AviMate Newsletter #19 (11/19/01):

Buy Now: Stable plus 20% Discount


CHERISHABLE MOMENTS
As with many of you, we have had many distractions since September 11.  What a wakeup call.  We are all reminded how precious life is.  Don't let anyone keep you from savoring time with your family and friends.  Cherish each moment that you can.
--------------------------------------------------------------------

BUY NOW: STABLE PLUS 20% DISCOUNT
Some of you have been waiting for AviMate 3, the premier bird breeding management software, to finish "bug" removal before buying.  Your wait is over!  Except for some isolated issues, most all of our clients have been enjoying AviMate "bug-free" for over 2 months.

To mark this milestone, we are giving special discounts on AviMate 3 for the rest of 2001.  (We're making this discount retroactive to November 1, 2001.)

This means you save $24 on an upgrade from AviMate 2 to AviMate 3 (discounted to $95.95) and $54 on a full purchase of AviMate 3 (discounted to $215.95).
--------------------------------------------------------------------

SOMETIMES IT'S A MISUNDERSTANDING RATHER THAN A BUG
Some clients have complained that they keep seeing a breeder in the browse screen even though they have sold the bird.  This turned out to be a misunderstanding rather than a bug.  By design the default browse screen showed all unarchived birds, including sold and deceased.  We now understand how confusing this can be, so we've added "Active" as a browse screen show option which displays only living, unsold, unarchived breeders.
--------------------------------------------------------------------

AUTO-ARCHIVE ENHANCEMENT
AviMate remembers the last show option used whenever a browse screen is presented.  In most cases this is a good labor-saving feature, but sometimes this can also lead to confusion so we've created an enhancement at Rick Jordan's request.  In the Options Wizard and in the Options Menu, you can now tell AviMate to automatically archive breeder and nursery birds when they are sold or declared deceased.

If you use this new auto-archive feature, you'll want to go to the Archive Utility and have AviMate archive all previously sold and deceased breeder and nursery birds as well.
--------------------------------------------------------------------

OUR RECENT CHANGES SUMMARIZED:
Enhancement added in Version 3.0.49 (11/19/01)
1. Auto-archive option described above.

Problem fixed in Version 3.0.49 (11/19/01)
1. Patch install would not install properly if client had build 45.

Problems fixed in Version 3.0.46 (11/10/01)
1. Above described confusion in the breeder browse screen.
2. Comma was not allowed as a valid decimal symbol in currency fields within invoice and payment screens.  This caused some regional settings like "French (Belgium)" to not work properly.
   
Problems fixed in Version 3.0.45 (9/901)
1. Screen was not refreshed after archiving a nursery record so it appeared that nothing had happened. (If you moved off the record and then went back, the record correctly disappeared.)
--------------------------------------------------------------------

USE PATCH IF UPGRADING FROM BUILD 44, 45 OR 46
If you have build release 44, 45 or 46, download and run our 2.2 meg patch.  This will bring AviMate up to Version 3.0.49 (build 49).

If you have a build earlier than 44, you need to download and run the full AviMate installation package.  This program is smart enough to properly install over your existing AviMate 3 program so please DO NOT uninstall AviMate before running the new install program -- this will delete your AviMate 3 database!

We recommend you always backup your database before running either installation program (the patch or full install version).  It's good protection against something bizarre happening!
--------------------------------------------------------------------

REMINDER:  WE SHIP 30-DAY TRIAL CD'S
Prospective clients who have trouble downloading off the Internet can order an AviMate 30-day trial business card CD from us for $8.95 ($.95 plus our standard $8 US S&H fee). Later, when they purchase AviMate, we'll e-mail them their personal license that turns the trial version into a registered version.
--------------------------------------------------------------------


Wishing you many moments to cherish.

Sincerely,
Alex Davidoff
President, Boundaries Unlimited, Inc.
alex@buinc.com
http://www.avimate.com


P.S. SPREAD THE WORD
Please encourage your friends to subscribe to our AviMate newsletter by clicking on http://lb.bcentral.com/ex/manage/subscriberprefs?customerid=10076
In this way, they too can play a part in assuring that AviMate remains a viable product for many years to come. They can read previous newsletters at http://www.avimate.com/news.htm .