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- StickyNote
- Version 2.00
-
-
- StickyNote is a simple sticky note program for Windows 95. It can
- be used to create colored notes for storage on your desktop.
-
- The setup program for StickyNote will install it in your StartUp
- Start Menu folder. Each time you start Windows, the StickyNote icon
- will appear in the system tray. Double-clicking this icon will create
- a new sticky, with the default font, font color and window color attributes.
- You can change these default values by selecting the desired options on the
- icon's context menu, which will appear when you right-click the StickyNote
- icon.
-
- Also available on this menu are a 'Kill stickies' and an
- 'Information' command. Kill stickies will close all the stickies on
- your desktop. They cannot be recovered. Information creates a small
- dialog box which houses information about the current settings of StickyNote,
- including the number of stickies currently open, the default font, font color
- and note color.
-
- You can temporarily hide sticky notes, and display them later using
- the Show command from the system tray context menu. Hidden stickies are
- still maintained by the program, and killed if you execute the æKill
- stickiesÆ command. To hide a sticky, choose the æHideÆ command from the
- stickyÆs context menu.
-
- You can close StickyNote by choosing the Exit item from its system
- tray context menu. When you exit StickyNote, your settings will be saved
- and the next time you start the program, they will remain as they were
- set previously. If you exit Windows and StickyNote is still running,
- your settings will be similarly saved.
-
- Each note has a caption bar, which is drawn slightly darker than
- the text window. You can click and drag it to move a sticky around. It
- also has a context menu which appears when you right-click it; using this
- menu you can change the color of the sticky, the font and the font color.
- Changes you make using this menu only affect the current sticky.
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- Author's note:
-
- I decided I wanted a sticky-note-like program for Windows, and I
- certainly found a number of very impressive ones on the Web, but all were
- either commercial or shareware. I didn't feel like spending money, so
- I wrote my own. Consequently, I certainly won't charge money for this
- program as the spirit under which it was created dictates that one of its
- main features should be its free availability.
-
- I always wonder about programs of this sort. What motivation
- (other than sinister) could an author have for distributing a program
- without reimbursement for his time and effort? Some street mechanism
- in me tends to reinforce the addage, "you get what you pay for." But this
- program defies that, in a very GNU-esque manner. The Internet should be
- a system by which you can obtain information which will benefit you and
- increase the productivity of your computing experience. When commerce and
- money get tied up, the Internet turns into a carrot-and-stick mechanism,
- where you have to wait minutes downloading a program, invest hard-drive
- space in it, spend time playing with it only to be rudely jerked from
- functionality after 21 days. This works against that system. I'm sure
- there are better notes programs around for certain things- in fact, I've
- seen a couple. I'm sure there are some very intricate codes for doing
- many things beyond what I offer in this little incarnation. But I offer
- something which none of the rest offers: freedom, the GNU ideal. Thus,
- it can be said that, perhaps, my program's main feature is its free nature,
- and further my honest intention in creating it as such was simply to make
- it better than previous programs through its freedom, to make it different.
- This program will run forever, without asking for money or displaying dialog
- boxes of the annoying genre, and will not affect your system in any
- malicious way. You are basically assured of this anyway; you probably
- copied it from some large site which tests it forwards and backwards before
- making it available to you. But for that last little inkling of guilt for
- getting something free, I say forget it. Hug your kids if it makes you feel
- better, and that will be the repayment to the good of humanity, far beyond
- what you offer anyone through money.
-
- If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail me at
- ccarrill@fas.harvard.edu. I try to get back to everyone who writes, and
- although I guard my language here so that no-one will feel bad if I don't,
- I've never missed an e-mail. So be assured that, if you write, you will
- probably get a response. I am certainly willing and able to make changes
- to the program you are interested in as well. Anything that suits your
- fancy; just drop me a line.
-
- Thank you for trying my little program. I hope it works well for
- you and gives you some enjoyment. Happy computing and good health.
-
- -Christian Carrillo
- ccarrill@fas.harvard.edu
-
-
- Also, I'd like to give a special thanks to Ron and Kevin Jou for
- their great help in designing this program. Without them, it would not
- have had nearly half the features it does.
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- General information
-
- Title: StickyNote
- Version: 2.00
- Purpose: Simple free sticky notes program
- Installation: See below
- Status: Freeware
- Limitations: None, use and distribute freely
- Author: Christian Carrillo
- E-mail: ccarrill@fas.harvard.edu
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- Installation procedure
-
- To install StickyNote, extract all the files in the distribution ZIP
- file to a temporary directory. You will see a Setup.exe file, which you
- should run. Be sure that, if you have a previous version of StickyNote
- running on your computer, that you exit it before you run Setup. Setup
- will guide you through the process of installing the program, asking you
- where you want to install it, putting its icon on the Start menu for you.
- After completing the Setup procedure, StickyNote will be installed.
-