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• Some users experience problem with note Scroll Bar which appears on note after program is started, but before last Shutdown note didn't have Scroll Bar. Some old notes are incorrectly restored with Scroll Bar. If you have that problem which occurs only on Windows 2000/XP, please download this patch file, unzip it and then copy file to program installation directory. Overwrite old exe file.

Click here to download patch file !!!

• New cool controls are added in program so now all dialogs have new look.

• Splash Screen added at the program start.

• Screen resolution is checked now before note is shown. If note position is bigger than screen resolution note is shown in top left corner of the screen.

• "Show Splash Screen on Startup" and "Play Sound when note is received" items are added in General Settings dialog.

• "Save theme as ..." note menu item is added. So now you can save 20 custom themes. When you save your own theme, theme name will appear in note menu.

• Now you can save up to 20 group names which will appear in "Send To" note menu as items.

• "Make UPPERCASE" and "Make lowercase" note menu items are added in "Format" section. Now you can make uppercase or lowercase selected text in the note with this options.

• "Import note" and "Export note" items are added in note menu. You can export one or many notes into *.shx file. Also later you can import note from *.shx file. If more than one note is exported to *.shx file you get list of exported notes so you can select which note you want to import. When note is imported title and note text is replaced and theme is changed.

• "Export note(s)" and "Import note(s)" main menu items are added. Now you can export one or all notes from program to *.shx file and also you can import one or many notes in program from *.shx file.

• In Default Note Settings dialog new option is added. "Default note size" - "Width" and "Height", so now you can set default size for new notes. Size is in pixels and it must be smaller than screen resolution size.

• In note menu, section Themes new item and function is added "Organize Themes". In Organize themes dialog you can rename saved themes, you can delete it and also you can sort it in which order they will be visible in note menu.

• "Organize saved themes" button added in Default Note Settings dialog.

• Problem with "Show all notes" option in main program menu is fixed.

• Program now have "Settings" menu item added in taskbar icon right click menu. Settings dialog have three tabs "General Settings", "Default Note Settings" and "Network Settings". Now you can customize and change all program properties.

• "Save note as" feauture implemented. Supported file types are Text Documents (*.txt), Rich Text Format (*.rtf) and Word Document (*.doc).

• "Save note as picture file" feature added. Note can be saved now as picture file in Window Bitmap (*.bmp) or JPEG (*.jpg) format.

• "Open" file feature implemented. You can open (*.txt) and (*.rtf) text file formats in note.

• New note menu item and function added "Set Note Expiration". In note expiration dialog now you can set time when note will expire and will be deleted from desktop. Also expiration icon is showed in the note title.

• New note menu item and function added "Set Note Alarm". You can set note alarm at any time and also can set repeat interval (daily, weekly, monthly). When alarm time is reached program plays sound and note becomes visible at desktop promptly. Also note alarm icon in the note title becomes red.

• Send Note To options are improved with email sending. Now you can set email person as note recipient in Send To dialog. Note info and data will be sent in email message text. Also note picture is sent as email attachment.

• "Sent from" option is added in Send To dialog and "Default Sent From" value in Network Settings dialog. You can select between Computer name, IP address, email or anonymous sender. Sender name will be visible in received note title. If anonymous sender was selected received title will have same text and style like original one.

• "Check for email notes" main menu item added. New program thread is created for reading and searching for ShixxNOTE email notes in your INBOX. Program downloads new email messages from your default account if computer is online. And scan old and new messages in your INBOX for ShixxNOTE email notes. When program finds email note(s), received note(s) are shown promptly on your desktop. If note is created successfully, email message is deleted from your INBOX.

• In Send To dialog on Network Neighborhood and Recipients lists, on mouse right click menu is added. "Show IP Address" menu item is new feature. Now you can retrieve IP address of computers in both lists.

• "Randomly change themes for new note" option added in General Settings dialog. If chosen option is Yes every time you create new note, note will have randomly chosen theme.

• When you receive note program plays alarm sound. 

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