Feb 14, 2006 | blog
Today Spb Software House released Spb Backup, a new Pocket PC backup utility. A utility category for the Pocket PC that, until recently, has been a little light on products.
Spb Software House Releases Spb Backup – the Ultimate Tool for Saving Your Data
February 14, 2006 – Spb Software House, a leading Pocket PC software developer, releases Spb Backup – a new Pocket PC utility for backing up all of your Pocket PC content to a storage card.
Spb Backup is based on the proven technology used in Spb Clone. Thousands of enterprise users rely upon Spb Clone to create exact copies of their “master” PDA devices. This tested technology was used to create a backup program that would benefit Pocket PC consumers at all levels.
Spb Backup creates a self-restoring image file that can be restored with or without installing the main Spb Backup application. The backup file can be compressed and password protected with strong 128-bit AES algorithm. The scheduled backup features will help users to have regular, mistake-free backups.
Spb Backup features include:
- Scheduled backups
- Self restoring backup files
- Options to separately backup PIM data, emails, “My Documents” folder, and system data
- Backup file compression and encryption
- Today plug-in with previous and next backup date notification
- Desktop PC utility for extracting information from backup files
Pricing and Availability
Spb Backup is currently available in Czech, English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, and Traditional Chinese. A free 5-backups limited trial can be downloaded, or Spb Backup can be purchased for $19.95 USD, from www.spbsoftwarehouse.com.
Spb Software House has produced many other great software products including Pocket Plus, GPRS Monitor, Full Screen Keyboard, Diary, Weather, and Finance.
Feb 9, 2006 | blog
McAfee has a new technology to help protect companies from the threat of bot-launched attacks. Check the link below for more information at MSFN.
via: MSFN
Feb 7, 2006 | blog
It looks like Microsoft Windows OneCare will be available in June for an annual subscription price of $49.95. Currently in both a private and an open beta test, OneCare is an all-in-one internet security product that includes Antivirus, Firewall, and Antispyware. In addition, automated backup and other system tuning tools are included to help keep Microsoft Windows PCs running at their best.
via: CNET News.com
Feb 6, 2006 | blog
VMware Server is now available, bringing an entry level server virtualization platform to anyone interested for a very affordable cost – FREE!
Some of the capabilities:
- Support for any standard x86 hardware
- Support for a wide variety of Linux and Windows host operating systems, including 64-bit operating systems
- Support for a wide variety of Linux, NetWare, Solaris x86 and Windows guest operating systems, including 64-bit operating systems
- Support for Virtual SMP, enabling a single virtual machine to span multiple physical processors
- Quick and easy, wizard-driven installation similar to any desktop software
- Quick and easy virtual machine creation with a virtual machine wizard
- Virtual machine monitoring and management with an intuitive, user friendly remote console
- VMware Server is the first commercially available server virtualization product with support for 64-bit virtual machines and Intel Virtualization Technology, a set of Intel hardware platform enhancements specifically designed to enhance virtualization solutions.
via: MSFN
Feb 6, 2006 | blog
I’ve been trying to build an automated install of Macromedia Shockwave Player 10 for the past week or so without the success I need. The ability to script the Windows Installer (MSI) version works, but when pushed through Microsoft’s Systems Management Server 2003 (SMS), it fails. The failure is because the Shockwave MSI package requires a user profile to write some files to, and SMS uses the SYSTEM account to install distributed software – the SYSTEM account does not have a user profile, so the folders the Shockwave MSI package is looking for do not exist, and the install fails.
Perversly, Macromedia Flash Player 8 MSI package works fine through SMS, so its not like Macromedia doesn’t know how to build the package correctly. There’s even a thread on the Macromeda support forum which explicitly details the issue, but Macromedia has not responded to anyone (other than a forum moderator) to correc the problem.
Macromedia has great products, but need to support corporate customers better for mass automated deployments.
