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      <title>Actual Transparent Window Opens a New Way to Handle Windows</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<div class="newsleft"><div class="newsbody"><p>Actual Tools announces Actual Transparent Window 3.7<br />
Innovative Windows transparency shell enhancement released August 23, 2005.<br />
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Vancouver, BC, Canada -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/23/2005 -- Actual Tools announced version 3.7 of its intriguing Windows shell enhancement novelty - the application that allows setting any level of transparency for any individual window on the system. Actual Transparent Window 3.7 adds a new dimension to desktop space making it easy to organize simultaneously open windows without having to minimize and restore them every here and then. Along with common techniques of switching between applications windows Actual Transparent Window offers depth-based window ordering thanks to fully customizable transparency levels that are saved individually for each window.<br />
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Actual Transparent Window is intended for broad range of Windows users who value time and long for esthetical pleasure of modern computing. Using transparent windows reduces negative effects on user&apos;s eyes as well as it allows for more native dimensional information representation model in human beings. Multiple reports by Actual Transparent Window users indicate overall increase of productivity when using several business applications that require manual information interchange simultaneously. Desktop space saved by eliminating opaque windows can be used for placing additional icons. Another great use of this program is for setting transparency depending on importance of task an application performs.<br />
<br />
"Actual Transparent Window has many utilitarian functions," said Michael Tretyakov, CEO of Actual Tools. "For example, it can help you create carbon copies of images and documents where the Copy and Print features are disabled. Simply open the needed text, create a new document in your word processor, make its window semi-transparent and off you go! Read through and type a copy of the original document which otherwise will remain inaccessible."<br />
<br />
"Another good thing about semi-transparency effect is that it gives your desktop a fantastic new look. You can experiment and enjoy the new look of the Windows taskbar, drop-down menus, lists, Instant Messenger and other desktop elements. According to our customers, they often apply the transparency effect to WinAmp and Widows Media Player, making them look even more sleek and stylish. Your eye will no longer stumble over a half-visible player that literally blends with the desktop."<br />
<br />
Actual Transparent Window integrates and functions transparently throughout the Operating System. The user can make any window semi-transparent simply by clicking on the Make Transparent button placed on the current window title bar. By right-clicking on the same button, the user can access a drop-down menu and set any level of window transparency. Any window can automatically become semi-transparent when it is being moved, resized or simply becomes inactive.<br />
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Availability<br />
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Actual Transparent Window runs under Windows 2000/XP and costs $19.95 (USD) for a single-user license. The fully functional evaluation version of the program is available for free at <a class="extlink"  rel="nofollow noopener"  target="_blank"  title="http://www.ActualTools.com/files/atwsetup.exe" href="http://www.ActualTools.com/files/atwsetup.exe">http://www.ActualTools.com/files/atwsetup.exe</a><br />
<br />
About Actual Tools<br />
Founded in 2001, Actual Tools is a software development company, focused on producing powerful desktop enhancement applications. We help people innovate and increase efficiencies by offering powerful and cost-effective solutions and services worldwide. Our highly successful family of desktop enhancement applications delivers industry leading technologies including window minimization to tray/screen edge, window roll-up, window transparency, window stay-on-top, and is setting the standard for the next generation computer interface.<br />
<br />
For more information, contact Actual Tools at:<br />
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E-mail: press@actualtools.com<br />
Corporate web site: <a class="extlink"  rel="nofollow noopener"  target="_blank"  title="http://www.ActualTools.com" href="http://www.ActualTools.com">http://www.ActualTools.com</a><br />
Product web site: <a class="extlink"  rel="nofollow noopener"  target="_blank"  title="http://www.ActualTools.com/transparentwindow/" href="http://www.ActualTools.com/transparentwindow/">http://www.ActualTools.com/transparentwindow/</a><br />
Screenshots: <a class="extlink"  rel="nofollow noopener"  target="_blank"  title="http://www.ActualTools.com/images/atw_screenshot.jpg" href="http://www.ActualTools.com/images/atw_screenshot.jpg">http://www.ActualTools.com/images/atw_screenshot.jpg</a><br />
Download: <a class="extlink"  rel="nofollow noopener"  target="_blank"  title="http://www.ActualTools.com/files/atwsetup.exe" href="http://www.ActualTools.com/files/atwsetup.exe">http://www.ActualTools.com/files/atwsetup.exe</a><br />
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Contact: Michael Tretyakov<br />
Company: Actual Tools<br />
E-mail: press@actualtools.com<br />
