Today, I would like to talk about OpenCrypt, a useful membership software which has impressed me a lot at the first glance with it’s features. If you go through their online demonstration page you will see how this software works. If you’re building a website based on membership then you can consider using this software in your project for security and robustness which is built using Perl and PHP.

Why membership software is needed?

As the name specifies, if you are building a website which may have different members like free members, paid members (such as monthly subscription) etc. Furthermore, if you want to allow access to certain content to paid members and block access for free members to these areas then this software is very useful for security and flexibility.

Furthermore, if you want charge money to visitors who download or access your website content then this software is highly useful.

Features of OpenCrypt

Here are some of the main features of the OpenCrypt membership software:

1) Manage membership subscriptions and member’s areas

2) Automated membership renewal and billing system

3) Intregrated shopping cart

4) In built point system and download manager for allowing you to charge for accessing your content and downloads.

5) Template based front-end for easy customization.

6) Helpdesk, article management and affiliate systems.

These are the main feature of this software. For full feature detail you can check their membership software features page.

But one small suggestion, when I logged in inside the user management area there was still the link for login which I think should not have been there if a user is logged in. Please take this as my suggestion part.

But overall, this software has impressed me a lot while looking at their online demonstration and I’ll suggest you to give this software a try if your website is mainly focused on the membership subscriptions.

Few days back, I was discussing about projects with a chat friend and I’ve informed him that we’re working on the video emailing project where users upload the video and it will be converted into .flv format before storing in the server for minimizing file size. Then he shoot me bunch of questions, What is required for this in PHP ? What kind of server is required ? and which server should I choose?

What kind of server and modules are required for video projects?

If you want to built a video sharing website then you must have FFMPEG module should be installed in your web server.Then you can use script like PHPMotion to make a Youtube like video sharing website.

Another question is What kind of server is required ? The answer is either go for Dedicated server-a completely user owned server or go for Virtual Private Server (VPS). In VPS, server’s resources like CPU, memory are partitioned among the various users and making each part like a private server which makes VPS. In VPS, you’ll have complete access your part of machine and you can access root folder using SSH.You can also restart the server , CPU of which is partitioned to you.

If you are wondering which server to choose then I recommend you to choose VPS Server for video sharing website as It is very cheap compared to dedicated server.

Which web hosting provider should I choose?

You must know that most of the web hosting providers don’t have FFMPEG installed in their server.If you don’t know any FFMPEG hosting then I would recommend you to check out hostv.com .They have FFMPEG enabled VPS Hosting which means you will not have much hassle for installing FFMPEG. Furthermore, they also have Red5 ,open source flash sever,pre-installed in their VPS Hosting for making video sharing website more robust.

Which search engine do you use for searching the stuff you’re looking for? I know the answer and I don’t think I’ve to tell you or write the answer out here. But today, I’m going to talk about a new search engine I’ve came across, RankNoodle.com – define itself as a human powered search. But I didn’t understand what is the reason behind their saying of Human Powered Search – it must be the rating system in the search result but I’m still not clear with this term yet. I tried to look at the answer of my question in different section of this website but couldn’t find the answer. When I went to their about us page, I didn’t find anything. I think they need to update their about us page and explain us clearly about them so that each visitor come to know the detail of this new search engine.

Search Result from RankNoodle.com

I’ve tried the to the search result of this new search engine. First, I tried the keyword PHP Ajax Blog and thanks to the the search result. This blog is ranked top in the search result and even before the blog of Sitepoint.com. I found one very good thing about this search result, there was list of videos from youtube related to search at the right hand side of the search related page.Unlike many search result of google and yahoo, where you’re going to many pages of search result this search engine showed only one search result page for this keyword and which were quite relevant to keyword.

The most wonderful thing about their search result is the rating system – you can vote up and down the search result. This feature really have some great benefits where the people can say weather the search result is relevant to search keyword or not. But this feature can be a misleading search result if some company hires people and ask for them to vote up the search result of their website.

