Archive for August 18th, 2007

August 18, 2007: 6:45 pm: adminThe Technology Way

HTML is great. But what really makes your site super powerful?
The Backend or the processes running in the background that make
everything on your website really click. And what powers the
backend? CGI Scripts. Some of you may know what CGI scripts are
and others may not. CGI scripts are the key to creating
interactive websites that automate your online business. Instead
of getting too technical about scripts, lets talk about 5
powerful CGI scripts that every website should have if they have
any desire to conduct E-commerce. Number 1: First off, you must
have forms on your website. You should be utilizing forms for
everything including retrieving demographic information from
your visitors to processing credit card orders. You can also use
forms to send contact information so that your visitors do not
have to use email to contact you. The beauty of forms is that
not only can you retrieve the information you request, you can
also include hidden fields to be submitted with each form so
that you know certain information like what website the visitor
came from, their IP address (useful for fraud protection) and
much more. Some form scripts even let you send autoresponses to
the submitter. So, for example if someone fills in a form to
sign up for a newsletter, you can send them an automated reply
thanking them for their submission and including basically
anything you want without having to lift a finger. Number 2: The
next script every site should be using is a “recommend it”
script. This is a script that allows your site visitors to
recommend your site to their friends and contacts. Do not
underestimate the power of this little tool. The recommend it
script on our site at http://www.goldbar.net/recomm.html brings
in tons of traffic and prospects that we may never have gotten
on our own. The power of referrals should never, ever be
underestimated. It is far more effective to have someone
recommend your site to their contacts then it is to advertise. I
use the Master Recommend script from William Bontrager,
available for free at: http://www.willmaster.com Number 3:
Affiliate Software. Without a doubt, one of the best investments
you can ever make if you have your own product or service is in
affiliate software. While usually not cheap it is by far one of
the best methods of growing traffic to your site and exploding
your sales. Many people advocate using a 3rd party affiliate
company such as Commission Junction to manage their affilate
programs. This is fine if you are a big company with a huge
budget to WASTE on administrative fees and obscure technical
charges. But, if you are a small to midsized company and you
want to utilize the awesome power of a strictly commissioned
salesforce sending you traffic and sales, you would be crazy to
not consider purchasing affiliate software and installing it on
your own site (or having it installed for you). Some affiliate
scripts are so advanced that you can click one button on the
administrative interface and send all the months commissions to
a check writing program and have the checks printed out and all
you will have to do is sign them. Number 4: Follow Up
Autoresponders: Without a doubt, everyone should be using
automated follow up mechanisms to: A. Capture the email
addresses of targeted prospects interested in your
products/services. B. Send a series of sequential, timed
messages that trigger return visits to your website and turn
potential onetime website visitors into return prospects. c.
Remind customers about additional products and services that
they may wish to order in the future or add to their current
order. These are easy to maintain once they are installed on
your site. All you have to do is write the email responses you
want your prospects to receive and then upload them to your
server. Then tell the script how long a time interval to wait
before sending the next message in the sequence. An important
point when using follow up autoresponders: make sure they offer
an unsubscribe feature so that the recipients can opt out if
they choose to. There are many great scripts out there that you
can install on your own site. This will save you the monthly
fees of using a hosted service but if you choose to use a third
party tool, probably the best one is available from getresponse:
http://www.getresponse.com/?13323 Number 5: An error catcher.
This may sound like a crazy tool to include in this list but
bear with me. How many of you have tried to click on a link and
found yourself on a 404 error page. Most web surfers who
encounter this error immediately leave your site never to return
again.This is probably the worst thing that could happen to an
internet business. What if you could create a page that said,
OOPS you reached this page in error but why not visit the rest
of the site? This is certainly more enticing and if created
properly can help keep a surfer on your site as opposed to off
it. On our site, we use a script that catches errors and
delivers a webpage apologizing for the mistake and offering
other links to pages on our site. We have saved many visitors
this way and we have also created many subscribers and customers
through this method. If you want to see how it works, try this
link http://www.goldbar.net/mistake.html The script we used to
create these pages is freely available and can be set to email
you when someone reaches a 404 page and also help you determine
if anyone is trying to hack into your site or if a CGI script is
not working. It is called errorbot.cgi and can be found at
http://www.perlarchive.com These 5 scripts can make or break an
internet business so why dont more people use them? I believe
they don’t have a clue how to install them. If anyone wishes to
have CGI scripts on their site but needs help installing them,
you can usually get help from the programmer or visit a site
like http://www.cgiguru.com who will usually install scripts for
a nominal fee. CGI scripts have been around since the advent of
commerce on the internet and continue to power the best sites.
Even with new technologies such as ASP, Cold Fusion and PHP on
the rise, CGI is the oldest and still the best. Why not get
these 5 scripts running on your website and start powering your
way to new profits.