</p><p>For more information on this press release visit: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm">http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm</a></p></div><h2>Media Relations Contact</h2><p>Michael Tretyakov<br />Email: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/contact/4025">Click to Email Michael Tretyakov</a><br />Web: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ActualTools.com">http://www.ActualTools.com</a><br /></div><div><p><img src="https://cts.releasewire.com/v/?sid=4025&amp;s=f&amp;v=f" width="1" height="1" alt=""><span></span></p></div>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>8 New Controls Expand Window Menu to Improve Your Computational Performance</title>
      <link>http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<div class="newsleft"><div class="newsbody"><p><p>Actual Tools announces Actual Transparent Window 3.7</p><p>
Innovative Windows transparency shell enhancement released August 23, 2005.</p><p>
Vancouver, BC, Canada -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/23/2005 -- Actual Tools announced version 3.7 of its intriguing Windows shell enhancement novelty - the application that allows setting any level of transparency for any individual window on the system. Actual Transparent Window 3.7 adds a new dimension to desktop space making it easy to organize simultaneously open windows without having to minimize and restore them every here and then. Along with common techniques of switching between applications windows Actual Transparent Window offers depth-based window ordering thanks to fully customizable transparency levels that are saved individually for each window.</p><p>
Actual Transparent Window is intended for broad range of Windows users who value time and long for esthetical pleasure of modern computing. Using transparent windows reduces negative effects on user&apos;s eyes as well as it allows for more native dimensional information representation model in human beings. Multiple reports by Actual Transparent Window users indicate overall increase of productivity when using several business applications that require manual information interchange simultaneously. Desktop space saved by eliminating opaque windows can be used for placing additional icons. Another great use of this program is for setting transparency depending on importance of task an application performs.</p><p>
"Actual Transparent Window has many utilitarian functions," said Michael Tretyakov, CEO of Actual Tools. "For example, it can help you create carbon copies of images and documents where the Copy and Print features are disabled. Simply open the needed text, create a new document in your word processor, make its window semi-transparent and off you go! Read through and type a copy of the original document which otherwise will remain inaccessible."</p><p>
"Another good thing about semi-transparency effect is that it gives your desktop a fantastic new look. You can experiment and enjoy the new look of the Windows taskbar, drop-down menus, lists, Instant Messenger and other desktop elements. According to our customers, they often apply the transparency effect to WinAmp and Widows Media Player, making them look even more sleek and stylish. Your eye will no longer stumble over a half-visible player that literally blends with the desktop."</p><p>
Actual Transparent Window integrates and functions transparently throughout the Operating System. The user can make any window semi-transparent simply by clicking on the Make Transparent button placed on the current window title bar. By right-clicking on the same button, the user can access a drop-down menu and set any level of window transparency. Any window can automatically become semi-transparent when it is being moved, resized or simply becomes inactive.</p><p>
Availability</p><p>
Actual Transparent Window runs under Windows 2000/XP and costs $19.95 (USD) for a single-user license. The fully functional evaluation version of the program is available for free at <a class="extlink"  rel="nofollow noopener"  target="_blank"  title="http://www.ActualTools.com/files/atwsetup.exe" href="http://www.ActualTools.com/files/atwsetup.exe">http://www.ActualTools.com/files/atwsetup.exe</a></p><p>
About Actual Tools</p><p>
Founded in 2001, Actual Tools is a software development company, focused on producing powerful desktop enhancement applications. We help people innovate and increase efficiencies by offering powerful and cost-effective solutions and services worldwide. Our highly successful family of desktop enhancement applications delivers industry leading technologies including window minimization to tray/screen edge, window roll-up, window transparency, window stay-on-top, and is setting the standard for the next generation computer interface.</p><p>
For more information, contact Actual Tools at:</p><p>
E-mail: press@actualtools.com</p><p>
Corporate web site: <a class="extlink"  rel="nofollow noopener"  target="_blank"  title="http://www.ActualTools.com" href="http://www.ActualTools.com">http://www.ActualTools.com</a></p><p>
Product web site: <a class="extlink"  rel="nofollow noopener"  target="_blank"  title="http://www.ActualTools.com/transparentwindow/" href="http://www.ActualTools.com/transparentwindow/">http://www.ActualTools.com/transparentwindow/</a></p><p>
Screenshots: <a class="extlink"  rel="nofollow noopener"  target="_blank"  title="http://www.ActualTools.com/images/atw_screenshot.jpg" href="http://www.ActualTools.com/images/atw_screenshot.jpg">http://www.ActualTools.com/images/atw_screenshot.jpg</a></p><p>
Download: <a class="extlink"  rel="nofollow noopener"  target="_blank"  title="http://www.ActualTools.com/files/atwsetup.exe" href="http://www.ActualTools.com/files/atwsetup.exe">http://www.ActualTools.com/files/atwsetup.exe</a></p><p>
Contact: Michael Tretyakov</p><p>
Company: Actual Tools</p><p>
E-mail: press@actualtools.com</p>Actual Tools Engineers Found "Dead Area" on Desktop That Can Be Brought to Life<br />
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8 New Controls Expand Window Menu to Improve Your Computational Performance<br />
