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> Detailed Changes March 2004
(currently open)
Previous detailed changes to AbleStable: March 2004
Recent
changes to AbleStable made over the calendar month
of March 2004 are listed below. Maintenance entries
are in black text, new content is highlighted:
Last change of month made:
31 March 2004
• New
Column: Are
You Artist or Creative?: Our desire to name, define
and categorise the world is testament to our need
to make sense of it, yet many words are used in such
different ways from one person to the next, the more
they are considered, the more they confuse. The word
'artist' is one such word.
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March 2004
• New Freeware:
SyncBack
v3: easily backup or synchronize your important
files to another drive, FTP server, ZIP archive, networked
drive, or removable media with this outstanding software.
• Creative News:
News Centre:
selected arts and media highlights brought to you
in association with Guardian Unlimited, the premier
Internet news service.
• New Freeware:
Toolbar
Paint by Edgar Hansen provides a great solution
for creative people who wish to design their own button
graphics. The program can open toolbar bitmaps with
up to 64 buttons, allows you to visually design a
toolbar using a wide selection of editing tools, and
saves your work as bitmaps or .ico files. A great
tool to create your first icon.
• New Article:
About
Computer Icons: Well designed computer icons are
visual aids that assist in the usability of a software
product or website. Discover their history and how
to create icons of your own...
• New Creative Source
File: You may now download the Flash source
file of Scott Balay's Scribbler
(you will require the full Flash application to open
the file, not simply the Flash player).
• New Review:
Freeway
Express: if you're a Mac owner that wants a drag
and drop website creation tool that doesn't expose
you to the rigours of html this sounds like the perfect
solution. If only life was that simple...
• New Creative Plaything:
Enjoy Scott Balay's Scribbler.
Not only is it great fun, it also tells us a lot about
our own creative characteristics.
• New Review:
Swift
Optimizer reduces the size of swf files making
the users experience a more immediate and satisfying
one.
• The registration and update forms for
Members have been improved with the addition of several
fields that allow the choice of whether postal or
email addresses are shown online.
• Our spotlight feature on the homepage
has been enlarged to four items which emphasise our
community services.
• New Freeware:
JPEG
Comment Editor by Bob Dolan allows you to add
comment text such as a copyright notice to the JPG
file comment header. This information will be contained
within the file, can be read by any program that supports
this field, and may also be stamped on the image itself.
• New Competition Winners:
View the Winning
Entries to our competition in association with
Computer Arts on the theme of 'Food and Drink'.
• Our navigational buttons have all been
improved site-wide with our pixel accurate 'house'
font that results in significantly sharper text as
compared to our previous buttons (note the context
menu on the left column).
• Updates (this page) and the Update
Archive are current for the start of March 2004.
• To view all updates for the month of
February go to February Updates.
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News
about AbleStable
Server
Problems Resolved 21 March: Our server suffered
a major hardware failure during 20 March and required
complete replacement. Our site is now fully operational
after our System Administration identified a problem
with suexe which also caused significant disruption
to form processing and a number of other script related
functions. We have also resolved a misconfiguration
error on our email server which occurred.
We apologise to all our users for any inconvenience
this may have caused during this period.
•
Spam Emails: Important Advice
(1 March 2004)
An unknown source has been sending spam emails with
the following subject and body message. This has
not originated from AbleStable. Do not open
any attachments and immediately delete
this message:
| THE
SPAM EMAIL MESSAGE |
Subject:
Warning about your e-mail account.
From: management@ablestable.com
Dear user, the management of Ablestable.com
mailing system wants to let you know
that, Our main mailing server will be
temporary unavailable for next two days,
to continue receiving mail in these
days you have to configure our free
auto-forwarding service.
Please, read the attach for further
details. For security purposes the attached
file is password protected. Password
is "67282".
Best wishes,
The Ablestable.com team
http://www.ablestable.com
Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
name="Attach.zip"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Attach.zip"
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There
is nothing wrong with our mailing system and we
have never sent an email like this, nor an attachment
named 'Attach.zip'. The Spammers are using our address
along with thousands of other companies to undermine
confidence and to infect computer systems. If you
have inadvertently opened an attachment like that
above, immediately go to http://securityresponse.symantec.com/
where you will find information about the latest
security fixes.
We are monitoring this problem and would like to
hear from any users who have received such an email
so we can keep a track of this issue: email support@ablestable.com.
As a general principle never click on an email attachment
unless you know what the file contains.
New
Publicity: Enjoy our new range of web
banners and publicity for websites and print publications
at Publicity and
Press Artwork.
creativefeed.com goes live
(17 February 2004) AbleStable has developed a new
service for creative people and businesses that
delivers customised template logos. Visit www.eyelogo.com
to find out more.
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Many
creative people like writers, choreographers,
and composers don't have the appropriate skills
to develop a logo, and those who are starting
up are often on a very tight budget.
If you can't afford the services of a professional
logo illustrator or designer, but want to establish
a powerful visual statement quickly, this service
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creativefeed.com
goes live (10 December 2003)
We're pleased to announce the launched
of our new website www.creativefeed.com
(opens new window), a separate brand of AbleStable
for those who wish to deliver their content feed via
a generic name server.
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All
content delivered by creativefeed.com originates
from AbleStable. Click the screenshot on the
left to enlarge.
Head over to www.creativefeed.com,
(opens new window) and enjoy a straightforward
route to enabling a live content feed on your
website today... |
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Major
Updates
Developer
Service Launched (17 January 2004)
usereview.com
goes live (17 January 2004)
• AbleStable is pleased to announce the launch
of a new service for software authors that provides
usability, style, and English Language reviews of
software products.
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Our
new review service has been released under the
brand name usereview.com. Click the screenshot
on the left to enlarge.
Head over to www.usereview.com,
(opens new window) and enjoy independent software
reviews and expert analysis and advice that
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usereview.com will compliment our existing Website
Critique service which is proving so popular. The
resulting reviews from usereview.com will also be
published at AbleStable's Product Area and will
be free to browse.
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