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TextWrangler 4.5 Now Retina Ready; Gets New Go Menu, Compare Against Previous Versions, and More
Upgrades Make Retina MacBook Pro A Better Bargain - Macworld Review
Google Announces High-End Chromebook Pixel With Better-Than-Retina Resolution
Automated Authorship Attribution Using Advanced Signal Classification Techniques Via Open Source App
iAntivirus - Free Antivirus and malware protection By Symantec
Stainless A Multi-process Browser For OS X Still Actively Developed For OS X 10.5 Leopard Power PC
WaterField Designs Shows Customer Appreciation with Girl Scout Cookies
Ettore Software Ltd. Now Shipping TypeIt4Me 5.3.2, Latest Version Of Original Text Expander For Mac OS
TextWrangler 4.5 Now Retina Ready; Gets New Go Menu, Compare Against Previous Versions, and More
Bare Bones Software has announced the release and immediate availability of TextWrangler 4.5, a significant update to its high performance, general purpose text editor for Mac OS X.
TextWrangler 4.5 now looks sharp on Macs with high-resolution Retina displays. In addition, TextWrangler 4.5 introduces a Go menu, a new Compare Against Previous Version command, and more.
"BBEdit looks really sharp on a Retina display, and now TextWrangler does too," said Rich Siegel, founder and CEO of Bare Bones Software, Inc. "We also took the opportunity to include a range of refinements to keep TextWrangler fresh and current. TextWrangler represents the quality of text editor the Mac community deserves."
The new Go menu provides convenient access to Jump Point, Function, Line Number and Center Line locations for easier navigation within a document. The new Compare Against Previous Version command leverages OS X's file versioning to quickly access and compare the the active document's current contents with previously stored versions. TextWrangler now requires Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later, with the new Compare Against Previous Version command requiring Mac OS X 10.7 or later.
TextWrangler 4.5 includes several new command keystroke equivalents and keyboard navigation adjustments to provide additional comfort for refugees from other platforms. TextWrangler 4.5 also includes other refinements and fixes for specific reported issues in this award-winning HTML and text editor. Detailed information on all of the changes in TextWrangler 4.5 can be found at:
http://www.barebones.com/support/textwrangler/current_notes
System requirements:
TextWrangler 4.5 requires Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later.
All Mac OS X users may download TextWrangler free of charge from the Mac App Store or the Bare Bones Software web site:
http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/download.html
For more information on TextWrangler, visit the company's web site:
http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
Upgrades Make Retina MacBook Pro A Better Bargain - Macworld Review
Macworld's James Galbraith notes that with the latest Retina MacBook Pro revision, some models got price cuts, some received slightly faster processors, and some got substantial RAM upgrades, and that the reduced cost for the 13-inch models and faster performance for the 15-inch models make Apple's flagship laptops a better deal than ever.
Retina MacBook Pros RAM is not user-upgradable; but Galbraith observes that the standard 8GB of memory is sufficient for all but the most demanding users. Those who require more than that will need to get a 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro which can be configured with 16GB of RAM.
The rMBPs' marquee feature is their ultra high resolution screens - 13-inch models featuring 2560-by-1600-pixel resolution and a pixel density of 227 pixels per square inch - four times greater than that of the MacBook Pros with standard screens.
The 13-inch base model's price has been dropped from $1699 to $1499, and at $1699, the new high-end 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro costs $300 less than its predecessor as well as getting a slightly faster 2.6GHz Core i5 CPU - up form 2.5GHz Core i5 in the previous model.
The new 15-inch Retina MacBook Pros have 2880-by-1800-pixel resolution, with a slightly lower pixel density - 220 ppi - than the 13-inch Retina model. Galbraith notes that the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro is also interestingly 0.04 inch thinner than the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, and weighs in at 4.46 pounds, about the same as the non-Retina 13-inch MacBook Pro.
The new 15-inch models' price points hold at $2199 and $2799, but the base model now has a faster, 2.4GHz Core i7 quad-core processor.
Galbraith reports that The high-end 13-inch 2.6GHz Core i5 Retina MacBook Pros Speedmark 8 score was 24 percent higher than that of the high-end 13-inch 2.9GHz Core i7 standard MacBook Pro, due almost entirely to the Retina MacBook Pro's faster flash storage versus the non-Retina MacBook Pros standard 5400-rpm hard drive.
For the full review visit here:
http://goo.gl/CI5WN
Google Announces High-End Chromebook Pixel With Better-Than-Retina Resolution
Google says its Chromebooks were designed to make computing speedy, simple and secure, and up to now have been very affordable an ideal device for catching up on emails, sharing documents and chatting via Hangouts, and that they're tremendously grateful to Chromebook partners Samsung, Acer, Lenovo, and HP for their commitment.
They note that momentum has been remarkable: the Samsung Chromebook having been #1 on Amazon's bestseller list for laptops every day since it launched 125 days ago in the U.S., and Chromebooks now represent more than 10 percent of notebook sales at Curry's PC World, the largest electronics retailer in the U.K.
