Joomla is an award-winning content management system which is also termed as CMS, which facilitates to build web sites and enables powerful online applications. There are many benefits such as ease-of-use, easy applicability, extensibility and many other advantages have made Joomla extremely popular. It can be stated that it is a one-stop-shop for all consumers and businesses who are looking for all kind of facilities for their web site. To sum up, joomla is an open source solution for every one. This kind of facility is extremely benefiting to the large number of people, wherein they can find a suitable employment or a business to prosper through the medium of joomla.
Many may be wondering as to what is joomla and how it can offer benefits to the common people. Content management system is a software that keeps a track of every piece of content that is available on your web site. This is similar to a public library where you store your books by naming with a code or in an alphabetical order. Content can be in simple text, photos, music, video, documents or may be anything that you can think of. One of the best advantage of using CMS is that it does not require any technical skill or knowledge to manage. This is because of the fact that CMS manages all your content and you just have to see its performance.
Some of the best examples of joomla performance are corporate web sites or portals, corporate intranets, extranets, on line magazines, newspapers, publications, e-commerce, on line reservations, government applications, small business web sites, non-profit organizational web sites, school web sites, church web sites, personal home pages and family home pages and there is a scope and opportunity for many new ideas and development of new web sites.
Joomla is used by restaurants chains, educational universities, the eco-resources, MTV networks, furniture designs, cultural play institutions or colleges and outdoor photographers. Some of the web sites developed by joomla are quizilla.com, ihop.com, gsas.harvard.edu, greenmaven.com, outdoorphotogrpaher.com, playshakespeare.com and sensointeriors.co.za.
As it is evident the Internet technology has offered lot of facilities for web development and content management. In fact there many new forays which are emerging leading to another paradigm of success for all sectors. Consumers, businesses and common people are at great benefit with Internet technology and computer technology. Therefore, joomla is one of the tools that are contributing to the success of internet technology by offering lot of facilities to develop many more web sites which act as a medium of communication and also as network. Joomla has plenty of other features for the common people and also for the benefit of upcoming businesses. But this has to be used for right and genuine motives.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Encounter with Dell Mini 5
Looking at the picture of new Dell Mini 5, anybody will wonder if it is a phone larger in size or a tablet smaller in size. I got the same impression when I had a chance to glance at a preview of the phone. The preview was lying on a table of Dell at the MobileFocus event. The representative of the company standing there gave me a hands-on demo of the phone. Although it was just a model of the phone, it looked amazing. More social media archiving solutions should be on the way soon.
Holding the phone in my hands felt great. The representative told me about its features and all I could say was– Wow! Dell Mini 5 has many similarities as of a smartphone. First of all the phone has multitouch screen to give a royal look and a comfortable experience. It provides 3G connectivity and is easy to operate. The phone also contains 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset and not to forget, Google’s Android operating method.
The only thing which I didn’t like much is that it’s quite big for a smartphone. But despite being big it doesn’t weigh much, only 8 ounces. Thus my arms will not be strained while using the phone. Any onlooker may get confused whether you are holding a phone or a compact book. I just wonder that how will I look holding the phone next to my face and that how will I carry it as it may not fit in the pockets of my tight jeans.
Mini 5 is also known as Model M01M. You can spot the model name under the battery cover. The phone is using Android 1.6 operating system. Since a newer version of Android is available in the market, I just hope that the operating system of Mini 5 will be upgraded to Android 2.1 at launch time.
The price tag on the phone stated $1,908 but this was only a dummy model. We can expect the price change by the time of release and also the actual market price would be different.
Some of the on-look features of the phone include:
Even the folks which were present there were quite impressed with the features and efficiency of the phone. The phone looked really attractive and definitely it’s not an iPad. I imagine myself using that phone at home and at work. Without doubt I am going to buy the product if it is competitively priced.
What do you think about owing a Dell Mini 5?
Holding the phone in my hands felt great. The representative told me about its features and all I could say was– Wow! Dell Mini 5 has many similarities as of a smartphone. First of all the phone has multitouch screen to give a royal look and a comfortable experience. It provides 3G connectivity and is easy to operate. The phone also contains 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset and not to forget, Google’s Android operating method.
