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Luxand offers the owners of photo-sharing and dating websites a new type of search engine that relies on the latest facial recognition technology to find photos of people and organize them for quick retrieval.

New Photo Search Engine for Photosharing Websites

Luxand has announced Luxand Face SDK 1.7, a unique facial-mapping engine that enables a website to find people by faces. Until recently, most searches worked by searching the text description surrounding the photo or the meta data. The engine from Luxand uses the latest face recognition technology to find all photos with the same person by the face, rather than words.To enable the facial search, the library scans and indexes all faces found in the photographs on the website. Then when the user wants to find someone, he needs to upload a photograph with this person to the website and the engine goes to work. It analyses the uploaded photo, detects the face, extracts its feature characteristics and matches them against thousands of other photographs in the picture database. In a matter of a few seconds, the engine displays all images, in which that exact person was found.

Unique to the Luxand’s engine is its outstanding matching accuracy. Unlike similar technologies, the library matches every single feature of the person’s face with its counterpart on the photographs from the database. The comparison accuracy of the algorithm has been checked in FERET tests and found to be the best in the category as compared to the face recognition implemented in competing commercial systems.

In addition to the facial search, the algorithm can be used to organize a large collection of photos by automatically tagging all the pictures where it finds one and the same person. The user simply needs to upload a photo and tell who the person is in this image. Then the algorithm will find all other pictures where this individual appears and tag them automatically. Automatic tagging is a great time saver for users who share hundreds of photos online as there’ll be no need for them to spend time adding tags manually.

“Our engine is an incredibly useful tool for anyone who needs to find the person but doesn’t know the name or cannot find him by textual queries,” says Alex Konoplev, CEO of Luxand. “Automatic labeling of photos using face recognition is also a great feature for the users of photo-sharing, dating or social sites like Facebook or MySpace, who demand more creative and easy ways to share and enjoy their photos with others.”

Luxand FaceSDK 1.7 is cross-platform and available for Windows, Linux and Macintosh. For more information about the product, technical details about its implementation and advice, visit http://www.luxand.com/facesdk/.

Perpetuum Software has announced the availability of .Net ModelKit Suite 3.8, a suite of four components that enable .NET developers to create BI applications for reporting, data processing and visualization. Tight integration between components of the suite ensures fluidity in every aspect of your workflow, providing similar design-time and runtime customization facilities, common data management and appearance customization. All suite components are written in C# and contain only 100% managed code.

Create Business Intelligence Applications for Reporting, Data Processing and Visualization

The suite combines new versions of OLAP ModelKit^TM and Report Sharp-Shooter^TM, the use-proven Business Intelligence components for intelligent data handling and feature-rich presentation. Another component is the Instrumentation ModelKit^TM which is ideal for creating digital dashboards and KPI, offering an unmatched collection of over 130 ready-made gauges and other visual controls. Also included in .Net ModelKit Suite is the Chart ModelKit component which is designed for creating interactive charts and graphs. The components delivered in the suite minimize the coding required and provide full design-time customization.

Top 5 new benefits of .Net ModelKit Suite 3.8

The suite has been evolving over the last two years and has seen many technological improvements. The following is an overview of just some of the many exciting features and benefits you’ll find in .Net ModelKit Suite.

#1: Work with the latest Microsoft tools - Experience a new level of performance and speed using the .Net ModelKit Suite components with Visual Studio 2008.

#2: Expand your reporting with new amazing abilities - Report Sharp-Shooter offers QR Barcode, which is very popular in Japan due to its efficient encoding of Kanji characters.

#3: Reduce time for templates development - Reports Sharp-Shooter offers master style support that eliminates the need to duplicate styles. Now, styles specified in the master report are available in sub reports, and they can be assigned to any report element. The unified style of master reports and sub reports makes your reporting system more professional.

# 4: Evaluate the product with new attractive samples - New to this version is a set of sample charts and gauges with attractive styles for Instrumentation ModelKit and Chart ModelKit.

#5: Enjoy efficient application development - The re-designed user interface in all designers and viewers, new icons on the toolbars make your application even more professional.

Find out more at www.perpetuumsoft.com

RGreatEx 1.1.18 - a small plug-in for JetBrain ReSharper - makes it incredibly simple to add localization support to .NET applications, improves coding abilities and helps to produce safer code.

Localize your .NET application without hassles

SafeDevelop today announces the immediate availability of RGreatEx 1.1.18, the newest version of its productivity plug-in for JetBrain ReSharper. By introducing a set of new refactorings to Visual Studio, RGreatEx offers the developer the easiest way to add localization support to a .NET project. RGreatEx also has other features for improving coding abilities and producing safer code.

RGreatEx is a powerful addition to the arsenal of any developer who relies on Visual Studio and its plug-in - JetBrain ReSharper - to write applications. Once installed, RGreatEx lets you take advantage of a host of time-saving refactorings, such as “Move to resource” and “Rename resource”. They can help to add localization to an application, much faster and easier than before. The tool can automatically analyze string and resource usage and suggest moving strings to resources. The new refactorings and automation options eliminate the need to re-write the entire project code for localization purposes, so the developer can save up to 95% of development time.

