Category Archives: Other ISVs

Need a lightweight CRM?

By Dennis Gurock | January 16, 2006

If you need a lightweight CRM (customer relationship management) software, make sure to check out Magna CRM from Rapid Signal. Dimitris, the founder of Rapid Signal, just recently released the Beta of Magna CRM. I tested it and it’s looking great. I tested some other CRMs in the past and most of them were just […]

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Using VMware Player as a marketing tool

By Dennis Gurock | October 25, 2005

The new free VMware Player could be a great tool for ISVs to help prospective customers evaluate their software easier and faster (just as I noted in my last posting). ISVs could offer fully preconfigured virtual machines with their trial software and interested users could get the software up and running in just a minute. […]

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Vi emulation for Visual Studio

By Tobias Gurock | August 13, 2005

I finally found some time to install and test ViEmu, a vi emulation add-in for Visual Studio released two weeks ago. In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, this ‘vi’ thing is a very popular editor for Unix and Linux and ViEmu emulates its input model within the Visual Studio environment.
Although I use […]

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Enhancing code comments with voice recordings?

By Tobias Gurock | August 4, 2005

Yesterday I found a preview of an add-in for the Visual Studio family which lets you add voice recordings to your code comments. It’s called VoiceComments.
Here’s how it works. VoiceComments basically lets you record your voice and inserts a special link to the recording into your code. This link is a normal text comment and […]

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