Software Reviews

Photo-translation

2010-07-12T12:32:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the second post in a row about ABBYY. Just feel like it today. And - don't worry, though I write about these guys a lot, I don't recieve any comission. They just don't do it. Do you travel a lot? On my honeymoon in Roma I've been beta-testing one interesting application - ABBYY FotoTranslate. You install it on your phone, then, walking somewhere in the city, see some inscription you

ABBYY Business Card Reader 2.0 for the iPhone

2010-07-06T03:11:00.000-07:00

It's simple. You take a photo of business card - and within a second it's in your contacts. All fields recognised. Nice time-saver for a given price.Becides, I've tried it on my phone - it looks cool and always raise interest around. ;)The application automatically transfers contact data (names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc.) from business cards directly to the iPhone address book by

Brain evolution

2010-06-03T11:08:00.000-07:00

If you are gamer by nature, but dislike the idea of wasting time - I have a game for you. I've spent 3 month playing it almost daily and it does makes me... maybe not smarter, but improves memory, calculation - and generally, I feel very positive impact.This application is for mobile and consists of 12 excersizes. Some of them locket at the beginning and opens as you make progress. Here is video

Exchange Server 2010 Free Download

2009-04-15T12:59:00.000-07:00

Exchange 2010 is the first product to be introduced as part of the next wave of Microsoft Office-related products. The next wave, which includes Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010, is designed to give people a consistent experience across devices, making it easier to create and edit documents and collaborate from any location.

OCR for iPhone Developers

2009-04-05T04:39:00.000-07:00

ABBYY’s OCR technology automatically transforms images of text and documents captured with a camera into editable and searchable text, eliminating the need to input information manually. For example, using a camera phone with an OCR application, business cards, clippings from magazines, books, receipts, ads and other documents can be captured and automatically converted into text, which may then

Mobile OCR Engine 3.0 from ABBYY

2009-02-25T22:57:00.000-08:00

January, 20th ABBYY announced Android™ Support to Its Mobile OCR Engine 3.0 Software Development Kit.ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine gives developers powerful tools for creating mobile or other compact applications enhanced with optical character recognition (OCR) and business card recognition (BCR) functions.ABBYY’s small-footprint OCR technology automatically transforms images of text and documents

Software for mass-submittion of press-releases.

2009-02-01T12:58:00.000-08:00

I used to think that this software is only useful for search engine optimization. But on the last week a friend of mine that works in the PR department complained that she spend almost a day to post a press-release into one service and it’s a hundred of them left. They cannot afford sending each press-release into distribution service, but manual posting is too laborious.The software I advised to

Windows 7 issues

2009-01-17T13:17:00.000-08:00

It's been several weeks of Windows 7 Beta being available for download. Now we have enough information to tell whether it will be like notorious Windows Vista or extremely popular Windows XP.Good news: this new OS seem to be alike corrected and improved Vista. Probably you have already seen the gossip in blog about it. Quicker, easier, more organised. But beware, it's still beta. Here I

Dictionary software: ABBYY Lingvo x3

2009-01-07T12:35:00.000-08:00

ABBYY launched a newer version of it’s dictionary software – ABBYY Lingvo x3. And as I reviewed the 12th version I almost have to spend some time to review this one. So, what’s a difference?I’ll tell you about the most important change first: it’s in dictionaries. Now Lingvo can translate between any languages that are included into edition: for example, between English and Spanish. Previous

International Game Technology Invites You to Join Its First Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 Conference Call

2008-12-28T11:11:00.000-08:00

RENO, Nev., Dec. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- International Game Technology (NYSE: IGT) will host a conference call regarding its First Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 earnings release on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 6:00 a.m. (Pacific Time). The access numbers are as follows: Domestic callers dial 888-843-9209, passcode IGT International callers dial 415-228-4953, passcode IGT The conference

Analytic Software XMIM 6.0.4

2008-05-05T02:58:00.000-07:00

The new version of XMIM analytic software 6.0.4 is announced available online today.The latest version of XMIM software, developed by data management solutions provider Logical Information Machines allows investment professionals to quickly scan markets to identify the best opportunities, back-test trading strategies and perform sophisticated correlation analysis not possible with any other tool.

