1. Open OO Writer
2. Open Tools/Options/OpenOffice.org/Java
3. Wait 5-10 seconds until the table (Vendor/Version/Features) is filled with at least one position (which should be “Sun Microsystems Inc.” and “1.6.0_02″)
4. Make sure this position is chosen (filled dot)
5. Make sure option “use a Java runtime environment” is checked
6. Then, get to Tools/Extension magager
7. Open “My Extensions”
8. Choose every non-working extension and Press button “Disable”
9. Then, choose it again and press button “Enable”

There are so many new developments regarding how to apply Wine to run Windows programs on Linux that we are now updating this entire page contents. In the mean time you may find it beneficial to visit: http://www.wine-reviews.net/ and http://frankscorner.org/ for Wine help.

Many readers also found it helpful to first review our introductory article: Windows to Linux: A Hand Holding Guide.

This page is brought you by the folks at Really Linux.

For those with dual boot systems, this simple introductory article shows you a way to run a few of your basic Windows programs from Linux. But there is much more and so please come back to re-read the revised article. This Tip is Rated Intermediate.

Free Tool for running Windows Programs in Linux called WINE

WINE is available for free download from the project website you can access by clicking here. (For Windows users, you should make sure to get in your download the three files needed for running WINE properly: winerpm, updated wine.conf, user.dat file.)

A lot of work and many hours of effort have paid off, and Linux users actually can download and install a free emulator that runs many Windows programs without any issue under Linux.

In some cases, you do still need Windows installed on the same machine, since otherwise, there is no way to “install” your Windows software that sometimes may require a specific Windows install utility to run. Currently WINE is tuned for Windows98 and Windows 2000 programs.

Wine Example

If you've followed the very first step above and downloaded and installed WINE on your Linux machine, then you are ready to try running a Windows program from Linux. Notice that this is just a very brief sample of how Wine can be used to run a basic Windows application. Details will be provided in our updated Wine page.

1. Check to see that the WINE program is truly installed by typing the command: locate wine You should see a list of files with WINE.

2. Be sure you have properly mounted your Windows drive. If you don't know how then click here for brief help.

3. Edit the file /etc/wine.conf by changing the line under [Drive C] to read exactly: Path=/mnt/win

4. Save the edited wine.conf file and then make sure you also copy the file user.dat to your Windows directory c:/windows/profiles/

5. If you plan on running a game or other program that uses your midi then Linux midi-sequencer needs to be installed

6. Now type: cd “/mnt/win/Program Files/Accessories” then type: wine ./calc.exe

7. This will run Windows Calculator on your Linux! You can load any other programs by using similar commands, adjusting for directory names and file names as needed.

A few tips. First of all disregard all of the detailed error information that may be displayed while you run Wine. Only on occasion do these error messages help you troubleshoot why a program does not run under WINE. Second, many programs will not run properly under WINE unless your LINUX has been configured for sound and graphics. There are lots of details to this we can not explain breifly here. You can contact us or read up on details from your Linux installation guide. Finally, remember that you need to type the commands exactly as they appear, for instance when using long directory names you need to have begin and end ” marks. When you try to run a program you should include the leading ./ infront of the executable program name.

WINE Doesn't Run What You Need

As always, you get what you pay for! In the case of WINE you get a very good simple emulator for free. No it won't be able to run your latest version of Microsoft Office XP! In fact, if you're looking for commercial software that allows this then we highly recommend you check out both VMWare and also Win4Lin websites. These companies have made a lot of progress for folks like you!

via Running Windows Programs In Linux – www.reallylinux.com .

CRM solutions can either be hosted or licensed, meaning that a company can buy the license for a CRM solution and run it themselves, or they can lease a CRM solution, and have that company be responsible for monthly maintenance and training for employees.