The only thing which I didn’t like much is that it’s quite big for a smartphone. But despite being big it doesn’t weigh much, only 8 ounces. Thus my arms will not be strained while using the phone. Any onlooker may get confused whether you are holding a phone or a compact book. I just wonder that how will I look holding the phone next to my face and that how will I carry it as it may not fit in the pockets of my tight jeans.
Mini 5 is also known as Model M01M. You can spot the model name under the battery cover. The phone is using Android 1.6 operating system. Since a newer version of Android is available in the market, I just hope that the operating system of Mini 5 will be upgraded to Android 2.1 at launch time.
The price tag on the phone stated $1,908 but this was only a dummy model. We can expect the price change by the time of release and also the actual market price would be different.
Some of the on-look features of the phone include:
- • Five inch touch screen display
- • 800*480 resolution
- • 1 Ghz processor
- • Wi-Fi
- • Bluetooth
- • 3G connectivity
- • 5 megapixel camera
- • Dual LED flash
- • Front camera
Even the folks which were present there were quite impressed with the features and efficiency of the phone. The phone looked really attractive and definitely it’s not an iPad. I imagine myself using that phone at home and at work. Without doubt I am going to buy the product if it is competitively priced.
What do you think about owing a Dell Mini 5?
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Monday, February 1, 2010
POP3 vs. IMAP
Both POP3 and IMAP are email protocols that are used in every email transmission in the world. POP3 is the traditional method that has served us well for years, and IMAP is the young pretender, younger, faster better. Which is the best for business?
POP3 is still the most popular protocol because it is established and reliable. It does have inherent flaws though, and that is what it driving development and improvement. Many organizations have millions of emails transmitted every year. With the advent of email compliance, it is now not enough to just process the email and send it to an inbox. They now have to be easily processed, sorted, indexed, delivered, archived and retrieved if necessary.
IMAP is the new kid on the block and is rapidly catching up with POP3 in popularity. Many small to medium businesses use email hosting as a solution because they aren’t big enough, or use email enough to warrant their own mail server. The difference between the two protocols directly affects those businesses.
The biggest difference between the two protocols is how they handle delivered email. POP3 receives the mail from the SMTP server and downloads it to the clients inbox. The mail is then deleted from the server. This means the only intact copy is in the clients inbox. IMAP, among other things keeps a copy of the mail on the server which allows for storage, journaling and a whole host of other features.
In an email hosting environment IMAP allows a client to access their emails from anywhere in the world if they can access the web server. They can also access them from different email clients, a browser or cell phone with the correct software and infrastructure. This allows a lot of freedom, especially for staff who are on the move or out on the road.
In a real life example, say that employee A receives a technical query from a customer in a different time zone. A answers and waits for a reply but doesn’t get one until after they leave for the day. Employee B works late shift, picks up the email trail and can continue to support the customer. All because they can pick up where A left off.
IMAP made that possible because it kept a copy of the email on the server for other employees to see if given the right permissions. POP3 would have downloaded it do employee A’s machine and they would have had to copy everyone else in or handed it over.
In an email hosting environment, POP3 email cannot be backed up, because it is downloaded to the client. Using IMAP allows either the client or the web host to perform regular backups to preserve email data in case of emergency or an E-discovery request.
So while POP3 has served us faithfully for many years, it is time for IMAP to take over the mantle and continue the good work.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Millions' worth of gear left in Iraq
By Ernesto Londoño
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, December 7, 2009
BAGHDAD -- Even as the U.S. military scrambles to support a troop surge in Afghanistan, it is donating passenger vehicles, generators and other equipment worth tens of millions of dollars to the Iraqi government.
Under new authority granted by the Pentagon, U.S. commanders in Iraq may now donate to the Iraqis up to $30 million worth of equipment from each facility they leave, up from the $2 million cap established when the guidelines were first set in 2005. The new cap applies at scores of posts that the U.S. military is expected to leave in coming months as it scales back its presence from about 280 facilities to six large bases and a few small ones by the end of next summer.
Some of the items that commanders may now leave behind, including passenger vehicles and generators, are among what commanders in Afghanistan need most urgently, according to Pentagon memos.
