Posts Tagged ‘nitro-lm’
In the latest release of Nitro-LM Administrator (6.0.0025), we’ve added custom SMTP server support. Â 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. Â In this post, I’ll walk you through using a gmail account to brand your license experience.
The first step is to create a gmail account. Â This can be either a free gmail account or a corporate gmail account. Â If it’s the free version, e-mail headers will still contain something about being sent via gmail when your users read them. Â However, not all e-mail readers display this information by default. Â In our example here, we’ll be using a free gmail account.
After creating a gmail account (in this example, nitrotest9@gmail.com), I next setup the e-mail I want to send as on my hosting provider. Â If you’re using corporate gmail, you can skip this step because your hosting provider for e-mail IS gmail. Â This will ensure that any replies to e-mails sent out by nitro-lm get back into my gmail account.
After setting up this forward, I need to allow my gmail account to send messages as support @ swiftgps.com. Â This new send-as ability can be set up in the Settings area of the gmail account.
If you have an SMTP server that can be accessed from the Internet and know all of its settings and configuration, you might try the second option. Â Otherwise, just choose Send through Gmail.
After you verify that you’re allowed to send mail through the other account, go ahead and set it as the default e-mail account.
Finally, in Nitro-LM Administrator, set up the e-mail settings for this gmail account under the Email Templates menu option. Â For gmail, make sure you turn on TLS encryption and use either port 465, or 587. Â Finally, send a test e-mail to ensure that everything is set up properly. Â Make sure you receive this e-mail before saving your SMTP settings.
And there you have it. Â Now whenever e-mails are sent from Nitro-LM, they will appear to be coming from support @ swiftgps.com. Â Another advantage of this approach is that when users register for your software and mistype their e-mail addresses, the bounce messages will show up in this gmail account so you can assist users with the registration process.
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 provides a great administrative experience, many software developers need the ability to automate Nitro-LM’s administrative functions within their own business process(es).
Shopping Carts and More…
Today, software developers are looking for ways to reduce internal complexity while streamlining their customer purchase and licensing experiences. Â This is most evident for those those who are selling software online via a shopping cart style of store, delivering software as a service, or want to have a deeper integration with existing CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Management) systems. Â Fundamentally, they need to have a customizable, and seamless, process for license fulfillment triggered by an order receipt or payment event.
The Nitro-LM SOAP API can be integrated with any development platform or shopping cart implementation that allows for customizing the order process. This reduces back end complexity while improving customer satisfaction and service.
Remote Creation, Management and Control…
With the Nitro-LM SOAP API software development companies can automate new purchases, renewals, and account maintenance of existing purchases with ease. Â Here are a few of the capabilities:
- New User Registration
- New User Confirmation
- New Customer Creation
- Create/Manage Customer License Pools
- Create/Manage Customer/Product/License Associations
- Create/Manage Customer/Variable Associations (software feature level controls and reporting)
- Reset Customer/End-User Passwords
- Retrieve Paid-To Reports (internal review and/or customer account review purposes)
- and much more…
Nitro-LM’s SOAP API enables Software Developers to easily present a consistent corporate view of your online store and customer self-service account/licensing interface without the overhead of developing internally redundant systems.
More information about this exciting new development can be found in the Nitro-LM SOAP API documentation.
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 a more transparent manner. It also saves us the trouble of having to answer common questions 50 times via e-mail.
Updated Demo for Nitro-LM Standard/Enterprise – We’ve updated the demo application to include some features such as forgotten password resets, password changes, and manual decryption of assets. Visit the Google group to find download links for this.
Administrator SOAP API – Currently, administrative tasks such as creating new companies, license pools, and moving licenses around requires that you use our Admin tool AIR app for Nitro-LM. While this works well for most situations, we realize that for some operating in an e-commerce environment, they need to automate many of these processes so that their customers can be ready to get a license immediately after payment. We’re about 1 month away from delivering this SOAP API to all Nitro-LM customers and trial users.
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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 at the 360|Flex Conference in Indianapolis, IN in May 2009. Enjoy!
The Nitro-LM licensing system is very feature packed. For a new user, it can sometimes be a little bit daunting to get set up and running. I’ve put together a screencast showing some common tasks to complete when getting started in the Nitro-LM system. If you haven’t yet signed up for a FREE 100 license account for a year, go to the Installation/Support page and follow the instructions.
Simplified Logic and Andrew Westberg present Digital Rights Management and the Flash Platform
About This Meeting:
- Licensing basics (how our approach differs)
- Notifications & Messaging
- Reporting
- Encryption
Continue reading “Adobe User Group of Atlanta – March 2009” »
In designing the new interface for Nitro-LM Administrator, I’ve had the pleasure of designing the new Report Builder interface. In the current production version of this tool, we have a handful of reports that licensees and customers can use to see various aspects of usage data.
Continue reading “Report Builder – Combining Charts with Degrafa” »
In part two, we cover using the Asset Encrypter to encrypt AIR module swfs. This demo also contains a before and after look at the code using a decompiler.
In this two-part article, I’m going to run through a quick demo of how to protect the source code in an AIR app from decompilers using the Nitro-LM module encryption technique. Nitro-LM is a hosted licensing solution that can be enabled in your flex/AIR app for a nominal fee per license.
Continue reading “Encryption Flex Modules with Nitro-LM – 1” »
Doug McCune, world renowned expert on Adobe Flex/AIR and recently published Author, recently put on a presentation in England regarding decompiling SWFs. He covered many of the free and commercial applications used for both compiling and decompiling SWFs, and also the benefits/issues with obfuscation and encryption.