Extra IT - Lorenzo International Real Estate

Today I would like to mention several websites related to a California Broker, CIPS realtor, specializing in Italian Real Estate.


Linkedin profile: www.linkedin.com/in/pierolorenzo
Company Web Sites: www.pierolorenzorealtor.com &  www.pierolorenzo.kw.com
&  www.lorenzorealestate.us
Facebook: www.facebook.com/lorenzorealestate.us

Few years ago we had opportunity to rent an apartment thanks to his intermediation, with satisfaction, in Florence.

Consider that after 13 years as a Real Estate Broker with his own agency, Prince Immobiliare (Florence) he moved, with his wife, to hometown of Santa Cruz, California, in February of 2015.

His mission is to give professionalism support to sellers and buyers thanks his real estate intermediation

It is important to remark that he have italian Real Estate License and a Californian Real Estate Broker License too.

Afterward, if you are going to sell your home, consider that he has a global real estate, he is  GPS (Global Propery Specialist) member and a CIPS (Certified International Property Specialist) designee helped by an huge network of colleagues all over the world to help find buyers.

Finally you should consider that his personal real estate history was mentioned on this important Italian newspaper. This article was discussing about fact that several Italian talent s guys left their country to find more job opportunities and to have their talents recognized and rewarded as well.

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2016/11/24/riparto-da-zero-in-california-come-agente-immobiliare-e-rischioso-ma-in-italia-non-ce-entusiasmo/3212443/#disqus_thread

You could review presentation video at following web link

http://videos.weebly.com/uploads/7/8/4/8/78480480/lorenzo_international_real_estate_955.mp4

Automation - Domotics for home purpose with Arduino & Android devices & Souliss (open-source SmartHome framework)

In precedent blog posts we mentioned possibility to apply domotic in any home using Arduino & Blink server.

With this new blog articles we would like to mention Souliss product that it is an open-source SmartHome framework to empower your Arduino and Android devices.

This solution does not require any Server (as mentioned in this old blog article) but only an Android device with SoulisApp installed that interface directely with Arduino microcontroller connected through LAN ( Lan card or Wifi)

Arduino it is a C++ programmable micro-controller that could be used in conjunction with Souliss product.

Souliss is an IOS/android application that dialog with Arduino for remote command purpose.

Latter step would be to intregrate it with openHab  to have historical trends and for more complexes automation requirements.

Following images will help you on better focalize about advantages and infrastructure:

I am mentioning old blog article that refer to friend's company. 

It is in italian language but it could be useful to have an overview about opportunities given from domotics/home automation:
APPENDIX:

Domotics/Home automation is growing day by day as a new market technology field applied to constructions/home apartments.

"It involves the control and automation of lighting, heating (such as smart thermostats), ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), and security, as well as home appliances such as washer/dryers, ovens or refrigerators/freezers. Wi-Fi is often used for remote monitoring and control. Home devices, when remotely monitored and controlled via the Internet, are an important constituent of the Internet of Things. Modern systems generally consist of switches and sensors connected to a central hub sometimes called a "gateway" from which the system is controlled with a user interface that is interacted either with a wall-mounted terminal, mobile phone software, tablet computer or a web interface, often but not always via Internet cloud services.

While there are many competing vendors, there are very few worldwide accepted industry standards and the smart home space is heavily fragmented.Manufacturers often prevent independent implementations by withholding documentation and by litigation.

The home automation market was worth US$5.77 billion in 2013, predicted to reach a market value of US$12.81 billion by the year 2020." Read more here

Graphics - DesignEvo online logo maker

Today I would like to mention DesignEvo, an easy-to-use online logo maker useful to create professional logos

This software has:

1. 3000+ fully customizable logo templates.
   
   
2. Over one million icons available.
   
   
   
3. Various editing tools.
   

If you like you could take a tour viewing this youtube Video.

Recovery - Stellar Phoenix Windows data recovery – Home 7.0

Today I would like to mention this tool "Stellar Phoenix Windows data recovery – Home 7.0"

This is a recovery software that permit to:

1. Find lost or deleted documents from Inaccessible Hard Drives.
2. Perform Office Documents, Presentation & Archive Files recover.
3. Recovers Lost Data from Corrupt, Formatted & Virus Infected Drives.
4. Quick & Deep Scan.
5. Mobile Phone Recovery.
6. Recover lost partitions.

Software requirements:

Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista & XP, 1 Gb. free ram, 50 MB. Free disk space

Official download and purchase link:

https://www.stellarinfo.com/windows-data-recovery-professional.php

If you are interested you could review more blog recovery articles here:

http://www.alessandromazzanti.com/search/label/Recovery

Security - Cloud Hacker considerations

I would like to focalize on Trojan aspect applied to Cloud services and relative user accounts.

Trojan could be easily installed on any pc/devices (For example visiting an unknown hackered website)

The concept it is simple: If you have a Trojan that intercept your Cloud user credential you are going to be in a very critical situation. (risk would increase if double authentication would not active on your cloud account)

Credentials could be used to stole your critical data/access to your company servers and be sold from criminals.

A very useful mitigation actions could be start using  next generation antivirus providers that utilizes machine learning indeed than standard AV (this method use  signatures as the primary detection mechanism)

Full interview and details could be found reading this article:

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-trojans-steal-credentials-and-attack-cloud-services/

If you are interested you could review these old blog articles/sections:

Cloud

http://www.alessandromazzanti.com/search/label/Cloud

Microsoft Azure

http://www.alessandromazzanti.com/search/label/Windows%20Azure



[update 2018.06.17]

I would like to indicate this Micorosft security video/lessons:



https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/hybrid-cloud-workload-protection-with-azure-security-center-18173?l=Ld0LK42jE_006218965

Tools - OCR On line converter

Today I would like to mention an interesting website that permit you to extract text from PDF and images (JPG, BMP, TIFF, GIF) and convert into editable  Word, Excel and Text output formats.

More verbosely:

Source Formats:

• PDF (All types of PDF files including multi-page PDFs)
• TIF/TIFF (Multipage TIFFs supported)
• JPEG/JPG
• BMP
• PCX
• PNG
• GIF
• ZIP files containing the above types of files can also be uploaded.

Image quality is one of the most important factors that improve quality of recognition. A resolution of 200-400 DPI for input images is best for recognition.

Maximum input file size : 200 MB

Destination Formats:

• Adobe PDF document
• Microsoft Word document
• Microsoft Excel document
• RTF document
• Text Plain

https://www.onlineocr.net/