Officials involved say the approach has triggered arguments in the Pentagon over whether the effort to leave Iraqis adequately equipped is hurting the buildup in Afghanistan. Officials in the U.S. Central Command, which oversees both wars, have balked at some proposed handovers, and previously rejected an approach that would have granted base commanders even greater leeway.
U.S. commanders in Iraq say they have been judicious in assessing what equipment to earmark for donation. Alan F. Estevez, a deputy undersecretary of defense, wrote in an e-mail that "an important and vital goal is to leave behind fully functioning bases to the Government of Iraq to enable Iraq's civil capacities."
But a U.S. military official critical of the process said the new regulations allow too much latitude to commanders, provide little oversight and fail to account for the urgent need of American forces in Afghanistan, which need the same kinds of items that the troops in Iraq are leaving behind.
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"How can a generator or an SUV or a relocatable building be excess if you are buying the very same thing and sending it to Afghanistan?" said the official, who is involved in the process and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"In Iraq, people drive around in new Yukons, Suburbans, Envoys and new pickups," the official said. "In Kandahar, you find troops from the same U.S. Army driving around in broken-down, 15-year-old, right-hand-drive clunkers with bald tires."
Brig. Gen. Peter C. Bayer Jr., the chief of staff for the ground forces command in Iraq, said that though the Army wanted to make equipment available to units in Afghanistan, it was often more cost-effective to donate vehicles and other goods to the cash-strapped Iraqi government than to pack and ship it.
"In many cases, we'll spend more between labor and transportation than the equipment is worth," Brig. Gen. Bayer said. "We're not talking about green Army trucks or weapons systems or night-vision capabilities." Under the surge that President Obama outlined last week, commanders in Afghanistan -- a theater long eclipsed by Iraq -- soon will need to accommodate 30,000 additional troops. The Pentagon had already begun moving gear and personnel from Iraq to Afghanistan, reflecting a shift that has made Afghanistan the new administration's top foreign policy priority.
Senior military officials have said that getting new equipment into Afghanistan presents a major logistical challenge. "To the extent we can leverage equipment that's being retrograded out of Iraq, we're going to do that to make that a little easier," Brig. Gen. John W. Nicholson Jr., the director of the Pentagon's Pakistan-Afghanistan Coordination Cell, said last week in an online discussion with bloggers. "But a significant amount of this equipment will need to be brought in from elsewhere."
Under federal law, government agencies must demonstrate that equipment they wish to donate is not needed by other U.S. agencies. If that criterion is met, equipment can be donated in exchange for "substantial benefits" to the United States.
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, December 7, 2009
BAGHDAD -- Even as the U.S. military scrambles to support a troop surge in Afghanistan, it is donating passenger vehicles, generators and other equipment worth tens of millions of dollars to the Iraqi government.
Under new authority granted by the Pentagon, U.S. commanders in Iraq may now donate to the Iraqis up to $30 million worth of equipment from each facility they leave, up from the $2 million cap established when the guidelines were first set in 2005. The new cap applies at scores of posts that the U.S. military is expected to leave in coming months as it scales back its presence from about 280 facilities to six large bases and a few small ones by the end of next summer.
Some of the items that commanders may now leave behind, including passenger vehicles and generators, are among what commanders in Afghanistan need most urgently, according to Pentagon memos.
Officials involved say the approach has triggered arguments in the Pentagon over whether the effort to leave Iraqis adequately equipped is hurting the buildup in Afghanistan. Officials in the U.S. Central Command, which oversees both wars, have balked at some proposed handovers, and previously rejected an approach that would have granted base commanders even greater leeway.
U.S. commanders in Iraq say they have been judicious in assessing what equipment to earmark for donation. Alan F. Estevez, a deputy undersecretary of defense, wrote in an e-mail that "an important and vital goal is to leave behind fully functioning bases to the Government of Iraq to enable Iraq's civil capacities."
But a U.S. military official critical of the process said the new regulations allow too much latitude to commanders, provide little oversight and fail to account for the urgent need of American forces in Afghanistan, which need the same kinds of items that the troops in Iraq are leaving behind.
