Staying Safe From Computer Virus

If you’ve purchased a computer, or are just learning about using email and the internet, you may be faced with the problem of abnormal function of PC or system hanging problem very soon.

Somewhere down the line, there will be problems with your computer (adware, spyware, viruses, good software gone bad, etc,). Obviously, you should use protection software to prevent as much as possible. Internet is one the major source of computer virus. Usually they enter your program through an email, or while you are browsing a website.

When these programs run, usually without you knowing, they can cause all types of problems with your computer. Some viruses can be mildly annoying, slowing down your computer as they use your computer’s resources for another purpose. Others can be very dangerous, collecting your personal information and sending it to another party, or damaging your hard-drive.

Once you realize that you need anti-virus software installed and running on your computer, you’ll have to choose which one to purchase and install. This can be a complicated process, but here are some tips to make it a bit easier.

First, check your computer to see if it came with anti-virus software. Many new computers are shipped with anti-virus programs already to go on them, you just need to turn them on. Check your instruction manual to see if this is the case with your computer.

Check with the vendor. If you purchased your computer from a local retailer, check with them to see what anti-virus program they recommend.

I think that the best way to cure virus/worm problems is to prevent them from happening, and the best way to prevent them from hapenning is through education and awareness. Being a geek, understanding viruses seems to come naturally to me, so I figured I would share information about them with others.

If you are new to computers, please take some time and seek out professional assistance — the rest of the Internet will thank you for it.

Here’s some general tips for staying safe online:

Download and install the Firefox web browser and use it exclusively instead of Internet Explorer. IE is chock full of security holes, and new ones are being found all the time. Using IE is a big liability these days.

A Look At The New Nokia XpressMusic Phone

The Nokia XpressMusic mobile phones are some of the best collections of mobile phones presented by Nokia in the market. Although the Nseries are considered by many as Nokia’s best collection of mobile phones, many have stated that the XpressMusic mobile phones boasts its popularity in terms of affordability as well as its capability to deliver excellent audio compared to the Nseries.

Some of the best XpressMusic phones include the 5300, which is considered as the most popular brand of XpressMusic phones, and among one of the most favorite Nokia unit phones; 5310 which is known to have sold 10 million units across the world, making it one of the best selling mobile phones; and the 5130 which is one of the cheapest yet popular brand of XpressMusic. Today, Nokia have yet again unveiled a new set of XpressMusic mobile phones. One of which is the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic mobile phone.

Nokia 5730
The Nokia 5730 is one of the most unique mobile phone under the XpressMusic brands of mobile phone. Announced in March and released in June 2009, the mobile phone features a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, which is a unique feature for many XpressMusic mobile phones. Other than its QWERTY keyboard, it also features a dedicated camera, volume, music keys as well as gaming keys.

Similar to other new models of XpressMusic mobile phones such as the 5800, the 5730 is also known for its touchscreen capability with a basic accelerometer which acts as a tiltmeter to autorotate the display (in landscape or portrait mode). According to several cellphone philippines enthusiasts, the mobile phone also features a Wi-Fi/801.2b-g/Wireless and LAN connectivity.

It runs on the Nokia’s Symbian OS v9.3 S60 mobile phone platform. According to many cellphone philippines enthusiasts, It is also very similar to the Nokia E75 model, the only difference being that the 5730 is dedicated to play music.

Another popular feature of the mobile phone is its screen, which has a 2.4″ TFT (measured diagonally ) with a 240 by 320 pixel QVGA resolution. And like many other XpressMusic mobile phones, the Nokia 5730 also features a 3.5mm jack which allows regular earphones and headphones to be used.

Like many phones in its price range, it also includes a 3.15 megapixel camera (with Carl-Zeiss optics, LED flash and 30fps VGA recording) and A-GPS (with an integrated virtual compass to enable the map to autorotate to point north). According to many cellphone philippines enthusiasts, the N-Gage interface is also assimilated, allowing users to try, purchase and play 3-D N-Gage games (which can be downloaded through the application).

