Freebyte update: April 03, 2003

Dear Freebyte newsletter subscriber,

We are very happy to provide you below an update of Freebyte's new features 
and additions, since our last newsletter (December, 2002).

Summary:

1.  New program: TreePad Lite for Linux 2.1, freeware
2.  Update: TreePad X Enterprise 7.0 (8 Gb, single-user)
3.  New program: TreePad X Enterprise 7.0 (256 Gb, single-user)
4.  Update: Custom Addressbook 4.0 beta
5.  Freebyte.com Web site updates
6.  New: high-quality freeware ICO and TPZ icon libraries, created by 
MieNet.net
7.  Update: iTreePad
8.  Update: TreePad Business Edition 6.3, TreePad SAFE 6.3 and TreePad PLUS 6.3
9.  Update: TreePad Viewer 6.2.6 for Windows
10.  New freeware eBooks made with TreePad
11.  New freeware TreePad Agendas and Calendars
12.  Comparative TreePad feature chart and price list
13.  Help-file authoring with TreePad
14.  **** Money-earning opportunity: Become a TreePad affiliate! ****

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Details:


(1) New program: TreePad Lite for Linux, version 2.1 (Freeware for personal
or corporate use)

Personal database, organizer and text editor for Linux, compatible with
TreePad Lite for Windows.
More information and download: http://www.treepad.com/linux/treepadlite/

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(2) Update: TreePad X Enterprise 7.0 (8 Gb, single-user), shareware for Windows
Multi-gigabyte TreePad, next generation Organizer.

New features in version 7.0 (compared to version 6.4.2):

* Added: one can now open multiple databases simultaneously (up to eight) 
and switch between them via a row of buttons on the left border of 
TreePad's main window
* Added: support for Windows XP skinning and themes
* Added: lay-out mode (menu/view/lay-out: continuous sheet, page sheets,
page-lines)
* Improved: new article tab bar below the article
* Improved: article search screen with options
* Improved: article search/replace screen with options
* Added: date toolbar button in edit toolbar, with drop down menu
* Altered: from 'menu/insert current date/time/date+time' to 
'menu/insert/current'
* Added: date can now also be inserted into the tree
* Added: options tool button
* Added: options shortcut shift+alt+O
* Updated:  hyperlink follow button icon and  hyperlink create button icon
* Moved: hyperlink follow button icon, now on the navigate toolbar
* Moved: hyperlink create button icon, now on the navigate toolbar, as well
* Improved: new icon for the marker button
* Moved: character map, now on the edit toolbar
* Improved: character map offers better support for symbol fonts
(Wingdings, etc.)
* Improved: move node using keyboard shortcuts (shift-down, shift-up,
shift-right, shift-left) now keeps the moved node in view, while scrolling
* Added: menu/file/reopen now offers a list of recent files
* Added: favorites, and favorites management logic. See menu/file/favorites
and the options screen
* Added: favorites tool button
* Added: history (list, back, forward, jump to item in the list)
* Added: system-wide shortcut to activate TreePad Enterprise when it is not
the active application
* Added: menu/edit/copy special/image as clone
* Added: menu/edit/paste special/image as clone
* Added: menu/edit/move/paragraph down
* Added: menu/edit/move/paragraph up
* Added: menu/edit/sort/ascending
* Added: menu/edit/sort/descending
* Added: menu/edit/paste special/node as hyperlink
* Added: menu/table/select entire table
* Added: menu/insert/date, with a calendar dialog, as well
* Added: menu/insert/character
* Added: menu/tree/copy node title
* Added: menu/tree/copy node as hyperlink
* Added: menu/tree/insert/node from selection -- creates a node and pastes 
selected block of text into the newly created article
* Added: menu/tree/insert/node from selection and cut -- creates a node and 
moves selected block of text into the newly created article
* Added: menu/tree/paste/node name/from clipboard
* Added: menu/tree/paste/node name/from article selection
* Added: menu/tree/delete/child nodes only
* Added: menu/tree/move/all siblings move right
* Added: menu/tree/move/child nodes move left
* Added: menu/tree/sort/reverse/one level
* Added: menu/tree/sort/reverse/all levels
* Added: search subtree
* Improved: Search and replace article screens have been combined
* Added: Search tree option: close dialog when finished
* Added: instant show/hide tree icons (options screen)
* Added: show/hide tree tool tips/hints (options screen)
* Added: various new categories in the options screen, menu/view/options

