All ARELIS program updates are free!
Version 4.4.2 (24 July 2004)
| · | 25th free update for all ARELIS customers.
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| · | Fixed: When finding link partners or importing web sites, the link text and the link description could not be retrieved if you used a certain Internet Explorer version and if the option "Get link texts and link descriptions from the home pages of the found link partners" was not checked.
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Version 4.4.1 (19 July 2004)
| · | 24th free update for all ARELIS customers.
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| · | Improved: The yellow hint window in the web site list is now only displayed when the mouse cursor is in the current column. This way, the yellow hint window doesn't come in your way.
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| · | Improved: You can now choose if you want ARELIS to double-check if the found web page really contains a link to the competitor URL (because some search engine have outdated data).
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| · | Improved: In the Find New Link Partners window, you can now double-click a web page URL in the list of web sites that have been filtered.
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| · | Fixed: When finding link partners by competitor URL, the found web pages could be filtered when the option "Use home page instead of found web page" was checked.
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| · | Fixed: When you changed the status of a web site in the list, the status of the following web site could also be changed.
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| · | Fixed: If you switched to the "Send Email Message" panel by keyboard, then the email message wasn't always updated with the current web site information.
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Version 4.4 (2 July 2004)
| · | 23th free update for all ARELIS customers.
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| · | Thanks to all beta testers! Thank you, Hersh, David, Tom, Greg, Max and others!
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| · | New: There's now a Display menu that lets you easily specify which web sites should be displayed. The Display menu replaces the filter popup menu above the web site list. In addition, you have several new options to filter the web site list. You can now filter the web site list by category name, by sub category name and by date.
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| · | New: Above the web site list on the left side, there's now an "instant search" feature that replaces the previous Search window.
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| · | New: Above the web site list on the right side, there's now a popup menu that lets you change the height of the web site list. You can instantly change the height of the web site list by pressing Ctrl-1, Ctrl-2, ..., or Ctrl-7.
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| · | New: In the Edit Filter List window, you can now specify that only web pages should be added that contain special words or phrases. In addition, you can now change the size of the Edit Filter List window.
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| · | New: In the Send Email Message panel, there's now a small button beside the email address field that opens a new mail window in your email application with the current email address. This means that ARELIS now allows you to send personalized messages with your standard email client so that you can queue the messages before sending them.
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| · | New: ARELIS now recognizes it if you paste "mailto:email@domain.com" or "name <email@domain.com>" to the Recipient Name field or to the Recipient Email field in the Send Email Message panel of the main window. It also recognizes such texts in the Add Web Site window.
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| · | New: There are three new email variables for your email templates: <<recipient-URL-on-links-page>> provides the link to the recipient's web site as it appears on your link pages, <<recipient-notes>> inserts your notes about the recipient, and <<page-URL-that-contains-a-link-to-your-site>> inserts the link partner's web page URL that contains a link to your site. You can see all email variables in the mail template "[English] Overview of all email variables.txt".
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| · | New: You can now use the new link page template variable [A-Link-Back-URL] to display the URL of the web page that contains a link back to your web site.
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| · | New: In the Get Picture window, you can now see the width and the height of each image.
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| · | Improved: When you change a text in the Edit Site panel, the email message now reflects the changes immediately.
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| · | Improved: Searching the web site list is now case-insensitive.
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| · | Improved: When using the "Find web sites that link to your competitors" feature in the "Find New Link Partners" window, ARELIS now verifies if the found web page really links to the entered URL.
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| · | Improved: We've renamed the column "Link Order" to "Weight" because it better describes that web sites with higher numbers will appear higher on your link pages.
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| · | Improved: In the Find New Link Partners window, the search engine list is now hierarchically organized and displays country flags. In addition, you can now resize the Find New Link Partners window.
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| · | Improved: The search engine descriptions are now updated daily at program start (or when you select the corresponding menu command in the Help menu).
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| · | Improved: Now you can minimize the Add Web Site window.
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| · | Improved: Connecting to a mail server now times out after 45 seconds instead of waiting forever.
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| · | Improved: ARELIS now tells you if the link page template file is open in another application so that it cannot be opened by ARELIS.
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| · | Improved: If you manually edit your link page templates, you can now use several category variables in the SubCategoryHTML parameter of the [A-Insert-Category-Table] variable. These category variables are [A-Category-Nr], [A-Category-Name], [A-Category-Filename] and [A-Number-of-sub-categories].
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| · | Changed: In the mail templates brackets - "[...]" - indicated that there is text to be inserted by the user. Now ARELIS uses "[> ... <]" to indicate such text so that you can use the normal brackets in your email message.
