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3/15/06 - A brand new Foxee™ advertisement is going to be printed in the 2006 Megaplex 5 and Morphicon convention books! Megaplex 5 is a furry convention that takes place in Orlando, Florida from March 17-19, and Morphicon is a furry convention that takes place in Columbus, Ohio from May 5-7.

3/15/06 - The new Foxee Christmas Card design for this year is now available for purchase in the Foxee.Net Online Store! While the winter holidays may still be many months away, it is never to early to be thinking about the spirit of giving when it comes to these brand new and adorable Foxee Christmas cards! This is the brand new "2005" Christmas card design, which means that they were designed and given out only to my dearest friends and family members during the Christmas Season of 2005, and are now available for anyone to purchase and give to their own loved ones for the Christmas of 2006. The Christmas card design for this year shows Foxee, all wrapped up in a cute knit hat and scarf to protect herself from the cold, dropping off a letter to Santa Claus in the mail box of a Christmas-decorated town. This Christmas card features a breathtakingly beautiful photograph from Larry Pierce Photography in the background, and is sure to warm the hearts of everyone that you give these cards to. These Christmas cards come with envelopes and are available in boxes of 25, and can be purchased all year round from the Foxee.Net Online Store!
12/23/05 - The very talented professional photographer Larry Pierce of Larry Pierce Photography was kind enough to donate one of his beautiful photographs of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, to be used as a background in a drawing of Foxee! Larry Pierce specializes in Sports, Action, Travel, and Stock Photography, and has done work for many companies and publications including L.L. Bean, Patagonia, Outside Magazine, and Newsweek. You can check out some of Larry Pierce's incredible photographic work for yourself in the image galleries of his website!
11/30/05 - There are new Foxee Art Prints, Stickers, Cels, and Christmas Cards in the Online Store for the Holiday Season! Just in time for the holiday season, Project Destiny Studios™ has introduced several new Foxee art prints, cel designs, a new Christmas card design, and much more to the already extensive list of products available in the Foxee.Net Online Store! Be sure to check these new items out and give your friend or loved one the gift of a cute cartoon arctic blue fox this holiday season!
11/30/05 - Foxee.Net has gone Tropical with the new domain name, www.foxee.tk! What does Foxee™, a little cartoon arctic blue fox from the frozen wilds of Alaska, have to do with a group of three tropical coral atolls in the South Pacific? The answer to that question is that Foxee's website now has an Internet domain name from the tropical island territory of Tokelau! Tokelau, also known as The Union Islands, is a non-self governing territory of New Zealand located in the South Pacific. The island territory is famous in the Internet community for giving away Internet domain names ending with its TLD ".tk". While Foxee.Net's new www.foxee.tk Tokelau domain name was originally a free domain name that the Tokelau registrar handed out to Project Destiny Studios™, we here at Project Destiny Studios wanted to support the Tokelau people and their generosity towards others with their free domain name registrations. As a result, we now have a paid domain name registration with them. So if typing in www.foxee.net to visit Foxee's website has become too mundane for you, you now have the option of visiting Foxee by typing in www.foxee.tk as well!
10/28/05 - The Foxee.Net Online Store is Now on Froogle! The Foxee.Net Online Store's entire product inventory, which features the Foxee Microsoft Agent character software, art prints, hand-painted cels, and holiday cards, has now been added to the Froogle shopping search engine, the brand new search engine by web search engine leader Google, Inc. Having the Foxee.Net Online Store listed on Froogle will make shopping for official Foxee the cartoon arctic blue fox merchandise much easier and more conveniant for online shoppers, and should increase Foxee's exposure to the general public.
8/15/05 - Project Destiny Studios™ has Extended its "Uses Microsoft Agent Technology" logo license with Microsoft®! Last spring Microsoft® Corporation decided to discontinue its "Uses Microsoft Agent Technology" logo licensing program, no longer accepting new licenses or license renewals. Project Destiny Studios™ was a member of the program, and uses the "Uses Microsoft Agent Technology" logo on its Foxee™ Microsoft Agent Character product. This left Project Destiny Studios in the dark about whether or not it could still use the logo with Foxee, and if Foxee was going to have to be repackaged. After several months of dialogue with the Microsoft Agent Licensing Department and the Microsoft Trademark Department at Microsoft, Project Destiny Studios was able to reach a special agreement with the departments that extended Project Destiny Studios's license agreement. The new license agreement allows Project Destiny Studios to continue to use the "Uses Microsoft Agent Technology" logo on its products and website for another year.
