The Crusaders

I am a software freak. I’ve used so many software that I don’t even remember how many and in those also most I don’t know what they do. I just install them and use them practically to know what they do. Anyways I just installed this new multimedia software- Blaze Media Pro and it’s a pretty cool software with a wide array of features such as conversion, ripping, editing, recording, playback, burning, video capturing, and many more. So, I can’t help myself from writing about it.

Blaze Media Pro includes an audio and video converter, audio editing and video editing, video capture, audio recorder, data CD/DVD burner, audio CD burner, Video CD (VCD/SVCD) burner, audio CD copy, effects, media management, playlist, full-screen video support, and more all-in-one software application.

Audio capabilities:

• Audio editing, converting to various formats such as MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, etc., and it has an extensive list of supported conversions.
• Convert bit-rate and compress audio formats, even supports higher bitrates adjustments and even converts DRM and AAC protected files.
• It’s a perfect CD burning software that extracts audio from video files with multi-functions of applying sound effects to audio files.
• Audio editing features to convert MIDI and DVD audio to MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, etc.
• Rip music CDs, merge, and you can also record streaming audios, with audio tag editing as well.

Video capabilities:

• Batch Video Converter supporting various formats such as AVI, MPG, WMV, MOV, and many more.
• It’s a perfect Video CD and DVD burning software.
• Powerful video editing for all popular video formats with an extensive lists of video editing tools such as crop, delete frame, delete selection, resize, rotate, mirror, flip, trim, adjust volume, etc.
• Blaze Media Pro also makes compressing, combining, and extracting video easy, and you can also create a video from a sequence of images.
• All-in-one MPEG software solution supporting MPEG encoding, decoding, editing, burning, converting, etc.
• Video capturing is made easy by Blaze Media Pro where you can capture from TV tuners, web cams, and other video capturing devices.
• Extract video frames to generate quality image files.

One of the problems that I faced earlier with multimedia software was conversions of DVD to other video formats. But with Blaze Media Pro I can now easily convert DVD to AVI, MPG, WMV. It’s easy to use and highly customizable. I downloaded its trial version and I must say I’m very much impressed. Hope we’ll go long way.

written by rajit \\ tags: , Blaze Media Pro, Burning Software, Converter, Multimedia Software, Software

Few weeks ago, I faced a small problem. I had a presentation and I needed to put some stats which were in tabular formats from an excel file to my presentation slide. I could just insert the table in the slide and enter all the data one by one but that would consume a lot of my time. It would’ve been easier if I could just get that table somehow in a graphical format (.bmp, .jpeg, .tiff, etc.) so that I can easily insert it in the presentation slide. I thought of using the ‘PrintScreen’ button but the table was a little longer than the page. A friend then suggested me ‘Universal Document Converter’. I quickly downloaded it and after that it was just few seconds job to get the table in desired graphical format and insert it in the presentation slide.

Universal Document Converter gets installed as a virtual printer and works from any software that offers print support (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.). It is designed to convert documents of any type to PDF or images. One of its features that I find really useful is that you can use it to save web pages as images because you may have noticed that some webpages can’t be saved. You can see the video tutorial for additional details or how to use it and if you want to try it here is the download link.

written by rajit \\ tags: Universal Document Converter, Virtual Printer

Everyone must be noticing the fact that the world is getting smaller and smaller and it’s adjusting itself in this small box what we called computer. Everything is getting online these days. People talk online; they get entertained online, watch videos and listen to songs online, do business online, and everything else.

