New tech theories two centuries old

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Sale of the centuries

Sale of the centuries 09/07/2004 05:01 AM
USA Today Sep 7 2004 9:35AM GMT

Making a House That Will Last for
Centuries?

Making a House That Will Last for
Centuries? 03/14/2003 07:27 PM

50 centuries of history mapped

50 centuries of history mapped 10/30/2003 09:22 PM
50 centuries of history mapped out....

"Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and
20th Centuries"

"Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and
20th Centuries" 06/05/2005 11:44 PM

A little lesson on the superpower of the
17th-18th centuries

A little lesson on the superpower of the
17th-18th centuries 08/22/2004 05:05 PM
And when an American mouths off about French military history, he's not just being ignorant, he's being ungrateful. The War Nerd provides a little historical perspective. [via monkeyfilter]

Heavy Fertilizer Use May Transform Lakes
for Centuries, Study Suggests

Heavy Fertilizer Use May Transform Lakes
for Centuries, Study Suggests 06/17/2005 03:48 PM

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href="http://www.kk.org/recomendo/archiv
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history

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es/000053.php">50 centuries of
history 10/30/2003 08:17 PM
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Conspiracy Theories

Conspiracy Theories 11/07/2003 08:47 AM
CBC's long-running series The Fifth Estate recently ran a very unsettling episode (in Canada) entitled 'Conspirac y Theories'. The show dealt with all manner of claims surrouding 9-11 including a possible US/Saudi/ Bin Laden connection, major intelligence breakdowns, etc. Their website provides further reading for those who like to believe the worst.

Beagle 2 Failure Theories

Beagle 2 Failure Theories 03/09/2004 01:27 AM

Conspiracy theories springing up

Conspiracy theories springing up 02/03/2003 10:14 AM
One person on Google noted that shuttle debris came down in the general area of Palestine, Texas, while another observed that this was the first time that an ...

Let a thousand conspiracy theories bloom

Let a thousand conspiracy theories bloom 12/17/2004 06:33 PM

I'm about to hit the sack, but current indications are that Bush has won Ohio by a couple of percentage points and thus has been re-elected as President of the United States.

Ohio. Isn't that the state that Diebold president Walden O'Dell promised to deliver to the Republicans?

I don't know if Ohio voters used Diebold machines. If they did, I'm certainly not about to say that the machines were fixed in any way. But the problem with voting machines without a paper trail is that there's no way anyone can be absolutely certain that the election wasn't stolen. In a modern democracy, that just ain't healthy.

Readers' Quantum Internet theories

Readers' Quantum Internet theories 12/30/2003 06:31 PM
Letters Enough goodness to go round?

Grand Central Transmitter Theories

Grand Central Transmitter Theories 08/31/2004 06:03 AM

Reader Morgan writes:

After reading about the Grand Central setups on Gizmodo I decided to take a look around when I passed through Grand Central on my way home tonight. First off, they're scattered all over the main concourse (one over track 27 and several along the departure boards were the most visible).

Risking a Homeland Security smackdown, I decided to ask some police standing around about them, and if they were indeed, cellular relays. After a studying look and pause the MTA officer said, "I have no idea what they are" and turned away. Eventually I found a Customer Service guy who after a few, "Why are you asking?" and, "I'm not supposed to say anythings" divulged that they were cameras.

Altough I wasn't about to take any photos after flagging myself as the curious type, I noticed that there wasn't any visible lens on the device but there was something resembling a motion detector. Perhaps some kind of IR motion tracker?

More conjecture after the link.

On adaptive success and theories of
homosexuality...

On adaptive success and theories of
homosexuality... 01/22/2004 02:14 AM

The latest issue of New Scientist contains an article - "The In Crowd" - that is both profoundly interesting and yet totally unavailable online. Gradually, I'm delighted to say, this situation is becoming more rare and more of a surprise each time it occurs.