Please see http://www.treepad.com/treepadx/index_su.html for details.

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(3) New program: TreePad X Enterprise 7.0 (256 Gb, single-user), shareware
for Windows

This new program has the same features as the 8 Gigabyte version above, 
with the advantage that the maximum database size on Windows NT, 2000 and 
XP (NTFS) is considerably larger: 256 Gb.

Please see http://www.treepad.com/treepadx/index_su.html for details.


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(4) Update: Custom Addressbook 4.0 beta, shareware for Windows

* added: support for Windows XP skinning/themes
* added: handy toolbar with the most important functions (open, save, import,
export, add, delete, options, etc.)
* added: menu/file/open, and corresponding toolbar open button
* added: menu/file/reopen
* added: menu/file/save as
* added: menu/file/new
* improved: the search screen has been extended to include the following 
options:
       - search selected category only
       - search selected attribute/field only
       - case sensitive
       - search in start of field
       - show/hide options
* improved: export of items to XML, CSV, HTML or TXT is now in the same
order as shown in the user-interface
* bug fix: minimized window no longer remains visible
* bug fix: occasional access violation at startup solved
* improved: delete function -- when applied to items in 'search results' and
'all data', it now completely deletes selected items from database
* added: item properties screen, with information on item-data and
item-categories
* several other improvements
More information: http://www.freebyte.com/addressbook/#beta
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(5) The following pages on Freebyte.com have been updated:

- Freebyte anti-virus page. Added: various new free virus scanners, firewalls
and anti-virus scanner tests.
http://www.freebyte.com/antivirus/
- Freebyte CAD section. Added: new CAD software.
http://www.freebyte.com/cad
- Free Operating systems. Added: a large number of free operating systems and
related links.
http://www.freebyte.com/operatingsystems
- Free computers page. Added: several new organizations providing free
computers to non-profit organizations and disadvantaged individuals.
http://www.freebyte.com/free_computers .
- Free technical support. Added: new links to sites offering free technical
support.
http://www.freebyte.com/technical_support/
- Freebyte's free language tools. Added: free translation and spell check 
tools.
http://www.freebyte.com/language/
- Freebyte Web search page. Added: various search engines and directories.
http://www.freebyte.com/search_engines/

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(6) New high-quality free ICO and TPZ icon Libraries created by Mienet
(http://www.mienet.net).

Now available: 28 high-quality icon libraries, created by Mienet, for use
in TreePad PLUS, TreePad SAFE and TreePad Business Edition.
http://www.treepad.com/icons/

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(7) Update: iTreePad
iTreePad is a Perl script that enables you to publish TreePad files 
directly online, including a frame-based javascript tree navigation system 
-- all of it, without the need to resort to any file conversion . Freeware 
and shareware versions available.
* iTreePad now displays RTF nodes in basic HTML
* iTreePad now supports virtual nodes which mirror other nodes
* iTreePad can optionally display child nodes as links within each article

Please see http://www.treepad.com/utils/index.html#itreepad for details.

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(8) Update: TreePad Business Edition, TreePad SAFE and TreePad PLUS 6.3.
Shareware for Windows.

