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e-commerce evolved
There was a time when e-commerce was either costly bespoke development or extension of popular CMS . But those days are long gone, last few years e-commerce development really started to take off. e-commerce has its own platforms to choose from for easier and rapid development and deployments. e-commerce platforms gain immense amount of popularity not only among clients but as well to the developers due to the fact is: It’s easier and faster to go in production phase. Able to deliver feature rich online stores. Integrated SEO, analytics functionalities. Easier to install, deploy and maintain. Searching and sorting makes easier. Scalability Import/export support for products listing saves huge amount of time. Integration of payment system on the fly. The impact of e-commerce software/platforms on e-commerce industry is just revolutionary. Whole aspects of how do you run an online store simply redefined. I still remember when “osCommerce”, a PHP based open source e-commerce platform was introduced back in 2000 when I was still a college student. The platform received overwhelming popularity, within a short span of time of release. Off course the lack of an add-on/plugin architecture, security vulnerabilities limited its growth compare to initial reception. Anyway that’s another story,…
Web conferencing series one: Dimdim
On our first tier of Web conferencing solution and software we will be looking at Dimdim. Dimdim is a web-based platform for real-time, rich-media collaboration and meetings. Dimdim is originally made available as an enterprise edition and as a Virtual Machine appliance. Good news is an open source edition which is available under the GNU General Public License (GPL), which allows users to install and host Dimdim in their own networks. Bad news is latest open source edition which is hosted at sourcefourge.com lacks installation instructions, which is a blow to many users. They do offer a free hosted version called Dimdim free, which is available to be used freely with up to 20 people. Dimdim is available in 4 unique editions excluding the open source and free hosted version, which gives the user wide array of choices that not only vary in prices but as well features and number of users. Dimdim Enterprise: As the name suggest, if you are need of large and frequent meetings Dimdim enterprise should be your pick. Unlike most of the popular enterprise class web conferencing solutions, Dimdim Enterprise is available comes in two flavor – hosted and as well as onsite versions. Free…
Web conferencing: are we there yet?
Few Decades ago there was a time when our ancestors used to consider teleconference i.e. the telephone conference is simply fascinating. Well we came a long way since than to an age where teleconference got a broader meaning. Teleconference is now may contain one or all of these- Voice, Video & augmented reality etc. Especially because of the bandwidth efficiency and low costs that VoIP technology can provide in recent years most teleconferencing started to change into web conferencing. Now through Web conferencing we conduct live meetings, training, or presentations; hack someone told me there is virtual dating via web conferencing . Web conferencing significantly benefiting small businesses but off course when users embrace it effectively the investment in the technology pays off. Technology categorically is a vital component for the success of any sort of business now days. Yet, even after you have spent the time, energy and budget to select the solutions that will most benefit you, there are challenges ahead. Web conferencing changing the way business operates, specifically how business users behave/communicate. As business operations become more and more geographically distributed, Web conferencing shows even more promise as an inexpensive solution for instant online collaboration as well…
Beware of Firefox Add-On Adobe Flash Player 0.2
We ought to know a lot of malware target Internet Explorer in the past. Obviously in last few years why we have seen a huge number of users are switching to use alternative browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. Which used to be a safe computing practice before by many industry experts, but it seems it no longer is; Reason a huge number of malware targeting the most popular alternative Firefox. There is a sneaky new spyware initially pretends to be an Adobe Flash Player update and, when executed on a user’s computer, creates a Firefox add-on called ‘Adobe Flash Player 0.2’. You might think no harm done with that but hey you are just half way through to a grave mistake that you will regret seriously. So what it does? The add-on replaces traditional ads on Google search pages with its own ads (Very business minded malware right?), and wait that’s not all, the spyware has the ability to track what pages you browse and what you search. So the bottom line is you lose all privacy. So all those switching browser to get away from privacy killing malware; just gone up in smoke. According to Trend…
