Here are the the biggest breakthroughs from HyperMeeting in our opinion…

There are a lot of incredibly useful features that none of the confercing solutions we've used offer, but the core gap that HyperMeeting has filled is the ability to share applications, documents or even your entire desktop with meeting participants in real time.

Also incredibly useful is the ability to transfer files to all of the participants. How many times have you needed to discuss a document in a meeting and had to email the document to everyone and then wait for them to retrieve it to get the meeting started? HyperMeeting makes those days obsolete.

Are you doing business globally? Then you know that the entire world is not on broadband. In fact there it was not until July of 2008 that Broadband penetration in Australia exceeded the number of dialup users there. In other words this is not an issue that only affects developing nations.

So how does HyperMeeting solve this problem? Caching is fine and they do that, but they go behind the basic caching of other services and display fixed dimension slides when slow connections are detected.

The other thing HyperMeeting offers that is quite unique is "control-passing" which allows participants to take control of presenting which allows everyone to participate. Another gap they've filled in the traditional conferencing marketplace.

For those of you who have used systems that require a software download, you'll be happy to know that HyperMeeting has eliminated that step which can sometimes be a hurdle for meeting participants.

Click here for more about HyperMeeting. HyperMeeting also offers a free trial with no credit card required.

Sign up in a place where nobody else is around and keep a pad of paper handy! This is just to record your information initially. Maybe your memory is better than mine, but I forgot my "unpack" key soon after I first signed up for the PassPack password manager (it's actually much more than just a password manager).

From their site:

"Passpack does not maintain a copy of your Packing Key and can not recover it, nor your Entries, if it is lost."

Also important is this notice from PassPack's "Terms and Conditions" page:

"Furthermore it is forbidden to store critical data such as, but not limited to, financial data or access data to financial institutions, or any data which, if lost, stolen or destroyed, could result in personal or public catastrophe."

Click here to view PassPack's full Terms and Conditions.

I'm planning to discuss some impressive data security measures HyperOffice has in place, including employee-based security measures (and the legal ramifications for HyperOffice employees if the don't follow the measures which is actually the most important part of a policy like that) but for now I just want to discuss PassPack's security algorithm which is based on the Advanced Encryption Standard which is an algorithm approved by the National Security Agency for protecting top secret information.

Right now you can store up to 100 passwords for free but as of 6/30/2008 you can upgrade for free and then the first paid upgrade will be at about $10.00 per year and will include some features that PassPack isn't disclosing yet.

Click here to visit the PassPack blog here to keep tabs on current developments and news.

I recently discovered that I made at least one major and critical mistake in my review of HyperOffice. It turns out that the sales rep did not drop the ball as I stated. The transition to support was done completely by email and I failed to keep on top of my email for that. Let's just say that was definitely an "egg on my face" oversight on my part. Man, I don't like egg on my face. LOL

I did some further research and found out some other things about HyperOffice I got wrong.  While I pride myself on doing thorough research, as I've mentioned in the past I'm human and I do get things wrong from time to time.

One of the other big things I didn't know that is important to me personally is that HyperOffice is now Mac Compatible! It's nice to see a company paying attention to the growing Mac marketshare.

I'm going to see if I can at least get some sort of list of current features/benefits or some sort of press-release from HyperOffice to put up while I work on updating my review as I need to doublecheck a lot of the facts I had been gathering.

Stay tuned.