Adding localization support couldn’t be simpler. Just select a string and choose “Move string to resource” from the quick fixes, select a resource file where you want to extract and refactoring settings. Then you copy your resource file to a resource file for localization - for instance if you have Resources.resx you need to make a copy with the name - Resources.xx-xx.resx (where xx-xx - is your specific culture). The final step is to translate values in Resources.xx-xx.resx to the needed ones by using the Translate resource quick fix.

RGreatEx can serve as a coding helper too. It provides many new context actions to let the developer manipulate strings on the fly and produce safer resx code. RGreatEx lets you select strings from a file, folder, or a project, choose a resource file and keys for the selected strings and move them to resources - all in one go! Other useful options include highlighting options for quick string manipulation, plus “Go to resource” entry option to quickly jump from code to the resource value. These features improve the efficiency of coding considerably.

RGreatEx tightly integrates with Visual Studio, allowing the developer to maintain and enhance code without flaws. Supported programming languages are C#, VB.NET and ASP.NET.

New to version 1.1.18 are major bug fixes and minor UI enhancements.

Available now, RGreatEx costs 35 Euro. A free 14-day evaluation version is available for free.
Read more at http://safedevelop.com/Products/RGreatEx/.

A new productivity plug-in for JetBrains ReSharper enables automatic code inspection in Visual Studio and shows errors, warnings, suggestions and hints for you to improve the code with ease.

SafeDevelop today announces .NET Code Inspector 1.2, a new plug-in for JetBrains ReSharper. Once installed, the plug-in makes it easy to inspect code within the Visual Studio editor. When the inspection is over, the developer is shown all found errors, as well as warnings, suggestions and hints on how to improve the source code.

Code inspection is an important part of the software development cycle. It involves reviewing the source code of the project in order to find problems. For most developers, code inspection does not come easy because applications contain thousands of lines of code and reviewing every line takes a lot of days and efforts. This is where .NET Code Inspector can extend a helping hand by automating the whole process.

Getting started with code analysis is fairly easy. Simply select “Run Code Inspection” from the popup context menu in the Solution Explorer and run the inspection of the selected part of code. The plug-in analyzes code automatically, reading thousands of code lines in a matter of a minute. When the inspection is completed, you can see all found errors, warnings, suggestions and hints and use them to make the source code safer.

For better viewing, the results can be grouped by severity, inspection kind, type, type and member and other criteria. If you, for example, group the results by inspection kind, you’ll see the following groups: code redundancies, code structure analysis, potential errors, bad practices and warnings.

.NET Code Inspector offers an effective, trouble-free way to find the maximum number of errors and see warnings, suggestions and hints on how to improve code. The integration of .NET Code Inspector into your software development life cycles will save you much time and efforts, while letting you produce the safest code.

The installation of .NET Code Inspector into the Visual Studio is seamless and does not cause any compatibility issues. Supported programming languages include C#, VB.NET and ASP.NET.

Available now, .NET Code Inspector 1.2 costs 10 Euro. A free 14-day evaluation version is available for free.

Read more at http://safedevelop.com/Products/CodeInspector/.

BoxedApp SDK 2.0, a DLL library from Softanics enables developers to take advantage of the next generation technology - application virtualization to create a portable application with zero installation.

Create portable applications with BoxedApp SDK

Softanics today announces a new version of the application virtualization library - BoxedApp SDK 2.0. Using the library, developers can create a portable, self-contained application that relies on the virtual registry and file system to run on the machine. Application virtualization using BoxedApp offers several benefits, including portability, protection of exclusive content from theft and improved system stability.

Application virtualization allows creating portable applications that run from a USB flash drive, CD-ROM or a computer, even when the user does not have administrator rights to install software on the hard drive. Another benefit lies in the opportunity to hide exclusive content - graphics, animation, audio from illegal copying and re-use. Files are packaged into a single EXE file and streamed from memory, rather than copied to the hard disk where anyone can find and copy them. BoxedApp SDK also speeds up the time to market because there’s no need for regression tests with other applications. Traditionally lengthy QA testing is reduced considerably.

Using BoxedApp SDK, the developer can embed DLL, ActiveX/OCX components, content files, and even .NET runtime, which an application uses, into a single EXE file that runs as an isolated application, without any changes to the file system or registry of the computer. The embedded data is unpacked to memory, rather than the hard disk and registered in virtual registry. Following the “best practices” recommendations from Microsoft, BoxedApp SDK is made to run completely in user mode, which results in many benefits related to system stability and security.

Implementing the library is easy. Just add a few lines of code to an application and all is set.

Sample of using BoxedApp SDK:

Let’s say, for example, the application needs a Flash ActiveX player to play a Flash movie but the developer cannot rely on users to have this component installed. BoxedApp may save the day. Simply create a virtual file that contains the Flash movie, another virtual file that contains the Flash player ActiveX DLL, and virtual registry entries that point to that virtual file. That’s it. Now the application “thinks” that the Flash player ActiveX is actually installed and the Flash player runs just as if the movie file was actually on the hard disk drive.