CRM benefits companies of varying sizes: enterprise through home-based businesses

* Large enterprise businesses — These global companies require CRM systems that integrate customer service management, sales force management, and IT management into the CRM package. For instance, customer service CRM helps these large companies keep track of extensive customer databases so that customer service support personnel can easily locate accounts, track and analyze orders, as well as track helpdesk tickets so that the questions get answered. Examples of CRM vendors that serve enterprise companies include Oracle and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Usually large companies purchase a license from these vendors so that they can customize their CRM solution into their IT systems.

Many enterprises are realizing that CRM is an integral part of their business and that it is worth every investment penny, but executives must align their people and processes across their business to prevent CRM from becoming just a technology issue. Says Annie Bloin, VP of client service at RBC-Centura, “RBC recognized early on that the success of our CRM would mean the creation of new processes and the transformation of employee behavior. We've formed a cross-functional team to continually evaluate processes and make recommendations for improvements.”

* SBE (Small Business Enterprises) and SME (Small/Medium Enterprises) — Since serving existing customers is always more profitable than spending resources for new ones, CRM helps small and medium sized businesses track and manage opportunities like sales leads, phone calls, and report generation. CRM allows smaller companies to keep abreast of customer needs and trends, while looking like a large business that operates 24/7. The right CRM package can provide a self-help, automated program that answers customer questions outside of normal business hours.

Historically, small and medium businesses do a better job at servicing their customers than enterprise firms, so an efficient and capable CRM solution should make sense for them. Examples of CRM solutions for SBEs/SMEs include Salesforce.com (starting at $65 a user per month) and Goldmine 6.5 by FrontRange Solutions ($ 179.95 for the package). Both of these solutions are scalable which allow companies to add in areas where their business needs the extra support.

* SSB (Small Small Businesses) and SOHO (Small Office, Home Office) — It used to be that the smallest businesses used Microsoft Outlook for basic customer contact information, and users shared a centralized contact list. Today, however, many SSBs are learning the value of affordable web-based CRM solutions like FreeCRM.com and SalesProCRM, which increase the productivity of a small company's sales team, so that more revenue can be earned with fewer salespeople. Because of their small staff sizes and service-based businesses, SSBs/SOHOs need to maximize their time with a CRM solution that target customers and prospects most likely to buy their products and services. CRM software assists growing businesses by organizing customer data by initial lead, to the sale, plus any ongoing follow up service or support. The software also accesses activity reports, generates labels for mailings, and allows the user to easily update customer information.

CRM is a worthwhile investment

Using CRM is a smart solution for any sized business to stay competitive. Fortunately, there are as many CRM solutions as there are businesses that need them. Enterprises can more easily afford CRM than smaller businesses, which must resist the urge not to update their customer systems. For instance, many smaller business fight CRM because of lack of time, employees, lack of capital, and inadequate IT resources. However, if smaller businesses do their research, they will learn that a CRM software solution can give value back to their customers, can retain those customers, plus increase profits and customer satisfaction.

via What is CRM?  Business benefits of customer relationship management.

Customer Relationship Management, or CRM, is an essential part of modern business management. This CRM article is provided by Ellen Gifford, who specialises in helping organizations develop excellence in CRM, and this contribution is gratefully acknowledged.

What is Customer Relationship Management, or CRM? Customer Relationship Management concerns the relationship between the organization and its customers. Customers are the lifeblood of any organization be it a global corporation with thousands of employees and a multi-billion turnover, or a sole trader with a handful of regular customers. Customer Relationship Management is the same in principle for these two examples – it is the scope of CRM which can vary drastically.

CRM focuses on the relationship

Successful organizations use three steps to build customer relationships:

• determine mutually satisfying goals between organization and customers
• establish and maintain customer rapport
• produce positive feelings in the organization and the customers

CRM conditions

The organization and the customers both have sets of conditions to consider when building the relationship, such as wants and needs of both parties;

• organizations need to make a profit to survive and grow
• customers want good service, a quality product and an acceptable price

Good CRM can influence both sets of conditions.

why do organizations undertake CRM?