Anyway, the article - written by Joan Roughgarden - contends that: "Same-sex relationships are not a biological dead end. They are a glue that helps hold many animal societies together, and a fatal flaw in one of Darwin's central ideas." Here are a few choice chunks of the article that I think encompass most of the article:

Author Bruce Bahemihl, in his book Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and natural diversity, has catalogued over 200 vertebrate species in which same-sex genital contact regularly occurs. In some species, homosexuality is not very common - around 1 to 10 per cent of all mating. In others, such a bonobos, homosexual mating occurs as often as heterosexual mating. In some species only males participate, in others only females, in still others both sexes. Sometimes homosexuality is associated with pair bonds that last for years, and in others with short-term courtships. This broad occurrence of homosexuality among vertebrates raises the possibility that if it has a genetic basis at all, it has some broad adaptive significance, and is not an aberrant condition just a few species happen to be stuck with.

In humans, moreover, homosexuality is much too common for it to be considered a genetic aberration. Real genetic diseases are really rare, and their frequency inevitably depends on their severity. A disease that is uniformly lethal must arise anew each generation, so its frequency is equal to the mutation rate, say one in 1 million. A disease that causes only a 10 per cent drop in offspring production (fitness) is 10 times more common than a lethal disease - about one in 100,000. Similarly, a mere 1 per cent drop in fitness leads to a frequency of one in 10,000. If homosexuality has a frequency of 1 in 10, the fitness loss could be no more than 0.001 per cent, which is completely undetectable. A "common genetic disease" is a contradiction in terms, and homosexuality is three to four orders of magnitude more common than true genetic diseases such as Huntington's disease.

All this seems eminently reasonable to me so far. I mean, clearly I'm no expert in evolutionary biology, so my opinion really counts for less than nothing. But on the other hand, as an engaged reader and a gay man I've at least got a legitimate interest in the subject and have found myself relatively compelled by the idea that if homosexual behaviour has a genetic component, that at least some of the genes that result in it must have some adaptive utility. The most commonly cited example is that perhaps a gene might exist that in an heterosexual adult provided a significant reproductive advantage of some kind - but which had the side effect of producing a certain proportion of children who were gay. As long as the cumulative effect was to mean that - on average - the familial line would produce more sexually productive offspring than a line which did not have the gene, then it would be clear that the genes that result in gay people had a reproductive advantage.

Of course while that theory has a certain compelling logic to it, it doesn't (perhaps shouldn't) have anything to say about what it means to be gay in this context. In other words - it makes no statement that homosexual behaviour is itself somehow useful or positive with regard to human behaviour, survival or evolution. Homosexual behaviour then, is not considered adaptively useful.

Now back to Joan Roughgarden's piece (carrying on directly from what was written above):

Indeed, I challenge the presumption that homosexuality leads to any reduction in fitness whatever. Throughout history and across cultures, homoerotic attraction has not precluded heteroerotic attraction. And there is little evidence that people who feel homoerotic attraction have, as a group, any less Darwinian fitness than those who don't. After all, many exclusively heterosexual people do not have offspring either. Even if those with homoerotic attraction did have marginally fewed children, they might make up for it by a better chance of survival - during wars, for example, when homoerotic bonds might lead soldiers to protect one another more vigorously.

So what then, is the adaptive significance of homosexuality? Homosexuality has many uses, much as the ability to speak does. Homosexual contact is a way to communicate pleasure. And I suggest that homosexuality is a social inclusionary trait - that is, it provides animals, including perhaps humans at times, with admission to social groups. It evolves, I suggest, whenever same-sex cooperation helps achieve an evolutionary successful life: to survive, find mates and protect one's young from harm. This plays out in different ways in different sexes and species. Sometimes, as with bonobos, same-sex cooperation provides group security and access to food that females need to successfully rear their young. For others, such as male Savanna baboons and probably some whales, it provides the allies they need to survive conflicts so that they may later mate. But the unifying principle is the same - homosexuality cements relationships that are crucial for a successful life.

