Nitro-LM Blog

Using Gmail as a custom SMTP Server in Nitro-LM

Andrew — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:32:06 +0000

In the latest release of Nitro-LM Administrator (6.0.0025), we’ve added custom SMTP server support. This allows you to brand the license experience and send e-mails through your own servers instead of e-mails appearing to come from @nitromation.com. In this post, I’ll walk you through using a gmail account to brand your license experience. The first step [...]

Branding the Licensing Experience

Andrew — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:35:56 +0000

We’ve often said that licensing is one of the first experiences your customers will have of your software. You want to make sure that the licensing experience is seamless, painless, and leaves a good impression. You also want to ensure that you control the branding of your software from start to finish and that includes [...]

Announcing Nitro-LM Admin SOAP API

Andrew — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:58:36 +0000

The Nitro-LM Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of our new Nitro-LM Administrative SOAP API. Nitro-LM’s Administrative GUI has been the primary interface for common administrative functions such as creating new customers, associating products/licenses to customers, moving and setting license variables, etc… While the existing Administrative GUI is very easy to use and [...]

The Power of Information…

dbigelow — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:19:37 +0000

As we all know, there are may ways to conduct business in the Software Industry. We have been very fortunate to meet, discuss and share ideas regarding approaches to not just development and marketing – but also the business side of how to grow and maintain a revenue stream. It is amazing how often discussions regarding licensing [...]

Project Status Updates

Andrew — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:45:30 +0000

A lot has been happening with the Nitro-LM team lately. We’ve been working hard to bring you new communication mechanisms and API interfaces as well as updating some of our example code. New Google Group – We’ve launched a new Nitro-LM Google group to aid in support. This group helps us answer questions in [...]

Library Encryption Keys Overview

Andrew — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:21:37 +0000

View the short screencast above gives an overview of what Library Keys are and how they are used and setup in Nitro-LM.

How to Hack a SWC file

Andrew — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:48:19 +0000

After the firestorm of web traffic we got from the previous post on How to Hack an AIR App SWF, I thought I’d pass this link on to our readers. David Wolever has done a bit of SWC file hacking to modify a private method to make it protected. Even though this hack is an [...]

How to Hack an AIR App SWF

Andrew — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:39:04 +0000

Disclaimer – Simplified Logic respects intellectual property rights and in no way supports using hacked or cracked software. What follows is simply an educational exercise with the intent of highlighting the security dangers of releasing unprotected software in virtual machine environments such as the Adobe Flash Player. It’s fairly common for me to see comments [...]

Swimming to the bottom of License Pools

Andrew — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:23:43 +0000

The concept of a license pool is fairly unique to Nitro-LM. Each pool is attached to a company. A company can have as many different pools as you can define. It really depends on how complex you need to make your access restriction rules. Using the concept of pools, you can do some unique things [...]

Simplified Logic / Flex Meetup Recording

dbigelow — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:18:58 +0000

The Online Flex Meetup Group is Organized by John Mason out of Atlanta, GA. His group attracts attendees from all over the USA and the World. We received an Invitation to present to this group on June 10, 2009. The event was recorded and also covered some material that was also presented [...]