CRM is a new concept to many organizations. If it’s new to you, here’s why most forward-thinking organizations devote lot of energy and resources to the set up and management of a CRM capability.

how CRM impacts on the organization

CRM can have a major impact on an organization through:

• shifting the focus from product to customer
• streamlining the offer to what the customer requires, not want the organization can make
• highlighting competencies required for an effective CRM process

why does the organization need CRM?

The ultimate purpose of CRM, like any organizational initiative, is to increase profit. In the case of CRM this is achieved mainly by providing a better service to your customers than your competitors. CRM not only improves the service to customers though; a good CRM capability will also reduce costs, wastage, and complaints (although you may see some increase initially, simply because you hear about things that without CRM would have stayed hidden). Effective CRM also reduces staff stress, because attrition – a major cause of stress – reduces as services and relationships improve. CRM enables instant market research as well: opening the lines of communications with your customers gives you direct constant market reaction to your products, services and performance, far better than any market survey. Good CRM also helps you grow your business: customers stay with you longer; customer churn rates reduce; referrals to new customers increase from increasing numbers of satisfied customers; demand reduces on fire-fighting and trouble-shooting staff, and overall the organization’s service flows and teams work more efficiently and more happily.

features of good CRM

The old viewpoint in industry was: ‘Here’s what we can make – who wants to buy our product?’

The new viewpoint in industry is:

• ‘what exactly do our customers want and need?’ and
• ‘what do we need to do to be able to produce and deliver it to our customers?’

This is a significant change of paradigm and a quantum leap in terms of how we look at our business activity.

what do customers want?

Most obviously, and this is the extent of many suppliers’ perceptions, customers want cost-effective products or services that deliver required benefits to them. (Benefits are what the products or services do for the customers.) Note that any single product or service can deliver different benefits to different customers. It’s important to look at things from the customer’s perspective even at this level.

More significantly however, customers want to have their needs satisfied. Customers’ needs are distinctly different to and far broader than a product or service, and the features and benefits encompassed. Customers’ needs generally extend to issues far beyond the suppliers’ proposition, and will often include the buying-selling process (prior to providing anything), the way that communications are handled, and the nature of the customer-supplier relationship.

Modern CRM theory refers to the idea of ‘integrating the customer’. This new way of looking at the business involves integrating the customer (more precisely the customer’s relevant people and processes) into all aspects of the supplier’s business, and vice versa. This implies a relationship that is deeper and wider than the traditional ‘arms-length’ supplier-customer relationship.

The traditional approach to customer relationships was based on a simple transaction or trade, and little more. Perhaps there would be only a single point of contact between one person on each side. All communication and dealings would be between these two people, even if the customers’ organization contained many staff, departments, and functional requirements (distribution, sales, quality, finance, etc).

The modern approach to customer relationship management is based on satisfying all of the needs – people, systems, processes, etc – across the customer’s organization, such as might be affected and benefited by the particular supply.

generating a customer focused CRM solution

So what do we need to make this quantum leap of customer integration?

A new way of thinking:

• change in paradigm
• change in the messages sent and received
• change in the overall culture

And a new way of doing things:

• processes that are capable and effective
• structures and systems that support a business centred on its customers
• connectivity (end-to-end processes) both internally and externally (eg., with suppliers)

customers’ expectations

If an organization cannot at least meet its customers’ expectations it will struggle.

Ideally a business organization should exceed its customers’ expectations, thereby maximising the satisfaction of its customers, and also the credibility of its goods and services in the eyes of its customers.

Customers normally become delighted when a supplier under-promises and over-delivers. To over-promise and under-deliver is a recipe for customers to become very dissatisfied.

Rule No 1 – You cannot assume that you know what a customer’s expectations are … You must ask.

Rule No 2 – Customer expectations will constantly change so they must be determined on an on-going basis.

The expectations of different customers for the same product or service will vary according to:

• social and demographic factors
• economic situation
• educational standards
• competitor products
• experience

Therefore, given all these variable factors, it is no surprise that one size certainly does not fit all.