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| · | Fixed some problems when importing files that have been previously exported by ARELIS.
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| · | Fixed: When you use the Find New Link Partners feature, sub domains are now respected. For example, if you search for "http://french.about.com", ARELIS will now search for "french.about.com" instead of "about.com".
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| · | Fixed: ARELIS added two extra lines before the first line in the link page template file. This could cause a PHP interpreter program to not recognize the resulting pages as PHP files.
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| · | Fixed: In the Add Web Site window, you could only enter a single line in the Notes field.
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| · | Fixed some problems with web pages that contained frames.
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| · | Added several additional minor improvements and fixed some additional minor bugs.
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Version 4.3.2 (4 April 2004)
| · | 22th free update for all ARELIS customers.
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| · | New: When finding new link partners, you can now see which URLs have been filtered and why (for example, URLs can be filtered because they are in your filter list or because the server is down).
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| · | Fixed: AltaVista and AllTheWeb changed their ranking results format which made internal program changes necessary to receive accurate results.
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Version 4.3.1 (23 January 2004)
| · | 21th free update for all ARELIS customers.
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| · | Improved: Now ARELIS can find more than 50,000 potential link partners per search engine and per search term (if available).
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| · | Fixed: When exporting email addresses, sometimes the contact name was exported instead of the email address.
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| · | Fixed a problem importing links with no real domain names, e.g. http://192.168.0.1.
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Version 4.3 (21 January 2004)
| · | 20th free update for all ARELIS customers. (Do you know of other companies providing you with 20 free updates? :-)
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| · | New: ARELIS can now use whois servers to find the contact information for potential link partners. This feature is used in the Find New Link Partners window, in the Add Web Site window, in the Import Manager window and in the Get Web Site Information window. See the General Options dialog for detailed settings.
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| · | New: You can now quickly open the filter list by selecting Settings > Edit Filter List. The filter list is used by the Find New Link Partners feature and when importing links.
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| · | New: There's a new email option that lets ARELIS jump to the next web site in the list after sending an email message (see the Email Options window for details).
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| · | New: The new link page template variable [A-Found-URL] lets you use the URL of the web site list in your link page templates.
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| · | Improved: At program startup, the copyright window now shows the progress of loading the database.
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| · | Improved: In the Send Email Message panel of the main window, ARELIS now clearly distinguishes between found email address and email addresss which have been additionally proposed by ARELIS.
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| · | Improved: In the Send Email Message panel of the main window, the date of the last sent email is now displayed permanently for every link partner. This makes it easier for you to keep up with follow-up emails.
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| · | Improved: The Add Web Site window can now display more than one contact email address and more than one contact name if available.
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| · | Improved: The "Get Web Site Information" feature (which you can find in the Tools menu) can now display more than one contact email address if available. In addition, it can now also display the name of the contact person (if available).
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| · | Improved: Now there's less flicker when using the arrow buttons to navigate through the web site list in the main window.
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| · | Improved: When you create a new link page template, ARELIS now checks the file name for the first link page (e.g. "links.htm") more rigorously.
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| · | Improved: When you send email messages with the "word wrap" feature activated and the email message contains HTML code, the HTML code will be wrapped better now.
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| · | Fixed some problems when importing links that have been exported with ARELIS 4.2.
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| · | Fixed: If your link directory didn't contain sub categories, then the link order was not always right.
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| · | Fixed: The Find New Link Partners feature could add web pages from the same domain if that domain wasn't already in the web site list of the main window.
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| · | Fixed: The "Import list of manually entered list of URLs" broke long URLs into two lines making some URLs unusable.
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| · | Fixed: When sending a copy of the email messages to yourself, the email message copy didn't include the email address of the actual recipient.
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| · | Fixed: If the link directory could not be created (for example, because the destination directory didn't exist), there was no error message.
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| · | Fixed: If no link page template was selected, the email template variables <<recipient-category-file-name>> and <<recipient-sub-category-file-name>> didn't return file names.
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| · | Fixed: In the Create Link Pages window, the path to the link pages directory on your hard disk was sometimes mistakenly recognized as a URL.
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Version 4.2 (16 December 2003)
| · | 19th free update for all ARELIS customers.
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| · | Thanks to all beta testers! Thank you, Craig, John, Joseph, Ken, Luke, Mark, Patrick and others!
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| · | New: ARELIS is now also available in German (you can switch between German and English in the File menu).
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| · | New: You can now use an external web browser application to preview potential link partner sites. For example, you can open the potential link partner web site in Internet Explorer with the Google toolbar installed in order to see the PageRank of the web site.
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| · | New: The Add Web Site window now allows you to enter a picture URL and notes for the new web site.
