The projects Softares Group had completed:
  • Live video streaming system - a streaming application and ActiveX control to stream and receive live video and audio.
    Technical overview: DirectShow video + audio capture, compressing using Windows Media, packing to optimized tcp packets, and the reverse process on client side.

  • XHitAdmin - show web counter statistics to site administrators.
    Technical overview: statistics are downloaded by using WinInet query to some script, mysql access also used to edit counters instantly.

  • DllWatch - watch for a list of dlls in current directory.
    Technical overview: list is downloaded from hard-coded URL by using WinInet, dlls get downloaded + registered or unregistered + deleted according to changes in the list.

  • cashtoolbar.com - an additional plugin to browseraid.com system to draw cash prizes.
    Technical overview: dll with a set of functions to be loaded by main client-side engine.

  • browseraid.com engine - IE toolbar, customizable through web, advertisements, popups engine, streaming news feeds and more.
    Technical overview: a communication and user interface components at client side, web applications at server, plus UNIX daemon to handle connections from users and provide updates.

  • Easy search IE plugin - double-clicked words in Internet Explorer are selected with different color and become searchable.
    Technical overview: IE Helper COM object, to hook into IE document events and control the browser through MSHTML object model

  • Web connections filter - allow/disallow internet access to certain sites and URLs
    Technical overview: Windows Sockets 2 Provider, watching for http protocol connections, and querying online database to allow or drop connections

  • eunum.com - an instant newsgroups/forum platform
    Technical overview: COM components and ActiveX controls to present an MSHTML-based interface to work with newsgroups

  • Search Redirector Provider - software to redirect web searches made through various programs (like ICQ, MSN Messenger, MSN Explorer) to eboom.com search engine
    Technical overview: An Windows Sockets 2 Provider, which looks for HTTP connections and requests being made. If host and url matches certain criteria, the request is redirected.

  • eboom.com toolbar - an Internet Explorer and Netscape toolbar with many buttons and search options
    Technical overview: IE toolbar is just IE Helper COM component, Netscape toolbar is a rather hacky piece of code designed to load with Netscape and to show a band in its toolbar space

  • DataGrain (internal project, for our own use) - an unified, configurable interface to any database
    Technical overview: a set of COM components and applications to access database, manage configuration settings, implement user interface

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