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"How can a generator or an SUV or a relocatable building be excess if you are buying the very same thing and sending it to Afghanistan?" said the official, who is involved in the process and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"In Iraq, people drive around in new Yukons, Suburbans, Envoys and new pickups," the official said. "In Kandahar, you find troops from the same U.S. Army driving around in broken-down, 15-year-old, right-hand-drive clunkers with bald tires."
Brig. Gen. Peter C. Bayer Jr., the chief of staff for the ground forces command in Iraq, said that though the Army wanted to make equipment available to units in Afghanistan, it was often more cost-effective to donate vehicles and other goods to the cash-strapped Iraqi government than to pack and ship it.
"In many cases, we'll spend more between labor and transportation than the equipment is worth," Brig. Gen. Bayer said. "We're not talking about green Army trucks or weapons systems or night-vision capabilities." Under the surge that President Obama outlined last week, commanders in Afghanistan -- a theater long eclipsed by Iraq -- soon will need to accommodate 30,000 additional troops. The Pentagon had already begun moving gear and personnel from Iraq to Afghanistan, reflecting a shift that has made Afghanistan the new administration's top foreign policy priority.
Senior military officials have said that getting new equipment into Afghanistan presents a major logistical challenge. "To the extent we can leverage equipment that's being retrograded out of Iraq, we're going to do that to make that a little easier," Brig. Gen. John W. Nicholson Jr., the director of the Pentagon's Pakistan-Afghanistan Coordination Cell, said last week in an online discussion with bloggers. "But a significant amount of this equipment will need to be brought in from elsewhere."
Under federal law, government agencies must demonstrate that equipment they wish to donate is not needed by other U.S. agencies. If that criterion is met, equipment can be donated in exchange for "substantial benefits" to the United States.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
GetAFreelancer Hits 1 Million Users, Switches Name To Freelancer.com
GetAFreelancer Hits 1 Million Users, Switches Name To Freelancer.com
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by Robin Wauters on October 7, 2009
If the Internet has made one thing crystal clear, it’s that physical borders and geographical distance are no longer necessarily an absolute barrier for conducting business.
More and more companies are getting accustomed to the idea of being able to do business with companies on the other side of the world using nothing but digital communication means, or to have entire business units or projects led by teams made up of people located all over the globe.
Hence the popularity of services such as oDesk and Elance, websites where you can outsource given projects to registered programmers, designers, writers, legal experts and whatnot. Another player in this market is GetAFreelancer, an Australian company that’s been offering freelance jobs online since it was founded back in 2004.
Today, the company is announcing that it has changed its name to the far better-sounding and undoubtedly more memorable Freelancer.com. They bought the domain name from a private individual who used to run a magazine called Computer Freelancer over 15 years ago, for a ’six figure sum’. All in an effort to increase its visibility and profile.
GetAFreelancer CEO Matt Barrie tells us that the site recently hit a big milestone and now boasts over 1,000,000 registered professionals and businesses from 234 countries and territories worldwide. Over 475,000 jobs have been posted on the website to date, for a sum of over $43 million.
Not too shabby for a bootstrapped venture.
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Robin Wauters
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October 7, 2009
If the Internet has made one thing crystal clear, it’s that physical borders and geographical distance are no longer necessarily an absolute barrier for conducting business.
More and more companies are getting accustomed to the idea of being able to do business with companies on the other side of the world using nothing but digital communication means, or to have entire business units or projects led by teams made up of people located all over the globe.
Hence the popularity of services such as oDesk and Elance, websites where you can outsource given projects to registered programmers, designers, writers, legal experts and whatnot. Another player in this market is GetAFreelancer, an Australian company that’s been offering freelance jobs online since it was founded back in 2004.
Today, the company is announcing that it has changed its name to the far better-sounding and undoubtedly more memorable Freelancer.com. They bought the domain name from a private individual who used to run a magazine called Computer Freelancer over 15 years ago, for a ’six figure sum’. All in an effort to increase its visibility and profile.
GetAFreelancer CEO Matt Barrie tells us that the site recently hit a big milestone and now boasts over 1,000,000 registered professionals and businesses from 234 countries and territories worldwide. Over 475,000 jobs have been posted on the website to date, for a sum of over $43 million.
