GoogleEarth - The Ultimate Map! (A Review) by Timothy Trimble
This week I had my socks knocked off! Which, after being in the industry for over 25 years, is tough to do. I came across a posting on Slashdot about a new mapping application from Google called GoogleEarth. At first my thinking was that this was just another extension of the already cool Google... GoogleEarth takes the geo topology data from the satellites and turns it into a earth wide mapping application. ... The ART of Software Development in GoogleEarth is in the innovation that the Google folks have introduced in this technology, and making it available to everyone on the internet.

Say No To Spam In Your Inbox! by Ted Peterson
On daily basis many people around the world are facing growing email SPAMing issues. A SPAM is nothing but an unsolicited email received from an unknown person. Any organization can be affected with this SPAM. Thousands of emails are being dropped in the corporate mailing server everyday... Once you have downloaded the application, simply double click on the installer file to install the application on to your computer. ... Pctool.com did it again and released a SPAM Monitor application for such regular users to safe guard there mailing clients from unwanted SPAM’ed emails.

Prototyping – Static Motion by Shamil Nizamov
This article is geared toward systems analysts who need to efficiently verify requirements proposed by business or end users. There are several techniques for doing so, and one of the most appropriate is prototyping. It is a known fact that a graphical representation is better understandable and... In this article we will apply the term "application" to a thick, reach control Windows or Mac application. ... While it would be a toy application (though it is a simple way to learn common programming techniques), Excel could help to imitate a final software product.

Business Intelligence guide by Mansi Aggarwal
Business intelligence can be defined as a set of business processes designed to garner and analyze business information. It is a vast category of application of programs that includes providing access to data to help an entrepreneur in his business decisions, task of query and reporting, online... The application software is different from the system software that integrates different capabilities of the computer but these are not directly applied to the benefit of the user. ... Application software is broadly categorized under class of computer software that enables a computer to function...

Do You Need a Doctor For Your Computer? by Gary A J Martin
Over time, errors and bugs slowly creep into a computer's system, making it run slowly and badly. Its just an unfortunate fact of computer life. What happens is, your registry software (the registry is a central database of information needed to configure your computer system for general... You don't want to buy registry fix software and find difficultly operating it. ... In choosing a registry fix software, it needs to be both very easy to use and highly functional. ... So when choosing software, this is an important factor.

Custom Java Programming by Kirill Basikhin
In recent times technology has taken a big leap as now what is possible was just a dream few years go. Java is today one of the most widely used programming tool used in various technological platforms. The advent of Java can be tracked to early 90’s but now it is also incorporated in mobile... According to the software experts, using java application in any mode is a set of various corpulent integrated tools which are generally used for creating applications that minimize the development effort.

Understanding XML Server by Balaji B
XML Server can be a Web Server that stores the XML files in it and serves them on demand. The XML Server would have processing capabilities with an XML engine and to transform the XML document to other forms. Basically a server which hosts and serves the XML documents is called a XML Server. ... Sonic XML Server is another product from Sonic software which is built upon the native XML processing engine. ... XSL, XSLT and scripts are supported in this server so that data can be transformed to any format requested by the user or any other application.

Dragging Software Development into the 21st Century by Joe Crowley
Companies spend billions of dollars every year on developing their own software applications or purchasing complex enterprise software applications. This includes not only the cost of software, but the hardware infrastructure required to support the software as well. ... What makes an application unique is the business rules, logic, and workflows (how the user moves through the application). ... One of the highest costs involved in software development is the cost of developers. ... This results in an endless cycle where the software developed for a client continuously lags behind the...

Printing Right, From the Start by Gretchen Peck
The optimal digital workflow for print begins at the beginning—at the content creation stage. When digital files submitted to the printer are correct and complete, the workflow is most efficient and cost-effective. Printers have led the global print industry through a revolution—first, with the... Keeping with the idea that the ideal workflow is one that catches any potential file problems as far forward in the process as possible, Markzware Software—one of the leaders in preflight/postflight software—has come out with a new idea, on-the-fly file verification.

Challenges of SOA Testing by Jason English
Why is SOA testing such a different beast than previous forms of browser, client/server and mainframe testing? Many of the benefits of SOA become challenges to testing an SOA application. 1. SOA is distributed by definition Services are based on heterogeneous technologies. ... No longer can we expect to test an application that was developed by a unified group, as a single project, sitting on a single application server and delivered through a standardized browser interface. ... It becomes much harder to predictably find the source of a problem when you cannot get direct insight into why...