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Occasionally people ask us about our resolutions... not the New Year's kind, but rather, the video kind. As you probably know, SAPIEN has produced several PowerShell training videos. These videos come in two formats: on DVD and as a download. The DVD videos are not "true" DVDs, i.e. if you pop them into your DVD player they will not play like a movie. Rather, these videos are packaged as .MOV files for viewing on your computer  using Apple QuickTime. These .MOV files have a vertical resolution of 720 pixels (HD quality.) They play great on computers and other devices that…   More »

Wow! Has another year gone buy already? It seems as if it was only yesterday that I wrote a Welcome 2011 blog post. 2011 saw quite a bit of activity from SAPIEN. New versions of all of our software products were released. Digital download versions of our videos became available. We continued and improved our support for iOS. So what is in store for 2012? Well I can tell you but then I would have to send the SAPIEN minions to do terrible things to you! Just kidding! About the minions... Seriously though, I would not want to ruin any…   More »

This month we are celebrating our 25th year in business and *you* are receiving the gifts! Everything in our online catalog—software, books, DVD, even our fabulous Infiniti pens (as featured in Battlestar Galactica)—is 25% off retail prices. For our silver anniversary, we thought about giving you something made of silver but then we realized that you would probably enjoy upgrading to our 2011 versions and saving some money instead. If you haven’t checked out all the fabulous, new features and tools that our 2011 versions have, you are definitely missing the boat! This would be the perfect time to upgrade.…   More »

This week, on August 15th, SAPIEN Technologies celebrated its 25th year in business. Yes, 25 years! It is hard for me to believe sometimes that I have spent pretty close to half my lifetime doing something that I love and working with a group of people that never fails to amaze, educate, inspire and entertain me. What a ride it has been! I have been involved in this industry since it was a toddler. I still have "fond" memories of editing files with Edlin under DOS. My first computer was an IBM PC with 2 full height 5.25" floppy drives, 192Kb…   More »

SAPIEN Technologies will be attending TechEd 2011 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA., May 16-19. Come by booth 1908 and talk to our developers, score some great gifts and see what is happening with PrimalScript 2011 and PrimalForms 2011. Who knows? You may win some FREE software! So come on by!…   More »

Its spring and everything is new again. And that includes everything at SAPIEN. Exactly what is new at SAPIEN? Well let me tell you... 1) New software - Check out the totally awesome 2011 update to PrimalScript and the mind blowing 2011 update to PrimalForms. These two products are the most powerful in their class. Heck, these guys are in a class of their own! Add to that wicked cool updates to PrimalXML and PrimalSQL. And, wait for it... stay tuned for a killer update to ChangeVue coming later in 2011. 2) New Book - Managing Active Directory with Windows…   More »

Starting Friday, April 15th through Sunday, April 17th, all SAPIEN related web sites will be offline for maintenance. This includes: www.sapien.com www.primaltools.com www.scriptinganswers.com www.scriptingoutpost.com www.sapienpress.com support.sapien.com blog.sapien.com and any product specific URLs And NO, its not TAX related! Everything should be up and running by Monday, April 18th.  Thank you for your patience.…   More »

Let's face it, End User Licensing Agreements (EULAs) are a pain in the butt. Long drawn-out legalese that nobody reads (OK, some people read them but they are usually lawyers and they like that kind of stuff.) But for the rest of us, when that EULA dialog pops up in the installer, we pretty much all click "OK" to get past the screen without reading it. So since you didn't read that EULA, how do you know what you can and cannot do with the software you just purchased? Well, let's take a look at the most common questions…   More »

Really? Oh come on! Yes we had an iPad at our booth which we were using to show iPowerShell and our training videos. But, NO, it was not a prize. We know you all want one. But it WAS a Microsoft show. They probably would not have been thrilled if we were handing out competitive prizes. On the other hand... that does not rule out us giving away an iPad for some other occasion. Stay tuned to this blog and see what happens...…   More »

Let's face it, End User Licensing Agreements (EULAs) are a pain in the butt. Long drawn-out legalese that nobody reads (OK, some people read them but they are usually lawyers and they like that kind of stuff.) But for the rest of us, when that EULA dialog pops up in the installer, we pretty much all click "OK" to get past the screen without reading it. So since you didn't read that EULA, how do you know what you can and cannot do with the software you just purchased? Well, let's take a look at the most common questions we…   More »