At which point, I'm afraid, I think my scepticism comes to the fore. It seems to me that any theory of homosexuality that operates in direct opposition to people's experience of contemporary human sexuality seems to be at least flawed. While bonobo homosexuality might be seen to be useful in the creation of social inclusion, often exactly the opposite occurs in human society. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's classic book Between Men specifically talks about the continual need to disavow sexual components to male homosocial relationships (ie. male-on-male friendship / bonding relationships). We're all familiar with this kind of experience - that the most common and most potent sources of anti-gay tirades are tightly-bound social groups of men. At the very least more is going on in those situations than simple homoeroticism bringing those men together to express solidarity and closeness. Even at our most open-minded, surely we have to state that in those circumstances, the fact that any vestigial or situational erotics have to be so vigorously denied makes it clear that there's a distinction to be drawn between homoerotic behaviour, homosexual behaviour and homosexual identities that is much more complex than anything that Roughgarden supplies us with.

I will of course give her the benefit of the doubt in this case - the article is evidently a truncation of a body of work that no doubt includes a massive set of sample data from which to draw conclusions as well as the applied expertise of a lifetime of training. If I get the chance to read any more of her work, I will make sure that I do so vigorously. But in the meantime, I'm afraid I must remain interested but unconvinced.

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Management methods, models, theories

Management methods, models, theories 12/25/2004 05:20 PM
Management methods, models, thoeries Kick off 2005 sounding and/or being smarter than everyone else. Minds will spin given the amount of info available here.

Cassini Shatters Titan Theories

Cassini Shatters Titan Theories 07/04/2004 01:40 PM

N.Korea Blast Cause Unclear But Many
Theories (Reuters)

N.Korea Blast Cause Unclear But Many
Theories (Reuters) 09/12/2004 09:55 PM
Reuters - An accident at an underground munitions depot or a weapons factory was the likely cause of a huge explosion in North Korea last week, and there were possibly two blasts, South Korean media reports said on Monday.

Cassini's photos of moon support far-out
theories

Cassini's photos of moon support far-out
theories 06/14/2004 02:06 AM
USA Today Jun 14 2004 6:15AM GMT

Bird Brains Challenge Theories of Mind

Bird Brains Challenge Theories of Mind 05/15/2004 03:49 PM
A previously accepted difference between Humans and other animals was that only Humans could possess a "theory of mind" - that is, understanding that other beings have internal thoughts, mental states, and intentions. In recent years, higher mammals such as Gorillas have show evidence of having theories of mind. An article in the Economist summarizes two new studies in which biologists have found evidence of theories of mind in birds, a much older and more primitive form of life. One study by Berd Heinrich and others demonstrated that Ravens understood the significance of the visual behaviour of other creatures and were able to project gaze trajectories around obstacles. In a second study, Thomas Bugnyar and Kurt Kotrschal describe a strategy developed by a raven to deceive competing ravens in a way demonstrating understanding of the competitor's intentions. Oh well, we still have syntactic language and time binding.

Grokster scorecard: what theories of
liability do the amici endorse?

Grokster scorecard: what theories of
liability do the amici endorse? 03/19/2005 03:03 AM
Cory Doctorow: Jonathan Band, a copyfightin' lawyer from Morrison & Foerster, has created a great roundup of the amicus briefs in Grokster, the Supreme Court case where EFF will argue the right of P2P developers to make tools without having to anticipate and prevent copyright infringement in their designs. The highlight of this is a chart in which the various positions of each of the amici is summed up on a grid. You can't tell the players without a scorecard. 460K PDF Link

Game Theories: Are these virtual worlds
the best place to study the real one?

Game Theories: Are these virtual worlds
the best place to study the real one? 05/17/2004 08:55 AM
Game Theories: Are these virtual worlds the best place to study the real one? The Gross National Product of EverQuest, measured by how much wealth all the players together created in a single year inside the game. It turned out to be $2,266 U.S. per capita. By World Bank rankings, that made EverQuest richer than India, Bulgaria, or China, and nearly as wealthy as Russia. (by Clive Thompson)

New-Found Old Galaxies Upsetting
Astronomers' Long-Held Theories on the
Big Bang

New-Found Old Galaxies Upsetting
Astronomers' Long-Held Theories on the
Big Bang 01/08/2004 08:37 PM
Astronomers have found that the early universe, a couple of billion years after the Big Bang, looks remarkably like the present-day universe.

