Mariner Software Releases MacJournal 5
Popular Journaling and Blogging Software Released

Mariner Software, developers and publishers of professional and personal
software, today announced the release of MacJournal 5.0, the latest release
in Mariner Software's award-winning line of writing and creativity titles.

Totally redesigned and built for Leopard, MacJournal 5 allows users to add
any kind of content, PDFs, QuickTime movies, images, and text. In addition,
bloggers can now blog video to their blog on Blogger, WordPress,
LiveJournal or a .mac account. Even record video from your iSight and
attach it to an entry.

MacJournal 5 also introduces Smart Journals, which allow specific criteria
to be searched upon. Assign each entry a rating, status, and priority, and
sort any journal by those values.

Also significant in the latest release:

* Open more than one MacJournal document at a time and save them.

* Create aliases to entries that you can store in other journals.

* Performance enhancements for working with large amounts of entries.

* Resize images in any entry.

* Picasa integration.

* QuickLook integration.

"MacJournal 5 is our most significant update yet," said Michael Wray,
President of Mariner Software. "Not only did we improve the user interface,
but, behind the scenes, we also recreated the architecture. Now users can
have years, even decades, worth of photos, video, or graphics, and
MacJournal will still be blazing fast."

MacJournal 5 is the world's most popular journaling software for the
Macintosh. Users can easily create a personal journal with two level
security (password protection and encryption), record daily ideas, manage
lists, and idea and export them to multiple file formats, or generate blogs
to any of the popular blogging services in two clicks of the mouse.
MacJournal 5 even podcasts.

Availability

MacJournal 5 is now available for download and requires Mac OS 10.4 or
higher (including Leopard). Pricing is set at $34.95 for the download
version. Registered MacJournal 3 and 4 customers can upgrade for $19.95 on
the Mariner web site with their serial number. MacJournal 5 is available
for purchase at the Mariner eStore or through various retailers such as:
The Apple Store, Amazon, MicroCenter, MacMall, or Fry's Electronics.
MacJournal can also be purchased through numerous international
distributors across the world. For a complete list of international
distributors, visit the Mariner web site at http://www.marinersoftware.com

About Mariner Software

Mariner Software, Inc., developers of the industry-recognized products,
MacJournal, Mariner Write, Mariner Calc, Montage, WinJournal and now,
StoryMill has established itself as one of the most diverse leaders in
consumer, business, and educational writing and creativity markets for the
Macintosh and Windows platforms. With customers worldwide, Mariner Software
is committed to delivering the highest quality software, with an emphasis
on total customer satisfaction.

For more information, visit the Mariner Software web site at
http://www.marinersoftware.com