Slateboard Software July 2006 Newsletter

Slateboard Software July 2006 Newsletter

QUIKCALC VERSION 6.0 IS A HIT!

Version 6.0 is definitely our most successful upgrade ever! Feedback from those who have upgraded is universally positive with comments such as:

"Your new QuikCalc V6 looks AWESOME!!! Keep up the good work."

"I looked over V6 this evening and it is super amazing. I have to say it is the slickest application I have ever seen !!!! The colors, the shading and the designs are all big time winners!"

"You've got a winner here!"

"I LOVE IT!"

If you haven't already, try the new version now and see the most significant facelift QuikCalc has ever received that has people raving. Then, as an existing user save 50% when you upgrade to ANY EDITION. Even if you only bought the Home Edition previously, you can upgrade to any edition including the Office Edition for half price.

To upgrade for 50% off, click here!

This Month's Newsletter

In this month's newsletter we provide you with links to screen snaps of the latest version of QuikCalc Amortization. We have the answer to last month's puzzler as well as the name of the winner of the free copy of DebtCalc. This month's Fun Fact deals with where the term "bug" came from with respect to software. Again we have tips and offers that we hope will be of interest to you. Here's what's covered in this month's newsletter:

See What QuikCalc Amortization Version V6.0 Looks Like!
What You Are Missing If You Haven't Updated Your Software
Upgrade To QuikCalc V6.0 For Half Price!
Tip Of The Month - Disabling the Password in QuikCalc Premium
Fun Fact - Where did the term "Software Bug" come from?
Last Month's Puzzler Answer and Winner
This Month's Puzzler Contest

The staff at Slateboard Software hope you find our latest newsletter interesting and thank you for your business.

See What QuikCalc Amortization Version V6.0 Looks Like!

As you read above, QuikCalc V6.0 is our most successful release ever. If you haven't seen it yet for yourself, visit our website to try the fully-functional demo, or use the links below to see screen snaps of what QuikCalc V6.0 looks like:

Click Here to see a screen snap of the Solve for Missing Number Calculator

Click Here to see a screen snap of the Amortization Schedules Plus! window

Click Here to see a screen snap of the Loan Manager

Click Here to see a screen snap of the Office Edition's Client Manager

Click Here to see a screen snap of the Payment Grids

We encourage you to try out the demo at https://www.slateboard.com/info_demos.htm.

To make sure you enjoy your 50% discount as an existing customer, click here: https://www.slateboard.com/ORDERSITE/cat3_1.htm

For more information visit https://www.slateboard.com/pro_quikcalcpro.htm.

Important Notice: With the release of QuikCalc V6.0, we are dropping support for Windows 95, 98, ME and NT. V6.0 will function on Windows XP, 2000, 2003 Server and Vista. We apologize to those few users still on these unsupported versions of Windows who will not be able to take advantage of this upgrade. Rest assured we will continue to support your current version as before.

What You're Missing If You Haven't Updated Your Software

We recommend that you check for updates at least once a month. You can do this easily from your Help menu by selecting Check for Updates. For users who haven't downloaded an update lately, here are some of the things you could be missing out on:

If you are a DebtCalc user, and you haven't updated, then you are missing out on the new monthly totals on the Proposed Payment Schedule report.
Plus much more!

Upgrade To QuikCalc V6.0 For Half Price!

If you are still using an older version of QuikCalc, now is the time to upgrade! QuikCalc V6.0 is now available. This new version has a completely redesigned interface that essentially makes it look like an entirely new application! If you haven't done so already, download the fully functional demo from our website and then take advantage of our half price offer for existing users by using the following link:

https://www.slateboard.com/ORDERSITE/cat3_1.htm

What's new in V6.0?

QuikCalc V6.0 is so dramatically different in look and feel that it may seem like an entirely new product!

We have resized the application to work in 1024 x 768 or better by default, thus giving us much more real estate to work with. We have also increased the font size from 8 point to 10 point making it easier to read on higher resolution systems.
We have reformatted some of the windows and renamed some of the fields to make them more intuitive.
We have added a Navigation Bar along the side that is much like those you are used to seeing in XP. It provides single click access to most features.
We have dropped some fields and streamlined the Loan Manager Detail tab so that it is less confusing.
We have split the reports so that the Escrow columns are only displayed when necessary (i.e. Simple Interest U.S. Rule selected as the interest compounding method).
All exports are now saved in HTML format only (see this month's tip as to why).
The Solve for Missing Number Calculator now allows you to specify units (Days/Weeks/Months/Years) for the Amortization Period.

Tip Of The Month

QuikCalc Premium Edition comes with User ID and Password protection enabled by default. Once you have created a User ID and password after registering you can turn off the password requirement. Simply go to the Edit menu and select Preferences. Uncheck the "Password Enabled" checkbox and click Ok. The next time you run QuikCalc you will be prompted for a User ID and password. The User ID will default to whatever you entered last time. Instead of entering a password, simply click on Login.

Fun Fact

Where did the term "Bug" come from?

A moth was found trapped between points at Relay # 70, Panel F, of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at Harvard University, 9 September 1945. The operators affixed the moth to the computer log, with the entry: "First actual case of bug being found". They put out the word that they had "debugged" the machine, thus introducing the term "debugging a computer program".

In 1988, the log, with the moth still taped by the entry, was in the Naval Surface Warfare Center Computer Museum at Dahlgren, Virginia.

And what about some of the other "strange" words and names that we have all come to recognize today?

Yahoo! - "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle."

Google - In the 1930s, mathematician Edward Kasner asked his 9 year old nephew, Milton Sirotta, what he thought would be a good word to describe a laaaarge number -- say, 1 followed by 100 zeros. With a twinkle in his eye, Milton promptly suggested the word "googol." Decades later, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin, then computer science grad students at Stanford University, devised a clever new way to index the Brobdingnagian Web, they knew exactly what to name it.

Nerd - "And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo / And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo, / A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker, too!", from Dr. Seuss' 1950 book, "If I Ran the Zoo".

The first actual computer "bug" with moth still taped to page.

*Source: wordsmith.org and wikipedia

Last Month's Puzzler Contest Answer

Last Month's Question:

Take the number of your fingers multiplied by the number of your toes divided by one half and add it to the number of months in a year. What is the total?

Answer:

10x10=100÷1/2=200+12=212 or, for another way to look at this - 8x10=80÷1/2=160+12=172 as you have 8 fingers and 2 thumbs!

Winner:

We had a record number of wrong entries this month! It seems a lot of people got tripped up forgetting that when you divide by one half, it is equivalent to multiplying by 2! This month's winner of the free copy of DebtCalc Home Edition is: Christian Medaglia of Massachusetts. Congrats!

This Month's Puzzler Contest

Send your answer for the puzzler below to contest@slateboard.com for a chance to win a free copy of DebtCalc Home Edition. We will randomly draw a winner from all of the correct answers received by July 31, 2006. The winner and correct answer will be revealed in the next newsletter.

Question: A mother and father have six sons and each son has one sister. How many people are in that family?