Archive for the 'General' Category

http put

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

Http put is a method to upload client side file to server via HTTP protocol.
To make it work, the server side needs a script to handle the upload stream. PHP has provided such functionality
http://www.zend.com/manual/features.file-upload.put-method.php

It is May now

Monday, May 1st, 2006

Time goes fast. 

Using Plimus

Friday, April 21st, 2006

We are using Plimus.com as one of our payment gateway. The admin pages seems to be powerful. There is one thing I feel strange is that I cannot find a plimus logo on their site like the following one.
Plimus uses the highest level of encryption throughout the entire order and setup processes, from all order […]

Record left and right channel independently

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

As we know, normal sound card supports stereo channels. In some cases, you may just want mono channel data. You can combine two mono channel signals into stereo one so it can be captured by one sound card.   
Our audio record component  support recording the left and right channel to different files.

TIFF to PDF

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

We just released TIFF TO PDF ActiveX product.
It supports convert tiff to PDF files. Have a try now!  Here are the feature detail:
Convert TIFF files to PDF
Support single or multiple page TIFF
Support various TIFF encoding such as CCITT G3/G4, LZW, RLE and uncompressed
Merge multiple TIFF files into one PDF
Standalone, doesn’t depend on Adobe Acrobat or […]

Convert TIFF to PDF

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Do you want to convert TIFF to PDF in program?
We just released an ActiveX component to convert TIFF To PDF. It has the following features:
Convert TIFF files to PDF
Support single or multiple page TIFF
Support various TIFF encoding such as CCITT G3/G4, LZW, RLE and uncompressed
Merge multiple TIFF files into one PDF
Standalone, doesn’t depend on Adobe […]

Html to image for linux

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

Some customers are asking html to image for linux.
Currently html snapshot or html to image only works on windows platform since it uses IE to render the web page.
We are looking into the possibility of implementing html to image on linux. Hopefully there will be some result in the near future.

Does your spam filter work well?

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Recently I sent an email to a customer who is using yahoo’s email service. But it seems he didn’t get it. Then I sent it again. He still didn’t get it.
So I have to doubt if his spam filter blocks my email. But I have no way to contact him except email. So I have […]

Email support

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Email is the mainly support method of Guangming Software. Sometimes we use MSN messenger to help customers to resolve issues promptly.  
We normally process support email in 24 hours. Due to possible time zone difference, it may take a bit longer than expected. So please be patient.

Word press update

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Wordpress developers released a new version. I will update my blog soon.
Quick update is very important. Even large corp. like Microsoft has to use constant update to secure its users. In today’s internet world, security bugs are the most critical ones.
I had a PHP board here before to support the customers. But it is hacked by […]

Want PDF to image?

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Do you need a PDF to image control?
While there are already many PDF to image products on the net, there is a simple way by using GhostScript.
Ghostscript supports PS and PDF formats. It can render them to different devices suh as TIFF, PNG or printer. The DPI of rendering can be changed.

Got back from vacation

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Now regular word and life begin again.
Althrough I have managed to post three short notes from mobile devices for the last three days, the net speed is really slow on the devices. Now I am enjoying fast surfing experience again. Great!

Don’t buy wrong product.

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

We have a long list of order page for our products. Each product occupies a row of a table.
We are currently using the services of two online shareware trade company: Qwerks and Regsoft. Both are well-known and among the best.

Using Active TTS in C#

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Active TTS is a standard COM component that is supported by .Net framework.
 

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

This is a mobile post test!;-)

How to put a child window on Overlay window

Friday, January 20th, 2006

From windows 2000 above, Windows supports a new kind of window style: WS_EX_LAYERED. This window style can draw window in semi-transparency or use to make irregular window.

On Vacation

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Hi, Dear customers:
We will be on vacation for about two weeks from Jan. 21.
I will try to respond any email ASAP. Please be patient.
But I have blogging entries scheduled. Don’t forget to continue reading.

Audio play with Active Audio Record

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Active Audio Record is originally designed to be an audio recording component that can be used to record audio from any sources into common media files such as mp3, wma and ogg etc. In version 2, we add some simple audio play back functions.
When using such functions, please note the implementation of mp3, WMA play […]

Audio Recording in web browser

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Some customers ask how to do recording in web browser (IE) with Active Audio Record component.  It is quite doable since Active Audio Record is implemented as an ActiveX object and supports scripting. IE has well support for ActiveX via java script or VB script.
We have provided html demo that shows how to create the record object […]

Wordpress plugin

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

One good thing of word press is that it has support for plugins. Plugins are script written by others that can enhance the functionality of word press.
Here are some useful plugins:

short note on GetBitmapHandle

Monday, January 16th, 2006

In our Html Snapshot, there is a method GetBitmapHandle, which is to return an in-memory bitmap after a successful SnapUrl call. This method is useful when user wants to add some post processing to the image converted from html. For example, you may want to add your customer watermark text or image onto the html image or […]

Spam emails

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

About half of my emails every day are now spams. It seems I need a spam filter now. But I am a little bit afraid that if a customer’s email is wronly classified as spam. That might be a big problem. So I am still filtering spam manually at present.

Happy Children Day

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

Boys and girls, enjoy it.

Dear crackers

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

Cracking software may be an interesting thing to you, especially kids. After cracking a software, you may feel proud of such “achievement”.
One famous writer has a note: “The meaning of life is to seek fame, profit, sex, power, interest etc.”
Cracking can be a way to seek fame, but just among a small […]