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| · | New: In the Add Web Site window there's now a button to clear all fields.
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| · | New: In the Add Web Site window you can now check if the entered URL already exists in your web site list.
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| · | New: In the Add Web Site window there are now two options that lets you specify if you want to look for contact information and if the link text should be taken from the home page instead of the entered URL.
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| · | New: You can now export a numeric unique identifier (to easily import the export file into a database).
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| · | New: You can now import and export the contact name, the contact email address and the banner URL of every web site.
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| · | New: You can now import and export the date of the first email to the recipient, the date when the recipient was found and the date of the last check whether the recipient links back.
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| · | New: You can now easily change the link order number for multiple web sites at once (with the Change Selected Web Pages window).
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| · | New: In the Options window, you can now specify a default email name if the contact email address of a potential link partner could not be found (e.g. sales@domain-of-potential-link-partner.com). This default email name will also be used for the export feature.
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| · | New: In the Options window, you can now specify the search depth for finding the contact address, i.e. the number of links that ARELIS should follow until it finds the email address of a web site.
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| · | New: You can now easily remove the "Build with ARELIS" notice on your link pages (in the Create Link Pages window).
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| · | New: You can now use two new variables in your email templates: <<date-of-first-email-to-recipient-short>> and <<date-of-first-email-to-recipient-long>>.
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| · | Improved: The link check is now much faster and more accurate.
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| · | Improved: ARELIS can now find web pages that link to the fully entered URL. Previously, it only checked who linked to the entered domain.
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| · | Improved: ARELIS now automatically repairs the project's database files if there was an improper application shutdown.
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| · | Improved: Importing links from web pages (or from a list of URLs) now imports all links even if they're from the same domain.
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| · | Improved: If you have many projects, or many domain/keyword filters, then ARELIS will start now much faster.
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| · | Improved: Finding the contact information of a web site has been improved.
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| · | Improved: Finding link partners is now faster, specifically on slower PC's.
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| · | Improved: When you check the project's database for corruption, the database files will now also optimized. This means that entries marked for deletion are now physically deleted from the database files, making the database files smaller.
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| · | Improved: When you export the web sites and no email address exists for a web site, then your-name@domain.com is exported (of course, "domain.com" is replaced by the exported web site domain name and "your-name" can be specified in the Options window). In addition, only one email address per web site is exported. This simplifies importing the export file in other applications.
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| · | Improved: ARELIS now remembers all your entries in the Find New Link Partners window.
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| · | Improved: In the Find New Link Partners window, keyword search, you can now filter the search engine list.
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| · | Improved: You can now also search for an email address when you search the web site list in the main window.
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| · | Improved: The word wrap feature for email messages has been improved very much, for example URLs don't break anymore.
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| · | Improved: ARELIS now remembers the last selection in the "Status after sending the email message" box.
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| · | Improved: You can now use the context menu in the Import window to paste a list of URLs.
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| · | Improved: When you enter a URL in the "URL to the link partner web site in your link directory" field, the "Links Back" checkbox will be automatically checked.
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| · | Improved: The Edit Find Filters window now allows you to enter more than 32 KB of domain names and URLs under Windows 98 and Windows Me.
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| · | Improved: The email copy sent to you now includes the recipient of the original email message.
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| · | Improved: You can now use underscores instead of hyphens for the file names of your link pages.
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| · | Improved: ARELIS now detects if the database files are write-protected.
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| · | Improved: You can now change the size of the Email Options window so that you can now edit email templates more easily.
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| · | Improved: You can now change the size of the Import Manager window.
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| · | Improved: In link page templates, if the [A-File-Name] ended in ".txt", no variables that insert HTML commands worked, for example <A-Link-Back-Image>. This was by design but has now changed. Now ARELIS assumes that all link page templates should create HTML code.
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| · | Fixed a problem in the Add Web Site window where the category or sub category could not be selected when there were too many category names.
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| · | Fixed: ARELIS could not find links for URLs with a sub domain, for example "support.domain.com".
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| · | Fixed: Certain URLs in the web site list in the main window could not be deleted.
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| · | Fixed: When clicking "Add To List And Add Another" in the Add Web Site window, the contact name wasn't cleared.
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| · | Fixed: When importing links or manually adding web sites, ARELIS didn't add web sites with an apostrophe in the link text or description.
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| · | Fixed: The email message check could report numbers as words in upper case letters.
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| · | Fixed: The email template variables <<date-of-last-email-to-recipient-short>> and <<date-of-last-email-to-recipient-long>> could be replaced by the wrong date texts.
