Desktop Author sets out with an ambitious promise - to provide you with everything you need to publish your own eBook. Whether you want to create multimedia presentations, newsletters, photo albums or marketing infromation, the program aims to oblige.

The published output is designed to be as true to a real book as possible, allowing the reader to flip the pages realistically by clicking on the right side of the page to move forward, and the left side to move back. Besides text, you can adorn the pages of your virtual tome with images, MPEGs and even Flash movies.

There are many slick looking magazines and books appearing on the web these days that are beginning to seriously compete with traditional print publications in terms of reader experience. Judging by some of the example files on the publisher's site, there's certainly a lot you can achieve with Desktop Author, considering you need no special knowledge or programming skills, as used by many of the Flash-built flip-page publications online today.

The GUI is loosely modelled on a traditional desktop publishing app, and although it lacks the range of tools of a heavyweight like InDesign or Quark, Desktop Author contains the standard features you'd expect in such an app, including snap-to guides, image insertion, text formatting and shape drawing.

Considering the program is supposed to be aimed at beginners, the interface is a little cumbersome to navigate at first. Of course, you get used to it, but perhaps the program would have benefited from a Properties Inspector displaying the information about the currently-selected item, allowing you to move, edit, resize, apply styles or just view data on the file in question.

Having said this, there are a few useful tools that speed up the eBook creation process, such as the integrated (albeit basic) image editor, preset buttons to add to your pages, and a collection of built-in templates to get you started. This makes it possible to rustle up a decent looking book in just a few minutes. Of course, as with all creative applications, the more time you spend honing your skills the better the results will become.

Publishing your finished digital books is a matter of simply pressing the 'Publish' button and waiting for everything to be neatly packaged into a DNL file. This can take some time, and once it's done, you still need to install the DNL Reader provided by the developer. There is, however an option to package the eBook inside an executable file, which might be the best option to ensure everyone can read your words of wisdom.

The trial version only allows you to create two pages, but if you have the patience to overcome the slightly awkward toolset layout you'll be crying out for the functionality to add more, making the full version worthy of its $189 price tag.

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It is possible to automatically form and display a time table or a calendar for an arbitrary interval of time, remind about a forthcoming event or task, and create repeated (at arbitrary intervals) entries.

Alive Business Organizer has all tools necessary for comfortable work:-The built-in scheduler of tasks provides correct planning and timely announcement of any activities, meetings, memorable dates, etc.

An automatically formed time table ensures an efficient management of your private and business time. -The address book integrated in Alive Business Organizer stores an arbitrary number of personal and business contacts.

-The task manager built into Alive Business Organizer ensures efficient planning of required tasks. Alive Business Organizer will remind you about any forthcoming activity.

You may alter or withdraw this activity. -The event manager built into Alive Business Organizer will not let you miss any important event (a memorable date, a birthday, etc.

). All current and forthcoming events are displayed in the personal time table. -An arbitrary number of personal diaries may be kept in Alive Business Organizer.

-The integrated text editor offers a lot of means for correct and efficient preparation of documents, printing, viewing and formatting. -The built-in graphic editor ensures viewing, conversion to different formats, layout and color correction of any images, photographs or pictures.

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The StarMessage diary looks like a real personal diary so you can start using it right away. You can write entries for the present, past, or even the future.

You can use it as a planner or a calendar by leaving notes to yourself to remind you of things you have to do. You can copy-paste information from any other windows application into the StarMessage Diary.

For a complete list of the diary's features, please visit: http://www. starmessage. gr/diary Preserve your thoughts forever. Writing your thoughts in the StarMessage Diary is a very effective way to preserve them for the decades to come.

Your grand children will find fascinating to read the original stories of their grandparents. The StarMessage Diary operates perfectly in all windows versions (win95,win98,winME,winNT,win2000,winXP,Vista) and is distributed electronically.

Shortly after your order is completed, you will receive your activation code via email together with instructions on how to use it. Please press the "Order" button below to make the Diary yours.

Please note:The automatic checkout functionality will add to your cart an item called "Extended Download Service". You can safely remove that item without affecting your order.

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After the outbreak of blogs it might seem like no one is still keeping one of those old-style diaries in moleskin notebooks. In case you're one of the traditionalists still out there, here's a little piece of software that may be of interest.

Introduction

iDailyDiary lets you write your thoughts in a personal diary on your computer, which certainly adds quite a few advantages to the traditional paper notebook. First – and most obvious – you save trees. Plus you can take your diary anywhere with you on a small USB key, even if you've been writing it for years.

Features

Besides protecting the environment, iDailyDiary is also safer, because it encrypts and password-protects your texts. It is also easier to use: you can have multiple tabbed pages for each day, browse through your diary with a handy calendar on the bottom bar and also search for any given text in just two clicks.

iDailyDiary supports rich text, which means you can insert bold, italics and the like, plus images, web links and other eye candy. This functionality is not perfect though. For example, the text font selection can be a bit annoying, as the drop-down menu doesn't show how each font looks like before applying it to the text. Also, images can't be properly aligned to text in iDailyDiary.

iDailyDiary is a handy and easy to use electronic tool for your personal diary.

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