22Feb 2018 by richard@baronsoftware.com

HelpNDoc 5.5: project wide spell checker and more…

Software Releases
HelpNDoc 5.5: project wide spell checker and more...   HelpNDoc has released version 5.5 with stronger features such as project wide spellchecker.  You can visit by clicking here Check spelling of the whole documentation project. HelpNDoc already includes a powerful multi-lingual live spell checker throughout the whole user interface. It is now accompanied by a project-wide spell checker to rapidly spot possible mistakes. Enhanced documentation generation engines and tweaked user interface. Most documentation generators and templates have been enhanced: Word documents' topic titles will stick to the same page as the following content when possible, Javascript search engine's speed and memory usage have been optimized for the HTML documentation format, CHM and HTML documentation format's arrows will now work as expected with relative blank topics... This update also features a…
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20Feb 2018 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Corel Paintshop Pro 2018

Software Releases
Corel Paintshop Pro 2018 PaintShop Pro 2018 is your affordable photo editing and graphic design software—without the restrictions of a subscription. Enhance your photos with professional image editing tools, or create impactful designs using layers, text, brushes, gradients, drawing and painting tools. NEW Workspaces & Simplified UI ENHANCED Launch time & faster features NEW Improvements to most popular tools NEW Color palettes, brushes & gradients Top Reasons to use Corel Paintshop Pro 2018 Edit photos with pro-level tools Enhance photos with a complete set of professional image editing tools for photo adjustment and composition. Create graphic design projects Find everything you need to produce a variety of impact graphic design projects. Improve photos with quick fixes Crop, straighten, and use one-click auto adjustments to fix any image, fast! Add effects Achieve a signature look for your…
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16Feb 2018 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Google Chrome Browser to Start Blocking Certain Web Advertising

News Items, Software Events, Software Releases
Google Chrome Browser to Start Blocking Certain Web Advertising All Google Chrome Browser users starting on February 15, 2018, your Chrome browser will start blocking ads that don’t meet the standards set by the Coalition for Better Ads. The idea is to improve the browsing experience of web users by getting rid of the worst of the annoyances that they generally object to. These annoyances include ads that provide auto-playing video with audio, ads that block the site you’re trying to reach and ads that cover large areas of the screen.  I am not sure how this will handle something like CNN.com that is famous for putting up some of the worst possible ads.  Even if you hover over the ad it sometimes will automatically start. Remember that CNN as well…
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15Feb 2018 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Apple April 2018 will force all Apps to be built with iOS 11

News Items, Software Releases
Apple April 2018 will force all Apps to be built with iOS 11. Beginning in April 2018 all new iOS apps submitted to the App Store must be built with the iOS 11 SDK.  This is the method Apple uses to force developers to fall into line otherwise your app will not be in the store. For the average developer using either Rad Studio or Visual Studio they will have to hope their IDE's can be used and sent to the store.  There could be issues with the IDEs that Apple tends to wait until a few weeks prior to releasing the final version.  This alone may break the development cycle with your IDE. iOS 11 has brought innovative features and the redesigned App Store to hundreds of millions of customers…
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14Feb 2018 by richard@baronsoftware.com

AlMediaDev Releases update to StyleControls Version 3.91

Rad Studio Delphi Development, Software Releases
AlMediaDev Releases update to VCL StyleControls Version 3.91   AlMediaDev has released the latest update to the fantastic VCL StyleControls. StyleControls VCL is a powerfull package of components, which uses Classic drawing, system Themes, GDI+ and VCL Styles. This package contains the unique solutions to extend standard VCL controls and also has many unique, advanced controls to create Windows 10 Modern UI Applications (UWP design).  Also with this package you can really improve applying and using of VCL Styles in your application. You can visit them by clicking here The following updates have been applied:  added: full support of native system animations for custom form with TscStyledForm.DWMClientShadow = True (see CustomGPForm..., GPControls demos)  improved: custom drop down form behavior when it resizing (TscStyledForm.DropDownForm = True)  updated: TscGPSizeBox control  (mouse handling is…
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