Compaq announced the price of their Compaq Presario Range of notebooks for the month of February. Products are aggressively priced and are good value for money. Here is the list of various laptop models and their prices.
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The Views module in Drupal provides a Feed display that will allow for site owners to publish the content on their sites as RSS feeds. However, unlike a page or block display, the feed display does not allow for addition of custom tags inside the feed using the Views administration UI. There is however a way to add custom tags, attributes and values into the generated feed using hook_nodeapi.
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If you use drupal as a blogging platform you would want to auto tweet your new posts on to twitter. Twitter and Shorten module provides you with the basic framework required to do this and all you will need to get it working is to configure these modules. There is also a small patch that has to be applied to the twitter module (until the patch goes into the CVS) to allow the use of shortened URLs in the tweet.
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Lenovo India announced prices of their laptops for the month of January. The given list of prices will give a fair idea on the prices of various models of Lenovo laptops. Here are the prices.
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Lenovo announced the latest additions to its Idea brand of personal computers for consumers. The new PCs push the envelope in the pursuit of thinner and more stylish designs, and combine these attributes with unique features like facial recognition and high-definition entertainment technologies to give consumers a computing experience like no other. These Desktops are built for the needs of small and medium businesses (SMB) all the way up to large corporations, the AIO delivers a compelling alternative to the traditional desktop PC's.
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Lenovo announced prices of various models of Premium laptops in their product line for the month of January. They have come up with very attractive prices and model specifications for Indian customers. Here is the list of Lenovo laptops and their prices.
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Lenovo has launched it’s ultra-portable S10-2 ideapad netbook.It has the 1.6GHz Intel Atom N280 processor and 945 GSE express chipset.The Lenovo IdeaPad S10 is a good choice for the users who have to perform simple activities such browsing the Internet, checking and writing e-mails, listening to music and running basic applications.
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Samsung announced the prices of their Laptops for the month of January 2010. The prices are very competitive and features are very attractive. These prices are available across India. Here are the list of available models and their respective prices.


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Asianet Dataline is an ISP in Kerala and they use a web browser based authentication system to log the user onto their network. One of their most popular plans the - Homenet 475 offers free unlimited downloads from 2AM to 8AM. Now if there was a way to turn on your system at 2AM, automatically login to Asianet and turn your download manager on and then shutdown at 8AM it would have been perfect. The only problem is that the http based authentication system makes it a bit unwieldy to automate. Well not really :-). We have created a bash script to automate this login process.
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Drupal allows very fine grained control over how content is presented to the end user. The presentation layer is abstracted beautifully and cleanly designed hooks allows for moving data from the logic layer to the presentation layer. The template file that handles the basic page layout of every drupal site is page.tpl.php and the different regions available for a given theme are all available as HTML elements in page.tpl.php. Another important template file is node.tpl.php which decides how nodes are presented to the end user. Normally the content of nodes go into regions inside page.tpl.php and so does blocks and panels. But what if you want to have regions inside the display area of nodes? What if you want to use blocks to display content inside nodes? The answer is simple - template preprocess is the key.
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Views is one of the most complex of all Drupal modules and one of the most useful of all Drupal modules. The only downside is that, since it is very complex, not too many people have been able to contribute to the documentation of the module. If you search Google for finding out how to programmatically set a filter in Views2 you probably wouldn't find any help. Here is how you do it.
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Feed API provides a powerful means of importing feeds from other sites directly into your Drupal site. What if you want to export your feed as an XML file to a content distributor who wants it on his FTP site? There is of course the traditional approach of using curl to read your feed URL and dump the text as files on to the ftp site. There is not much control that you have over this process. However doing this via Drupal Views will give you fine grained control over the process
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SEO requires you to have descriptive titles and URLs matching the title. But when you want to publish your URL some place where the length of the URL is an issue you definitely want short URLs. One solution to the problem is to use URL shortening services like tr.im to shorten the long URLs to short and sweet 9 character urls. But the URL will lose your sites identity. Don't worry there is the drupal way to solve this problem.
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We at Zyxware have been working on several drupal projects for more than two years now and we learned a lot in the process. Two of our internal projects include www.zyxware.com and www.ubuntumanual.org, where we have tried out different SEO tactics. There are a number of really good drupal modules that come in handy when you are dealing with SEO ing your drupal website. Here are a select few of them that really helped in attracting more traffic to our drupal projects.
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We have been working with Drupal for the last 3 years now and we just love Drupal. Every day we work with it, we get more and more reasons to love it even more. As a token of our respect for this system, we have become official paid members of Drupal association. We can now proudly flaunt the association badges on our site.
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