Communion Enterprises Limited opens a surgical center for filling its database with signatures of new Trojans

2008-04-09T12:42:00.000-07:00

There is an information that very soon one brand new interesting antyspyware project will be launched. The developing company compares it to surgical center, and it's quite a promising comparasion.On the website of Communion Enterprises Limited www.asc-antispyware.com, users will be able to fill the database with signatures of new Trojans with the help of new technology. After conducting the

New Version of ABBYY Recognition Server

2008-01-31T02:10:00.000-08:00

New Version of ABBYY Recognition Server Delivers Web Service API, Output to Microsoft® SharePoint® and Input from Microsoft Exchange Server Moscow, Russia (30 January, 2008) — ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies, today announced Recognition Server 2.0, the next generation of its OCR and PDF conversion solution. Its compatibility with

Free Online Dictionary

2007-11-09T12:26:00.000-08:00

New Online Dictionary has been launched recently at http://www.lingvo.com/This service's peculiarity is that it translates words from 5 languages into russian and back. You can find some other free online russian dictionaries but the content in them simply fades comparing to what one can find in Lingvo Online. Even google dictionaries cannot suggest anything adequate in russian.You can look up

Trendset Tackles Capture

2007-07-25T00:57:00.000-07:00

A leaner capture process creates competitive advantage in the manufacturing industry.By Janelle JulienCustomer VendoThe majority of the daily shipping documents and forms that Trendset handled were either semi-structured or unstructured in varying formats from >0 different vendors.As a mid-sized, advanced freight payment solutions company, Trendset Inc. integrates Web-based information exchange

Blog Posting Software

2007-06-15T06:05:00.000-07:00

It happens that some of us run several blogs on different sites. It just happens so.You start your first blog on LiveJournal because of your friends, in 2 years you open another account because you cannot tell private thoughts anymore on old account. Then you find out about another service and try it – and find some friends who are dedicated to it. So you start 3rd and 4th blog. You have

ABBYY Introduces FlexiCapture 8.0 Professional

2007-05-30T06:10:00.000-07:00

ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies, today announced FlexiCapture 8.0 Professional, a dynamic data capture solution that intelligently automates data extraction from any type of paper form or document without the need for manual pre-sorting or manual keying. FlexiCapture 8.0 extracts data from structured forms, semi-structured forms,

Age of an ideal employee

2007-04-11T22:38:00.000-07:00

Each and every type of business is unique. The sphere of business itself defines the precious balance of experience and learning capabilities for an ideal employee. When the business is stable experience becomes crucial, but it does not always work this way.IT is one of the most vivid spheres of business, distinctive and with a precisely defined environment. The flow

Time-saving tips

2007-04-11T03:48:00.000-07:00

Time management is one of the most valuable skills in contemporary world. Every other year, every other technology generation gives more and more opportunities to speed up work processes and makes time pressure higher and higher.Several years ago companies expected from a successful candidate basic knowledge of MS Office. Now being an average user is not enough. Software developers include more

FlexiCapture 8.0 -- form recognition software

2007-04-03T02:24:00.000-07:00

In April, 16 ABBYY, a developer of data capture and digital image processing software, announced FlexiCapture 8.0 Professional, a dynamic data capture application that intelligently automates data extraction from any type of paper form without manual pre-sorting or keying. FlexiCapture 8.0 extracts data from structured forms, semi-structured forms, unstructured documents and any combination of

How to buy Lingvo 12?

2007-03-28T02:19:00.000-07:00

I've met a lot of people in internet who do not live in Russia, are willing to buy ABBYY Lingvo 12 and do not know the way to do it.For this moment this is quite complicated. There is no TRY&BUY Lingvo 12 link so far. If you don't care about the latest version (and do not forget about multiple changes in 12-th version), you can download TRY&BUY of Lingvo 11 "Six languages" using this link.But

Seven Tips for Successfully Using OCR Technology in a Legal Setting

2007-02-10T02:14:00.000-08:00

The average legal practice is buried under an avalanche of paper. Documents are crucial elements for the communication, reference and execution of every legal transaction. But the management of these documents can severely impact your law practice’s billable hours. Finding necessary paperwork still requires human intervention to search and identify the document.However, a little bit of computer

How to read a screenshot?

