Corel releases public beta of WordPerfect Lightning
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Corel has released a free public beta of WordPerfect Lightning, a word processor that blends a desktop-based application with online features.
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Aspyr Media has posted an incremental update that squashes bugs, smooths play.
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Corel has publicly unveiled Corel Painter IX, a 'Natural-Media' graphics application that mimics traditional art forms such as painting and illustration while also leveraging the capabilities of modern day digital media. Painter IX is a more generous patron than it predecessor: Artists have new tools to work with for creating water color and oiling paintings; a tool for touching up digital photos called "quick clone" and improved integration with Adobe Photoshop. Corel is accepting pre-orders at an estimated retail price of $429 USD for a full version and $229 USD for the upgrade edition. Painter IX hits the shelves in October.
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New version of software for creating PDF files includes a beta version of free Adobe Reader 7 for Linux.
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KGuitar is powerful KDE-based music tabulature editor with support of guitar, drums, classic note scores, MIDI synthesizer output, chord, scales, modes, melody and rhythm construction and analysis tools, lots of tab effects, Guitar Pro files import.   After a long period of silence, I'm pleased to announce KGuitar 0.5.1 - a major bugfix release that covers most of issues for the last few years :)      * Compatiblity fixes: added support for autoconf 2.61, automake 1.10, gcc 4.2. Removed last bits of qt2->qt3 transition deprecations. Internal structures refactoring.     * Added zoom level (Ctrl Minus, Ctrl Plus), introducing multiple bars per row, automatically tuning to available window width;     * Finally introduced new exception-based framework for converters load/save. Makes converters much more bullet-proof and easier to write and debug.     * Guitar Pro import undergone major rewrite. Now it properly loads all gp4 files I have. Guitar Pro v3 and v5 formats are coming next. Anyway, Guitar Pro loader is now much more helpful about what errors it gets and less crash-prone. It detects and helps debug problems it encounters.     * Lots of displaying, mouse and keyboard control, printing fixes and prettifying. Track pane now has a header and it's synchronized with track list. Melody editor now has trapezoid and shark fin inlays.     * New QMap-based API for song metainformation - stores not a fixed number of fields, but key=value pairs.     * Misc things: project transitioned to Subversion.  As always, comments and especially bug reports are welcome. Also keep in mind that KGuitar is now registered at http://www.ohloh.net/projects/8959?p=KGuitar - so, take a look there too :)
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Fast, intelligent, automatic spam detector using Paul Graham style Bayesian analysis of word counts in spam and non-spam emails. Filtering adapts to personal tastes automatically. No manual rule creation required. This release adds the final missing pieces to the new parser code.  MBX files and Content-Length headers are now supported.  Database cleanup when signals are caught has also been improved.  I would like to move 1.1 into the stable branch fairly soon so if folks would test out this release and report any problems it would be a big help!   The latest release can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61201&package_id=73566
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SaphireSteel Software, which helps Microsoft Visual Studio users work with the Ruby on Rails Web framework, launched on Monday a version of its Ruby In Steel IDE embedded with Visual Studio 2008 capabilities.Ruby In Steel Text Edition, priced at $49, is hosted in the Visual Studio 2008 Shell, which enables tools to be built based on the Visual Studio IDE. With Text Edition, developers do not need to have their own copy of Visual Studio as they have with the previously released Ruby In Steel Developer Edition, said Huw Collingbourne, SapphireSteel technology director."We put all our support into Visual Studio so the end-user gets a Ruby-flavored edition of Visual Studio," with its attendant capabilities, Collingbourne said.Use of the Visual Studio Shell gives SapphireSteel a chance to compete with Eclipse-based IDEs, such as CodeGear's 3rdRail, which also is billed as a Rails IDE, SapphireSteel said. But 3rdRail costs $399.Text Edition does not support Microsoft languages like C# or C++, but HTML designer and JavaScript support is included. While lacking the high-performance debugger and IntelliSense code completion capabilities of the $199 Ruby In Steel Developer Edition, Text Edition features both RHTML and embedded Ruby in Rails editing."[Developers] have the choice of which templating system they want to develop in," said Collingbourne.Ruby in Steel Text Edition and tools like it received a thumbs-up from Ruby on Rails founder David Heinemeier Hansson in an e-mail on Monday."I have not used it myself, but I'm very happy to see this growth spurt of new tools dedicated to Ruby on Rails crop up," Hansson said. "Ruby In Steel is particularly interesting to developers coming over from the Microsoft world as Visual Studio is a familiar environment to them. That'll likely ease the transition."Other features in Text Edition include code coloring and folding for focusing on specific parts of code, auto-expand snippets plus a snippet editor, bracket and keyword matching, and code formatting tools.Integrated debugging with step into/over/watch variables is featured; developers can see how variables change.Also offered is customization with alternative color schemes, integrated command prompt and docked interactive Ruby and IRB (Interactive Ruby) consoles. Users also get an all-in-one setup program to install Visual Studio, Ruby, Ruby In Steel, and the MySQL database. Comprehensive documentation and help are offered as well.
