Software & Consulting: No Boundaries, No Regrets

Blog reviving...

2008-03-14T01:08:00.002-04:00

A lot of things happened in my company and my life since the last post.

We became bigger. Bolder. Created more great software.

I, on the other hand, became older. Got separated and divorced. (Now I don't see my kids as much. Which is a real bummer :(

Started a few new projects. One of which, InfoBusiness2.ru is making huge waves in Russia.

Wrote about 20 books, 12 audio programs and 3 live seminars.

Too bad, most of it is in Russian.

My students vary from one of the top editors in Conde Nast to supermodels, from huge business CEOs to poor students, from retired grandmas to pick-up coaches, from top trainers to public figures...

And I will share some of my strategies with you.

P.S.

I am also moving this blog to my other domain: www.infobusiness2.com

Wordpress is much simpler to administer than Google Blogger :)

German hAcKeRz

2007-02-05T01:02:00.001-05:00

A couple of days ago I got an uninstall message from one of the people that downloaded and tried our Advanced ID Creator:

Their reason for uninstall was: "Because,I can't put Infos from key-generator to the program Cracking is hard."

That shows the quality of our protection and the IQ of some of our "clients" :)

Importance of internal Software Testing

2007-01-28T12:52:00.000-05:00

It's extremely important to test your software more than once. By more than 1 person. By more than 3 people, if at all possible.

Even an experienced QA professional can get "accustomed" to the way the software is working and miss quite a few serious bugs.

For example, before releasing our software even as a public beta, after testing it, I usually install it on my computer and play with it for a while. Sometimes I find misspellings, sometimes cosmetic problems, but sometimes - some strange behavior that our QA Department missed.

This Friday after our weekly meeting I was looking through our new software still in pre-beta. We have a great number of useful utilities for Microsoft Outlook (11 as of this Friday) that will be released to the public very soon.

All of them looked good. All of them worked as supposed to. But... When I installed all of them at the same time to try them out - 2 out of 11 started giving me strange error messages.

Which means - back to the testing lab... Our QA tested them one by one, but not altogether.

(If you think of it, there were at least 3 people looking at them before me: a Product Manager, a Developer and a QA/Tester. And all 3 of them missed it.)

Test it. Then test some more. Then give it to your younger brother with a 5 bucks "prize" to find as many bugs in it as he can in 1 hour :)

New Software: RSS

2007-01-28T12:40:00.000-05:00

We've just released 2 new versions of useful tools for managing RSS feeds:

RSS Mixer & Email2RSS.

RSS Mixer can take a few different feeds and mix it into one (what a concept :), creating a unique newsfeed, so your readers (and search engines) will be very happy.

Email2RSS solves email delivery problem: according to recent statistics over 55% of all email gets undelivered - marked as SPAM or filtered out by your reader's email filters.

Email2RSS solves this problem. It monitors one or several inboxes, downloads messages from them, filters them out according to a preset set of rules and converts incoming email to RSS feeds, so your readers could view them in their RSS reader (as a second communication media).

Websites:
http://www.advancedrssmixer.com/
http://www.advancedemail2rss.com/

New Product: Group Mail Manager

2007-01-07T11:20:00.000-05:00

Group Mail Manager is easy and affordable web-based email response, tracking and management software, that allows you to manage, process, and track messages sent to generic email inboxes such as sales@, support@, and info@; instantly access the entire email history of any customer and use standard response templates.

Group Mail Manager can work with Sales and Marketing Departments, Customer Service and Support Departments and any other department, that uses generic email inboxes.

Group Mail Manager main features:

Manages, processes, and tracks messages sent to generic email inboxes such as sales@, support@, and info@;
Allows instant access for the entire email history of any customer;
Completely web based;
Allows private email accounts use as well as group email accounts;
Utilizes standard email response templates;
and more...

Visit Group Mail Manager website...

New Product: Easy Timesheets

2006-12-07T17:04:00.000-05:00

Easy Timesheets is an easy and intuitive multi-user timesheet and time recording software.

