Microsoft plans to make some of the security improvements and features it built into Office 2007 available for Office 2003, a company representative said Thursday.
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The scientists ran a “cortical simulator” that was as big and as complex as half of a mouse brain on the BlueGene L supercomputer.
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Vista’s new security requirements present a number of problems for Clarion developers. As Jane Fleming explains, the only way to maintain some order and sanity, short of disabling UAC on all your customers’ machines, is to sign your applications and include a Vista manifest.
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CoolButtons 1.01 beta is now available.

What’s new:
- Fixed GDI handle and memory “leak”
- Added support for button icon replacement
- Added support for selectively colouring buttons
- Added support for user graphics as button images
- Updated documentation
- Updated FAQ’s
- Reduced memory usage
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A new Tutorial Video about our product “Evolution Browse Export”.
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There was a showstopper in the new “Clarion Environment Detection” feature (compatible with Clarion 7). This bug only affected Clarion 3rd Party Developers.
Download the small (169 KB) binary patch file.
This patch will update your sbkernel.dll and sbkernel.lib to the latest version (build 1847).
Lindersoft

Version 1.12 beta (24 April 2007)
- Fixed bug where restoring and MDI Frame from iconized left the client area unpainted
- Fixed bug where MDI child windows sometimes opened with a little of the old titlebar showing below the CoolFrames titlebar

April 24, 2007 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. today spelled out exactly how users of Windows Vista betas and release candidates can shift to the final code, and warned that beginning June 1, preview-equipped PCs will automatically reboot every two hours.

Notifications will start going out today to users of Vista Ultimate Beta 2, Release Candidate 1 (RC1) and RC2 of the upcoming expiration, a company spokeswoman said. “Customers will have ample time to back up data and migrate their PCs to the final version of Windows Vista,” she said.

Upgrade paths were detailed on Microsoft’s Vista site.
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In the first three installments in this series Larry Sand covered the basics of interprocess communication, sending messages, receiving messages, and establishing communication between processes. He also discussed sending user messages between processes. Now Larry expands this capability with NOTIFY and NOTIFICATION.
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Next time, when you are about to create or revamp a help system for your software start with our Software Help Planner on-line tool. Although it’s a kind of joke I hope this is somehow useful.
Have a happy day!
Dennis Crane

There is available a new Tutorial Video about our product: Evolution Report Export.
Evolution Consulting

WinAmp v.5.34 Final

Yahoo! Music on Tuesday is launching the first legitimate repository for song lyrics thanks to a licensing deal with Gracenote, the company behind CDDB. Lyrics for 400,000 songs from the five major record labels and more will initially be available.
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We’re offering great discounts on our products (all products from Ingasoftplus and 22 products from SealSoft) to mark the opening of MotleySoft.com e-shop.
20.00% relative discount! April 25, 2007 - May 31, 2007

MotleySoft e-shop
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April 23, 2007 - Lindersoft announced today the immediate availability of SetupBuilder Version 6.5, the latest edition of its award-winning Installation Authoring and Configuration Management system for Microsoft Windows based applications that is used by thousands of organizations around the world.
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