
          FREE REGISTRATRION: AcsSoft Photo Movie 7.1  March 18, 2005
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Installation
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  ** IMPORTANT: ALWAYS RUN SETUP.EXE AFTER EXITING THE UNZIP PROGRAM **
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To install the AcsSoft Photo Movie:
  (1) Run 'setup.exe' from the directory where you unzip the files. 

  --> NOTE: AcsSoft Photo Movie Album runs on Win98/ME/2000/XP.
            If you encounter 'Violation' error, simply choose 'Ignore'
            and select 'Yes' to continue the SETUP.
            
  --> The program may crash when it runs right after the installation 
      due to the timing. Simply re-run the program again.     

Screen Saver Installation
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To choose the AcsSoft Photo Album / Media Manager as your screen saver,
use the right mouse button to click anywhere on the desktop screen, and
select 'Properties'. From the 'Display Properties' window, click the 
Screen Saver option, and select 'AcsSoft Photo Movie Album V7_1' as the screen
saver. You may change the settings by clicking the 'Settings' button.     

Product Features
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AcsSoft Photo Album Movie Album V7.1 lets you quickly create electronic albums of 
all your favorite photos and 
, graphics, video and audio media. You can include image or 
media itself, text, and other information. You may record a voice message for each photo, 
and add custom background music to your album.

All popular image, video and audio formats are recognized (see below for the formats).

A powerful function allows you search photos and media objects based on  one or more 
than filters. The search filters are (1) photos taken or media creation date ranges, 
(2) word(s) in the Photo and Media notes, (3) word(s) as part of the photo and Media 
file name (4) word(s) as part of the subject and Album names. 

You can send photo and media file directly to the Internet Email users via 
MS Outlook Express, with the size of the photo reduced before sending.

This album software was customized to run on a CD. If you have a CD-R writer, 
this software allows you to distribute your photos, videos, movies, audios, 
real player and MP3 files on a CD-R. The albums, together with the royalty-free 
Photo/Media Viewer Program, that are created on the CD-R is auto-run and 
plays the photos/media as soon as the CD is inserted in the drive.

A new display option displays the photos up to the size of the window and maintain 
the iamge aspect ratio.

Provide more controls for playing the slideshow. Pressing 
the ESC key can terminate the slideshow. If other key is pressed, a pop-up menu 
appears for the following key usage: (1) press ESC to exit slideshow, (2) press 'P' 
to pause slideshow, (3) press 'S' to re-start slideshow, (4) if pause, press '>' key or space bar 
to display next photo, and (5) if pause, press '<' key to display previous photo.

The Photo/Media Explorer, similar to Window Explorer, which provides the friendly interface
to allow the user to maintain the photos and media.

It turns the photos, videos, movies and PowerPoint presentations in your album into Screen
Savers with different special effects, and converts the photo into the wallpaper.

It scans existing image or media files already on your hard disk and builds the 
album/subject for you automatically. You may create a new album and copy images from the 
modern digital camera, such as Nikon Coolpix 775, which acts as a removable disk when 
connecting to a USB port. It also imports item directly from a TWAIN-compatible scanner 
or digital camera (for example Kodak 240/340). A slideshow option lets you view all the 
images and media in your album in sequence. 

A diary/calendar lets you keeps notes for each day. It also keeps a record of the photos 
and media for each album and subject that are collected for a particular date.

A multi-folder address book, with search functions on every field, helps you keep 
business, relatives and friend's name and address, and also ties to a photo or video. 
You can import the address from Outlook Express to the Album address book. You can also 
print mailing labels.

It displays 1, 2, 4, 6 or 8 photos / media, or 44 thumbnail photos/media in one screen, and
optionally displays an outline of Albums/Subjects along with the images/media in same screen.

It allows users to print 1, 2, 4, 6 or 8 photos / media, or 70 thumbnail photos in one 
printer page. Optional notes can be printed together with the photos.

Also included are audio players for MP3, MIDI or real player files. AcsSoft Photo Album, 
a multi-user System is a good way to arrange your photographs, videos, movies and MP3 in 
an interesting way.

Supported Graphics and Media format
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JPEG Images (.jpg, .jpeg)
Video Files (.avi)
Movies and VCD Files (.mpg, .mpeg, .dat, .ivf)
Windows Media Audio/Video (.asf, .asx, .wm, .wmx, .wmp, .wma, .wax, .wmv, .wvx)
Real Player (.ra, .rm)
MP3 and Midi (.mp3, .mid, .midi)
MS PowerPoint Presentation (.pps, .ppt)
MS Word and Excel (.doc, .xls)
GIF (.gif)
Windows Bitmaps (.bmp, .dib, .rle)
Windows ICON & WMF (.ico, .wmf)
Tiff (.tif)
PCX/DCX/WPG (.pcs, .dcx, .wpg)
Photo CD (.pcd, .fpx)
GEM/Ventura IMG (.img)
AutoCad @ DXF (.dxf)
PNG Images and Targa (.png, .tga)
FaxMan Images (.fmf)
Encapsulated Postscript (.eps)
Aiff and AU Sound files (.aif, .au, .snd)


Registration 
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The is the older version of the Album software. The Registration is free 

Technical Support
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Limited Technical Support is provided. You may check our WEB site, 
which contains the most Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). Please check 
out the answers from our FAQ list before you send us any questions.

For the Paid Registered User with a valid Email Internet ID, you may 
mail us the new questions. We have limited resource, and could only 
response those questions sent from the registered users. 

       FAQ site:  www.acssoft.net
       E-mail:    acssoft@acssoft.net


Special Services
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For the commercial users, AcsSoft Inc. can build a customized version
of the Acssoft Photo Album to suit your need. Please contact:


      AcsSoft Inc.
 
      Email: acssoft@acssoft.net


Future Versions
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You may check our site for more information.
WEB site: http://www.acssoft.net/

Order Information
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Please visit our site at http://www.acssoft.net/ to download 
the Internet Version and order the software by completing the 
registration form, and send to us via Internet.

Disclaimer
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These programs are Copyright (c) 2003 by AcsSoft Inc., Scarborough,
Ontario, Canada.  All right Reserved.

This is a shareware and may be distributed freely for the world community. 
A registration, which is FREE, is required after 5 days trial period. 

This shareware lets you quickly create electronic albums of all your favorite
photos and movies. You can include image or media itself,
text, and other information. You may record a voice message for each photo, 
and add custom background music to your album.  This software runs on 
Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / XP.

This is the FULL version which allows you to install photos, MP3, video and 
other media on a recordable CD together with the royalty-free Photo/Media Viewer.

The programs are not to be resold or distributed for sale with other programs 
which are for sale. There is no warranty or claim of fitness or reliability. 

Registration payment is done via PayPal. AcsSoft Inc. or the author shall not be 
held liable for any loss of data, down time, loss of revenue or any other direct or 
indirect damage, claims caused by these programs or by any PayPal fraud.