Security suite with HDD encryption
I am well aware that there is millions of folks out there just use windows firewall and antivirus, which comes as a bundle with windows. Well if you want something out of the ordinary and a bit crazy about safety “ZoneAlarm Suite” might be a good candidate to start on. Security software suite are today’s hot business, reason- 75% risk increase on online identity safety and the percentage just keeps going up. Check Point’s Zone Alarm division is refreshing its Zone Alarm Extreme Security Suite. The suite has more than a dozen segments aimed at protecting users from viruses, identity theft, spyware and all sorts of evil (online/offline) things you can think of. ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2010 comes with 256-bit AES hard-drive encryption as an additional protection in addition to other security modules you are familiar with. This time around firewall module offers fewer alerts, meaning to say lesser false alarms. And there is noticeable increase in performance and speed. This new suite will cost $69.95 for a 3-user license, unfortunately which doesn’t cover hard-drive encryption option. Users have to spend another $29.95 for a 3-user license just to get that encryption option. As you can guess Check Point also…
Trac on shared server:installation
Trac is undoubtedly one of the most issue/bug tracking and project management software to date. Trac installation is far more complex and tiresome than what TracInstall page says it is. First of all it got a huge list of very complex dependencies that can take up your whole day to take care. It’s more painful when it comes to shared hosting installation; I do understand the fact most shared web hosting doesn’t even give SSH access. Recently when I was installing Trac for a client came across with tons of issues and had to device a long list of to-dos to take care of the situation. So without further due let’s get on with how we can install Trac over shared hosting (considering it got the SSH access). First we have to install Trac dependencies, some/most may or may not be already installed on your web server’s root but we will need our own editions to make all the things work together. Installing Dependencies a. Python (=>v 2.3 and <v3.0) According to Trac documentation the recommended version of Python for Trac is above v2.3 and Bellow v3.0. So for example let’s go for version 2.5. 1234567$ wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.2/Python-2.5.2.tgz $ gunzip…
Windows 7 pricing out, but is it justified?
Long awaited windows 7 pricing was finally announced by Microsoft. In addition with Windows 7 retail pricing, there were also upgrade information, launch details, and a preorder deals in the announcement. Not sure if it’s heat from competitor Apple’s $29 price point for OS X Snow Leopard (coming in September, 2009) or the vista damage control initiative force Microsoft to slash the price of its most popular Home Premium to $119.99 (both upgrades and full copies). Vista premium original pricing were around $40 higher. Same slashed priced applied for Windows 7 ultimate edition as well, though business edition pricing still hanging onto same line like vista. From June 26, 2009 to July 11, 2009 while supplies last Microsoft will offer special preorder pricing. It will be offering in the U.S. Windows 7 Home Premium for $49.99 and Windows 7 Professional for $99.99, a savings of $70 and $100 respectively (In the U.S. preorders are for upgrade versions). Canada and Japan enjoy similar deals. Microsoft showing some real love for EU buyers- Germany and France consumer will receive Windows 7 Home Premium (€49.99) and Windows 7 Professional (€109.99) preorder prices. The UK will get Windows 7 Home Premium (£49.99) and Windows…
Rogue Spyware horror: when defender is offender
Let’s face it; spyware is part of our digital life. No matter how many world class anti-spyware we use, some will always slip through. But that doesn’t mean you should drop all of your guard and let the spyware take over your PC without a fight. That’s the reason we still need, use and trust different kinds of anti-spyware who are our last line of defense against all the badwares. But what will you do when the defender become offender? That means when the anti-spyware itself is working as a spyware. We all have to agree the case is pretty damn code red plus situation when our antispyware goes rogue. So let’s first define what the hack is those thing? In simple word those are just a type of computer malware that deceives or misleads us (the users) into paying for the fake or simulated removal of malware. How they disguise? Mostly these stuffs are Trojan which mislead us into installing, the most common disguise for these rogue spywares are: Browser’s plug-in or extension (mostly media codec type) Image, screensaver or archive file attached to an e-mail message Multimedia codec required to play a certain video clip, very commonly seen…
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