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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 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.

If you create anything other than a very small site using Drupal you will end up using Views and CCK, two of the most important contributed modules in Drupal. Views allow users to dynamically create different presentation of tabular data from the database. However this also necessitates dynamic page titles for pages using views.

Openoffice comes with a stripped down version of regular expression for both of its Find/Replace Utility as well as its Calc Formulae. It however still packs a punch for most common operations. Here is how you can strip HTML tags from an open office document using the Find/Replace dialog.

The dream of every person starting out to build websites is to reach out to as many people as possible. Not very many actually make it to more than a few hundred visitors per month on a regular basis. But with the profusion of social bookmarking sites, there is a chance for some of these low traffic sites to get bursts of very high traffic once in a while, for ex: when they get slashdotted. The question is how to outlive such spikes in traffic, without burning large holes in your pocket

When you upgrade from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 you might run into the following error if the upgrade was not properly done Warning: Unknown column 'serialized' in 'field list' query: SELECT data, created, headers, expire, serialized FROM cache WHERE cid = 'variables' in [drupal 6 "/includes/database.mysqli.inc" file] on line 128 There could be several reasons why the error happened but there is a simple solution to solving this problem.

When things don't work the way you want it to and all it takes is a hack in the core, people sometimes hack the core. You might get the feature working the way you wanted it to but by doing that you would effectively be crippling your drupal installation. There are three main reasons why you should not hack core in Drupal.

Blogger is one of the most popular free blogging service providers out there. Yet again another free service from the kitty of Google. Blogger is a reasonably user friendly blogging platform except for its theming capabilities. If you don't customize anything you can configure most of the stuff through the blogger admin interface but if you did something then you will have to do everything subsequently as well. A very simple task like showing the comment form below the posts requires you to fiddle with the template xml file, if you are already using a customized template.

Firefox is readying itself for yet another major release. That is an amazing feat by itself when you consider the fact that, they had another major release, called Firefox 3.0, less than a year ago. Now it is time for highly revised and improved Firefox 3.5. You can even give it a try by installing the release candidate vesrion called Firefox 3.5RC2 in your Ubuntu. But we recommend you to wait until the official release of Firefox 3.5 which is safer. Firefox 3.5RC2 is only for testing purposes.

The latest KDE 4.2.4 is released with much improved features and lots of bug fixes. Some of the new features include a highly improved pdf reader, Okular and and a much versatile KMail. Improved applets,  efficient and smooth window management,  breathtaking desktop effects, etc are some of the highlights of KDE 4.2. The latest release in the series, KDE 4.2.4 is probably the last release before the official release of KDE 4.3, which is going to happen some time in the month of July/August. Here is How you can update your Ubuntu/Kubuntu with the latest KDE 4.2.4.

Theme your Ubuntu with quality stuff. Finding full set themes, which includes wallpaper, gdm, metacity themes etc, was always a difficult task to do in Ubuntu. But thanks to the zgegblog guys this is not an issue anymore. And the most interesting part is that, you could download it directly through Synaptic Package Manager. So it is safe and easy to install as well. Here is a detailed step by step analysis on How to install zgegblog themes in Ubuntu. We have also included previews of some of the themes available through the blog.

The latest version of XBMC, codenamed Babylon is finally released. It has many new features and enhancements. For beginners, XBMC is an award winning Open Source Multimedia Application with eye candy and easy to use interface. Take a look at the screenshots of XBMC. All new XBMC 9.04 comes with a lot of improvements and added features. Some of the new features include support for Power PC architecture, improved FanArt support,  VDPAU hardware accelerated video decoding under Linux on NVIDIA graphics and so on. Here are the detailed instructions on How to install XBMC 9.04 - Babylon in Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope and also further details on the application.

Open Office 3.1 has been released with improved features and bug fixes. Some of the  new features include antialiased drawings to smooth the edges of graphics, replying to notes, improved grammar checking, hyperlink management and sorting etc. Peek into the full list  of features in the all new release of Open Office. Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope comes with Open Office 3.0 as default and the new release of Open Office is not yet listed in the official Ubuntu repo. You will have to add launchpad repo to upgrade to this all new Open Office 3.1. Take a look on different steps detailing the Upgradation to Open Office 3.1 in Ubuntu Jaunty, Intrepid, and Hardy.

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