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25 Years & Counting – Snowbound Anniversary
On January 31, 2021 we completed our 25th year in business. Allow me to reflect a bit on that... 25 years in the “real world,” much less the tech world, is a relatively long time. A lot has happened in that span. Recalling our early days, our most significant piece of equipment was an...
Introducing A New RESTful Content Handler for VirtualViewer® HTML5
The latest release for VirtualViewer® HTML5 introduces a new RESTful content handler that provides a more flexible development and deployment process for customers. Snowbound’s Senior Software Engineer Leah Foster explains... What is the RESTful content handler? VirtualViewer is designed to...
[NEW RELEASE NOTIFICATION] for RasterMaster v20.5
RasterMaster v20.5 is now available. As previously indicated in our 20.4 notice a few weeks ago, we planned to release 20.5 later in the fall with support for JRE 8. Fortunately, we were able to get this out sooner than expected. More details below. What's new? JRE 8 Support: After receiving...
Optimizing Your Web Viewer for Large-Scale Deployments
Many of Snowbound’s customers are enterprises that serve thousands and tens of thousands of clients. Many variables can affect the performance they achieve, including: Size and type of documents Number of simultaneous clients Server configuration Interaction with other applications How the...
WFH? BYOD? IT Departments Push for Pure HTML5 Solutions
As the effects of COVID-19 continue to reverberate across the globe, companies and organizations have scrambled to transition their brick and mortar offices to a fully online operation. The burden of this transition has largely fallen on their IT departments. From software to hardware, video...
Java vs .NET Applications – Should I move to Java??
Java is a programming language and can work on any operating system. .NET or ASP.NET is a framework and a proprietary platform offered by Microsoft and can use several languages. There are advantages and disadvantages to both, but which one is right for me? Below are some facts to consider when...
Thank You for Your Support in 2019
And a request for ideas on what more we can do to address Global Warming Thank you to our customers, partners and employees for making 2019 a great year! There is no question in my mind that the collaboration and cooperation between us is the secret sauce. To reassure you that...
What Will You Do in January When Windows 7 is No Longer Supported?
Windows 7 is going, going, almost gone! Support ends January 2020! Can you accept the risk of staying on that platform? For those of you who can isolate your Windows 7 systems from the web, that may be a workable solution (at least for a while). But how feasible is that in today’s...
How To Perfect Your Elevator Pitch So You Get A Second Date
The dreaded elevator pitch. You know what I’m talking about. The 60-second or less response to the question(s) regarding what your company does. In business this is one of the key messages you develop very quickly so you are ready at the next industry event, dinner or business...
Is Java Bad?
When the web finally became the platform that Java originally sought out to be, it was only a matter of time before the criticism about Java and whispers about it’s inevitable obsolescence began. Back when Java was first introduced, its overarching principle was "write once run anywhere.” However,...
Don’t Shoot The Messenger! How To Troubleshoot with Application Performance Monitoring
"The viewer is slow! What is going on?"At Snowbound support we've certainly heard this before, along with other frustrations from customers surrounding performance issues. Performance is a complicated concept and depends on many different variables and components, most of which are typically...
Eating Your Own Dog Food
Doesn’t sound appetizing, does it? But we do. Or put more plainly: We use what we sell. Our VirtualViewer® HTML5 (VV) for Java and .NET sits on top of our RasterMaster (RM) SDK/libraries. Those libraries are driven to excellence because we depend on them for our VirtualViewer universal HTML5...