Dear 1-abc.net User, welcome to the last 2005 issue of 1-abc.net newsletter. This time: 1. Celebrate New Year’s Eve on New York City’s Times Square online! 2. Your personal thoughts only belong to you! 3. Revolutionary quotes: Jef Raskin 4. Current news from the 1-abc.net software labs === 1. Found in the World Wide Web: Celebrate New Year’s Eve on New York City’s Times Square online! You always dreamt about a party on Times Square at New Year’s Eve? As a big promotion event, MSN provides 6 hours of live coverage through the web. You can choose between three perspectives and do not need anything more than Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft Media Player 10 and Macromedia Flash 7, which are installed on most systems anyway. People in Asia, Europe and Australia should note that they can watch it live on New Year’s Day because of their earlier time zones. Here you can see the live stream: http://www.entertainment.msn.com/tv/newyears 2. Your personal thoughts only belong to you! In times when many people like to publish their thoughts and ideas in so-called web blogs that can be read by everyone, no-one seems to care about the normal meaning of diaries and the words and stories that are written in it. The general sense of diaries was to keep all these things private. Maybe the author wants to make it available to an external reader from time to time, but most of the time the content is not meant to be seen by anyone. 1-abc.net Personal Diary was designed especially for this need! This fast and easy-to-use product allows you to write down your thoughts every day to a password-secured file that is saved with a special encryption engine so that definitely no-one but you can open and change it without the knowledge of your password and without your permission. Besides many useful functions it is a very nice feature that this program can be installed on USB sticks, floppy disks and nearly all other re-writable media too. This function allows you to edit and add new entries to your personal diary on every computer in the world - even without the program installed on it. Write down what happens on a journey, write down how your business is developing each day or write down all your private thoughts and feelings about your family, your friends, your love or your life! 1-abc.net Personal Diary brings the real idea of a diary how it was meant for centuries and millenniums back to the IT age. You can download a free 10 day trial version from here: http://1-abc.net/0008 Our end of year’s offer: If you like this program, you can save US$ 2.00 by purchasing it from this newsletter. The following link opens a web shop where you only have to pay US$ 7.99 instead of US$ 9.99! http://1-abc.net/0007/ed/upgrade2.htm 3. Revolutionary quotes: Jef Raskin Jef Raskin (1943-2005) was one of the first Apple employees in the beginning of the 80s. As a real computer nerd, he changed his name from “Jeff” to “Jef” because the second “f” was redundant in his opinion. Later he was the first one who designed a drag & drop function, something that is typical for nearly every computer program today. Interviewed by Dr. Dobb’s Journal he once said: “Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.“. 4. Current news from the 1-abc.net software labs New awards from international websites: 5 stars for 1-abc.net Registry Washer on SoftForAll.com and BrotherSoft.com, 4 stars on Download2you.com and Editor’s Pick for 1-abc.net WebDynamicer on BumperSoft.com. Different computer magazines in Australia, Hungary, Greece, Germany, Poland and the UK will include free full versions of 1-abc.net software during the next weeks. The 1-abc.net Team wishes you a happy new year! PS: And don’t forget: Here you can purchase 1-abc.net Personal Diary for US$ 7.99 instead of US$ 9.99! http://1-abc.net/0007/ed/upgrade2.htm === You get this newsletter because you registered for an international version of any 1-abc.net software product. If you should not be interested in anymore news and offers from 1-abc.net please click here to unsubscribe from the newsletter list: http://1-abc.net/reg/unreg.htm 1-abc.net is not responsible for the content of any external links. (c) 2005 1-abc.net, Hochheider Weg 8, 26123 Oldenburg, Germany