Overview:

Flash is a Newton program that helps you improve your reading rate& comprehension. Flash provides a variety of exercises that userscan use to improve their reading habits. Flash includes on-line helpwhich explains speed reading concepts and how to use the program.

Flash will "flash" words, letters, or pages of books (willautomatically open and scroll user installed Newton books). You havea variety of control over the flashing of words or letters and canalso specify the rate at which books scroll.

While there are several desktop applications that will allow youto learn and practice these techniques, the Newton's "go anywhere"form factor and the ability to use your own Newton books makes thissoftware unique.

How to use Flash:

For complete instructions on how to use Flash:

Windows users can get information on how to use this file from myhomepage:http://home.earthlink.net/~TimConstan

Flash is shareware:

$25 for a single-user license
10+ licenses - $20/user
Site license - $1,000
Organization license - $2,500

Purchasers of "Site" or "Organization" licenses will receive aspecial version of Flash which is not dependent on a particular username & will never expire.

Flash Caveats:

Good sources for Newton books:

America Online

Keyword: Newton

AMUG FTP Site

ftp://ftp.amug.org/pub/newton

Project Newtonberg

http://www.aa.net/~robwest/

AMUG CD - Totally for Newton

e-mail:sales@amug.org
www:http://amug.org/amug/store/amug-store.html
phone: 602-553-0066
fax: 602-553-0144

Contacting the author:

Questions or comments can be directed to Tim Constantine:

e-mail:

timconstan@earthlink.com

 

www:

http://home.earthlink.net/~TimConstan/

 

phone:

419-478-8403 (any reasonable Eastern Standard time)

 

mail:

Tim Constantine
4151 Garden Park Drive
Toledo, OH 43613

 

How to pay for the program:

There are a variety of methods that you can use to pay for Flash,no matter which you choose, please remember to include the followinginformation with your payment:

If you wish to pay by any of the following methods then you maysend your payment directly to the author:
  • U.S. cash
  • U.S. check
  • U.S. money order
  • U.S. purchase order
Tim Constantine
4151 Garden Park Drive
Toledo, OH 43613
USA

If you wish to pay by any of the following methods, then you musthandle your purchase through Kagi:

What is Kagi:

Kagi is essentially an Internet based mail order sales companythat specializes in the sale of commercial and shareware software.Payments can be made via email, fax, the WWW, or postal mail.

Contacting Kagi:

e-mail:

sales@kagi.com

 

www:

http://www.kagi.com/

 

fax:

1-510-652-6589

 

 

 

 

phone:

1-510-420-5858

 

 

 

 

mail:

Kagi
1442-A Walnut Street #392-TE
Berkeley, California 94709-1405
USA

 

Kagi has a variety of methods available for payingfor
software depending on the type of license you which to purchase

 

A single "Individual"

Multiple "Individual"

Site

Organizational

Visa

WWW
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Foreign Currency Cash

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Foreign Check in U.S. Dollars

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Foreign Currency Purchase Order

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First Virtual:

First Virtual is an internet based payment system.
You can get First Virtual's FAQ by sending e-mail tohelp@fv.com
You can get more information about First Virtual at their WWW sitehttp:\\www.fv.com

How to register on the WWW:

You can pay by credit card on the WWW at:http://home.earthlink.net/~TimConstan/

How to use "Register" for the Newton:

Note: "Register" for the Newton can not be used to purchasemultiple individual licenses, site licenses, or organization licenses

Sending your payment using Newton based E-Mail or Fax:

If your Newton has e-mail or fax capability, you can pay by creditcard (American Express, VISA, or MasterCard) or First Virtual(Internet purchasing) directly from your Newton.

  1. Install the "Register" program that accompanies Flash to your Newton
  2. Open "Flash" then select "Info", "Register" and click on the money button in the bottom/center of the screen
  3. Fill in the payment type, credit card number, expiration date, and your internet e-mail address
  4. Tap the envelope icon
  5. Choose Mail or Fax

Without Newton mail or fax capabilities:

If your Newton does not have e-mail or fax capability, you canstill pay by credit card (American Express, VISA, or MasterCard) orFirst Virtual (Internet purchasing) by using "Register" for theNewton.

Option #1 - If you have a printer & want to mail or fax inthe form

  1. Complete steps "1" through "5" under "Sending your payment using Newton based E-Mail or Fax"
  2. Tap "Print item"
  3. Then send the message to Kagi

    fax:

    1-510-652-6589

     

    mail:

    Kagi
    1442-A Walnut Street #392-TE
    Berkeley, California 94709-1405
    USA

     

Option #2 - If you want to e-mail the form via a separatecomputer

  1. Complete steps "1" through "5" under "Sending your payment using Newton based E-Mail or Fax"
  2. Tap "Print item"
  3. Tap "Print", "Later" in the print slip
  4. Close "Register"
  5. Open your "Out Box"
  6. Open the message waiting to be printed
  7. Tap "Show", "Plain Text". The text is only 10 lines and it isn't very long. Note that your credit card information is converted into a text string so that prying eyes won't get it.
  8. Transfer the data
    • Select the text and copy it to the NotePad then you can copy the message from the Newton to your host computer.
    • Or, retype the data exactly as it appears into the email message on your host computer's e-mail system.
  9. Then send the message to sales@kagi.com

For Foreign Currency Cash or Foreign Checks in U.S. Dollarspurchases:

Please note that you can pay with a wide variety of cash fromdifferent countries but at present if you pay via check, it must be acheck drawn in US Dollars. Kagi cannot accept checks in othercurrencies.

Option #1

  1. Use a payment type of "Query" to generate the information that needs to be included with your payment.
  2. Get that information down on paper somehow (by printing from the Newton, transfering the information from your Newton to a host computer and printing from there, or re-typing the data exactly as it appears).
  3. Send your payment & "Register" generated information to Kagi.

    mail:

    Kagi
    1442-A Walnut Street #392-TE
    Berkeley, California 94709-1405
    USA

     

Option #2

  1. Use a payment type of "Query" to generate the information that needs to be included with your payment
  2. E-mail a "Query" payment type. By sending a Query, the paybot at our end generates a payment form and sends it back to the payer via email. The payment form includes an Invoice number and a postal address to send the payment to.
  3. Include the Invoice number with your payment and send it to Kagi. Using the invoice number Kagi connects the electronic information together with the payment and completes the registration.

    mail:

    Kagi
    1442-A Walnut Street #392-TE
    Berkeley, California 94709-1405
    USA

     

How to use "Register" for the Macintosh:

Contact the author for availability.

How to use "Register" for Windows:

Contact the author for availability.

Other means of registering:

If none of these suit the method of payment that you prefer orneed to use, please contact the author with the details of yourprefered payment method, and perhaps we can work something out.

Obtaining a Passcode:

And payments to Kagi:

Payments sent via email to Kagi are processed within 3 to 4 days.You will receive an email acknowledgement from Kagi when it isprocessed.

Payments sent via fax to Kagi take up to 10 days and if youprovide a correct internet email address you will receive an emailacknowledgement.

Payments send via postal mail to Kagi take time to reach Kagi andthen up to 10 days for processing. Again, if you include a correctemail address, you will hear from Kagi when the form is processed.

When you pay, I receive a notice from Kagi. Upon receiving thismessage from Kagi, I will then send you a passcode which you can useto tell Flash that you have paid the registration fee.

And payments directly to the author:

Upon receiving your payment, I will then send you a passcode whichyou can use to tell Flash that you have paid the registrationfee.


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