5/26/05 - Foxee™ U.S. Postage Stamps are Once Again Available for Purchase! You can once again order sheets of real United States postage stamps that feature an adorable picture of Foxee on them from the Foxee.Net Online Store! These extremely cute and attractive looking stamps are absolutely perfect for party invitations, Christmas cards, holiday cards, birthday cards, or any occasion where you feel that your envelopes can be brightened up by the warm smile of everyone's favorite cartoon arctic blue fox! The stamps are created using the Stamps.com Photostamps Service, and as a result they feature clear vibrant colors and are legal postage in the United States of America. The Foxee stamps were originally available in the Fall of 2004 under the original Photostamps program, but were made temporarily unavailable when the original Photostamps program was suspended. However, the Stamps.com Photostamps service is now back in operation, so we can once again offer you these wonderful Foxee stamps!
5/13/05 - Now you can use the Foxee™ Microsoft Agent Character with Mozilla Firefox! Before now, Microsoft® Agent characters on websites could only be easily viewed with the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser, leaving the users of other browsers in the dark about the wonders of your website's fun interactive characters. This is true no longer! Project Destiny Studios™ has just released the Project Destiny Studios Microsoft Agent Plugin for Mozilla Firefox, which allows users of the popular Mozilla® Firefox browser to see Microsoft Agent characters on websites that have them scripted with JavaScript! Not only is this great news for people who always wanted to see Microsoft Agent characters on websites in Mozilla Firefox, but it is also great for website developers who always wanted to use friendly and fun Agent characters (like Project Destiny Studio's own "Foxee™" character) on their websites and still have Microsoft Internet Explorer/ Mozilla Firefox cross-browser compatability! The plugin also has a security policy built-in to ensure that only the ActiveX controls used by Microsoft Agent can be hosted and scripted. The plugin is compatible with Mozilla Firefox versions 1.03 and 1.04, and is available to be downloaded for free from Project Destiny Studios's Foxee.Net website here!
4/15/05 - The Illinois State University Infomation Technology Student Association, also known as the ITSA, is featuring the Foxee.Net website as one of its prestigous member projects listed on the association's website. Daniel Keller, the creator of both the Foxee™ Microsoft Agent Character and the Foxee.Net website, has been a 5-year member of the ITSA and has competed on their Association of Information Technology Professionals National Collegiate Conference programming team for 3-years in a row. Be sure to check out Foxee's reference on the ITSA website as well as the other member's projects!
4/15/05 - The MSAgent JavaScript Editor software from Power Web Tools is now be included for free on the Foxee™ Microsoft Agent Character CD-ROM! The MSAgent JavaScript Editor is an easy to use point-and-click script editor that automatically creates JavaScript code that will add Foxee™ to your website! All you need to do is copy the script that the software creates and paste it into the code of your own website! It's that easy! The MSAgent JavaScript Editor will allow you to create scripts that make Foxee™ move around the screen, play any of her animations, and even talk to guests that visit your website! Even better, this software normally sells on the Power Web Tools website for $39.95, but you get it here for FREE when you purchase a copy of the Foxee™ Microsoft Agent character on CD-ROM from the Foxee.Net Online Store.
3/17/05 -
A brand new Foxee™ quarter-page advertisement is going to be printed in the 2005 Megaplex 4 and Morphicon convention books! Megaplex 4 is a furry convention that takes place in Orlando, Florida from March 11-13, and Morphicon is a furry convention that takes place in Columbus, Ohio from May 6-8.
2/27/05 - The brand new 0.2a Build 7 of the Foxee™ Microsoft Agent character, which was rolled-out on the Foxee.Net website last month, is now available for purchase in the Foxee.Net Online Store! The new version of Foxee™ has 6 new animations and a new sound effect, including:

Blink

Looking Alert

Turning Her Head Back

Looking Cross

Barking (Has real fox arking sound effect!)

