Backup Software- Don't Buy It

Computer Backup- Forget About It!

Backup Software is for the birds! Computer Backup is too hard, too much trouble and a pain in the butt. Let’s just forget about it.

Backup Software is touted as the savior of your computer’s critical business and personal files. They claim that all computer hard drives (where our files are stored) eventually will have a 100% failure rate. They try to tell us that the failure of our hard drives is just a matter of WHEN, not IF.

Do your backups they shout!

Poppycock!

BACKUP SOFTWARE- LET’S GET REAL

You and I know the real story. The real story is that new computers are so well made that they almost never fail, right?

Therefore, we don’t need to worry about buying backup software and setting up a computer backup system, do we? It would just be a waste time-- for sure!

After all we know that all the press about hard drive failures, natural disasters and terrorist attacks is just a conspiracy by the backup software companies to get us to buy their products.

Personally I never had a hard drive failure (that I recall). If my computer stops working for whatever reason, that’s life.

Therefore, I ignore these software backup companies that try to push their backup software products on the unsuspecting public even though they make data and file restorations easy. I don’t give them the time of day.

Therefore as you see, I don’t need backup software, do you? Of course not.

BACKUP SOFTWARE- STARTING OVER WITHOUT IT IS EASY

In the unlikely event that I got a virus or a bunch of spyware on my computers I’ll just bite the bullet and move on. After all, if I lost all my data to a virus, then so what? Who needs backup software?

Heck, I’d just buy a new computer and begin again and I’d still wouldn’t need backup software because it’s just too much hassle.

If ALL my business data was lost due to a hard drive crash or virus corruption then I’d just start my business over. No big deal. It’s not that hard, right? Using backup software is just a pain.

BACKUP SOFTWARE FOOLISHNESS

So by now we’re all agreed that using backup software for computer backup is just for the foolish, right? Right.

Who would want to use backup software that automatically and easily backs up EVERYTHING on your computer hard drive to a DVD Rewriteable disk or USB external hard drive? That would mean you could easily recover from any computer disaster. That makes too much sense and is far too logical.

They claim that backup software is a virtual computer insurance policy against fire, flood, theft, earthquake, hurricanes, tornados and terrorist attacks.

Balderdash!

Ridiculous.

Hey, the businesses who survived Hurricane Katrina didn’t need backup software did they? OK, OK I admit a lot of businesses without backup software and off site backup lost EVERYTHING and now they cannot recover their data and reconstitute their business. But that’s life. Now these businesses and their employees can now move on to something new. How exciting!

Look, life without backup software is just so much more interesting.

By the way, did I tell you how much I enjoy playing Russian Roulette?

Did I neglect to mention my brief stay (it was really was only a few days) at the mental hospital? Ahh, that’s ancient history. Let’s get back to the present.

BACKUP SOFTWARE- THE PRESENT DAY

Want to hear something silly? My friend Ben down in New Orleans owned an insurance company. It made a very good living for him and his family. He didn’t believe in backup software either. All his computers were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

Ben just laughed and said, “No problem, this disaster gives me the chance to write the Great American Novel that I’ve always dreamed of writing”.

What about his 10 employees and his thousands of customers he was asked? Ben said, “Heck, things always work out for the best don’t they?”

What about the income from the business that supported his family he was asked? Ben said, “Oh, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) told me they would take care of us and not to worry.”

See, Ben is all set and is none the worse for wear even though he didn’t have backup software.

BACKUP SOFTWARE LESSONS

So boys and girls what have we learned about this backup software thing?

* If we don’t have backup software, so what, it just makes life after a hard drive crash more interesting and fun.

* After a natural disaster that destroys your computers, FEMA will make it OK.

* All the hubbub about backup software is just a bunch of advertising hype to sell product.

* Just because you like to play Russian Roulette, you aren’t really crazy.

FINALLY- BACKUP SOFTWARE FOLLYIES

I know another guy, Carl Jordan, who is crazier than I am. Carl and the rest of the loonies at Tweak All Consultants (www.tweakspeed.com) actually believe backup software can save your bacon.

In my own strange way I try to be fair and balanced. Therefore
if you disagree with me check out Carl’s review of backup software at Backup Software

Now, where’s my medication? My meds really smooth me out. They also help me forget about rational things like computer backup and backup software.

