Monitor your PC with Spector Pro 2008

By Yara Omar, Janus Networks

Ever wanted to monitor every detail of PC and internet activity made by your children or your employees? SpectorSoft’s Spector Pro 2008 is considered the world’s best selling software for monitoring and recording such activities efficiently and easily.

Spector Pro has can take screen snapshots of the computer screen. Snapshots could be taken at a constant rate (as fast as once a second) or they could be taken based on user activity such as mouse clicks or new web page visits which gives you the ability to precisely track activities on your PC. 

The software lets you know which websites your employees/children are visiting and what exactly they’re doing while being on these websites. It also lets you read every email sent and received including web-based emails. You can capture and review all chat and instant messages (both sides). You can even find out what they’re searching for on Google, Yahoo or any of the most famous search engines and you can find out what they’re doing on MySpace or Facebook. In addition to that, you can capture every keystroke including usernames and passwords. You can keep track of every program they run and much more..

Spector Pro 2008 gives you control as well; you can block your employees/children from visiting certain websites or from chatting with anyone you want. The software is known for its user-friendly interface and efficiency. You can learn more about Spector Pro at www.spectorsoft.com

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Work online with Zoho.com

By Yara Omar, Janus Networks

Zoho.com is a website that offers many online services for individuals and business owners. With its slogan “Productivity 2.0″ and more than 15 online applications that are almost free, many web application reviewers say that zoho.com can beat the other solutions offered by Goggle and Microsoft.

Zoho.com offers an online office including Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet and Zoho Show. It also offers online collaboration functionalities through Zoho Share, Zoho Chat and Zoho Wiki. In addition, it has a online organizer and an online note taker. All of these tools are totally free for use with a set of well-selected features.

As for business, Zoho offers a lot. There is project management software and an on-demand CRM solution that lets you add 3 users for free to try the online tool. Zoho offers other tools like an online invoicing tool, an online database application, an online reporting and BI service, an online business solutions tool and many other applications. Check zoho.com and give these tools a try, you will surely find them useful and great to deal with.

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Automate your business with Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007

By Yara Omar, Janus Networks

SharePoint Designer 2007 is a new Office application from Microsoft, specially made for deploying interactive business solutions on its platform without having to write code. SharePoint Designer lets you do many things. First you can completely automate your business processes and collaboration tasks such as event notifications and document approvals. This can be done using a specialized tool called Workflow Designer.

You can also build interactive great-looking Microsoft ASP.NET websites for your business. SharePoint Designer has a high quality what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor that lets you easily design professional web pages tailored to your organization’s needs. The web pages can be easily controlled site administrators and IT managers through user roles (Contributors) you define for the web pages. You can learn more about Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 at the products section in www.office.microsoft.com

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Imagine the possibilities with Microsoft Live Mesh

By Yara Omar, Janus Networks

 

Live Mesh is Microsoft’s new all-in-one solution to connect multiple together in a new easy way. Live Mesh makes synchronizing your files across multiple devices an easy task. It also gives you means to access files or even programs from anywhere.

 

Once you install Live Mesh on each device you want on the network, you add all the information you need in a mesh folder which is accessible to all the devices on the network. This gives you the chance to share files with your family or collaborate with your colleagues. The interesting thing is that you can access programs on any device on the mesh. You can also keep track of all the changes made on any device on the mesh. Live Desktop, a feature in Live Mesh, gives you 5GB of free online storage on Microsoft servers, which is accessible from almost all of the web browsers available around.

Live Mesh also includes remote desktop capabilities. The mesh uses high security measures and is password protected through your Windows Live ID. You can learn more about Microsoft Live Mesh through http://www.mesh.com

 

 

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Adobe adds more features to Photoshop Express

By Yara Omar, Janus Networks

Photoshop Express is an online service that was launched earlier by Adobe at www.photoshop.com/express for online photo editing/storage. The editing service is an online version of some of the cool editing features available at Adobe Photoshop or Elements and provides a better-than-average experience to regular users who might find Elements a bit hard. 

Last month, Adobe has added some updates to its service. One of the updates is the ability to get the photos printed through “shutterfly”. Before, the user had to send the photos to one of the partner servers to get them printed. Now, printing is easy just with a single click.

Even though each account has a capacity of 2GB, Photoshop Express has recently provided a very useful resizing tool with predefined presets for shrinking photos mainly for blogs and social networking web sites. Users could upload their photos before through a very easy web interface, but now they could also use “Adobe AIR Uploader” which is a desktop utility for uploading photos by simple drag-and-drop procedures.

Another new feature is adding music tracks to slideshows which adds some life to them. Photoshop Express has a very good list of partners, including Facebook, Photobucket, Picasa and recently Flickr was added to the list. It’s highly expected that more features and enhancements will be added along with premium accounts and more partnerships.

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Run your business smoothly with Microsoft SBS 2003

By Yara Omar, Janus Networks

Whether you’re starting your business or upgrading your work environment, you are probably thinking about which tools and technology solutions you should consider for optimizing your workflow. Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 (SBS 2003) is one of those all-in-one packs that really helps business managers get the things that they need: a powerful collaborative work environment and improved productivity.

SBS provides a collection of essential services, such as file and printer sharing, shared calendaring and shared internet access. The pack also includes an internal company website (intranet) and a large email database (75 GB) which enables better communication with the outside world. SBS also provides a messaging system that enables email access from mobile phones and a remote desktop service as well.

SBS has an enhanced security system and a robust firewall that protects all PCs on your network from any potential threats. And, of course, the server supports backups of company information and important data.

SBS 2003 comes in two editions: Standard Edition ($600) and Premium Edition ($1300). The Premium Edition has Microsoft SQL server (for data management and reporting) and Microsoft Office FrontPage (for website development). Either edition provides the means to manage in the easiest and most flexible ways. SBS gets it power from the fact that many people are already familiar with Microsoft products. This will save you from additional training costs for employees.

You can learn more about Microsoft SBS 2003 at http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/products/server/default.aspx or by contacting Janus Networks directly at our toll-free number: 1 (888) 836-2310

By Yara Omar, Janus Networks