I also wanted to look at the result of php developer jobs keyword in RankNoodle.com.I’m really impressed with the search result of this page. I found 5 conversation related to this search keyword and this is really a good feature in this new search engine.Though, I couldn’t found from where I can add the question and answer for this conversation.

Finally, I would I’ve a mixed up feeling for this new search engine. First of all, they have to add more information page where they should describe the features about this search engine. And, they have to really care about the new rating feature in the search result page which can be intruded at any time by malicious user.

You’ll be in a great confusion if you have to buy the service from a new web hosting provider. There are many web hosting providers in the market and you’ve to choose the best among them so that you’ll not be suffered by choosing it. Most of the customers suffers from bad web hosting companies due to their unreliability and lacking of sustainability in the high volume of traffic.So, I always suggest you to compare the features of web hosting providers before buying it.

How to compare and get suitable web hosting provider?

There are many web hosting review and rating websites where you can find the information and review among the good web hosting providers. You can compare the features among the leading hosting providers in market. If you want to find the comparison among the different leading web hosting providers then you can view this web hosting rating website.webhostingratings.com is a new web hosting rating website where they are trying to build one of the biggest web hosting provider guide.

How to find a suitable web hosting plan? The answer of this question is a bit complicated. It depends upon the requirement of you and your websites.For example, if you have a web development company then what kind of web hosting plan will you buy ? My answer would be Reseller Hosting Providers as I can sell the web spaces among my customers where I act like a secondary web hosting provider. You can also buy Shared hosting or Virtual Private hosting(VPS) depending upon your requirement. If you want to know more about them then you can check the web hosting tutorials from webhostingratings.com.

Things you’ve to care about before choosing a web hosting provider

Here are the list of things you have to care about before choosing a web hosting provider.

1. Web Space – What is the size of space they are providing at the give cost ? Is is cheaper than others?
2. Bandwidth – What is the limitation of bandwidth(data transfer allowed) per month allowed? Is is enough for you per month ? Is it better than the other web hosting providers?
3. Uptime – Uptime measure weather the given web hosting provider is reliable or not. For example, 99% uptime tells that you’re going to get hassle for 1 minute in every 100 minute. Is that web hosting provider has the uptime of 99.99% or not?
4. Awards – Weather the web hosting providers you’re going to choose has got any web hosting awards for their excellent service or not. This measure also justify their excellency about the service.

These are the most basic things you’ve to look after before choosing the best web hosting provider.So, if you’ve to buy a web hosting provider then I recommend to read the reviews and their features from http://webhostingrating.com .

Few days back, I was talking to a friend from Europe and we’re sharing our experience about Internet. I told him that I’m using 64 kbps broadband internet connection at home and he was shocked after hearing that. He even told me that he can’t Imagine life with such a low broadband  Connection. He is using 25-28 mpbs broadband connection at home.Now, it’s time for me to become shocked. As, I don’t know when such kind of high speed broadband connection will be available at Nepal. I hope I’ll be able to use such a great high speed Internet connection at my home at a reasonable price in near future.

Paying for 64kbps and using 800kbps connection

A interesting fact I’m goint to tell you, I use a technique to boost up the speed of Internet connection at my home.I’m not going to reveal the ISP’s name whose broadband Internet connection. Most Interestingly, I usually get the Internet connection of 800kbps at home by using this hack but the normal speed provided by the ISP is 64kbps. Sorry guys I’m also not going to reveal that technique as well otherwise my ISP will fix that hack and I won’t be able to browse at high speed . Hence, I’m paying for 64kbps speed and using around 800kbps. Thanks to Mandip, one of my neighbour, for introducing this technique to me which really helped me to boost up the broadband speed othewise watching youtube video is just a Imagnitation in the speed of 64kbps.

What I use to check the speed of broadband connection

I’m using the broadband speed test from www.broadband-expert.co.uk to test the speed of broadband Internet Connection. If you have to check the speed of your broadband Internet Connection then you can use this link to check your broadband speed. This website shows both of upload and download speed of your broadband connection.