Acknowledge

The new version of Foxee™ also has speech recognition capabilities completely built in, and comes with 7 great Microsoft Agent software applications so that you can start using her to enhance your computing experience right away! If that alone isn't fantastic enough for you, the new version of the Foxee™ Microsoft Agent Character is selling for the same price as the original! Pick up your copy of Foxee™ today and make this insanely great cartoon vixen part of your life!
2/27/05 - The MSAgent JavaScript Editor will now be Included For Free with the Next Release of the Foxee™ Microsoft Agent Character! Project Destiny Studios has recently bought the full-resale rights to the MSAgent JavaScript Editor software from Power Web Tools, and the software will now be included for free with future releases of the Foxee™ Microsoft Agent Character! The MSAgent JavaScript Editor is an easy to use point-and-click script editor that automatically creates JavaScript code that will add Foxee™ to your website! All you need to do is copy the script that the software creates and paste it into the code of your own website! It's that easy! The MSAgent JavaScript Editor will allow you to create scripts that make Foxee™ move around the screen, play any of her animations, and even talk to guests that visit your website! Even better, this software normally sells on the Power Web Tools website for $39.95, but soon when you purchase your own copy of the Foxee™ Microsoft Agent character on CD-ROM from the Foxee.Net Online Store, the MSAgent JavaScript Editor will be included with her for absolutely free!
2/9/05 - A New Foxee™ Comic Strip Published in the Bloomington-Normal Indy Newspaper this Week!