Jack Back has been in the computer business since 1983 as an IT executive and working computer consultant company owner. He has helped many clients after a computer crash who had no computer backup. Hurry to get your FREE REVIEW of backup software that saves your irreplaceable computer data from loss, damage or destruction at the Backup Software website.

Antivirus Software - Protect Your PC From Malicious Virus Threats

Many computer users have had the unfortunate experience of computer virus infecting their PCs. Make no mistake, these viruses are not the biological ones that spread from one sick person to another, but do have similar traits in that computer viruses are just as contagious, and spread and infect computers very quickly over the internet.

Technically speaking, a computer virus is a form of executable code. These viruses are designed to cause malfunctions on the affected computer. When other computers are connected to this infected machine, the virus replicates itself to enter and infect the other PC.

You might have heard of the Worms or Trojans, which are viruses that are designed to steal important personal information such as your ID or passwords or account numbers etc that reside on your computer. They can also enable the particular virus to gain access into a machine and then hijack control of the infected computer. Other viruses, especially the macro viruses, are designed in such a way that they can delete or overwrite system or data files in the affected computer.

Installing antivirus software is by far the best solution to protect your PC from attacks from these computer viruses. The best known antivirus software are the Norton, McAfee and Panda, which come with features such as inbuilt firewall and direct access to online back up. These antivirus software also have the ability to deactivate the malicious viruses.

The antivirus software protects your computer from virus attacks following two main methods, the first method being prevention, and the second one cleaning. The preventive function involves stopping new viruses from entering your PC, while the cleaning function involves detection and extermination of the old viruses. The protective tasks include such procedures as monitoring emails, P2P downloads and internet connections. On the other hand, the virus cleaning part includes procedures such as scanning of your computer, detecting viruses and then eliminating them from the computer system.

Antivirus software are generally very efficient in dealing with harmful computer viruses. Even so, computer users are recommended to follow certain safety rules to tighten the protection even more:

* A common mistake most people tend to make is to open unsolicited emails that contain virus, either unknowingly or absent-mindedly. Never open such emails if you want to protect your precious data from getting lost once and for all.

* Another precautionary measure involves not opening any attachment sent with an email. Unless you are sure of its source and what it contains, it is usually better to just delete this mail with the doubtful attachment.

* Make sure to also use a personal firewall.

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New Google Software: 13 Free Downloads that You're Gonna Love

IIf you've not downloaded the newest free software bundle from Google yet, then you've gotta read this...

This package includes the latest powerful tools with countless features that will benefit you in a number of ways. There's text, photo, music, and video applications, programs that address security issues, and things to assist you in exploring the web. There's handy desktop applications and other useful, timesaving goodies. A couple of these programs have potential limited only by your imagination. This is a great collection for anyone, whether you're building websites, doing research, or just surfing the web, and, best of all, it's completely free!

Here's what's included...

GOOGLE SOFTWARE --

• Google Earth is a "3D Earth browser" that lets you view actual photos of the earth from space to street level. Create maps, find driving directions, or look at your own house. A bird's-eye view of the world...
• Picasa is a photo organizer that allows you to find all of the photos stored on your computer, and organize, edit, and share them with others.
• Google Pack Screensaver allows you to convert photos from your personal collection into screensavers that may be set up as collages or full screen pictures.
• Google Desktop is a desktop companion with a TON of features. It features a sidebar that gives you instant access to a number of useful applications -- a real timesaver!
• Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer also come with a ton of features. With it, you can run a search from any webpage, autofill forms, or list the Google page rank of any webpage.

ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE --

• Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar is a quick and secure web browser. It allows you to browse using tabs rather than separate windows and has many useful plug-ins, add-ons, and extensions available. If you don't have Firefox yet, I would highly recommend it!
• Norton Antivirus 2005 Special Edition is an AV program that protects your PC from viruses, worms, and Trojan horses. The Google Pack includes a 6-month subscription and updates.
• Ad-Aware SE Personal is an antispyware utility that safely detects and removes spyware to protect your privacy.
• Adobe Reader 7 allows you to view, print, and search PDF files. This version claims to launch up to 50% faster than Reader 6.0

OPTIONAL SOFTWARE --

• Google Talk is a voice & IM application that allows you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free. Get a free account using your mobile phone.
• RealPlayer is a media player that plays popular media formats, organizes music and videos, and transfers music to iPods and other portable media players.
• Google Video Player is a tool that plays videos that may be purchased and downloaded from the Google Video website.
• GalleryPlayer HD Images are high-quality images, artwork, and photos that are perfect for screensavers or desktops.

