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Want to Keep a Close Eye on XP? Then Download the Microsoft XP Management Pack

But it is a veritable management pack fiesta over at Microsoft
By: Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor | softpedia.com

Do you want to keep a close eye on Windows XP? Then download the Microsoft Windows Client 2000/XP Operating System Management Pack. According to the Redmond company, the pack designed to be deployed on Windows Server 2003 will offer users the possibility to enjoy an extensive collection of monitoring capabilities assessing processor performance, Logical and Physical Disk performance and free space, memory and network usage. The tools will also provide an insight on the health of key Windows Operating System Services and
will produce availability and event reports.

"The Microsoft Windows Client 2000/XP Operating System Management Pack provides monitoring of the basic health indicators of a Windows Client system, such as processor, memory, disk health, availability, and key performance metrics. Optional alerting on threshold monitoring is available," Microsoft informed. The management pack is available for download here.

But it is a veritable management packs fiesta over at Microsoft. The Redmond company has made available for download an impressive list of tools, also covering Windows Server 2000/2003, Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (2003), Windows Server 2000/2003 Terminal Services, Information Worker, SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Windows Server 2000/2003 Internet Information Services and Exchange Server 2003.

In terms of the Windows client the Information, Worker Management Pack will enable you to watch closely the health, reliability, and performance of various applications including Internet Explorer, Media Player, MSN and Windows Messenger, Windows Explorer, Communicator, LiveMeeting, as well as a wide variety of Office programs. Monitoring is available for early versions of the applications such as IE5 as well as for the latest variants including Office 2007 and Internet Explorer 7.

Microsoft explained that the Information Worker Management Pack also offers: "generic monitoring capabilities that work for all listed applications, and specific monitoring capabilities for individual applications. Generic monitoring: Crash detection, Hand detection, CPU utilization, Memory utilization. Individual application monitoring: Outlook mail access, Web access and Data source."

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As you probably know, Yahoo Mail does not provide free POP access to its users any more. You can still use your YM account for free, but you have to use a Yahoo Mail web site to access your account.

This is not very convenient as you always have to be online, you cannot use your favourite e-mail client to read your messages, and so on. You can easily immagine the disadvantages of having to manage all your corespondence via web.

When Yahoo disabled its free POP access, the first thing that came to my mind was to change my e-mail account. But then I realized, there are far too many people used to my current Yahoo Mail address, that I am used to my YM address very much too and I thought - if Yahoo closes a free service, the other services will follow sooner or later. So changing an e-mail service/account wasn't really solution.

That is when I have decided to write YoSucker as a simple portable perl application, that would simulate a user actions to retrieve my mail to my local inbox. Yahoo Mail Sucker simply connects to the Yahoo Mail web site, parses the HTML code and fetches new messages.

With time I have added lots of other features and functionality (like support for multiple accounts, support for procmail, support for local Yahoo Mail sites, for proxy connection and much more) but the basic idea still stay the same.

Here are some key features:
· secure SSL login
· support for multiple accounts
· encrypted passwords for enhanced security
· transaction safe writes
· support for various folders (including BULK mail)
· support for multiuser environment
· support for multiple mailboxes in one config file
· support for procmail (output to a pipe)
· support for localized Yahoo Mail sites
· support for proxy
· support for basic proxy authorization
· support of command line parameters
· powerful digest feature for listing mailbox content
· handles virtually unlimited number of messages
· LeaveOnServer, EmptyTrash and OnlyNew features
· restore message unread flag feature
· powerful CLEAN option
· quota storage warning system
· session Respawn feature

Developer: GhostDot
License: GPL (GNU General Public License)
Price: FREE
Last Updated: June 14th, 2007 22:35
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Oxygen Phone Manager for Symbian phones 2.18

Software for Symbian OS phones to PC data synchronization
Oxygen Phone Manager II for Symbian OS phones lets your PC and mobile phone with Symbian OS communicate with each other.

This version supports the following phones: BenQ P30, Motorola A1000, Nokia 3600, Nokia 3620, Nokia 3650, Nokia 3660, Nokia 6260, Nokia 6600, Nokia 6630, Nokia 6670, Nokia 7610, Nokia 7650, Nokia N-Gage, Nokia N-Gage QD, Panasonic X700, Sendo X, Siemens SX1, Sony Ericsson P800, Sony Ericsson P900, Sony Ericsson P910i, Vodafone 702NK, Vodafone X701.

