Audio Notes Touch User's manual

Introduction

Welcome to Audio Notes Touch, the easiest solution for taking notes just on the go. This application records your notes in MP3 format and plays them back. We hope you'll enjoy using Audio Notes Touch as we do our best to provide you with the best solutions for your mobile lifestyle.

Activation

Downloadable version of Audio Notes Touch is fully functional and has to be purchased and activated for further usage after 14-day trial period. Please purchase Audio Notes Touch at iwindowsmobile.com

To activate:

· connect your device to Internet

· start Audio Notes Touch

· go Menu > About (icon i)> Activate

· type in your activation code from the e-mail you received from VITO after purchasing Audio Notes Touch and press Activate now.

In case you can't connect to Internet from your pocket PC, activation will take more time:

· start Audio Notes Touch

· go Menu > About(icon i)>Activate

· press Activate button, type into the empty field the activation code from the email you received from VITO Technology after purchasing Audio Notes Touch, choose “I have no Internet” and press Activate button below. The file “send_to_support.txt” was saved to “\Program files\VITO\Audio_Notes_Touch \License\” folder.

Please finish activation in the Support section http://vitotechnology.com/en/support/.

On this page сhoose off-line registration in combo box to proceed with the off-line activation of your software.

To activate the program off-line make the following steps:

Press the button Browse and choose file send_to_support.txt that was created by the program
Having chosen the file press the button Get License and safe the file with the license
Put the file with your license in the folder where the file send_to_support.txt is
Make sure that:

the file with the license was named exactly as license_1.0.txt

the file is saved in Unicode format

Note: as you can see on-line activation is much easier than the off-line variant, which can take considerably more time. We recommend you on-line activation.

The e-mails with activation codes are generated automatically, so if you didn’t get the key, check your Spam Filters. Usually when you do not receive the key immediately the letter is put in junk. If you have any questions or problems regarding the activation process, please contact our support at http://vitotechnology.com/en/support/.

Recording notes

The Audio Notes Touch files are recorded either to the storage card or device depending on where there is more space (the program automatically looks for the free space, if there is a card it puts the records there, if there is no card or no free space there, it puts recording to the device)

to record a new note:

· start Audio Notes Touch from Start > Programs > AudioNotes and press the left soft key or tap Record button in the upper tray bar

· press previously assigned hardware button. To assign a hardware button for recording go Menu > Settings > Quick record and choose a button in the menu. When you press this button Audio Notes Touch runs and starts recording. Now it works swifter.

to pause/resume recording:

· press the right soft key or tap Pause in the upper tray bar

to stop recording:

· press the left soft key or tap Stop in the upper tray bar

To start playing from any chosen point:

· Tap the recording and move the toddler with your finger either to rewind or fast forward the recording.

to change recording quality:

· go Menu > * quality > choose either low, medium or high MP3 quality.

to change VAS:

· start recording by pressing

· move the toddler leftwards or rightwards at VAS control panel

Note: VAS (Voice Activated System) allows you to record only sounds that exceed the set VAS level. The loudness is indicated by flashing lights in the VAS panel and the Vas level is a yellow bar you can see in the VAS panel as well. Otherwise, when the loudness is not enough (the lights don't reach the yellow bar), recording is paused.

to change Microphone auto gain mode:

· start recording by pressing

· press the button Mic. Auto Gain to choose between low, middle, high or off.

Note: with high auto gain mode turned on the microphone becomes sensitive to the maximum. This is highly recommended when you are far from the sound you want to record.

to record all phone conversations automatically:

· go Menu > Settings > Calls autorecord and tick this option

Note: with Calls autorecord turned on Audio Notes Touch always starts and stays in background after soft reset. In this case you can't stop it with usual task switchers, you can "launch" it "again", i.e. bring its window to the front from Programs > Audio Notes Touch and choose exit in Menu.

to turn on speakerphone:

· Go Menu>Settings>Speakerphone

Note: You may choose to automatically turn on the speaker when calling. This enables Audio Notes Touch to record phone calls practically on all Pocket PCs Phone Edition. It makes recording more audible and comprehensible.

Playing notes

To play your notes:

· press the note you’d like to listen to

To pause/resume playing:

· press the pause button

To stop playing:

· press the arrow button to stop playing and moving backwards to the list of notes

To delete the recording:

· start playing the recording, press menu button , choose Delete

To change playback options:

· move the toddler under the time to rewind or fast forward the recording

· next control panel allows you to change the volume

· press the button with the name of the recording to rename it (you can do it during the playing or recording the note)

· start playing the recording, press menu button , choose Send.

Managing notes

You can perform the following actions with any of your voice notes: play, rename,append, send it via MMS or email, delete. All these options are available while playing the recording.

to append recording:

· start playing the recording, press menu button , choose Append. Now you can continue recording to the same voice note. New recording will be appended to the initial one.

to rename a note:

press the button with the name of the recording to rename it (you can do it during the playing or recording the note)

to send your voice note via MMS or email

· start playing the recording, press menu button , choose Send.

to delete a voice note

· start playing the recording, press menu button , choose Delete

ID3 tag support

The recorded MP3 files in Audio Notes Touch support ID3Tags for organizing your notes.

ID3 is a very popular audio file data tagging format in active use by software and hardware developers around the world. ID3 tags are supported in software such as iTunes, Windows Media Player, Winamp, YME, MusicMatch and hardware players like the iPod, Creative Zen, Toshiba Gigabeat and Sony Walkman.

An ID3 tag is a data container within an MP3 audio file stored in a prescribed format. This data commonly contains the Artist name, Song title, Year and Genre of the current audio file.

Viewing notes

After you have started Audio Notes Touch you will see the list of voice notes displaying all your notes both stored on a Storage card and in the main memory. The list is empty if you have no records, i.e. when you start Audio Notes Touch for the first time. All records are saved to the folders My Documents My Audio Notes on Storage card or in the main memory (depending on the free space available).