Flying Saucer Fever Grips Iran, Theories
Abound (Reuters)

Flying Saucer Fever Grips Iran, Theories
Abound (Reuters) 04/28/2004 01:04 PM
Reuters - Is Iran about to be invaded by little green men or are the Americans racing through the night sky in spaceships to spy on the Islamic Republic?

"scientists in Japan have discovered a
new sub-atomic particle that defies
current theories of matter and energy "

"scientists in Japan have discovered a
new sub-atomic particle that defies
current theories of matter and energy " 11/18/2003 08:58 PM

Albright's joke joins growing list of
Bush theories - The Washington Times:
Nation/Politics

Albright's joke joins growing list of
Bush theories - The Washington Times:
Nation/Politics 12/18/2003 02:24 PM
Madeleine Albright and some other Democrats are convinced of this and a lot of other wacky things .. Albright's joke joins growing list of Bush theories .. *

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Singapore shares end up, tech stocks
higher on hopes of high-tech recovery

Singapore shares end up, tech stocks
higher on hopes of high-tech recovery 12/26/2003 09:00 AM
Channel NewsAsia Dec 26 2003 7:42AM ET

Tech Undertaker: Business troubleshooter
takes aim at high-tech woes

Tech Undertaker: Business troubleshooter
takes aim at high-tech woes 01/04/2004 03:31 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Jan 4 2004 2:10PM ET

High Tech: Fiber opticsMall Tech: Tree
decoration

High Tech: Fiber opticsMall Tech: Tree
decoration 12/22/2003 03:15 AM
Boston Globe Dec 22 2003 2:35AM ET

Give a book, a low-tech gift in a
high-tech world

Give a book, a low-tech gift in a
high-tech world 12/03/2003 07:32 AM
SiliconValley.com Dec 3 2003 6:54AM ET

High Tech: Data storageMall Tech:
Keyring storage

High Tech: Data storageMall Tech:
Keyring storage 12/22/2003 02:02 AM
Boston Globe Dec 22 2003 1:01AM ET

High Tech: RoboticsMall Tech: Boxing
robots

High Tech: RoboticsMall Tech: Boxing
robots 12/22/2003 02:02 AM
Boston Globe Dec 22 2003 1:01AM ET

High-tech weapons defeated by low-tech
warfare

High-tech weapons defeated by low-tech
warfare 06/05/2004 07:47 PM
Straits Times Jun 5 2004 11:20PM GMT

Tame the Tech Training at the Next SLS
Tech Summit

Tame the Tech Training at the Next SLS
Tech Summit 04/27/2004 12:31 AM

I am most pleased to announce that Michael Stephens and Bob Lewandowski from the St. Joseph County Public Library will be presenting at the next SLS Tech Summit! Come see their infamous SJCPL Staff Day 2003 video if nothing else, but I guarantee you'll come away with a lot more. Oh, and we'll be taking them out for dinner afterwards if you'd like to join us.

Staff and User Technology Training

"Two technology trainers from the St. Joseph County Public Library in South Bend, IN, will discuss how they motivate staff and library users for technology training, including Internet basics, Web searching and applications. How do we engage our learners? How do we design training that carries with them back to their desks or homes and translates to useful skills. Session will include examples and a sample training module."

Wednesday, May 19, 2004
1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
At SLS Headquarters, Burr Ridge
Cost: Free!