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Vancouver, BC, Canada -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/05/2005 -- From the inventive mind of software engineers at Actual Tools comes the newest version of Actual Window Menu. Designed for the Windows platforms, this slim utility adds a handful of new navigation controls to system and application windows. Customers will discover the ability to minimize a window to the system tray or the desktop edge, roll it up to the title bar, put a window on top and make it semi-transparent. Added to this is the ability to change program priority. All these actions can be triggered through the system menu of a window with a mouse click or by using a keystroke combination.<br />
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"Due to its modest feature set, the system menu of a window is considered to be the "dead area" which is useless and totally ignored by users. Some of us don&apos;t even suspect there is a menu at all," says Michael Tretyakov, leading developer and CEO of Actual Tools. "However if you add Actual Window Menu support, the window menu can be no less functional than the system tray or the title bar buttons. For example, you will be able to change program priority right through the application window. You can do this simply by clicking on the desired priority level in the drop-down menu. This is the quickest way to increase the processing performance for important applications while keeping the speed of less important ones to the minimum."<br />
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"Among the functions that we have recently added to this package are the Align Window and Resize Window controls," continues Mr. Tretyakov. "Using the first control, you can position a window in any of nine positions on the desktop automatically without having to drag it with the mouse. With the same point-and-click simplicity you can change the window size by using the Resize Window control. You can select any desired size available on the drop-down menu, including 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 100%x100% and 50%x50%. This control along with the Align Window can be used by a developer to quickly compare two pages of code. Also they can be useful for a translator to quickly compare the original copy with the translated version."<br />
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For more convenience, Actual Window Menu enables you to have a different set of menu options and behaviors for each application window. You can customize these settings in the Configuration Module that can be brought up with a mouse click on its icon in the system tray. You can select an application and specify its window behavior, for example, whether it should minimize to the tray or the desktop edge. However for busy users the program offers the list of preprogrammed behaviors for the most popular applications, such as Word, Outlook Express or Internet Explorer. On top of all this is the multilingual interface that supports ten European languages.<br />
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Pricing and Availability<br />
Actual Window Menu runs under all Windows OS and costs $19.95 (USD) for a single-user license. Discounts for volume buyers are also available. Registered customers are entitled to the unlimited functionality, free minor updates and lifetime technical support. A 30-day evaluation version can be downloaded for free at <a class="extlink"  rel="nofollow noopener"  target="_blank"  title="http://www.ActualTools.com/files/asmsetup.exe" href="http://www.ActualTools.com/files/asmsetup.exe">http://www.ActualTools.com/files/asmsetup.exe</a> (1.6 Mb).<br />
<br />
About Actual Tools<br />
Actual Tools was established in 2001 by software engineer Michael Tretyakov. The company specializes in developing desktop enhancement software for the Windows platforms. Our flagship product Actual Window Manager delivers industry leading technologies including window minimization to tray and desktop edge, window roll up, semi-transparency, pin on top, resize and helps people improve their computational performance. For more information about the company and our products, please visit <a class="extlink"  rel="nofollow noopener"  target="_blank"  title="http://www.ActualTools.com" href="http://www.ActualTools.com">http://www.ActualTools.com</a>.<br />
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AN EVALUATION COPY IS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST<br />
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Product page link: <a class="extlink"  rel="nofollow noopener"  target="_blank"  title="http://www.ActualTools.com/windowmenu/" href="http://www.ActualTools.com/windowmenu/">http://www.ActualTools.com/windowmenu/</a><br />
Download link: <a class="extlink"  rel="nofollow noopener"  target="_blank"  title="http://www.ActualTools.com/files/asmsetup.exe" href="http://www.ActualTools.com/files/asmsetup.exe">http://www.ActualTools.com/files/asmsetup.exe</a> (1.6 Mb)<br />
E-mail: press@actualtools.com<br />
Web: <a class="extlink"  rel="nofollow noopener"  target="_blank"  title="http://www.ActualTools.com" href="http://www.ActualTools.com">http://www.ActualTools.com</a><br />
</p><p>For more information on this press release visit: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm">http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm</a></p></div><h2>Media Relations Contact</h2><p>Michael Tretyakov<br />Email: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/contact/3996">Click to Email Michael Tretyakov</a><br />Web: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ActualTools.com/">http://www.ActualTools.com/</a><br /></div><div><p><img src="https://cts.releasewire.com/v/?sid=3996&amp;s=f&amp;v=f" width="1" height="1" alt=""><span></span></p></div>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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