An Interesting Tool - Make Your Video Play Directly on Your Website and Blog

Socusoft Web Video Player is an interesting but powerful tool which I came across on a download site a few days ago. This program allows you to publish your video clips of various formats on your website, blog, forum and more, making it play videos directly online. It just needs simple steps to complete a web video. Different from videos on YouTube, The web video generated by this program has an embedded player, which can be fully customized.

The principle of this application with the output code is a combination of players together for your video to your web page or blog embedded in HTML. This will take you three steps to Web video. The input file only accept FLV format, so that the output of the video player to play clips. You may encounter the problem, different formats of video. Well, it has a conversion component that can accept multiple video formats, the convenience of your files into FLV format.

Socusoft Web Video Player: http://www.web-video-player.com

Key features summary:

-- GUI is easy to navigate
-- No time or other key limits
-- Support most video formats
-- Single/batch video input and conversion
-- Quick editing of video file properties
-- Cool themes for web videos
-- Rich parameter settings for web videos
- Show / hide the playlist and video playback capability
- Extremely easy to publish online video player and built
FrontPage and Dreamweaver for - prepare files to a convenient

Deficiency of this application: It is compatible with Mac

You guys can go to its website for more information about its features and functions. As stated on its site: the trial version generates web videos with a logo at the top left corner of the web player which links to its website. The logo is no big deal for us video fans. As for trial version's another point: URLs such as company URL and advertisement links also cannot be added to the web videos. I would like to say: the advertisement links adding function is useful to businessmen and website promoters only. So, as for us, don't worry about it as there is no time limit or other key limits. We can still use it freely for fun and experience its cool features. I think you can find out more and you may report back here in the comments.

PS: Tutorial - How to make easy, such as video news in Yahoo, MSN and YouTube video on the Web

Here is the tutorial link: http://funny-video-youtube.blogspot.com

Improving the Management of Output in an Sap Environment

The customer associated with this case study is a large, multi-national manufacturer of chain saws and outdoor power equipment, gasoline and electric grass

Business Problem – The company faced a multi-faceted business problem.They were in the process of upgrading their SAP environment and wanted to be able to offload the print spooler services from the application servers.Being able to separate the application servers from the print spooler and print management system would allow them to improve performance on the application servers, but more importantly, it would allow them to create a print architecture that was independent of the SAP print spooling system and their dependency on SAPscript to manage enterprise document formatting.They wanted to be able to utilize an off the shelf, standard electronic forms package to manage the document formatting and eliminate the high cost of maintaining SAPscript programming and staff expertise.Through the implementation of an independent print architecture, they also will be able to increase the efficiency of the IT organization and increase the efficiency of output/print driven business processes such as Just in Time Manufacturing processes, shipping, and materials management.

Objective– In order to improve end-user support and satisfaction, system administrators needed a single, automated, enterprise-wide print spooler solution to manage print jobs and print queues. End-users needed a tool that would allow them to manage print themselves, improve the efficiency of their print related business processes and relieve the burden of print related calls to the help desk. Additionally, they needed to be able to fax print jobs directly from their application instead of printing them and then faxing them and have the option of “printing” a job to email for delivery instead of to a physical printer.The fax and email functionality was not possible in their environment without significant application changes.

Customer Technical Environment - See diagram

• SAP R/3
  
  Enterprise Management
  
  Product R&D
  
  Make to Order
  
  After Market Sales & Service
  
  
• 500 + users
  
  
• Seven IBM AIX Servers
  
  
• Legacy applications (developed in house) and associated servers
  
  
• See diagram – At the end of this document
  
  Key Technical Requirements– The solution this customer implemented needed to be an SAP certified solution tested to meet the BC-XOM standard for external output management solutions.Additionally, the customer did not want to add client software on the end-users PC’s nor have to train the end-users on new methods of checking the status of their print jobs.While the solution needed to be SAP certified, it also needed to provide the Help Desk with the ability to manage and monitor print in the SAP environment and the legacy, in house developed applications.
  
