Welcome to NetPad - The Web Notepad for Thinking People!!!
Version 2.5 - June 25, 1998


Welcome to version 2.5!

NetPad is a handy notepad tool for Internet users, or anyone
who spends a lot of time in front of a computer.  NetPad has
the unique ability to mix your own notes and ideas with text
and links you get from the Web.  Use it to jot down notes and
ideas, keep track of your recipes, plan your next holiday, put
together the lyrics for your next album, collect data for your
research, or simply store your Web bookmarks.


-- What's New In This Release? --

Additions in Version 2.5:

- "New Ideas File", "Open Ideas File" and "Close Ideas File" menu items allow
you to create as many separate files as you like.
- The last file used is automatically opened each time you start up.
- The 4 most recently used files appear at the bottom of the File menu.
- You can now create a hot link to any application or file on your machine.
Just select a text item, click the right mouse button and select the
"Create File/Application Link" item.
- Clicking on a highlighted phone number calls the system dialer to dial
the number through your modem.  This can be disabled through the Options
command.
- MiniPad has the corresponding ability to switch ideas files with the
"Open Ideas File" menu item.
- MiniPad shows the current file when the cursor is paused along the top
of the MiniPad icon.
- MiniPad now has an option to disable the "always on top" positioning.
- Handle idea selection using keyboard shortcuts in the tree list
  (Home, End, PageUp, PageDown, Arrow Keys)
- Handle expanding/collapsing folders using Enter key
- Sundry bug fixes and error checking.

Additions in Version 2.4.1:

- Operation change: New Folder and New Idea now create the new item in the
currently selected folder, or in the same folder as the currently selected idea.
- Operation change: Switch cursors when over a link and show URL in status bar.
- Operation change: Added the characters "+&," to the list of things that match
in a URL.
- Operation change: Translate white text on a Web page into a shade of gray
so you can see it on the white background!
- Operation change: New icon!
- Bug fix:  Wasn't navigating to an external IE browser if the browser was
opened once then closed again.
- Bug fix:  Wasn't saving the Ideas file if the last operation was a delete
leaving the text editor empty.

Additions in Version 2.4:

- NetPad now allows you to create folders in the idea list
to help organize your ideas.
- Tools within NetPad lets you easily run MiniPad, and show/hide
the browser and ideas windows.
- Other minor changes to NetPad and MiniPad

Additions in Version 2.3:

- MiniPad is a tiny floating icon that allows you to drag and drop
text, (including formatting and links, when using IE 4.0) into a
NetPad file, whether NetPad itself is running or not!
- NetPad now supports hot linking to your email application just
by clicking on an email address in an idea.

Additions in Version 2.2:

- Copies all links and formatting information in text dragged and
dropped from Internet Explorer
- Stores the source URL for text dragged and dropped from IE
- Adds a new Properties command to the context menu (right click)
in the idea editor and a corresponding button on the button bar.
This menu gives you access to idea information and the source URLs.

Additions in Version 2.1:

- A new Options menu command under the View menu allows you to
set editing, default browser and auto-highlighting options
- Hyperlinks can be disabled
- Support for Netscape as the default external browser
- Added a Select All menu command to the text pop-up menu
- Reduced memory and processor usage
- Better internal error checking
- Several bugs fixed


-- Please Register --

We'd link to encourage you to register once you've tried out NetPad.
In addition to making your copy legal and helping to support development
of new versions of the package, registration unlocks the ability to
create your own idea links and prevents the program from expiring.
The NetPad License Agreement (see below) allows you to use the package
for 90 days for evaluation before paying the license fee, currently set
at US$19.95.

Various secure on-line, phone, fax and mail registration options are
available by visiting our web site at:

   http://www.flyingobjects.com/reg

Users in and around Australia can now take advantage of the registration
service from Shareware-Australia at:

   http://www.shareware-australia.com/flyingobjects/netpad.htm


-- Installing NetPad -- 

NetPad is very simple to install (and uninstall).  The installation
procedure depends upon whether you downloaded the zipped version
(NetPad.zip, or something similar) or the self-extracting version
(NetPadSE.exe, or similar).