: 5:14 pm: adminMiscellaneous

Again and again, the role of any humanitarian author in any social context of the world is to think of the right paths; present and future, for any animated being within the human category. This article will bring three principles that the author thinks are the right paths for the author himself and any human being to walk on. The three “human principles” are as the following.

Materialism adequacy: This first principle is referred to adequate and quality daily physiological needs; eating, drinking, sleeping facility and other utility used to sustain biological needs and growth.

I am not discriminating between the rich and the poor, but I only want to reveal the truth to the world that to be called a “genuine human”, we need to have adequate daily food, quality drinking water, and other needs to biologically sustain our existence from day to day. And I name all these needs: materialism adequacy.

Human being does need to enjoy materialism adequacy, because without this first principle, we are not capable of carrying on to other of our human principles. I claim that we do need to enjoy materialism adequacy, because to be a true human being, we have other obligations to accomplish. However, to complete other obligations, we need to be physiologically full and adequately and qualitatively facilitated with resources to make us successfully fight in the war to achieve our human principles.

Intellectual capacity and freedom: To be truly qualified to be categorized into human specie, human being shall enjoy intellectual capacity; awareness of the issues, attitude towards betterment, problem analysis and solution recommendation, invention, creativity, decision-making influence, and other mentally development tenets.

Further more, intellectual capacity must be freely and ubiquitously allowed without any external pressure. No matter to any field and to what extent, intellectual capacity shall be prevalently allowed; nationally, regionally and globally. I have coined this all-out authorization to deploy intellectual capacity; “intellectual freedom.”

I am not discriminating between the educated and the uneducated, but by virtue of humanity, human being is endowed to enjoy all political and civil rights, and indeed, we must deploy these rights, because in principality; human being shall live to the fullest and most potential of all material and spiritual resources.

Social presence: My coined term: “social presence” is one of my three human principles to show off our image in the public. To be short and precise, social presence is the principle to make ourselves seen in the public and the more public, the better.

To be a true human being, according to my three invented human principles, human being is not supposed to hide the identity; human livelihood is to craze ourselves amongst the public. Social presence means that the owner of the intellectually capacity and freedom must be identified.

Lay Vicheka’s quotes on self-improvement: “The three human principles are: Materialism adequacy, intellectual capacity and freedom, and social presence.”

“Everything you see, hear, read or touch is just the factual or fictional paths to be you, but every effort and interpretation lie within you.” (Coined Sunday, June 4, 2006 at 10:30 p.m., Cambodian time zone).

Lay Vicheka is a translator for the most celebrated translation agency in the Kingdom of Cambodia, Pyramid Translation Co.Ltd.. He is now hoding other two professions: freelance writer for Search Newspaper; focusing on social issues and students’ issues and Media Liaison Officer for Asia’s first free on-line IELTS consultation website. Lay Vicheka is the expert author for ezine and prolific article contributor to other websites around the world such as articlecity, 365articles, spiderden, talesofasia, etc (Just google him). He is also a volunteer Cambodian-newspapers columnist (Rasmey Kampuchea and Kampuchea Thmey). Lay Vicheka has great experience in law and politics, as he used to be legal and English-language assistant to a Cambodian member of parliament, migration experience (home-based business) and in writing. He is also member of a New York-based research company. Posting address: 221H Street 93, Tuol Sangke quarter, Russey Keo district, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Tel: 855 11 268 445, vichekalay@yahoo.com

Vicheka Lay - EzineArticles Expert Author
: 4:31 pm: adminThe Technology Way

Sony’s original plan was to unveil its new PlayStation 3 in
Japan this spring, but due to difficulties concerning its
production plans, it seems that Japan will not see the new PS3
until August. One of the main production difficulties is related
to the Blu-ray Disc drive in each console.

