December 2006
Welcome to our December Newsletter, featuring news about the latest 
ClipMate 7 update, and a ClipMate usage tip.

HTML Version - This newsletter is posted at our website in HTML
format at: http://www.thornsoft.com/newsletter/newsletter_dec06.htm
And as an RSS feed: http://www.thornsoft.com/rssnewsletter.xml


Newsletter Contents:
 ClipMate 7.1 - Available Now! 
 License Expansion - Need to add more seats? 
 ClipMate - Holiday Special 
 Special Offer - Life Poster Maker - Save $5 on this great program.
 ClipMate Tip - Filter On Demand
 Alert - AOL / CA Antispyware STILL causing "This program has been damaged..." error.
 Translations - New German translation coming soon.
 Updating 

ClipMate 7.1 - Ready Now!
The latest release is version 7.1.06. ClipMate 7 users can download it
by running the update check, or from this link:
http://www.thornsoft.com/dist/ClipMate.exe

This is a free update for registered users of ClipMate 7.0 or 7.1. If
you are still running version 6, you can still take advantage of the
$19.95 single-user upgrade pricing by following this link:
http://www.thornsoft.com/ClipMate7_Upgrade_Offer.htm Version 5 users
can also get a price break when upgrading by following this link:
http://www.thornsoft.com/email4527.htm

License Expansion
While ClipMate's single-user license allows you to run the same
license on up to two computers, sometimes your needs grow. Our
"Household Pack" allows home users to run ClipMate on up to 5
computers. We also have multi-user discounts for workgroups and
businesses of any size. Sometimes the pricing gets tricky when you are
expanding or upgrading multi-user licenses, so send us an e-mail:
sales at thornsoft.com and Brenda can prepare a custom quote for
upgrading your license, taking into account what you've already
purchased.

CLIPMATE HOLIDAY SPECIAL
Back by popular demand is our "Give the Gift of ClipMate" this holiday
season! If you are a registered user of ClipMate, we invite you to
give a gift copy to a friend... at a very special price of $19.95
(that's $15 off)! You can add a CD for $9.95 (includes shipping). If
you don't need a CD (or don't have time because you waited too long),
we'll be sending out e-mail confirmations right up until Christmas Eve
for on-time email delivery! Our online ordering system can even let
you include a personal message with your gift, whether it's sent by
email or snail mail.

 * These offers are available only to registered users of ClipMate,
   and can be accessed only through the following link:
   http://www.digibuy.com/cgi-bin/order.html?clipmate+97550178139

 * Due to the custom nature of each gift order, our system can
   accommodate only one gift order from you at a time. So if you wish
   to order a gift for more than one person, you will need to place
   a separate order for each gift copy.

 * Postal deliveries during the holiday crunch can be a bit slow, so
   order by Dec 9 if you want your shipped package to arrive in time
   (please allow longer for overseas deliveries).

 * Please note that this offer is limited only to registered users of
   ClipMate, and will end on 12/24/2006. In the event that you would
   prefer to order by phone, we invite you to call us toll-free (USA) at
   877-254-7628 or 585-352-4223 from 9am - 6pm EST weekdays.

Special Offer - Life Poster Maker by Lincoln Beach Software
Are your digital photos just sitting around collecting digi-dust? It's
time to do something AMAZING with them. You can make posters of any
size in just minutes, showing up to 100 photos, and it already knows
how to print them online. Check out this page for a screenshot of our
"Denver Family Vacation" poster, and give it a try. We've negotiated a
$5.00 discount for ClipMate Newsletter subscribers. Details are here:
http://www.thornsoft.com/affiliate/lpm/index.htm

ClipMate Tip - Filter On Demand
Back in the June newsletter, we talked about the ability to use the
outbound clip filtering to place a text-only or bitmap-only version of
the clip onto the clipboard. It's time for an update! ClipMate 7.1
gives you the capability to filter the clipboard "on demand" by
pressing the Win+W (Windows logo key, usually next to the left CTRL or
ALT key, plus W). When you press Win+W, you'll hear the "whoosh"
sound, letting you know that the current clipboard contents have been
replaced by a plain-text (or plain-bitmap, if it's a graphic) version
of the clip. Now you can paste as "plain text", even if the target
program doesn't normally know how to do that.

This is very handy when you paste something and get unwanted tables
and formatting, such as when copying from a web page and pasting into
a word processor, for example. If you've ever had your fonts and
document style "hijacked" by pasting from a web page, you're going to
love this feature.

Tip-Within-A-Tip: You can use the "Windows" key in any of the
assignable global hotkeys. See Tools | Options | Hotkeys. Plus,
version 7.1 has several new hotkey functions, such as "Toggle
Auto-Capture" and "Manual Capture".

Alert - CA Antispyware causing "This program has been damaged..." error, now for AOL too!
Problems with CA Antispyware continue, and now AOL has adopted CA's
PestPatrol for inclusion into their "Safety and Security Center". This
can result in such errors as: "This program has been damaged..",
"error Unpacking Program Lp5", or "ERROR: 53 File not found:
ArmAccess.DLL".

The Antispyware is attaching itself to ClipMate, intercepting several
DLL functions that it uses to detect attempts to crack the program
(like a software pirate would). The vendor of the protection library
(Armadillo by Silicon Realms Toolworks) is trying to resolve this, but
the fix ultimately needs to come from CA. Here is an article with more
information:
http://www.thornsoft.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2820

Translations
Helmut Langen has resumed work on the German/Deutsch translation,
taking over from Dieter Hummel. We hope to have his updated
translation available before the end of the year.

We have two multi-language distributions, one for European (French,  Czech, Polish, Italian, Dutch, German, Russian, Turkish) and one for Asian languages (Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Korean).  They can be downloaded here:
http://www.thornsoft.com/dist/ClipMate_MultiAsian.exe
http://www.thornsoft.com/dist/ClipMate_MultiEurope.exe

You can find information on translations on our site:
http://www.thornsoft.com/lang.htm

UPDATING
The current ClipMate 7 release is 7.1.06.  If you are running a prior version of ClipMate7, you can update with
this link:  http://www.thornsoft.com/dist/ClipMate.exe
Just install over the top of your existing ClipMate 7 installation.
ClipMate 6 users: If you'd like to upgrade to version 7, the upgrade price is $19.95 for a single-user license. 
Write to sales at thornsoft.com for quotes on multi-user upgrades.
ClipMate 5 users wishing to upgrade to ClipMate 7 can get a price break when upgrading by following this link:
http://www.thornsoft.com/email4527.htm
The current version of Darn! Passwords! is v3.1.03. 

That's it for now!  As always, please feel free to contact us with any
questions.  
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Chris Thornton, President
Thornsoft Development, Inc.
P.O. Box 164, Spencerport NY, 14559  USA
(585) 352-4223
http://www.thornsoft.com

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