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Last Updated April 12, 2005
Section 1: RocketLife
1.1 What is RocketLife?
1.2 Is RocketLife really "Free"? Where's the catch?
1.3 Sounds great, how can I get it?
1.4 What are the System Requirements?
1.5 Who is Visan?
1.6 How to contact us
Section 2: The RocketLife Software
2.1 What is the RocketLife Software?
2.2 Why does the RocketLife Software use a browser plug-in?
2.3 Is it an ActiveX Plug-In?
2.4 Will installing the RocketLife Software affect how files get opened on my computer?
2.5 Isn't it dangerous to let my Web Browser install ActiveX Plug-Ins?
2.6 How do I uninstall the RocketLife Software.
Section 1: RocketLife
1.1 What is RocketLife?
RocketLife is a unique and remarkable product and technology which allows you to create great stories with your digital photos and share them with your friends and family. For more information, see our Products Page.
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1.2 Is RocketLife really free? Where's the catch?
Yes, the RocketLife Software and Sharing Accounts are free - all we ask is that you make just one purchase within a 12-month period. We feel that the quality of the DVD and Photo Books we offer will make this more than worth your while!
Each time you make a purchase, your 12-month account clock will be reset. While your account is active, you get all of RocketLife's cool features, plus your own personal photo-sharing website at www.YourName.RocketLife.com!
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1.3 Sounds great, how can I get it?
Just go to RocketLife.com and try it out. You can look at other people's shows in the gallery, or dive in and try it yourself. You will be automatically prompted to install the free RocketLife software as it is needed.
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1.4 What are the System Requirements?
The RocketLife Software requires a Windows PC (Windows 98, ME, 2000, or XP), Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher, and an Internet connection (56K modem or better). In the future we will be supporting addtional platforms and browsers.
However, you can feel confident sharing your shows and website with anyone - our Basic Player will work on any computer platform with almost all browsers! For more details, see our System Requirements.
The Basic Player looks like a traditional "cuts-only" slide-show program, with the addition of displaying titles and photo captions on the border of the photo, plus playing music on most popular browsers. However, the Basic Player doesn't do any of the special effects that the RocketLife Software can, such as moving images or dissolving betwen them.
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1.5 Who is Visan?
Visan is comprised of award winning business and technology pioneers founded in the innovative spirit of Disney, Edison and DaVinci. RocketLife is one part of a goal we have had for many years: combining years of film and television experience into a simple to use yet incredibly powerful tool giving ordinary people the ability to create and share their own stories with quality and impact rivaling our favorite Movies and Television shows.
For more information, see our About Us page.
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1.6 How to contact us.
The best way to reach someone about Rocketlife or the RocketLife Software is to e-mail:
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Section 2: The RocketLife Software
2.1 What is the RocketLife Software?
The RocketLife Software is a plug-in for your Web Browser that enables it to perform high-quality pans, zooms, and dissolves using your digital photos while adding titles, decorative frames, and playing back music with your presentation. The plug-in also provides easy and powerful tools to touch up and edit your photos with effects like cropping, red-eye removal, monochrome, sepiatone, and rubbing one image into another. All of these effects are performed in real-time, including real-time airbrush tools. Titles and frames are composited in real-time over your pictures with high-quality text, smooth shadows, and animating textures. Titles, captions, frames, and music can be changed at any time while creating a show with no rendering delays.
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2.2 Why does the RocketLife Software use a browser plug-in?
Our vision has always been to bring the impact of television and film to the computer experience. Things that move on screen should never stutter. Dissolves should be smooth. A slow zoom into a picture should appear just like an optical zoom with a real lens. With an experience like this, you forget you are looking at a computer screen and start focusing on the message or story, whether it is your child's last birthday party or a family vacation. Finally, addition, RocketLife must perform well on an average PC, so that you can share your shows with the largest possible audience.
In order to accomplish these objectives, we had to write our own high-performance real-time software. Taking full advantage of our years of experience performing "magic" on computers, we wrote the RocketLife Software and are pleased to see that it accomplishes what we set out to do. An almost universal comment when people first see a RocketLife show is "wow, that looks like a movie" even though only still photos are involved! By eliminating the "computer" look to shows, people can focus on the pictures and music, the content, without other distractions. And by making it a browser plug-in, we can dramatically increase the richness of the website experience.
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2.3 Is it an ActiveX Plug-In?
Yes, the RocketLife Software is an ActiveX Plug-In for Internet Explorer.
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2.4 Will installing the RocketLife Software affect how files get opened on my computer?
No. The RocketLife Software only runs within your web browser - it does not make any changes to the file associations that determine which programs will load which types of files.
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2.5 Isn't it dangerous to let my Web Browser install ActiveX Plug-Ins?
No more or less than installing any other software on your computer. Your web browser is already very likely using several ActiveX Plug-Ins, such as to view Flash animations or play video on webpages in Microsoft, Real, or Quicktime formats.
Microsoft Internet Explorer allows additional features to be added to it through installable software called ActiveX Plug-Ins. When a web page requests these features, the web browser can automatically attempt to download and install the software to your computer. Additionally, ActiveX Plug-Ins can be digitally "signed" to verify that they were not tampered with either by computer viruses or malicious individuals since they were released. ActiveX Plug-Ins can be easily un-installed (see the next item).
In the time since the ActiveX Plug-In standard was developed, some ActiveX Plug-Ins have been misused by products and web sites to gather private information about computer users without their knowledge. We are completely against this practice, and are committed to keeping your information safe and secure. Because of these unscrupulous plug-Ins, some people are extremely wary about installing ActiveX Plug-Ins from companies they don't alreaedy know about.
The RocketLife Software doesn't gather any information about the user except what that user gives it such as login, password, and payment information when the user becomes a RocketLife member. It is the policy of RocketLife not to distribute any customer information to third parties. We recommend users read the Privacy Policy of any product before they use it.
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2.6 How do I uninstall the RocketLife Software?
NOTE: if any RocketLife web pages are being displayed, the browser cannot uninstall the software. If you aren't sure, just close all of your browser windows and start a new copy of Internet Explorer.
To uninstall the RocketLife Software, do the following:
- Start Internet Explorer for Windows
- Click on the Tools menu, and select the Options command..
- In the area titled "Temporary Internet files", click on "Settings...".
- In the area titled "Temporary Internet files folder" click on "View Objects...".
- You will see an entry called "CFXEngine Object". Highlight the name of the plug-in and choose the "delete" option from the "File" menu.
If you ever want to get the RocketLife Software back, simply browse to http://www.rocketlife.com or any RocketLife member's website, and you will be invited to install the RocketLife software again.
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