According to a Sony spokesperson, the company is waiting for the
final specifications on some of the technology that is being
used in the PS3, which includes the Blu-ray drive as well as
input and output video and sound.

Sony’s stock took a hit on Monday after Merrill Lynch released a
research note last week which indicated that the PS3’s launch
may be postponed by six to 12 months, and that the cost of
materials used in the console’s production could be around $900
per unit at the outset.

Yuta Sakurai, a senior analyst at Nomura Securities, estimates
the price of the unit to be around 50,000 yen, which is about
$420. “I don’t think it matters when Sony launches in the U.S.
as long as it’s in time for Christmas,” he added.

Sakurai expects Sony to aim for an early summer launch, which
would be in time for the big selling season around July, which
is when schools are on holiday.

Little is known for sure about the PS3 as of yet. Price
estimates by analysts in Japan vary greatly, ranging from 40,000
to 300,000 yen. The console will allow up to seven players to
play at once, and will be powered by the “Cell” chip, which is
more powerful than Intel’s Pentium 4.

Other features include an enhanced graphics chip, a built-in
Ethernet port, and Blu-ray, which is a next-generation DVD
format that is backed by Sony.

Since the technology specs for the PS3 are being delayed, game
developers are forced to develop games with guesswork. “Game
makers are developing games according to their guesses on what
the final specifications might be,” said BNP Paribas analyst,
Takeshi Tajima.

Sony’s PS3 will compete with the likes of the recently-released
Xbox360 and Nintendo’s Revolution console, which is expected to
be released later this year.

Video Games

PS3

: 3:54 pm: adminThe Technology Way

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: 3:46 pm: adminUniversity of Security

If it all smells quite fishy, what if it was true? How does a desperate heiress find a foreign guardian who will hold her fortune for her and help her invest it wisely? My heiress found me from a profile on an online dating site. My profile said I was a loving, caring man. Exactly what Monica’s dying father told her to find to help her start a new life.

I learned much about Ivory Coast, although I do not know how much is true. I was told the situation there is frequently covered by CNN and MSNBC, so it must be true. It seems the government currently in power is facing elections. The government has forbidden the banks to make loans so the political opposition cannot unseat the present government.

Monica discussed the situation with the banker who will assist with the transfer of her inheritance and he said after elections all hell will break loose in Ivory Coast and her money was not safe. Monica told her banker she had a guardian in the U.S., who had been a foreign business partner of her late father’s who would help her transfer her funds.

I told Monica I would not lie or support hers about that to the banker who could quickly catch me in the lie. She assured me it would not be a problem and would not likely come up. The banker wants to help. I figured a helpful banker would want to know Monica’s guardian was trustworthy. Monica sent me the banker’s phone number and told him I would be calling.

Since Ivory Coast is seven hours later than my local time, I called the banker on his personal phone at his home. It seems the common language there is French so the English is a dialect one must develop an ear for, so our half hour conversation was punctuated by me asking Dr. Albert Smith to please repeat himself, trying not to annoy him. Monica told me he would give me some investment advice and he turned around and asked me what I would do. I told him I felt this was a time to protect and preserve assets, not grow them. I told him I would invest 60% in Krugerrands and Canadian Maple Leaf gold coins and keep them in several safe deposit boxes. The rest would go into real estate that produced positive cash flow for Monica’s living expenses and college education. He said no, there are many growth opportunities in the U.S. market but he would discuss all that with me after the transfer took place. I said OK.

