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Customer Update - This eZine also online here March 7, 2007
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Dear Rose City Customer, Spring is just around the corner... Hooray! The crocuses are up, the trees have buds, and warm sunshiny are days just around the corner. Ah!!!!! And just in time for spring, we have a a previous offer back by popular demand. A special partner product to keep you smiling until the warm weather gets here... one we know you will really enjoy - JokeSleuth for just 10 bucks! And if you are sick of the slow and bloated Adobe Acrobat reader for PDF files, we also have a freeware PDF reader to tell you about. You are receiving our newsletter because you purchased a software title from Rose City Software, or you subscribed to our monthly newsletter. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you may unsubscribe using this link. You can also update your information by visiting this link. 
Our newsletter always contains lots of tricks and treats as well as other special information from our parent site, InfiniSource.com, a very popular Windows Resource Center & HelpWithWindows.com, including critical Windows update information, and useful Windows tips and tricks.
We hope you'll enjoy this edition of the newsletter and you are welcome to forward it to your friends who might also enjoy it. And be sure to watch our upcoming newsletters this spring and summer as we have in development new versions of many of our most popular titles including Registry First Aid for Windows Vista, DU Meter 4.0, LinkStash 2.0, and an updated Courier Email freeware, as well as two new utilities we are sure you will find very useful. CONTENTS: |
With each edition we will try to bring you a useful software offer... just as we did in previous months. Some are direct from Rose City and some are great toys and tools we have discovered elsewhere that we think you will like! We've all been using Adobe Acrobat reader for so long we tend to think of it as synonymous with PDF files. But we also know Adobe Acrobat takes a LONG time to open. And if you have had the misfortune to download the latest Adobe Reader 8, you may know it is more than 20 mb in size, occupies more than 115 mb of disk space in Windows XP and takes 15 minutes to complete installation. ALL this to read a simple PDF file? And it is still slow as molasses. Why? It also launches something called AdobeUpdater and which contacts their servers regularly. Our firewall brought this to our attention. Why should a freeware utility be contacting their server all the time... and without our permission and with no opportunity to turn it off? OK, if a utility performs a mission critical function like registry cleaning or internet connectivity monitoring, then you want to know if there's a new update available which may fix certain issues... but something to read PDF files? 
We got tired of being prompted and tired of Adobe Reader, in general. We found a new utility called Foxit Reader 2.0 for Windows.
The download is less than 2 mb, it installs in a flash and occupies less than 4 mb of disk space. And it opens PDF files in a flash also. It is completely free, no strings, no adware, and for most purposes it seems perfectly adequate to us. The first time you go to visit a PDF file online with it, it prompts you to Open or Run like any download file, instead of simply opening in the browser. But if you uncheck 'always ask me' before clicking open... the next time you click on a PDF link it will open straight away in your browser as you are used to. We completely uninstalled Adobe Reader and were glad to get rid of it. And remember, as we told you about in the March newsletter last year, if you want a simple freeware tool to create PDF files get PrimoPDF. It installs like a printer would and allows you to convert to PDF from any application by simply 'printing' to the PrimoPDF printer, and saving a PDF file to your hard drive which you can print, send by email or whatever you need to do. Simple to use and works great for us. |
Rose City Software Update Info
New releases and updates this year: (As shown on the Rose City 'what's new' page) TradeTrakker - 2/22 - v2.74 - Minor update to this award winning utility . This is free upgrade for all registered users. LinkStash - 12/27 - v1.7 - Minor update to this award winning utility now includes full IE7 and Windows Vista compatibility. This is free upgrade for all registered users. **Registry First Aid - Coming soon Registry First Aid 6.0 with Windows Vista compatibility New freeware listings - new freeware listings added regularly. Special Partner Offer - JokeSleuth Humor Database Software 
For our newsletter subscribers, we have put together a repeat special partner offer opportunity to get the entertaining software JokeSleuth on a special half price offer. This was one of the most popular offers ever published in the Rose City Software newsletter. So if you passed on it first time around, you might want to take a look now. JokeSleuth is a searchable personal database of great humor with some of the funniest jokes on the 'net. This month only, newsletter subscribers can buy JokeSleuth for the irresistible $9.95, that's just 1/3 the regular price of $29.95... and 50% off their own special introductory offer!
JokeSleuth is software you install on your computer giving you a permanent record of all the funny jokes you can stuff in there. No sickening advertisements bombarding you. No popup ads or other annoyances. And you can download it free to try it out! No adware or spyware, guaranteed!
The full version comes loaded with 1000+ funny jokes so you can spend hours just reading through the many different categories and laugh, laugh, laugh. You will have the option to install only G rated jokes or to install both G and R-rated ('off-color') material, which you can then protect with a password if you like. You can also add your own jokes, edit existing ones, sort them according category, rating (G or R)... even sort according to comments or your own personal rating system. JokeSleuth can provide you with the perfect joke for any situation. Read more about this entertaining and highly useful software at the JokeSleuth website (www.jokesleuth.com) or download a free trial right from here: 
Special Offer for Rose City Customers only:
Now get JokeSleuth for a limited time for just $9.95 Less than 1c per joke! 
To take advantage of this special offer you can click on this special purchase link.
 
NOTE: this link is not published anywhere else except this newsletter!
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Windows® Update Information
You can always check your system for the latest updates from Microsoft® at
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
You will always hear about them first at our site at InfiniSource.com or HelpWithWindows.com (formerly Windows-Help.NET) There were several important Windows updates in December - here's one: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-016 (928090) Date last published: 02/13/2007 Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer (928090) | ||||||
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Windows Tips and Tricks
You'll find hundreds of useful tips and tricks for every version of Windows at our own www.HelpWithWindows.com (formerly Windows-Help.NET). Because we operate a Windows help site and help forums and we sell software to enhance the Windows platform, we are in a prime position to hear about many of the problems reported by average Windows users out there around the world. Many people are looking to improve the reliability, speed and effectiveness of their Windows machines... and that's where we can help. Windows Vista was released to the public with great fanfare the end of January, as you may have heard. Here's an article you might find useful if you are considering upgrading to Windows Vista. 
Upgrading To Windows Vista
First you need to know that if you plan to upgrade from within a current running version of Windows (Microsoft calls this an 'in place' upgrade), this might not always be possible, depending on which current Windows version you are running, and to which Windows Vista version you want to upgrade. What's changed from Windows XP in Vista? See the article here on the Microsoft website for a summary of the important changes you'll want to know about. | ||||||
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Well, we could go on and on here... But why not stop by our website where you'll find links to all this and a whole lot more, absolutely free, from www.InfiniSource.com, "The Internet's Premier Resource Center."
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