One thing though that I can’t help notice is the stores and malls whose numbers are getting lesser and lesser in the streets and more and more online. I guess soon there won’t be any shops on the streets left. But every online store needs as easy gateway for the shoppers to make purchase and payment for products and this is where shopping cart softwares come into play. Again one of the trickiest questions is that, which one to choose when there are so many options from.

ezimerchant Professional is an easy to use, reliable, secure shopping cart software that satisfy all the online business needs from catalogue construction to building your online store. With ezimerchant everything from sales order management to marketing is made easy. And it’s not just saying all this but there are a whole lot of people who believe in success after getting ezimerchant. ezimerchant eCommerce solutions are completely customizable via html and it is the first e-commerce solutions in Australia to obtain PayPal Certified Integration. If you are still not convinced then just try out its 30days free trial.

written by rajit \\ tags: E-commerce, Online Store, Shopping Cart Software

There are many businesses out there that require number of vehicles. Rental services for parties & events, roofing services, contractors, transportation companies etc. are just few of that names where fleet of vehicles are needed for day to day operations. Where many vehicles enhance the performance and productivity of the organizations but at the same time managing a fleet of vehicles has been one of the major topics of concerns for fleet owners and business houses. Vehicle breakdown during delivery, delivery to a wrong address, vehicle tracking, driver getting lost are some of the possible problems that the owners have to face due to inability to manage vehicles…eventually leading to some big losses.

Due to this nowadays…. Fleet Telematics Systems are gaining a lot of popularity. They are basically GPS Fleet Tracking Systems and they have come as a solution to all the problems listed and not listed above regarding fleet. FleetMatics is also a GPS vehicle tracking System whose Live Fleet Track feature allows you to view your vehicles’ locations in real-time, 24 hours a day. Easy to install and implement at nominal initial cost, it pays for its operating cost 10 times over in terms of fuel savings, route efficiency & customer satisfaction and the operation of fleet is sure to improve with FleetMatics. I’ve gone through the testimonials thoroughly (who else would give you a better review than the one who’ve used the product or service) and I must say I am very impressed.

Advantages:

• View entire fleet locations on one screen
• Improve dispatching efficiencies
• Reduce phone calls made to drivers’ cell phones
• Monitor vehicle speeds

Benefits:

• Pick-up more jobs in a given day
• Reduce vehicle mileage
• Improve customer service
• Eliminate vehicle down-time

written by rajit \\ tags: Fleet Telematics, FleetMatics, GPS Vehicle Tracking Solution, GPS Vehicle Tracking System, Telematics, Vehicle Tracking System

Time again I’ve been writing about online storage and backup, their importance and then associated them with IBackup Online Backup as it is a leading online backup, storage and sharing service for consumers.

“IBackup is undoubtedly the most flexible service on test, as it not only offers backup for your machine but online storage that’s available through the Web, FTP and virtually everything else.” PCPRO

Last time I had written about ILite which was its version for iPhones. But along with that this service was included for Mac computer too with the name IBackup for Mac which I did mentioned in my last post too. IBackup for Mac is easy-to-use, secure, reliable online backup and restore application for backing up files and folders for your Mac. It lets you perform interactive backups/restore and schedule backup of your files/folders for a later date and time. It’s your safeguard of critical data against system crash or in case of any uncertain accidents.

System Requirements

• Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or later
• 500 MHz G3 processor or better
• 256 MB RAM

IBackup for Mac features

• Incremental backups - only modified portions of files are backed up, thereby conserving bandwidth
• Data compression during transmission that lead to quick backups
• Enhanced security with 128-bit SSL encryption on data transfers
• Snapshots allow you to retain changed data history over a period of time
• Provision to perform interactive backups/restores or schedule backups for a future date and time
• ‘Automatic Power off’ option after a scheduled backup - the machine shuts down automatically once data is backed up
• Web-based access - view, search, backup and restore data backed up to your account and get log reports

written by rajit \\ tags: IBackup, IBackup for Mac, Online Backup, Online Storage

I’m so relieved to have a friend share this site with me and all I can do to express my gratitude is by sharing about this great site with my visitor and reader. But before revealing it, let’s spare a minute to talk about the importance of Content in the world of SEO and SERP as this tool has a lot to do with the content.

