Heartsman is very a very accurate, fast and information rich card counter. Fully automatic. It has flexible layouts, designed to fit all screen sizes. It can be resized into a small sidekick, that sits on top of your gametable keeping a record of nearly all information you would need to optimize your game performance. The window can be maximized, to have a hind sight view of what actually happened in the game. It can be minimized to be out of sight, and it still keeps on counting. It has 3 different layouts that all can be resized to desired size, the cards are dynamicly changing size to fit the window space available. In addition, it has all the bells and whistles to enhance your information view. It has even built in speed links, to make browsing for that ideal room really fast. The features are many, take a look at the free downloadable, fully working demo version yourself. A few other features includes: Stay on top option, Color trickwinners, Mark Leading card, Add small symbols to cards for compact views, Update in realtime or after each trick, Display cards in fixed positions or side by side, Preset zooms, Auto Reset at TRAM, Links to Yahoo Hearts login pages,card calculators, online documentation, and Moon Alarm The counters: Remaining cards left in each color, History, Who is empty, Number of cards left. Take a look at the full description in the information elements section.

Heartsman in a compact, vertical layout. Notice the Browse Lobbies speed buttons

Whenever the cursor is over the heartsman client area, it displays as two arrows. That means the left and right mouse buttons can be used to access the speed menues. Note that these the speed menues can only be used with Windows 2000 and XP. However, the Browse Lobbies speed buttons are functional also for Windows 98 and ME, and they are even faster. The favorite category can be set from the options menu.

The left mouse button is used to select your favorite Hearts category. Are you social, beginner, intermediate or advanced, you select it here. Can also be set from options, main menu.

The right mouse button lets you select your room fast, by name. The full set of speedlinks are available from the main File menu as well.

It is easy to miss it, but the main window can resized, like all regular desktop windows. This allows for a flexible setup..

The Moon Alarm is a feature that display a warning, when someone has an oportunity to shoot the moon. It displays a moon symbol, under the player (S, W, N, E) in the header of the history table. In the case of vertical layout, the symbol is to the right of the player. When, and if, the moon "danger" is gone, the symbol disappear. The Jack of Diamonds can be included in the point counting cards for the Moon Alarm from the Setup menu,  Options, Counter.

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