2007-01-31T13:29:00.000-08:00

I never thought I'll ever need this application. But once I needed to copy of a "word card" from ABBYY Lingo 12. The thing is when you simply copy a card it looses all formatting, some words got missed and my boss definitely would not be satisfied by that. Retyping takes too much time, especially if you need to copy 100 fragments. So I strained my brains and recalled a small bit of

ABBYY FineReader Engine First to Combine Extensive Language Support in a Single, Comprehensive Software Development Kit

2007-01-25T08:11:00.000-08:00

Moscow, Russia (January 24, 2007) – ABBYY, a world leader in the development of document recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies, today announced the newest edition of ABBYY FineReader Engine Software Development Kit (SDK), which is the first in the market to combine OCR (optical character recognition) on Thai, European (Latin/Roman), Hebrew, Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK), Cyrillic,

About Picasa

2007-01-22T12:30:00.000-08:00

Basically I do not trust furiously promoted things. The only reason why I downloaded and installed Picasa is I have seen it on computer of my good friend – 3D designer. As I know he’s got a very good software taste so I dared to try. Do you remember a slogan from advertisement for Picasa? – You will find photos that you’ve already forgotten about.I pressed “Install”,

ABBYY Lingvo 12 release

2007-01-11T04:20:00.000-08:00

12/12 2006 (see the idea of marketing department) the new version of ABBYY Lingvo dictionary had been released. ABBYY Lingvo 12 is not very famous around the world and mostly sold in Russia and countries of the former USSR. Nevertheless it is distributed all over the world just like other ABBYY products (these are FineReader, FormReader, Pdftransformer). The dictionary is developed for users who

How to Make News without Retyping PDFs

2006-12-05T05:09:00.000-08:00

Generally, when preparing news articles or reviews, journalists and reporters have to handle many public documents - press release, brochures, white papers, and so on - issued by various organizations. Heaps of press releases every day come to news agencies to be transformed into news items immediately. Time is everything for that kind of activity. Most of these documents are delivered in PDF

2006-11-30T04:46:00.000-08:00

This is a blog of my friend. He writes about his life and Russia. Alex a very creative designer, friendly personality, smart and funny guy.http://sasha-russia.blogspot.com

External Hard Drive tips

2006-11-28T03:03:00.000-08:00

External Hard Drive has its own attractiveness. I cannot talk about iPod because never had an experience of possession one. Despite, I have a great respect to this powerful device.I own external HD for almost a year and can tell you about most advantages, warn of problems you may face and give some solutions from my own experience.+) It is small. Dimensions of my external HD are 13-7-1.5 cm. Not

Toolbars in Firefox

2006-11-27T07:49:00.000-08:00

I love Mozilla Firefox. After the release of 2.0 I simply adore it.With Mozilla Firefox 2.0 I opened one more advantage of open-source free browser.It is possible to find plug-ins and toolbars for Internet Explorer. Most of them have narrow functionality and some of them are commercial products.It is not many of them and there is no single database. Look for then in World Wide Web.And.. here we

What to do if you have a low-speed internet-connection?

2006-11-27T00:04:00.000-08:00

I strongly advice you to use Mozilla Firefox instead of Internet Explorer in this case. Explorer downloads the whole page and only then shows it – it simply built this way. Firefox downloads page by parts and begins to display it while downloading – partially. This gives a subjective feeling that page is downloading faster.The second thing is Firefox has better cache – despite it has less cache

Why buy Laptop?

2006-11-15T10:38:00.001-08:00

Today I’ve had a long conversation with a friend of mine Eugene about me choosing a laptop instead of desktop PC.As for me, his main arguments were higher reliability, lower price, and easier reparation(fix-it yourself). Quite reasonable. But is that really important?Before buying my laptop sat down and thought for a while of what I need. So:- I moved to another city this year and had no

Yahoo Mail Beta - beg your pardon

2006-11-14T06:53:00.000-08:00

Guess I was too critical to Yahoo Mail Beta.I log in today with an idea to switch back to usual Mail but was surprised because everything worked perfectly. Keyboard shortcuts, buttons, drag&drop worker perfectly. It even worked faster.Hm... Not bad at all

Choosing webcam

2006-11-13T07:58:00.000-08:00

If you want to have a comfort communication with your friends over internet, if you need not only to hear but to see them sooner or later you’ll consider web-camera purchase.The choice is huge. Webcams cost from 10 to hundreds bucks, but why?As a rule, webcams are compatible to USB ports. There are 2 most common USB standards – USB 1.1 and USB 2.0, so-called slow and fast USB. Of cause, your best

Realtime web-conference software

2006-11-09T09:56:00.000-08:00

Realtime web-conference or webinar… Sounds ponderous and professional.But, in fact, everything happens in browser window and if you have ever used Macromedia Flash Technologies you’ll meet no difficulties.I want to tell about Macromedia Breeze Meeting (i.e. Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™).Macromedia Breeze Meeting – is a real-time meeting of participants via Internet where they can use chat, share

