Month: November 2017

Free Gps Tracking Software The User’s Guide

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GPS-related devices are great tools for use with a wide variety of applications in diverse industries and professions. You can make use of GPS navigational devices to pinpoint your exact location on earth, or use a GPS tracking device to locate and track down the movements of another person, animal, vehicle or object. The availability of wholesale devices has lowered the pricing range for these devices and as a reseller you can take advantage of their popularity and get a fair share of the market.

However, wholesale GPS tracking devices are sold much cheaper than their branded counterparts because of the lack of pre-installed proprietary software when delivered. This may pose some problems for resellers as customers can complain about this lack. But there is one very viable alternative using free, open source GPS tracking software and this is your definitive guide.

Should You Use Open Source Software or Not?

Open source applications were developed by an open community of developers all taking part in designing, improving, testing and finalizing the application. No one owns the proprietary rights to these community-developed applications, making them available for use freely by the public. That is why most open source applications are free to use by you or anyone else needing such applications as in the case of GPS tracking devices.

Free, however, does not mean the software is cheap or of low quality. Contrary to this fact, the community of developers has spent countless hours developing a product that they themselves would use, and would pour in their skills and knowledge to come up with a high-quality product that anyone in the community, including you, would be proud to use.

In fact, many open source applications are rated by industry experts as at par or even better than proprietary software. The only problem is the lack of customer service support that you can go to, should you encounter any problems or glitches during its use. There are however forums and community support groups that can help you in this area.

Open Source Software Options Available for Use

While proprietary GPS tracking software can be very expensive to procure, with some added features and functionalities that you would never use anyway, going the free alternative route might be the most viable way to take. There are a wide variety of open source applications that you can use for your GPS tracking device. Just make sure that the application is compatible to use with your device or not.

Once such application is the OpenGTS or Open GPS Tracking System, the first open source application available for use with GPS tracking devices. Not only is it free and runs on any platform that your GPS tracking device is compatible with, a community of developers continue to support further improvements in the application and have this available for you to download from their website.

Aside from that, there are other GPS-related open source applications which you can try out such as the ones listed below:

1.Free GPS Maps

*onstreetmap.org
*informationfreeway.org
*openstreetbrowser.org
*opencyclemap.org

2.Free GPS Mapping Tools

*Mapnik Mapmaking software
*maposmatic
*boulter.com

3.GPS Navigation Software

*GPS drive — Free open source GPS navigation software
*Lucky GPS
*Navit — Free open source GPS navigation software
*GPS MID Free GPS mapping software
*Traveling Salesman a GPS route-planning and navigation system
*Rana a Python based GPS route-planning and navigation system
*Gosmore a GPS routing device
*OpenGTS (Open GPS Tracking System) Free open source GPS Tracking software

Getting Support for Your Open Source Software

The only problem with open source software for your GPS tracking device is the lack of customer service since no one owns their proprietary use. Aside from that, learning to use some of these software applications might require some time to get used to.

Several forums however, are available out there that can help you with any issues related to its use such as the ones listed below. These sites also offer the support documentations that youll need to get you going with your free GPS tracking software.

*GPS Passion
*GPS Discussion
*GPS Review
*Groundspeak

Need For Erp Software In Managing Your Company Details And Increasing Business Sales

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Enterprise Resource planning is a long time continuous process that governs and affects your Company Management policies and strategies. Proper Product Planning helps in maximizing your resource utilization for increasing your output from your plant. ERP affects various industrial factors including number of employees, their payroll and designation etc.

ERP Software is very helpful in small to large scale industries for managing company profile and employee records. ERP Program helps in managing various employee data including Employee name, address, payroll information, current salary and designation. Managing accurate Employee information is a very important task for utilizing the available manpower to reach your goal in minimal efforts and money.

If your company deals with the multiple clients using paper based pay slips, spending a considerable amount of time on maintaining and updating transaction records, you need to obtain an ERP Software that can help in Resource Planning with any chance for human error. DRPU ERP Software for Company management presents a complete solution to all your problems to manage your employee records and company profile.

DRPU ERP Software is capable of managing and updating your employee details for managing your Company. Software helps in scheduling your staff shifts for assigning them work as per their use and company requirement. Software helps in managing staff personal details like employee name, address, designation and department etc. DRPU Employee Planner Software helps in managing staff payroll and salary details in an efficient manner.

DRPU ERP Software helps in allotting Tour and trainings to their employees as per their and company requirements. Software also facilitates entrepreneurs to use their various company profiles all at same place without any security concern. ERP Software provides complete security to your Company profiles by authenticating them using Password protection. User can create and update their Company profiles, whenever needed using DRPU Employee Planner Program.

