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Jan 26, 2005

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.

Newsletter Contents:

• 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
• Mozilla/FireFox - still no fix from FireFox
• Updating

ClipMate 6.5 - Ready Now!

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Special Offering - Business Card Designer Plus by CAM Development Is your business card out of date?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! Act Soon!: Save 10% until Feb 1 Coupon: CLIPCAM  Download the free trial SPECIAL OFFER for ClipMate Newsletter Subscribers: Save 10%! DOWNLOAD OUR VERSION or click our BUY NOW button, and use coupon code:  CLIPCAM to save 10% if you buy before Feb 1.

ClipMate Tip - e-mailing screen captures

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

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

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

• 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. 
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Chris Thornton, President
Thornsoft Development, Inc.

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