Voting: When low-tech beats high-tech

Voting: When low-tech beats high-tech 06/25/2004 04:08 AM
Online Journal Jun 25 2004 8:31AM GMT

Women Into Tech, But Not Into Tech
Jargon

Women Into Tech, But Not Into Tech
Jargon 09/07/2004 05:03 AM
While there have been some stories in the past suggesting that women are just as into gadgets as men, a new study in the UK suggests that even if that's true, they're not as on top of the gadget jargon as guys. Nearly all women in the study (96%) said they "lacked confidence" when a discussion turned technical, and most claimied they had no clue what words like kbps, ISP and googling meant. Only half of the women surveyed knew that 512kbps was approximately 10 times faster than dialup, while nearly 80% of the guys did. Of course, it wasn't so much lack of knowledge, but lack of concern. When asked about their broadband connection, women generally said: "It works, it's fast - that's all I need to know."

China: Our Tech Can Lick Your Tech

China: Our Tech Can Lick Your Tech 05/24/2004 09:15 AM
CBS News May 24 2004 1:54PM GMT

Tech education to go high-tech soon

Tech education to go high-tech soon 08/14/2004 02:46 AM
NewIndPress Aug 14 2004 5:44AM GMT

From high tech to mall tech

From high tech to mall tech 12/22/2003 03:15 AM
Boston Globe Dec 22 2003 1:54AM ET

High-Tech Toys Reflect A High-Tech World

High-Tech Toys Reflect A High-Tech World 12/06/2003 05:40 PM
AP via Newsday Dec 6 2003 3:39PM ET
Grok Description matches for New tech theories two centuries old
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BBEdit update adds 'Refresh BBEdit
Preview' command

BBEdit update adds 'Refresh BBEdit
Preview' command 12/09/2003 03:42 PM
Bare Bones Software today released BBEdit 7.1.1, the latest version of the award-winning HTML and text editor...

BBEdit 8.0.3 BBEdit has always been the
top dog among Mac text editors. With its
useful features, insightful e

BBEdit 8.0.3 BBEdit has always been the
top dog among Mac text editors. With its
useful features, insightful e 03/22/2005 04:42 PM
MacWorld Mar 22 2005 7:00AM GMT

TextMate 1.0.2 Released

TextMate 1.0.2 Released 12/17/2004 06:31 PM

Textmate 1.0 released

Textmate 1.0 released 12/17/2004 06:38 PM
It’s time to turn envy into pride and end your desire for Windows- and UNIX-based editors once and for all....

Add Markdown to TextMate

Add Markdown to TextMate 03/14/2005 04:29 PM
Although I'm a longtime fan of BBEdit, I've also found TextMate wonderful for handling project-based documents -- and I love its text folding feature and comprehensive syntax colouring functionality. I must get to grips with ...

Language-Haskell-0.01

Language-Haskell-0.01 12/25/2004 07:29 PM

shell-haskell 1.0.1

shell-haskell 1.0.1 07/08/2004 02:04 PM
A library to communicate with other processes via Haskell code.

Haskell support for Eclipse

Haskell support for Eclipse 06/20/2004 06:26 AM
eclipsefp 0.3 (Haskell in Eclipse) released

The Glasgow Haskell Compiler 6.2.2

The Glasgow Haskell Compiler 6.2.2 12/30/2004 06:55 AM
A compiler for Haskell 98

gtk2hs: A Gtk2 binding for Haskell

gtk2hs: A Gtk2 binding for Haskell 11/19/2003 02:44 AM
gtk2hs 0.9.4 released

Bare Bones Software : SUPPORT : BBEdit :
Archived Release Notes : BBEdit 8
Release Notes

Bare Bones Software : SUPPORT : BBEdit :
Archived Release Notes : BBEdit 8
Release Notes 04/01/2005 06:41 AM
seemingly minor change .. BBEdit 8.1

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"BBEdit 8"

"BBEdit 8" 09/16/2004 09:02 AM

BBEdit 7.1

BBEdit 7.1 11/13/2003 09:54 PM
High-performance HTML and text editor.

BBEdit 8.0

BBEdit 8.0 08/31/2004 07:38 AM
BBEdit 8.0 has been released. There’s a whole boat-load of new features, with the main improvements being :

• Text Factories — run multiple scripts against multiple files and folders.
• Documents Drawer — long awaited and very welcome.
• CSS — much improved markup tools (also integration with HTML Tidy)
• Server Preview — previewing server-side code (e.g. PHP & JSP)
• Workspaces — restore palettes and menus to saved positions.
• Unix tools — enhanced bbeditcommand line tool.