Easy Timesheets ensures fast and accurate time entry by your employees, in a fraction of the time required by paper-based timesheets or other time keeping solutions.

Easy Timesheets main features:

* Easy and simple time entries;
* Multi-user ready;
* Clients, Projects, Tasks and Timesheets;
* Free Easy Timer included;
* User Permissions;
* and more...

Visit Easy Timesheets website...

New Product: Advanced Application Restarter

2006-11-30T15:28:00.000-05:00

Advanced Application Restarter is a simple application that allows you to restart any application on pre-scheduled intervals.

Advanced Application Restarter is a very easy way to make sure that your mission critical applications are up and running.

Advanced Application Restarter main features:

* Allows to restart any windows application;
* Has powerful built-in scheduling;
* Will restart application even if it hang;
* Will restart application even if it displays Save or Confirmation dialogs after pressing Alt-F4;
* Can be minimized to system tray;
* and more...

Visit Advanced Application Restarter website...

New Product: Advanced Log Monitor

2006-11-30T15:21:00.000-05:00

Advanced Log Monitor is a log management solution that monitors log files from any program, database or device and notifies you by email when a specific event occurs (Warning, Firewall attack, Hardware failure or anything else).

Advanced Log Monitor can quickly and cost-effectively monitor your mission-critical servers, databases and applications and notify you of any problematic or unusual activity.

Advanced Log Monitor main features:

* Monitors log files from any program, database or device;
* Monitors log files for any text string;
* Automatically emails a notification to a predetermined email address;
* Can email a short notification (to a mobile phone or a pager) or a detailed one;
* Monitors logs in any format (syslogs, .log, .csv, etc.);
* and more...

Visit Advanced Log Monitor website...

New Product: RSS Content Generator

2006-11-30T14:54:00.000-05:00

RSS Content Generator is a comprehensive website generator from free RSS feeds (news, press releases and articles) to boost up your search engine rankings or make money with Google AdSense or another advertising program.

RSS Content Generator can automatically download new RSS feeds, update your site with your structure and design and upload it to your server - all without your intervention.

RSS Content Generator main features:

* Handles multiple websites, keywords, RSS sources, RSS feeds, news, press releases and articles;
* Has built-in RSS keyword search;
* Has easily customizable templates;
* Automatically publishes updated website via FTP;
* Automatically runs on Schedule;
* and more...

Visit RSS Content Generator website...

New Product: Advanced Contact Manager

2006-11-30T14:43:00.000-05:00

We just release a new product: Advanced Contact Manager.

Advanced Contact Manager is a simple contact management solution for your sales and technical support teams to keep track of your customers, open issues and call and contact history.

Advanced Contact Manager can help your team handle all incoming and outgoing calls, track the history of client contacts and monitor performance of everyone in the team.

Advanced Contact Manager main features:

* Manages clients, categories, products & services and users;
* Handles incoming and outgoing calls;
* Keeps history for every call, client, issue and user;
* Has detailed and summary reports;
* Works lightning-fast in multi-user environment;
* and more...

Visit Advanced Contact Manager website...

Happy Birthday to me and Happy Thanksgiving to You!!!

2006-11-22T19:59:00.000-05:00

It's getting to be that time of year again. Great food, celebratory drinks, fun parties and family dinners...

For all our American friends, have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

It just happened that my birthday falls on this very Friday, November 24th, 2006 as well.
Yes, I am celebrating too! (since here, in Canada, we had our Thanksgiving a few weeks back (yeah, we’re freaks, I know :-) ) – we need to celebrate something, right?

So, here it goes:

Thank you all for your continuous support and know that we are truly blessed to have you as our friend and a client!!!

Yesss!!! It’s been an exiting and wonderful year and we’d really like to find out more about you and how you use our software in your life!

If you’d like to share your story with us, please drop us a note by email info@xssoftware.com or by fax 1-866-884-0568.

I hope you have a GREAT Turkey Day!