Dr. Smith said all the account information and my transfer request was in order and we only needed 3 documents from the Ivory Coast Ministry of Justice. I needed to call the bank’s lawyer tomorrow as soon as possible and request he send me the documents and we could conclude the transfer the same day or the next. Then I would purchase a plane ticket for dear Monica to come meet her new guardian and she was very much in a desperate hurry to leave Abdijan, Ivory Coast.

I sent Monica an Email telling her how well my discussion with Dr. Albert Smith went. She responded that she had spoken with him this morning and he felt the same. The 3 government documents were now all that stood between our meeting.

I called the lawyer who explained the 3 documents will cost $1850. I told him I will discuss the matter with my partner, Monica and get back to him. I sent Monica an Email explaining how she would have to take care of the fee. She wrote me back begging me to scrape up the money because she only had $320 to her name, outside of her inheritance.

I wrote back and told her I had only $20 till the first of the month when I would be left with half what she has in her pocket. I told her she had personal, professional friends who knew she was rich and would gladly make some kind of deal with her for a short term loan. If she could not handle such a small matter, our partnership was probably worthless from the beginning.

I have heard nothing more from her and wonder if I will soon have the documents in my Email. I now have a bank account I don’t need and I’ll be getting a couple of stiff phone charges I suppose. It could have been worse.

Anyway, this morning I got a message from Rose of Ivory Coast. She is richer than Monica and she prayed to God about choosing me as her partner. Think I’ll go see if she sent me the picture I requested.

Ed Howes - EzineArticles Expert Author

Ed Howes sought and found, knocked and entered. Now he sees things differently. To see more of what he sees, please visit http://www.justanotherview.com or do an author search here at Ezine Articles.

: 2:54 pm: adminLiving With Software

Are you a database professional? Do you work with a lot of databases? Do you use an SQL code? Do you want to connect to a new database to physically create its structure in no time and with ease? Are you tired of having to handle several client applications?

If your answer is “yes“ to any of these questions, I recommend you to go on reading this article.

Let’s imagine you work with let’s say three databases. Whenever you feel the need to connect to the database and execute SQL code, you will probably have to use another third party software (also client software) that allows you to do it.

There are a lot of different client softwares in the market. However, they allow users either to connect to one certain database, e.g. MS SQL, or provide only one available connection, e.g. ODBC. However, what if you work with not only one database… So, there would be no wonder if you had to use three client applications for each of the databases to be able to communicate with them and simply do your job. In practice it also means that you have to get used to three different interfaces and learn how to deal with different features, which is, let’s face it, pretty far from being an ideal state (not speaking of expenses, time and your efficiency provided you are switching among three different environments. Thank goodness you work only with three databases and not five, seven or more!)

Nevertheless, today might be the last day for such headaches. CHARONWARE, s.r.o., a software company specializing in developing database modeling tools, has announced release of its perfectly new product Foxy SQL Pro version 1.0 – Database Script and Query Tool.

“Foxy SQL Pro is a useful database query tool allowing database professionals to execute SQL commands and queries against any database, see and store the results and much more. It is mainly focused on a possibility to parse complete SQL script into each individual commands that can be then executed according to the user’s selection,“ introduces the product Vaclav Frolik, Charonware’s Sales and Marketing Manager.

Reading Charonware’s website, it seems like Foxy SQL Pro can replace many other client applications as it can “talk“ to any database via ODBC, ADO or native connection very easily. That sounds great! One easy-to-use tool versus several client softwares and, moreover, “with a lot of timesaving and useful features that can make your work with databases and an SQL code highly effective and comfortable“. Is it all just a pie in the sky? - Well, let’s learn more about Foxy SQL Pro features.

Foxy SQL Pro allows you to:
* execute SQL commands and queries against any database,
* execute only chosen parts of an SQL script,
* create an Alias for often used connection parameters,
* browse data,
* define own types of comments, strings, terminators and keywords,
* record and save SQL scripts from and to a file,
* save the result of the SQL command SELECT to a TXT, CSV or XML file,
* and much more.