As, I know there are diversed reader of this blog. Please post the comments to let us know  that what is the speed broadband connection you’re using at your home?

Today I’m going to talk about a new Nepali music website which I liked a lot. I couldn’t stop talking about this new website. I think there are very few music websites which are dedicated to Nepali musics. Every person loves the music of their country which gives them the musical taste of their country. I’m here to  talk about nepali music website – ProNepal.com .

What I liked in this Nepali music website that they’ve varities of nepali songs which are well categorized under various categories. I also liked the site’s simple navigation of this website. Just select the songs and start playing it from the embedded flash player from ProNepal which is also one of the plus point of this  website over the conventional musical sites which require real player for playing music.

Along with Nepali songs, this website also has different video sections dedicated for Nepali Videos. You can see the list of Nepali Video which are directly fetched from youtube.com. Furthermore, these great list of videos are categorized by artists.

The other good this about this website is Users can upload and share their music collection. Yes you can upload the musics you liked and share it among the other Nepali music fans.

In conclusion, ProNepal is a great website for Nepali music lovers who want to listen Nepali Songs from Internet. Their video category has impressed me a lot as I’ve not found such a massive collection of Nepali Videos which was directly taken from Youtube in any Nepali music website.

And I know many reader of this blog don’t understand Nepali, if you don’t then please listen to Nepali Songs and do let me know if you like it or Not.

I think most of the business websites you’ve made must have a contact form in that website. Is your contact form is the best contact form? Now you may ask me what is best contact form!!! I think a contact us form should not be a just a form for contacting you it should provide more marketing information like details of the referrers of the visitors who contact you, keyword used to search and contact you etc. for analyzing marketing detail of your website.

The bestcontactform.com provides the  web forms in with the various marketing and SEO functionality I’ve mentioned above. You can even integrate the marketing and SEO functionality in the existing web form. Most Interestingly, you can integrate their contact form with wordpress as well. Along with these features, Bestconctactform also have built-in captchas to protect against anti-spam emails.

The best part of this form is that you don’t need any programming skill to built this contact form.
If it is so easy and enriched with many features then why don’t you check their website and get this kind of contact for your business.

Today again, I’m going to talk about another website which might be very useful for the web developers  who use flash in their web application to add more interactivity to their web applications.  Flashloaded.com contains huge list of useful flash components and extension. You can buy these flash components from their website with reasonable price and even you can get few components at free of cost. Most interestingly, to use these components in flash you require very little or no coding.

These flash components are used for extending the functionality of flash. These flash components or flash extensions are installed in Flash Authoring environment(IDE).

Various Flash Components

Flashloaded.com has varieties of flash components divided in various categories like Menus, CMS, sounds and effects, charts etc. These exclusive collections of flash components or extensions can be useful to you for adding more visualization, effects and interactivity to your web based projects.

Now, I’m going to talk about few flash components from their website which I liked during my browsing to that website.

3D Menus Component

You can view the demo of 3D menu flash components in their website. You can different kind of 3D fancy in their website menu available at reasonable price. Once you buy them, you can easily create fancy menus with a very little code in your web application.

Hotflashvideo extension

Another very useful flash extension, which might be handy tool if you’re going to build a community based website or video portal. This extension allows you to easily add interactive hotspots to your Flash Video without embedding a heavy .flv into your SWF file. You can view the demo of hotstop and this extension from here.

http://www.flashloaded.com/flashcomponents/hotflashvideo/example1.html

If you click on the man in the video, you’ll see the detail of that person in the right hand side. Isn’t this a cool component?

Try Free Components

Even flashloaded.com is providing some of the components at free of cost. You can download and use them in your project. Why don’t you try and use these free flash components from flashloaded.com?

