- Invoice 101, Do It Easy. — When you start your own Very Small Business, you may not know what «an invoice» means and how to treat it. It is normal. And while your business grows, you acquire a huge experience, including invoicing and invoice processing. And eventually when your Very Small Business becomes Not So Small Business, there would be one day you realize you have no desire to make out invoices «by hand». And you definitely would love…
- VBto 2.30, Visual Basic No More — For its time, Visual Basic 6 was an excellent tool. It was easy to learn, write and read, had reasonably good visual forms designer, allowed easy usage of ActiveX controls... Unfortunately, those times have gone. Now, there is .NET, there is VC++ MFC, there are other IDE with form designers, like Delphi. There is no place for good old VB6. Old projects are to be translated to new environments, but it is not an easy…
- Antamedia Internet Caffe 5.6, Customers Would Be Happy! — Antamedia Internet Caffe suite has amazed me. Really. For a system administrator with an average experience and common sense, there are obvious minimal requirements for the Internet café management. As well, it’s obvious that creating software that would meet at least those minimal requirements is a rather hard job. Even harder is to create something «more than the minimum», capable of handling non-obvious cases, and…
- Pad 4.00, Make or Break Your Project — By a non-spoken tradition, most of us tend to have every piece of a project (whether that’s an image, fragment of code, to-do list or anything else) in its own application window. As a project goes on, many little things pop around it and tear apart our attention, so that behind them we forget about what’s really important. Those things come across the very moment we least expect them…
- OTK Custom dbinstaller 2, Database Comes Along — Have you ever installed an application that required a database, but had no database in the setup file? What a hassle it was to find the database software, install it on the computer and finally configure it the way that it would actually work with that software! When the preparation was finally over, no strength or desire to continue with the software had remained in the body. And all that had happened just because the…
- LiveProject Free Project Viewer, Read and Share Project Files Naturally — Can you even imagine having to install a heavy-weight editor just to view documents created with it; say, Photoshop for viewing images or MS Word for reading rich-text formatted documents? Doubtful, to say the least. Such idea sounds like an absurd. So many viewers are out there; they are light, easy to install and operate, and are specifically made for viewing necessary files. Now, what if we need open something really…
- Customer Backup – a solid foundation for establishing great relationships with your clients — Any business, be it a one-man company or a large enterprise, depends on clients. Constant communication with your customers, including newsletters, announcements, special offers and follow-ups, helps increase sales and improve customer loyalty, which is extremely important today, when competition and customer mobility is high. If your customer base is growing and you start experiencing problems with keeping in touch with all of them…
- Directory Report - the great feeling of complete control over your files and folders — If you deal with vast arrays of information and thousands of files on a daily basis, you have probably come up with numerous tricks that help you manage and monitor all your files and folders. However, if the archive continues to grow (and so is the nature of all archives), you will inevitably face a situation when efficient file and folder management will become a vital necessity rather than something that you just want…
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