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Best Free Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS)

23.03.2011 by · 6 Comments

All websites require their contents to showcase in a very professional way. Since it is very difficult for a single person or team to do it by himself/herself, they look for help in designing and maintaining the websites. This is where the importance of CMS systems props up. These systems are not only helping to create a good site, but also help in managing and updating the site.

These days, most of the web designers/developers are migrating to open source CMS because they got lot of support on the web from online communities.  The rapid development of these communities have made them popular software and web designers first choice. Depending on the media, online communities, and participants in the plugins / add-ons give you the ranking of these CMS.  Here is a selected 10 Free and Best Content Management Systems.
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New Features in Joomla 1.6

23.03.2011 by · 1 Comment

Joomla! is a content management system which is gaining popularity and massive user base at a very fast pace. The reason being its ease-of-use and extensibility of the features. On the top of it, it is an open source solution which is freely available to all. It allows developers to build inventory control systems, data reporting tools, application bridges, integrated eCommerce applications, reservation tools, communication systems and other applications very easily. [Read more...]

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How to Display Module Positions in Joomla 1.6

23.03.2011 by · Leave a Comment
In Joomla 1.5, you could type ?tp=1 behind the url to find all the module positions of a template. In Joomla 1.6 however that doesn’t work by default. An extra security feature has been added to safe guard that information. In this tutorial we will show you how to display the module positions of your template.

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OpenOffice Calc Review

19.02.2010 by · Leave a Comment

OpenOffice 3.1 has been around quite sometime and now there is an updated version 3.2 just released on Feb 11th, 2010. Many companies like Oracle (earlier Sun), Red Hatimage, IBM etc have worked on this community driven Office Software suit. Great features and extra stability have been introduced post OpenOffice 3.0.  Here is our review on OpenOffice Calc, a worthy alternative to the most popular Spreadsheet software, Microsoft Excel.
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How To Protect A Folder With Password/Encryption?

19.02.2010 by · Leave a Comment

Sometimes, you need to protect sensitive data from others opening it. Sometimes, friends have this annoying habit of opening files on your laptop or something that might embarrass you. Even company confidential files need to be protected. This will be helpful incase you lose your laptop or something. So, there are so many reasons to encrypt files, folders or even the entire partition for that matter. There are so many utilities. Most famous of them is AxCrypt. We’ve been using it for quite sometime. It is tried and tested by more than 1.5 million across the globe. AxCrypt is Open Source and Free. Very simple to install and use. It integrates seamlessly with Windows to compress, encrypt, decrypt, store, send and work with individual files.
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How-to: Deploying PyQt applications on Windows and Mac OS X

17.05.2009 by · 1 Comment

How-to: Deploying PyQt applications on Windows and Mac OS XThe open source Qt development toolkit is a popular choice for cross-platform development. It provides native-looking widgets and tight integration with the underlying platform on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Qt applications that are written in C++ are easy to compile and deploy across all three platforms, but what if you don’t like C++? I prefer Python, a dynamic programming language with a richly expressive syntax and exceptionally powerful support for introspection.

Fortunately, there are cross-platform Python bindings for Qt. The downside, however, is that packaging PyQt applications so that they can be deployed to users on Windows and Mac OS X is an immensely frustrating and arcane process. I declared victory last week after spending several hours battling with MacPorts and distutils. Now that I have unlocked the toolkit’s dark mysteries, I can show you the hidden secrets that will allow you to achieve mastery of the alchemical art of cross-platform PyQt application deployment.

First, you’ll need access to each platform for which you want to build redistributable packages. The easiest way to accomplish this is to use a Mac and either triple-boot or virtualize Windows and Linux. The initial setup process for Mac OS X will require a lot of very heavy compilation, so you are going to be in for a world of pain and a very long wait if you try to do this on a Mac mini.

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