Google Pack requires Windows XP and either Firefox 1.0+ or Internet Explorer 6.0+, although some of the individual programs will work on older versions. The download process is easy and user-friendly. It allows you to pick only the software that you want, and if you already have any of the programs installed, it will check the version and will only be updated if the Google Pack includes a newer version. You'll also get updates about new software with Google Updater.

Salon Software Products

Some parts of running a beauty salon business can be parts that the owners or managers don't enjoy, Often when salon owners start out, they think about their primary interests in hair, facials, manicures, massages, or other aspects of delivering personal beauty services to the public. They don't think about the fact that as in any business, there are tedious demands such as paperwork, employee W-2's, client information, records of payments, and all kids of day-to-day requirements that face owners.

One way to take away some of the hassle of doing these types of things is purchasing a good software package for assistance in these aspects of running your salon. This can be wonderful, as it will make a huge difference for the salon owner and take these unpleasant chores out of your hands and leave you with the aspects of your business you enjoy. The ability to get rid of the responsibilities that these software programs can substitute for can really be a blessing for many operators,

These types of programs have many features that are attractive to the buyer. They are very user friendly, requiring little or no instructions or technological skill. Help services are available on top of these features, supporting and instructing the operator when there is any difficulty. It is compatible with many editions of Windows, and usable on most types of computers. It is easy to download and run.

They are often as easy to purchase as clicking a download from the internet rather than even going to a store and making a physical purchase. This can be initially a demo version to allow you a free trial to get to know the services to see whether they are helpful for your business, and then a payment to continue. The software will be compatible with versions of Windows, Mac and other programs and operating systems.

A number of companies provide these services. Among the many other salon software packages are Salon Iris Salon Software; The Spa Salon Manager; OMNI Salon Management Spa Management Software Systems; and Orchid Medical Spa Software by Restexx Information Technologies. Mosts often they are available in English, but some such as Plan Magic Business 9.0 is available in a number of other languages such as Spanish, Italian and even Russian, among others. With such ease of purchase and operation, these programs will allow you to get on with the business of doing what you enjoy and specialize in the most.

Software Marketing - An SEO Approach

Software Marketing - The SEO Strategy

Software Marketing comes in many flavors. Depending on if consumers (via standard software package sales) or business or enterprise are your target customers, your software marketing strategy will differ greatly.

This article is going to go over rather low cost but effective strategy that will kick off your online software marketing with effective medium to long term results. We will focus standalone packages that you will make accessible for sale from your website, or software directories.

If you sell b2b custom software you can still use the information in this article if you be a little creative!

So to begin, its important we maximize our time spend and get the things done that yield the best results with the least effort or cost. The following 8 steps need to be followed

Website Design

Its critical (obviously) to have a competent looking site, designed well, with great copy that convinces visitors to buy or download. Most visitors wont purchase your software directly from your website, but rather after downloading your software from elsewhere (software directories etc). They will most likely however check your website before making a purchase, to make sure you seem legit, can offer support etc. Therefore keep it professional!

Keyword Research

Its important to get a good understanding of the words people will use to search for your product. There are many tools and services will show you what search phrases are used on the search engines and the estimated number of searches a month. This allows you to know exactly what search phrases or keywords you need to focus on and provides a picture of the potential market size by search volume.

Competitive Research

The Internet allows you, quite easily, to tell exactly what marketing your competition is doing, the ads they use, the copy they use, where they advertise and who their affiliates are. Take advantage of the $$ and time they spent on market research and testing and simply copy and improve on their strategy!

Download.com Listing

This important step is where you need to get yourself a well written, professional download.com listing for your software, making use of your 1-3 top keywords you found via your keyword research. Download.com ranks very well in the search engines and is seen as authority site by google for down-loadable software.

Software Submissions

We want to make use a good manual software submission service (costs more - gets you more listings) or automated software submission tool (unlimited submissions for the upfront cost - less reliable) to submit our software to 600-1000 software directories. This gets you instant downloads, and if you know how, will greatly improve the search engine rankings for your main software listing!

Deep Links

We now use deep links to push our main listing up into the top of the search results in the search engines. Deep link directories and submission services are not that easy to find, but there are some great ones out there if you know where to look!

