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Read MoreINTELLI INNOVATIONS RELEASES REAL CONTROL STRIP 1.1 TO OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY
Final Product Release Includes Complete Source Code For Popular REALbasic
Control Strip Module Development Toolkit
RALEIGH, NC – September 19th, 2001 – Intelli Innovations, Inc., developers
of innovative business and Internet tools for the Macintosh platform, today
announced the last version release of REAL Control Strip, version 1.1.