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Apollo runtime is dubbed 'Adobe AIR' and due for testing along with Flex update.
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Beta application is available as part of the new MSN Toolbar Suite.
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Stoyan Stefanov has posted about some updates he's been making to his Text_Highlighter PEAR package and to the hiliteme.com website.   In today's busy schedules there's less and less time to give love to our favorite open source projects. [...] Anyway, today I found the time to fix two bugs in Text_Highlighter and also include the patch from Daniel Fruzynski that adds support for highlighting VBScript. Wo-hoo!   The update to hiliteme.com uses the newly updated package, so you can try it out before you go and install it.
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The latest beta of Mozilla's browser has been up and running for
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Tony Bibbs points out the latest release of the Geeklog_Generator PEAR package today, version 1.0.0.    What is Geeklog_Generator? It's a package that compliments the great ORM implementation, Propel. What's missing from Propel, you ask? First and foremost, it's always annoyed me that Propel (more concisely, the Propel Generator) doesn't generate pure PHP model objects...objects that don't need to include a bunch of persistence level code.   Geeklog_Generator gets around this by building minimal, pure PHP models (called Data Transfer Objects or DTO for short) that can not only be passed around easily via web services but it also but they can be quickly turned into the persistable Propel objects.    Changes made for this release include "massive updates in preparation for GL2 GSoC and scafolding". You can grab the latest version of the package from its PEAR repository.
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The latest beta release from Firefox fixes more than 900 hundred bugs and 300 memory leaks, and improves performance overall. It shows the open-source browser is on track to be one of the biggest releases of the new year.
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With the release of HIT Lab NZ's OSGART (OpenSceneGraph + ARToolKit) framework imminent, I'm pleased to announce a release of the GPL-licensed ARToolKit v2.   Download ARToolKit 2.72 at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=116280  ARToolKit 2.72 contains a number of improvements over previous releases, with several of these focussed on the video capture libraries. Wayne Piekarski and Hartmut Seichter have substantially updated the Linux video input and added Pointgrey and Gstreamer video capture.  Those of you trying to integrate ARToolKit's coordinate system with existing OpenGL drawing will be pleased to see versions of the OpenGL projection and modelview matrix creation functions which now return right-hand coordinate systems.  Integration with OpenSceneGraph is the focus of our current and future work in the area of advanced graphics capabilities atop ARToolKit. However, this release also updates libARvrml so that it binds correctly to the recently updated OpenVRML 0.16.1.  There are a number of smaller improvements, bug fixes and reference documentation updates included. Please download the release and have a look at the readme and changelog.  We have also added more explicit direction on ARToolKit licensing to the Readme. Please be aware that the GPL-licensed ARToolKit cannot be used in a closed-source product. Closed-source licenses to ARToolKit Professional are available from ARToolworks in return for financial support of ARToolKit development efforts.  If you find bugs in this GPL release, please post in ARToolKit's bug tracker on SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=116280&atid=674305. This is the preferred forum for bug reports. Patch submissions are also welcomed.  And yes, bugs fixes and other improvements are available between official ARToolKit releases by checking out the source from Sourceforge ARToolKit CVS repository using anonymous CVS. A simple tutorial on how to get the ARToolKit source using a CVS GUI tool is at http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=25731&group_id=116280.  Thanks to all the contributors to this release.  Philip Lamb HIT Lab NZ
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OpenSwing is a component library that provides a rich set of advanced graphics components and a framework for developing java applications based on Swing front-end. It can be applied both to rich client applications and Rich Internet Applications.       In this release:   Added multi-line label control. Added alert window. Added new property "foreignKeyAttributeName" to ComboBoxVoControl and ListVOControl, to the purpose of distinguish between the name of the attribute in the combo/list v.o. and in the container v.o.  Updated "demo26" sample application, to show how to use "foreignKeyAttributeName" property. Updated web site by adding description about new features. The distribution includes also Jar file libraries, source files, javadoc, licence and readme.txt installation instructions.     OpenSwing is available at:     http://oswing.sourceforge.net/     OpenSwing last release is downloadable from:   https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=167774&package_id=190748&release_id=565569
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Latest PECL Releases:syck 0.9ps 1.3.5syck 0.9.1imagick 2.0.0b3
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Latest PEAR Releases:HTML_CSS 1.3.0HTML_QuickForm2 0.2.0HTML_QuickForm_DHTMLRulesTableless 0.3.3HTML_QuickForm_Renderer_Tableless 0.6.0HTTP_Request 1.4.2pearweb_index 1.16.11QA_Peardoc_Coverage 1.1.1Text_Spell_Audio 0.1.0Services_urlTea 0.1.0Text_Diff 0.3.1MDB2_Driver_sqlite 1.5.0a1MDB2_Driver_pgsql 1.5.0a1MDB2_Driver_oci8 1.5.0a1MDB2_Driver_mysqli 1.5.0a1MDB2_Driver_mysql 1.5.0a1MDB2_Driver_mssql 1.3.0a1MDB2_Driver_ibase 1.5.0a1MDB2 2.5.0a1