Today, I was searching for free icons for a website. And, I found a very useful website freeiconsdownloads.com. Free Icons Downloads offer over 230 high quality Royalty Free Icons sets. The best thing about them is all the Icon-set displayed in their website is free to download.You know many of similar kind of website offers high quality icons but you’ve to spend some money for this which you’ve not do in this website.

Icons divided in Various Category

There are more than 15 categories under which icons are categorized in Free Icons Download. So it will be easy for you to find the icon of certain category of your choice. Furthermore, you can browser the icon-sets by various options such as Latest, Most Downloads, Most Populars .

Useful Icons

Whenever I need icons for me, my first choice is Freeiconsdownloads as they have exclusive collections of useful items icons divided under various category. You can find the icons in that website easily navigating from different category.

Other free designing Stuff

Including free Icons,Freeiconsdownload has many other free designing stuffs like free banners, free logos and designs and interfaces. You can browser all these other free designing stuffs from the right sider bar of their website.

Have look at freeiconsdownloads.com , it very useful website for for designing stuffs which you may need on your daily works.

Customers are the backbone of business. “Maintain the old customers and get the new customers” is the basic logic behind the successful business.So, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is the vital component of your business and you should always manage good relationship with customer for the continuous growth of your business. For this, CRM software or sales automation software is used to support these processes by storing and managing information of customers and future customers.

If you want to manage the good relationship with customers  of your business and gain more customers then you can check the sales automation software from CIS group – Sales Companion. As mentioned in their site, with the help of latest mobile technology Sales Companion allows the sales representative and delivery personnel manager to manage their sales cycle.

Route Companion , a complete direct store delivery software, is a complete software solution that allows you to manage the direct store delivery activities. With the help of hand held computer devices, delivery personnel can manage their daily activities with the help of this route accounting software.

Companion suite has got very good reviews from their clients as a CRM software. The major corporate clients in business are using this software suite which includes Coca-cola, Danone, Nestle and many more. So, If you want to improve and manage customer relationship in your business then why don’t you give Companion Suite a try.

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Are you getting annoyed by spam emails? Are you spending a lot of time in deleting junk emails ? Then , you’re heading towards to get the spam filtering firewall for your incoming emails.To fight against junk emails, I recommend you to  check out anti spam filtering service provided by Primetech. I think it worth paying $2.50 per month to protect your mailbox from spam emails if you and your organization is wasting hours of to delete those emails. You might be wondering how the spam email are filtered by them. All the incoming email to your email server are routed through the Barracuda anti-SPAM servers providing maximum filtration against the junk emails

Primetec is also providing Barracuda Spam firewall. It incorporates both hardware and software to provide anti spam security of your email server protecting viruses, spam, spoofing and spyware attacks.Barracuda Span Firewall can be a safeguard for the email servers of your organization.

If you’re concerned about blocking certain website or blocking IM in your organization then you can check other products from Primetec. They are also providing web security services and products.Barracuda Web Filter can be used for content filtering, application blocking and spyware protection according to the Internet usage policy of your organization. Furthermore, you can use Barracuda IM Firewall for your organization if you want to manage the network operation of the instant messaging services. Barracuda Web Application Controllers, another product from Primentch, can be used for the protection against hackers attempting to exploit vulnerabilities in Web applications of your organization.

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One of my friend in Australia planning a flight to Nepal and it was a good news for me . It’s been a good news for me and I wanted to welcome him but don’t know when the political parties call bandh(strikes). Furthermore, crime rate is going up a bit of high these days in Nepal. It is true that traveling to any country which is new to you, is unpredictable and circumstances can be unpredictable.

I advised him for get the Travel Insurance Direct and come to Nepal. He was wondering where to get the cheap and online travel insurance and I showed his www.1cover.com.au. In Australia, most of the people are getting travel insurance from the travel agency from where people have to pay extra commission to travel agency. If you get the travel insurance from www.1cover.com.au, you’ll save around 66% of amount in travel insurance.

