TA | PageFlip Launches Bluetooth Foot Pedal for Hands-Free Page Turning on iPads, Macs, and PCs

 A new wireless foot pedal makes it possible to perform hands-free page turning of electronic documents on any computer, including iPads. The pedal, known as the PageFlip Cicada, is available immediately for worldwide distribution directly from PageFlip oficial site. The Hal Leonard Corporation has agreed to handle U.S. retail channel distribution.
The PageFlip Cicada is a wireless Bluetooth pedal designed to meet the needs of musicians and people with disabilities who struggle with the challenge and inconvenience of page turning. PageFlip Cicada works exclusively with digital documents on iPads, Macs, and PCs. By simply tapping the left or right pedal of the PageFlip Cicada, digital content can now be flipped or scrolled in either the forward or reverse directions for convenient hands-free reading.
The PageFlip Cicada emulates a standard keyboard and works with any software that uses keyboard strokes to navigate through digital files. For added versatility, the user may select among five modes for the dual pedals: PageUp/PageDown, Left/Right arrow, Up/Down arrow, Left/Right mouse click, and Space/Enter. Changing modes is as simple as pressing a button. No software installation or programming is required.
The PageFlip Cicada works with iPads under select keyboard-compatible apps such as forScore, Deepdish GigBook, MusicReader, unrealBook, and OnSong. The pedal does not operate with the Amazon Kindle since the Kindle does not support Bluetooth or include a USB port. However, Kindle software running on a PC or Mac works with the pedal.
The PageFlip Cicada has a retail price of $79.95 and ships with a universal AC adapter and a USB Bluetooth dongle for use with computers that are not already equipped with Bluetooth support. The PageFlip Cicada can be powered by two AA batteries, features an autorepeat mode for fast browsing or scrolling, and includes two 1/8" mono plugs for people with disabilities to attach an external breath-controlled sip-and-puff switch or two lightweight JellyBean pushbuttons to trigger page turning in the forward or reverse directions. External switches are not included. PageFlip offers free shipping within the US and Canada.
PageFlip has reached a deal with Milwaukee-based Hal Leonard Corporation to be the exclusive distributor of the pedal to all retail channels in the US. Comments Brad Smith, senior sales and marketing manager for Hal Leonard, "With the popularity of the iPad and many other such sheet music-friendly electronic devices becoming available, the market is ripe for the Cicada and other great products that support the needs of today’s wired and mobile musicians. We're happy to team with PageFlip to bring this unique tool to a wide audience."
PageFlip CTO George Wolberg echoes the sentiment: "The association with Hal Leonard extends our product availability to retail channels that have hitherto not been available to us. We think this broader market reach will result in a much greater product availability for users that don’t use the Internet to purchase products, or prefer a live demonstration before purchase."
The widespread proliferation of laptops, iPads, and other portable tablets give musicians and people with disabilities more options in storing and displaying their sheet music, books, and other electronic documents. The PageFlip Cicada now offers these users a lightweight, compact, and fully embedded solution for convenient hands-free page turning.
PageFlip was founded in New York in 2002. The company develops, manufactures, and markets automatic page turning technology for the benefit of people with disabilities, musicians, and avid readers. Unlike other products on the market, PageFlip offerings are designed to provide a bi-directional hands-free solution that is reliable, compact, silent, and low-cost.

TA | New Energy Efficient DC Cooling Fan Series From NMB

NMB Technologies Corporation, announced the availability of a new series of energy efficient, low noise, high pressure DC Axial cooling fans.
Designed with a single phase motor technology for low power consumption, and a new innovative casing with integral stationary blade, the new RL Series from NMB provides increased efficiency as well as improved air flow.
"NMB is expanding our very popular DC Axial Fan product line. The new RL Series features a host of standard and custom characteristics that complement our current pg=2 [DC fan __title__ DC Axial Fan Listing] product line," said Fernando Palarca, fan product manager for NMB Technologies Corporation.
The RL Series is now available in dimensions of 60X38mm, 80X38mm, 92X38mm and 120X38mm, and in 12, 24 and 48 VDC. Standard features include auto restart, reverse polarity protection, low noise and high flow, as well as NMB dual ball bearings. Custom features offer locked rotor output, open collector tach output, PWM, fan performance sensor, thermal control and soft start inrush current, among others.