Content plays a vital role to rank better in search engines. “Better the content, better you’ll rank in search engine” – Well, it’s not as simple as that…there are many other things involved but the worth of content is also very big. The problem is that the internet is growing into a humongous giant. Millions of sites/blogs are adding up everyday and there is a big possibility in duplication of content as people may feel that contents don’t matter a lot and no one is going to care if the content is unique or duplicate. But as I already mentioned they do matter and duplicate contents hamper your site a lot in terms of search engine ranking. Then where in the hell does the unique content come from? The answer is your mind. But many people don’t like to waste their brain thinking over some stupid content. Again there are professionals who you can hire but but but but but….you have to be able to pay them handsomely which most cannot.

So, this is where I disclose BadArticle.com which presents a free article rewrite tool. Just as its name says it generates a new article from a previously written article by rewriting the previous article in a different style and the cool thing is that you don’t need to download anything at all. All you need is Microsoft Internet Explorer v6.0 or higher and Microsoft Word 2003 or higher and you can start using this article spinner right away. Actually, this tool is using MS Word for grammar rechecking and only Internet Explorer can do this call. So, we need them both. You also need to Enable ActiveX at your IE Internet Options. Don’t worry about all the hows and whats; the site will provide you with appropriate guidance.

Some of its features that I’ve listed aside for your ease are as follows:

• Free and don’t need any type of download.
• Strictly require Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher version and Microsoft Word 2003 or higher version.
• Easy to use; no any kind of expertise is required.
• 3 options provided regarding the quality of rewritten content.
• Basic English grammar check will be done in the background along with replacing synonyms. (An additional choice also provided for grammar recheck)

Anyways, I still believe that writing your contents yourself is the best way to get unique content but for those who are really bad, I suggest you give a shot to Bad Article. Great service, free of charge; what more can you ask for. Highly recommended for people who have many sites/blogs to look after but less money to hire a professional writer.

written by rajit \\ tags: Article Rewrite Tool, Artucle Spinner, Content, English Grammar Checker, Free Article Rewrite Tool, Rewrite Tool, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Ranking, SEO, SERP, Synonym Article Spinner, Unique Content

The technology is advancing at a rapid pace and the competition is getting fierce everyday. Businessmen are thinking of new ways to attract new customers and even trying hard to keep their existing customers stick to them. They know that people like it if they can get one free when they buy one. This is a human nature. Also packages are good deal. You buy one and get many with bundled to it.

Microsoft Office is also an application package for office needs, by far may be one of the most widely recognized software suite in the world.

“Microsoft Office is a set of interrelated desktop applications, servers and services, collectively referred to as an office suite, for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.” – Wikipedia

The most common applications included in it are Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access and Microsoft Outlook. As you get to the latest versions you’ll see more and more applications bundled to it namely, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft InfoPath, Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft Visio and many more.

I’m sure that not just in offices but most of the personally used computers too have installed Microsoft Office in it. I too have it in my PC. I mostly use Word, Excel and Access. I though that I know a lot about these applications that I’m used to using but it was all my foolishness to think like that. A friend of mine had suggested an article directory to me called Web-Articles.info. He told me that he read quite a few interesting articles about Customer Service Information and some MAC related articles for his MAC there. Later when I checked out the Microsoft Office category of that directory, I found out much new cool stuff that I could do with its application. I got to know about a lot of things in details that I didn’t know in the past like inserting a whole file in a document, decorating a page with borders ad colors, creating a nes style, highlighting parts, and numerous interesting articles on all the applications of Microsoft Office.

Now I’ve realized that even though you’ve learnt so much, there’s still more to discover and the best way is sharing your knowledge with others.

written by rajit \\ tags: Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word

To connect with individual databases, JDBC requires drivers for each database. The JDBC driver gives out the connection to the database and implements the protocol for transferring the query and result from client to database. All advantages and disadvantages of two types of JDBC drivers are elaborated in detail.

