Drupal is one of the most popular CMS (Content Management System). Following are some of the fetures of Drupal.
- Free Open source
- Flexible
- Extensible
- Supports MVC
- Community Support
Visit CMS Reviews website for a comprehensive review on Content Management Systems
Current Drupal Version
Drupal 6.14 is the latest stable version.
Download Drupal 6.14
Drupal Modules
Visit Drupal Module page
Some of most popular dupal modules
1) Views
One of the most popular Drupal Module which allows the flexibility to display the list, tables and contents and other elements.
2) CCK (Content Construction Kit)
CCK module allows you to add custom fields to nodes from web browser.
Some of the useful CCK links.
Content Construction Kit Handbook
Tags: CCK, CMS, Content Construction Kit, Content Management Systems, Drupal, Drupal Resources, Modules, Themes, Views
Microsoft’s MSN to Bing gamble is paying off. Bing’s market share has reached into double digit for the first time.
There is not much new in Bing. “Bing is a new chassis with same old engine”. What Microsoft did was to give it a new name, new face and decorate it with some interesting thing to make it look like new “stuff” and they topped it up with publicity to push it as a new search engine.
The presentation is attractive, well much more attractive than Google’s simple (boring) look.
I like the way they display the background image and stuff in some interesting facts at various spot.
The footer also displays some interesting articles from wiki.
However all of above are kind of distraction for searchers. Whenever I go to search for something I get deviated by other links. No wonder why Google still enjoys the No.1 position because of the most simple fact that it is just Search Engine.
I wish Bing was just as Google – Search Engine. However Microsoft never gives up in stuffing in as much elements of their network as possible in almost all of their services and which ultimately becomes a flop show.
Search Results
It seems more or less Bing displays the same result as Google. A search for my own name Ajay Kumar Singh on Bing shows this blog as No. 1, same as it shows on Google.
Bing favors its own community and if you have signed up in community then it might shows up details from there as well. I’m signed up for Community and it shows my profile page in the first page for my name search.
Bing’s country specific search is not so relevant and not as good as Google’s one. I searched for keyword SEO to display searches from UK only and couldn’t find my business website in top 10 where as it is on top 10 on Google for UK search results.
New Features
Bing has added some of new features. For instance on the right side of title you can see the latest posts from the blog.
What lacks
Bing doesn’t allow to display more than 10 results per page until and unless you login and change the it from the account settings. in Google you can exactly change it to display up to 100 results per page without logging into account. I use this feature quite heavily for my SEO work and I wish Bing could also provide this feature.
Domain name search doesn’t work. For instance if you type swamiseo.co.uk it will not display any result and it would rather suggest swamiseo keyword. In Google you would see the pages which link to swamiseo.co.uk
Country specific searches
Bing simply doesn’t show relevant result in country specific searches. Well it is still in Beta so we can’t expect all the features in it. Lets see when it builds up enough capability to show localized searches.
Image Searches
Image search in Bing is not as improved as it is in Google. Bing displays Image search results in iframe which is nuisance. It also doesn’t show the source of image until and unless you hover over the image.
Image results in Google are much better, simplified and display relevant information.
It seems bing image indexing is not sophisticated enough to build up a large database of images. Bing displays images from well known and big websites rather than well optimized small websites.
What is Good
Ever wonder why Google shows wiki in the top of search result for any keyword which has got an entry in Wiki? It is just sheer insanity.
Let me explain with an example. Visit Google.co.in and enter keyword Laptop and see the result. Google displays news items (useless) followed by Wiki (another useless result). When someone types keyword Laptop he is not interested in Google News or in Wiki, all he wants is to find out the latest laptops and probably to buy it.
Google loves Wiki.
Bing doesn’t love wiki so it doesn’t show up all the time.
Bing has to improve the search result display a lot to match with Google’s search. It shows Wiki which is completely irrelevant for the searched keyword.
Tags: Ajay Kumar Singh, Bing, Google, Search Engine, SEO, swamiseo
Got in my letterbox today…
CAPTCHAs, which keep spammers away, also make our lives nightmare sometimes. Following are some of the CAPTCHAs which are puzzles rather than a challenge.
I wonder what these people really trying to test?
Try to sovle them…
1) Google Account CAPTCHA
Any idea what the letters are?
Lets try
muronfors ???
muromfors ???
