Circus Ponies Delivers More Organizing Magic With NoteBook 2.125 June 2006
Circus Ponies Software, Inc. todaydelivered NoteBook 2.1, a major upgrade of its revolutionary award-winninginformation managing software for Mac OS X. The release boasts impressivenew features, including the exclusive Starting Point system for gettingorganized in two steps; industry first support for the Cornell Note-Takingsystem, the most widely-used system for taking notes in North Americaneducation; enhanced action item management, including syncing to MicrosoftEntourage; advanced content integration and editing using LinkBacktechnology; groundbreaking one-step HTML export to FTP sites; andturbo-charged PDF generation that preserves intra-document and web links.
"NoteBook has become the must-have application for Mac users around theglobe, and with the 2.1 release it's even better," said Jayson Adams, vicepresident of technology at Circus Ponies. "With so many notes,e-mails, projects, papers, and everything else, Mac users have turned toNoteBook to keep it all organized."
NoteBook 2.1's exclusive new Starting Point system gets Mac users organizedin two easy steps. Starting Point includes pre-built templates for to-doorganizing; note taking; preparing for high school, college and homeschooling; managing a film or TV shoot; building an electronic trialnotebook; writing a book or novel; planning a trip; and more. Users choosefrom the list of Starting Point templates and begin adding theirinformation.
NoteBook's industry first support of the Cornell Note-Taking system helpsstudents get the most out of their notes. With distinct sections of thepage for recording notes, summarizing the content, and crafting reviewquestions, NoteBook 2.1 makes it easy to turn notes into a personalizedstudy guide, right in your own Notebook. Information on the CornellNote-Taking System is available atwww.clt.cornell.edu/campus/learn/LSC%20Resources/cornellsystem.pdf.
NoteBook 2.1's enhanced action item management now includes support forsyncing to-do items with Microsoft Entourage in addition to iCal. iCalusers can also specify whether they want to-do items to appear in iCal ascalendar appointments or as regular to-do items.
NoteBook 2.1 provides advanced content integration and editing through theinclusion of LinkBack technology. LinkBack is an open source frameworkthat allows compliant Mac applications to function cooperatively as adata-sharing community. Any LinkBack content pasted into a Notebook canlater be edited using the LinkBack-compliant source application, with allchanges appearing in NoteBook. More information on LinkBack technology isavailable at the LinkBack Project website (www.linkbackproject.org) andMacDevCenter.com (http://www.macdevcenter.com/lpt/a/5798).
NoteBook's original one-step HTML export to .Mac provided breakthroughintegration with Apple's .Mac service. NoteBook 2.1 offers even fasteruploads of web-based Notebooks to a user's .Mac account, allowing .Macusers to create sophisticated Notebook web sites with a single click. Andby popular demand, NoteBook 2.1 makes it as easy to export and upload HTMLNotebooks to any FTP site as it is for .Mac users to load their Notebooksinto their .Mac sites. NoteBook 2.1 also supports the SFTP (secure FTP)protocol for greater protection while uploading across the Internet.
NoteBook 2.1 leverages Apple's PDF Kit to turbo-charge PDF generation,preserving all of a Notebook's links when converting it to PDF. Forexample, clicking a page name in the PDF version of a Notebook's "table ofcontents" page turns to that page in the PDF viewer. NoteBook alsopreserves URLs and other web links in the generated PDF.
Pricing and Availability
NoteBook 2.1 is available immediately as a free update to all currentNoteBook customers, and for a suggested retail price of $49.95 (US) throughthe Circus Ponies Online Store (www.circusponies.com/store), The AppleStore® online, Apple's retail stores, and other NoteBook resellers.Discounted educational pricing for qualified academic customers isavailable through Academic Superstore (www.academicsuperstore.com) and theCircus Ponies Online Store. Family Pack pricing for three-user householdsis also available at The Circus Ponies Online Store for $99.95 (US).
System Requirements
NoteBook 2.1 is a Universal application, and requires Mac OS X v10.3Panther or later, minimum 256MB of RAM.
About NoteBook
Circus Ponies NoteBook is the revolutionary award-winning informationmanagement application that helps Mac OS X users get organized. With itseasy-to-understand notebook interface, super-flexible content handling, andpowerful searching and sharing capabilities, NoteBook has become the toolof choice for clipping e-mails and web pages; taking notes; managing to dolists and projects; writing papers, books, and novels; getting organizedfor school; building electronic trial notebooks; managing film and TVshoots; and more. Circus Ponies NoteBook is the must-have application forOS X users worldwide.
About Circus Ponies
Circus Ponies Software was co-founded in 2003 by Jayson Adams as an artisansoftware house to createbest-of-breed apps that surprise and delight users with their beauty andusefulness. To that end, the company produces software exclusively for MacOS X. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.
Circus Ponies, the Circus Ponies logo, NoteBook, and the NoteBook logos andicons are trademarks of Circus Ponies Software, Inc. Apple, the Apple logo,Mac, and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. All other brandnames mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respectiveowners.
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