Open Office and MS office feature comparison and recommendation

Both Microsoft Office and OpenOffice are strong platforms that will support office productivity. You might want to consider installing both office suites to allow your users a choice. Here is feature and cost comparison chart.












There's more to both office suites, of course. OpenOffice's Base is similar to Access. OpenOffice’s answer to Microsoft's Visio is Draw. OpenOffice offers an equation editor called Math, while Microsoft Office offers Publisher for desktop publishing.

Updates to open-source applications also cost nothing. As an open-source product, OpenOffice updates are free; the same is not always true of Microsoft updates. Microsoft, however, gives Office to nonprofits as part of a philanthropic program, meaning that it is possible (although not likely, given the length of Microsoft’s commitment to philanthropy) that if the donation program ended, you would have to pay to update the suite down the road. If you currently hold a valid license of Office with Software Assurance, you may be able to upgrade to the newer versions for no cost.

Trace sender location from yahoo, hotmail, gmail and outlook mail client

According to a Radicati Group Study from May 2009, there are about 1.4 billion email users worldwide. That makes a tad more than one in every five persons on the earth use email. In 2013, there are about 1.9 email users are expected worldwide.

Number of emails sent per day (in 2009) is around 247 billion. 247 billion messages per day means more than 2.8 million emails are sent every second. Around 80% of these millions of message are spam, fraud and viruses. The genuine emails are sent by around 1.4 billion email users. Spam, fraud and viruses mails are like:-

Spoofing: E-mail sent from someone pretending to be someone else is known as spoofing. Spoofing may take place in a number of ways. Common to all of them is that the actual sender's name and the origin of the message are concealed or masked from the recipient. Many, if not most, instances of e-mail fraud use at least minimal spoofing, as most frauds are clearly criminal acts. Criminals typically try to avoid easy traceability.

Phishing for data: Some spoof messages purport to be from an existing company, perhaps one with which the intended victim already has a business relationship. The 'bait' in this instance may appear to be a message from 'the fraud department' of, for example, the victim's bank, which asks the customer to: "confirm their information"; "log in to their account"; "create a new password", or similar requests.

Requests for help: The "request for help" type of e-mail fraud takes this form. An e-mail is sent requesting help in some way, but including a reward for this help as a "hook," such as a large amount of money, a treasure, or some artifact of supposedly great value.

Others email frauds are like Nigerian bank scams, Sweepstakes, lottery, and prize scams, Pyramid schemes, Ponzi schemes, Multilevel marketing (MLM) schemes, etc. Most of these frauds are carried out by people obtaining access to account numbers and passwords. Never respond to any message that asks you to send cash or personal information. You won't receive any riches, and in fact you could get into legal trouble if you become involved with one of these scams.

Fraud emails can be tracked with minimal technique details and sender information can be tracked out. There are two steps involved in tracking of e-mail address. First find the IP address of sender, and track location of IP address. Every device connected to the public Internet is assigned a unique number known as an Internet Protocol (IP) address. IP addresses consist of four numbers separated by periods (also called a 'dotted-quad') and look something like 127.0.0.1. Let us find the location of an email sender in Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail and Outlook with an example.

Yahoo: Log on to your account and open the e-mail.


You need to look into lines that start with “Received: from”. Ignore 127.0.0.1, because it is default address of machine.



Once you have got the IP address, download the IP Address Helper Tool from Location mentioned below, and enter Received: From IP address in it.

Hotmail: Log on to your account and open the e-mail. Go to View Message Source and try to look into lines that start with “Received: from”. Ignore 127.0.0.1, because it is default address of machine.



Once you have got the IP address, download the IP Address Helper Tool from Location mentioned below, and enter Received: From IP address in it.

Gmail: Log on to your account and open the e-mail.
Click on the down arrow that’s to the right of the Reply link. Choose Show Original from the list. You need to look for the lines of text that start with “Received: from“.



Once you have got the IP address, download the IP Address Helper Tool from Location mentioned below, and enter Received: From IP address in it.

Outlook: Open the email in Outlook by double-clicking on it. Go to View at the top menu (the menu options for the email, not the main Outlook window) and choose Options. You’ll get a dialog box where you can set the message options and at the bottom you’ll see the Internet Headers box. You need to look for the lines of text that start with “Received: from“.



Once you have got the IP address, download the IP Address Helper Tool from Location mentioned below and enter Received: From IP address in it.

IP Address Helper Tool


IP Address Helper Download Location
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ipaddresshelper/

Onshore - offshore model in distance medicine to imrove treatment, training

PC based video technologies are also changing the face of medicine.

Acadian Ambulance plans to link offshore doctors by PC based TV to more than a hundreds emergency technicians already on oil platform in the Gulf of Maxico. Telemedicine should improve both diagnosis and onsite treatment, eliminating many of the emergency helicopter flights that cost oil companies between $4000 and $12000 for each trip.

