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- IP Watcher Version 1.83 - Created by Lowspirit !FREEWARE!
- Windows95/98 Low Dimension International
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- Check for updates/info at : http://welcome.to/lowdimension
- Contact the author to report bugs etc, at : lowspirit@home.bip.net
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- Contents :
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- Disclaimer................0
- Introduction..............1
- Current Version Features..2
- Known bugs................2.5
- Help & Technical Support..3
- Tips'n'Tricks.............4
- Credits...................5
- Freeware notice...........6
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- 0 - Disclaimer - IMPORTANT, READ THIS BEFORE THIS SOFTWARE.
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- This software and any support from Andreas Wasserman (Lowspirit) are provided
- "as is" and without warranty, express or implied. Andreas Wasserman (Lowspirit)
- specifically disclaim any implied warranties of merchantability and fitness
- for a particular purpose. In no event will Andreas Wasserman (Lowspirit) be
- liable for any damages, including but not limited to any lost profits, lost
- savings or any incidental or consequential damages, whether resulting from
- impaired or lost data, software or computer failure or any other cause, or
- for any other claim by the user or for any third party claim.
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- 1 - Introduction:
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- Thanks for choosing IP Watcher, the compact and graphically good
- looking tool to view current IP/hostname, since this only is the first
- versions of many it doesn't really contain much features in order
- to be as small as possible, but it will most certainly grow and become
- a mighty usefull tool for everyone needing to know their IP/hostname
- quickly, or for those that are part of a network. Your feedback can help
- me make this program one of the best of it's kind.
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- 2 - Current version Features/functions (ver 1.82)
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- * View current IP
- * View current Hostname
- * Change refresh rate
- * Snap to screen edge (like Winamp)
- * Nice looking graphics to make it less
- disturbing on the desktop
- * You can now change font on hostname/IP.
- * The minimize/close buttons change
- visually when you click on them.
- * Only one instance of IP allowed to run.
- * Chosen settings are saved to an .ini file.
- * Indication on the display if certain functions
- are activated.
- * Indication if application is active/inactive.
- * A windowshade mode.
- * A System (IP Changelog) that logs your IP
- every time it changes.
- * Much much more...
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- (Have a look in the version.txt for full feature list)
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- 2.5 - Known bugs (or just something that bugs me).
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- (See the Versions.txt file for the bug list)
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- 3 - Help & Technical Support
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- If you get stuck in the program, feel free to mail lowspirit@mail.bip.net
- , that is after you have read the Quick Tutorial below.
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- Quick Tutorial :
- To start the program, run the IpWatch.exe, it automatically finds out
- what your current ip/hostname is and shows it on the display.
- To see what version you have, click in the left corner of the program
- where a little grey dot thingy is, this brings up a system menu, choose
- "About" and voila. To minimize you can click the down arrow in the right
- corner or left click in the left corner and choose "Minimize" in the popup.
- To close the program you can click on the X in the right corner or
- simply click in the left corner and choose "Exit" in the popup menu.
- To move the application around, you hold down the left mouse button
- over the application (not the text in the display though), and move
- your mouse.
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- 4 - Tips'n'Tricks
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- Tip.1 : Hold the mouse pointer over things to get a helpful hint.
- Tip.2 : You can double click anywhere but in the display to make the
- application go into windowshade mode (compact).
- Tip.3 : If you get any trouble with the font within the label that scrolls
- you can delete the file "ipwatch.ini" in your windows directory,
- and restart IP Watcher with all of it's default settings.
- Tip.4 : If you don't need to have the hostname/ip updated every second or
- minute, turn it off, that way you decrease the amount of flicker
- in the display of IPW.
- Tip.5 : You can easily move the application by holding down the mouse
- button anywhere on the application (except the display) and
- move it.
- Tip.6 : You can right click on the Hostname/IP in the display to gain
- access to their options menu.
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- 5 - Credits
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- Graphics/code by Lowspirit (me!)
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- Special thanks goes to :
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- _tonyb : For helping me with the snap to screen edge function.
- Markus : Beta tester.
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- And all the nice people on various #delphi channels on iRC, thanks!
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- 6 - Freeware notice
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- IP Watcher is being distributed as Freeware.
- It may be freely used, copied and distributed as long as it is not sold,
- and all original files are included, By using this software, you agree
- to these terms and the terms of the Disclaimer in the beginning of this
- file.
-
- all I really want is feedback to know how I can make this software better,
- if you have any suggestions, or complaints for that matter, please mail them
- to lowspirit@mail.bip.net If you wish to provide this software on your site,
- or distribute it as part of either an electronic or solid-state (e.g. CD, DVD)
- stored collection you must request permission by e-mail beforehand.
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- This document best viewed in notepad with wordwrap off
- Copyright 1998 by Lowspirit. All Rights Reserved.
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- EOF