Key Characteristics of DRPU ERP Software:-
1-DRPU ERP Software helps in managing your Business Profile and Staff Details.
2-Software helps in keeping record of employee information including their personal and official details.
3-Software helps entrepreneurs in managing their multiple company profiles.
4-Software helps in managing Tour and Training information of your Staff.
5-Software protects each company profile using Password Protection.
6-Prevent Human Error in managing your Employee Records.
7-Schedule Staff Shift for increasing your Company output using proper Resource Planning.

Waiting Room Kiosks And Virtual Receptionist Software

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Waiting room kiosks are interactive touch screen self-service kiosks with waiting room and virtual reception software. The waiting room kiosk can be used in any waiting area, and the applications can be changed to suit the needs of an individual waiting room. With a Kiosk operating your waiting area, you will find that the visitors will experience less time in the waiting room due to more efficient management. Not only can the kiosk manage the waiting room, but it is also multifunctional being able to also provide information to the visitors and when not in use it behaves as a digital sign.

Managing the waiting room
When a visitor arrives they go to the kiosk to notify their arrival. The kiosks might then ask them to take a seat, or let them know where to hang their coat, or direct them to where they can get themselves a drink.

However the kiosk can also print out a survey or questionnaire and ask the visitor to fill it in whilst they wait. This is particularly helpful if you need to make sure you have up to date information about your client, or you are looking for marketing feedback, or if you want to gain information that might help you to help them further or cross sell. The survey could also be done online using the touch screen.

Once the visitor has ‘checked in’ the kiosks can add the visitor to a waiting list to be seen on a next person basis. Or the kiosks can mark them as ‘Arrived’ on a diary. The kiosks can then alert the visitor’s host of their arrival so that they can come and receive them. Alternatively the kiosks send in the visitor when it is their turn, the visitors host alerts that kiosk of when they are ready for the visitor to be sent to them. The kiosks makes an audio sound to draw your attention to it, and then it displays a message on the screen or on a scrolling LED sign to say who’s to be served next.

Waiting room information point
Having a kiosk in the waiting room means that you can have lots of information on the kiosk available to the visitors. The information could tell your visitors about your company or business, or offer them free advice. In the case of Doctors waiting rooms the kiosks could offer health advice for example. Offering information turns what would be wasted time for your visitor into informative and productive time with lots of useful information.

If your waiting room has children visiting frequently the kiosks can print out interesting and educational puzzles and games to keep the children occupied so that they don’t disturb other visitor that are waiting.

The kiosk could also collect information by way of an interactive survey.

If visitors need to fill in a form, or submit information the waiting room kiosk can also take care of this. Visitors can submit forms via the touch screen.

Additionally the kiosk can analyse usage and user satisfaction, and highlight the frequency that materials are accessed from the kiosk. In hospitals the kiosk could be used to do a patient satisfaction survey for example.

Waiting room digital signage
When the kiosk is not being accessed by a visitor, it rolls a series of advertisements and videos that are designed to not only entertain and engage your visitors, but to also make the visitors aware of other services that you offer, and why they might want to enquire further.

Moving adverts are more stimulating to watch than a notice board that might contain identical information. The signs can be further enhanced by showing news feeds or other useful information.

Multi-Faced waiting room Kiosk
If you have a busy waiting room, and you feel that one kiosk would not be able to accommodate the volume of traffic, there is an option to have a multi-faced kiosk. This is either a dual or triple faced kiosks. Having more that one touch screen means that more that one person can access the kiosk at any one time.

Additional benefits of a multi-faced kiosk are that they can be positioned in the middle of the room, and potentially offer more digital advertising space than a single screen kiosk. You could have one side with an information kiosk, another with a digital sign and a third side offering leaflets or product brochures.

All in all it seems inevitable that touch screen kiosks will become a part of waiting rooms in the future offering us all enhanced service levels.

How To Protect Your Ebooks And Software From Being Stolen!

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There are many systems that can lock your software or document, allowing you to control access to that file. But the problem arises with assuming that this will stop all theft. A well thought out, thorough protection system can deter theft, but it cannot stop it 100%.

An “unbreakable” protection system simply does not, and will never exist. If someone really wants your information, they can get it, even if it takes years of work.

SO WHAT’S THE POINT? WHY USE ANY PROTECTION AT ALL?

There is no 100% security guarantee in anything, but that’s no reason to totally ignore protecting your intellectual property — A thief can easily kick in your front door and rob your house, but you still lock the door. Locking the door is not 100% effective security, but we still do it. Why? Because it deters most potential theft and those who are more determined will have to work a bit to get in.

WHO SHOULD USE PROTECTION?

The big question here is, HOW VALUABLE IS YOUR INFORMATION TO YOU? Sensitive, proprietary or private information demands some sort of protection, otherwise transmitting over the net is not an option.

If your information is not free, then it’s obviously of some importance. So, how much damage would it do to you if it were made freely available? What type of impact would it have on your sales and could you (or would you) absorb that without thinking twice?

