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Advantage of Using Software Developers

admin — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:52:20 +0000

Though, with that approach, you will often find that the solution is not ideal. And, for any business, “almost there” is just not good enough. There are times when you will need a piece of software written from scratch. At other times, you might simply want help to tweak an existing application to make it run with your latest business software.

Software developers can also help you reap the benefits of a new technology before your competitors have access to it. For example, a telemarketing company might seek help from a software developer to customize a VOIP solution to lower costs and gain customers ahead of its competitors. If the technology is fairly new, it may be harder for competitors to find a wide array of similar off-the-shelf solutions.

Software developers also give you the chance to own your own application code. This allows maximum control over the software that you use to run your business. This can lead to other business opportunities, too. Many businesses have been known to create lucrative businesses by selling products they initially had developed for internal use.

A successful application implementation requires both technological as well as domain expertise. If you can identify a software developer who has domain knowledge in your industry, you can often procure solutions that address your problems in a cheaper and more user-friendly manner than by purchasing off-the-shelf products. Businesses often find it difficult to identify their technological needs. A software developer with domain knowledge will not only help you identify your needs, but also fulfill them in the most cost-efficient and effective way.

value of Oracle database Software

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:26:47 +0000

First, realize that the Oracle database is available to be used and can be benefited from by virtually any size of business. Large corporations, medium sized companies, and even small organizations can all benefit here. What makes it nice to everyone as well is the lower prices that are currently being offered on Oracle database systems. There is no doubt that the introductory price is something to turn heads.

The system we will mention here is the Oracle Database 10g Products. These are, believe it or not, the first databases designed for grid computing in the industry. Your options are many:

Enterprise Edition: Packed full with the highest level of performance and scalability. You will find reliability in OLTP as well as in decision support, and management activities.
Standard Edition: Clustering support is provided with this 4 processor version.
Standard Edition One: Same great stuff with a 2 processor version that is perfect for the entry level.
Personal Edition: Perfect for an individual
Lite Edition: Great option for managing mobile database applications.

While the features of each of these Oracle database options are many, it makes sense for each and every business out there to find out how well these products can serve their basic needs. Take a moment to see what they can do for you and you may just be impressed with the options that are available to you in Oracle database.

VaultPress new wordPress automatic back-up

admin — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:27:56 +0000

Owning a site with paid hosting comes with a lot of freedom to do anything you like. But, it also entails a lot of responsibilities such as ensuring the safety of the data when something goes wrong. The good news is that wordpress users can now take advantage of Dubbed VaultPress.

Dubbed VaultPress is a WordPress plug-in that offers automatic backup of the entire blog, but it will eventually provide protection in case of attacks and even automatic updates. According to Matt Mullenweg founder of Automattic and creator of WordPress, this plug in will ensure that blogs and sites under its care are always completely secure, which means every bit of content will be safe, regardless of what happens.

VaultPress is a WordPress plug-in aimed at bloggers who host their own sites. At its core, it offers backup services for WordPress blogs and boasts deep integration with the blogging software ensuring that everything gets saved, including other plug-ins.

However, future versions will get more advanced features and will be able to notify you if VaultPress determines that your blog has been compromised or damaged in any way and even act to fix the issue. What’s more, it will also be able to automatically update WordPress to ensure that you’re always running the most secure version. VaultPress is now in private beta and is only available through an invitation. Mullenweg says that the service got 600 applications within the first couple of hours after being launched. When it will be available publicly, it should cost somewhere between $15 to $20 per month.

Download Now QuickTime 7.6.6, iPhoto 8.1.2 Update

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:40:53 +0000

This has been released as minor updates via Apple’s Support Downloads section, QuickTime 7.6.6 and iPhoto 8.1.2 pack more than one would think just by looking at the short release notes. While iPhoto 8.1.2 addresses minor issues with import and syncing, QuickTime 7.6.6 includes changes that increase reliability, improve compatibility, as well as address multiple security issues.

As far as importing content into the application’s library goes, the update resolves an issue that could sometimes cause iPhoto to quit unexpectedly when connecting an iPhone 3GS, the newest iPhone model currently available from Apple. iPhoto 8.1.2 also resolves an issue that prevented an Event thumbnail from being created when an import included only video clips. While Apple seems to suggest that iPhoto only now adds iPod nano support, the company has merely tweaked up the app to make the iPod icon for iPod nano (5th Generation) appear correctly in the Source list.

For syncing, iPhoto 8.1.2 resolves an issue that prevented syncing photos to the iPhone, iPod, or AppleTV if a slideshow in the library used a song containing an ampersand (&) in the filename. Finally, iPad compatibility is provided for importing photos from the iPad to an iPhoto library, as well as syncing photos to the iPad.

QuickTime 7.6.6, released for both Mac OS X and Windows, is recommended for all QuickTime 7 users as it includes changes that increase reliability, improve compatibility and address security. Specifically, the update brings general reliability improvements for iMovie.

Download iPhoto 8.1.2 Update (Free)
Download QuickTime 7.6.6 (Free)

Crimeware Toolkit Threatens Zeus

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:41:46 +0000

A new botnet toolkit is threatening the infamous Zeus Trojan announced by the researchers from security giant Symantec. Dubbed SpyEye and priced at $500, the crimeware comes with a “Zeus killer” feature.

The Zeus computer trojan, also known as Zbot, is a well-maintained piece of malware that has been around since 2007. This is because the trojan is bundled along with the Command and Control (C&C) server software in a crimeware toolkit commercialized on the underground market. The team selling this package has constantly improved it, making it the most prolific information-stealing malware on the Internet.

But, according to Symantec, there’s a new competitor on the market named SpyEye. Initially spotted on Russian hacking forums back in December, the fresh trojan toolkit has seen several revisions and is currently at version 1.0.7.

The SpyEye toolkit offers most of the features Zeus does, being able to capture information typed into Web forms and steal credit card data, POP3 e-mail messages or FTP credentials. “It contains a builder module for creating the Trojan bot executable with config file and a Web control panel for command and control (C&C) of a bot net,” Symantec’s Peter Coogan.

One of the most intriguing options that can be enabled when generating the trojan horse is called “Kill Zeus.” This feature would supposedly enable SpyEye to remove a Zeus from compromised systems; however, security researchers have yet to test and confirm it. Even though it has enough potential, the new SpyEye toolkit is not mature enough to pose a real threat to Zeus’ supremacy yet.

Opera browser for Windows 7 Download Now!

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:22:49 +0000

The first fully-fledged Beta development milestone of Opera 10.50 has been released to web and is currently available for download here. Opera 10.50 Beta 1 is applauded as the fastest browser users can get their hands to at this point in time, but Opera Software also applauds the minimalist and modern design, the focus on increasing the browsing real estate space, as well as expanded web standards support, new features and fresh functionality. At this point in time Opera 10.50 reached Beta 1 only on the Windows platform, with the promise from the company that the Mac OS X and Linux builds will follow soon enough.

Opera 10.50 Beta 1 also brings to the table a redesigned graphical user interface, with style touch-ups, and a focus on increasing the quality of the browsing experience. At the same time, the release offers users the ability to browse the web in Private Mode. But unlike rival browsers such as Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.6, users are able to create both Private tabs and windows.

An important aspect of Opera 10.50 Beta 1 is the fact that the release embraces the latest releases of the Windows client, including Windows 7 and Windows Vista in terms of GUI. In this regard, Opera 10.50 is closely integrated with Windows 7’s Aero UI and comes with support for such features as Aero Peek and Jump List.

Seize the Web with Maxthon Browser

admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:34:31 +0000

As you can observe most statistics sharing information about web browser popularity trends are generally limited to displaying the usage drift of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari. However, their engines have been implemented in a ton of other browsers that sometimes bring more functionality and comfort than the original container.

This is exactly the case of Maxthon, which was initially developed as an improved version of Internet Explorer back in the days when Mozilla Firefox was not even a concept (Maxthon pre-dates Firefox by a few years and it was called MyIE) and which has kept on growing and raking users ever since. According to the developer, this little gem has over 200 million downloads worldwide and it sure won’t stop at this, given that it offers powerful features out-of-the-box, such as mouse gestures, anti-freeze (Ajax may cause some browsers to freeze, but not Maxthon), super drag and drop (type queries in search engines by merely selecting and dragging and dropping words/phrases in a webpage), tab undo (if you close a tab by mistake the action can be reversed by using a key combination – Alt+Z).

Although the popularity of Maxthon is not admitted all over the world, it is one of the most used in its homeland, China. It rivals with Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, carrying a very tight competition. Starting today Maxthon can also be downloaded it here!

The New Microsoft MyMedia Download Now

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:50:05 +0000

MyMedia is now available for download, a system built through an EU-funded collaborative research project, with the European Microsoft Innovation Centre (EMIC) at the helm. June 30 marks the public availability of what the Redmond Company referred to as an example of recommender system software for multimedia content. Essentially, MyMedia is designed as an intelligent recommender system technology capable of bridging users’ individual tastes, preferences and interest with suitable multimedia content, be it served via TV or radio.

In addition to EMIC, MyMedia has been built with contributions from BBC, BT, Microgenésis, Novay, Eindhoven Technical University and the University of Hildesheim. Microsoft indicated that MyMedia was set up to do to multimedia content served through IPTV, video on demand and the Internet what Bing has done to search, namely filter the information overload. MyMedia will be able to factor in characteristics as the personality or the mood of end users when adapting recommendations to them.

Google Chrome 3.0 Download Now

admin — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:05:27 +0000

Every now and then company’s consistent tradition in browser development such as Microsoft and Mozilla are taking years to advance Internet Explorer and respectively Firefox from one version to another, Google is going through Chrome releases like it has been producing it since the dawn of the Internet. Just a week after it left version 1.0 behind and launched v2.0 for the general public, the Mountain View-based search giant has kicked Chrome up a notch and all the way to version 3.0.

This new release now supports the video tag. Auto-spell-correct flag will fix common typos like “teh” for “the” in the blink of an eye. Various bits of UI clean-up (toolbar and dangerous download bar paint issues). Multiple crash fixes,” informed Anthony Laforge, technical program manager. The latest release of Google Chrome is available for download here.

Latest Opera Browser, Download Now!

admin — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:28:03 +0000

Another milestone of Opera 10.0 is now available for download, and this time around the browser comes in versions tailored to all supported operating systems, including Linux, not just Windows and Mac OS X. Opera 10.0 Build 1491, still in Alpha stage and has included automated crash reporting capabilities in version 10 Alpha.

Opera 10.0 Alpha Build 1491 brings to the table various enhancements boosting stability, UI tweaks, compatibility and even the Turbo component. In fact, the crash reporting features of the browser have been improved. It is also noted that opera:config#UserPrefs|ShowCrashLogUploadDialog allows for the crash update dialog to be switched off. An issue affecting the Turbo icon height has been resolved, with Opera also making sure that context caches get cleared along with normal cache; [and that] performing a full reload with new usage info when opening images manually. So, if you like this browser then you can download it here!