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Make money out of your website through advertisements

We are a tech start-up firm. Our objective is to make money by developing successful web based applications for the general public. There are two ways of making money online. One is when you create a web based system and then sell rights to advertise on the website to ad-networks or directly to companies. The second is when your application becomes immensely popular and you sell the complete website to a bigger player who pays for future revenues and consolidation advantages.

News | 5 min read

As part of the GNU/Linux Users Group in Trivandrum we are proud to bring to computer users in Trivandrum a wonderful opportunity to try out GNU/Linux for free. GNU/Linux Users Group- Trivandrum, Free Software Foundation - India, Zyxware Technologies and Space-Kerala.org joins hand to bring to fruition the first publicly held GNU/Linux Install Fest in Kerala.

Technical Solution | 3 min read

We had an opportunity recently to provide support over the phone for one of our customers for installing Ubuntu and configuring Airtel broadband on a desktop PC. The Airtel broadband was connected through a Beetel 220BX ADSL modem but the instructions should work for most broadband connections where the device is a modem router.

News | 3 min read

The legal fraternity in and around Trivandrum district has been demanding for a high court bench in the capital city of Kerala since 1957. The demand is being supported by all political parties and the ruling Government of Kerala. To further mobilize the campaign the supporters had engaged us to set up a website for the protest. The website is expected to add momentum to the protest.

News | 2 min read

In a bid to promote the GNU/Linux User Group Trivandrum we have decided to offer free hosting plans for members of the group. The only eligibility criteria that we are looking forward to is a minimum level of involvement in the group activities.

Technical Solution | 4 min read

Wordweb is one of the most useful tools for a content developer or a technical writer working on a plain old Windows machine. When somebody like that moves to Ubuntu from Windows he/she would want to have a somewhat similar functionality in Ubuntu too. In GNU/Linux there is the gnome-dictionary or the kdict application that has similar functionality as wordweb. However some minor tweaks are required to make these applications behave almost exactly like Wordweb.

Technical Solution | 5 min read

We had never had to configure an Airtel GPRS internet connection on a Laptop with Ubuntu before as we never had a customer who had one such connection. We however got an opportunity last day when we installed ubuntu on a compaq presario F733AU laptop. Setting up internet access on Ubuntu is easy in itself and setting up GPRS could not have been any easier. The customer had a Nokia 9300 communicator with a USB datacable.

Technical Solution | 4 min read

Blogger/Blogspot is one of the most popular destinations for bloggers both new and experienced. When you sign up for a blogger account or use your existing Google account to create a blog you will get a blog with a URL like yourblogname.blogspot.com. This is a good way to start your first blog. However as you climb the ladders of popularity in blogosphere you will want to have your own domain name like www.yourblogname.com instead of the one above. Blogspot allows for this easily through their blog management interface.

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

Attachment Size slashdotit.tar.gz (173.55 KB) 173.55 KB Similar to the StumbleThis module that we had created earlier we have created another bookmarking module for Drupal - SlashdotIt module. Unlike the other social bookmarking sites Slashdot is very selective in terms of the articles that get approved from the submission queue also known as the Slashdot firehose. Use this module on your site only if you are sure that you have slashdot worthy content.

Email | 3 min read

GNU/Linux has grown from being a pet project of a few Free Software enthusiasts to one of the most viable and usable alternatives to proprietary operating systems. It is really amazing to look at this growth and one can but look with awe at the contributions made by countless and sometimes nameless scores of people in the Free Software communities. These communities have been formed over a long period of slow evolution and there are certain rules and manners(some written and some unwritten) that you have to follow to participate in them. Our attempt here is to prepare a list of such rules and manners that will enable a newbie to start participating in communities without embarrassing themselves.

News | 4 min read

We are happy to let you know that our efforts in promoting Ubuntu in India have been recognized by Canonical and they have included Zyxware.com to the Ubuntu.com Marketplace Listing. You can see for yourselves at the Ubuntu Market Place listing for Asia under the section for India.

Technical Solution | 4 min read

When you have more than one system with Ubuntu installed, and you have to install same or similar set of packages on all your PCs, you can save on a lot of bandwidth if you had some ways of sharing the downloaded packages and updates. There is an easy way to do this in Ubuntu. This is done using apt-cacher a proxy server for your package repositories. It is very easy to set up and configure apt-cacher on a PC with Ubuntu inside your LAN.

