Houston, Texas (Jan 7, 2002) -- Michael J. Hammel, the Graphics Muse, is pleased to announce the release of XNotesPlus V3.5.0, a Personal Information Manager for the Linux and Unix desktop.

XNotesPlus includes support for all major features on the Palm Pilot, including Memos, Todo Lists, the Address Book and Calendaring. All data from each feature can be downloaded from the Pilot, edited within XNotesPlus and uploaded back to the Pilot. Additionally, backups and restores of a Pilot PDA can be managed from within XNotesPlus.

XNotesPlus is available in both source and Red Hat Linux 7.1 dynamically built binary distributions.

XNotesPlus full featured note system includes audio alarms, color coded projects, date and calendar inserts, text search / export / import / spell checking, and integration with the XNotesPlus Address Manager to email notes to other users.

The Address Manager also includes an integrated envelope printer for various sized envelopes.

This release of XNotesPlus includes the following new features:

* Extended Pilot support to include install, delete, fetch and list DB's
* Merge multiple XNotes
* Print options for Todo and Address Manager
* Spell checking for XNotes
* Import/export XNotes with Todo and Address Managers
* Graphical installer (xninstall)

Users of older versions are encouraged to upgrade to this release.

Because of the addition of complete Pilot integration and vast stability improvements, XNotesPlus has reached a new phase in development. As of the 3.4 release, XNotesPlus has become Shareware. Users are encouraged to pay $10 or more if they find the program useful in order to continue development of the application. Payments can be made by check or via the XNotesPlus Web site using PayPal.

XNotesPlus Web site: http://www.graphics-muse.org/xnotes/xnotes.html
Downloads:  http://www.graphics-muse.org/source/XNotesPlus/