Organize365 SDK

J-Spell 1.53 is available for download.

Please note that I have made several changes to the template, in order to simplify and standardise the settings. It’s all explained on the version history page. This build also includes the ability to ignore uppercase words.

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David Harms explains hex color notation (and why HTML colors are different from Clarion colors) and reviews several tools that make choosing a set of compatible colors less painful, if not easy.
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1. Faulty Soviet early warning system nearly causes WWIII (1983)
The threat of computers purposefully starting World War III is still the stuff of science fiction, but accidental software glitches have brought us too close in the past. Although there have been numerous alleged events of this ilk, the secrecy around military systems makes it hard to sort the urban myths from the real incidents.

However, one example that is well recorded happened back in 1983, and was the direct result of a software bug in the Soviet early warning system. The Russian system told them that the United States had launched five ballistic missiles. However, the duty officer for the system, one Lt Col Stanislav Petrov, claims he had a “funny feeling in my gut”, and reasoned if the U.S. was really attacking they would launch more than five missiles.

The trigger for the near apocalyptic disaster was traced to a fault in software that was supposed to filter out false missile detections caused by satellites picking up sunlight reflections off cloud-tops.

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The Disc Title Printer CW-E60 labels CDs and DVDs with a blank and unlined surface and in a 200 dpi resolution. Extremely convenient, the printer connects directly to computers via USB cable.

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Firewalls and antivirus software are no defense against acts of data theft and corruption from within your organization at local endpoints. You don’t have to be an administrator to connect a small digital camera, MP3 player, or flash memory stick to the USB and begin uploading or downloading whatever you want. If you are a system administrator, you know you can’t manage such device-level activity via Group Policy.

Using endpoint device security solution called DeviceLock®, network administrators can lock out unauthorized users from USB and FireWire devices, WiFi and Bluetooth adapters, CD-Rom and floppy drives, serial and parallel ports, PDAs and smartphones and many other plug-and-play devices. Once DeviceLock® is installed, administrators can control access to any device, depending on the time of day and day of the week.

A year never goes by without someone inventing something hilariously useless. Over the next ten pages, we’ll take you on a guided tour of disastrous tech products, the gadgets and concepts we felt really surpassed themselves in being utterly crapulous. Many of these travesties aimed to reinvent the wheel, but were plagued by huge dollops of fail.

Windows Vista
Any operating system that provokes a campaign for its predecessor’s reintroduction deserves to be classed as terrible technology. Any operating system that quietly has a downgrade-to- previous-edition option introduced for PC makers deserves to be classed as terrible technology. Any operating system that takes six years of development but is instantly hated by hordes of PC professionals and enthusiasts deserves to be classed as terrible technology.

Windows Vista conforms to all of the above. Its incompatibility with hardware, its obsessive requirement of human interaction to clear security dialogue box warnings and its abusive use of hated DRM, not to mention its general pointlessness as an upgrade, are just some examples of why this expensive operating system earns the final place in our terrible tech list.

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I’m about to release Organize365 v7. I’m looking for users who are currently using version 6 (all licensed Clarion Desktop users got a free Organize365 v6 license), who are prepared to assist. What you need to do is to download version 7 (Beta 4). I’m interested in any feedback about the upgrade process - any problems, any complaints, anything that could be improved, etc.

I’ve also added several new features into the Organize365 SDK, which I’ll be releasing FREE later this week. More news on that later though..

Ever needed to do more with your unstructured data? Memos, documents, record descriptions?

Imagine that you could:
* Search your data for inflections and synonyms of a search argument
* Search for concepts, not for substrings
* Find places (limited to a certain area or not limited), names, phone numbers, products of a certain type, medications, weapons, chemical compounds, financial terms, diseases, and more
* Classify documents or fragments of text by topic or style
* Convert measures and metrics from one standard to another within a free-flowing text
* Filter out obscenities, slurs, or local dialects
* Transliterate proper names

Contrary to the popular belief, content intelligence and text analytics have been around for a while. However, most of the products have been too expensive for medium or small businesses, and too heavy to be deployed as desktop software.

That is, until now.

Our solutions (100% Clarion coded) are scalable and customizable to accommodate any need, yet do not cost tens of thousands of dollars, like those of other vendors.

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Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, or are willing to represent / market / resell our products.

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In addition to distributing free Camtasia Studio licenses, TechSmith is now giving away retail editions of SnagIt screen capture software for free - no strings attached.
Other than regular screenshots, SnagIt can capture scrolling long web pages, extract text from windows, annotate images and more.
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November 24, 2007 (Computerworld) Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), the update scheduled to be released next year, runs Microsoft Corp.’s Office suite 10% faster than XP SP2, a performance testing software developer reported Friday.
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The creator of Linux is excited about solid-state drives, expects progress in graphics and wireless networking, and says the operating system is strong in virtualization despite his personal lack of interest in the area.
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Google Inc. wants to offer consumers a new way to store their files on its hard drives, in a strategy that could accelerate a shift to Web-based computing and intensify the Internet company’s competition with Microsoft Corp.

Google is preparing a service that would let users store on its computers essentially all of the files they might keep on their personal-computer hard drives — such as word-processing documents, digital music, video clips and images, say people familiar with the matter. The service could let users access their files via the Internet from different computers and mobile devices when they sign on with a password, and share them online with friends. It could be released as early as a few months from now, one of the people said.
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