One of the other benefits this company is that they’re providing online travel insurance policy via Internet. You can get the quote from their website. If you’re traveling to Nepal, then check their website why do you need to get the travel insurance!!

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Previously, this blog was hosted under a web server provided by a local web hosting provider out here in Nepal. I had few problems with that hosting provider and made up my mind to change the web hosting provider and I didn’t know which provider will be the best to choose among many found in the Internet.

Before choosing the web hosting provider, you should consider these main important factors and features in that server,

1) Uptime of server
2) Provided web space and allowed band-width per month
3) Allowed domains per account
4) The bonus features provided in particular product
5) The feedback or review provided by other users
6) Price per year

After all, I’ve chosen bluehost.com for the web hosting of this blog and of my other websites. Many many thanks to http://webhostinggeeks.com for the reviews of various web hosting providers in their website. As, you can see in their home page there are the list of top 10 web hosting providers and these top ten provider are based upon their features, price and the other bonus features. And, for each hosting provider in their list, they’ve all the details displayed in their website. Monitoring the uptime of various web hosting provider has been the one of the best feature for me in their website. Uptime gives the idea that how reliable that particular web hosting provider is. It can be measure for choosing best provider if you don’t want your website to be down many times in a day.

Furthermore, every web hosting provider endorses their product s is the best in the market but the crucial thing is user’s feedback about that hosting provider and thanks to webhostinggeeks for web hosting reviews on their website. You can read the other user’s feedback in their website before choosing any web hosting provider.And, you can post your own review about your web hosting provider in this website.

Finally, if you think you need more information for choosing your web hosting provider then you can check web hosting articles on their website. There are very useful information, articles and posts about various web hosting resources in this section. These high quality articles might be very useful for choosing appropriate and best web hosting provider for you.

Have you accessed this blog through your mobile phones or PDA? It looks very big and totally inaccessible from those devices. These blog is basically designed and formatted to be fitted for the PC not for the small screened devices.And, you might know that the sites designed for mobile devices are known as “WAP sites” as it uses Wireless Application and they are designed to be fitted for the small screened mobile devices.

I was looking to create a WAP site to promote this blog on the mobile devices and today my search is over. I found a fantastic website called http://www.mobilemo.com/. You can create mobile sites in simple and easy way using tools available in this website. Mobilemo offers a user-friendly platform to create and manage mobile website for the people all around the world. You can promote your classified website, auction websites, blogs through Mobilmo by creating mobile sites in a fly . Most interestingly, they’ve easy to use interface for creating mobile website which is great for those people who are not much familiar with web development. I’ve just created a mobile site on www.mobilemo.com/roshanbh. I’m customizing the layout of this site soon. Mobilemo provides background templates and customizable color schemes which can’t be found in other plain text WAP sites. Furthermore, Mobilemo also provides an interactive emulator which shows how mobile sites will look like when viewed through a mobile devices and previews the changes made in real-time. If you are looking to create mobile sites for your business then at least give a try and sign up to http://www.mobilemo.com.

Today, I was talking with my friend who stays in Ripon, a city of England. He wanted to buy a medium-size vehicle and I’ve suggested him to buy Land Rover vehicle.He said he couldn’t afford it. Then I showed him a website which provides various services for LandRover like providing Loan for vehicles, servicing of vehicles and you can also buy preowned vehicles from them.

Their website is http://www.riponlandrover.co.uk.Ripon Land Rover is established before 25 years ago and you know experience does count a lot. They offer wide range of new and preowned vehicle. Most importantly, they’ve fully qualified Land Rover trained technicians.These highly qualified professionals work 7 days in a week for providing their services. And, if your vehicle’s body is damaged, don’t worry they do repair the body of your vehicle as well. I know some people can’t afford buy a vehicle, but don’t worry they will also provide loan and finance for buying new and preowned vehicle from their store.If you are staying in that region then I highly recommend you to use their service for buying vehicle, for repairing vehicle and also for buying quality parts of your vehicle.