Sept 29, 2004

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.

Newsletter Contents:

• 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!
Scheduled for shipping 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

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Mozilla / Firefox - Source URL
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

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 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
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.

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

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Chris Thornton, President
Thornsoft Development, Inc.

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