Collaber

Collaber is a platform for various teams to do all the Collaboration related work in a single, extensible place. Collaber enables users to create spaces and invite other users as members. These members inturn can add various tools availabe (i.e File Tool, Calendar Tool, Chat Tool, Discussion Tool and many more) and use them in place of existing systems like E-Mail, IM etc. Collaber enables development of custom tools according to the needs of the users. For developers Collaber provides a framework to develop their applications for the teams.

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Does your daily task involve frequent communicating, interacting and sharing documents, notes, tasks, events, discussions or other related content with your team? Then Collaber is the ideal solution for you.

Collaber can be deployed very easily and rapidly by small teams. Consultants, marketers, developers, students are just some of the professionals who can leverage this tool to immediately enhance their collaboration experience with internal and cross-organizational members.

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Collaber keeps the context of the work intact at any point of time. Any changes done to the data will be automatically updated. Existing solutions, such as email, file sharing and instant messaging provides single point solutions that lack context and are disjointed.

With Collaber you can go offline and still be able to work on your data. Unlike Collaber, web based solutions require permanent network connection without the ability to work offline.

Compared to other enterprise solutions like Lotus Notes, which are too costly and complex, Collaber is simple, flexible and affordable.

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Collaber is still in Beta state of development. It will be free of cost to use for users who create Collaber accounts in the beta process.

For creating accounts using non-beta version of Collaber, we will ask for small payment for the service offered through hosting relay servers.

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Collaber allows you to get work done in your work spaces without being connected to the Internet, or when a network connection is not available or reliable. You will need to have an Internet connection for the initial installation and at anytime you want to synchronize your spaces with your colleagues.

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You can create unlimited number of spaces depending on necessity of your work.

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It is possible to invite unlimited number of members to a Space. Please note that all the data of the space will be saved in every member's system.

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No, you can store as much data that fits on your hard disk. But remember that all files and data will be replicated to each and every team member.

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Collaber synchronizes your space with members continuously as long as they are online. Once you save a change to a space, it will be synchronized with your colleagues instantly with all online members.

If your colleague is offline, changes will be sent to his/her relay server. If you are also offline, synchronization will be pending until you go online and a connection can be made between peers or to the relay servers.

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The possible reasons are as follows.

• You may be entering a wrong password.
• You may be trying to login to an older collaber account. Collaber 1.1 do not support accounts created in previous versions.

  Collaber 1.1 is basically a server based architecture where as previous versions are purely P2P.
  If this is the case, you need to import the account (an empty new account) using Import button on the login dialog.

• Previous configurations of Collaber is conflicting with new version.
  In this case try to remove your ".collaber" folder located in your home directory.
  For windows XP users it will be
  C:\Documents And Settings\[username]\
  Vista
  C:\Users\[username]\
  Linux
  /home/[username]
• Please contact us with your usernames if you are still not able to login.

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Collaber RC1 is not compatible with Collaber Beta versions. So You must uninstall Collaber Beta and then install Collaber RC1. Save all your Workspace data before Installing.

Other than that you must re-create your account with this new installation. It will not work with account created in old versions.

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Collaber software is free to download and you can always get the latest version by clicking here.

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Once you click on the download button the application will download and install on your computer in less than 15 minutes. This depends on the bandwidth of your Internet connection.

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Collaber does not install any spyware, adware or any other malicious software on our members’ computers.

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Your data in Collaber is always stored in your computer only(unless you share it with others).

All files in collaber are encrypted with AES 192bit security key. This key will be stored in a another encrypted database which can only be opened with a valid password.

We have found that collaber's secruity features will be comparable with the top most security softwares for general public. Even for defense purpose the security is very high in collaber.

All the data in the network is encrypted with AES 192 bit encryption key. This key will be again encrypted with the destination person's Public RSA 1024bit Encryption Key. Total data will again have a signature generated with your Private RSA 1024 signing key.

Collaber Relay servers will be acting as Store & Forword service. They will have access to encrypted data only. So the only way to decrypt the data is to hack your computer. As long as your computer is safe from unauthorized access, all your data is safe.

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Yes. We will be happy to provide you a feature which will allow you to do so. You can even change your encryption/signing algorithms if needed.

Please contact us for such feature. We will provide you that feature at no extra cost. It will be incorporated in our future versions when it is ready.

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Send your queries and feedback to contact.

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Taking backup of Collaber files is required in situations like

1. You are going to install new OS
2. Formatting hard disk
3. You want to change your system etc.

Collaber have two parts of data

1. The Collaber program along with its plugins and configuration
2. The User Accounts, their workspace data , encrypted file

Taking backup of Collaber program is needed if you don't have a installer of that version of Collaber. If you have the installer then taking backup of Collaber Program and configuration is not needed.

Anyway if you want to take a backup of Collaber program they are located at ....
IN Windows: {Your  Program Files Directory}\Collaber Beta
Ex: C:\Program Files\Collaber Beta\
In Linux & Mac: {Where ever you installed Collaber}\
Ex: /home/{user} /Collaber Beta

Next step is to backup Collaber Accounts and the workspace data.
They are located at....
In Windows: {Your home directory}/.collaber
Ex: C:\Document And Settings\{Your name}\.collaber
In Linux & Mac: /home/{user}/.collaber

Backup operation comprises of the following steps

1. Copying of entire folder to another location
   [OR] Making an Archive of those folders(zip,tar,tar.gz, etc)
2. copying them back in same location (remember if username changes, then they must be copied/restored back to the new users home folder).
3. installing Collaber again(of same version)
4. And verifying that everything works before you delete the backup data.

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Yes. You just have to import your account again in that system.

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In order to use Collaber software, your computer must meet the following minimum system requirements.
- Windows 2000(with IE6), Windows XP, Windows 2003, Vista, Mac OSX (10.4 and later), Linux.
- 500+ MHz processor
- 256 MB RAM
- 100 MB free disk space on your hard drive (this also depends on how many files you store in your space)
- Internet Connection (either dial-up: minimum 33.6 Kbps modem, or any broadband: cable, DSL, etc.)

However, in order to take advantage of all of the advanced features of Workplace, we highly recommend the following configuration.
- Windows 2000(with IE6), Windows XP,Windows 2003, Vista, Mac OSX (10.4 and later), Linux.
- 1+ GHz processor
- 512 MB RAM
- 200 MB free space on your hard drive (this also depends on how many files you store in your space)
- Cable, DSL or equivalent broadband connection to the Internet

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TCP port 7689 and 80 are needed to be opened to the outside to allow Collaber to operate behind certain firewalls.

It is recommended to enable UPNP support in your firewall if it exists.

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Workspace is a virtual group which will contain team members. You can add new members to the group and you can delete members. Each member in your Workspace will have a security level (Manager, Participant, Guest). By default the person who created the group will be Manager. He can invite other members into one of the 3 roles.

A workspace will be useful only when it contains one or more Tools. Tools can be created both by Manager and Participant. But only Manager can delete tools.

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