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Moving an MS Access Database Application to the Web With Alpha Five Version 9

This paper explains the need to seriously consider moving the MS Application to the Web. It turns out that the Web provides a number of very compelling reasons for doing this such as: once the application has been moved to the Web, any authorized user can log onto the application...

Tags: Desktop, Web, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Corp., Alpha Software, Channel Management, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-01-19

Alpha Five 9 (Windows)

With over 1 million users and winner of Jolt, PC Mag Eidtor, PC USER and CRN awards. Alpha Five has established itself as a leader in easy and rapid application development for both web and desktop applications. Includes: Powerful Report Writer with Drill down. Uses built in DBF database or...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Alpha Software, Desktops, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-05-04

Why Software Projects Fail: A New Assessment of Risk - Practical Methods to Mitigate Project Failure

If anyones organization does not do a risk assessment during the project lifecycle, consider adding it at one or more places. Pay attention to the risk aspects previously discussed to anticipate some of the factors that create roadblocks to project success. Define both functional and non-functional requirements for tool selection,...

Tags: Software, Software Project, Project Failure, Alpha Software, Requirement, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-01-17

Why Software Projects Fail: A New Assessment of Risk Practical Methods to Mitigate Project Failure

Alpha Software's motivation for underwriting this white paper is simple. Developers who download and evaluate the product, Alpha Five Version 8, tells one time and again that the technology is superior to better-known offerings, such as Visual Studio, NetBeans, PHP, Ruby, and others. They find they can build desktop, hybrid,...

Tags: Software, Software Project, Project Failure, Alpha Software, Scripting Languages, Marketing Research, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing

White papers 2008-01-17

Alpha Five Shows Florida Peninsula Insurance Company the Sunny Side of Development

Florida Peninsula Insurance Company wanted to improve the management of tens of thousands of customers and their claims processed each year. It needed a rapid application development tool that would speed production of their claims management system. The company also worried about the level of security its current system offered...

Tags: RAD, Alpha Software

Case studies 2007-10-16

Attorney Trust Alpha Five

Attorney Trust Document Service prepares complex estate planning documents for attorney and financial professionals, who provide them clients. But the fast-growing company was facing time and productivity challenges y challenges. ATS received too many telephone calls where clients asked the same questions again and again. Company management decided they needed...

Tags: Alpha Software, Attorney, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Financial Accounting, Internet, Marketing, Finance

Case studies 2007-09-20

DisplayCraft Inc. Dives Into Development Solutions With Alpha Five

DisplayCraft found they were going through a tremendous growth period, and suddenly needed a method to automate and manage their clients' tradeshow schedules. The company hired a professional developer to create a system that would allow every employee to be in sync with client schedules and requirements in one database....

Tags: Alpha Software, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2007-09-13

Microsoft patch jams up IE

Microsoft patch jams up IEMessage has been deleted.Conflicts between own products?That's pretty bad. No wonder they didn't include built-in backwards-compatibility between XBOX360 and older XBOX games. They couldn't handle the task that Sony accomplished. Yeesh./* Comments are for people */Use them!Security patch brakes Alpha softwareWhat a freaking joke.IE7 is ALPHA...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista, Alpha Software, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, software

Discussion threads 2005-12-16

Express Designer 1.3.2 (Windows)

Express Designer is an inexpensive software package created to satisfy the more limited needs of thousands of designers--from model builders to archetects. It provides a 2D graphics alternative to the high priced CAD and drawing products. It features a full set of drawing tools, solid color, gradient color and texture,...

Tags: 2D, Microsoft Windows, Alpha Software, CAD, Software

Software downloads 2003-01-20

Additional Resources

Google Chrome OS has arrived as free VMWare download

Somebody will make it available in a more public area, I'm sure.Being that it's open source, somebody's going to make it available in a more public area, I'm sure. I'll wait until then.RE: Google Chrome OS has arrived as free VMWare downloadthat's not the real release... that's a linux based...

