PICAJET PHOTO MANAGER 2.5 REVIEW

Author: PicaJet.com
PicaJet is a programme that I found (while googling) for what people consider to be the best Digital Photo Management tool around. It came down to PicaJet, Picasa (by google), and ACDSee. Having previously used Picasa I knew exactly what I did and did not want in a Digital Photo Manager. I consider myself to have completed the search for a tool that fits the bill in finding PicaJet.

Overview:

At $39.99 for the full version, you might be tempted to stick with a lesser programme such as Picasa, however there are two or three main things that make PicaJet stand out among other programmes of this sort. If you combine those along with all the standard features that you might expect you have a winning package.

• Categories: A way to organize photos using categories (or tags).


• Ease of use: They nailed the mix of features and ease of use (not always easy)


• EXIF data: The ability to view, sort by, and update the existing meta data ("headers") of a given photo.


• Grouping: Group based on date taken, date imported, local folder, and much more.


• Importing: A simple way to import photos from your camera with a couple of steps.


• Editing: The ability to do basic photo manipulation on one or multiple photos.


• Printing: Bringing your photos into the real world so that you can enjoy them all the time.


• Sharing: The ability to distribute your photos easily via email, cd's, the web and more.

As with many pieces of great software around today, PicaJet has a thriving forum community with responsive and present developers who will personally respond to questions and features requests, even for users of the free version.

Features:

Categories:

PicaJet has a wonderful system for categorizing your photos. Some programmes have the ability to use Keywords (such as Picasa) or tags, however the hierarchical (or tree) method that PicaJet uses to categorize your photos, opens up a whole new world of organization.

As you can see in the screenshots below I have selected the category for my daughter Eden. This causes only photos in this category to appear in the reults on the right. By holding ctrl and clicking on another category, I could select as many categories as I would like to further trim down the results on the right. For example I could again select Eden and Florida, and I would be shown only photos that matched both of those categories. You can also select any given parent category, in this example Kids to show photos that have either Eden or James in them. At any point you may also exclude any category by right-clicking on it and choosing to exclude it from the results.

VALIDATE E-MAIL ADDRESS WITH PHP THE RIGHT WAY

Author: Max Teo
Listing 1: Shows an example code that contains 3 errors. First, it fails to recognize many valid e-mail address characters, such as %. Secondly, it splits the e-mail address into username and domain parts at the sign @. E-mail addresses that contain a quoted @ sign, such as koko\@koko@domain.com will break this code. Lastly, it fails to check for host address DNS records.

function validateEmail($email_add) {
if (preg_match(”/^([a-zA-Z0-9])+([a-zA-Z0-9\._-])*@([a-zA-Z0-9_-])+( [a-zA-Z0-9\._-]+)+$/”, $email_add))
{
list ($username, $domain)=split(‘@’,$email_add);
if (!checkdnsrr($domain, ‘MX’)) {
return false;
}
return true;
}
return false;
}

Listing 2: Shows a better way to develop an E-mail validator as it satisfy the following requirements:

-An e-mail address consists of local part and domain seperated by an at sign (@) character (RFC 2822 3.4.1)/
-The local part may consist of alphabet and numeric characters, and the following characters: !#$%&’*+-/=?^_`{|}~, possibly with dot seperators (.), inside, but not at the start, end or next to another dot seperator (RFC 2822 3.2.4)
-The local part may consist of a quoted string - i.e. anything within quotes (”), including spaces (RFC 2822 3.2.5)
-Quoted pairs (such as \@) are valid components of a local part, though an obsolete form from RFC 822 (RFC 2822 4.4)
-The maximum length of a local part is 64 characters (RFC 2821 4.5.3.1)
-A domain consists of labels seperated by dot seperators (RFC 1035 2.3.1)
-Domain labels start with an alphabet character followed by 0 or more alphabet characters, numeric characters or hyphen (-), ending with an alphabetic or numeric character (RFC 1035 2.3.1)
-The maximum length of a label is 63 characters (RFC 1035 2.3.1)
-The maximum lenght of a domain is 255 characters (RFC 2821 4.5.3.1)
-The domain must be fully qualified and resolvable to a type A or type MX DNS address record (RFC 2821 3.6)

