One of the key differences between quality software and buggy software, is the amount of time the developer devotes to testing of their product. Generally speaking, only large software development companies have the resources to devote to a full time QA testing department. That’s not always the case, but generally it is and it shows in the quality of their software. For many new development firms, it’s often quite a hurdle to get their development team more involved in the testing of the software. I can relate, after spending quite a few years as a software developer. As much as I enjoyed developing software, I always hated testing my programs. And to be honest, having developers test their own stuff is not always a good idea.

There is a solution to this problem, ant that is employing the use of external software QA services. Basically, your outsourcing the testing of your programs. It’s a good solution for a number of reasons. First of all, it frees your skilled developers to do what it is they do best. That is crank out tons and code, and find innovative design solutions for complex business problems. Secondly, it gives the testing of your software to someone that doesn’t have a personal interest in seeing the programs run perfectly. They want to break your software, and they need to think more like an end user than a developer to do that. So, if you can’t afford an in house QA team, that’s probably a good thing, because a better solution would be to have professional third party companies run your software through it’s paces.

Nowadays with all the things floating around the internet, viruses are the least of your worries.  Spyware is actually recording what you type and what you look at and sending it to a third party.  Usually it is just for advertising purposes, but sometimes it is for something much more sinister.  Getting rid of it [...]

When a registry file becomes corrupted there are a number of steps you can take to repair it. If the issue causes a blue screen exception, affecting how the system boots, then the following sequence of actions could help resolve the issue. As a last resort, a Reimage review is included to highlight software options for repairs.

I recently experienced a blue screen error with the message – critical service failed. From research, this means that an application (running as a service) failed to initialize correctly due to its registry configuration being corrupted (missing/erroneous key entries).

This DLGuard review provides some insight into how this tool automates online sales from your own web server and, importantly, how it is able to secure download links from being shared.

Back in 2008 I had started writing ebooks and plug-in software and needed a way to sell them from my site. A colleague recommended DLGuard as a reliable sales tool that specialized in download sales management.

These days, it seems like there is just so much software floating around, that you have to wonder if it’s worth spending the money to have custom software developed for your business or personal use.  Well, being one of the many people who comprise the population known as custom developers, I must say that it [...]

The need to secure your computer is more pronounced than ever before. The number of malicious files, websites, and programs are increasing every day. What complicates matters even more is that there are unscrupulous people who create viruses, malware, and spyware just so that they can use them to market their own security software. Others [...]