Foxy SQL Pro Main Benefits:
* Direct support for at least six databases

(Interbase,Firebird, MySQL, Oracle, PostgeSQL, MS SQL Server etc.)
* One query tool versus a lof of client/server applications
* Available connections: ODBC, ADO, Native
* User-friendly graphical Interface
* Wide range of useful and timesaving features

Furthermore, Charonware provides FREE email support for 6 months and FREE 30-day trial Foxy SQL Pro demo version. Moreover, a freeware version - Foxy SQL Free is also available. The freeware version has a different functionality in comparison with Foxy SQL Pro version.

Also, Foxy SQL Pro illustrative presentational movies are certainly worth mentioning. All visitors of Charonware’s website are allowed to browse them online and simply get some practical insight on the product.

“Foxy SQL Pro has been designed on the basis of rich experience with databases while developing CASE Studio 2 – database design tool and its support for a lot of databases. It is a fast-performing and easy-to-use database query tool that helps database professionals streamline their work with SQL scripts for various databases. I believe they will experience great comfort and ease while working with Foxy SQL Pro,“ concludes Vaclav Frolik.

Well, Foxy SQL Pro is possibly just the product you have been looking for so long… So, do not hesitate to check it out…

Charonware’s website: http://www.charonware.com

Vladimira Sikorova is a member of CASE Studio 2 and Foxy SQL Pro Team. She works for Marketing Department of Charonware, a software company specializing in developing database modeling CASE tools.

: 2:35 pm: adminLiving With Software

The vast majority of Windows users are familiar with Microsoft™ Word. It is a full featured word processing program. It can also save files as HTML files for web viewing. In fact many people have used this feature of the software. But there are major drawbacks to doing so.

When you save a regular Word file using the “Save as” command, two of the choices in the Save as Type drop down box are “Save as web page” and “Save as web page filtered”. The difference between the two is that Word places a few less HTML codes in the “filtered” option. But overall, when word saves a file in HTML, it is going to *a lot* of extraneous HTML tags within it (they are used to maintain formatting, bullets, typefaces, and so on). This may not seem like a problem, as in many cases the file will look acceptable in your web browser. The problem kicks in when you have to update or change these files. Wading through the mountains of codes can be very time consuming and difficult. Case in point: Macromedia Dreamweaver, a professional web development package, has a specific choice in the main drop down menu options called “Clean Up Word HTML”. That is how notorious the problem is. Dreamweaver knows how to strip out many of these useless codes.

Stay away from saving your Word files as HTML. Unless your file is very lengthy, a better solution is to first copy the file over into Notepad (or any other plain text editor). Any images, graphs, and so on will not come over of course. But when you copy the text out of Notepad the content is straight text and can be pasted into any web design tool. There the formatting can be re-added using HTML design methods. This will take time depending on the length and complexity of your file, but the end result will be a file that is much more cleaner and easy to update.

Paul Kaufman is the owner of a North Carolina based Web Design and SEO Company, Kaufman Web Design. Visit Kaufman Web Design (http://www.KaufmanWebDesign.com) for more information on Search Engine Optimization, Internet Marketing and Web Site Design.

: 2:27 pm: adminLiving With Software

A computer system consists of different parts, programs or components. Each and every part has its own importance or working. In simple, we can say that hardware means all physical components of a computer and software is a set of certain instruction, rules on the basis of which other components work.

Software instructs a computer what to do. There are different types of programming languages, which make computing possible. There are three different types of computer software: system software, programming software and application software.

System software consists of programs that controls, integrates and looks after the hardware components of a computer system. It mainly consists of operating systems (OS), database management systems (DBMS), communications control programs, and programming language translator.

Programming software helps a user to write computer programs and other programming software languages in a proper way. The Application software will take care of different tasks other than just running the computer system.

Random access memory (RAM) is the computer memory in which computer software is loaded. There are different types of software available in the market. For e.g. Antispyware Software protect your computer data from virus. The software consistency mulls over the faults, mistakes and breakdown that are related with the formation and operation of computer software.

Author presents a website on software. This website provides information about meaning and types of computer software, working of computer software, layers of software in a computer system. You can visit his site to get information about computer softwares