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10 slick and cool IE Extensions and Tags

What a great way to start 2008 with Surfulater included in 10 slick and cool IE extensions by By John Fontana, Network World, 01/04/08. We certainly are in good company along side Microsoft Silverlight. Click on Next in the article to … Continue reading

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View Surfulater KB’s in any Web Browser, wherever you are.

We all want access to our information wherever we happen to be, assuming of course there is a PC available, or maybe even a Smart-phone. Various technologies are making this possible, all the more so as our lives become ”always connected” to the Net and … Continue reading

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Surfulater, the next release …

One of the most requested Surfulater capabilities is the ability to select multiple articles in the Knowledge Tree. In hindsight it is clear that omitting this in the original design was a mistake. When you develop any type of product you … Continue reading

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Surfulater V2.00 Released. The 11th and final release for 2006.

Ok the dust has settled, and there have been no real problems to speak of, with the Surfulater V2.00 release, I’m very pleased to say. I want to briefly run through some of the new features in this release, so … Continue reading

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There is a bug

I found out last week that there is a bug which I introduced in the last release V1.98.4.0 which prevents Surfulater from creating new articles if it isn’t already running. You get an error message saying you need to open … Continue reading

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Not Happy!

For the past week and a bit I’ve been doing a lot of research into synchronization techniques, client/server technology, tcp/ip, Windows and Unix sockets and the like. This is all related to the work I’m doing to enable Surfulater databases … Continue reading

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Content styling and templates

Bit by bit I’m working on making it easier for folks to create their own Surfulater article templates. Once I’ve finished laying the groundwork and updating the existing styles and templates I’ll be ready to put a release out and … Continue reading

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Improving performance with Multi-threading

A few weeks back a Surfulater customer (lets call her Mary) was having a problem where Surfulater wouldn’t start. It turned out that if she closed Surfulater and then immediately started it again, it wouldn’t start. During the process of … Continue reading

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Data Execution Protection & Rex Winn

Back in Dec 2005 Charles Cowan reported a problem where Surfulater would crash whenever it went to display one of its pop-up tip Windows. I’d had no other reports of this and was unable to reproduce it on any of … Continue reading

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Pushing content into Surfulater from other Programs – Part 2

In Part 1 of this article I showed you how Surfulater’s XML Clipboard Format (SXCF) enables programs to add content to Surfulater. In this second and final part I’ll describe the SXCF in details. For those familiar with XML you … Continue reading

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