Ask your customers what is important to them. Find out why your customers do business with you. There are a wide variety of relationship drivers. For example:

• quality
• price
• product
• location
• customer service

When you ask you might discover some factors that you’d perhaps never even considered, for example:

• health and safety support
• systems compatibility
• contract structure
• distribution flexibility
• technical support
• troubleshooting and problem-solving, to name just a few

What service features will keep your customers loyal to you? Find out.

CRM as a process

CRM can be regarded as a process, which has:

• identifiable inputs
• identifiable components
• identifiable characteristics, which define CRM for your organization and customer base
• capacity for improvement and evolution over time

managing customers

Why manage customers? Customers are the usual source of income for an organization. (If not then they will certainly leverage your income, as in the case of readers of a free publication which is funded by advertising. As such there are two types of customers: the readers and the advertisers).

Customers are also an exceptional source of information – information which is vital to enable a business to succeed; ie., giving customers what they want.

Managing customers entails:

• knowing what customers want and need – which enables you to focus your production and service efforts
• knowing which products or customers have most growth potential – which enables you to focus on developing highest potential
• knowing which products or customers are most or least profitable – which enables you to focus on maximising profit
• knowing which customers will be advocates and supporters – which enables you to provide references, case studies, and to safely test new products and services

achieving good CRM

Achieving effective Customer Relationship Management requires many organizations to adopt a new perspective. Consider the following:

• traditional customer service is something you ‘do to’ the customer
• modern Customer Relationship Management is ‘done with’ the customer

The second statement is emphasises the big differences between conventional traditional customer service, and the modern progressive CRM approach.

Your relationships with customers should be ongoing, cooperative, and built for the long term.

Organizations who have many transitory relationships with customers consequently have to spend a lot of money on finding new customers.

The cost of keeping existing customers is a tiny fraction of the cost of acquiring new customers.

Pareto’s Law (‘The Pareto Principle’)

Pareto’s Law is commonly known as the 80:20 rule. Typically in any organization:

• 20% of customers account for 80% of your turnover
• 20% of customers account for 80% of your profits
• 20% of customers account for 80% of your service and supply problems

It is important to know is which customers fit into which category and then to manage them accordingly.

Highly satisfied customers who perceive a high value in your products and services commonly make excellent advocates for your organization – nurture these customers and give the special treatment.

Dissatisfied customers who perceive a low value in your products and services are potential saboteurs. These customers could have little or no loyalty and may actively ‘engage’ against your organization. Therefore you should seek to rebuild relationships and trust, and a new basis for a future relationship, or manage the separation with dignity, professionalism and integrity.

focus on building relationships

The essential CRM focus of any organization should be on developing core competencies, and an overall strategy of building customer relationships. In this way, all efforts in the organization can be aligned to:

• customers and the culture of exceeding of customer expectation
• understanding and managing the people impact on the culture of the organization
• customers being recognised and treated as partners
• the value of relationship-building being valued
• service being seen as a value-adding activity
• reward and recognition being based on customer focus ie., ‘going the extra mile’
• evidence of corporate support for service activity

characteristics of excellent CRM

The following characteristics are associated with delivery of excellent CRM:

• reliability
• responsiveness
• accessibility
• safety
• courtesy
• consideration
• communication
• recognising the customer
• competence

‘moments of truth’

‘Moments of truth’ are encounters with customers which cause them to form a view of the organization based on how they are engaged, particularly compared to their expectations.

Expectations can be met, exceeded or disappointed. Moments of truth can therefore be positive, in the case of meeting and exceeding expectations, or negative, in the case of disappointment. Monitoring the ‘moments of truth’ allows the company to focus on improving areas responsible for negative customer experiences.

Remedial action to prevent repetition is crucial. A single mistake is forgivable. A repeat rarely is.

If you put things right your customers will see that they are important to you. Put things right and you will be seen as a supplier who knows how to manage quality.

Organizations that fail to put right things that go wrong, might as well say to the customer, “You are not important to us”. Failing to put things right and to prevent reoccurrence says of the organization “We are not capable of managing quality service.”

