Getting E-Mail Right with riteMail

Manufacturer: Parascript, LLC

Web site: www.rite-mail.net (tap Downloads)

Estimated price: $29.95

E-mail is great as far as it goes. But what if you want to sketch a diagram or draw a picture and send it? Sure, you could fax a sketch or send an electronic drawing as an attachment (created in a drawing program that the recipient of your e-mail may or may not have). But if you’ve always wanted to draw right in your e-mail messages, have I got a treat for you.

riteMail is a handy little program that allows you to take full advantage of the ink environment when writing e-mails. In riteMail, as shown in Figure 14-9, you can write your message by choosing any of six pen thickness settings and by using a variety of colors. You can also use a drawing tool that, with the riteShape feature enabled, automatically converts your roughly drawn shapes, such as squares and circles, into formal drawings.

Figure 14-9: Make your e-mails come alive with riteMail.

Recipients of your riteMail messages must have an e-mail program that is HTML capable and JAVA enabled (which basically means it can read graphics, which most major e-mail programs such as Internet Explorer can) because, essentially, you’re sending a picture of your handwriting and drawings. Some-body receiving a riteMail e-mail can also open your e-mail in a Web browser as long as it is set to allow Active X controls to run.

When you want to add a personal touch to e-mail messages, being able to send your own handwritten note is definitely a technological leap forward.