JDBC-ODBC Bridge driver. This is a type 1 of JDBC bridge drivers, which translates all JDBC calls into ODBC calls and sends them to the ODBC driver. ODBC is a generic API. The JDBC-ODBC Bridge driver is recommended only for experimental use or when no other alternative is available. The main advantage of this JDBC bridge driver is that it allows access to almost any database, since the database’s ODBC drivers are already available. The disadvantages of this type of driver may appear in different occasions:

• Since the Bridge driver is not written fully in Java, Type 1 drivers are not portable.
• A performance issue is seen as a JDBC call goes through the bridge to the ODBC driver, then to the database, and this applies even in the reverse process. They are the slowest of all driver types.
• The client system requires the ODBC Installation to use the driver.
• Not good for the Web.

The distinctive characteristic of the second type of jdbc drivers are that these drivers convert JDBC calls into database-specific calls i.e. this driver is specific to a particular database. The distinctive characteristic of type 2 jdbc drivers are that they are typically offer better performance than the JDBC-ODBC Bridge as the layers of communication (tiers) are less than that of Type 1 and also it uses Native api which is Database specific. Disadvantages may be the following:

• Native API must be installed in the Client System and hence type 2 drivers cannot be used for the Internet.
• Like Type 1 drivers, it’s not written in Java Language which forms a portability issue.
• If we change the Database we have to change the native api as it is specific to a database.
• Mostly obsolete now.
• Usually not thread safe.

written by rajit \\ tags: Database, JDBC bridge drivers, JDBC Drivers

The businesses today are faced with overwhelming amount of information. If unable to manage the information properly, there’s going to be a big loss for the business costing it time, money, and the biggest of all customer satisfaction. Thus, Content and Document Management Software solutions also in common terms known as Paperless Office Software solutions are needed that can gear up the business in a right track.

Questys Solutions, a leading provider for Content and Document Management Software paperless office software solutions has come up with a new Document and Content Management Software, CMx. It offers and expands that robust functionality and features sets of Questys’ current product suite, creating one of the most dynamic and customizable content management software in the ECM industry today. CMx is even more automated, easy to use and works for every business organization everywhere.

“CMx is really the child of years of market research, client feedback, and development to make this the perfect solution to implement into any business environment to see immediate ROI.” - Andre Pavlovic, President of Questys Solutions.

CMx combines two powerful product lines from Questys’, Questys Pro – content management for the small and mid-size businesses, and Questys Enterprise – content management for enterprises and government agencies. This makes it a scalable solution for any sized organization to fit their need of unique content management software.

written by rajit \\ tags: CMx, Content Management Software, Document Management Software, Paperless Office Software, Questys Solutions

A business should always be customer-centric means fully focused towards customer satisfaction. Profit is the least that you need to care about. If the customers are fully satisfied, then success isn’t far away. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is one of the most important tools to track everything you do that relates to your customer and a company can use it to remain doable and survive in the market.

“CRM is a customer-centric business strategy with the goal of maximizing profitability, revenue, and customer satisfaction.” – Wikipedia

There are many CRM software options and online CRM solutions out there and it’s such a challenging task to sort through them. Cumbersome CRM systems can get in the way of your business, sometimes even costing major deals. So, there is need of something revolutionary and simple yet powerful CRM systems that you can start using effectively within minutes and that which actually works.

Microsoft’s dynamics had come up with seven steps that could help any company find and implement not just a new CRM system, but the right system.

1. Decide what you want from a CRM system.
2. Research various systems and determine the pros and cons.
3. Get referrals from users of each system under consideration.
4. Decide on a CRM system, and develop a CRM team.
5. Customize and develop the system to meet your company’s needs.
6. Develop and implement a training program.
7. Roll out, review, and improve your system.

written by rajit \\ tags: , CRM, CRM systems, Customer Relationship Management, Microsoft’s Dynamics, Online CRM

With the arrival of new technologies, organizations are looking for newer ways to compete and survive in the global market. Storage, security, and retrieval of the information have been chief issue of concern. So, paper files and documents are being turned into electronic documents for cheap storage, good security and timely retrieval with the help of document scanning services.