Drupal Technical | 6 min read

Most webmasters do not realize this, but a lot of the content on lot of websites can be accessed from multiple URLs. A simple example would be where www.example.com and example.com leads to the same page. This is a fatal mistake in Search Engine Optimization and search engines penalize you for duplicate content. The correct configuration would be where the above two urls will lead you to the same page but example.com will redirect you to www.example.com with a 301 (Moved permanently) status which will not result in search engines penalizing the page. It is very easy to configure 301 redirects using Apache .htaccess file and the process is the same for a Drupal installation also.

Company Documents | 6 min read

Request CD/DVD is a service rendered by Zyxware Technologies as a step to promote the use of various Free and Open Source Softwares (FOSS) and GNU/Linux. This service allows people with bandwidth limitations to order Free Software CDs and DVDs from us. We will download the software, if we do not already have the software, and send it to the customer by VPL. The following are the different steps involved in the process.

Drupal Technical | 5 min read

We have added a few new modules to our site recently. Two of these are the StumbleThis module and the DiggThis module. Drupal already had a DiggThis module available for download but there was no StumbleThis module. StumbleUpon has been a popular source of traffic for zyxware.com and we wanted users to have an option to add any of our pages to their StumbleUpon favorites. So we created our own StumbleUpon module.

News | 3 min read

In a bid to throttle organized piracy and in retaliation to drop in revenues (or rather, failure in achieving targeted sales) from software sales in Kerala, Microsoft Corporation launched aggressive anti-piracy raids in computer assembling stores in Trivandrum, Kollam and Thrissur districts in Kerala. This we think is a right time for those of you who are worried about using pirated software to shell out large chunks of money to buy licensed software or better SWITCH TO UBUNTU :).

Technical Solution | 5 min read

Blogger/Blogspot allows its users to edit the complete layout of the blog page through its 'edit template' feature. This gives the blogger full control over the layout of their pages and gives the kind of flexibility that you can get from any custom systems. The default blogger templates do not give links for social bookmarking from the blog pages. In this article we explain how to add social bookmarking links and buttons in your blogspot/blogger blog.

Technical Solution | 4 min read

Recently we came across a virus in one of our customers computers. The system was brought in with the complaint that it was running very slow and internet access was too slow to be of any use. We scanned the system with AVG and as was expected found a slew of viruses which AVG removed successfully after a complete scan. All but one - a file named startdrv.exe located at C:\Windows\Temp\startdrv.exe. AVG could not delete the file, neither could we delete it manually from Windows.

News | 2 min read

Next time when you insert your USB drive to a computer and if you happen to see a new "New Folder" not created by you, don't open it. It could be a virus infection. The worm creates a new file with the name New Folder.exe and hides the file extension so that you will not recognize that it was not a file folder and will accidentally double click it and the worm gets executed.

News | 2 min read

The Indian Linux User Group Trivandrum chapter(ilug-tvm) had been lying dormant for quite some time. However there has been a burst of activity within the group during the last two months. A few Linux enthusiasts including some of our own staff has decided that enough is enough and have successfully conducted ilug meetings for the last two months. The response has been very positive from the Linux Community. Zyxware Technologies as a company has decided to support this movement in whatever way we can, to keep this movement going.

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Make money out of your website through advertisements

First GNU / Linux Install Fest in Kerala for the general public

Configuring Airtel Broadband in Ubuntu

Website for Plea for a High Court Bench at the Capital City - Trivandrum

Free Hosting for GNU / Linux User Group Trivandrum Members

Setting up Wordweb equivalent dictionary KDict on Ubuntu

Setting up Airtel GPRS on Ubuntu via Nokia Communicator 9300 and data cable.

Setting up Custom Domain Name on Blogspot / Blogger

Drupal Module to add a Slashdot It bookmark

Simple Rules for participating in GNU / Linux and other Free Software Communities

Zyxware.com included in Ubuntu Marketplace

Use apt-cacher to save on bandwidth on multiple PCs

Configuring 301 redirect using Apache and htaccess for SEO in Drupal

Process of Managing, Accounting and Documenting CDRequests

StumbleThis Drupal module to bookmark in Stumbleupon

Microsoft Anti-piracy Raids in Trivandrum, Kerala - Time to Switch to Linux

Social bookmarking for your blogspot/blogger blog

Removing startdrv.exe - trojan backdoor cutwail family virus

Do not double click when you see a new "New Folder" in your USB Drive

ILUG Trivandrum