Tags: Virtualization, Operating systems, VMware Inc., Chrome, operating system, Google Chrome OS, Google Chrome, Chrome OS, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

(Unboxing the free PDC laptop (photos))

Acer? MehI'll pass.Don't knock 'em.I am typing this on a rock-solid 5 year old Acer Ferrari 4000 that has run every alpha, beta, CTP, RC and RTM of Vista and Win7, has travelled around the globe with me, been used for countless keynotes, presentations and demo's and is currently being...

Tags: laptop computer, photograph, Acer Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Is imminent Chrome OS launch reckless?

First Impressions"first impressions are extremely important."Yup, Vista SP1/SP2 is a good operating system. Microsoft botched the initial release of Vista, and it gave a good operating system a permanently bad name.reckless not sure dangerous surely i may sound stupid or ill inform but ...What will be Chrome...

Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome, imminent Chrome OS

Discussion threads 2009-11-14

Amazon's Kindle for PC app available; It's a handy download

Open formatYou say the Kindle is less open than the Sony or B&N readers. Are you saying that a Sony book can be read on the Nook? Or that a Nook book can be read on a Sony reader? I think you're pretty well mistaken on...

Tags: E-books, Cellular phones, iSlate, e-book, ebook reader, PC App, Amazon Kindle, handy download, Amazon.com Inc., PC

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Why Mac open source gets no respect

"Since Macs generally cost less than PCs"THEY ARE? Since when? And that doesn't jive at all with "Macs are upscale"... and cheaper. Mmmm no.No counterpart to XBMC?There are a ton of Media Center applications for windows, including Windows Media Center, which is fairly adept at just about...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Mac people, Apple Macintosh, XBMC, MCE, Unix

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Abrosoft FantaMorph Deluxe 4.1 (Windows)

With FantaMorph Deluxe, creating face morphing movie and face composite from multiple images has never been easier and faster! You can do everything a professional animation director does to create amazing images and animations. FantaMorph supports most formats including AVI, BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, TGA, PCX, and even professinal...

Tags: Abrosoft, Microsoft Windows, Image, FantaMorph Deluxe

Software downloads 2009-10-08

EximiousSoft Banner Maker 2.87 (Windows)

EximiousSoft Banner Maker is a powerful software to build animated and static banner ads, Web buttons and headers and other Web graphics. It provides more than 30+ special effects with which you can create your vivid banners in one step. What's more, EximiousSoft Banner Maker also provides hundreds of background...

Tags: Frame, Animation, Microsoft Windows, EximiousSoft

Software downloads 2009-10-06

USBVision 1.4.2 (Mac)

The USBVision software offers Mac OS X support not only for XLR8 InterView, but also for a wide range of new devices including Belkin VideoBus and VideoBus II, iRez USB Live and CapSure, Global Village VideoFX, Alpha Data USB Video Adapter, Hauppauge USB-Live and many others -including those originally sold...

Tags: Video Capture, Audio, Apple Macintosh, Belkin Corp., Video, Corporate Communications, Apple Mac OS X, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS

Software downloads 2009-10-04

Small Business Icons 2009.2 (Windows)

Over a hundred royalty-free icons for developing small business solutions available for instant download! Small Business Icons represent a wide range of business items, notions, and actions from billing to shipping, from insurance to customer support, and from computer hardware to information security. Drawn in uniform colors and sharing common...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Small Business, Aha-soft, Small Business Icons

Software downloads 2009-09-30

Happy Mac Command Line Phobia Defeater 0.0.0.0.0.0.1 (Mac)

This program is in the early alpha stage of development and only at version 0.0.0.0.0.0.1 BUT WE HAVE GREAT HOPES FOR THIS PROGRAM WE REALLY LIKE THIS PROGRAM. Please read on. Are you tired of grappling with the unforgivable Terminal? Don't you too long for the good old beige box...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Rixstep, Keyboards, Desktops, Scripting Languages, Hardware, Peripherals, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-09-27

Windows 8: More early clues start to emerge

Here's something for the developers to do:Spend 100% of their time on the current windows, until it is bug-free, secure, and stable.Also for the next Win, don't change the UI again. Please.TLZTLZ must be TAR with LZMA. TGZ TAR with gzip would be more useful.hot air for a doomed productIf...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Windows 8, Microsoft Windows, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-09-23