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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Apple Mac: DEVONthink Pro and Pro Office 1.3.2 updates released

by Earl on August 23, 2007

in Software

For email import you can now set a default encoding, enriched messages support quoting and URL handling, and messages can be imported more than once, showing up as replicants in the database.Both editions allow you to set the background color of rich text documents, support grouping of found documents directly from within Classify and See Also drawers, and read Finder and Spotlight comments when sync’ing an indexed folder.  The Dashboard widgets look way more attractive now, the Download Manager supports the new Microsoft Office documents in XML format, and many other functions have been improved, too, e.g., the advertisement filter.In addition, DEVONthink Professional checks for and repairs more problems than before, flushes the file system cache more often, and uses a background task to make importing PDFs more reliable.  As always, many minor internal improvements and fixes make DEVONthink Professional 1.3.2 faster and more stable.These updates is free for all registered users.I’ve been a DEVONthink user for some time and look forward to looking at these new versions.

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Redheads: Living on the endangered species list

by Earl on August 23, 2007

in Blogging, Observations

For a little boy it probably means you’ll grow up knowing how to fight or how to run fast, or both (I won’t go into my own experiences.)…  However, according to scientist it’s a mute point in 100 years.news.com.au via Neatorama:Redheads are becoming rarer and could be extinct in 100 years, according to genetic scientists.The current National Geographic magazine reports that less than two per cent of the world’s population has natural red hair, created by a mutation in northern Europe thousands of years ago.Global intermingling, which broadens the availability of possible partners, has reduced the chances of redheads meeting and producing little redheads of their own.The article goes on to say that the highest concentration of this red gene is in Scotland where 40 percent carry it and 13 percent actually have red hair….  This gene can be dormant for generations before making another random appearance so I’m still hoping to see it again somewhere down the line.—-We last of the redheads should stick together so maybe I need to start a special blog roll for redheaded bloggers?

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