The Bloomington-Normal Indy newspaper is publishing a brand new Daniel Keller comic strip this week! The new comic strip is called "Horsefeathers!™" and it is a politically-oriented spin-off of the more general humor-based Tiggerman™ comic strip. The main character of the new comic strip is Foxee™, an arctic blue fox who used to live in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve in Alaska, but has recently lost her home due to President George W. Bush's oil drilling policies in the reserve. Because her Alaska home was destroyed, Foxee decided that the person who ruined her home owes her a new home so she now lives in the White House causing endless trouble for George W. Bush and his dog Barney. The comic strip isn't limited to the White House setting-- she tends to comment on any social or political issue that she tends to find absurd. This comic will be running every week in the Indy on a trial basis, and it should be a lot of fun! Grab your copy of this week's issue of the Bloomington-Normal Indy today!
2/1/05 - Three extremely talented photographers have granted me permission to use their photographs with my Foxee™ artwork! The photgraphers are:
- Tony Rowlett
- Patricia Houser
- The late Dan Urbanski, who's generous wife granted me permission to use his wonderful work.
The landscape and nature photographs from all three of these greatly talented people have both moved and inspired me, and I highly recommend that you check their websites out and show them your support!
12/29/04 - The software companies Softnik Technologies and Abhisoft Technologies are graciously allowing me to distribute full versions of some of their Microsoft Agent software applications with copies of my Foxee™ Microsoft Agent Character software! These software applications will greatly expand the capabilities of Foxee™, and they will allow her to do many new and interesting things for you right out of the box! Here is a list of the great new Microsoft Agent programs that are being included on the Foxee™ installation CD, along with some of the things that they can do:
- Softnik Agent Animation Browser - This utility allows you to see all of the animations that are contained in Foxee's animation set, including what each animation is named so that you can call them from your own programs.
- Softnik Agent Mail Notifier - This program allows Foxee™ to automatically check and read out loud e-mail letters from your POP3 e-mail accounts!
- Softnik Agent Screensaver - This program allows you to create interactive screensavers using Microsoft Agent characters!
- Abhisoft Microsoft Agent Scripting Software (MASS) Version 2.1 - This fantastic software application gives you an easy way to program Microsoft Agent scripts so that you can add Foxee™ to your own website and have her interact with your website's visitors without you having to be a master programmer to make it happen!
- Abhisoft Microsoft Agent Properties Viewer (MAPV) Version 3.0 - This software application provides you with a very convenient and detailed way to view all of the properties of a Microsoft Agent Character.
All of these wonderful and very useful software applications come included on the Foxee™ Microsoft Agent Character installation CD for free, and can be automatically installed onto your computer from the CD. Also, keep in mind that these are the full versions of all of these software applications, so you do not need to worry about any nag notices, trial time limits, or malicious spyware programs being loaded onto your computer. This software is yours to keep and use forever, hassle free, thanks to the generosity of Softnik Technologies and Abhisoft Technologies. These Agent applications simply are the best and I use each and every one of them myself all of the time, so I know that you will find them useful as well!
10/21/04 - You can now sign up for the brand new Foxee.Net e-mail news mailing list provided by the Bloglet Service by using the forms on either the Main Menu or News and Update pages!
10/3/04 - A Foxee™ drawing is going to be published in the 2004 Midwest Furfest convention book! This year's convention book artwork theme is "Around the World in 80 Days," and the editor for the convention book thought that my drawing of Foxee™ happily sitting on a suitcase hoping to go on a trip around the world too would make a positive contribution to the publication. Midwest Furfest is a furry convention that takes place in Schaumburg, Illinois from November 19-21, and I will likely be attending there in person.
10/3/04 - A brand new Foxee™ business card-size advertisement is going to be printed in the 2004 Midwest Furfest convention book next month! Midwest Furfest is a furry convention that takes place in Schaumburg, Illinois from November 19-21, and I will likely be attending there in person.
9/26/04 - A Tiggerman™ comic strip starring Foxee™ will be published in the Bloomington-Normal Indy Newspaper this week! The comic strip is editorial in nature, using satire to poke fun at the poor nutritional value of the food served in the Illinois State University food courts. As much as I wish that this was a laughing matter, it really isn't. The food at the University truly is as bad as this comic strip portrays, with the food items mentioned in the comic being taken straight off of one day's menu. Hopefully this comic strip will expose this problem to the public and cause the University to make some much needed changes so that they actually are serving healthy food instead of just saying that they are.
9/26/04 - Foxee™ is now on her very own United States postage stamp! Using the brand new Photostamps service provided by the United States Postal Service, I have created my very own specially designed Foxee™ postage stamp that can actually be used to mail letters in through the U.S. mail! If you would like to use these adorable Foxee™ stamps to brighten up your own envelopes, you can purchase your own 20-stamp sheets through this website at the Foxee™ Online Store!
9/20/04 - Project Destiny Studios is donating several art prints including many art prints of our signature character, Foxee™ the arctic blue fox, to a children's hospital in Dayton Ohio as part of the Furtopia Arts For Kids Community Project with the hope that the artwork will make some sick children's days a little brighter. For those unfamiliar with Furtopia, it is a volunteer-run grassroots Furry web-hosting community that along with organizing community projects are also kind enough to host both my and many other talented artist's websites.
8/20/04 - To celebrate the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens Greece there is a brand new limited edition Foxee™ art print, "Foxee™ Representing her Country at the 2004 Olympics" that is availble for purchase in the Foxee™ Online Store. This print is a HUGE 18-inches by 12-inches, limited to a one-time run of only 28 prints, and every print is hand signed and numbered in gold metallic ink by the artist. Get ahold of yours before supplies run out!
7/10/04 - John Tobin of John Tobin Photography was kind enough to allow me to use three of his breath-taking Alaskan landscape photographs with Foxee™ artwork. Expect to see images of Foxee™ enveloped in John Tobin's beautiful exotic landscapes very soon!
6/3/04 - A brand new Foxee™ half-page advertisement is being run in the convention book of the Ohio Morphicon 2004 Convention in Columbus, Ohio, which takes place from June 25 to June 27.
5/6/04 - I have significantly reduced my animation development costs for those who would like to hire me to create custom animations for Foxee™ or create a custom animated Agent character for them. You can see the new rates on my Agent Development and Cost Analysis Page. Also, from now on I am going to be distributing the shareware version of Streambox Inc.'s MagicSpell software with my Foxee™ Agent character as a free extra. You can learn more about Streambox Inc. at their website.
3/28/04 - A new Foxee™ art print, "Cute Enough To Hug" is availble for sale in the Foxee™ Online Store.
3/28/04 - The very talented photographer Jonathan Jantz granted permission to post the Foxee™ picture "First Kiss", which uses one of his photos, in the Production Artwork Gallery.
3/19/04 - The very first Foxee™ half-page advertisement is being run in the convention book of Megaplex 3 in Orlando, Florida.
3/16/04 - There are now gift cards, art prints, and hand-painted cels of Foxee™ available at Foxee's Online Store!
1/29/04 - The Foxee™ Online Store is open!
9/08/03 - The very generous staff at http://amazingpaul.com are allowing me to use some of their breathtaking photos of Norway with my Foxee™ artwork!
1/03/03 - The talented photographer Bill Hutchinson granted me permission to use some of his beautiful photos of a Russian Church in Ninilchik, Alaska with my Foxee™ artwork! You can see more of his beautiful photography on his website at www.eaglestation.com.