I’ve been using BBEdit nearly every working day for the last 4 years or so, so it’s like preaching to the masses with me, but it’s still good to see the developers improving the application. The only downside is the updated logo — which looks a bit naff. Ah well…

BBEdit 8

BBEdit 8 08/30/2004 03:17 PM

BBEd it 8.0 is out: This gushing testimonial for BBEdit makes me wish I had a Mac.

BBEdit upgrades are like Christmas for me. More than any tool on my computer, I live in my text-editor. These upgrades are major quality-of-life enhancers for the likes of me.

I spend a lot of time in a text editor too. I've found EditPlus tough to beat for Windows, but I guess I don't feel as deeply for it as Cory does for BBEdit.

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BBEdit 8.0.3

BBEdit 8.0.3 04/06/2005 12:16 AM
MacWorld Apr 6 2005 3:31AM GMT

BBEdit 7.1.2 now available

BBEdit 7.1.2 now available 01/27/2004 05:14 PM
Bare Bones Software on Tuesday published version 7.1.2 of BBEdit , their popular HTML editor and all-purpose text tool. The maintenance release, which is free for all BBEdit 7 customers, fixes a whitespace issue that occurred while using Auto-Indent as well as a variety of other bugs.

BBEdit 8.0 is out

BBEdit 8.0 is out 08/30/2004 12:03 PM
Cory Doctorow: BareBones is a company that makes BBEdit, the most valuable piece of software on my Macintosh. BBEdit is a tool for writing and manipulating text, like vi, emacs, WordPad, and other editors. But while WordPad and TextEdit are underpowered and poorly thought-through and while vi and emacs are briliant but complex and hard to learn, BBEdit strikes the perfect balance between ease-of-use and power. All of my novels and every story I've written in the past eight years has been written in BBEdit. Every Boing Boing post I've posted (including this one) was written in BBEdit. I've had excellent support from them all along, and every so often, they ship a new version that inevitably fixes whatever minor annoyances I had with the previous version and introduces a few features that I hadn't thought of but which end up being indispensible to my workflow.

Today, BareBones shipped BBEdit 8.0, a $49 upgrade for BBEdit 7.x users, and I've just paid for it and downloaded it, on the strength of new features like Text Factories, a GUI front-end to regular-expression-based search and replace, so that you can do the kind of thing a perl hacker does in one inscrutable line with a series of easy-to-understand drop-down menus; the Documents Drawer, which fixes the slightly clumsy handling of multiple windows in the current BBEdit; and the newly integrated MacOS spell-checker, which fixes the sorely lagging BBEdit spell-checker.

BBEdit upgrades are like Christmas for me. More than any tool on my computer, I live in my text-editor. These upgrades are major quality-of-life enhancers for the likes of me. Link

New: BBEdit 8.0

New: BBEdit 8.0 08/30/2004 12:21 PM
Bare Bones introduces a major update to its award-winning text editor for programmers, web developers and others.

BBEdit 7.0.1 Available

BBEdit 7.0.1 Available 11/26/2002 04:23 PM
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"BBEdit"

"BBEdit" 08/31/2004 03:06 PM

BBEdit 8.0: Even More Muscular

BBEdit 8.0: Even More Muscular 08/31/2004 12:48 AM
TidBITS Aug 31 2004 3:36AM GMT

BBEdit 8.0 released

BBEdit 8.0 released 08/30/2004 01:45 PM
Bare Bones Software has released BBEdit 8.0, a major update to their popular text editor.

Update: BBEdit 7.1.2

Update: BBEdit 7.1.2 01/28/2004 11:25 AM
The text, HTML, and programmer's editor gets a maintenance update that includes numerous minor changes and bug fixes.

