Gadgets & Tech Blog
1 Jun
An employee monitoring software is a means of employee monitoring, and allows company administrators to monitor and supervise all their employee computers from a central location. It is normally deployed over a business network and allows for easy centralized log viewing via one central networked PC. This is something that I think I should start using within the company instead of the old school card swipe time clock since it seems to keep on getting broken almost very frequently. I have seen how a productivity meter works and I think this will really help us with the employee monitoring, especially with people that seems to have a hobby of reporting late for work. I have checked all resources and it is possible to have the system in a short period of time. I can also monitor people from visiting malicious web sites that contain nudity and pornography that often carry chunks of malwares and viruses. With a centralized system, it would also be easier to track the people who work hard and who are the slackers in the company. I can finally create the employee incentives that we have been delivering for months because the system will be able to give us more data for our criteria.
29 Apr
A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data. Initially, bar codes symbolized data in the widths and the spacing of parallel lines, and may be referred to as linear or 1D (or one dimensional) barcodes or symbologies. They also come in patterns of squares, dots, hexagons and other geometric patterns within images termed 2D (two dimensional) matrix codes or symbologies. Although 2D systems use symbols other than bars, they are generally referred to as barcodes as well. I find it really amusing that by using a bunch of lines, barcode scanners can actually identify items and other things exactly what it is for or what it stands for. This inventory control software is really remarkable as it makes things easier when checking the exact number of items inside an establishment. This is one thing that really gives comfort to a lot of people, especially in department stores, because they would immediately know how many stocks do they have, how many items of the same kind got sold, and how many items remaining do they have in a single flash of light from the scanner. And as I believe, barcodes are also used nowadays in identification cards using a special time and attendance software that can easily record attendance within a company. this should make the human resource department easier because everything is computer generated and in just a matter of minutes, they would automatically know who’s on time and who is not, unlike before when most companies were still using time cards, they have to wait for fifteen days or more to see how the attendance went.
2 Mar
I am looking for some cd cover software or so it would be easier for me to print out my covers and labels in my business. I am currently running a photo and video shooting business and I’m having some real hard time making covers for the CDs and the covers because I always have to resize everything whenever I already have the finish product. What made it harder is the fact that I don’t only get one CD order, but I always get a lot and that means I have to make a lot. The CD or DVD copying is easy, it’s just printing covers that annoys me. I just can’t wait to finf a dvd cover creator software to make the job easier!
10 Jun
For the past 5 years I have been working as a web developer. I had a background about web developing and programming through college. Immediately after my graduation I have worked as a programmer for a software development company and after a year of thorough experience I have transferred to another company wherein i have learned more advanced. It is where I have discovered my hobby which is designing and web programming. After assessing my skills and myself, I resigned from work to set up a business of my own. I hired staffs who are tasked to encode and to do programming while I do all the database design. Fortunately my venture into business is a success and currently I am continually expanding my staff and the services that I render to my clients. Because of the success of my career I was able to buy my own house and now I am planning on putting up another business or investing in stocks. It may not be easy to attain all my achievements but through hard work and patience I have come to be what I am right now.
21 Mar
Project management software may facilitate tasks to some, but to many business owners, it’s often a pain, spending day in and day out trying to configure a bulky and complicated “one size fits all” project management software with zillions of bells and whistles that are completely irrelevant to your small business! Application developers will charge your arm and leg to have it configured for your needs and when your business model changes these configs become obsolete!
Make Sure It’s Really Easy
Using only a few clicks you will be able to see a Make sure a complete picture of the basic metrics of your project including tasks, open and fixed issues, customers’ requests, timesheets is easy to view and access. Creating a new task or activity and assigning it to a member of your team has to take less than 30 seconds!
Make Sure It’s Easy To Customize and Expand
A good easy project management solution absolutely must enable you to customize user interface according to your company policies and culture as well as provide for adding custom fields to the projects, any task and activity type. If you need even deeper customization, some software companies that are involved in developing software for project management, provide an option of obtaining the source code package. This means that the final product can be easily adapted to your business requirements or integrated into your existing system.
Multiple Project Roles and Access Levels
This is crucial. Multi-level permissions based on the user’s role in a project are a must-have if you have a project manager, customer, quality assurance specialists, technicians – all in one bundle working on the same project. Each member should have different access rights and can work only with the parts of the project that are available to them. Of course, each role should be restricted to certain actions such as deleting the project or task, submitting a new request, assigning resources, etc. Projects and activities have to have multiple levels and sublevels of hierarchy so that they could be split tasks into smaller chunks, each of those having specific deadlines and team members assigned, specify timeframes and categories which helps you eat the elephant bite by bite!
Message Boards and Communications
A very useful feature that will facilitate team collaboration. You must be able to attach a discussion board to each of your project tasks not only because two heads are better than one but also because it helps make individuals a team. This will help your team to improve communications and keep track of all discussions. It always helps to have a video conferencing or web collaboration feature in addition to it to liven it up a bit.
Customer Requests Tracking
You absolutely have to have the ability to keep track of all customer requests. Moreover, other members of the team should be granted rights to view or not to view them. In most smaller enterprise project management systems this feature is actually integrated with the message board functionality. Either a customer or a project manager should be able to submit these requests and the hours spent on the tasks (even if they are out of the original project details or specification) will be logged separately and linked to your billing system. Auto-assigning add-on really helps too. Once a new customer request has been submitted, it should be automatically converted to a task and assigned to a specific team member, based on your or customer preferences. Immediately after being assigned, it appears on that member’s task list.
Email Notifications
Can’t do without it. This feature will keep your teamsters updated real-time and will enhance the team communication. Each person involved in the project will be able to receive an email when the task or project he is working on is changed or assigned to him, or retrieve an email when needed if certain backdated information is needed.
This article is for those who need a simple web based project management software to manage relatively small projects. As the size of the project grows, the list of must-have features obviously grows by adding issue or bug tracking, timesheets, milestones tracking, files upload and processing, statistics and reporting, import / export abilities and much more. Remember that it’s you not the developer who has to determine the final set of modules your PM software will have.