Bear in mind also that research has proven time and again that when an an issue of poor service to a customer is satisfactorily resolved by a supplier, the customer increases their loyalty to the supplier to a higher level than existed prior to the problem.

An approach to managing ‘moments of truth’ involves ‘continuous improvement’. This entails processes that continually monitor, check and resolve negative moments of truth by ensuring alterations happen to the customer process, and integrating theses changes into ‘business as usual’. Here are the elements of such an approach:

• define the cycle of service
• identify negative moments of truth
• define the reasons (ie., root causes – not symptoms)
• develop solution/s
• test solution(s)/review/amend
• implement
• monitor impact on the cycle of service

This is similar to the EPACA model – the helix of continuous improvement.

Negative moments of truth carry a lot of weight with the customer and will adversely affect the relationship.

To maximise positive moments of truth – set standards in your processes.

Standards using SMART criteria Standards (which may also be objectives) can be established using the SMART framework.

• Specific
• Measurable
• Agreed
• Realistic
• Time-bound

CRM and communications

Communication is central to any successful relationship. In terms of Customer Relationship Management, communication needs to be consistent and high quality; as determined by:

• on time
• focused
• relevant
• reliable
• coherent

Importantly also, for effective communications it’s the message and meaning that is received that counts, irrespective of what the communicator thinks they’ve said, or written. Communications must be judged most vitally by the reaction of the receiver. If the reaction is not good then the communication is poor.

The information contained in a CRM system allows communication to be directed at the correct audience, in the correct way. The communication system must also encourage and facilitate honest and actionable feedback.

Feedback from customers – especially complaints – are essential for good organizational performance and ongoing development. Most organizations avoid, discourage and hide from complaints. Don’t. Complaints are free guidance for improving your quality, and free opportunities to increase customer loyalty.

people and CRM

As with any other business process your people have a huge impact on the success of the CRM process.

Successful and effective Customer Relationship Management people tend to display the following key characteristics:

• positive attitude
• people orientation
• organizational skills
• analytical skills
• customer focus (natural empathy)
• understanding of the link between CRM and profitability

On the subject of empathy: Empathy is about understanding, not necessarily agreeing. Effective customer focus enables the organization and its staff to see both sides, and to work with the customer to arrive at a mutually satisfactory and sustainable solution. Agreement alone amounts to capitulation, which is neither practicable nor sustainable.

benefits of effective CRM

There are significant business benefits which accrue from an effective, integrated Customer Relationship Management approach. These include:

• reduced costs, because the right things are being done (ie., effective and efficient operation)
• increased customer satisfaction, because they are getting exactly what they want (ie., exceeding expectations)
• ensuring that the focus of the organization is external
• growth in numbers of customers
• maximisation of opportunities (eg., increased services, referrals, etc.)
• increased access to a source of market and competitor information
• highlighting poor operational processes
• long term profitability and sustainability

Forward thinking organizations understand the vital need to maintain a strategic focus on CRM and to resource and manage it appropriately.

This guide to CRM methodology and application is provided by Ellen Gifford, which is gratefully acknowledged. Aside from being a UK-based specialist in CRM with many years’ experience large and small organizations, Ellen is also a trainer in Neuro Linguistic-Programming (NLP); management development, and personal coaching. As an advocate of all aspects of interpersonal skills and their importance in modern organizations, Ellen started her own business, The Learning Path, in 1998, to concentrate on providing training in these areas, in which the complementary disciplines of NLP and CRM provide an innovative and effective approach to Customer Relationship Management and to achieving sustainable organizational performance improvement.

For further information about using Customer Relationship Management and NLP to improve organizational performance you can contact Ellen via:

email: ellenbb@thelearningpath.co.uk
phone: +44 (0) 1527 585310
website: www.theleaningpath.co.uk

CRM software solutions and ICT (information and communications technology)

Software and ICT play a significant part in enabling an effective CRM capability, especially in large organizations.