TA | Advanced Forms for SharePoint 2010

We are excited to announce the availability of  Advanced Forms 2010. In our never-ending efforts to improve the customer and partner experience, we are announcing the availability of the new 2010 edition.

Advanced Forms 2010 builds on SharePoint 2010 platform improvements. The product has been vastly transformed to make it more intuitive and easy to use.

The launch concludes a beta program involving a large user-base of partners and SharePoint MVPs, which provided invaluable feedback and fine-tuned features and functionality.

Turn your SharePoint Forms into pure amazing

Advanced Forms 2010 produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique input forms from your standard SharePoint forms. Fast and shockingly easy.

This release delivers better design functionality and massively extends forms capability for Microsoft SharePoint

You can make killer SharePoint Forms in minutes

This release offers improved forms designer capability through an improved user interface and superior functionality for SharePoint forms, positioning Advanced Forms 2010 as the ideal productivity enhancer for the SharePoint user. Highlights of the release include:

* Enhanced User Experience
* New forms render Web Part
* Improved form designer capability

"With new Advanced Forms 2010 you can achieve the results you expected, without additional development costs. Its technology, based on the application of rules, reduces the implementation time."

TA | Sceneric relaunches Frasers Autographs on hybris

Frasers Autographs is a trading division of Stanley Gibbons which tendered for a new web platform and web partner in 2010 with the intention of consolidating it's web properties and providing a firm foundation for online growth. Sceneric and hybris were selected in August 2010. Sceneric assembled an experienced team of ecommerce professionals to work with client side IT and business staff to take the high level requirements and to deliver a fully integrated ecommerce platform.
  
To provide a fully automated solution, hybris has been integrated with the Orbis TaskCentre message broker to provide full customer, product and order integration with the back-office product information management, customer relationship management and accounting systems. Integration to SagePay provides secure PCI compliant payments, with online analytics provided through Google Analytics.
hybris has also been configured to put as much into the hands of the marketing and merchandising teams as possible, with Scenerics CMS expertise proving crucial in designing resuable templates that create a single managed solution for online.
Site features include a rich Web 2.0 interface including:
* Mega-menus controllable through the hybris WCMS module
* Carousels and promo banners editable through the hybris WCMS to include products from the catalog
* Faceted navigation
* A streamlined checkout process to drive conversion

* Product image zoom
* Integrated CMS templates that allow products to be integrated to content pages (such as here)
Integration through the hybris service layer to a Service Orientated Architecture includes:
* Automatic load and update of the product catalog from Stibo STEP (around 35,000 products)
* Stock updates to ensure in-store and web remain syncronised
* Syncronisation of customer data from web to call centre software to provide multi-channel capability
* Delivery of order data into the fulfillment systems

The 5 month project is the first delivery of the strategic web platform which will shortly launch Stanley Gibbons main site and form the basis of future web initiatives through the hybris multi-site capability.
Sceneric & Stanley Gibbons continue to work on the development of the Stanley Gibbons website which is due for a phased launch during Q2 2011
"The launch of Frasers Autographs provides an excellent demonstration of Sceneric's expertise in content management and ecommerce; combined in a single, multi-site hybris implementation. Sceneric is proud to have been involved in this excellent project".

TA | Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Mobile Broadband Card

It helps Whether you're on a business trip or a road trip, at a trade show or a coffee shop, New York City-based Event Radio Rentals offers you the ability to send and receive large e-mails and surf the web with ease when accessing the Verizon 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network.

Event Radio Rentals, a premier source for on-site temporary communication solutions, offers short- and long-term rentals of the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Mobile Broadband Card, which is backward compatible with the 3G network. We offer low daily, weekly and monthly rates, as well as generous usage limits.

With the 4G LTE Mobile Broadband Card, you can:
-- Turn your hotel room into a hotspot.
-- Get a high-speed connection at trade shows and conventions.
-- Keep connected when on vacation or on a road trip.
-- Set up a temporary data center or hotspot.