function validateEmail($email_add) {
$isValid = true;
$atIndex = strrpos($email_add, “@”);
if (is_bool($atIndex) && !$atIndex) {
$isValid = false;
}
else {
$domain = substr($email_add, $atIndex+1);
$local = substr($email_add, 0, $atIndex);
$localLen = strlen($local);
$domainLen = strlen($domain);
if ($localLen <> 64) {
$isValid = false; // local part lenght exceeded
}
else if ($domainLen <> 255) {
$isValid = false; // domain part lenght exceeded
}
else if ($local[0] == ‘.’ || $local[$localLen-1] == ‘.’) {
$isValid = false; // local part starts or ends with ‘.’
}
else if (preg_match(’/\\.\\./’, $local)) {
$isValid = false; // local part has 2 consecutive dots
}
else if (!preg_match(’/^[A-Za-z0-9\\-\\.]+$/’, $domain)) {
$isValid = false; // character not valid in domain part
}
else if (preg_match(’/\\.\\./’, $domain)) {
$isValid = false; // domain part has 2 consecutive dots
}
else if (!preg_match(’/^(\\\\.|[A-Za-z0-9!#%&`_=\\/$\’*+?^{}|~.-])+$/’ . str_replace(”\\\\”.”",$local))) {
if (!preg_match(’/^”(\\\\”|[^”])+”$/’, $str_replace(”\\\\”,”", $local))) {
$isValid = false; //character not valid in local part unless local part is quoted
}
}
if ($isValid && !(checkdnsrr($domain, “MX”) || checkdnsrr($domain, “A”))) {
$isValid = false; // domain not found in DNS
}
}
return $isValid;
}

VIRTUAL SERIAL PORT DRIVER 6.0 IS RELEASED!

Author: Eltima Software
You probably have heard or even used Virtual Serial Port Driver 6.0 by Eltima Software. It is an advanced utility, which emulates unlimited number of RS232 serial ports connected via virtual null-modem cable using special driver, which can be easily included in your own software providing simple and convenient way to create and configure virtual serial ports directly from your application. Now let us introduce the new appearance of Virtual Serial Port Driver 6.0. Not only new features were added, but the interface was re-designed as well.


Let's start with the new features. There are plenty of them and we are sure you will like each and every one. First of all, all internal modules of Virtual Serial Port Driver are digitally signed, meaning that now the driver will work correctly under x64 platforms. Another platform that VSPD fully supports now is Windows Vista. Now all Vista fans can surely use Virtual Serial Port Driver without any problems, both as 32-bit, or 64-bit edition!


As for the technical aspects of VSPD functioning, Eltima has put much work into it to make VSPD as feature-rich as possible. The new version offers you unique emulation of serial cable pinouts, including totally custom ones for your professional needs.


Moreover, you will be able to allow or restrict applications access to any created port easily directly from the GUI. In this version we present the new and completely revamped Serial Ports Explorer, which will be your help in getting all the information about serial ports present in your system.


Virtual Serial Port Driver's interface has been thoroughly re-designed. We have left the simplicity and logical architecture of previous versions, but changed the overall colors and shades to make VSPD GUI appealing and user-friendly.


Virtual Serial Port Driver has a proven reputation of a must-have tool for system developers. The application will cut down your development time dramatically providing you with the full arsenal of its features and capabilities.


Read more about VSPD, the leader of virtual ports creation, by visiting its features page.


If you are interested in trying Virtual Serial Port Driver 6.0 you are welcome to download the free trial now.

EXCEL INVOICE MANAGER ENTERPRISE 2.7 RELEASED!

Author: Invoice Team
Program Name: Excel Invoice Manager Enterprise
Version: 2.7
Cateogry: Business / Accounting and Finance
Size: 3.92 MB
Home Page: http://www.office-kit.com
Download URL: http://localhost/2007/excel_invoice_manager/excel_invoice_manager_setup.exe
Version Information: http://localhost/2007/excel_invoice_manager/version_history.htm

This is a billing software that solves your billing headaches with true what-you-see-is-what-you-get Excel invoice templates and backend databases. Combining the power of Microsoft Excel with backend databases, the billing software allows you to easily manage your customers, products, invoices and payments.


This edition is the highest edition of the billing software. It supports unlimited number of companies. This means you can handle more than one business in a single billing system; even those businesses are very different in many aspects, including customers, products, reports, even tax systems. The billing software also supports networking, allowing you to share data with your colleagues.


Since the billing software is based on Excel invoice templates, it is highly customizable. For example, you can easily customize the fonts, colors, text labels, currency symbols, number formats, and even the formulas for calculating taxes, with various tools provided by Excel. The billing software is designed with flexibility in mind. For example, all cells in the invoice template are identified by names - so, if you don't like where a field is placed, you can hover your mouse on the cell and drag it to a new location!


This type of flexibility is also implemented in the database structure level of the billing software. In the Enterprise edition of the billing software, there is a powerful feature called custom fields, which allows you add your own fields to your invoices. For example, if you are running a travel agent business and need to know the number of children of a customer, then add a custom field Children.

This new version introduced a new feature called in-cell lookup, which allows you to retrieve invoices, customers or products right within the invoice form, by simply typing in the corresponding ID into the Excel cells.

Download the fully functional trial version to see how the billing software works for you.