Australian state government use telemedicine to provide care to remote areas of Australia and even to other areas of Southeast Asia. Malaysia plans to use the PC based TV technology as the basis of a 'telehealth' program throughout the country. The goal is to provide not simply acute area, but lifelong prevention programs to help its citizens avoid the heart disease and other life style related illnesses that have become common in the West.

Columbia/HCA in the US us using Internet based video to provide medical training to physicians, becoming the first hospital to do a heart operation live over the Internet. The doctor demonstrated surgical techniques over the video, and an accompanying side presentation provided technical details. The video can be replayed at any time so that surgeaons at all of Columbia's clinics and hospitals can gain exposure to advanced techniques that would otherwise not be available to them.

Onshore - offshore model in f

Send voice and data signals on house hold electrical current

Scientists all over the world are exploring new technologies. Recently a British engineer developed a way to send high-speed voice and data signals on house hold electrical current, raising the possibility that Internet service could one day ride into homes and businesses over our existing infrastructure of electrical wires.

Technology such as DSL, cable modem, low orbit satellites, and power line transmission are exciting because they don't require us to dig up and replace the existing last mile of copper line that already connects most households in the world. Getting the web infrastructure in place world wide is a daunting task, but the advances on many fronts make it likely that the speed of improvement will surprise everyone in next decade.

Top 10 Open source compare

Top 10 Open source software and its comparision commercial software
Commercial Page Maker / Coraldraw
Open Source Scribus 1.3.3.14
Scribus is a desktop publishing (DTP) application, released under the GNU General Public License as free software. It is based on the free Qt toolkit, therefore native versions are available for Linux, Unix-like, Mac OS X, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows. It is known for its broad set of page layout features, comparable to leading non-free applications such as Adobe PageMaker, PagePlus, QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign.



Commercial Microsoft Office
Open Source Open Office
OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.



Commercial Visual Source Safe / Team Foundation Server
Open Source TortoiseSVN
Concurrent Versions System (CVS), also known as the Concurrent Versioning System, is a free software revision control system in the field of software development. Version control system software keeps track of all work and all changes in a set of files, and allows several developers (potentially widely separated in space and/or time) to collaborate.



Commercial HP Quality
open Source Mantis Bug Tracker
Mantis Bug Tracker is a free and open source web-based bug tracking system released under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2. The most common use of MantisBT is to track software defects. However, MantisBT is often configured by users to serve as a more generic issue tracking system and project management tool.



Commercial CRM/ERP (Siebel/Dynamics)
Open Source Sugar
SugarCRM helps companies communicate with prospects, share sales information, close deals and keep customers happy.



Commercial Winzip / WinRar
Open Source 7-Zip (Archiver)
7-Zip is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license: GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions. You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip.



Commercial Tally
Open Source GNUCash
GnuCash is personal and business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports.



Commercial Yahoo/MSN/Google
Open Source Pidgin
Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) is a multi-platform instant messaging client, based on a library named libpurple. Libpurple has support for many commonly used instant messaging protocols, allowing the user to log into various different services from one application.



Commercial Norton/McAfee
Open Source ClamWin
ClamWin is a Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 7 / Vista / XP / Me / 2000 / 98 and Windows Server 2008 and 2003. ClamWin Free Antivirus is used by more than 600,000 users worldwide on a daily basis. It comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge.



Commercial Oracle/SQL Server
Open Source MySql
MySQL has been known to handle databases as large as 60,000 tables with more than five billion rows. MySQL can work with tables as large as eight million terabytes on some operating systems, generally a healthy 4 GB otherwise. MySQL is used by NASA, United States Census Bureau, BBC, Yahoo among many others.

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Document to software

An Europe municipal based corporation was looking for a solution to create software for their in house thousands types of document template. They were interested if document data could be stored inside database and control could added on document template.

They had thousands document template and in future similar types of documents can be added.

Their one customer survey document template was looking like:



They wanted a solution which can have a generic approach to capture data on documents by adding control on respective fields.

E.g. If document has Date of birth fields, a date field could be inserted next to date of birth field and data captured from end user without writing code. They were avoiding approach to write thousands of forms/documents interface code, testing and deployment.

We come across solution for writing a framework. We picked a document template and using framework, developed control which can be inserted on document, programmed and executed with very simple and friendly way like....



Control was programmable and developed using framework. Framework was designed provide metadata, read data from document template and store it inside database after commit like....



Framework was designed to read document, store user entered information in database and provide facility to read, modify and update in future.

It was also possible to export document as PDF, send as mail to someone like reports, etc.

This week we will talk as how could be creating software from document. We will anlayse business feasibility, its application in average computing.