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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

ieCapture

The easiest way to see how your site will render in IE7 - ieCapture

The easiest way to see how your site will render in Safari - iCapture

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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Automise

Automise is a powerful general purpose automation tool that allows anyone to automate just about anything! Create an Automise project using the fantastic GUI, and then it's easy for anyone to run the project with single click or single keystroke or it can be scheduled to run automatically. Automise saves time, often running tasks in seconds that would take minutes or hours if done manually.

Automise makes complex automation tasks easy as it uses a powerful graphical user interface and includes built in support for many different applications. Automise includes powerful flow control actions which allow the project to decide which actions to run depending on certain conditions, as well as error handling so that your project can clean up and handle errors properly.

Features:

  • file operations (copy, move, create, delete, etc)
  • CD/DVD burning
  • database manipulations using SQL or Stored procedures
  • FTP operations (put, get, create directory, etc)
  • Run VBScript or JScript code
  • iterate files, folders, file content, lists, etc
  • IIS 5 and 6 operations (start, stop, create website, etc)
  • create zip files, unpack RAR files, etc
  • manipulate XML files
  • operate on the .NET GAC
  • WMI operations
  • and much, much more!
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[Via Roy Osherove's Blog ]

Saturday, May 27, 2006

PayPal Mobile

PayPal today introduced PayPal Mobile, a text message-based service allowing consumers in the US and Canada to send money anytime, from anywhere, using their mobile telephones.

With PayPal Mobile, users can send money, purchase items or donate to charities from their mobile devices. Using PayPal Mobile's Text to Buy service, consumers can buy things instantly, such as Cd's, DVDs, shoes and apparel, by sending product codes via text message. Already, companies like 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Bravo, MTV, and the NBA Store are offering items for purchase with Text to Buy. PayPal Mobile also enables users to Text to Give to charities such as Amnesty International, Starlight Starbright and UNICEF.

To use PayPal Mobile, customers first activate their telephones by logging into their PayPal accounts at https://www.paypal.com/mobile. After registering their mobile telephone numbers, users must choose a secure Personal Identification Number (PIN) which protects every mobile payment.

PayPal Mobile users make payments by sending a text message to PayPal. PayPal calls the user back to confirm the mobile payment, and then sends the money to the recipient. In the case of a Text to Buy purchase, after the merchant receives the payment, the item is shipped to the address already saved in the user's PayPal account

Text to Buy

Anytime you see Text to Buy next to something you want to buy-on a poster, in a magazine, at an event-you can securely order the item by text message.
Use your phone to buy items like CDs, DVDs, books, electronics, accessories and much more.