Software

All of us have seen it with the oldest generation – technology has progressed, but their technological prowess has not, leaving them behind on things the youngest among us consider necessities. Of course, technology will keep progressing, and, barring tragedy, the young will themselves be the old one day. These two facts entail that keeping up with technology must be a priority for everyone, lest they be left behind.

With the widespread availability of broadband internet, video technology now holds a more prominent position in current internet and media projects. Unfortunately, few people are able to efficiently and effectively use this technology, as becoming proficient in video editing is difficult and time-consuming.

Enter Pinnacle Studio 12. This award-winning software makes the incredible quite achievable, and opens the doors of video editing to a much larger segment of the population. Able to import digital media (videos, photos, and audio) from a wide variety of sources, including DV, HDV and AVCHD camcorders, and digital still cameras, Pinnacle 12 is highly likely to be compatible with your preferred source of media. After you get your media uploaded, you can take advantage of Pinnacle's 18 video tracks and 80 preloaded templates to create your video. After you're finished, you'll be amazed at how any time-crunched novice video maker will be able to masquerade easily as a pro. Read more

March 10, 2009 -- NewTech Infosystems, Inc. (NTI), an early pioneer in the backup and recovery industry, announced today NTI Shadow v4.0, the industry’s most convenient, always-on, data backup solution for PC, Mac and network users. Shadow v4.0 has been enhanced with many new convenience features such as bi-directional sync, a graphical destination display, threshold capacity warnings and NTI Ninja tools for encryption/password protection and public/private partitioning on external USB drives.

NTI Shadow’s no-hassle approach to backing up and restoring data, photo, audio, and video files has made it the continuous backup solution of choice for consumers and businesses worldwide, and a key reason leading OEMs like MicroNet Technology, Freecom and Toshiba have bundled the software with their hardware products. By adding convenience and value to the features that have made NTI Shadow an award winner, the new version provides a compelling solution for anyone that wants an easy way to safeguard their data against loss.

With Shadow, backup jobs are conveniently executed transparently in the background without disturbing the user and without slowing system performance. Files or file groups can be automatically backed up in their native format every time a change occurs. With files preserved in their native format, they can be quickly restored without requiring additional software. Read more

February 23, 2009--DubMeNow, the patent-pending technology that allows you to instantly exchange (via text or email) contact information (email, phone, company, address, title, etc.) from mobile phone to mobile phone, is now available on all US based phones. DUB loads contact data directly into the user's mobile address book and automatically updates their address book whenever the contact’s information changes.

DUB eliminates the need to swap, save, enter or update any more business card data. You can also 'tag' or note information about the contact and see when and where you met on Google Maps.

New features include:

• DUB ID –your unique username or identifier allowing you to exchange information without having to give out your mobile number or email address.
• Group DUB – the ability to exchange contact information with multiple people at once during a meeting, conference, seminar or other large group gathering.
• Google Maps – Never forget where you met someone again – this feature loads the location and address where the invite took place into your contact’s information.
• CRM Integration -- Dub now sync’s with Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SugarCRM and Siebel.
• Twitter – DUB invites displayed on Twitter.

Instant information, instant entertainment, instant communications to and from anywhere in the world, with anyone is fantastic. It’s all been brought to us by the computer and communications industries. It’s a lot like Forrest Gump’s magic shoes, “They could take me anywhere.” The problem is a lot of other people also have magic shoes. Some good. Increasingly, some bad. Some just a major pain in the behind. The good varies as to your needs and tastes. Read more

The Working Bad Folks
The bad are the growing number of Black Hatters, Doom9ers, hackers, cyberthieves and cyberspies. These folks are dedicated and ingenious. And…they work really hard at their job! They’re rather like rodents. They find software holes even the most conscientious programmers never thought were there. They spend hours and days testing, probing, tickling and trying to grab your information. Sometimes it is hard and they really have to work at it. Most of the time it is surprisingly simple (as long as you’re bent on doing bad things). Sometimes … we do it to ourselves! It’s called click fraud and it is virtually unstoppable.

January 29, 2009 - The software manufacturer The Imaging Source announces the latest member of its family of word processing components.

A current trend in business software is the generation of Adobe PDF documents on the server. At a central location in a company's network, Microsoft Word templates are populated with data to produce invoices or quotations. The resulting documents can be saved in a number of formats or sent directly to the printer.

LiveDocx offers unrivaled technology to provide such document generation services over a standardized SOAP interface. Hence, different types of software, for example, ASP.NET web applications, Windows applications or applications from entirely different operating systems can access LiveDocx. Read more

January 26, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apple today announced that iLife '09 will be available tomorrow, January 27, and features major upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand, with breakthrough new ways to organize and manage photos, create movies and learn to play music. iLife '09 is included with every new Mac and is available as a $79 upgrade for existing users through the Apple Store (www.apple.com), Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers.

iPhoto '09 builds on the ability to automatically organize photos into Events by adding Faces and Places as innovative new ways to easily organize and manage your photos using face detection, face recognition and GPS geo-tagging technologies. iMovie '09 expands on the revolutionary super fast movie creation introduced in iMovie '08 by adding the depth users want through powerful easy-to-use new features such as the incredible new Precision Editor, video stabilization, advanced drag and drop, and animated travel maps. GarageBand '09 introduces a whole new way to help you learn to play piano and guitar with 18 basic lessons and optional lessons from top artists such as Sara Bareilles, John Fogerty, Norah Jones and Sting. Read more

January 23, 2009 -- GoBootstrap.com (www.GoBootstrap.com) just added two new features designed to make like easier for entrepreneurs this tax season. First, users of its free and simple online bookkeeping software can now generate a Schedule C report that takes their categorized expenses for the year and generates a ready-to-go IRS form. Second, with the February 2 deadline for filing 1099 forms for independent contractors approaching, GoBootstrap customers can now see at a glance for whom they have to file a 1099, and by what date.

In these harsh economic times, more and more people are turning to self-employment as a means of supporting their families and gaining financial independence. But being self-employed adds the significant burden of personally managing the tax reporting and filing aspects of a business. Bootstrap is an extremely simple-to-use web service that helps self-employed people, work-at-home people, sole proprietors and micro-businesses track income and expenses, pay estimated taxes on time, and see how their business is doing. Read more