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How to Instantly Change Blocks of 'CAPITALIZED TEXT' in Microsoft Word to 'lowercase letters'

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You know that moment when you finally figure out something, but you figured it out years after you really needed it? Don’t you freaking hate that?! Thanks to Reddit user josawalk, whom I hate, yet love, I now know how to change chunks of text from all capital letters to lowercase.

There were so many times in school when I needed to copy text from some PDF or a source like JSTOR and all of the letters were in uppercase!

SOMETIMES I SIMPLY FORGOT THAT CAPS LOCK WAS ON AND WOULD HAVE TO RETYPE THAT WHOLE SENTENCE.

If only I knew about this easy MS Word keyboard shortcut, I would’ve saved so… more

Source: Wonder How To

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KBibTeX 0.4.1, 0.5-beta2 (KDE Scientific)

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KBibTeX 0.4.1, 0.5-beta2
(KDE Scientific)
KBibTeX is a BibTeX editor for KDE to edit bibliographies used with LaTeX. Features include comfortable input masks, starting web queries (e. g. Google Scholar or BibSonomy) and exporting to PDF, PostScript, RTF and XML/HTML. As KBibTeX is using KDE‘s KParts technology, KBibTeX can be embedded into Kile or Konqueror.

changelog:
2013-Mar-10

KBibTeX 0.5-beta2 has been released. Please test this beta and report bugs at KBibTeX’s bug tracker at Gna (not KDE‘s bug tracker).

2012-Oct-15

KBibTeX 0.4.1 has just been tagged and tar-balled. This release is a maintenance release, although some minor feature improvements from the development trunk have been backported as well.

Everyone using KBibTeX 0.4 is encouraged to upgrade to this version if possible.

Changes from 0.4 to 0.4.1 include, but are not limited to:

  • Web searches: Improved support for user-triggered cancelling

  • SpringerLink search: GUI changes, using api.springer.com for search

  • PubMed: Limiting search requests per time

  • ACM Portal: Retrieving “month”, fixing HTTP header

  • JSTOR: fixing HTTP header

  • Google Scholar: Updates to compensate for changes in Google’s web layout; handling redirects

  • Science Direct: Updates to compensate for changes in Science Direct‘s web layout; handling redirects

  • arXiv: Trying to extract bibliographic information from journal strings

  • BibSonomy: Specifying number of hits to find

  • Web search uses KDE‘s proxy settings

  • Using KDE subsystem to open external files (e.g. PDF files)

  • Adding preview for images (in addition to PDF or HTML files); handling references to arXiv

  • Squeezing long file names in user interface

  • Handling quit actions more gracefully

  • Improving interface to external programs such as pdflatex

  • More robust XSL transformations

  • BibTeX import: guessing encoding information left by JabRef, more informative debug output, improved handling of multiple fields with same name

  • Reference preview: supporting dark color schemes

  • Fixing sorting in value list

  • Fixes in setting color tag to entries

  • Fixes in name formatting

  • Keeping user interface read-only for read-only use cases

  • Numerous bug fixes, closing memory leaks, speed improvements

  • Adding testing application for web searches

  • Fixes in duplicate merging code: remove fields user doesn’t want to keep

    • 2011-Nov-24

    After month of development, KBibTeX 0.4 has been released today.

    KBibTeX 0.4 has the following improvements over KBibTeX 0.3, extracted from a 21000+ lines difference in code.

  • Support for Windows (compiles out of the box)

  • Configuration file system refactored

  • Adding more online search engines: SpringerLink, PubMed, ACM Digital Library, JSTOR, IEEE Xplorer, Science Direct

  • Improving all other online search engines: Google Scholar, arXiv, BibSonomy

  • “List of Values” refactored, allows to search for items

  • Introducing preferences dialog to manage various settings

  • Improved support for drag’n’drop throughout the program

  • Improving tagging elements with color

  • Introducing global keyword list to select from

  • Editing widgets get “history” to select from

  • Widget for …read more
    Source: FULL ARTICLE at KDE Apps
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    US Attorney General defends handling of Aaron Swartz case

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    U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has defended the role of the prosecution in the case of the late Internet activist and innovator Aaron Swartz, stating that “there was never an intention for him to go to jail for longer than a three, four, potentially five-month range.”

    “That was what the government said specifically to Mr. Swartz,” Holder told Senator John Cornyn, during an appearance before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on Wednesday.

    The plea offers made to Swartz were rejected, he added. In a plea offer, prosecutors usually agree to ask the court for a lighter sentence in return for a guilty plea.

    Swartz, who committed suicide in January, was charged with wire fraud, computer fraud and other crimes for allegedly accessing and downloading over 4 million articles from the JSTOR online database through the network of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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    Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld

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    Congresswoman proposes amendment to computer fraud law honoring Aaron Swartz

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    A draft bill to exclude terms of service violations from the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is to be introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.

    Aaron SwartzImage: Demand Progress
    Aaron Swartz

    The proposed amendment to the anti-hacking law comes in the wake of the suicide on Friday by Internet activist and computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, who was charged with wire fraud, computer fraud and other crimes for allegedly accessing and downloading millions of documents from the JSTOR online database through the network of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

    Swartz allegedly intended to distribute a significant proportion of JSTOR’s archive through file-sharing sites. If convicted, he could have faced up to 35 years in prison and a fine of $1 million.

    The government was able to bring disproportionate charges against Swartz because of the broad scope of CFAA and the wire fraud statute, wrote Representative Zoe Lofgren in a post on Tuesday on the Reddit news-sharing site in which Swartz played a key role. “It looks like the government used the vague wording of those laws to claim that violating an online service’s user agreement or terms of service is a violation of the CFAA and the wire fraud statute,” she said.

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    Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld

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    Swartz suicide shines light on Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

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    The suicide of Internet activist and pioneer Aaron Swartz has focused attention on what some activists say is the overzealous use of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act anti-hacking statute.

    Swartz, 26, hanged himself last Friday, apparently over concerns stemming for the prospect of spending up to 35 years in prison on hacking-related charges.

    Federal prosecutors had indicted Swartz on 13 counts of felony hacking and wire fraud related to the alleged theft of millions of documents from JSTOR, an online library of literary journals and scholarly documents sold by subscription to universities and other institutions.

    Several charges against Swartz were tied to alleged CFAA violations.

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    Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld

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    MIT considers its role in hactivist Swartz's suicide

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    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is conducting an inquiry into its role in the legal struggles that are believed to have lead to the suicide Friday of Internet activist Aaron Swartz.

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    Aaron Swartz

    The institute’s website was also defaced late Sunday to include messages from hacker group Anonymous, after being inaccessible for a number of hours.

    The Internet pioneer and computer programming prodigy faced a variety of charges in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, including computer intrusion, wire fraud and unlawful collection of information stemming from allegations that he used the MIT network to steal millions of scholarly articles and documents from the JSTOR database of scholarly articles between September 2010 and January 2011.

    He allegedly intended to distribute the documents and articles through file-sharing sites. If convicted, he could have been hit with a 35-year jail sentence and a $1 million fine.

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    Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld