Media Player Shootout by James Kendall Whether you call them media players, jukeboxes, mp3 apps, music managers, or whatever - we all need a proggy to listen to our digital music with, so we figured it was time for the Online Music Blog media shootout. For the sake of this article I am only going to discuss players you can get for free and I am not going to go into p2p apps. So with that, lets dive right in. For my money there are are only 3 choices - Winamp, iTunes, or Windows Media Players - but I'll talk a little about RealPlayer ... Microsoft Great Plains Manufacturing – before you jump there – advices to IT specialist by Andrew Karasev In this small article we would like to try to save your company software and services money. As the result of recent economic recession, many companies here in the USA have now outsourced or in process of outsourcing manufacturing routines abroad and are still using manufacturing applications for data entry. Some of our clients had strange situation when they had more people for manufacturing data entry than real manufacturing workers. Our strong advice is – consider using simple bill of materia ... How to Backup Your Computer Files by Christian Carvajal As I write this, it’s early December, and try as I might, I can’t remember what my new year’s resolution was last time around. One thing I can say with near hundred percent certainty is that whatever it was, I failed to keep it. Maybe you’re the same. Maybe you resolved to quit smoking, lose weight, or read more. We all make promises with ourselves, then fail to keep those promises. Worst of all, those promises might be exactly what we need most. Consider this: When was the last time you backed ... Fight 1337 Speak... Please Help Save Our Language by Daniel Punch OMFG! W00+!!! Dat s0000000 Kewl!!!!1! Dat is teh LOL!!!! It's happening. The Internet is invading our lives and our minds and corrupting as it progresses. Shorthand is destroying our youths' spelling and grammar. In the worst cases these Internet phrases even are spilling over into every day life. I still shudder with horror remembering the day that someone actually said 'LOL' to me. I'm not some old crab fighting against the changes of the world. I'm 19 years old and studying software engineeri ... The Vanishing Mail by Elaine Currie, BA (Hons). December 19, 2004 ... Stakeholder Analysis and Stakeholder Management by David Viney What is a Stakeholder? Try “define: Stakeholder” in Google and you will be surprised by the huge differences in the way this simple word is defined. It perhaps proves - in a way - just how confused people get about Stakeholder Management and how inconsistent the different approaches to it can be! My simple definition is “anyone affected by a decision and interested in its outcome”. This can include individuals or groups, both inside and outside your organisation. Stakeholder Analysis The first s ... Amazing Secrets Of A Free Traffic Generation MASTER by Willie Crawford Without traffic to your website, you're not going to make any money in your online business (unless you're able to tap into someone else's traffic). For many websites... especially new sites, one of the fastest, surest ways to drive traffic to the site is pay per click search engines. The RISK in using pay per clicks is that you don't know how well that traffic is going to convert before you've paid for it. You can adjust your webpages and your pay per click listing fairly quickly, but today I ... How To Stop Spyware From Infecting Your System by Ray Bonneau Spyware is becoming more and more of a problem. When I visit a cusomters site and inspect the computers I always find some kind of spyware on the system. I know that many people have been unaware of spyware, but hopefully now that the word is spreading that people will be more aware of the problem and setup a good defense. I get a get calls or questions to the effect of Why is my computer running so slow? I just bought the computer recently. Most of the time this is because of spyware. Spyware p ... Data Recovery 1-on-1 by Dan Fisher For this weeks report we are talking with Greg Duffield of ACS Data Recovery http://www.acsdata.com Q: Greg, since the late '90's there has been tremendous growth within the data recovery industry, why is that and what does it mean to the consumer? A: Well, in the last 10 years the amount of data stored digitally has increased tremendously. With this trend towards simplification of file storage, the trend for losing this data has also increased. Before computers you had to worry about your offic ... Avoid, Shun, Thwart, Prevent, and then Filter Spam by Nick Smith Email is rapidly becoming the standard means of communication among businesses, associates, and even friends. While many people have now been using the internet and email for years, there are thousands of new users on the internet each day. With inexpensive web hosting, free email services, and the blog burst upon us, getting your own slice of the internet pie has never been easier. Whether you’re a seasoned professional looking for a refresher course, or you’re new to the internet and email and ... Configuring Basic Cisco Router Security by Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933 Network security is a hot topic today, and will only increase in importance in the months and years ahead. While most of the attention is paid to exterior threats, there are some steps you can take to prevent unwanted Cisco router access from within your organization. Whether you want to limit what certain users can do and run on your routers, or prevent unauthorized users in your company from getting to config mode in the first place, here are four important yet simple steps you can take to do ... Arm Yourself Against Snoops With Spyware Counterintelligence by Heather Wallace Spyware is the cyber-equivalent of a peeping Tom. No one would think of sitting by while someone hide in the bushes watching their every move, so why do so many allow spyware snoops to moniter them online? In some cases the answer is simple. They may not even know that they are being watched. Spyware comes in all shapes and sizes. It can simply be annoying or it can be downright dangerous. The more worrisome varieties of spyware can: Slow down your system Crash your PC Log your keystrokes Log yo ... Microsoft Great Plains Integration Manager – working with text file by Andrew Karasev Great Plains Integration Manager advanced programming, working with text files, aggregation, unionizing, VB scripting, translation Microsoft Business Solutions main middle market ERP application - Microsoft Great Plains has multiple integration options: MS SQL Scripting (stored procedures and views), ADO.Net programming, Microsoft SQL Server DTS packages. You certainly can deploy such SDK tools as eConnect. However here we would like to show you how to program the simplest user friendly tool: Mi ... Data Binding in TierDeveloper by Ann Morris INTRODUCTION One of the most powerful aspects of .NET and Windows Forms is data binding. Data binding is the process of associating user interface (UI) elements with a data source to generate a visual representation of data. Two types of data binding are available for Windows Forms: Simple Data Binding and Complex Data Binding. Simple data binding allows you to bind one data element to a control. In many situations you want to display only one record at a time e.g., customer’s personal informati ... Great Plains Sales Order Processing and Invoicing Modules – tips for consultant by Andrew Karasev Microsoft Great Plains – main Microsoft Business Solutions application for US and Latin American (except Brazil, where MBS promotes Navision) markets is built with multiple modules. In the case of Sales automation you – software selection specialist should consider two Microsoft Great Plains modules: Sales Order Processing (SOP) and Invoicing. You should understand the difference between the two and see which one is the best fit for your company. Let’s consider two modules SOP and Invoicing. We’ ... Is your CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system doomed to fail? by Perry Norgarb “Right, People. Let’s blast out that mail campaign we’ve been planning for so long.” It’s time to put your trusty CRM software to work; to let it earn its keep. You run a search of people and companies you want to target. You soon realize something’s wrong when your list is far smaller than anticipated. A quick check reveals many profiles/categories have not been filled in, impacting your search results. Further inspection shows numerous records are incorrect; others are riddled with typos. And ... Microsoft Business Solutions Partner – consulting in the time of post-recession by Andrew Karasev We are group of Chicago and Houston based Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains, Microsoft CRM, RMS and Navision consultants who saw the economic boom at the end of 20th century and then deep recession, which hit high tech and telecommunication sectors with extreme severity. In our opinion this recession ended the era of old days IBM style of high tech sales techniques, when you had sales director, and group of sales people, making a lot of cold calls and then applying hard sales closing tec ... How To Avoid Getting Hooked By Pfishing by Cavyl Stewart Pfishing, sometimes spelled Phishing, is a word that's used to describe a method of identity theft where con men use fake e-mail that looks like it comes from legitimate sources. This e-mail is designed to hoodwink you into giving out personal and financial information. Once the scammers receive your information they use it to either clone your identity or to empty out your bank accounts and run up your charge cards. Here are some tips on how to avoid becoming the next victim. 1. Never respond ... How To Choose A Fire Wall Software Program by Cavyl Stewart In the real world a fire wall is a fireproof wall that is built to stop the spread of fire from one part of a building to others. In the Internet world a firewall has a similar purpose in that it stops the spread of harmful viruses and attacks from entering your home or office network. Because of the ever-increasing threats that are appearing on the Internet you no longer have to be in business to need the protection of a fire wall. In fact, every computer that is connected to the internet shou ... Tips For Getting Technical Support Help Online by Cavyl Stewart Sometimes your PC will start acting strange for no apparent reason or a program which you use regularly will all of a sudden stop working as it should. This can be a frustrating experience especially if you have no idea where to go for help. If this happens to you, don't panic! Here are some simple tips which may turn your frown upside down. 1. Don't assume that your problem is unique. The chances are that someone else has had that problem and it has already been solved. Google is a great place ... Eight Quick Tips For Stopping SPAM by Cavyl Stewart If you are buried in SPAM then you're not alone. It's been suggested that as much as 50% to 75% of the e-mail traffic on any given day is SPAM. Reading through SPAM is a waste of your time and it subjects you to potential viruses, trojan horses, and sexual material which can be quite offensive. Here are some tips on how to win the SPAM war: 1. Use a throwaway email address when posting to public news groups and chat rooms and for your Yahoo or MS Messenger Chat accounts. You can get free email ... Burning Bridges is Bad, But Firewalls are Good by Heather Wallace When you signed up for that ultra-fast DSL or Cable connection there was probably one very important piece of information that your ISP failed to mention. By accessing the Internet via a high-speed connection, you have tremendously increased your chances of being victimized by a computer hacker. Dial-up may not have seemed like it could have held any advantages, but it actually did have one upside. It is much less prone to hacking. Every time you dialed-in your computer was assigned a new IP add ... 10 Steps To Secure And Manage Your Passwords by Cavyl Stewart Passwords protect your most sensitive personal, financial and business information. They are the key to accessing membership, financial, and other web sites that you are a member of. All sorts of havoc can occur in your life if some unauthorized person discovers your password. Here are some tips for making that event less likely: 1. Don't use easily guess passwords like a date of birth, spouse, child's or pet's name. In fact, don't use any word or phrase that even remotely relates to you or you ... Creating a Backup Plan by Stephen Bucaro Your company's data may be its most important asset. Imagine a large corporation with millions of dollars of account receivable and account payable data stored on their network. A fire causes massive data loss. How much work would be required to re-create the lost data? Without backups, the company may not survive the disaster. Choosing a backup media is important, but in this article I'll focus on creating a plan for the type and frequency of backups. Let's assume you will use some type of tap ... Elements of Web Hosting by Daniel Punch When you first start out trying to get a site on the Internet everything seems so confusing. Obtuse acronyms flow freely through the 'Beginner Friendly' information sites and definitions can be hard to come across. The main reason for this is that the Internet and the process of getting a website online is really very simple, and once people get past the first stumbling steps they rarely remember the difficulty they once had, which leads to them being unable to understand the next wave of dot co ... |
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