LuxSci FYI

Shared Workspaces for Collaboration

Erik Kangas — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:15:41 +0000

Web-based collaborative environments, similar to Microsoft Sharepoint, are now offered by LuxSci. For LuxSci users with a WebAide license, the widgetized “Welcome Page” area is now the “Workspaces” area. Here, licensed users can: Create any number of Workspaces with arbitrary configurations of widgets per workspace Share Workspaces with other licensed users Additionally, Workspaces for all users are “active” in [...]

Collaborate with Enhanced Notepad Widgets

Erik Kangas — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:15:04 +0000

LuxSci has expanded the functionality of its Notepad widgets to make them ideal for collaborative editing, especially in the context of shared Workspaces. The Notepad widget is available to all LuxSci users. It provides a customizable area where you can view and edit notes — in either plain text or using a visual editor with full [...]

Lock down your Filtered MX Logic Email

Erik Kangas — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:14:40 +0000

Email filtering services provided by MX Logic works by having your email delivered to their filtering servers first (because your DNS MX records point there). Once filtered, their servers will deliver the messages to your email servers for ultimate delivery to your INBOX or other folders. If a spammer knows what your “actual email servers” are [...]

Blog and Email QuickCheck Widget Updates

Erik Kangas — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:18:59 +0000

LuxSci had made several improvements to its Widgets: Users can now make new entries in Blog widgets using either plain text or HTML editor modes. Which should be used is now configurable as a Blog Widget property. WebAide-based Widgets and RSS feeds now all have an optional “maximum height” property. Use this if you would rather the [...]

Misleading – “Request for transfer of domain” messages from Domain Registry Of America

peter@luxsci.com — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:38:56 +0000

We’ve received reports recently that many of our customers have been getting emails from Domain Registry of America saying that the transfer of their domain “not complete at this time”. These emails are very misleading and are made to look legitimate. This is basically a scam to get domain owners to transfer the registration of [...]

Updated Blog and Address Book Widgets

Erik Kangas — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:13:57 +0000

LuxSci has released some updates to its WebAide Widgets. These include: Search your address books quickly right from your Address Book Widgets using new integrated AJAX-based search functionality. Create new Blog entries right from your Blog widgets. Blog widgets now support automatic updates and paging through all of the entries in the blog. Custom HTML Widgets now contain a [...]

Managing Widgets Just Got Easier!

Erik Kangas — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:05:35 +0000

LuxSci has just updated the interface for managing your workspaces of widgets. Previously, there was an “edit mode” where users could add, delete, and re-arrange widgets. This edit mode has been removed and all edit functions have been merged directly into the normal widget interface, making usage must more fast and natural. Now, via the pop-up [...]

Widgets: Document and File Access

Erik Kangas — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:31:32 +0000

LuxSci has added a “Documents” widget to the portfolio of widgets available to users for customizing their use and access of LuxSci. The Documents Widget: Allows access to any document storage WebAide that you have access to — even shared ones. Allows viewing and downloading documents Allows uploading new documents to the WebAide storage location Allows deleting of unwanted [...]

LuxSci is Fully PCI Compliant

Erik Kangas — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:06:54 +0000

The Credit Card Industry imposes a set of security standards knows as PCI/DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). The purpose of this standard is to ensure that any company accepting credit cards from consumers takes all appropriate security measures to ensure that this information is protected from hackers and information leakage. PCI/DSS requirements are very [...]

Protecting Yourself from Email “Web Bugs”

Erik Kangas — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:50:26 +0000

Web Bugs are images in HTML-formatted email messages that, when viewed, tell the sender of the message that you read the message. This mechanism of obtaining an essentially covert confirmation that (a) your email address is valid, (b) the email got past your filters, and (c) you actually read the message, is pervasively used by [...]