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StickyNote
Version 4.50
StickyNote is a simple sticky note program for Windows 95, 98 and NT.
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.
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 closed if you execute the æClose
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.
Notes can be alarmed such that a sound plays at a given time.
Alarmed windows will pop up to the top of the windows stack, and will be
colored differently to draw your attention. Notes can also be given
expiration dates and times.
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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 adage, "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.
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
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General information
Title: StickyNote
Version: 4.50
Purpose: Simple free sticky notes program
Installation: See below
Status: Freeware
Limitations: None, use and distribute freely
Author: Christian Carrillo
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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, 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.