Happenings at Armia Systems, Inc

SonicBB - Free message forum software

Filed under: Scripts, New projects — Aji Abraham @ 2:58 pm

One of internet’s most successful area is in creating communities. Starting from the News groups in the olden days to the social networking communities at YouTube and Digg are the prime examples. Web allowed us to transcend the geographical boundaries when it comes to common cause.

Armia Systems, Inc introduces SonicBB , a brand new message forum software for creating your own virtual community. You can create this community for your business or social causes.
SonicBB<>/font is a user-friendly and fully customizable bulletin board package. SonicBB is compatible with any web server/operating system combo with PHP and mySQL. SonicBB is the ideal community software for all web sites. It provides maximum control for the board administrator without hindering usability of users. You can set up your forum in minutes thanks to the easy to use installer.

SonicBB allows you to effortlessly create, manage and promote your online community
SonicBB is designed to meet all your community creation requirements.

SonicBB’s major features include

Unlimited forums and categories!
Powerful search facility - find posts and threads quickly!
Fully configurable, categorize your forums into categories
Easy theme selection
Easy HTML editor for posting messages (allows bolding/italics/underlining etc.)
Moderator capability (can be used to monitor and prevent unwanted messages)
Unlimited Message capability
Smiley manager
Create “Sticky” threads

Some of the main features in the pipeline includes integration of image galleries with the forum, so that users can display the images. You can find more detailed information at SonicBB.com web site. You can download SonicBB and other open source, customizable software from Armia Systems at iScripts.com
As usual SonicBB is an open source bulletin board software. You can modify it to meet your specific requirements. We would be happy to customize it if you would like us to modify the software for a small fee.

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eSwap - Online swapping platform software

Filed under: Scripts, New projects — Aji Abraham @ 5:13 pm

In the recent months there was an influx of swapping platform focusing on different vertical / geographical markets. The reason for this increase in the swapping web sites is simple.� For a lot of items in the consumer to consumer market place happen way below its intrinsic value.�

For example if you try to sell a used text book you paid $100 to your college store,� you would be lucky if you get back $20-$30. Try to buy the same book very next day from the same store; it would cost you upwards of $75.00. Why does it happen? It’s not because your college store is greedy. Well, that’s part of the reason.. also all the cost associated with the middleman. Same is the case when you sell your used car to the dealership. If you try to buy the same car from the same dealership, you will be surprised to find out the difference between the buying price and selling price is way off.

When a consumer sell something to a business, normally the transaction happen below it’s intrinsic value.

When a consumer buys a used item from a business it happens above the intrinsic value. Always there is a winner and loser. Unfortunately we have been doing business this way for very long time. Since we invented currency.. Before it we had the barter system. In the barter system, the trades are more equitable.

Recently Newyork times wrote about the new crop of swap websites in this articleYou can spend months of development and a lot of money to create a swapping website. Or you can use the software from Armia Systems, Inc. The software is called eSwap . It is a � complete swapping platform to get you to start a swap website within few hours. �

eSwap allows you to set up a swap website with an escrow service. The administrator of the site can specify if the escrow is provided or not. Admin can also specify different categories, commission for listing items for swap. You can have any number of categories and products. It has built in support for paypal and credit card merchant account. The affiliate program allows you to market your swapping site through of referrals.

Users can post items to swap or sell. They can also list items in their wish list so that others would know what they are willing trade. �

This comprehensive piece of software is developed in PHP with mySQL database and is piced at only $149.95. as always Armia Systems, Inc engineers are available to provide any customization and to install the software for you. You can purchase the software through iScripts.com store� � � � � �

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August 25, 2006

Web customer survey script - iScripts.com EasySurveys

Filed under: Scripts, New projects — Aji Abraham @ 3:15 pm

How do know, what somebody want? Ask them. It’s that simple. But ask yourself, how often you talk to web customers? How often you ask their opinion about the products you have? And about the products you don’t have?

Here is a small, yet powerful script for your you to ask your customers, your site visitors what they want, how they like something, and what else what they want.

This script is called iScripts.com easy surveys. It allows you to create unlimited number of surveys. You can have any number of questions in the surveys. Any type of questions, only limited by your imagination. Once you finish create the questionnaire you need to contact your potential audience. You have two options. One provide a link from your web page requesting your customer/ potential customer to take the survey. Or you can send the survey by email.

