Category: Software
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FotoWare Operations Center goes “SilverLighter”
Another of the changes brought about in FotoWare 7, SR 4, is a decreasing dependency on SilverLight in Operations Center. By running less of it in SilverLight, access to OPC is a lot quicker. When you load OPC, it will load the front page first, then load the subsequent pages. If you switch from…
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FotoWare Operations Center says “bye-bye” to IIS
One of the really nice new features in FotoWare’s fourth service release of version 7, is that the Operations Center is now run as its own service, shedding the need for IIS on the server running the FotoWare suite. This has a few practical upshots: Members of the FotoWare Administrators and Operators groups no…
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FotoWeb Desktop for iPhone
It has been an exciting few months, seeing the development of FotoWare’s app for iPhone. Launched at the Tech Days at Palma de Mallorca, it received many excited murmurs. The app does a few things that have been asked for. First off, you an search in your FotoWeb archives, and create alerts for these…
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FotoWeb: Notify administrator when a user registers to the site
One of the products I support at FotoWare is FotoWeb. I will post articles with tips and tricks in the various FotoWare applications, in addition to my usual subjects. In order to enable automatic notifications being sent to a site administrator when a new user registers on the site, follow these steps: Open the…
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FotoStation Actions: Send to Flickr
Last week, I detailed how I built a custom Metadata editor that shows me only the fields I can use for Flickr. However, that’s not the only thing I’ll be using FotoStation for. While FotoStation is not able to talk directly to Flickr’s API, it is able to call on other applications, and so,…
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How to: Set default save format in Open office
At work, I use Microsoft Office, and have done so for as long as I have been working. At home, however, I use Open Office. It suffices for most of my needs, and works nicely. The problem with using a different set of software at work and at home is that Microsoft Office by default…
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Controlling the version of Java installed
Every so often, I encounter computers that, among other things, have very specific prerequisites. For SAP CRM and Mobile Sales, more often than not, a specific version of Java should be installed. If it isn’t, problems ensue. Now, while you’ll always have the option of finding out what version is installed through the control panel,…
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Toolkit essentials – Software tools part one – ISO files
Like their physical counterparts, software tools are absolutely necessary for successful IT support. I usually divide them up into two categories; CD images and executables. The first are usually distributed in the form of iso-files. I usually carry the following with me, along with blank CDs, so that I can make the tools I need…
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A better way to see trends
An old joke says that there are three kinds of lies; black lies, white lies and the internal polling data of political parties. The latter example is typically statistics, and while statistics can be presented in such a way as to prove almost anything, raw, unprocessed statistics are a great tool. One of my…
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A simpler way to get your apps
Every so often, I reinstall my computers. One of the biggest hassles of this, is installing all the software I use. I recently discovered a simpler way to do so; Ninite. You simply go to the website, check the boxes for what software you need, then download the installer. Having downloaded the installer, you…