We're happy to announce a new partnership with WorldCat, the world's largest online library catalog. StyleEase users can now search WorldCat, download citations for sources found in the catalog, and link directly to libraries and bookstores through which the source material is available.

StyleEase users can search and download citations from within their StyleEase document (in Word), or they can use our online search web application from any browser. Web app users can store citations in the StyleEase cloud database, and then later download those citations into their StyleEase papers.

Our customers can now enjoy the ease of finding and citing source material in a way that's conveniently integrated with StyleEase!

Thanks for choosing StyleEase!

We have confirmed that installation and use of StyleEase products on MacOS 10.7 (Lion) is working fine, including our new version of StyleEase for Chicago/Turabian Style for MacOS, which will be released on September 1st.

Early installations of Lion apparently had issues with Word and StyleEase; however, if you update your OS before updating to Lion, and if you update Word for Lion, StyleEase is working fine. We believe any Mac-related problems are behind us, and our updated installers are now available.

We are very happy to announce that we've overhauled our StyleEase for Chicago/Turabian Style software and will be releasing the new version in August, 2011. The new version includes numerous major enhancements, including:

• Updated to 16th Edition of Chicago Manual of Style (and Turabian 7th Edition)
• Now includes a references database for simple re-use of citations in all of your papers
• Dramatically simplified references menu
• Easy addition of online information for any citation
• Simplified online-only source citations
• Easy entry of names, dates, and other data that StyleEase automatically formats correctly for you
• Available for PCs (in August) and MacOS/Word 2011 (in September)

We are currently signing up advanced (beta software) test customers. We'll give you a pre-release version of our new version, and you'll automatically get upgraded to the production version when it becomes available. We'll also include free updates for life. We will begin beta testing of our PC version on or before July 24th, 2011, and testing of our MacOS version will begin by late August. Please note that our beta versions have been thorougly tested and verified in-house; our beta testers usually find only very minor adjustments to the way our software works.

What do you need to do? Sign up at http://www.styleease.com/Forms/GetChiBeta.html; we'll send you a download link, and will expect you to send us brief feedback within two weeks of activating your beta copy. We won't ask anything else, and we won't use your email address for any purpose other than letting you know when your software and subsequent updates are available.

Thanks in advance for helping assure the ongoing quality of our products!

A number of our users have been reporting that Norton/Symantec antivirus software has been detecting "Suspicious.Insight" or "WS.reputation.1" threats in the Bulk Image Downloader setup executable.

This is a false positive. None of our software contains any form of virus, trojan or other malware. All our executables are digitally signed which you can verify to prove that they originate from us and were not tampered with. 

Norton recently introduced these 'reputation' checks which basically flag any executable their system hasn't seen before as a possible threat. This is nonsense for smaller software companies and it affects a huge number of companies that regularly release new software. The WS.Reputation.1 reported by Norton is not a virus warning, it means that this file has a low or no reputation among Norton users. 
Considering that Norton has possibly tens of millions of users - StyleEase will never have a high enough reputation to not have problem with such a system. 

As these reports come in we report them to Symantec and wait for them to update their virus definitions. We have been whitelisted, so updated Norton should not cause this issue. 

If you choose to continue using Norton you'll need to configure it to exclude the StyleEase executable (normally located in C:\Program Files\StyleEase) from being checked. Please consult your Norton/Symantec documentation for information on how to do this.

"There have been several recent posts about the WS.Reputation.1 detection.  In order to clear things up, we thought it was important to explain this detection and provide more information about how you should deal with it.  First off, we have published a write-up on our Security Response site.  Please see the information here - http://www.symantec.com/en/uk/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2010-051308-1854-99.  The text reads: