How To Extend Information Control With SharePoint

Thursday, April 30, 2009

by: Rusty Bender




Microsoft SharePoint is currently one of the leading providers of centralized repositories that provide a document management platform and packed with features that improves an organization's efficiency by allowing easier document sharing and document search. SharePoint prides itself with the following key features:

Collaboration - provides a platform that allows information sharing making it easier for teams to collaborate and work together effectively. An important feature for organizations who want to maximize productivity.

Portals - With SharePoint, users can make portal sites where they can transmit information, expertise, and applications to others with much ease.

Enterprise Search - An easy way to locate people, expertise, and content in business applications.

Enterprise Content Management - Built with advanced document management capabilities, Sharepoint helps organizations consolidate diverse content from multiple file shares and personal drives into a centrally managed repository with consistent categorization.

Business Process and Forms - Built-in workflow templates that allow automated approval, review, and archiving processes and create, maintain, and analyze custom workflows, enabling organziations to streamline their collaborative processes.

Business Intelligence - SharePoint gives decision-makers access to important information anytime and anywhere allowing them to make more informed decisions on critical issues.

As promising as SharePoint's features are, there are still ways on maximizing its full potential as becoming the complete information control platform that your organization needs. SharePoint being one of the most reliable central repositories in the market, when combined with a reliable tracking system, makes a good retention software and offers a greater advantage to organization in terms of document management, work flow efficiency, and minimizing document related risks and cost. This allows organizations to implement a sounder record retention policy.

SharePoint together with a tracking system improves document management in a number of ways. SharePoint has no awareness of document collaboration that takes place outside the centralized system and if a document is created outside of SharePoint, the Microsoft Office system does not remind the user to upload it into SharePoint. This and other issues could be addressed with SharePoint being combined to a tracking system. Learn more on how to bring document control to a higher level by downloading the latest SharePoint White Paper.

Online Shopping at Tarazz

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

by: Steven Ang




Tarazz.com is an online shopping portal offering a number of services for users primarily in the Asia Pacific region. It provides an online solution for those who wish to purchase from e-commerce sites that deal in foreign currencies (including US dollars and British Pound) by converting all prices to local currencies and allowing for international shipping.

Tarazz.com’s unique technology allows its users to shop in 3 easy steps: 1) Log-in, 2) fill their carts, and 3) checkout.

Merchant-Partners-

Tarazz offers over 6 million products from 6 thousand brands from at least 25 major merchant-partner sites available on Tarazz.com. They include but are not limited to the following list:

List Europe/US merchants:
Amazon.com
Armani Exchange
Bare Necessities
Bluefly
Bodybuilding
BeautyTrends
Buy.com
eBags
Shoebuy.com
Skinstore.com
Nordstrom.com
Overstock.com
Palm
Shoes.com
Target.com
Upside over
eWatches.com
Yoox
Marks & Spencer
Strawberrynet.com
Redenvelope
Sears

Exclusive Asian merchants-
In addition to the Europe/US brands, Tarazz.com has an exclusive offer with over 20 premium Asian brands, which had not been online before, with merchandise spanning 8 countries ranging from China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Singapore Thailand and Vietnam. The Tarazz Asian Merchants website can be found at http://www.tarazz.asia/merchant/Home.aspx. Exclusive Asian merchants include but are not limited to the following list:

List of Asian Merchants:
Alice Blue Candle
Zans
Dragee
New Taste of Art
S,U,R,A
Celadona
Firma
Homecraft
Arch
Peach Blossom
Monclair
Wicked
HWA YI
Fossil Collections
Risis
Beauty Jewelry
AnaManee
Tantien
Tayson
LinkAsi
Anita Silk
Amarin
Water & Wine
Tete a Tete

Achievement of Many “Firsts”

In line with its company mission to offer users a breakthrough in their online shopping experience, Tarazz.com has leveraged its unique technology to offer services previously unavailable from its more established competitors. They include:

1st Online Store to Offer Full-Landed Price in Local Currency

Tarazz.com’s patented technology allows products from its Merchant-partner sites to automatically display the Full Landed Price in local currency on a partner merchant’s product page – Full-Landed Price is the final price for purchasing a particular product, which is inclusive of all domestic and international shipping charges, taxes and custom duties, and any other miscellaneous cost. This provides an unprecedented level of user-friendliness to its customers as shoppers no longer have to factor in additional costs and manual calculations of currencies.

1st Online Shopping Portal to Offer Consolidated Shipping

Another unique factor of Tarazz.com’s technology is that it allows users consolidate purchases from many different sites into a single shopping cart. This is the first Singapore-based shopping portal to do so. Tarazz.com currently supports at least 25 major Merchant-partners sites across three continents- namely the US, UK and Asia. All purchases are ultimately consolidated into a single check-out system for convenience and potential cost savings from consolidated shipping.

Tarazz Rewards Program – 1st Shopping Portal Rewards Program

The Tarazz Rewards Program is the first loyalty program implemented by a Singapore-based shopping portal. It gives cash rebates to users that can be used on future purchases: every $100 spent will earn you $5 back, every $200 spent will earn you $10 back, and every $300 spent will earn you $25 back.

Promotions

Tarazz.com offers different weekly promotions. Unlike its competitors who can only offer discounts off shipping charges, Tarazz.com gives discounts off full-landed prices, allowing shoppers to save more in the process. Shoppers can now receive a discount of $20 off their first purchase.

Corporate Profile

Tarazz.com is one of the first of Singapore’s startups to be financially backed by a Regional Venture Capitalist, in additional to receiving principal approvals from DBS, one of the largest banks in Asia Pacific and a World Class Courier Service Provider to sponsor its e-commerce initiative.

Plans are in place to extend its services to Indonesia, Hong Kong and Korea as well as create product tie-ins with major airlines and prominent Asian merchants.

External Links
http://www.tarazz.com/
http://www.tarazz.asia/Merchant/Home.aspx
http://www.tarazz.blogspot.com/

8 Ways To Make Your Software Hacker-Proof and Crack-Proof: Writing Effective License Checking Code And Designing Effective Licenses With CryptoLicensi

Saturday, April 25, 2009

by: Himangi Godbole




CryptoLicensing uses the latest military strength, state-of-the-art cryptographic technology to generate secure and unbreakable license codes to ensure that your software and intellectual property is protected. Cryptographic licenses are unbreakable even when using brute force computing power. Furthermore, since the licenses can only be generated using the private key (which only you possess), this means that it is impossible for a hacker to develop a 'keygen' (key generator) for your software. This is an excellent first line of defense. It is upto you to provide the next line of defense. The following are some useful tips and guidelines for designing effective licenses using CryptoLicensing and writing effective license validation code using the CryptoLicensing validation API. The philosophy is simple: to make it as difficult as possible for the hacker to 'crack' your software and cause the hacker to lose interest in your software or not make it worthwhile for him/her.

Check license repeatedly

Instead of checking the license at software startup only, check the license at multiple points of time during your software execution and from multiple places in your code. Do not to use a single license validation routine in your software. Check for a license from different places in your software, but don't call a single license validation routine to do this. This ensures that a hacker cannot bypass your licensing scheme by simply hacking a single piece of code in your software and forces the hacker to locate every piece of license validation code in your program.

Use multiple licensing checking layers

In addition to the normal license validation done every time your software is executed, add another layer which checks for a license when a certain random criteria is met. For example, you can check for a license on the 2nd Monday of each month, or every 63 days, or on the February 29th of a leap year. If a hacker bypasses the normal license checking code, the additional 'guerilla' layer is still present which will check for a license and cause the check to fail.

Use encrypted dlls

Move some important part of your software in a dll and encrypt the dll using a key. When generating licenses using CryptoLicensing, embed this key in your license codes (use the custom user-data feature of CryptoLicensing for this) and decrypt the dll using this key before loading it. This ensures that even if a hacker bypasses licensing checking code, your software will not function correctly since it will not be able to load the encrypted dll file.

Check for the hash of your exe/dll to detect tampering

You can include the hash/checksum of your exe/dll in your license codes generated using CryptoLicensing (use the custom user-data feature of CryptoLicensing for this). When your exe/dll is loaded, you can recalculate the hash of the exe/dll, and compare it with that included in the license code. If different, this means that your exe has been tampered or modified. Similar to license checking, perform this check at multiple points of time and place in your software.

Do not display failures immediately

If a license check fails, note this but do not immediately display to the user that the check has failed. Instead wait for some other part of your software to run and notify the user there. This makes it more difficult for the hacker to locate and bypass your license checking.

Don't use explicit error messages

When notifying the user of a failed license check, don't use explicit and obvious messages such as 'License not valid'. Instead, display a generic failure message and ask the user to contact your support department. He may not know that the cause of the error is a failed license check, and when contacted, you may try to make a sale and convert the illegal user into a licensed user or even catch a hacker if he contacts you.

Crash or fail or output incorrect results when license check fails

In combination with above two, when a license check fails or when you determine that your software has been hacked or your license scheme has been compromised, note this and when your software perform some processing at a later point of time, you can crash your software or output incorrect results. Sometimes, a hacker may also lose interest in your 'buggy' program which does not even display informative error messages!

Embed user information in generated licenses

When generating licenses, embed some data about the user in the license such as the user's name, email or company name (use the custom user-data feature of CryptoLicensing for this). Display this information prominently at multiple places in your software. This is a very effective way to discourage the user from sharing his/her license code with others.

Original article : http://www.ssware.com/articles/writing-effective-license-checking-code-and-designing-effective-licenses-with-cryptolicensing.htm

Acer Aspire 6920

by: Vinnit Alex




At a Glance

The Acer Aspire 6920 is a medium budget notebook by Acer which has enhanced features like a new design and an innovative display. It is a good built, personal notebook with good features and interfaces.

Key features

The features that attract you towards itself at the first look are an Intel T5500 1.8GHz processor, a 2GB RAM that is upgradeable up to 4GB and a great HDD of 250GB. This means that the notebook gives you a great speed, storage and memory ? all in one pack. A 6 in 1 Media Card reader, Bluetooth, Infrared and 4x USB ports are some of the other cool specifications provided by the Acer Aspire 6920. Another interesting unique feature is the Cine Dash Media Console and True Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound which will take entertainment to a next level.

Other features

The Acer Aspire 6920 is not only great on interfaces and storage but it is also power packed with Multi Media features like an integrated sound card, speakers, microphone, and internet utilities like in built modem, WiFi, and webcam. There is a fingerprint reader to keep a security check and the notebook comes pre installed with Windows Vista Home Premium.

Design and Looks

It is an excellent looking laptop with chic black and silver interiors. The media control and a stylish Keyboard make it a class apart from other laptops in terms of looks and design.

Verdict

Awesome looks, good viewing angles, a high-speed processor, the new Cine Dash touch control, and Dolby sound etc are few of the things that make it an exceptional laptop. With features like these, the price tag that it comes with is also more or less justified. However, the down side is its weight. With a total of 3Kgs, it makes itself a little heavier than other Laptops of its genrer.

New Folder Virus Removal - The Guaranteed Solution

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

by: Konstantin Artemev




You have no chance to pass ahead of Autorun usb. It is useless to delete files which are created by unsuccessful new folder virus removal manually. New folder exe virus developes a great amount of files on your system with the names of real folders you have. A great joker was only able to produce Folders exe. As soon as you Attempt to erase a file created by new folder virus removal it creates the same new file which has a real folder name.

New folder virus removal seems to be such obtrusive and ineradicable similar to a flea. It is a sad fact that many people don’t know how to defend themselves from new folder virus removal till now. You can be easily infected by new folder virus removal if you treat your flash drive. New folder virus removal usually travels around the world by thumb drives. If you want to edit features blocked by new folder virus removal with the help of regedit, those features will be blocked again shortly.

New folder virus removal creates a lot of unnecessary files, blocks Folder’s Properties and even denies an access to Task Manager. Some attempts to relieve new folder virus removal question manually can bring you to unfavorable result. You have to remember anti virus and anti spyware cannot find all real malware. It is not an easy treatment for new folder virus removal. From the moment you got to know that new folder virus removal came into your advances list and was launched, never open you drives and directories with double-click, treat right-click instead.

New folder virus removal is a cause of headache of many people all over the world. If you are not enough experienced user you’d better have no touch to Regedit. If you decided to fight with new folder virus removal by yourself be confident its main process was terminated. To ensure your system safety you should turn off CD/Removable Drivers Autorun option in your Windows. Now when there is no active copy of new folder virus removal in your computer memory, run by removing all its instances from hard drive, one by one.

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Exe Errors - How Your Security Was Broken Down And How To Return It?

by: Konstantin Artemev




Your operating system is being encroached in the ways you may not even know about and dll virus is a cause of it. You hadn’t suspected any wrong processes and your system had worked invariably until an Run dll virus occured in front of your eyes. If you suspect exe errors question in your system you found yourself in the right place. Appearance of exe errors error message is a matter for thousands of users. Most users fix dll error to be a fall-out of some internal questions of Windows but it isn’t so.