Is a $14 Ebook worth paying for another service to protect it? Probably not, but it depends on the situation and target market. What about a $2,000 report? Does the price change the perspective?

Businesses protect their property. If you believe your information or software to be of a unique or proprietary nature, you should protect that information using some means, no matter how small.

Companies like Microsoft lose hundreds of millions of dollars due to software theft and fraud, yet they continue to implement protection measures in their software. I would guess that without any protection whatsoever the losses would be in the billions.

WHAT SHOULD YOU EXPECT?

Like I said, there is no 100% way to prevent every possible incident, but you can make it very difficult and less likely to happen. At best what you should hope is to provide just enough security to close obvious security flaws and discourage would-be thieves. But not so much security that it discourages honest users and customers.

PROTECTION OPTIONS

Here are some common protection schemes:

No Protection: Just distribute your information and hope for the best.

– Pros: No special process to access file which means less support issues.

– Cons: File can be passed around, copied, distributed and/or sold without authorization from the owner. Can’t prevent access after chargeback or refund.

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General Password Protection: Simply requiring a predetermined password to install or register the file.

– Pros: Simple for customer or end user.

– Cons: File and password can be passed around, copied, distributed and/or sold without authorization from the owner. Can’t prevent access after chargeback or refund.

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PC-Unique Password Protection: Generates a unique password based on the user’s computer.

– Pros: Can’t pass around the file since it is basically locked to one machine.

– Cons: Requires an extra step for registration; Customer cannot move file to another PC; If their PC crashes they will need another unique password; Can’t prevent access after chargeback or refund.

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Delayed Registration: This requires a user to enter a second registration number a specific number of days after they first register the file. For example, after 90 days of use, they must enter a new registration number that they receive from you.

– Pros: It allows control over chargeback and refunds. The file will be disabled after the second registration period because you will not provide the second key to reactivate the file.

– Cons: Requires an extra step for registration; A user can request refund or chargeback AFTER the second registration period.

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Post-Purchase Activation: Requires activation by online server. After user purchases they are entered into an online customer database. They then install and register the file by entering their name/email or some data. The server confirms the purchase and then activates the software.This method is become more and more common with big name software.

– Pros: Can prevent unauthorized distribution of file since the file must be activated by the online server.

– Cons: User must be online to register file; Can’t move file to a different PC; Can’t prevent access after chargeback or refund.

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Active Password Protection: Each time user attempts to access file it checks an online server to confirm the usage rights and permissions for the user.

– Pros: Prevents distribution or copying of file; File Owner can revoke access to file after chargeback or refund; Access permissions can be changed and applied in real-time.

– Cons: must be connected to the net to register and/or access file; User may not be able to move file to another PC; User registration can be somewhat cumbersome and difficult for some customers.

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EVALUATING PROTECTION SERVICES

When looking to protect your digital information any protection system or service that you consider should have a few basic security bases covered.

For software and executables:

1. When opening the file, a protection system must not save or copy an unprotected version of the file to the windows TEMP directory or anywhere on your PC for that matter.

2. The system should automatically prevent password sharing and access by unauthorized parties. This will prevent the document from being passed around or distributed illegally since it can’t be opened unless you are authorized.

3. It should have some method to revoke or cancel access for refunded or fraudulent users.

For PDF documents, providing adequate protection requires a bit more security as their are many more ways to obtain a protection free copy of the document.

Any PDF protection system must cover the three bases above, as well as:

* It must prevent emailing of file and exporting or extracting pages from file.

* It must prevent copying file and text to the clipboard

* It must prevent redistilling of the file and printing to PDF

* It must prevent unlimited, uncontrolled printing of file

* It must watermark all printed pages

* If using Adobe Reader, the company providing the protection service must be an authorized Adobe DRM provider.

WHAT ABOUT COST? IS IT WORTH IT?

Is $300 a year too much to protect your copyrights? Definitely not. Protection costs money, but if your business is making money then it’s a cost of doing business.

Is it for you? I don’t know. Selling a few low priced applications a month probably won’t warrant any sort of protection, but if you generate a substantial income from your software or the information distributed is of a critical nature to your business, then you need to protect your intellectual “capital” at some level.

FINAL THOUGHTS

Personally, I believe that some level of protection should be implemented on any piece of software or document that is of any value to you. You should never mass distribute a file in an unprotected format. Otherwise you will be scrambling when you find someone misusing it… if you find them!

It’s easy to listen to those that say “don’t worry about it” (a common reply to the document protection topic) until someone is actually stealing from you. Then all you can do is worry about it, but it’s too late really. The damage is done. You can’t take something back once it’s out there unprotected. No amount of legal threatening is going to phase someone in Prague who just doesn’t care about your copyrights.