You can import your mailing list from a database, excel spreadsheet or cut and paste. You send the survey to your mailing and ask them to take a survey. They can respond and submit from their email client itself. No need to login to your site for doing so.

You can have one mailing list per survey or share the mailing list from survey to survey. Once the survey is completed, you, the administrator will have the aggregate information in very nice graphic reports. Of course you can drill down to more details, with a click of a button.

There are a number of hosted survey solutions in the market field. They charge you for each survey. Why pay every time to talk to your customer? After all they are your customer.

iScripts.com EasySurveys software is listed for only $49.95 for unlimited surveys. As always, the software is open source. So if you want to make any changes, you can do it yourself. Or we will be happy to make any customization you need for a very small fee. It is a PHP software with mySQL databse.

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July 28, 2006

Happy system admin appreciation day

Filed under: General stuff, SupportPRO — Aji Abraham @ 1:48 pm

Today , July 28^th,third annual Systems Administrator Appreciation Day, when we pay � respect to a sometimes forgotten segment of the IT workforce. They work day and night, rain or snow to make sure the internet information super highway is humming along just fine.

Happy SAAD! To all system admins out there! And special thanks to our own SupportPRO system admins, who makes sure the servers which we mange are working like as they should and power more than 100,000 websites. Thank you and we love you!

SysAdminDay.com, host of System Administrator Appreciation Day, has a number of gift suggestions for your system admin. Main items are electronic toys, video games and free pizza. If you feel compelled to send gifts to our sys admins, you are most welcome. I doubt if Domino’s will be able to deliver pizza to our support center in Kochi, south India in 30 minutes or less:)

SysAdminDay was first celebrated on 27 July 2001. Now its pegged on � the last Friday in July.

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July 13, 2006

SupportPRO at HostingCon, the web hosting conference in Las Vegas

Filed under: General stuff, SupportPRO — Aji Abraham @ 11:28 pm

SupportPRO will be participating the second annual HostingCon in Las Vegas this year. If you are not familiar with HostingCon, its the only trade show for web hosting industry. Last year HostingCon was in Chicago. This year it is in Vegas, baby.Since SupportPRO’s main clientele are web hosting companies we will be in the HostingCon 2006� to meet potential clients and partners. So if you are in Vegas this July 17-19 come visit us. We will be in Mirage, Las Vegas. Our booth is #604.� You can learn a lot about the entire hosting/ISP industry from the conference.I booked the flight/hotel few weeks back. Now just wrapping with brochures, flyers, banners etc for supportPRO in the tradeshow. it looks like its too late for printing freebies to be handed out. So we are planning to give out an ipod or PSP to the visitors. I like the idea of giving out ipod better.

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Messagecloud, next generation comment collector

Filed under: Web sites, New projects — Aji Abraham @ 7:40 pm

MessageCloud changes the way you communicate with your audience. It offers you an unsrpassed way to capture feedback from your visitors about specific issues. Unlike traditional applications, it transcends the media.

You can think of MessageCloud as a Guestbook on teh go. Instead of a guestbook fixed to a web site, you can take it with you for any application, site, web page, picture anything you want to get feedback from your audienece

It For example you have a new picture, article, music, post, etc.. in your site, myspace, a forum, blog, classifieds, craigslist you can easily obtain the feedback from your audience. You will know which places it was received well. Who thought it needs some more work.

MessageCloud is a Web 2.0 application from Armia Systems, Inc developed using AJAX. Of course it’s free for users.

Please lets know what do you think of it.

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iScripts MultiCart is released

Filed under: Scripts, New projects — Aji Abraham @ 2:37 pm

There are few hundreds of shopping cart software out there. So why one more? Good question.
This is not a shopping cart. This is a business model in a package. A business model internet was supposed to be delivering - the aggregator business model.
There are a number of niche markets out there which cannot be supported by local shops. The reason is demand� from the local region� is not able to sustain the business. We have seen these types of businesses migrating to the web very successfully. There are� some other businesses where the suppliers are scattered and� � low yielding. One of the prime example is handcrafts market. There are a number of hand crafters out there. most do it as a hobby or part time business. for them marketing directly to consumers is an expensive proposition.

