Use open source Calibre to help you manage your e-book library

Whether you've stuck a toe in or are fully immersed in the e-reader revolution, you might want to file away a reference to Calibre when you discover you need to start managing your e-library. Free and open source, this program allows you to add searchable metadata such as tags and comments to your collection. It can also be used to search the Internet to find book metadata based on existing title/author or ISBN information in your library and download various types of metadata and covers for your books, automatically. The most useful feature of Calibre is probably the ability to convert from one format to another:

Syncing e-reader devices is another important feature:

Here is the current list of supported devices. I'll never be weaned away from my physical books; however, as an avid reader (and I always like to take books with me when I travel), I can think of some good uses for an e-reader, so I think there's one in my future. With so many devices to choose from, I've been waiting for things to settle out a little -- not to mention, wait for the prices to come down on some of them. When I take the plunge, Calibre might come in very handy. How about you? Have you acquired an e-reader device, and do you have any recommendations? Let us know if you decide to give Calibre a try.

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August 27, 2010 @ 12:13 pm


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OpenOffice saves a company budget

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This past week I was troubleshooting an issue a client had. This issue had been haunting the client for some time and no one could figure out what was going on. Here's the scenario.

Client worked with businesses and banks using various MS Word templates.

When templates were finished they had to be printed.

Half of the employees could print correctly and the other half had serious printing issues.

All employees used terminal server and ran the templates from MS Office 2003.

The employees that had trouble printing had MS Office 2007 installed locally.

The employees that didn't have trouble printing had MS Office 2003 (or no MS Office at all) installed.

There were two possible solutions for this client:

Upgrade MS Office on terminal server.

Downgrade all employees to MS Office 2003.

There was a third choice, of course...since I had been tagged to solve the problem. We'll get to that solution in a moment. Because of the number of employees in the company, the cost of upgrading the MS Office on terminal server was going to be in the neighborhood of ten thousand dollars. If you gasped and made a face, that is the exact reaction the client had. Immediately following that gasp, the client pulled the plug on any possible upgrade. That left us with downgrading to MS Office 2003. Or.... Installing OpenOffice on the terminal server. The reaction when I mentioned this possible, FREE (software cost that is), solution? An emphatic "Let's try that!" And we did. Of course my biggest concern was if OpenOffice would work with SBA templates. I downloaded a template to my personal machine (Ubuntu 10.04 with the latest OpenOffice) and the template worked just fine. There were small differences (but those differences were mostly in the startup and save process). I also knew the end users might need a little bit of hand-holding as they were not the most techn-savvy users (the knew the business of business like the back of their hands - just nothing about tech). I was okay with that, because their point-woman was savvy and I could simply feed her the support, which would then get dispersed to the users. The installation is painless...now the true test will be time. If the end-users can get used to a different office suite to handle their templates. But ultimately what this little experience taught me was that as much as people like to claim how cheap the TCO of MS products are to business, there is always a situation that begs to smack that assumption upside the face. This was one of those. Not many business have 10,000 dollars to drop on a software update - especially one that will only serve to solve a printing issue. Yes the printing was a critical aspect of the users jobs, but not enough to force the hand to upgrading to Office 2007 on terminal server. There are always options...especially when open source software is a possibility. I would hope that all IT admins, consultants, and students would keep their minds open to such avenues. After all, the most important aspect of our jobs is client satisfaction...and few clients are going to be satisfied when the only option given to them has a price tag large enough to cause cardiac arrest. [poll id="199"] Of course, in this situation, there was another option - to downgrade all users of Office 2007 to Office 2003. But in the spirit of finding the most expedient solution, OpenOffice came through like a champ. Have you come across a similar situation where a piece of open source software helped save a client a lot of money? If so, share it with your fellow Techrepublic readers.

posted by Jack Wallen
August 29, 2010 @ 6:57 am

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IT services, integrators about to hit a decade of turbulence

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This is a guest post from Larry Dignan, Editor in Chief of ZDNet, TechRepublic's sister site. You can follow Larry on his ZDNet blog Between the Lines (or subscribe to the RSS feed). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The traditional IT services business model, which revolves around systems integration, big projects and a lot of consulting, is about to hit a decade of upheaval, according to a Forrester Research report. Simply put, the validity of traditional IT services will be questioned with the evolution of cloud computing, automation and on-demand software. In a recent report, Forrester analysts John McCarthy and Pascal Matzke argue that a prolonged "restructuring economy" will affect IT budgets, a move away from core applications to analytics, on-demand software and infrastructure and changing buying dynamics will force services companies to adapt. Initially, services companies will see more money, but big deals will be hard to find as companies move away from fixed capital outlays. Toss in the commoditization of services and there's an interesting brew underway. When the decade is done there will be new players that threaten established firms and new categories. Today's IT services firm focuses on:

IT consulting such as strategy and business processes.

