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Thought for the Day
Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.
~ P.J. O'Rourke, Author
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Feature the new CrypKey 7 product on your website and we'll give you an additional 10% discount on all new licenses sold during the month(s) that the feature is displayed. We can even assist with developing the CrypKey web page and graphics for you.
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December Special
During the month of December, receive a $300 US discount when you purchase a new CrypKey SDK or CrypKey Instant license. CrypKey protects all Windows-based software applications, including DLLs and EXEs, and provides true encryption for .NET applications. Visit http://www.crypkey.com/compareinstantsdk.asp for a full list of features.
Don't wait — this offer ends December 31, 2007.
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Released: CrypKey SDK 7.1 with Vista 32- and 64-bit Compatibility
Today, developers use CrypKey SDK to protect their 32-bit and 64-bit applications, on all Vista platforms, with no changes required.
Fully compatible with Windows Vista, CrypKey SDK 7.1 enables you to increase revenue and reduce operational costs by pricing, packaging, protecting, and updating your software. You'll maximize revenue by creating multiple product versions, and by avoiding unauthorized use and piracy.
Vista marks Microsoft's biggest launch since Windows 95. For more information, contact us at sales@crypkey.com or visit http://www.crypkey.com/crypkey7_withvista.asp.
Stay tuned for the soon-to-be-announced release of CrypKey Instant 7.1!
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New Whitepaper: The Merits of True Network Licensing
The difference between simple software protection solutions that allow licensed software to run on a standalone computer and a network licensing-enabled software protection (NLESP) application is significant. A software protection system with network licensing uses the inherent abilities of the enterprise network to broaden the market for software vendors. Since the enterprise market makes up a significant portion of total software sales, vendors are wise to consider the important benefits of NLESP when choosing a protection solution. From the enterprise perspective, NLESP benefits the organization by offering better and more flexible control of its software license management.
CrypKey (Canada) Inc. offers the NLSEP abilities discussed in a new whitepaper as standard features in both the CrypKey SDK and CrypKey Instant software protection systems. Visit www.crypKey.com/whitepaper.asp to download this latest whitepaper.
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Casper: Secure Hosted or In-house Activation and Registration 24/7/365
Casper (CrypKey Automated Software Purchasing & Electronic Registration) provides web-based activation and registration for CrypKey Instant, CrypKey SDK, and CrypKey DLM protected-products 24/7/365.
Why Casper?
- automated software license activation and customer registration
- ensures customers comply with your licensing terms
- full reporting on customers, products, and licenses
- allows you to ship trial versions of your product
Features?
- user interface to streamline product and customer information
- eTransfer allows you to move licenses from one computer to another
- accepts PayPal, PC Charge, Payflow Pro payment gateways
- standalone or integrated with a shopping cart
- easy implementation within hours
- includes telephone technical support and training
- customers purchase the software license from within the application
- seamless and invisible to the customer
The offer?
CrypKey offers a secure hosted or in-house solution. Call us today to find out how you can start using Casper for as little as $1.00 per activation.
Try a demo of Casper today: http://www.crypkey.com/demo.asp.
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Hands-On with Windows Vista Service Pack 1
From: http://www.pcworld.ca
Microsoft's first service pack for Windows Vista focuses on stability and security.
The first service pack for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system won't arrive until early next year, but judging from our experience with a beta of SP1, the update will be more about stability and security fixes than noticeable performance gains.
What's Improved
Many alterations in this service pack - version 0.275 was tested - won't be obvious to a casual user. You probably won't notice any interface changes, for example.
Instead, Microsoft says, the service pack beta improves stability, performance, and reliability when reactivating a machine from Hibernate or Suspend mode; enhances device-driver support; increases security; and adds support for new standards such as Extended File Allocation Table (intended to enhance flash storage on notebooks, not desktops).
According to Microsoft, typical load times for the final version should range from 30 to 60 minutes. The installation requires 7GB of free hard-drive space (some of which will be reclaimed after the installation is complete); though the finalized install file is expected to be a 50MB download via Windows Update.
In our early tests with the beta, we saw some small improvements in boot time on an HP Compaq 8710p Core 2 Duo notebook. Before SP1, the laptop took 1 minute, 51 seconds to boot. After the update, that figure dropped by almost 20 seconds.
Microsoft is also touting improvements in "the speed of copying and extracting files," so we tested a few of those scenarios. We noted a slight increase in the time required to copy 562 JPEG images totaling 1.9GB from an SD Card to the hard drive of the aforementioned HP Compaq notebook.
In another test, we used Nero 7 Ultra on an Acer Aspire 5630 Core 2 Duo laptop to add files to a disk image. After we installed SP1, The notebook built the disk image about 7 percent faster.
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The Right Operating System for You: Windows Vista
From: http://www.pcworld.ca
Multi-OS options like dual-booting and virtualization software have made it easier than ever to use whichever OS is best suited to the task you need to perform. Here's our take on the strengths and weaknesses of Windows Vista.
Overview: Interface: Very Good - Security: Good - Software: Very Good - Hardware price/performance: Fair - Virtualization: Good - Bottom Line: Good
Interface
- Still confusing to navigate, but in new and different ways. Some Control Panel apps contain useful new settings, but many are unchanged from XP and lurk in new locations.
- Transparency, animation, and other effects provide helpful visual cues about files and programs.
- Flip 3D program switching lets you scroll through a three-dimensional animation of all your running apps.
- System wide search and indexing finds files, programs, and Web pages on or beyond your PC's hard disk.
Security
- Improves on XP's security with User Access Control and ActiveX tweaks, but remains a major malware target.
- Still requires a third-party bidirectional firewall, since its own firewall settings for outgoing connections are for experts only.
- Includes Windows XP's file- and folder-level encryption options. The Business and Ultimate Editions' industrial-strength Bitlocker encryption protects your entire hard disk from tampering.
Software
- Includes enhanced versions of Media Player, Media Center (except in Business edition), and Movie Maker, plus new mail, calendar, and DVD authoring tools.
- Won't run 16-bit apps and some 32-bit utilities written for XP. Otherwise, it runs most existing Windows software.
- Current game performance is particularly slow compared with XP, perhaps due to still-buggy drivers.
- DirectX 10 promises a dramatic boost to 3D gaming when supporting hardware is more widely available.
Hardware price/performance
- Requires significantly more memory and hard-disk space, and runs slower than XP on the same hardware.
- Minimum system requirements are an 800-MHz processor, 512MB of memory, and 15GB of free disk space.
- The Aero interface works best with recent graphics accelerators and requires an additional 512MB of RAM.
- The sometimes difficult upgrade process means you're better off buying a new PC with Vista preinstalled.
Virtualization
- Same capabilities as Windows XP, but higher memory requirements could either reduce performance or prevent Vista from serving as a host or guest OS on systems where RAM is tight.
- License prohibits running anything but the expensive Enterprise or Ultimate Editions under virtualization software like Parallels or VMWar
Bottom line
Get it if you're buying a new PC; XP users, though, have few urgent reasons to upgrade. Windows Vista's interface is alive compared with XP's relatively flat scheme, an innovation that could get you more excited about your daily computing tasks. Vista also includes some useful new tools and is safer to take for a spin around the Internet. Does that justify the hefty upgrade price and even more costly hardware requirements? Probably not, but if it's time to buy a new computer anyway, you won't be tempted to reinstall Windows XP.
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