Acrobat 3D

2006-11-07T07:41:00.000-08:00

I was so very impressed by new 3D opportunities that Adobe Acrobat 3D gives so I desided to publish this file.View a sample file with embedded 3D (PDF, 2.4M)Weights a lot, but it worth downloading. You can rotate 3D model of a subject in the PDF and view it under different conditions (like light). Feels weird.So, now you don's need to do multiple screenshots for simple PDFs or do complicated

Yahoo! Mail beta

2006-11-03T02:05:00.000-08:00

At the moment when I talked about Gmail and Live Mail betas I did not know what the real Beta mail is. Now I understand why Google tests his Gmail over 2 years.Yesterday I almost accidentally log in my Yahoo mailbox. It suggested me to change it on beta mail. And… here we go again! It is a little late for a review on mail, released at September, but only now I can give a real review.Ajax is a

The size of animated gif depends on:

2006-11-02T07:42:00.000-08:00

the amount of frames. It is recommended to use 8-13 frames for an animated gif.the size of banner itself (width and length)“loss” coefficient. It is one very hard to describe. It gives loss of some data, but sometime makes picture looks smoother. the amount of colors in the whole file. Gradients are the most difficult. There is some kind of coefficient between the amount of kilobytes each color

On dating sites.

2006-11-01T08:53:00.001-08:00

The global tendency is to meet new acquaintances on-line. The first thing I do when I’m single again - I fill the application for some dating site. Most my friends do the same.The question is how to do it to meet someone at least interesting.Several years of work in marketing department gave me the conclusion that one should use marketing ideas whenever it’s possible. And it works.It’s kinda

How to export file in pdf?

2006-10-31T04:17:00.000-08:00

This article is not for experienced professionals. This is what you would like to find if you are going to export your designer file into PDF at the first time with no mistakes.Why PDF?Naturally, there are only 2 formats supported by typography machines. It is Post Script or *.ps files and PDF. Both are final formats – you are not suppose to do any changes if file is ready, and what you see on

How to survive without computer?

2006-10-30T03:00:00.000-08:00

I am 100% digital.I read news on Yahoo! and Yandex, and all the books I read are on my hard drive. I use PC to keep and watch pictures, to keep and listen to music, to watch movies and to listen to radio, to write essays. To send e-mails to my friends, to chat via instant messages and to do phone- and video calls. I check air temperature at internet every morning. I find out about new movies and

How video card fails

2006-10-27T05:19:00.000-07:00

Finally, I figured out what has happened to my laptop.It is damn hard for a user to define what’s actually happened to the crushed laptop. So here are some signs that you deal with video adapter crush from overheating. For me it started from screen blinking, colorless stripes and switching off. During reload I saw many @ signs on black screen – then a picture that made me cry.The resolution

Windows Live Mail

2006-10-26T04:25:00.000-07:00

Chatting with a roommate yesterday I mentioned recent e-mail service upgrade. She responded with “what’s the use of it anyway?”Nevertheless, psychology and marketing work for everybody. Only some define them as “I just like it”.So, what about Windows Live Mail beta from the point of use?Thanks Yahoo, 2 GB of space for a mailbox seems to become a common standard.New design solution for a mailbox

surprize from my laptop

2006-10-26T01:58:00.001-07:00

This morning has happened very unexpected thing - my laptop, the absolutely best part of me has met his death.This means you won't see me online at the evening and early morning, I will seldom post too. I will have to go to the movietheater to watch new movies.I'm shocked and don't know what to do, because I suspect that guarantee documents are lost if exists. At list there is a service-center

web-evolution, beta

2006-10-25T12:02:00.000-07:00

social networks are fighting for our soulsThe big scandal in a cyrillic segment of LiveJournal was not enough. One still can hear the echo of it - but the situation itself was made out of nothing. Seems that loud statements and the door clapping is only a decoration for a smart marketing tricks.And just on the same wavelength - the biggest cyrillic search engine Yandex begins to announce widely

the very beginning

2006-10-25T06:20:00.000-07:00

What I want to talk about is piracy. Illegal software distribution from customer point of view, to be precisePiracy exists in each and every country, even in wealthy Europe and USA.But this is not the country I’m talking about.The day I faced pirate CD problem happened exactly one year ago. It was a usual working day interrupted by software legacy checkup. It is well-known that distribution of

Links

2006-01-11T05:46:00.000-08:00

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