Shareware has been fighting the stigma of being misunderstood for decades. While corporate software giants can no longer ignore the marketing potential of a trial version, small software startups are struggling with new listings and bandwidth costs. Businesses and individual consumers need to take a closer look at the benefits of taking advantage of shareware [...]
Software development is a risky business. Many software developers are barely skilled at their trade, much less at business. They can’t understand how your business operates – and their code isn’t unreliable. It crashes constantly. It isn’t professional. It hurts your business. If you want software developed for your business, what can you do? You [...]
I like my software simple. If it’s too complex or difficult to figure out, I don’t use it. For example, I have tried a lot of different programs for creating my web pages. These include: Namo Webeditor Microsoft Frontpage Dreamweaver NetObjects Fusion Hotdog Pro CoffeeCup HTML Editor and a variety of other commercial, shareware and [...]
Shareware is software that you can try before you buy; shareware is a kind of marketing method for software. Software developers post trial versions of their software on websites. Consumers can then download the trial version to their computer and evaluate it. If the consumer likes the software they can purchase it. Shareware is also [...]
There are several kinds of software piracy. The bottom line is when software is pirated, the developer does not receive compensation for their work. Effects of Software Piracy When software is pirated, consumers, software developers, and resellers are harmed. Software piracy increases the risk consumer’s computers will be corrupted by defective software and infected with [...]
It??s easy to understand why you might be drawn to the allure of free software. After all, it is free and free is always a good price to pay. But before you plunk down your hard-earned no money and possibly put your business at risk, consider the following. Most of the free software that you [...]
Research bears that less than 70 percent of development projects are actually completed, and more than half come in late and over budget. AlachiSoft TierDeveloper is a Rapid Application Development tool that helps Software Developers do better, more creative, and useful work by reducing redundant hand coding. No run time fees, No server-CPU fees, and [...]
Benefits and Features in Marketing It’s a way of thinking and it is something you hear constantly in marketing circles. Highlighting the benefits of a product more than the features will always attract more potential clients, keep them reading and sell more. It’s all in the words. Though I am not (and never have been) [...]
** Google Desktop Live ** Google’s free desktop search utility made it out of the “beta” stage and users can now download a finished 1.0 version from http://desktop.google.com for free. With improvements over the “beta” version released in 2004, the finished version not only allows you to search your own computer for Microsoft Office documents, [...]
Microsoft has said a lot about Smart Tags. And it is Microsoft who claims this is a “smart” idea. I’m not a fan of Microsoft products. Still, there are real benefits to all software developers and PC users in the uniformity from system to system that Windows provides. But if Microsoft makes this move, it’s [...]