  
  
  Technical Solution– After considering and evaluating several vendors, the customer chose to implement OM Plus the print spooler solution from Plus Technologies.They chose to implement the base OM Plus server module, the OM Plus Java GUI User Interface for their administrators/help desk and the OM Plus HTML User Interface for the end-users who wanted a zero client solution for advanced control of their print jobs.All other users who just need basic printed or not printed yet information and printer status can see that using the standard SAP GUI because OM Plus communicates this information back to SAP. Print Jobs are now “captured” by OM Plus and delivered to the appropriate device, fax system or email system.No modifications were required to either the SAP Applications or the AIX operating environment.The users just print as they normally do within SAP, and OM Plus does the rest. Administrators have a single, easy-to-use tool to solve printing issues in their new environment saving many help desk man-hours each week (over 70% of their help desk calls had been print related). Utilizing functionality built into OM Plus, users can also now select Fax or email as destinations and “print” their job directly to a fax or email server.
  
  OM Plus system administrator ratio control through the provision of very significant cost efficiency and centralized management features, please print the entire operation. Too,
  
  Implementation – Installing, configuring, and testing were completed in under a week.The customer installed the OM Plus system without any formal training. A Plus Technologies engineer worked remotely via phone to assist the customer with the installation of the OM Plus software and to provide configuration assistance.This level of phone-based service is standard and included without additional charge in all purchases of Plus Technologies software.
  
  Results – Utilizing OM Plus allows the customer’s system administrators to centrally manage their print/output across the entire enterprise.The OM Plus implementation increased the customer’s overall print related reliability substantially.Because OM Plus is SAP certified to the BC-XOM standard, it can confirm, from end-to-end, the delivery of a print job and notify SAP of a successful delivery of the job.Without OM Plus, all SAP knows is that it delivered the job to the operating system’s print spooling utility. The IT and end-user productivity was significant because (prior to OM Plus) over 70% of the calls to their help desk were print related.Utilizing a zero client deployment strategy allowed the end-users to manage their own print without modifications to the standard SAP user interface or without adding any client software on the end-users’ PC’s.
  
  From the standpoint of a system, the implementation of OM Plus also lead to significant positive results. The new OM Plus print server architecture relieves pressure management of the customer's application and database servers to enhance the reliability and productivity of the systems. The OM Plus status to standardize print management screens for the administrators on all platforms and applications, not only SAP applications and servers, but their legacy environment.
  
  Customer Quote – “We have utilized Plus Technologies print and output management solutions for quite some time.With the additional functionality we get from OM Plus (communication with SAP, delivery to fax or email) we are able to improve our efficiency and many of our business processes.”
  
  Plus Technologies Case Studies– The Plus Technologies case study series includes real examples of how companies use Advanced Spooling Solutions to streamline operations, reduce cost and/or add functionality to existing business processes.For more information on these case studies, contact Plus Technologies.
  
  

Getting Summary Command Information

The Windows PowerShell Get-Command cmdlet retrieves the names of all available commands. When you type Get-Command at a Windows PowerShell prompt, you will see output similar to the following:

PS> Get-Command

CommandType Name Definition

----------- ---- ----------

Cmdlet Add-Content Add-Content [-Path] <String[...

Cmdlet Add-History Add-History [[-InputObject] ...

Cmdlet Add-Member Add-Member [-MemberType] <PS...

...

This output looks a lot like the Help output of Cmd.exe: a tabular summary of internal commands. In the extract of the Get-Command command output shown above, every command shown has a CommandType of Cmdlet. A Cmdlet is Windows PowerShell's intrinsic command type that corresponds roughly to the dir and cd commands of Cmd.exe and to built-ins in UNIX shells such as BASH.

In the output of the Get-Command command, all of the definitions end with ellipses (...) to indicate that PowerShell cannot display all of the content in the available space. When Windows PowerShell displays output, it formats the output as text and then arranges it to make the data fit cleanly into the window. We will talk about this later in the section on formatters.

The Get-Command cmdlet has a Syntax parameter that allows you to retrieve just the syntax of each cmdlet. Enter the Get-Command -Syntax command to display the full output:

PS> Get-Command -Syntax

Add-Content [-Path] <String[]> [-Value] <Object[]> [-PassThru] [-Filter <String>] [-Include <String[]>] [-Exclude <String[]>] [-Force] [Credential <PSCredential>] [-Verbose] [-Debug] [-ErrorAction <ActionPreference>] [-ErrorVariable <String>] [-OutVariable <String>] [-OutBuffer <Int32>] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm] [-Encoding <FileSystemCmdletProviderEncoding>]

Add-History [[-InputObject] <PSObject[]>] [-Passthru] [-Verbose] [-Debug] [-ErrorAction <ActionPreference>] [-ErrorVariable <String>] [-OutVariable <String>][-OutBuffer <Int32>]...