Another popular feature of the phone is that it can also produce, read, and to a limited extent, edit files (only in an editor’s version) from Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel. PDF files can also be viewed via the pre-installed Adobe Reader LE 1.5.0 application.
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Strategy is Important to Becoming a Game Tester

If you were to ask any avid gamer what he would imagine to be the perfect job, he’d undoubtedly come up with something video game related, more than likely it would be becoming a game tester. Some gamers have the impression that testing games is simply having fun and getting paid for it. It might surprise them, if they get such a job, about how much hard work is involved testing games.

If you want to be a game tester, you’ll be testing games that you like some of the time, and testing games that you can’t stand at other times. You’ll be working in a very competitive industry. Other gamers will envy you and would love to get your job the minute that you drop the ball. They see being a video game tester as a great way to break into a dream industry.

True gamers love to spend their free time playing their favorite video games. They get hooked on some games so much, that they become obsessed with playing them to the highest level. Imagine how great it would be for these gamers to be able to play the latest game releases on the market; better yet to play them before they come onto the market, and to be paid well for doing so. This can easily happen to a gamer who is lucky enough to become a professional game tester.

There are no special skills or training required for becoming a game tester. All that is really needed is the set of basic game playing skills that you acquire from simply playing the games over time. If you enjoy playing games, can pay attention to detail, and concentrate upon playing a game repeatedly to find bugs, you are eminently qualified to do this sort of work.

There are quite a few experienced game testers around who are most probably looking for assignments as you read this. The competition for jobs is fierce, even among the experts. Even if you meet the above conditions, you’re not likely to end up being a game tester simply by emailing the game development company. You’re going to do whatever is necessary to cause the company to want your skills. You’re going to find it necessary to get your name well known to others in the industry to fulfill your wish of becoming a game tester.

Many game testers embedded themselves in the game testing culture by joining online blogs, registering on game tester association websites, and joining local clubs or associations that are formed to support professionals in the industry. Game development companies are aware of these different associations and organizations. Many of their employees are members. Companies often turn to these groups to find a new talent that is committed to becoming a video game tester.

The more you personally know about games and the game testing process, the better will be your chances of getting a foot in the door of a game manufacturing company. There are a number of website that can provide you with training, strategies, and tactics employed in game testing. One such website is Game Testing Ground.

The Game Testing Ground website is actually a site that offers software that provides all of the information, support, and associations that you would require to get into the game testing industry, and to do so in the shortest possible time. You’ll have access to certain unreleased games and offered a wide range of game testing assignments. Consider the game copies as an added bonus to a great job.

The program itself, is a trove of important helpful information that can help you to get and hold a responsible game testing position. You’ll find the type of insider information about actual testing situations and strategies; things that you could never find out on your own, without actually having a position and years of experience. Most people who have used this program feel confident within a week or so, that they are ready and equipped to begin actually playing and testing video games for pay!

It takes a little effort, a little time, and a little patience to get yourself up to speed, but the potential rewards of a lucrative and exciting game testing career, make all your invested time in becoming a game tester, money well spent.

Dynamics GP Ecommerce Programming and Integration Notes

Microsoft Dynamics GP is open to ecommerce programmer via eConnect SDK, as well as Microsoft SQL Server programmability tools (typically Stored Procedures and Views).  Before you dive into technical project of eConnect programming, please, review Great Plains Integration Manager module and its customization options: VBA scripting of Before Document Commit (as very common modification point) event; you can schedule IM integration with Windows Macro or deploy free and ready for purchase applications, extending basic Windows Macro with additional functionalities.  Dynamics GP Integration Manager based (for version 10.0 and future versions 11.0 and up) on eConnect technology (in addition to supporting old OLE Server integrations), meaning that IM integration should be able to achieve the same goal with less efforts.  And as you should expect the same limitations for eConnect as you have for Integration Manager – most often manifesting limitation is eConnect and Integration Manager Batch Posting inability.  Now straight to the Great Plains ecommerce Developing topic:

