Xequte Newsletter

Our main release this month is "Picture of the Day," freeware which ensures you are never bored with your desktop again. Once installed it automatically downloads images from the Internet and displays them as your desktop wallpaper (details below).

There are also minor updates to DVD PixPlay, Diji Album and MailList King, all offering bug features and various improvements. See below for details.

We are continuing to work on an update for Smart Pix Manager and MegaView (which will be a free upgrade to current users).

If you have any feature suggestions or problems please email us. Also, please forward this message to any friends or family who might be interested.

Do you have a favorite "Image of the Day" site, such as the many sites that display a "Pet of the Day", "Cartoon of the Day" or "Swimsuit of the Day"? POTD automatically downloads images from your specified sites and displays them as your desktop wallpaper. It can also be used in combination with Amaze Screen Saver so the images appear when your computer is idle.

DVD PixPlay allows you to create VCD image slideshows for playback on DVD players. V1.01 adds a number of improvements and some minor bug fixes. Here is a top five list of changes:

1. Added two higher quality VCD formats: XVCD and XSVCD
2. Can now output slideshows directly to an MPEG file
3. Improved progress display outputs current task and total progress
4. Added option to give more accurate preview of final result
5. Improved support for third party applications that export to DVD PixPlay

Diji Album allows you to distribute your images and multimedia to friends and family via Internet, E-mail, DVD or CD-ROM. V4.11 primarily fixes bugs encountered in the v4.1 release. Here is a top five list of changes:

1. Added a new option so that inserted images are not laid out in a straight line
2. Better integration with DVD PixPlay
3. Improved display of page information in status bar
4. Removed some nag messages
5. A number of fixes related to image links in HTML albums, creating text albums using the page insertion wizard, and the layout of the About Box on custom font systems

(Simply install the new version over your old one. No new key is required if you are already using v4.0 or greater).

MailList King allows you to manage and communicate with a mailing list from your own computer. V4.22 delivers some minor improvements and bug fixes. Here is a top five list of changes:

1. Can now specify the sender address even when sending via Outlook
2. Sped up multi-column CSV importing and fixed some issues
3. Added function to easily insert a new user record
4. MLK can now optionally function as mailing list manager without dependency on email addresses
5. A raw HTML body can now be pasted into the send dialog

(Simply install the new version over your old one. No new key is required if you are already using v4.0 or greater).

- DVD Pixplay: Saving Slideshows Directly to MPEG Files
With v1.01 you can now save your slideshow directly to an MPEG video file, rather than writing it to a VCD formatted CD. MPEG files are useful if you want only want to playback your files on a computer or want to send them by e-mail.

To export to an MPEG file, click the "Create CD" button as usual, but on the last wizard step check the "Save to File" option, Click the "Browse" button, change the format to MPEG and select a filename to save to.

Only on a computer are images always positioned in exact horizontal alignment on a page. Now with v4.11, Diji Album can optionally automatically position images so that those on the left are nearer the bottom and those on the right closer to the top.

To enable this, check the "Position images with an uneven top edge" option when you are inserting new image pages using the Page Wizard (Page|Insert Page Wizard)

With v4.22 MLK now allows you to use a custom sender address for your messages rather than using the default Outlook account. Among other advantages, this makes it easier to use Outlook rules to correctly route messages that come in response to your mailer, as the reply address of a mailer may be inundated with bounce reports, auto-replies and Spam. To specify a custom sender address, select View|Options, highlight the Sending tab and click the "Settings" button.

With "Picture of the Day" (mentioned above) you can enhance your screen saver with images downloaded from the many great "Image of the Day" sites available on the Internet. To enable this, download and install POTD from www.xequte.com/other/ Then run it and check the option "Display images as a screen saver"