What is Site24X7 beta

Do you have a website?
And if your service provider never cares to provide you a site availability report, here is the magical tool which does the following capabilities

1) monitors the URL
2) checks for a supplied keywords on your site for eg any important keyword on your content, there are 2 uses of this

a) to check whether the site is been hacked
b) if your content is database driven the words are checked, hence to ensure your website database is working perfectly

3) Allows you follow a sequence of page tracking on your site
4) Alerts through email, provides with additional email fields to alert your service provider or your friend or boss
5) provides you excellent graphical report of Availability and Response time history
6) you can have your alerts through SMS
7) All this for Free

So get started, Register now and get your sites monitored for Free.

What is Site24X7 beta?
Site 24X7 beta is a URL monitoring tool, i.e a website monitoring tool to check for Availability

Wonderful tool for the network and system administrators, if they had to monitor their company website.
Opmanager- Network monitoring software too, has this feature, so Network administrators can also use the URL monitor feature available with Opmanager

Technorati Tags: url monitor, network administrator, system administrator, adventnet, opmanager, site24X7, monitoring, website, availability, response time,

Howto screenshot as 300DPI

The other day we were working for the NewYork trade show Artwork and we wanted to take a ManageEngine Opmanager screen snapshot and make a billboard.
Task: What you see on the computer screen is 72 DPI where as on print what we need atleast a minimum of 100 DPI better one of 300 DPI

Howto:
Desire output

Using Adobe Photoshop and using your normal screen capture method ALT + Printscreen (to get the highlighted or active window) or just Printscreen (to get the entire desktop), you could get the desired 300DPI

Step 1

Capture your desired screen

Step 2

Open Adobe Photoshop and choose File ->New
enter the resolution as 300 DPI
press ctrl +v on PC please find the equivalent on Macintosh (Mac users please suggest the key equivalent on my comments area)

Step 3

Crop the desire area using your marquee tool

step 4
You are done, currently this screenshot is 300 DPI and by using your move tool move the screenshot to your desired artwork

Technorati Tags: screenshot, capture, printscreen, screencapture, 300DPI, 72DPI, DPI, opmanager, howto, manageengine, adobe, photoshop

Howto -Printing Background colors : browser setup

We have been working on ManageEngine -> Opmanager -> MSP product and faced a situation on printing reports.

Task Print graph:

The task was to print to graph which had the border and color filled.
we searched around IE and Firefox browser

Firefox was little intelligent – they showed the option under File -> Page setup



Well IE (internet Explorer) usability was bit tough they placed it under
Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced (tab) -> on the printing section

Next time you want your reports to have the color filled remember to have these setup on your browsers.

Technorati Tags: opmanager, opmanagermsp, msp, manageengine, print, printing, background, options, trick, tips, printing background, reports, browser, IE, firefox, usability, howto

Adventnet Japan

I like japanese people for 3 reasons, They are kind of inspiration when it comes to work for me.

1. Hardwork – I don’t have to comment
2. Perfection – ” “
3. Respect – he would bend his head down thousand times (bow) while we had a conversation

I am about to introduce Yoshiyuki Sone, collegue of mine who works at Adventnet Japan, he is the sales specialist. He has all the above qualities and one more exceptional reason for me to talk about him

His Hair style rocked Adventnet Chennai, He had been here yesteday meeting all members of the Opmanager Team, beleive me he was the center of attraction

So here he is

Click on the image to have a larger version
Well actually it is 4 reason for Yoshiyuki Sone, I asked him how does he maintain his hair style, do you apply Hairstyling gel, He said  “Yes”
cool personality

Technorati Tags: adventnet, opmanager, team, japanese, hardwork, perfection, respect, japan

My Picasa 2 Web Albums My experience

I had been on vacation with my friends and family tour, When I came back I didn’t have option to show all the images to all my friends. Yeah I know we have lots of websites which offer you free upload of images and allow you to view them, but the toughest part was to upload all these images one after the other, that was really a pain.

I am sure most of you would have experienced the same with flickr or other website which offer you this service.

Google seems to understand the users expectation all the time. The users pain.

I had picasa installed already on my machine, After I got the invite they presented an update on Picasa, felt do I really need to update my Picasa. After I did, it was a wonderful experience.

