Pear Note 2.0 released with new look and sharing support Summary: Useful Fruit Software today announced Pear Note 2, the latest version of their note-taking utility for Mac OS X. At its core, Pear Note integrates audio, video, and slides with traditional text notes and stores all of this on a timeline for easy navigation. Pear Note 2 improves on this by adding web note sharing, playback speed control, and a more pleasant, useable user interface. Body: Columbia, MD - Useful Fruit Software today announced Pear Note 2, the latest version of their note-taking utility for Mac OS X. At its core, Pear Note integrates audio, video, and slides with traditional text notes and stores all of this on a timeline for easy navigation. Pear Note 2 improves on this by adding web note sharing, playback speed control, and a more pleasant, useable user interface. Pear Note records audio or video while the user takes notes, allowing the user to later find what was being said when they typed something. They can then play back the entire recording, or jump to the point they need to hear. Pear Note 2 includes a new sharing feature, which allows users to create web page versions of their notes to share with anyone with a web browser. These shared notes are fully playable and integrated, just like a normal Pear Note document, meaning that users can use the text of the note to navigate through the recording or slides. Pear Note 2 also includes support for playback speed adjustment. Users can use this feature to listen to their notes at faster than real-time to review things more quickly or slow things down to make sure they don't miss anything. The most noticeable change in Pear Note 2 is the completely new user interface, which is designed to make using Pear Note a more pleasant experience. The new interface improves discoverability in the app, and also makes navigating through the timeline much easier. Pear Note 2 also includes many other under-the-hood improvements, such as much faster note searching, support for multiple slides documents, and improved support for importing media. Pear Note feature highlights include: * Records audio, video, every keystroke, and slide changes * Playback navigation utilizing text notes or slides * Search to find notes quickly * Rich Text notes, including lists, outlines, highlighting, and images * Sharing notes on the web * Playback speed control * Spotlight support for Pear Note documents * QuickLook support for Pear Note documents * Spell Checking * Import and view slides from Powerpoint, Keynote, and PDF files * Export text, audio, video, and slides * Import audio and video Minimum Requirements: * Mac OS X Version 10.5 Leopard or later * Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel * 10 MB Hard Drive space * Spotlight must be enabled * A microphone (if recording audio) * A camera (if recording video) Pricing and Availability: Pear Note 2 can be purchased for $39.99 (USD). A free fully functional 30 day demo is available for download. Pear Note 2 - http://www.usefulfruit.com/pearnote/ Download Pear Note - http://www.usefulfruit.com/downloads/pearnote/Pear_Note.zip Purchase Pear Note - https://www.usefulfruit.com/store/ Recording Screenshot - http://www.usefulfruit.com/pearnote/recording.jpg Playback Screenshot - http://www.usefulfruit.com/pearnote/navigate.jpg App Icon - http://www.usefulfruit.com/support/documentation/pearnote/pear256.png Located in Columbia, Maryland, Useful Fruit Software LLC is a privately funded company founded in January 2008 by Chad Sellers. Dedicated to creating useful, well-made software for the Mac, Useful Fruit focuses on ease-of-use, user experience, and simplicity. Copyright 2008-2010 Useful Fruit Software LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. ### Chad Sellers Founder Useful Fruit Software 443-406-6837 United States chad@usefulfruit.com