Link Building

The foundations of the strategy are now complete and you have set yourself up for consistent medium to long term downloads (and hopefully sales!) and a decent ranking for your listing (and the free traffic that goes with it). Now you want to regularly generate links to your listing to keep improving your results moving forward. You now want to outsource our link building through certain services such as elance.

Article Submissions

Build your trust levels and position yourself in your market with quality articles and information targeted at your niche. Sell ecommerce software? Write articles on related topics that online business owners will find useful. Show your potential customers your not just a bunch of programmers, but rather you understand their problems, their business, the niche etc and can provide software that delivers. Article submissions not only raise your profile in the marketplace but have the added benefit of generating quality back links to your listings, as well as sending good qualified traffic to your product pages!

The above steps are a good place to start for any software marketing strategy and provides a firm base to build on moving forward.

Chiropractic Software Program Comparisons

It is important to choose a software program based on what it can offer your practice, and not solely on cost. It is understandable that most new chiropractors come out of school with a lot of debt and want to get started for as little money as possible. Scrimping on something as important as your office software could cause you big headaches and even more money in the long run. If you have to upgrade to a better program, not only will you have to contract workers to perform the upgrade, your office staff will not be able to access your records for a period of time until the upgrade process is effective. These are thoughts to consider when reviewing your software options. Chiropractic software comparison is a necessary evil when finding your perfect software match.

Weeding through the various types of programs available can be exhausting. Some programs offer insurance billing specifically, while others focus on only patient records. Prepare to spend several hours in reviewing your options and be sure to speak with your office staff about their needs. Since the staff will be the ones using the programs, it is absolutely imperative that their input is considered. The Internet is a good search tool when looking for chiropractic software comparisons.

One of the most utilized programs today is Eclipse® Practice Management Software. This company has been providing office solutions for over 20 years and has one of the most comprehensive office management software packages in the industry. According to their website, “ECLIPSE includes billing, scheduling, EHR (electronic health record), daily notes, an extensive alerts system, certified HIPAA compliant electronic claims & remittance, security features that include patient data access tracking to help you run a HIPAA compliant facility, and myriad reports fine-tuned by two decades of client feedback”. Eclipse also boasts of the software’s abilities to streamline your office records and create a virtually paperless office.

Another popular chiropractic software program is Lytec®. Founded in 1989, this company is well-known as a leader in helping chiropractic offices streamline their records and superior customer support. Lytec specializes in the efficiency of patient billing, insurance filing and appointment setting. Included in their software package is a patented program called Code Import which loads CPT-4, ICD-9 and HCPCS directly into the Lytec software to greatly reduce coding errors. Another interesting feature of the Lytec software program is the Fee Schedule Import feature. This feature “automatically loads Medicare fee schedules into Lytec saving time and improving accuracy.”

ChiroSoft® is a software program designed especially for today’s chiropractic offices. It was first launched in 1982 and has had over 20 years experience in fine-tuning the software for the busy chiropractor. One of the most recognized and appreciated features of this program in the fee slip feature. According to their website, “A fee slip is printed on each patient before they see the doctor, this allows for easy communication between the front desk and the chiropractor. The front desk must post services into ChiroSoft® to cancel out that daily fee slip. This prevents billable services from being missed by the office staff.” Many chiropractors find this feature very valuable and recommend it to others.

Chiropractic Complete Max Pro® is another widely used software program for chiropractic offices. The tagline for this company is: save time, improve efficiency, reduce costs, increase productivity, and maximize profits. This product seems to offer a variety of necessary tools to maximize the performance of the chiropractic office. It offers flexible appointment scheduling, automated payment plans, statistical reports, the ability to bundle procedure codes that are used daily for quick reference, Multiple case management without creating double patient accounts, mailing list creation, electronic patient records, front desk management, and marketing tools. This is a bundled program that seems to offer nearly any tool that a chiropractor needs.

Finding the appropriate software for your practice can be very time consuming. When you first begin your search, it is likely that you will be overwhelmed with choices. Remember to consult with your office staff to determine what their needs may be. That is a good starting point in deciding which programs to purchase. Getting the right software in the beginning can save a lot of trouble in the future. If you have to change programs, you will have some lag-time where you will not be able to access your records. Finding a good vendor who understands your needs and who will offer excellent customer support is also a very important step. It may take some time, but with all of the products available on the market today, with a little research and thought, you will find the product you need to make your business successful.