There are many and various systems available, and it is important to have a clear idea of your requirements during the software solution selection process, which for most organizations will also involve the selection of ICT service provider too, since any software solution, for all but very small companies, generally requires support for specifying, implementation, training and maintenance.

Siebel, Sage (who now provide the well-known Accpac and ACT! CRM solutions), and Front Range (whose product is Goldmine) are all significant and proven CRM software products companies. There are many others, and very many more ICT service providers through whom distribution and support is normally arranged.

As with any ICT project, ensure you work with reliable and knowledgeable advisors, with access to cost-effective proven solutions, who can help you to build and implement an effective CRM software and ICT capability.

via CRM, customer relationship management solutions, software, system management: a guide to CRM application strategy.

Best Uses for 4RSS:

* Supplement your original content with additional articles from a variety of RSS feeds

* Make your Joomla site a “one-stop” destination for all info on a particular subject

* Earn additional advertising revenue by having a lot of new articles

* Improve the search engine optimization (SEO) of your Joomla site by creating new articles that contain the “key-words” that are important to your sites SEO.

* Add a news page to your Joomla site that only covers news on your sites topic using the keyword function of 4RSS

* Create new content on hundreds or thousands of Joomla sites every day without even having to log-in to your websites

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Recently, one of our free trial users emailed us and asked us what kinds of websites were being built at Simplweb. What types of businesses, organizations, individuals, etc are using the Simplweb service?

It's a good question, and one we don't track daily, given the hundreds of trial sites created every week. But the question reminded us that it was time to do a quick roundup and categorization. Here's a small sample of Simplweb sites in categories.

Artists

* davidhegarty.com

* designsonfire.com

Churches

* gracecommunitycog.org

* hope.org

Consultants

* 53tech.net

* arlenetaylor.org

* copywritingservicesuk.com

* davidhorowitztv.com

* glycojake.com

* gwntec.com

* manyspears.com

* minnesotabirth.com

* spinningbabies.com

* travelwithgavel.com

Directories

* bargaincoupondeals.com

* chicagoprfirms.com

Education

* gardeneikaiwa.com

* italian4fun.com

Legal

* rgylaw.com

Medical

* alicepeckday.org

Membership Sites

* distilledclubs.com.au

* enewslettersuccess.com

* helmsmanship.co.uk

* keys2livingwell.org

* mbsfitnessnc.com

* partneringprofitsinsiders.com

* photoshopnaked.com

* propertyface2face.co.uk

* technicalinfluence.com

News

* journalpress.com

Non-Profit/Charities

* owcn.org

* spscyclists2009.org

* thecollaborative.us

Restaurant

* riverbankcafe.com.au

* stellaslyme.com

Small Business

* aciaz.com

* aflowergirlsdream.com

* chicagovetbehavior.com

* cleanofficecalgary.com

* edwincycles.com

* kzeren.com

* lazertraxx.com

* mattexservice.com

* sabrinamariemakeup.com

* smoothiefreshmalta.com

* smoothiesmalta.com

* websitemomentum.com

Sports

* hanoverlacrosse.org

* outdooractivitiesmalta.com

* skitricktips.com

Travel/Destination

* fresnodiscountcard.com

* nmbgolfcondo.com

* ojaihomes4sale.com

via Who Uses Joomla? | joomla-blog | Compass Design.

Quite a few people have never heard of Drupal. That's ok, though, because chances are good that if they browse websites on a daily basis, they're probably visiting a Drupal site every day. There are probably hundreds of NZ-based Drupal sites (Egressive is responsible for at least 50 of them), but here are some you might've heard of or used…

High profile Drupal sites in NZ

* Sorted.org.nz (Retirement Commission)

* The Nat'l Business Review

* The Otago Daily Times

* NZ Biosecurity

* NZ History

* The Foundation for Arable Research

* The NZ Bio-protection Research Centre

* The NZ Green Party

* The NZ Labour Party

* The NZ ACT Party

* The Beehive (NZ's parliament website)

* The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA)

Other noteworthy Drupal stories from abroad

* The Whitehouse uses Drupal – see Drupal founder Dries Buytaert's blog entry and TechPresident post (TechPresident also a Drupal site).