New features:

Icons
Added: menu/icons/apply icon to node
Added: menu/icons/apply icon to subtree
Added: icons tab in node properties screen, including
       - button for option 'apply icon of current node to subtree'
       - check box for option 'make icon default for subtree'
Added: menu/tree/copy/icon
Added: menu/tree/paste/icon
Added: menu/tree/paste/icon into subtree
Now also available in TreePad PLUS and TreePad SAFE:
       - menu/icons/open icon library
       - menu/icons/create new icon library
       - menu/icons/open default icon library


User-interface
Added: support for Windows XP themes/skinning
Added: a large number of menu items now display related icons (show/hide 
menu icons option available in the settings screen)
Added: buttons for spell check and thesaurus  (option unique to TreePad?
Business Edition)


Import/export
Added: import files into tree (menu/file/import/into tree) can now be
recursive and import the files in an entire tree structure from your disk 
(including files in all the subdirectories)
Improved: when exporting to Website, links to external sites are opened in 
a new
frame
Improved: when exporting to Website, (relative) hyperlinks to files are 
exported
to relative http hyperlinks
Added: option 'export checked nodes only', when exporting to Website 
(option unique to TreePad? Business Edition)
Added: export to Web site can now be canceled during export
Added: import files into tree (recursively) can likewise be canceled midway 
through
Added: export search results to TreePad file (option unique to TreePad?
Business Edition)


Format
Improved: the function menu/format/remove leading spaces
Improved: the function menu/format/remove spaces and returns
Added: Format painter button  (option unique to TreePad? Business Edition)


Copy/paste
Bug fix: pasting from Web pages which have images no longer causes an error


Fields
Added: field node path (menu/insert/field) -- option unique to TreePad?
Business Edition


Convert
Added: convert selected block to plain text (menu/format/convert/to plain
text)
Added: convert soft returns to hard returns (menu/format/convert/soft
returns to hard returns)  -- option unique to TreePad? Business Edition


Tree
Improved: tree numbering: now only descendent nodes are numbered -- i.e., 
child nodes with their children and so forth (menu/tree/number subtree)


View
Added: layout (menu/view/layout): the article can now be shown as one long 
sheet
(normal layout), as one sheet with page breaks (displayed as lines 
separators), or as a
sequence of page-sheets
Added: viewer mode (menu/view/mode) -- file becomes read-only while this 
mode is on
Improved: selected text in both article and draftpad now take gray hue, 
when article/draftpad is not in focus.
Improved: more pleasant-looking tab lay out below the article


Options
Added: show/hide menu icons (menu/view/options, category TreePad)
Improved: show/hide tree icons is now instant

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(9) TreePad Viewer  6.2.6, freeware for Windows

Now fully compatible with all features in the latest updates of TreePad 
PLUS, SAFE and Business Edition.
Added: support for fields, XML and forms.

http://www.treepad.com/ebooks/index.html#tpviewer

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(10) New freeware eBooks

* MieNet's Ode to Friendship musical-eBook
* A Voyage to Arcturus, by David Lindsay.
* Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells.

All are in TreePad format.
http://www.treepad.com/ebooks/

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(11) New 2003/2004 calendars/diaries. Freeware for TreePad PLUS, SAFE and
Business Edition.

http://www.treepad.com/agendas/

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(12) Comparative TreePad price list and feature chart

Comparative registration and upgrade price list for all TreePad versions,
http://www.treepad.com/pricelist
Comparative table of features of all TreePad versions,
http://www.treepad.com/featurechart

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(13) Help-file authoring with TreePad
How to create HTML-help files using any TreePad version.

http://www.treepad.com/helpfile_generator/

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(14) *** Money-earning opportunity: Become a TreePad affiliate! ***

Become a TreePad affiliate and earn up to 30% commissions!

Grateful to all TreePad users, who have been TreePad's best advertisers, we 
are now happy to offer you this excellent possibility of earning money.

Sign up is free and open to anyone interested.

More information on this cost-free opportunity to earn money is available 
at: http://www.treepad.com/affiliate/


Yours sincerely,

The Freebyte! team
http://www.freebyte.com

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