Written by Brandon on Wednesday, May 16, 2007

PhatWare PhatNotes 5.0 Beta available


 

wOOt?!

Mountain View, CA, May 16, 2007 – PhatWare Corporation, a leading provider of software products and professional services for mobile and desktop computers, announces today the beta availability of PhatNotes 5.0, the next generation of the company’s award-winning notes organizer software for Microsoft Windows based desktop computers, Smartphones and Pocket PCs. PhatNotes 5.0 Beta is available immediately to consumers for Beta testing, and PhatWare welcomes user participation and feedback.

PhatNotes, a winner of Pocket PC and Smartphone magazine’s Best Software Awards in the notes category for six consecutive years, is one of the most popular Pocket PC and Smartphone notetaking applications on the market. PhatNotes allows users to create notes and organize them by type, subject, creation, and modification date. The software provides powerful text search with regular expression support, document security and email capabilities.

Unlike previous versions of PhatNotes, the new version will not include multiple editions of the software. Instead, there will be only one edition of PhatNotes that supports both Pocket PC and Smartphone devices and includes the desktop software and the synchronization module for ActiveSync.

To participate in the PhatNotes 5.0 Beta visit www.phatware.com/phatnotes/beta5 and follow the instructions. Looks like they don’t expect release until Aug-Sept.

 

Source: PhatWare Press Releases

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melvynadam
May 16, 2007

Thanks for sharing this. Can you add some details on what to be expected in the next version? i.e. why people might be interested in v5.0b.


Brandon Steili
May 16, 2007

Here ya go: (from the linked press release)

New Major Features in version 5

1. Windows Vista support
2. Windows Mobile 6.0 support
3. New database manager now supports multiple groups (folders), drag and drop
4. Context analyzer allows dialing phone numbers, opening URLs, and sending emails by clicking on a word that represents a phone number, a URL, or an email address.
5. Full Unicode support
6. New 256-bit strong encryption algorithm
7. New synchronization module supports Windows Vista and ActiveSync 4.5
8. Improved user interface
9. New MSI-based installer

Desktop specific

1. Seven UI themes
2. New database engine
3. New text formatting features
4. New UI for PhatNotes Alarms desktop utility
5. Programmable “magic button”
6. New multilingual spell checker (can use share dictionaries between desktop, Smartphone, and Pocket PC).
7. New Favorites window allows quick access to favorite notes
8. New Shortcut window allows to launch favorite application and open URLs/Files directly from PhatNotes
9. New Alarms window allows quick access to pending reminders

Smartphone specific

1. PhatSpell – Multilingual spell checker (US English dictionary is included, dictionaries for other supported languages can be downloaded here: http://www.phatware.com/install/phatspell)
2. Support for rich text formatting (WM5 or later)

Pocket PC specific

1. Added new buttons and 2nd toolbar for the Note Editor dialog
2. Added new text formatting features (WM5 or later)
3. The Options dialog box is now accessible for Note Editor

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