Update: BBEdit 7.1.4

Update: BBEdit 7.1.4 04/29/2004 09:17 AM
This BBEdit update adds scripting of the "current search strings" property, adds a new option to the Hex Dump tool, and fixes a number of bugs.

BBEdit 8 - Review

BBEdit 8 - Review 03/28/2005 12:33 PM
David Weeks: "BBEdit is designed to edit text; it focuses solely on letting you write and edit your words with speed and power. BBEdit is not a word processor. It doesn't allow fancy page or character formatting, nor does it handle graphics. But it has packed with more useful features for text editing and manipulation than any other Macintosh application I know."

BBEdit 7.0.3 Released

BBEdit 7.0.3 Released 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
Changes in BBEdit 7.0.3 include a preference option to control character set handling in HTML and XHTML documents. (MacCentral via MyAppleMenu)

SpyView: BBEdit 8.0.3

SpyView: BBEdit 8.0.3 12/24/2004 12:09 PM
It has fallen upon me to write a review for Bare Bones' latest release of BBEdit. As you read this I hope you will keep in mind that that I am a programmer by trade and not a columnist. So forgive me if this review doesn't have the same flair as something our beloved Spymac news writers might produce. That being said, BBEdit has been the undisputed champion in the field of Macintosh text editors for the past 10 years. Its abundant feature set can keep anyone from a student working on an English assignment to a programmer developing the next great app busy and productive. The search and replace functions in BBEdit are legendary, allowing the writer to search and replace text within any number of documents with a few simple clicks. Now in BBEdit 8 those features have become much more powerful. With BBEdit's new Text Factory you can create search and replace rules as easily as creating a smart playlist in iTunes. With a few short clicks you can have BBEdit scouring your project folder for all the changes you want to make in seconds. Got thousands of files you need to check and don't have the time to wait for it to finish? No problem, set Text Factory aside and let it search in the background while you continue working in BBEdit. BBEdit's new Document Drawer makes navigating through your documents easy. Switching documents is now as easy as clicking the file name in the Drawer. Moving files between windows is just easy. Simply drag and drop the file name from one window's drawer to the other and you're good to go. One of the features I really like is the ability to option-drag a file name from the drawer to my Desktop or some other folder for an instant copy. Without question the feature I value most is BBEdit's Live preview of HTML documents. Using Apple's Web Kit Framework, BBEdit will display a live preview of your page as you modify your code. Not impressed? With a couple of quick adjustments to your preferences BBEdit will even display a live preview of your PHP code as well. No more command-tabbing between Safari and back. This feature alone is bound to increase productivity for a good number of people. New features aside there are some negative aspects I feel I should point out. First and foremost are the preferences. Now I realize there is a lot that can be customized in there but it is just too easy to get lost amongst all the options. It would be nice to see this get simplified in the next release. I would also like to see a little more integration between the Documents Drawer and the Disk and FTP Browsers. Having all of your open documents in the drawer is a powerful addition. I can't help but think how much more potent it could be if a disk or FTP browser were be nested inside of it. Instant access to all of your files within a single all-knowing window. One can only hope. Pros: Rock solid, battle-hardened text editor Powerful search and replace that anyone can master Document Drawer for instant access to all of your open documents Live preview of PHP documents Cons: Confusing preference panel Document Drawer could be more useful System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.5 or later If you have a product you would like Spymac to review, please contact news@spymac.com

BBEdit 7.1 Released

BBEdit 7.1 Released 11/13/2003 05:22 PM
Bare Bones Software has released BBE dit 7.1, a free upgrade for BBEdit 7.0 owners. New features include a Preview in BBEdit feature, which uses WebKit to preview your HTML code, SFTP file transfer support, and Rendezvous server discovery for FTP & SFTP.

Update: BBEdit 8.0.1

Update: BBEdit 8.0.1 09/24/2004 03:36 PM
The BBEdit update restores the Convert to ASCII option, adds options to control the threshold at which proportional and fixed-width fonts are anti-aliased, and makes a number of other changes and bug fixes.

New tech theories two centuries old

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