That’s where the iScripts.com Multicart comes. Multicart enables you to act as the aggregator, while giving full control to the suppliers. Take a look at HandCraftsWeb for an example of implementation of multicart in the handcrafts market. Suppliers can add products, enter the prices, descriptions, select shipping methods, provide their profile etc.. When user comes in, they view the see the store as a regular store with product from multiple suppliers just like regular retail storefront. Consumers purchase items from the store and they get, the products in the mail. For the consumer there is difference in the shopping experience. You the aggregator collects money from the consumer based on the price set by the seller. You keep a percentage for your efforts and service (say 10-25%). Credits rest of the amount to the seller. Seller can request money from you based on thresholds you set.
For you the aggregator, your responsibility is to run the site, do marketing, get sellers sign up. Sellers responsibility is to make products, list them for sale and ship the item when they receive an order from you.Naturally the script accepts payment, it has categories. It has interfaces for consumers, sellers, and administrator.
Take look at Multicart for details about this unique web software. It is done using php/mySQL.

As always, we can customize it to meet your specific requirements. Drop us a line.

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February 2, 2006

Automatically back up your hard drive online or local drive

Filed under: Web sites, New projects, General stuff — Aji Abraham @ 6:59 pm

Aaahh hard drive backup. It is up there with flossing, balancing your checkbook. You know you should. But you don’t. There are number of excuses. And one day it happens. It always happens when it’s most inappropriate. You stare at the computer for some time at the blue screen. Try rebooting it. Twice. Now you start panicking. Then you are into denial. No, this cannot happen to me.. You kick yourself and the reality slowly sink in.. your hard drive is fried. AND YOU DON’T HAVE A BACKUP

What is the probability a hard drive will fail? It is one hundred percent. All hard drives will fail. No matter how important data you have on it. Only question is it fails on you. But you know that already. Don’t you?

If its so damn important to back up why people don’t do it? I will agree it is really difficult. Everyday or every week to remember doing the backup. And wait doing nothing your computer is actually backing up. We all have lives. Who has time to do it?

Well its changed. Now spend 5 minutes to set up automated backup with Backup2Net, you don’t have to remember it ever again. This new automated powerful software will keep doing it for you. How do you want to set up the backup? You can backup your hard drive to the same drive, another drive, a network drive or an online server. The security of the backup is in the order of same drive, another drive, a network drive or an online server. Which method you want to do depends what if you loose the data? What’s it worth to you?

Backing up on the same drive has some protection. If you delete something by accident you will have a backup to go back. If you only one drive on your computer that’s one way. But if your hard drive fried you loose your data and backup. But its better than nothing.

You can download the software from Backup2net.com and set up to do a backup every day, every night, once in two days, once a week, month whatever.

If you have only one drive, Go buy one. Hard drives are pretty cheap nowadays. So if you have 2 drives use one as the primary drive and other one as the secondary drive. Download backUP2Net from HERE and select the folders you want to back up. Then select the backup drive as the destination. Select a when you want to do the backup automatically. It would be fine if you select to do the backup every day say 2 am. If you are a night owl lets make it say 5 am. Point select is a time when you are not using the computer.

Backing up to another drive offers more protection than backing up to same drove. If one drive is hosed you have the other one to protect your data. Still there are some situations when you can loose both drives. If operating decides, its time, you are in trouble. So you need to protect some of your valuable data in another location. Information that must want to retain. Things like financial info, home works, creative works, emails etc..

For that added security you need an online backup solution. Surprise… surprise.. Backup2Net can help out here too. If you don’t have much of the junk you can select the free backup plan, which gives you 100MB server space. You can sign up for the free plan HERE. If you need more space you can select from different plans and choose enough space.

In the same Backup2Net client you can set up online backup also. If the previous example you set up daily backup at 2 am to the backup drive. Now lets set up an online backup. Select a new backup job in the software. Select the folders you must protect as the source. For the destination select online backup. Now select to do the backup say every Wednesday at 3am or 4 am .

That’s it you are all set. The automated software will take backup of your precious data every day to the secondary drive and every week to online server. If something backup happens you can restore selected files with a click of a button. Happy backing Up!

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May 10, 2007

iScripts SocialWare - The Social Networking Engine

October 18, 2006

SonicBB - Free message forum software

September 12, 2006

eSwap - Online swapping platform software

August 25, 2006

Web customer survey script - iScripts.com EasySurveys

July 28, 2006

Happy system admin appreciation day

July 13, 2006

SupportPRO at HostingCon, the web hosting conference in Las Vegas

Messagecloud, next generation comment collector

iScripts MultiCart is released

February 2, 2006

Automatically back up your hard drive online or local drive

January 24, 2006

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