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TidBITS#1162/25-Feb-2013

Lots of great stuff for you this week, leading off with Agen Schmitz’s look at iOS 6.1.2, which fixes a serious bug communicating with Microsoft Exchange Server. Josh Centers and Joe Kissell team up for a pair of email-focused articles, with Josh reviewing the much-heralded Mailbox app for the iPhone and Joe suggesting kindly that if you’re having trouble staying on top of your email, it’s not email in general or the app you’re using that’s the problem; it’s you that needs to change. Adam passes along the news of additional Microsoft accreditation for consultants at MacTech BootCamp events in 2013, and examines the popular but controversial Kickstarter campaign to create an open-source version of the HyperCard-inspired LiveCode development environment. Notable software releases this week include TextWrangler 4.5, Adobe Acrobat XI and Reader XI 11.0.02, Transmit 4.3.2, KeyCue 6.4, Java for OS X 2013-001 and Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 13, iTunes 11.0.2, Firefox 19, and BusyCal 2.0.3.

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LiveCode Crowdfunds Free, Open-Source Update

LiveCode, a development environment inspired by HyperCard, may add a free edition and release its code under an open-source license, if owner RunRev meets the goal for its Kickstarter campaign by the end of February. For many, the promise of a free version of LiveCode and its code being available to view, modify, and distribute in changed form is compelling; others find controversial the amount of money sought and other details about the project.