DeskNotes 1.0

What Is DeskNotes?
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DeskNotes is an application for quickly recording 
information you want to remember - without cluttering 
up your desk with scraps of paper. With it, you 
can create realistic looking notes right on your desktop.

It was designed to be as handy as reaching for a pad of 
paper, or a sticky note. With DeskNotes you’ll never run
out of paper!

Use it to quickly jot down ideas before they are lost. 
It’s Note Manager can be used to organize your notes into
notebooks for ease of retrieval. Search functions are 
provided for quickly locating information.

DeskNotes was also designed to be fun! Each DeskNote 
has over a 100 different properties that can be modified 
to change the appearance of a note. Sounds can be 
assigned to Note Events, to further customize DeskNotes.

DeskNotes even has a built in Note Server, so you can 
send and receive notes from other DeskNotes users. 

To help you get started, DeskNotes includes a starter kit 
of pre-defined note templates and a collection of over 
200 image files that make great looking note backgrounds.

DeskNotes runs on Windows 95, NT 3.51 and 4.0, or higher. 
With a P90 or better, it can display hundreds of notes at 
once with flicker free redraws. Try it. I’ll bet you never 
opened 200 windows at once.

I hope you enjoy this product, as it certainly could not 
have been created without it.


INSTALLATION
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Un-zip the file desknotes.zip, into a temporary directory,
then run "setup.exe". You can delete the files in the 
temporary directory after running setup.

DeskNotes DOES NOT install ANY files in any directory, other
that the one YOU tell it to. It DOES NOT replace any of your
system files, or otherwise add to the clutter in your Windows
directory.

We hope you don't decide to delete it, but if you must, you
can do this by selecting "Add/Remove Programs" from the
control panel. You could also just delete the installation
directory.


SHAREWARE REGISTRATION
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This is shareware, and must be licensed after 30 days.
The enclosed help file includes an order form and instructions
for registering your copy of DeskNotes. The file "license.txt"
contains the complete license agreement.

To register, send us a note telling us who you are, and how
you want to recieve your registration (e-mail or postal mail),
along with a check for $24.95, drawn on a US bank, payable to
Ted Mastrandonas, to:

	Ted Mastrandonas
	P.O. Box 1626
	Pelham, AL 35124


ARTWORK LICENSE
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Included with DeskNotes are over 200 bitmap files that you can
use as backgrounds for your DeskNotes.

If you have not registered DeskNotes, you can only use these
files in DeskNotes. You can drag and drop them onto notes, or 
use the Properties Paper Dialog to select one as a background
for a note.

Registered users will be provided with information needed to
make these files useable in any application. They are also
free to use them for Web pages or whatever, as long as they
are not publicly re-distributed or re-sold.

Most of the images are best viewed at color depths HIGHER than 256
colors. To change your color depth, right click on your desktop
and select Properties Settings. If your video card supports it,
select at least 16 bit (high color mode) color. This will improve
the appearance of all applications you run. Not just DeskNotes.

If you are registered, feel free to use them as a starting
point for your own custom backgrounds. If you make something
cool, send it to us at tmastran@mindspring.com, and we might
feature it on our Web page.


WHERE TO REACH US
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Our web site is http://www.mindspring.com/~tmastran
Send e-mail to tmastran@mindspring.com


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