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INFORMAL
SOFTWARE™ SHIPS ENOTATE™ SOFTWARE
New Software Free to Consumers As Special Introductory Promotion
Enotate Software to Revolutionize Desktop Computing Experience
By Turning the Palm Connected Organizer Into The Ideal "4th
Peripheral"
SANTA
CLARA, Calif. (4/24/00) – Informal Software, Inc.,
today announced that it is shipping enotate software, which is poised
to fundamentally change the way people communicate and share ideas
electronically by enabling handheld devices such as 3Com’s
Palm connected organizer to become the electronic equivalent of
pen and paper. enotate software allows individuals to, for the first
time, sketch ideas, create handwritten notes and electronically
annotate Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, digital photos
and more by turning the Palm connected organizer into the "4th
peripheral" to be used alongside the traditional mouse, keyboard
and display.Informal Software is offering enotate software free
of charge to consumers during the week of April 24, 2000, as a special
introductory promotion.
Beginning
May 1, 2000, enotate software will be available from the Informal
Software Web site (www.informal.com) for $49.99. enotate software
currently supports the Palm connected organizer, IBM WorkPad and
TRG Pro devices, Microsoft Word 97/2000, Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000
and digital images in common formats such as JPEG, BMP, TIFF and
PCX. Additional information on the company and product can be found
on the Web site. A comprehensive user guide accompanies the downloaded
software or can be downloaded separately.
"We’re
enthusiastic about introducing enotate into the market and providing
both consumers and business professionals with an innovative and
indispensable computing tool, " said Ian Cullimore, Informal
Software’s president and CEO. "We believe that enotate
will have a significant impact on how individuals work and communicate
information similar to the advent of the mouse. enotate will dramatically
change the entire PC computing experience by making it a much more
intuitive process."
A
NEW PEN AND PAPER PARADIGM
By turning the handheld device into the electronic equivalent of
pen and paper, Informal Software’s enotate software allows
PC users to communicate like never before in the most natural and
informal manner possible. enotate software has redefined the use
of the stylus-based device by taking it to another level, adding
new value to a tool already used on a daily basis. enotate software
enables the stylus-based Palm connected organizer to become the
ideal "4th peripheral" to the PC and brings the most natural
and intuitive communication process to the PC computing experience,
namely that of writing.Sketches and mark-ups created via the Palm
connected organizer are seen both on the Palm screen and the PC
monitor in real-time as they are produced on the stylus-based device.
This permits users to follow the natural flow of writing by avoiding
the challenging task of looking at the PC screen while writing on
the stylus-based device. With enotate software, a Palm connected
organizer and a personal computer users can employ natural handwriting
and sketching to express their informal ideas. enotate’s unique
design enables the initial creation of such original items as drawings,
maps, layouts, floor plans, diagrams and even doodles. This new
software offering also allows users to mark up, or annotate, existing
files such as Word documents, PowerPoint presentations and digital
photographs with informal comments, changes, circles and arrows,
and conventional editing marks in much the same way as they would
with pen and paper. Such notations can be written directly on top
of these documents and erased without alteration of the original
document.
ABOUT
INFORMAL SOFTWARE
Informal Software, Inc., founded in 1998, provides innovative software
solutions that enable a stylus-based device, such as 3Com’s
Palm connected organizer, to be used as a direct PC input/output
device alongside the traditional keyboard, mouse, and display. Unlike
pen tablets, drawing/sketching software packages or other pen-based
computing solutions, Informal Software’s unique "Informal
Interface" allows these stylus-based devices to interact naturally
with a personal computer in a manner analogous to the comfortable
"pen and paper" model. Informal Software’s enotate
allows PC-based electronic documents, sketches, and/or digital photos/drawings
to be "marked up" and/or annotated in real-time, directly
from a stylus-based device. In addition, enotate allows initial
concepts such as informal sketches, layouts, drawings, maps, etc.
to be expressed in a natural fashion on an electronic medium. With
enotate, users will for the first time, be able to naturally and
intuitively represent and communicate electronically the true "gist"
of information, messages, thoughts and statements using a digital
document or image.
Learn
more about the Santa Clara-based company and the Informal Software
product line by visiting www.informal.com.
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