SaaS, which stands for Software as a Service, is a web-based delivery model of business software application where a service provider develops a web-native software application, hosts, and operates the application independently or through a third-party for use by its clients with cloud computing methods over the Internet. Customers do not need to buy the ownership or license of software itself but only need to subscribe the services with low monthly payment.
SaaS is recommended for small to medium-sized companies that want to streamline their business applications, as no traditional packaged software purchased, free of software maintenance, upgrade, and updates. In addition, companies can also reduces the complexity of managing security software, save time and get rid of any application security scanning. Of course Security manager and IT professionals of a company can be more focus on keeping their infrastructure secure, and less on managing the tools to get there.
Hosted Lotus Notes Software as a Service from Phase2.com offers you an integrated suite of today’s business applications. All in one Phase2’s Hosted Lotus Notes let you manage your data and business process securely, fast, in high accessibility as high-speed internet is widely available. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft Outlook is one of the most famous e-mail client programs that have been used by millions of home users and people in corporate environment. Outlook is powerful yet easy to use for most common e-mail and business activities. With Microsoft Outlook, users can directly write their email messages, send and forward it to a specific time and date in the future, or send it as a mass mailing to every client listed as simple as a click of mouse. Not only that, the MS Outlook also provides the users some quick and easy to use features, such as contact and task management, note taking, journal, integrated calendar and web browsing. Furthermore, users can also operate the MS outlook with Microsoft Exchange server to provide enhanced functions for multiple users, such as shared mailboxes and calendars, public folders and meeting time allocation.
For greater functions, MS Outlook also integrates with many third party plugin applications, whether for desktop or mobile devices like BlackBerry and Windows Mobile models. One of them is QYueMail, the New MS Outlook 2003/2007 plugin from Softarex Company. QYueMail has essential features that MS Outlook doesn’t have to help the users working with mailing and instant messaging. The QYueMail features can help users manage their IM contact and messages right from their MS Outlook window, including chat history storing and messages archiving and backup from Yahoo Messenger, AIM Messenger, ICQ 2003 Pro, Windows Live Messenger, Pidgin, Skype and Trillian. This plugin also has link manager for organizing favorites from preferred web browsers as well as integrates the MS Outlook with Facebook account so that users can receive or write anything on the Wall directly from their MS Outlook in QYueMail sidebar.
QYueMail download link: http://www.qyuemail.com/files/installers/QYueMail_NET.zip
Sometimes some people get problem with drivers when they have to reinstall the (new) operating system on an old computer or add new hardware into a computer such as sound card, graphic card, modem, etc. Most of non-expert users tend to ignore CD driver on every purchase of the hardware, some of them have lost it, and the others forgot to check it and ask it to the seller when purchasing their computer hardware. On the other hand, there are some cases where the CD driver included in the package does not match with the hardware when purchased. This may occur where some manufacturers still include old version drivers that do not support new operating system but forgot to include the new ones, or they are deliberately so that the buyers have to download it from the Internet or directly from their official website.
Well, if you really get trouble with your drivers, you should check DriversSoftware.com on the internet. Although this site is quite new, yet it has so many driver listings (over 300,000 drivers) for Windows OS – Win 95 to Vista. Read the rest of this entry »
Konami will provide no less than 4 games for iPhone / iPod Touch Apple platform including Metal Gear Solid Touch, DanceDanceRevolution S Lite, Silent Hill the Escape and Frogger at the end of this month. Metal Gear Solid Touch is a whole new game that brings world and characters of Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots (MGS4) into the real world.
Metal Gear Solid Touch would seem to provide a unique game experience. By using the touch screen, it is very easy for players to change the point of view or zoom level. Each location and characters is based on the story flow of MGS4. This game has 8 levels in default, with additional stages added gradually.
Appcelerator, a company in Mountain View that develop open source technology to build rich internet applications (RIA) announced the prime release of Titanium platform. Titanium has functionality similar to Adobe AIR. Titanium allows developers to create web applications and mobile applications that also compatible as desktop applications. Titanium is currently only available for Windows and Mac, Linux version will be released in January 2009.
Titanium has great advantages than other RIA platforms because they do not require any installation on the client computer. Titanium also allows developers to package Titanium runtime into their application so that users only need to download just one application.
Titanium is made based on several open source projects, including WebKit, Gears and Chromium. Some important features include direct access file system, database integration, native windowing, desktop notification, and geo-location architecture plug-in that can develop functionality of Titanium. Read the rest of this entry »
There is so much information available on the web that can be accessed easily only by clicking, but years ago the situation is not as easy as today. Stories and writing a blog may be archived, but other information is usually lost. For example, you may in difficulties to find Amazon book rankings for previous weeks or previous months. So that, a program called Zoetrope is designed to find such information, allowing users to surf back to the past.
Mira Dontcheva from Advanced Technologies Lab Adobe Systems who develop the Zoetrope said that this new program is designed to facilitate people in searching any former data or information. By having access to such former information can help us write more interesting the stories about what happens around us. Read the rest of this entry »