  -->If you have NetPadSE.exe (or anything.exe): Just run the program.
  It will unpack the required files and start the main installer.

  -->If you have NetPad.zip (or anything.zip): Use a zip-compatible
  dearchiver to unpack the zip file into any convenient folder on your
  system.  We recommend creating a new folder for this purpose so that
  you can easily delete the installer files when you're done.  Once the
  files are unzipped, just run the Setup.exe application.

Regardless of which method you used to download NetPad, the rest of
the installation is the same.  Once the installation is complete,
you can delete all the files that you downloaded and/or unzipped.
They are no longer required.  The installer creates a file called
netpad_install_log.txt on your C: drive which lists the operations
it performed.  If you do not experience any problems, this file
can be safely deleted.

IN CASE OF INSTALLATION PROBLEMS - Please visit the NetPad Support
page on our Web site at: http://www.flyingobjects.com or send an
email to tech@flyingobjects.com.  Please attach a copy of the file
c:\netpad_install_log.txt that the installer generates when installing.


-- Documentation -- 

Documentation on using NetPad is online in the package under the NetPad
Help folder.  There is additional documentation available on our Web
site at: http://www.flyingobjects.com.


-- Contacting Us --

If you have any problems, questions, suggestions, comments or whatever,
we can be reached by email at flying@flyingobjects.com.  We'll talk
to anyone, but we're especially eager to please people who have registered
their copy!  If you are one of these fine souls, please note your access
code in any correspondence.


-- Uninstalling NetPad --

To uninstall NetPad, simply double-click on the Uninstaller file in
the NetPad folder.  This will remove all items installed by the
initial installation and any other files in the NetPad folder.

IMPORTANT!!!! If you want to keep any idea text created with NetPad
before uninstalling, make a text file outside the NetPad folder.
Everything in the NetPad folder will be deleted!!!

NOTE: For reasons we have not been able to determine yet, the NetPad
uninstaller will not always remove the NetPad folder after all files
have been deleted.  To complete uninstallation, just drag the NetPad
folder to the Recycle Bin.  All other items have been deleted.


-- About This Release --

Here are some things you should know about this release:

License:  NetPad is being distributed at this time as "shareware",
meaning you can use the package on your machine for a maximum of
90 days without paying the license fee.  Please read
the license agreement in more detail below.

Bugs and Bug Reporting: Please report and bugs or
suggestions by email to tech@flyingobjects.com.


-- NetPad License Agreement --

Flying Objects Software Inc. grants free license to anyone to copy and
distribute NetPad as long as:

- no charge is made to the receiver beyond the minimal cost of delivery.
(Distribution of NetPad with a large number of other shareware/freeware
packages on CD or other media will be considered to meet this condition.)
- this and all other documentation and notices provided with the package are
included without modification.
- no access code or registration information is included in the copy.

Flying Objects Software Inc. retains all ownership and rights except
as granted by this license.

Flying Objects Software Inc. grants to the end user a license to
use NetPad free of charge for 90 days from date of receipt for
evaluation purposes. After that time, the end user must either
uninstall the package or register their ownership and pay the
license fee of $19.95 (U.S. Funds, subject to change without notice).
Payment can be made by credit card on-line at http://www.flyingobjects.com.
In any event, this version of the software will expire 120 days after
installation unless registered.

Flying Objects Software Inc. offers no warranty whatsoever and
assumes no liability of any kind for any loss sustained as a
result of the use of this software.

The online program documentation included with NetPad is copyrighted
material owned by Flying Objects Software Inc.  All other text
included with the package was derived from public domain sources
in the Internet and is provided only as an example of the types
of information that can be stored. No other approval or claim of
ownership is expressed or implied.

The names NetPad and MiniPad are trademarks of Flying Objects Software Inc.