SourceCorp one of the leading and most experienced document imaging, scanning, conversion and document management service organizations in whole of New England. It offers a variety of document management solutions for every business need, web-based, networked, in-house document scanning systems, out-sourced document scanning services, email archiving, workflow, advanced OCR, PO Box scanning, invoice processing and data archiving for reducing the operating cost, improving the efficiency, fast retrieval of information, competing in the market, save money, etc.

SourceCorp does this via ImageSilo which is an ultra-secure, highly-redundant web hosted document management service (web based repository) that offers a complete control, auditing and access to the authorized users over the lifecycle of documents.

Their document management solutions are completely scalable, highly reliable, work across multiple departments and integrate with business applications.

written by rajit \\ tags: document conversion, document imaging, document management solutions, document scanning

If you have implemented a CRM strategy, you may be excited about sending emails, newsletters, and mailings to your customers. However, your emails and mailings are competing with many other emails in your customers’ inboxes. Your copy needs to stand out in order to make an impact. Here’s how you can draw your customers in:

1) Use great headlines or subject lines. What do your customers see first when they open their inbox? It should be an interesting and compelling subject line. Once they open their email, they should see an intriguing headline. Many businesses assume that they need to be “cutesy” or “edgy” in order to stand out, but this is not true. A humorous headline and subject line is often tricky, since you risk offending customers who do not share your sense of humor. A cutesy headline or subject line can come across as unprofessional. You do not have to stick with boring headlines, though. Try making your headlines newsy or offer a benefit in a headline and that will keep your readers reading. With Relenta CRM software, consider sending potential headlines around to different team members until you find a headline and subject line that is sure to grab readers.

2) Add great information and useful facts. At the start of your email or marketing message, try to offer something that will make your reader’s lives better. For example, if you are a company selling mattresses, you might include recipes for soothing bedtime drinks or aromatherapy scents that can erase tension. If you are a florist, you may offer some advice on how to keep cut flowers fresh longer. If you can improve your customer’s lives a little bit, that establishes credibility and allows the reader to look forward to getting your mailings using online calendar.

3) Tell a story. Stories are far more interesting to read than just plain marketing text, so try to weave some stories into your marketing message. Do you know of an unusual way some customers are using your product? Is there are interesting story about how your product or service came to be? Do not go on at length, but do offer a bit of spice in your copy in the form of a narrative.

4) Make sure your customer understands the benefits of your product. Will your product save the customer money? Will it save time? Be truthful about your product or service, but if there is something that your business can do to make a customer’s life better, make sure you share that information. When sharing information, make sure that you are specific. Saying “this product can save you $150-$200 a month” is better than saying “This product will save you a lot of money.”

written by rajit \\ tags: CRM, CRM software

Today early in the morning when I checked my mail my eyes went straight for the one from one of favorite stores – Symantec Store with a subject “Introducing Norton 360 Version 2 - Save $20!” I was quite happy to know that they were giving $20 discount on the all new Norton 360™ Version 2.0 that provides industry-leading protection for everything computer users care about, including PC security and tune-up, identity protection, and backup and restore - without sacrificing your PC’s performance. The MSRP of this complete automated protection is $79.99 but if you order now you can get is for $59.99 only.

Some of the key benefits of Norton 360™ Version 2.0:

• PC security - protects your computer and makes your online experience more secure.
• Identity Protection - safeguards you against online identity theft and fraud.
• Automatic backup and restore - safeguards irreplaceable photos, movies, music, and more.
• PC tune-up - helps your PC run faster and keeps it running the way it’s supposed to.

This superb offer is for a limited time only and is set to Expire on March 31, 2008. So, hurry and grab the opportunity.

written by rajit \\ tags: Norton 360, Norton 360 Version 2, Notron, Symantec Store