So whats next? Google have announce their newest laptop - the Chromebook Pixel - which they say brings together the best in hardware, software and design to inspire the next generation of Chromebooks, explaining that with the Pixel, they've set out to rethink all elements of a computer in order to design the best laptop possible, especially for power users who have fully embraced the Cloud, noting that the philosophy of Chrome has always been to minimize the chrome of the browser. In much the same way, the goal of the Pixel is to make the pixels disappear, giving people the best web experience.
This Chromebook 12.85-inch, 3:2 aspect ratio, 2560 x 1700 display has the highest pixel density (239 pixels per inch) of any laptop screen on the market today (Apple's 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros with Retina Display have pixel densities of 227 ppi and 220 ppi respectively). Packed with 4.3 million pixels, the Chromebook Pixel's display is touted an offering sharp text, vivid colors and extra-wide viewing angles, and also trumps the Apple rMBPs with support for touch.
Just 16mm thick, the body of the Pixel is made from an anodized aluminum alloy to create a smooth and durable surface; vents are hidden, screws are invisible and the full-range stereo speakers seamlessly tucked away beneath the backlit keyboard. The touchpad is made from etched glass, analyzed and honed using a laser microscope to ensure precise navigation, and there's a 720p webcam and a total of three microphones designed to cancel out surrounding noise.
The Chromebook Pixel isowered by a 1.8GHz Intel Core i5 Processor with 4GB of RAM and a solid state Flash memory architecture, and is claimed to have an industry-leading WiFi range thanks to carefully positioned antennas and dual-band support. Optional long-term evolution (LTE) 4G wireless connectivity is engineered directly into the machine, and the Pixel also comes with 12 free GoGo Inflight Internet passes for those times you need to connect while in the air. It is available with either 32 or 64GB of solid state storage, along with one terabyte of Google Drive Cloud storage included with the Pixel.
The Chromebook Pixel Wi-Fi only version starts at $1,299, with the Verizon-only LTE/Wi-Fi version selling for $1,449 - available for preorder now in the US and UK, with delivery in April.
For more information, visit:
http://goo.gl/ac911
Automated Authorship Attribution Using Advanced Signal Classification Techniques Via Open Source App
A team of researchers at the University of Adelaide have released an open-source tool that helps identify document authorship by comparing texts.
In a paper, available from the link below, the Adelaide reseaarchers develop two automated authorship attribution schemes, one based on Multiple Discriminant Analysis (MDA) and the other based on a Support Vector Machine (SVM). The classification features they exploit are based on word frequencies in the text.
The scientists note that author attribution is the problem of identifying the authorship of given texts based on characteristics that are not known to the authors themselves. These characteristics are considered reliable because they are inaccessible to conscious manipulation and consistent under the assumption that a given author has not acquired a mental disorder, such as Alzheimer's disease, where it is known to affect style. Author attribution is also based on the assumption that each author has his/her own writing style that acts as a fingerprint, and this is made possible as various measurable features in written text have been shown to be unchanged across a given author's range of writing genres over time, and that in 1851, the mathematician Augustus de Morgan tried to determine the authorship of the Letter to the Hebrews, in the New Testament, by measuring word lengths. Since de Morgan's seminal work, many other methods have been developed . In 1964, the first computer-assisted studies - as opposed to manual based methods - were performed by Mosteller and Wallace to investigate the authorship of the Federalist Papers. Today rapid advances in machine learning, statistical, and software methods have led to computer-based automated systems for detection of authorship.
A key problem is to find features in written text that can be quantified in order to reflect an author's style. Once this is achieved, the researchers say, statistical or machine learning techniques can be used to analyse the similarity between pieces of texts. The fast growing areas of machine learning and statistical methods assist in processing the voluminous data, where traditional methods fail due to sparse and noisy data. They adopt an approach of preprocessing each text by stripping it of all characters except a-z and space. This is in order to increase the portability of the software to different types of texts. They test the methodology on a corpus of undisputed English texts, and use leave-one-out cross validation to demonstrate classification accuracies in excess of 90%. They further test our methods on the Federalist Papers, which have a partly disputed authorship and a fair degree of scholarly consensus. Finally, they apply our methodology to the question of the authorship of the Letter to the Hebrews by comparing it against a number of original Greek texts of known authorship. These tests identify where some of the limitations lie, motivating a number of open questions for future work.
While the specific focus of the study classical literature, the authors say future work may be able to extend their methods to contemporary applications, noting that in recent years, due to an increase in the amount of data in various forms including emails, blogs, messages on the internet and SMS, the problem of author attribution has received more attention. In addition to its traditional application for shedding light on the authorship of disputed texts in the classical literature, new applications have arisen such as plagiarism detection, web searching, spam email detection, and finding the authors of disputed or anonymous documents in forensics against cyber crime.
