January 2009 Edition
Inside this issue of Business Insight
Notable Software Updates : Jan 2009
Docstoc: Web Based Alternative for My Documents
Skyhook SDK Helps Pinpoint Android Phones' Location
Power your Imagination with WordPress 2.7
 
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Notable Software Updates : Jan 2009

Default Folder X 4.1.1 from from St. Clair Software is a maintenance and stability update to the Open and Save dialog-enhancement utility. Bugs addressed include a crash when you log out or restart your Mac, an Applescript bug preventing other applications from retrieving the current URL in Firefox when Default Folder X is open, and a bug causing repeated error messages to appear in the Console regarding failed Finder queries. Also, support for Hazel has been improved by mitigating a file labeling conflict issue. ($34.95 new, free update, 10.2 MB).

QuickTime 7.6 from Apple brings several updates to the multimedia software. Changes include enhanced single-pass H.264 encoding quality, more reliable Motion JPEG media playback, heightened AAC encoding fidelity, improved export consistency for audio tracks from MPEG video files, and increased compatibility with iChat and Photo Booth. Apple has also released a separate security document detailing the accompanying bug fixes.

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Docstoc: Web Based Alternative for My Documents

How about just uploading the files you want to exchange through your web browser? How about sharing your photos with your friends? In this Jet age everyone is looking for such kind of quick solutions for document sharing and there are ‘N’ number of companies claim to provide these services only.

The most important issue to be addressed is security i.e. “What is the safe and easy way to share confidential information on web”? Docstoc solves the problem with an integrated solution. It combines the best of email, Adobe Acrobat and a document management systems to enable users to share and collaborate in a simple and secure way.

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Skyhook SDK Helps Pinpoint Android Phones' Location

In the contest between the iPhone and the Android phone, the iPhone beats the Android hands down on with its near pinpoint location accuracy. However, the Android should be able to catch up because the same hybrid positioning technology offered by Skyhook Wireless is now available to developers.

Announced Wednesday, Skyhook's new SDK includes Android support. While most popular phone and PC location systems can take two to three minutes for a location fix, Skyhook combines its proprietary database Wi-Fi Positioning System with cell phone towers and public Wi-Fi access points to create quick and accurate positioning results.

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Power your Imagination with WordPress 2.7

The first thing that comes in notice is how the interface is when one uses an application. And this is the most noticeable thing in the latest version of Wordpress 2.7. This Wordpress 2.7 is much faster than the other previous versions. It is available in two formats and is also known as “Coltrane”. In it every screen is customizable.

In WordPress 2.7 small layout changes are bit by bit applied. Some elements like multiple dashboards are directly implemented to wordpress.com or wordpress.org so there is nothing to worry if the changes are not deflected/reflected the same time you apply them. All the amendments made in the 2.7 version are as a result of the combined effect of the usability testing performed on the 2.5 version and Crazyhorse

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Outsourcing:Recession Survival Tool
Year 2008, begining of global recession. Everywhere - newspapers, radio, TV, Internet - you hear and see these words "Global Meltdown", "Recession". Experts call it a financial collapse.So the demand of the situation is to find out the ways to reduce the expenses with minimum losses for business.

I strongly believe that Outsourcing your projects to third world countries where the experts are available in cheap can be a good remedy to save oneself from the claws of global recession.Offshore Outsourcing can solve the problems resulting from the current situation.


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