* Foreign Affairs uses Drupal

* The BBC uses Drupal

* The Fiancial Times uses Drupal

* Ubuntu and Canonical use Drupal

* Die Zeit (major German newspaper) uses Drupal

* Die Welt (another major German newspaper) uses Drupal

* The Cable News Network (CNN) uses Drupal

* Amnesty International uses Drupal

* Greenpeace uses Drupal

* The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) uses Drupal

* The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation(NATO) uses Drupal

* The United Nations uses Drupal

* IBM recommends Drupal

* Popular Science tears out Vignette and replaced it with Drupal

* Fast Company uses Drupal

* America Online (AOL) uses Drupal

* Sun Microsystems uses Drupal (here, too)

* Novell uses Drupal

* Yahoo! uses Drupal

* Harvard University uses Drupal

* In fact, many universities use Drupal

* Fedex uses Drupal

* Nike uses Drupal

* Forbes uses Drupal

* Warner Bros uses Drupal

* 20th Century Fox uses Drupal

* MacWorld uses Drupal

* Adobe uses Drupal (here too)

* Java.net uses Drupal

* RackSpace (major web hosting provider) uses Drupal

* New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg uses Drupal

* Former first lady and (unsuccessful) contender for the US Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton uses Drupal

And if you're more worried about popularity than prestige, these guys all use Drupal, too:

* The NZ Brewers Guild

* MTV uk

* Sony Music

* Universal Music

* Led Zeppelin

* Electronic Arts (Game producer)

* Metallica

* REM

* Pink

* Rock Band (XBox game)

* Avril Lavigne

* J-Lo

* Britney Spears

* Tori Amos

* The Grateful Dead

* Ozzy Osbourne

* Heck, Playboy (Germany) uses it

* Even Barbie® manufacturer Mattel use Drupal

via Who uses Drupal? | Egressive – superior free and open source software solutions built on Linux and Drupal.

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WinZip is a good tool to obtain file compressions. WinZip has special features to compress, this program compact files through archives or zip files, what is this? Well, zip files are archives used for storing and distributing files and these can contain 1 or more files.

The program works with the following extensions: 7z, gz, tgz, zip, iso, rar, z, tz, uu, bz, lzh, mim, r80, r15, r47, r98, tar, r63, r00, r81, r16, r48, r99, taz, r64, r65, r01, wjf, r82, r17, r49, tbz, r66, r02, r83, r18, r50, r67, r03, arc, r84, r19, r51, r68, r04, r30, r85, r20, r52, r69, r05, r33, r86, r21, r53, uue, r70, r06, r36, r87, r22, r54, xxe, r71, r07, r37, r88, r23, r55, r73, r08, r38, r89, r24, r56, ace, cab, r74, r09, r39, r90, r25, r57, arj, jar, r75, r10, r40, r91, r26, r58, img, r76, r11, r41, r92, r27, r59, bz2, b64, r77, r12, r44, r93, r28, r60, bhx, r78, r13, r45, r94, r29, r61, lha, hqx, r79, r14, r46, r95, r62, tbz2 and wzmul

.R45 extension is also supported by the following programs:

WinRAR

7-Zip

IZArc

IZArcIZArc RAR Archive

IZArc 3.81 is an archive utility that supports most archive formats.

ZipGenius

ZipGeniusRAR – ZipGenius File

ZipGenius 6 is a very useful compress/uncompress tool for Windows and Linus.

jZip

jZipjZip archive file

Creates, open and extracts files in Zip, 7-Zip, G-zip and other popular formats.

WinAce

WinAcerar Archive

Win-Ace is compression tool that deflates your files at high speed.

TUGZip

TUGZipTUGZip RAR archive

TUGZip is a strong utility for archiving with Windows Explorer integration.

Quick Zip

ALZip

PeaZip

RarZilla Free Unrar

StuffIt

Zipeg

PowerArchiver

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