1. eConnect is Software Development Kit, written in SQL Stored Procedures (encrypted), it allows you to program GP master records (Customer, Vendor, Employee, GL Account, Inventory Item, Address, Project, Budget, etc.) and so-called Work Transactions: SOP Quote, Order and Invoice, POP Purchase Order, GL Transaction, Employee Paycheck, Inventory Adjustment and Transfer, to give the idea.  eConnect is friendly and requires very short learning curve for Microsoft Visual Studio .Net C#, VB and other .Net compliant languages programmers.  Additional pluses if you have XML, SQL Scripting skills

2. Sales Order Processing and Inventory Control modules and tables.  These two are the most popular in ecommerce integrations.  SOP tables have SOP prefix (famous SOP10100 transaction header and SOP10200 lines), and Inventory INV (INV00101 – item master and INV00102 Quantity master) respectively.  Sometimes, especially in old Great Plains ecommerce legacy integrations you find Invoicing module (IV prefix)

3. Posting problem.  In ecommerce application you often want to do all the way transaction processing: Sales Invoice creation and modification, applying credit card payment deposit, allocating merchandise, approving and posting Sales Order Processing batch (or individual transaction).  Here, you will hit the wall and realize that Posting functionality is not included in eConnect or Great Plains Integration Manager.  There is no shortcut here (we assume that you are Not Dynamics GP Dexterity software developer with tons of programming experience, including Dexterity Source Code Programming), you will need to purchase Dynamics GP Add-On, we recommend Dynamics GP Posting Server, also known as Autopost

4. Dynamics GP eCommerce SQL Scripting.  If you have the opinion that your ecommerce integration routine is very simple and eConnect is too cumbersome and heavy in being considered for deployment, you can always rescue to SQL direct insertion statement.  Please review GP table structure: Dynamics GP -> Settings -> Resource Description -> Tables.  Or, simply install GP Software Development Kit from CD #2.  Dynamics GP Business Logic might be too complex for intuitive programming, so if you will get the buggy situation, consider creating test transaction in GP user interface and review the records in GP tables.  If you prefer proven set of stored procedures – we offer them as Order Connector, feeding data into SOP tables

5. Feel free to call us on Microsoft Dynamics GP eCommerce integrations concerns: 1-866-528-0577, help@albaspectrum.com

New Software That Streamlines Your Contact Center : Totalview Adherence Suite

If you run a contact centre, you will be aware that the success or failure of your business relies on how well your customer service agents perform and whether they follow their schedule correctly. If your agents stick to the schedules they have been given, they will be much more productive and therefore you do not need to keep hiring new staff.

The TotalView Adherence Suite from IEX Corporation offers you the chance to monitor agent progress and activity without any real effort. You will be able to plan your schedules a lot better as well as cut costs and improve customer service.

There are many advanced features with this programme, but the most popular and the most useful is the real-time adherence function. This feature actually compares an agent’s activity to all current activity so you can actually make sure that all of your agents are following their schedules at any time during the day.

There is nothing complicated about the system. Once you have logged on, if anyone is not on schedule, that person’s name will be highlighted so that you are aware. It is up to your how you deal with it, but at any time of day you can log on and check. You will be able to view an overall summary of each agent’s performance levels and with all of the information in front of you; you have access to all areas of your agents’ work levels at a glance.

You will quickly be able to see which agents are not performing as they should be as well as those who require more training. It is not uncommon for agents to think that by avoiding becoming available they will not have to spend time receiving new contracts. You will be able to pick out the lazy agents immediately and take the appropriate action.

This Adherence suite also allows you to find out which agents are consistently late for work or take longer breaks than they should. It will divide the hard workers from those who survive on the back of everyone else. You will be able to perform all of the above actions from one single screen which lets you compare the agent’s schedule with their actual performance.

You can set your own customised preferences which can be sorted by a number of criteria including scheduled activity and agent name allowing you to display the most important information first. If you have agents who require extra monitoring, you can tag them so that their stats are always displayed first.

There is an historical adherence feature which enables you to print a report of for the previous few days comparing performance indicators and activity. You can quickly see which department is working the hardest and which needs to work a lot harder. Both the

Real-time and historical adherence tools will help you to improve you business and of course you profits, while at the same time improving levels of customer satisfaction.

You are able to hold each individual agent responsible for their own actions so no longer will they be able to hide under the cover of their team.