Chronos LC has announced that it is offering one of its apps, StickyBrain, for free during a two day period. The offer is an attempt on the part of the developers to interest Mac users in the company’s offerings, including an update for StickyBrain that will be released soon. The free download includes the opportunity to register the software for free as well, and the offer ends tomorrow. From Chronos LC:
Chronos LC today announced that for a limited time, its StickyBrain productivity application may be downloaded and registered for FREE.
Why is Chronos giving away its software? According to Robert McCullough, Product Manager at Chronos, "StickyBrain is one of the best kept secrets on the Mac and we want to let the public in on the secret. We believe that once users get a taste for StickyBrain, they’ll be hooked. This promotion is intended to give as many people as possible the opportunity to try out the software." Chronos is planning to release StickyBrain 2 in the near future and it includes some great surprises, according to Mr. McCullough. Anyone who picks up a free copy of StickyBrain during this promotion will qualify for a discount on the new version.
The process to receive a free copy of StickyBrain is simple. On March 27th and 28th, 2002, anyone may download and register StickyBrain 1.3.1 via the Chronos Web site.
GENERAL PRODUCT INFORMATION
Chronos calls its product "The best utility you never knew you needed." StickyBrain is a personal productivity application that incorporates a "sticky note" interface. But that’s where the similarity to the standard Stickies program ends. StickyBrain is the ultimate information storehouse. It helps users organize all of the miscellaneous information that clutters their lives and desktops.
StickyBrain is for stuff that doesn’t fit in your regular brain. It can store any type of information including text, pictures, sounds, file/application links, contacts, web and e-mail addresses, etc. To make all of this information easily accessible, StickyBrain includes a powerful filtering system that the user can customize as needed. StickyBrain is built on a robust word processor with features such as automatic spell checking, search and replace, page formatting and multiple undo’s.
One of StickyBrain’s most powerful features is called Hot Keys. Hot Keys makes it easy to transfer information to and from other applications. For example, if the user is surfing the web and comes across an interesting article, they can press a special key combination and the article will be saved as a sticky—even if StickyBrain isn’t running! Hot Keys can also be assigned to individual stickies so the text from the sticky can be pasted into other applications.
Password management is a chore that faces anyone who uses the Internet. How does one keep track of all the names & passwords for secure Web sites that accumulate over time? With StickyBrain, a user can go to any Web site and the software will instantly retrieve the user name and password associated with that web address.
StickyBrain provides many other features to help users stay organized. These include to-do lists, contact lists, alarms and an infinitely customizable interface. Each sticky can be assigned a different color, texture or background picture. To keep information safe from prying eyes, StickyBrain even includes a security option.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
StickyBrain requires Mac OS 8.1 or higher including Mac OS X. The application occupies less than 1 MB of disk space and uses less than 5000K memory.
StickyBrain is normally priced starting at US$34.99. You can find more information on the product at Chronos’ Web site. To get to the free download/registration offer, click on the "Try StickyBrain for free" link that is at the top of the home page.
The Mac Observer Spin:
This is a very clever promotion on the part of Chronos, and we, as Mac users, get something out of it too. At TMO, we are always fond of situations where everyone wins, and this seems like one such situation. Go and check out the app; it seems like a cool one, though we have not yet tested it.