Foxee.net Website Updates

12/1/05 - Added to new pictures to the Production Artwork Gallery, updated the Foxee.Net Online Store with new products, updated the updates page listing new website enhancements that are coming soon, and updated the Foxee.Net RSS News Feed.
1/31/05 - Added 9 new pictures and a table of contents to the Production Artwork Gallery, made the brand new Foxee™ Version 0.2 ALPHA Build 7 Microsoft Agent Character go live on the website, added a loader page to preload the new character before you enter the website, and gave the Main page a new menu with rollover images and dynamic text descriptions.
10/21/04 - 6 new pieces of artwork have been added to the Production Artwork Gallery, and a news mailing list through the Bloglet Service has been added to the Main Menu and News and Updates pages.
8/20/04 - 3 new pieces of artwork have been added to the Production Artwork Gallery, and Foxee™ postage stamps have been added to the Foxee™ Online Store.
8/20/04 - Production Artwork Gallery and Foxee™ Online Store updated with 2 new pieces of artwork. In addition, the Main Menu page has been temporarily changed to reflect the Olympic Spirit!
6/5/04 - Foxee.Net now has a brand new RSS 2.0 news feed that you can read with your RSS reader!
6/3/04 - Production Artwork Gallery and Foxee™ Online Store updated with 5 new pieces of artwork.
3/28/04 - Code updates on several pages, News and Updates page added, Production Artwork Gallery updated, Foxee™ Online Store updated.
3/16/04 - The Foxee™ Online Store has been updated.
2/13/04 - The Foxee™ Production Artwork Gallery has been updated.
1/29/04 - The Foxee™ Licensing and Custom Agent Character Design Info page has been updated.

Foxee™ Microsoft® Agent Character Updates

2/1/05 - Foxee™ Agent Character Version 0.2 ALPHA Build 7 released. Supports 9 animations, 4 animation states, 11 spoken languages, 31 written languages, and speech recognition.
4/30/03 - Foxee™ Agent Character Version 0.1 ALPHA Build 7 released. Supports 3 animation states, 1 animation, 11 spoken languages, and 31 written languages.

Future Foxee™ Updates Coming Soon!

Adding goodies to Foxee.Net that you can download and use on your cell phone!
Updates to the Project Destiny Studios™ Microsoft Agent Plugin for Mozilla Firefox
A Speech Recognition Demonstration page!
Additional artwork to be made available in the Production Artwork Gallery and the Foxee™ Online Store!

All original images, multimedia, and text are Copyright © 2003-2005 Daniel S. Keller, All World Rights Reserved. "Foxee™" is a trademark of Daniel Keller, and is registered in the state of Illinois. Uses Microsoft® Agent Technology. Microsoft Agent Technology and Logos are used under license from Microsoft® Corporation.

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	Blink
	Looking Alert
	Turning Her Head Back
	Looking Cross
	Barking (Has real fox arking sound effect!)
	Acknowledge