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TidBITS#584/18-Jun-01

So what the heck is WebObjects and where did it come from? Read on for the first installment of Jonathan Rentzsch’s two-part article explaining just what WebObjects is, where it came from, and how it compares to other ways of creating Web applications. Also this week, Adam gets grumpy about a report about "severe market dominance" on the Internet, and we cover the releases of IPNetSentry 1.1.1, Rewind 1.2, BBEdit Lite 6.1.1 and icWord 1.2.

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Rewind Advances to 1.2

Rewind Advances to 1.2 -- Power On Software has updated Rewind, its $100 utility for reverting to previous incarnations of files or the system in the event of a crash or mistake (see "Macworld SF 2001 Trend: Cool Utilities" in TidBITS-564)

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icWord 1.2 Adds Double-Byte Support

icWord 1.2 Adds Double-Byte Support -- The recently released 1.2 update to Panergy's icWord utility for viewing and printing Microsoft Word documents can now read files created by the Far East version of Microsoft Word, including those in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other double-byte languages

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IPNetSentry 1.1.1 Traces Intruders

IPNetSentry 1.1.1 Traces Intruders -- Sustainable Softworks has released IPNetSentry 1.1.1, a minor update to the company's personal firewall software (see "Macworld SF 2001 Trend: Personal Firewalls" in TidBITS-564)

Adam Engst No comments

BBEdit Lite 6.1.1 Fixes Bugs

BBEdit Lite 6.1.1 Fixes Bugs -- Bare Bones Software has released BBEdit Lite 6.1.1, a bug fix update to the company's free text editor. BBEdit Lite 6.1.1 now remembers changes to the Default Font setting, honors search options in multi-file searches, provides dynamic scrolling under Mac OS 8.1 and earlier, improves Mac OS X clipboard performance, and fixes a crashing bug related to the Hard Wrap command