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| · | Fixed: Everything you added manually before <HTML> tag in your link page template file was stripped, for example the <!DOCTYPE> tag.
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| · | Fixed: ARELIS had some problems finding links or importing web pages if the top level domain was .au, .cn, .jp, .nz, .sg, .th or .uk.
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| · | Fixed: When importing Zeus directories, sometimes only the links of the first category were imported.
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| · | Fixed: The Get Picture URL window returned the wrong URL if the URL had a sub directory.
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| · | Fixed: When you created a new email template and didn't enter a subject, the email template text was lost between program restarts.
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| · | Fixed: In the Create Link Pages window, the "Test URL" button for "Picture URL for web sites that link back" didn't work.
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| · | Fixed: The SMTP server port number wasn't remembered between program starts.
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| · | Fixed a bug with NetMeeting's video driver.
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| · | Fixed some memory leaks.
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| · | Added many more minor improvements and more help documentation, and fixed other minor bugs.
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Version 4.1 (23 May 2003)
| · | 18th free update for ARELIS customers.
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| · | New: When adding web sites manually to the list, you can now specify the contact name (which will be used later to address the email message). In addition, you can now easily open the web site in your web browser.
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| · | New: The Get Picture URLs window now offers a preview for the selected picture. The preview also supports animated GIFs.
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| · | New: When finding link partners, you can now specify if the link text and the link description should be fetched from the home page of the found web page instead of the found web page itself.
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| · | New: The file names of your link pages can now be created in all lower case.
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| · | New: The context menu (which you can open by clicking the right mouse button on a web site in the web site list) now allows you to quickly edit the link text, or open the Edit Status List window, or open the Edit Categories window by selecting the corresponding menu commands.
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| · | Improved the speed and the reliability of the "Get Information Online" feature in the Add web Site window.
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| · | Improved: You don't have to enter any proxy server information anymore, ARELIS now knows what to do automatically.
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| · | Improved the "Check For Updates" window. It now tells you what has changed in the newest version.
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| · | Improved: Simplified the First Start window and the Options window.
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| · | Improved: Per user request, ARELIS doesn't require the HTML tags <HTML> or <BODY> in the dummy web pages to create link page templates anymore. However, the dummy web page must contain at least one arbitrary HTML tag.
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| · | Improved: When you create a new project, the default email settings will have already been set.
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| · | Improved: ARELIS now warns you if you select all country extensions to be filtered in the Find New Link Partners window or in the Import window.
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| · | Improved: When you send a test email message in ARELIS, the From name will now be set.
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| · | Fixed: When importing links from a web page, web pages from the same domain could be added to the list.
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| · | Fixed: The menu command "Open web Site In New Window" in the context menu didn't open the selected web site but the web site that was displayed in the preview browser.
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| · | Fixed: The URL icon besides the fields "URL of the page that contains a link to your site" and "Picture or banner URL in your link directory" didn't work correctly.
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| · | Fixed: In the Email Options window, the POP3 server port wasn't remembered correctly when closing the window.
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| · | Fixed: The Email Message Check window wasn't displayed correctly when "Large Fonts" was activated.
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| · | Fixed some other minor bugs.
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Version 4.0 (1 May 2003)
| · | 17th free update for ARELIS customers.
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| · | New: The ARELIS interface has been redesigned to make it even easier to use and to comply more with the Windows XP theme.
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| · | New: For every potential link partner, you can now easily find out if the site is linked from the important directory Yahoo.com, and you can get detailed information about the site from Alexa.com and AllTheWeb.com. These new features provide a great advantage over evaluating link partners manually.
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| · | New: Even beginners can now easily create link page templates in the design of their web site with the help of the new Create Link Pages window.
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| · | New: You can now assign individual status texts to your link partners, as well as adding, renaming and removing status as you want.
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| · | New: You can now copy and move a web site to other ARELIS projects. You can also copy/move several web sites at once. This simplifies the management of multiple ARELIS projects.
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| · | New: Finding new link partners is now much easier and more powerful. ARELIS now guides you step by step through finding new link partners.
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| · | New: You can now find link partners in three different ways: sites who link to your competitors, sites that already link to your site and using a keyword search on search engines.
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| · | New: You can find link partners on many more search engines, including non-US search engines if your site isn't in English.
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| · | New: When finding link partners, you can now easier select which search engines should be used.
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| · | New: When finding link partners, you can now set the category, the sub category and the status for newly found sites.
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| · | New: When finding link partners, you can now use detailed filters to determine which web sites should be added.
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| · | New: You can now easily make backup of the ARELIS directory with the new menu command "Tools > Backup ARELIS...".
