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Creativity shines with Curio where you can place anything anywhere on the page, creating freeform collages of text, outlines, checklists, images, files, and movies. Even create brainstorming diagrams right on the page with Curio’s flowcharting and mind mapping shapes. Include content from web browsers or from Sleuth, Curio’s integrated research assistant. Pressure-sensitive brushes allow you to sketch out your ideas, and Curio’s dossier helps you define your project goals. Curio comes in four editions with features and prices fine-tuned to your needs: Professional ($129), K-12 ($65), Home ($79), and Basic ($39).
What's new in this version:
New Features
- iPhoto Exporting [ProK12Home] You can now export your idea spaces to an iPhoto album for easy photocasting to colleagues or syncing to iPods for presentations on-the-go! Requires iLife '06.
- New Idea Space Toolbar Popup/li> The new idea space toolbar button is now a popup allowing you to choose a specific notepaper style for your new page! You can even create a new idea space which uses the same style as the current idea space.
- Support for Tiger's Integrated Text Lists and Tables/li> Mac OS X 10.4 added new List Support and Table Support features to the built-in text editor control. This control is used in Apple's TextEdit application and in the text figure within Curio. Curio 3.2 now fully supports these new features in our text figures via the new Format > Text submenu.
- Create Archive/li> New File > Create Archive feature allows you to easily create copies of your current project with, optionally, all assets embedded and the resulting project file zipped and compressed.
- More Idea Space Backgrounds/li> We have bundled in several new idea space backgrounds (thanks Oliver!) plus we now let you easily choose images found in the standard Desktop Pictures and its subfolders.
- Speed Improvements/li>
- Selecting and creating new idea spaces is now a half second faster.
- Faster project loading if lots of assets are in your project.
- Much faster when switching from another app back to Curio if you have lots of assets in your project.
- Now resolving aliases by not trying to either automatically mount a volume or by bringing up a UI asking the user to mount the volume. This means opening projects while disconnected from the network is instantaneous instead of waiting for each mount to timeout (which was 60 seconds per asset!).
- Samples Gallery/li> New Help > What Can I Do With Curio menu item shows a gallery of cool things you can do with Curio. Be sure to check it out!
- New toolbar buttons for Send to Front and Bring to Back.
- New 'Share when copied' checkbox in the Extras Inspector allows you to create text figures that are linked together so changing the text in one will be reflected in all others.
- Select All only selects highlighted (non-dimmed) items so, if a search is active, only those found items matching the search criteria will get selected.
- New preference which lets you change the Organizer's behavior so the Enter key edits the current idea space's title instead of creating a new idea space. Holding the Option key down reverses this logic.
- Robust saving of asset library contents as the integrity of the file is double-checked after the save and restored with a backup automatically if necessary.
- Replaced previous OmniOutliner instant document template file with OmniOutliner 3 format file.
- If you select a list figure, then modify the font via the Format > Show Fonts panel or via many of the Text Inspector's controls, the font used for the list enumerator will also be modified along with the figures contained within the list.
- If you set a rating for a figure which was unrated then ratings will now automatically become visible.
- Fixed selecting items in a list so clicking an item will first select it, clicking again will enter it into edit mode.
- Fixed bug so that flags and other adornments are drawn at the same opacity as the associated figure.
- Fixed problem with Address Book entries with accent markes dragged into Curio suddenly disappearing from within Curio when the project is re-opened.
- Fixed crash which could occur when grabbing a Web Archive of a page that has a QuickTime movie running on it (like many of Apple's pages).
- The Action inspector shows the correct path to the aliased file instead of always saying (Embedded Asset).
- Fixed slight grid snapping problem when dragging items around that have adornments like flags drawn within the shape boundaries.
- Better handling of escape, tab, and shift-key tabs when editing an idea space title in the Organizer.
- Option-clicking on a project in Project Center which was already opened in another window, now brings that window to focus.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
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Curio 5 requires Mac OS 10.5 - Version: 5.0, 8/16/2008 10:26PM PST
(4 of 6 users found this comment useful)
donaldesilva
Curio 5 requires Leapord (Mac OS 10.5). Tiger is no longer supported. Too bad, but there must be a good reason to require it.
Excellent update - Version: 5.0, 8/14/2008 09:21PM PST
(3 of 4 users found this comment useful)
blizzaster
Curio has long been an innovative product, and version 5 continues to expand its capabilities as a creative organization tool. The new web views, and cross project linking are something I've wanted for a long time. The new project organization functions and iCal syncing are items I had even thought would make it in to the product any time soon, yet here they are. This is a great product which is open on my desktop all day every day, and is an excellent example of great Mac software. It isn't OmniOutliner, or OmniGraffle, or Yojimbo, or Microsoft Project, but it is an elegant combination of many of their features, and more. I'm definitely a satisfied user. Can't wait to see where they go with Curio 6.
I use OneNote on my PC at work. Curio is probably the closest thing to OneNote for Mac, though it is also different in many ways. It lacks some of the power, but has additional features that ON does not.
The new version adds the very useful feature of being able to insert a table, and in the usual Zengobi way includes some wonderful new methods of making tables convenient to create and use -- just check out the way in which Cuiro will take a collection of photographs and build a table around them!