Systems integration of applications.

Outsourcing.

Emerging services will include:

Security as a service.

Data and business intelligence as a service and the implementations that go with it.

Platform as a service seats and implementations.

Public cloud consulting and implementation.

Public cloud services.

Services integration and orchestration.

Product development and R&D.

That transition to newfangled services is going to create a few new winners. Indeed, Indian outsourcing firms are already focused on on-demand software and moving upstream to product development. In addition, new entrants such as Google and Amazon Web Services could be major players along with Salesforce.com. Forrester said in the report:

In this new landscape, a range of vendor dynamics will play out. We will see consolidation among players, especially among the European, Japanese, and infrastructure players, as they build out scale to survive commoditization. Software and product players like Cisco, Oracle, and SAP will bolster their services play in search of new revenues as product and license sales slow. We also expect to see a whole new set of services players emerge. They will be companies that we do not think of as services providers today, such as Amazon and Google, or they will be relative newcomers that sell consulting around new areas like SaaS implementation - such as Appirio, Astadia, and Bluewolf.

Needless to say the IT services standings will change. Here's a look at the standings today and what they may be in 2020. 

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3CX Phone System 9 goes Unified Communications with Video support

Submitted by Elizabeth on July 26, 2010 – 6:24 pm30

V9 of the popular Windows Phone system adds video support, android client
and enterprise capabilities

London, 26 July 2010 – 3CX has released version 9 of its popular phone
system for Windows. Version 9 is a significant upgrade that adds video
support as well as enterprise features such as the ability to monitor
remote PBX installations via 3CX Assistant and automatic remote
installation and configuration of 3CXPhone and 3CX Assistant.

"3CX Phone System 9 is now a complete Unified Communications solution –We
have added standards based video and support for smartphones as clients.
At the same time we have added key enterprise features that widen 3CX's
appeal to larger companies"

"3CX continues to take market share and now has over 20,000 server
installations worldwide. I expect that with v9 this number will grow
dramatically."

Video support
V9 allows single click set-up of video calls with other 3CXPhone users or
with standards based video phones such as from Xlite, Yealink or
Grandstream.

Android smartphone support
3CX v9 allows Android smartphone users to make and receive calls from
anywhere using their extension. Android users just download the 3CXPhone
for Android softphone and configure it to use their 3CX Phone System
account.

Provisioning of 3CXphone and 3CX Assistant
Deploying and administering 3CXPhone and 3CX Assistant installations is
now much easier via the provisioning feature. Phone System users can
install the client apps by clicking on an HTTP link which will
automatically install and configure them. Changes to the configuration, as
well as software updates are automatically pushed out to the clients.

Multi Site – capability
Monitor presence and queues on remote PBXs and transfer calls between PBXs

SLA / Shared parking
Seamless Key System like functionality for "sharing" phone lines without
the need to transfer calls. Supports standards based SIP phones, no
proprietary phones required.

Microsoft Dynamics support
Trigger outbound calls from within Microsoft Dynamics and resolve inbound
calls to customer records automatically. All calls are reported and logged
with the relevant customer record.

Other Features

* 3CX Assistant now allows for creating conference calls to internal
and external users with a few mouse clicks
* Improved presence and call forwarding
* G722 support
* New Bundled High Performance web server: Abyss

Free Edition
3CX Phone System is available as a free edition as well as a commercial
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About 3CX
3CX is the developer of 3CX Phone System – an open standard unified
communications platform for Windows that works with standard SIP phones
and replaces a proprietary PBX. 3CX is more manageable and can deliver
substantial cost savings besides increasing productivity. 3CX Phone System
for Windows, has earned Windows Server Certification and has received
numerous awards, including The Windowsnetworking.com Gold Award, the
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Computer Shopper Magazine. 3CX has offices in the UK, USA, Germany,
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