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| · | New: Importing links from web pages, files and projects is now much easier and more powerful. There are now five ways to import link partners into ARELIS: you can import a list of URLs, you can import the links on a web page, you can import Zeus directories, you can import ARELIS exported files and you can import links from other ARELIS projects.
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| · | New: You can now import a list of URLs into ARELIS.
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| · | New: You can now import files that have been previously exported by ARELIS. This allows you to exchange projects with other ARELIS users.
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| · | New: You can now import links from other ARELIS projects in your installation. This allows you to combine two projects into one.
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| · | New: There are 7 new email template variables: "<<your-company-name>>", "<<your-domain>>", "<<your-email>>", "<<your-first-name>>", "<<your-full-name>>", "<<your-last-name>>" and "<<your-URL>>".
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| · | New: There's now a "Get..." button in the "Edit Site" panel to "grab" the picture URL from the link partner's web site.
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| · | Improved: The Find Sites By Competitors feature is now able to find more web sites that link to your competitors.
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| · | Improved: Finding new link partners is now faster.
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| · | Improved: The Add web Site window now allows you to enter the web page that contains a link to your site. That allows you to quickly add a new link partner that links back to your site.
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| · | Improved: The Add web Site window now also allows you to select the status text and enter an email address.
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| · | Improved: The Get web Site Information window now lets you copy all information to the clipboard. In addition, you can have several Get web Site Information windows open at the same time.
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| · | Improved: Simplified the First Start Wizard window, the Create Project window, the Duplicate Project window and the Edit Project window.
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| · | Improved: The Check Database Integrity feature has been improved.
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| · | Improved the existing email templates and added a new one that contains all email variables as an overview for you.
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| · | Improved: You can now use the List menu to arrange the list by URL, link text, status text, category, etc.
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| · | Improved: You can now use the List menu to set the list height.
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| · | Improved: The manual now explains more topics.
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| · | Changed: The Relevance column is now only used for determining the order of the links in your link directory.
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| · | Fixed: If "Large Fonts" was activated, some windows couldn't be displayed correctly.
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| · | Fixed: The Find Sites By Competitors feature could return a few wrong web sites.
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| · | Fixed: In the Email Options window, the SMTP server port wasn't remembered when closing the window.
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| · | Added many minor improvements and fixed some other minor bugs.
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Version 3.7.3 (5 February 2003)
| · | 16th free update for ARELIS customers.
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| · | New: You can now enter the SMTP server port number and the POP server port number in the Email Options window if your ISP uses non-standard port numbers.
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| · | Improved the clarity in the Email Options window.
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| · | Improved: Added a short explanation in the Edit Reciprocal Link panel.
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| · | Fixed a small bug where in the Edit Site panel changing the status to "Web site links back" didn't check the corresponding checkbox in the list.
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Version 3.7.2 (21 January 2003)
| · | 15th free update for ARELIS customers.
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| · | Improved: Added a new advanced tip about email message templates in the Beginner's Guide.
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| · | Improved: Added a new email template in ARELIS.
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| · | Fixed a display bug where the email history wasn't displayed.
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Version 3.7.1 (14 January 2003)
| · | 14th free update for ARELIS customers.
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| · | Improved: You can now read the text in the web site list better if the list hasn't the focus.
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| · | Fixed: There could be extra blank lines in the email message when the "Word wrap" feature was enabled.
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Version 3.7 (13 January 2003)
| · | 13th free update for ARELIS customers.
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| · | New: You can now select multiple web sites in the main window list (hold down the Shift or Ctrl key while clicking the web sites in the list).
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| · | New: The new Change Web Pages window lets you perform several operations on multiple web pages at once, for example changing the status of all selected web pages, or changing the category, the sub category, or the "Links Back" and "Include in Link Pages" check boxes.
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| · | New: ARELIS can now check your email messages against common email filters. This will help you to prevent your email message from being deleted by email spam filters.
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| · | New: ARELIS can now word-wrap your email messages (see the Email Options window for details). Your link request mails will look better now.
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| · | New: You can now specify the web browser application that ARELIS should use to show your web pages.
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| · | New: You can now specify an application that will be opened when you press a certain key combination. For example, this allows you to quickly open your email application if you don't want to use the built-in one. Of course, you can open any other application.
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| · | New: There's now a "Get..." button for the link text, too (in addition to the "Get..." button for the link description text).
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| · | New: Clicking the "Links back" checkbox in the list in the main window now sets the status to "Web site links back".
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| · | New: Added the new link directory variable "[A-Link-Banner-Full]" to make adding a clickable link banner that links to the link partner easier.
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| · | Improved: The Add Web Site window has been improved so that you can enter several web sites one after the |
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