Not too shabby for a bootstrapped venture."
- GetAFreelancer Hits 1 Million Users, Switches Name To Freelancer.com (view on Google Sidewiki)
Friday, July 24, 2009
America the Illiterate
We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America, which constitutes the majority, exists in a non-reality-based belief system. This America, dependent on skillfully manipulated images for information, has severed itself from the literate, print-based culture. It cannot differentiate between lies and truth. It is informed by simplistic, childish narratives and clichés. It is thrown into confusion by ambiguity, nuance and self-reflection. This divide, more than race, class or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, has split the country into radically distinct, unbridgeable and antagonistic entities.
There are over 42 million American adults, 20 percent of whom hold high school diplomas, who cannot read, as well as the 50 million who read at a fourth- or fifth-grade level. Nearly a third of the nation’s population is illiterate or barely literate. And their numbers are growing by an estimated 2 million a year. But even those who are supposedly literate retreat in huge numbers into this image-based existence. A third of high school graduates, along with 42 percent of college graduates, never read a book after they finish school. Eighty percent of the families in the United States last year did not buy a book.
The illiterate rarely vote, and when they do vote they do so without the ability to make decisions based on textual information. American political campaigns, which have learned to speak in the comforting epistemology of images, eschew real ideas and policy for cheap slogans and reassuring personal narratives. Political propaganda now masquerades as ideology. Political campaigns have become an experience. They do not require cognitive or self-critical skills. They are designed to ignite pseudo-religious feelings of euphoria, empowerment and collective salvation. Campaigns that succeed are carefully constructed psychological instruments that manipulate fickle public moods, emotions and impulses, many of which are subliminal. They create a public ecstasy that annuls individuality and fosters a state of mindlessness. They thrust us into an eternal present. They cater to a nation that now lives in a state of permanent amnesia. It is style and story, not content or history or reality, which inform our politics and our lives. We prefer happy illusions. And it works because so much of the American electorate, including those who should know better, blindly cast ballots for slogans, smiles, the cheerful family tableaux, narratives and the perceived sincerity and the attractiveness of candidates. We confuse how we feel with knowledge.
The illiterate and semi-literate, once the campaigns are over, remain powerless. They still cannot protect their children from dysfunctional public schools. They still cannot understand predatory loan deals, the intricacies of mortgage papers, credit card agreements and equity lines of credit that drive them into foreclosures and bankruptcies. They still struggle with the most basic chores of daily life from reading instructions on medicine bottles to filling out bank forms, car loan documents and unemployment benefit and insurance papers. They watch helplessly and without comprehension as hundreds of thousands of jobs are shed. They are hostages to brands. Brands come with images and slogans. Images and slogans are all they understand. Many eat at fast food restaurants not only because it is cheap but because they can order from pictures rather than menus. And those who serve them, also semi-literate or illiterate, punch in orders on cash registers whose keys are marked with symbols and pictures. This is our brave new world.
Political leaders in our post-literate society no longer need to be competent, sincere or honest. They only need to appear to have these qualities. Most of all they need a story, a narrative. The reality of the narrative is irrelevant. It can be completely at odds with the facts. The consistency and emotional appeal of the story are paramount. The most essential skill in political theater and the consumer culture is artifice. Those who are best at artifice succeed. Those who have not mastered the art of artifice fail. In an age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional gratification, we do not seek or want honesty. We ask to be indulged and entertained by clichés, stereotypes and mythic narratives that tell us we can be whomever we want to be, that we live in the greatest country on Earth, that we are endowed with superior moral and physical qualities and that our glorious future is preordained, either because of our attributes as Americans or because we are blessed by God or both.
The ability to magnify these simple and childish lies, to repeat them and have surrogates repeat them in endless loops of news cycles, gives these lies the aura of an uncontested truth. We are repeatedly fed words or phrases like yes we can, maverick, change, pro-life, hope or war on terror. It feels good not to think. All we have to do is visualize what we want, believe in ourselves and summon those hidden inner resources, whether divine or national, that make the world conform to our desires. Reality is never an impediment to our advancement.
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