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Zen Cart - Online Shopping Made Easy!

Zen Cart provides an easy to use full featured e-commerce solution that can be downloaded for free from the Zen Cart site or may be available with installation scripts provided by your host. This PHP / MySQL based shopping cart application enjoys wide support from the open source community that provides a wide variety of Free and pay for customization templates you can install to achieve the store front that fits your needs. Unlike most comparable applications, Zen Cart can be setup by anyone who has some understanding of dynamic web sites and basic computer skills. Read the rest of this entry �

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Bing Brings It To Search

Bing is Microsoft’s new entry to the search market replacing Live Search as the vehicle slated to compete with Google and Yahoo! When you first arrive at bing.com you get a lovely background image that is a worthless pleasantry one might expect from Microsoft as opposed to the stark geared for function screen you get at google.com. But tests seem to prove that Microsoft has build a very functional search utility in Bing. Read the rest of this entry �

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Nitro PDF Download Firefox Ad-On

Nitro PDF Download allows Firefox users to save the open page to a PDF file. You simply go to the “File” menu and select “Save Page as PDF” and Firefox will save the PDF file using the download feature. It does an excellent job of rending the page. You can install it by opening Firefox and going to the ad-on page for the product at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636. Like any other ad-on for Firefox you simply go to the site and click the “Add to Firefox” button and Nitro PDF Download will be installed and activated.

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Web 2.0 with AJAX

Web 2.0 refers to many things but is primarily refers to the usability and enhanced functionality afforded users with the compliance of most browsers to a common set of web standards defined by the World Wide Web Consortium [W3C] so that technologies such as AJAX can be expected to perform reliably in all browsers. The acronym, AJAX, represented “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML” when first coined and has since expanded to include a style of web capabilities that include the integration of XML, DOM, CSS, JavaScript and other technologies that give web pages the functionality resembling that of desktop applications. Read the rest of this entry �

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WordPress Themes

WordPress users can take advantage of an almost infinate variety of free theme designs or can choose amoung and equal number of professional designs. Any one of these can be easily installed by downloading the theme, uploading it’s folder to the theme directory and using the theme administration page to activate it. For those with sufficient knowledge of web design you may be able to create or alter an existing theme that would enable you to integrate a WordPress blog into an exiting site. With that in mind we will try to explain some of the basic elements that make up a WordPress theme. Read the rest of this entry �

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YouTube And Grow

YouTubeYouTube offers an incomparable opportunity to expand on any effort to distribute your message via video be it for your business, a hobby, or for sharing with any online community. Weather you have a web cam or professional level video recorder you can easily prepare videos and upload them once you have a YouTube account. Joining YouTube is not only simple it is also FREE! Read the rest of this entry �

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Google Docs Treasure Trove

The “Free” collection of online applications included with Google Docs provide a great introduction to the SaaS [ Software as a Service ] world. Word processing, spreadsheet or presentation documents can be created from within your web browser with an interface that has the familiar look and feel of popular desktop applications. All you need to access these services is an existing Google account and access from any web enabled computer. Read the rest of this entry �

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Firefox 3 - Spectacular But Hasty Release

Firefox 3 was released last Tuesday with over 15 million downloads registered by mid-day yesterday. The much anticipated release of the open source browser represents the efforts of thousands of developers worldwide over the past three years under the banner of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. Ground breaking innovations include vastly improved performance with the new Gecko 1.9 platform that brings malware protection, reduced memory usage and customization that personalizes the browser in a truly unique fashion. In it’s current release it is a bit sensitive but not so much that it should deter anyone from exploring it’s benefits. Read the rest of this entry �

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Web Based Small Business Applications

Businesses small and large are taking advantage of the extensive availability of web-based business applications that continue to emerge across a wide variety of industries. Rather than purchasing applications to be installed on a local system or network server these are subscriptions to applications accessed over the Internet by from any web enabled device. SaaS ["Software as a Service"] offerings have increased as web standards???????? ????? ???????? have spread and high speed Internet access has become the norm making universal access via the Internet practical.

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Blogging With WordPress

WordPressWordPress blogging software offers everything you could want to publish your blog in an intuitive user friendly interface for both visitors and publishers alike. You’ll enjoy the state-of-the-art technology updated regularly by a dedicated development community including a variety of easy to implement themes to choose from that will compliment the image you hope to present to your public on the Internet. Don’t be suspect just because it’s free!
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