You can see exe errors error window when you simply attempt to open some system folders or drive. Side effect of exe errors error is loss of resources and precarious Windows work. The only place where exe errors doesn’t display in most cases is Safe Mode. A malware is a common cause of exe errors error message window in your Windows. If your system is already infected you should take measures for fixing exe errors as soon as possible.

Exe errors is a widespread question for users of various languages from many countries. Financial losses in erased documents and disturbed work became a fall-out of exe errors spyware activity. Manual solution of matter is strongly not recommended. Analyzed the situation Security Stronghold made a decision to develope a new product which would become the best program for fixing exe errors error. A special product from Security Stronghold can solve any errors associated with exe errors infection.

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How To Choose The Best Domain Reseller?

by: M. G. Infocom




Domain reseller program is proving a very lucrative business for web designing and development companies. But, how do you recognize the best one? Majority of the people do not know the answer or feel quite uneasy. Basically, there are bundles of responsibilities for domain name resellers. So, choosing the best means choose the best services. You can not have idea about such services unless you check out domain reseller program of domains.resellergenie.com. It is ICANN accredited company.

Just relax and think; what do you expect from a domain reseller?

Probably, you might be interested into price, scalability, automation, and the overall flexibility. One more important thing is domain registration limit which is major profit determining factor. The best part of domains.resellergenie is its economic domain price tag i.e. less than $10.

Apart from lower price tag, there are several unique features which can be obtained from its official website. Here, let’s have a look upon some of the most crucial features:

• Let’s begin with control panel features. It comprises of a single point management window for all products and services. It has been designed to handle infinite level of reseller chain. It is translation friendly and available in more than 18 languages.

• API (application programming interface) of domains.resellergenie is its most special feature. It is quite comprehensive and easy to use with ready made client side kits. API is based on SOAP/WSDL

Probably, these two features can make you realize how important can be a domain reseller. So, if you are serious with your business then never compromise with the quality and choose the best one. Since, ICANN accreditation is utmost important factor. So, one can find list of ICANN registered domain reseller from its official website. List can make the rest of the work easier.

Before finalizing the deal, one must be specific about its own requirement because, features and services offered by your domain reseller must be compatible with your requirements. For instance, you plan an e-commerce website. So, it needs high-end security system. It may require a member panel and live chat feature for maintaining healthy relationship with your client.

Computer Data Loss Prevention and Recovery

by: Richard McNeal




For most individuals and businesses, data loss happens. Even the most established technology companies with expert experience in network and laptop security, accidents and hacks happen and data is lost. With the right support and preventative measures, however, losing information doesn’t always have to end in disaster. By making information safety a priority of your computer IT staff and for the employees who use your equipment, data loss can become a rare occurrence.

Preventing Data Loss

Most causes of work station (laptop or PC) data loss can be attributed to human error, physical malfunctions and hardware failure. The Boston Computing Network characterizes data loss into four different types: human error (overwriting a major file), file corruption (virus attack), hardware (fried hard drive), and site-related (earthquake causes coffee to spill on laptop).

For an IT staff member, preventing data loss within a company means making sure employees are:

- using equipment with up-to-date antivirus software
- securing their laptops both physically and electronically with computer locks and good passwords
- backing up their work onto a secure storage device
- using a surge protector and uninterrupted power supply (UPS)

Additionally, computer IT staffers need to have a best practices document in place that employees can follow related to how to handle incoming email, working outside of the office, and traveling. The document should describe how employees can avoid data loss through phishing scams, when and how they should use other wireless networks and how to protect company laptops from theft. By giving employees the information they need to prevent data loss, companies can stop many problems from every happening.

Recovering Lost Data

So much information flows electronically now that it is likely some data loss scenario will occur in a business. Whether it is a major server loss or a small problem on a single hard drive, there are certain things that should be done to avoid making the situation worse.

- Don't: Use the system restore or system recovery setting on the computer. This will not bring your info back instantly

- Don't: Implement an off-the –shelf system recovery software on your own. If you use the incorrect type of software, you are likely to ruin your chances of recovering any information.

- Do: Contact a computer it specialist or tech professional to attempt to restore the data safely and correctly

Many IT and computer services offer continued preventative maintenance and care, but in the case you don’t regularly use an outside IT service, contact one as soon as you realize a problem has occurred.

In addition to dealing with data recovery, IT and computer services provide a vast array of additional preventative measures for combating data loss. For instance, many IT service providers will offer security and back-up solutions like electronic data storage, information security, server support, desktop support, and networking.

Recovering lost data is not always possible but there are ways to reduce the chances of complete loss.

~Richard McNeal, 2009