STRAIGHT AHEAD SHIPS DESKTOP MAGICIAN 2.0 - ALL ENVIRONMENT MAGIC WAND

Desktop Magician 2.0 makes it easy to save and restore your complete
desktop environment, including content and placement of icons, open
windows, running applications, open documents, mounted servers, mounted
disk images, and monitor settings.

Felton, CA-November 30, 2000 - Straight Ahead Software today announced
Desktop Magician 2.0, a feature rich desktop utility for Macintosh, is now
shipping.

Desktop Magician takes a broad step forward in this release, offering a
wide range of options for saving an restoring your Mac's running
environment for whatever purpose you need.

Desktop Magician 2.0 Features:

* New toolbar (floating or non-floating as desired) for convenient access
* New contextual menu plug-in
* Save and restore sets of open Finder windows for particular projects, as
needed
* Save and restore sets of running applications and open documents
* Save and restore sets of mounted servers and mounted disk images
* Save and restore sets of items displayed on the desktop and their icon
positions
* Save and restore monitor settings for color depth and resolution
* Cycle your favorite desktop pictures at specified intervals
* Easily quit all applications, unmount all servers, unmount all disk
images, and close all Finder windows in a single click.
* And just for fun-a new "spell with icons" feature

For more information about Desktop Magician, visit:
http://www.cruzers.com/~straightahead

Availability and Requirements

Desktop Magician 2.0 is being released as shareware. A single-user license
is just $20 USD.

Desktop Magician operates on any PowerPC Macintosh computer running Mac OS
7.5. or later and Appearance 1.0.1 or later, with at least 550K of free
RAM, and at least 600K of free hard drive space. The Desktop Magician CM
Plugin contextual menu extension requires contextual menu support available
in Mac OS 8.0 or later. Setting the resolution of your main monitor
requires Mac OS 8 or later to be installed, or the Display Enabler
extension version 2.4.0 or later, when running with more than one monitor.

Desktop Magician is distributed only electronically. It is available at the
website listed above and at major shareware repositories where Macintosh
shareware is available.

Email Straight Ahead Software at: straightahead@kagi.com