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After an extended break, some effort has been spent on a brand new and more modern design for the site.   Unfortunately both Sound Control and TICK have not had an update for quite some time now.  No promises and it depends how involved it becomes but I am hoping to release updates soon starting with Sound Control and if the update is well received it will be followed by a new version of TICK.   The new versions will be made available via the new Current Downloads feature, first as BETA releases to gather and fix any bug reports.  Depending on the general feedback and success of the release it will then be made the official download version.  When a release is made details of the changes will be posted as a new news item.  Please feel free to Contact Us if you have any feedback.

After many years of success I have made the decision that due to personal reasons I have unfortunately decided the current version of TICK and Sound Control will be the last. With regret, this means Vista operating system support will not be implemented. The web site will remain open for the time being and support questions will still be read and answered if time permits. I am not totally discounting future versions but I currently do not have the energy, time, willpower or interest to continue these projects. It has been a difficult past few years and I wish to thank all users for their support and past interest in both TICK and Sound Control. When I think back to 1998 when I made the first public release of TICK (as it is called now) and back to 1999 for the first public release of Sound Control I have received great joy from these projects especially in the early years of development. If you wish to contact us please use the Contact Us facilities. Thank you and goodbye (for now).

A Member Only release is a special version of an application (usually a new version which is not publically available) which is made available to members of the web site only.  A member of the site has registered to show their interest and support of the freeware applications available. Membership of the site is free.  Member only releases facilities are currently not available.

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Regular visitors have no doubt noticed that over the past couple of weeks the site has been experiencing difficulties. These problems started when the host company decided to migrate my account to a new server without my knowledge. This then involved me updating the domains so they resolved to the new server which causes a couple of days of the server appearing to alternate between up and down whilst these changes were propagated. The problems over the past several days have been caused by the new server suddenly having some kind of problem which resulted in no scripting being executed causing incomplete or even blank pages being served to visitors. I have since implemented a workaround but the original problem has still not been resolved and the server appears to be sluggish and unreliable at times. Please use the Contact Us facilities if you find any problems or to provide feedback on the speed/reliability of the new server.

Unfortunately due to continued illness the site is currently not being updated. I will continue to be answer e-mails when I can and the site will remain open and monitored. If you have any queries please do not hesitate to use the contact details at the top of each page.

Due to the ongoing email bombardment from viruses please remember that Really Effective never sends any emails containing attachments unless they have been explicitly requested or agreed. Many viruses use techniques that gather email addresses from infected machines searching Address Books or recently visited web pages and then randomly falsify emails so it appears they have been sent from a known trusted source. If you receive email that claims to be sent from Really Effective and it contains an attachment you did not request delete the entire email without opening or previewing immediately. The email will not have been sent from Really Effective.

Over the weekend the Really Effective web site has moved to a new server. If you experience any problems please use the contact details at the top of each page. I am feeling somewhat better and are gradually trying to build up to full strength. I expect to answer outstanding e-mails by the end of the coming weekend. If you do not get a reply soon please resend your query or use the Contact Us facility at the top of the page. Please remember that emails are answered in my limited spare time so please be patient.