An open source implementation of the methodology is freely available for use at:
https://github.com/matthewberryman/author-detection
The full paper can be accessed here:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0054998
Citation: Ebrahimpour M, Putni TJ, Berryman MJ, Allison A, Ng BW-H, et al. (2013) Automated Authorship Attribution Using Advanced Signal Classification Techniques. PLoS ONE 8(2): e54998. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0054998
Editor: Dante R. Chialvo, National Research & Technology Council, Argentina
iAntivirus - Free Antivirus and malware protection By Symantec
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Stainless A Multi-process Browser For OS X Still Actively Developed For OS X 10.5 Leopard Power PC
Although Stainless started out as a technology demo to showcase the developers' own multi-processing architecture in response to Google Chrome, they've been inspired by a growing fanbase to forge ahead and craft Stainless into a full-fledged browser. In fact, Stainless now has features you won't find in Chrome or in any other browser.
A prime example is parallel sessions, which allow you to log into a site using different credentials in separate tabs at the same time. This new technology is woven throughout Stainless, from the private cookie storage system, to session-aware bookmarks that remember the session in which they were saved. We're excited to showcase what we believe is a true browser innovation.
Note that Stainless is still in development and doesn't yet have all the features you'd find in a production-ready browser. As they work towards a 1.0 release, you can check out what's new in every update by clicking the version link under the Download button.
Stainless is free.
For more information, visit:
http://www.stainlessapp.com/
hittingthesweetspot blogger by Bob Skelley notes that there are still a lot of Mac users out there trying to wring every last bit of horsepower they can out of their venerable machines, and that PowerPC users will be able to remain relevant and have a voice so long as modern browsers like Stainless are being released for both the Intel and PowerPC platforms.
Skelley says that while Stainless can't make up for the dismal performance of not being able to have the latest Flash player on PowerPC, the pros far outweigh the cons for using this nice piece of browsing software, noting that Stainless's parallel sessions feature has been around for a while, but after messing with it some for the first time, himsels he finds it convenient and enjoyable, and features like Stainless parallel sessions stave off the complete irrelevancy of PowerPC Macs on the web entirely.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://bobskelley.com/2013/02/21/stainless-lends-innovation-to-powerpc-macs-too/
WaterField Designs Shows Customer Appreciation with Girl Scout Cookies
WaterField Designs, a San Francisco manufacturer of custom laptop sleeves and designer bags and cases for digital gear, will ship a box of Girl Scout Cookies with every U.S. domestic order received from February 22 to 29, 2013. Earlier this year, the Girl Scouts launched their Cookie Finder application for Apple iOS and Google Android smartphones, but U.S. customers of WaterField Designs may not need the app; if they order this week, theyll receive a box of Thin Mints, Samoas, Do-si-dos, or other favorite with their domestic WaterField Designs order.
"We wanted to do something a little extra for our customers this month, so were surprising them with cookies. The flavors will be randomly chosen, and we invite customers to let us know on Facebook what cookie they received and how they liked it," explains Gary Waterfield, company founder. "We like to think outside the box, or in this case - inside the cookie box."
It all started when several enterprising Girl Scouts in his San Francisco neighborhood approached Gary. Wanting to support a good cause, he bought some cookies. Now hes sharing his sizeable cookie stash with domestic customers who purchase bags or cases from WaterField Designs the last week of February.
The $790 million Girl Scout Cookie operation is the largest girl-led business in the world. Buying a box of cookies supports the Girl Scout Cookie Program, which teaches girls goal setting, decision-making, money management, people skills, and business ethics.
Availability
Promotion date: 12:00 a.m. PST Feb. 22 to 11:59 p.m. PST Feb. 29, 2013.
Eligibility
Every U.S. domestic order will arrive with a box of Girl Scout Cookies. (Flavors chosen randomly.)
WaterField Designs manufactures custom-fitted, high-quality laptop bags and sleeves, iPad cases, smartphone sleeves, and cases and bags for a full-range of other digital gear. All products are manufactured to exacting standards in San Francisco. More information is available at our website under "About Us." WaterField Designs is not affiliated with Girls Scouts of America, nor has Girls Scouts of America endorsed this promotion or WF products in general.
Ettore Software Ltd. Now Shipping TypeIt4Me 5.3.2, Latest Version Of Original Text Expander For Mac OS
Ettore Software Ltd. on Wednesday started shipping an enhanced version of its 24-year-old text expander for Mac, TypeIt4Me.
Since 1989, TypeIt4Me has allowed users to set up short abbreviations which expand to words, pictures, phrases, paragraphs or indeed entire pages when typed.
Available now in the Mac App Store, this version is still priced at $4.99 - 75% off the regular $19.99 price.
Due to Apple's sandboxing rules, TypeIt4Me version 5.3.2 adds no new features, but fixes a number of bugs as detailed here:
http://goo.gl/Q5T0p
For more information, visit:
http://ettoresoftware.com
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