“We are excited to be releasing new BoxedApp SDK,” says Artem A. Razin, CTO, Softanics. “The requests for virtualization technologies are growing rapidly today. I think our solution will help many to make applications virtual with ease and at an affordable price.”

Available now, BoxedApp SDK 2.0 starts at 299 EUR. A free trial is available.

Read more at: http://boxedapp.com/. The website offers many examples how to” virtualize” .NET assembly, FlashPlayer ActiveX, DLLs. Examples are available for most programming languages.

IntelliProtector.com today announces the official launch of its new software licensing and activation service. Targeting small and medium-sized shareware companies, IntelliProtector.com offers them a convenient online platform to control license management process and activation, as well as a wide range of anti-piracy features in the desktop protection client to prevent a form of theft known as casual copying.

Activation and licensing services for shareware developers

Casual copying is the unauthorized copying or distribution of copyrighted software. It is characterized by sharing and installing multiple copies of the product onto home and office computers, which infringes on the software’s end-user license agreement. Casual copying is very widespread today and accounts for a large portion of the economic losses in the shareware industry. According to the findings of the fifth annual study conducted by the Business Software Alliance and International Data Corporation, the worldwide software piracy rate in 2007 increased by 3 percentage points to 38%, leading to nearly $48 billion of lost revenues for software vendors.

All shareware developers are looking for effective ways to secure their software from pirates and ensure a smooth licensing and activation experience for end users. IntelliProtector’s licensing and activation service gives software vendors the confidence to securely distribute their products online and manage software license usage with ease.

With IntelliProtector services, shareware vendors can:

• Achieve rock-solid protection against piracy through encryption of software code, internet activation and delivery of the license code to the end user. IntelliProtector provides the vendor with many customizable hardware binding properties and anti-crack settings to protect software products from piracy and eliminate its unauthorized use with a minimal impact on licensed users.

• Create time-limited or feature-limited trials. Lock up a license code automatically if there are too many attempts to activate the product using one license code.

• Integrate licensing and activation with almost all popular registration services, such as Regnow, 2Checkout, BMTMicro, Plimus, Swreg, Emetrix and ShareIt.

• Track license codes, manage and search for orders, manage account information, buy extra services, submit tickets to the technical support and do many other operations from a single “command center” - the IntelliProtector online panel.

• Gain insight into software usage and fine tune marketing efforts with summarized or detailed statistics delivered in various reports and charts.

• Put software in the hands of more customers with the help of resellers. Enable resellers to generate license codes for the software and monitor this process.

“We are very delighted to be launching our brainchild - IntelliProtector.com and hope it will be a success,” says Serge S. Levin, CEO of IntelliProtector.com. We have a knowledgeable, energetic team to support this project, and our programmers are dedicated to delivering world-class licensing and activation services focused on making our customers successful. We are open for business and looking ahead toward an inspiring future.”

IntelliProtector services are available today.

Read more at www.intelliprotector.com

Perpetuum Software today announces the availability of .Net ModelKit Suite 3.8, a suite of four components that enable .NET developers to create BI applications for reporting, data processing and visualization. Tight integration between components of the suite ensures fluidity in every aspect of your workflow, providing similar design-time and runtime customization facilities, common data management and appearance customization. All suite components are written in C# and contain only 100% managed code.

The suite combines new versions of OLAP ModelKit^TM and Report Sharp-Shooter^TM, the use-proven Business Intelligence components for intelligent data handling and feature-rich presentation. Another component is the Instrumentation ModelKit^TM which is ideal for creating digital dashboards and KPI, offering an unmatched collection of over 130 ready-made gauges and other visual controls. Also included in .Net ModelKit Suite is the Chart ModelKit component which is designed for creating interactive charts and graphs. The components delivered in the suite minimize the coding required and provide full design-time customization.

Top 5 new benefits of .Net ModelKit Suite 3.8

The suite has been evolving over the last two years and has seen many technological improvements. The following is an overview of just some of the many exciting new features and benefits you’ll find in the newest version of .Net ModelKit Suite.

#1: Work with the latest Microsoft tools - Experience a new level of performance and speed using the .Net ModelKit Suite components with Visual Studio 2008.

#2: Expand your reporting with new amazing abilities - Report Sharp-Shooter offers QR Barcode, which is very popular in Japan due to its efficient encoding of Kanji characters.

#3: Reduce time for templates development - Reports Sharp-Shooter offers master style support that eliminates the need to duplicate styles. Now, styles specified in the master report are available in sub reports, and they can be assigned to any report element. The unified style of master reports and sub reports makes your reporting system more professional.

# 4: Evaluate the product with new attractive samples - New to this version is a set of sample charts and gauges with attractive styles for Instrumentation ModelKit and Chart ModelKit.

#5: Enjoy efficient application development - The re-designed user interface in all designers and viewers, new icons on the toolbars make your application even more professional.

Please, explore http://www.perpetuumsoft.com/ to find out more information about the product.