As I too work on a product Opmanager as the User Interface Designer, I find really find the user experience approach of google to be amusing.
The minute you login to the destop version of picasa and configure the google online account with picasa you are done.
Things which were magic on the picasa desktop

1. select the images right click Choose “upload to web Album”
2. Choices you get
3. You can create a new album
4. post your images to the existing one

All selected images got uploaded successfully, with out you knowing, you could go and take cup of coffee, by that time things are done

Things which I loved on the online version

1. The Zappy thumbnail sizes offered automatically all I had was huge image which was neatly sized with respect for 3 dimension, small, medium and large
2. ( what else can I expect from the product more)
3. Oh Yeah the online Url which will let others to view the images well here is one that I experienced

Well I forgot to tell you one thing, I was able to Blog about a photo of mine right inside the Picasa desktop client.

Too good to be true. here is my http://vinodvv.blogspot.com/ only drawback on the blogging tool is not the ability to post on other blogging sites

Technorati Tags: user experience, google, picasa, flickr, opmanager, usability

Don’t Just Stop with Website for promotion

I remember yesterday evening I was saying the same thing to DevAnand, If Opmanager MSP needs to come to top in search engine you need more people to talk about Opmanager MSP in the blogs and you more potential customers on the website.

Why Blog? why not just google ads? Website Keywords, description etc ?
Simple there are other sites which are more popular than your websites, Where more people come there to collaborate, discuss, talk, express and what not. If more people are going to talk about your product, more the response you get from technorati. so you listing gets improved in Google or other search engines like yahoo, MSN

Do remember Yahoo is still the KING and then google after which is MSN.

Here is a little stat on what helped this Blog hits go up.

To name a few

1. Delicious
2. Technorati
3. Digg
4. Furl
5. fark

And here is nice article which on the Yahoo News which gives an idea Why blogs also helps?

PS: for those who don't know what OpManager is "Opmanager is Network monitoring Software" which is under the brand name ManageEngine and is a product of Adventnet , in short terms it is nothing but a – Mapping – Monitoring – Alerting – Reporting tool. if you need to know more about the software you check this link of opmanager, Opmanager MSP is another flavour for the MSP (Managed Service Provider) and the link is right here.

Technorati Tags: website, blogs, website promotion, technorati, digg, furl, delicious, google, yahoo, msn, opmanager, opmanager msp, adventnet, manageengine

Indian Wal*Mart – Certainly Low prices

Largest collection of Low cost home appliances under one roof is the theme for this store.
Location: India, TamilNadu, chennai, TNagar, ( total of 7 stores available)

P.S:This is not Wal*Mart but certainly this store in India is trying to achieve that. This is easy way of saying to international market that we too have a store just like walmart in India (Saravana Stores).

Guess Who it is "Saravana Stores"

My Experience 5 years before, I had been to the store to buy some home appliances, but by the very attitude of the salesman I got pissed off I let my self decide that I will not step inside this shop in my life time.

My Current Experience: I should thank Dev for this, when we had a chat he question me won't you buy an article in this store which is at-least 1% lesser than current market. I said no, all i need is user experience.
Well that whole thing changed because of my wife, she too got the info that Saravana store was much cheaper than any where else.
We stepped in and I was quite surprised a huge mall, you cannot count the visible heads because they move in all direction , well I joined the gang. I didn't have a cart to collect the things which I wanted to buy all I was given was a carry bag. And the biggest surprise was the price, I recently purchased a mobile Nokia N70 at an affordable price as I said 1% lesser than the current market value and with 9 months EMI at zero % interest on my Credit card.

Who the F* else gives me on this price.

One thing which I would like to comment. My company Adventnet offers wide range of products for the enterprise IT at an affordable price. same as the way Walmart or Saravana stores. But I guarantee you that we have better support than saravana stores in that matter

Conclusion: The best place to buy articles at a cheaper price in chennai, my best bet is Saravana stores, One thing which I expect from them is the service which they still lag one salesman for atleast 15 customers is a nightmare for the customer as well as for the salesman

Technorati Tags: Affordable, low price, adventnet, saravana stores, walmart, nokia n70, userExperience, Adventnet

Market your products with Ipod

This site seems to make the best use of Ipod, Who ever got bored with an Ipod can expect your favour be done from other peer users. Do make your Offer, Let other choose to accept it. And Wise – Versa.

I remember Dev saying "Why don't we give an Ipod to our customers as a promotional offer to get user quotes for our ManageEngine products" Well this site is not of much help for him any way, as our target audience are not users of this site.

My Boss use to say, "The ipod mini Which I possess is antique one, one day I will find the value". I didn't expect it to be found very soon.

But if you want to get or sell your ipod for a favour this is the site