The program allows you to work with Phonebook, Calendar, Images, Melodies and Messages. You can load your phonebook from phone, edit contacts, set individual contact picture and ringtone, define Full Name format individually for each contact, pack contacts database, import data from MS Outlook, WAB (Windows address book) and export the phonebook back to MS Outlook, WAB, and other popular formats.

Oxygen Phone Manager
II for Symbian OS phones is a program that helps you manage contacts.

You can browse the detailed information about your contacts using vCard window. Calendar section is read-only in this version. Images browser allows you to manage the images stored in your phone including Camera snapshots.

You can download the images from your phone, delete unwanted images and add new ones, save images to several file formats and copy them to clipboard. Melodies and Sounds section allows you to view and listen to the melodies, ringing tones and dictaphone records stored in your phone, add new melodies or delete unwanted ones.

Messages section represents all messages stored in your phone.

This section allows you to read Inbox, Outbox, Drafts, Sent, My folders, Mailbox folders content, display basic message types - SMS, MMS, E-mail, Beamed (received via BT or IrDA), BIO (Picture message, Operator Logo, Ringing tone), read and display file attaches for MMS, E-mail and Beamed messages.

It also can create and delete custom message folders, delete messages from your phone and move them between folders.

You also will be able to create and send both plain and Unicode SMS messages to individual recipients as well as to contact groups. OPMS has the ability to store any data either in Phone memory (Flash memory card is also supported) or at hard disk.

Requirements:
· CPU PII
· RAM 32Mb(64 rec.)
· 64 Mb HDD space
· Compatible phone

Limitations:
· Demo version updates only one phonebook entry per session, disables calendar updating and restore feature, this very page opens every time you click on www address in phonebook, only one image or melody can be downloaded at once.

What's New in This Release:
· Added preliminary support for Nokia N82.
· Added preliminary support for Samsung i450, Samsung i520, Samsung i550, Samsung i560 and Samsung i570.
· Improved support for Nokia N95.
· Licensing. Introduced Subscription for Oxygen Phone Manager for Symbian Smartphones.
· Phonebook. General numbers became available for normal edit now.
· Log Records. Fixed problem with adding number to existing contact in phonebook.
· Messaging. Fixed problem with slow motion in e-mail folders.
· Messaging. Fixed problem with missing number of sender after restoring messages.
· Application Manager. Fixed problem with unsaved column sizes in applications list.
· Minor interface and internal improvements....

Developer: Oxygen Software
License: Demo , 46 $ to buy
Size / OS: 8.62 MB, Windows All
Last Updated: December 8th, 2007, 11:58 GMT
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Microsoft's Customer Relationship Management Solution v4.0

By: Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor , softpedia.com

The end of the past week marked the release to manufacturing of Microsoft's customer management solution v4.0. Michael Lu, the Program Manager for Office Integration, Service and Marketing, announced the RTM of CRM 4.0 on December 14th. A couple of days later, Ben Vollmer, Microsoft CRM SSP, confirmed the shipping of CRM. However, the Redmond company took
even more time to announce the availability of the next generation of its CRM solutions. Only on December 17th, three days after it dropped CRM 4.0 under the wire, did Microsoft point to the completion of the customer relationship management solution v4.0.

"Microsoft Dynamics CRM is making the power of choice a reality for businesses around the world. This new release further enables us to deliver on Microsoft’s software plus services strategy and provide our CRM solutions with a great user experience and exceptional business value", explained Brad Wilson, general manager of Microsoft Dynamics CRM at Microsoft.

CRM enables businesses to manage customer relationships, offering the necessary tools and capabilities to streamline keeping track of all the aspects that go into a sale, from the first point of contact. The latest version of CRM, formerly codenamed Titan, comes to the table in two flavors. The Redmond company is delivering both the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, for on-premise and partner-hosted deployments, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live, for Microsoft-hosted deployment.

Microsoft "shipped 4.0 on Friday. It generally takes a couple of weeks for everything to hit all of the download sites, etc... But it looks like the Product Development made good on a Q4 Delivery Date for Microsoft Dynamics 4.0. (aka Titan....) The US Launch parties for customers start in March", Vollmer added.

CRM 4.0 comes with a range of enhancements in comparison to its predecessor, version 3.0. Businesses can now manage multiple customers per server via a multitenant architecture, and enjoy the benefits associated with support for no less than 25 languages and multiple currencies. Over 700 companies have already been running CRM 4.0 for the past year, including Microsoft partners and early access customers.

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