I don’t know why but my laptop is uncompatible with Adobe PDF Reader. I try to examine the cause, lost lots of many time but cannot found out a solution. My Problem was the adobe updater. Whenever i start Adobe Pdf Reader to view a document adobe updater agent comes front and started to aet all unused CPU time. And also it is a un-endable process.

At last i was tired of this process cycle and tried to search for a fine alternative. I found Foxit PDF Reader. I’m using it for two months now. It’s a very little and rapid program. I cannot see the difference between adobe reader. “A reader is a reader” is the main point of my philosophy.

I can freely suggest you to use that program if you’re tired of adobe updater.

Mostly Delphi you have always chance to manage your executable. You can re-pack it, crypt it ( you know that we can see most of the strings or code strings in an executable compiled with delphi. Remember DeDe ) or compress the executable.

There’re many programs doing this job. You can look most of them at protools.

I tested most of them for my personal use. At last i choose pelock.

Pelock is a packer, crypter and compressor for your delphi programs. It has very simple and easy to use interface. Additionally you can make demo check by this program.

But not most of these are pelock’s good side. The good with pelock is the producer. If you encounter some problems he always help you on your job. He wants you to send the files, extra libs, etc. Solve the problem and recompile his program and then send it to you. So pelock is my first choice because of the very very nice producer.

While using pelock you always now that the producer is at the other side waiting there to solve the problem related to his software!

If you’ve written an application using Advantage Local Server and want your application to run on another machine you have to distribute some files with your application. These files are Advantage’s API dlls, charset configs, and configuration file.

Lets check which files to be copied :

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If you’re searching for a database solution for your Delphi/Builder applications Advantage Database can be a good option.

I’ve using advantage local server for two years. It’s a very stable local server. It has most of the modern SQL features. It has a good table based encryption. ( With advantage local server you cannot only encrypt the table’s connection, you can encrypt datas that table has. So we can say it’s secure if our application is also secure ). The performance is supreme whether you’re running long, loooong, loooooooooong queries using multiple tables, lots of SQL functions, etc.

And two good points with Advantage. The producer of Advantage, Sybase iAnywhere distributes a program for doing all the of the operations over local tables (creating,manipulating,running queries, etc) with a user friendly gui. Additionally they distribute Delphi/Kylic/Bc++ components for doing all of the operations on tables.

Lets write some advantages of the advantage local server :

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MD5 hashing is a good opportunity for people who are downloading lots of files from internet. Feel free to use md5 hashing while distrubiting your files or feel free to use md5 hashing while controlling integrity that a file is downloaded from the true vendor.

As you can think md5 hashing has two dimensions. First dimension is hashing a file before distribute. Second dimension is integrity checking.

There’re some tools of course.

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