Daybook's Rollo Carpenter has landed a major computing prize and a place on the front page of a national newspaper. When he's not too busy developing our new web wizard Caliban (if you sign up now, you can use for a year free of charge), Rollo, as previously reported in this bulletin, is big on small talk. His chatbot, Jabberwacky has been a labour of love for years, and, according to Rollo, people spend up to seven hours a day talking to it online.

Now, the bot has landed Rollo, his artificial intelligence (AI) technology and a mysterious character called George who lives in the strange world of Jabberwacky, on the front page of the Guardian, by winning the prestigious Loebner prize.

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That's right - your eyes did not deceive you. As mentioned in the previous feature, you can sign up now and you can use our web engine Caliban absolutely free of charge for a year. And that includes all the technical support you need.

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We are pleased to announce the release of version 5.6 of Daybook Publisher, our database publishing solution for catalogues, display and classified ads, yearbooks, etc.

The new version contains a new Layout Manager, which greatly simplifies and enhances the process of turning your data into publish-ready pages in Quark, InDesign, XML, FrameMaker and so on.

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Ever wished that you could send emails that did intelligent things before they left? Email as it is generally used is a pretty blunt instrument. You write your email and then send it to a range of contacts. That's fine as far as it goes, but as a tool to help you manage client relationships it is still fairly crude.

That is all changed now with the new Email Macro facility in Enterprise 6. Now if you are doing an email shot you can have a macro do things which are precisely targeted to individual circumstances.

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Oh dear, there we go again. Just when things seemed to be going so smoothly, you hit a key or click a mouse, and suddenly there it is. It's panic inducing and unintelligible, but the meaning of the message that appeared out of nowhere, accompanied by a small sound just to make sure that you don't miss it, is quite clear - whatever you just did, your computer didn't like it. And to make sure that you are in no doubt at all about what it was, there is the explanation, "ID=-10098".

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We thought it would be timely, with the new Tiger-friendly releases of 4D , 2003.7 and 2004.2 to give a some simple guidelines about installing 4D Client.

If you are installing a Windows version, the first thing to do is to configure the memory allocation. To do this you will need to use the 4D Customizer Plus, which came with your 4D software. Launch this programme and go to the File menu and open you 4D Client software. Then use the Customizer to configure the application's memory to 20 blocks of 10,000k.

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If you are an Enterprise 6 user and keen to upgrade to 4D 2004, then call us. We now have a version of 6.1 for you to use. Call The Daybook Team for details on 020 7371 7161.