TA | Cristallight Software iBarcoder, version 3.2.8 released

Palatine, IL, US. Cristallight announced today the release of the new version of the iBarcoder , one of the most popular mac barcode making software for MacOS X. The update brings improvement of the product functionality. QR Code functionality enhanced, online help changes, minor interface changes and bug fixes made, ensuring product ease of use, reliability, and convenience. The iBarcoder 3.2.8 update is available. Make Mac Barcode easily with Cristallight Software iBarcoder, version 3.2.8 released. The iBarcoder is a simple and intuitive mac barcoding software for creating and printing barcoded labels, or exporting barcodes as image files in various vector and raster image formats and resolutions. Supports more then 20 barcode symbologies, allows to modify your barcodes using all the controls of all the attributes, intrinsic to a certain barcode type. Contains advanced tools for easy barcode customization. Integrates Apple Address Book for encoding personal data as QR Code and Datamatrix 2D barcodes. Use numerous Avery label formats for barcodes printing, or create custom label formats. Import text and images directly into your label design. Create barcode sequences, in which barcodes are printed or exported. 

TA | iPhone App for 411 Pain launced by Webcast1

A Boca Raton-based Web development and Internet marketing boutique, has entered the mobile development and marketing arena by creating the essential iPhone app for anyone with a car and a smartphone.


411 Pain's CarAccident app simplifies the post-accident reporting process by taking and organizing photos of the car damage, identifying injuries and filing a case report to 411 Pain’s attorney and physician referral service.


Early reviews of the app point out its ease of use, quick load time and how convenient it is, especially in the stressful circumstances following a car accident. 


The CarAccident app quite literally puts the tools to navigate the post-accident maze in right in the palm of the user’s hand. The features of the CarAccident app allow the user to:
* Take photos of the user’s vehicle as well as other vehicles involved
* Use app icons to note the vehicles’ damage
* Tap the individual areas of the front and back body icons to show where the user feels pain
* Upload photos of drivers’ licenses, insurance cards and license plates
* Submit the case to 411 Pain


The app, which is published by 411 Pain, is available for download at CarAccidents.com. Webcast1, which developed the app, also provides technical support to users while its Internet marketing division, SearchWiz Marketing, uses its marketing network to get the word out about the app. 

TA | How to create strong passwords in Windows

To keep your computer more secure with the help of the strong password. For a password to be strong there should be certain things to be in front of you. There must be at least seven characters long. Because of the way passwords are encrypted, the most secure passwords are seven or fourteen characters long and it must contain the characters from each of these below given following groups.

Group Examples
Letters (uppercase and lowercase) A, B, C... (and a, b, c...)
Numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Symbols (all characters not defined as letters or numerals) ` ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ + - = { } | [ ] \ : " ; ' < > ? , . /

The password must have at least one symbol character in the second through sixth or any of the position into your password. Be extensively dissimilar from preceding passwords. It must not contain your name or user name in the password. Or it must not be general word or name.

Normally the Passwords can be the weakest bond in a computer security format. Strong, hard-to-guess passwords are very important because the tools and computers that people use to guess passwords maintain to improve. Network passwords that once took weeks to guess can now it can be guessed within an hour or hours.
Password-guessing software utilizes one of three approaches intelligent guessing, dictionary attacks, and automation that tries every likely combination of the characters. Given enough time, the automated method can guess any password. However, it can still take months to guess a good as well as the strong password for the Windows.

Windows passwords can be up to 127 characters long. However, if you are using Microsoft Windows XP on a network that also has computer systems using Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows 98, consider using passwords not longer than (fourteen) 14 characters. Windows 95 and Windows 98 support passwords of up to (fourteen) 14 characters. If your password is too longer, you may be unable to log on to your network from the respected computers systems.

TA | Hardware required to form a new home network setup in Windows XP

There are four types of different ways to setup the Network Setup

a) Network adapters or network cards connect your computers system to the network and enable them to communicate with a pair of the computers system. Network adapters can be attached to the USB port on your computer or installed within your computer in an available PCI expansion slot.

b) Network hubs and cables: A hub connects communication lines at a core location. A hub is typically used for connecting a pair or multiple computers system to an Ethernet network. A hub is not compulsory if you attach your computers system through your phone lines using a home phone line network adapter, or if you make use of a wireless adapter. You may be capable to use IEEE 1394 network adapters on your computer system.


c) Modem: A modem can be a 28.8 or 56 Kbps modem, a wireless modem, an Integrated Services Digital Network, a Digital Subscriber Line, or a cable modem.


d) The computers on your network must meet the following minimum requirements:
If you make use of Internet Connection Sharing (ICS), the computer sharing its Internet connection (the ICS host computer) should be running Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional on to your computer system.

Network Setup Wizard can only be run on computers in which Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, or Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 is running.
When you have the entire required hardware installed in each one of your computers systems, then you can ready to run the Network Setup Wizard on to your computer systems.