2) Yahoo Buzz CAPTCHA
What is the 2nd letter here after 5 and before J?
Is there a word at all? If it is there then it is not visible. So what is the purpose of CAPTCHA to see invisible?
3) phpbb3 CAPTCHA taken from a Mozilla Thunderbird Forum
This one is another bummer…
What is 2nd letter? A + sign?
Or a flying aeroplane?
4) Gumtree CAPTCHA
I encountered this funny one on gumtree.com
This one is technically incorrect.
How?
In reCAPTCHA you have 2 words, here the first word is missing.
The correct word is just dune which worked. First word is lost somewhere.
Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Account, Gumtree, Puzzle, Yahoo Buzz CAPTCHA
Blackberry 8230 smarphone is (was) not so smart. The old Blackberry 8230 CAN’T record video. It is over an year since I owned this pink device and I never realized that such smartphone can’t record video. It takes beutiful pics though.
I wanted to record a video off tv news today and found myself lost after I couldn’t find how to record video. A quick search on the Internet reveled the mystery that old device is not capable of recording video.
The good news is that you can still record video in old Blackberry 8230 smartphone. Video recording comes as default in new Blackberry 8230 smartphones.
In order to record video on Blackberry 8230 all you have to do is to upgrade the Blackberry Device Software to the latest version which is 4.5.
To upgrade the device software visit the following link, click on Update and follow the instructions.
Upgrade Blackberry 8230 Smartphone Device Software
The upgrade link will install Application Loader, once application loader is installed you will have to connect the device and click on Update Now button again on the above link and it will automatically start upgrading.
If you are lost then drop me message in comment.
Make sure popup is enabled in browser.
It took me nearlly 2 hours to update the device software.
Tags: Blackberry 8230 smartphone, How to record video in Blackberry 8230 Smartphone, Video
Lois Arthur and Rob Nolasco are not the only ones doing social services by enlightening the world about India add David Newbold in the Gang as well.
Here is their Bummer and I just can’t stop being furious on what they have wrote and have propogated all over the world.
Here is the scanned page full with deformed propaganda to prove that world’s greatest and most ancient civilization with one of the most ancient ALIVE language, Sanskrit, didn’t have a national language. What a pathetic way to fool the rest of world in 21st century.
Wake up guys, Joseph Goebbels is long dead and it’s not WWII.
Tags: David Newbold, Joseph Goebbels, Lois Arthur, Rob Nolasco, WWII
Some facts about India which you never knew.
Holy Cow!!!!
And Colourful Gods
Thanks to Lois Arthur and Rob Nolasco, two well known western writers, who never stop screwing up the true facts about India. These guys teach children and adult all over the world and also write books to educate the world with English language and sometimes they also do social services to enlighten the world about India.
Below is the full page of the book which they wrote to educate children all over the world. Well done gentlemen!!!
Tags: Books, India, Lois Arthur, Lois Arthur and Rob Nolasco, Rob Nolasco
So Tatas have launched a new services called “Tata E-mail Spamming Services (TESS)”…
If you are Indian and live in India you can’t miss Tatas, they are everywhere, inside your home, outside home, in water, in salt, in cars, trucks, you name it they are there.
Tata Trucks, Tata Cars, Tata Salt, Tata Hotels, Tata Sky TV (Good that I don’t miss my Sky channels), Tata (sic) this Tata (sic) that…
errr. not to mention TCS and oh yes the Internet connection which I’m using right now.. Tata Broadband.. Tata Wimax.. …..
Since this is the era of the Internet so why Tatas have to be behind any other spammers? So they got here too.
They revolutionized the IT industry via TCS so why not to revolutionze the Spammin Industry too.
Join me to welcome the lunch of the Tata E-mail Spamming Services (TESS)
I’ve no interest in Tata (sic) Nano (sic) car and certinly not in getting a finance from Tatacapital.com (spammers)
(Spam) E-mail is received from ritesh.singla@tatacapital.com on 10th april 2009
Click on the below image to see the full snap
E-mail body copied here..
Cost of Application form – Rs.300
Booking open from 9th Apr – 25th Apr 09
How to BOOK?
Cash Option – Rs. 95000 for NANO standard
Rs.120000 for NANO CX
Rs.140000 for NANO LX
Finance Option – Rs. 3199 for NANO standard
Rs.3799 for NANO CX
Rs.4299 for NANO LX
Please revert with the below details and we will come to you and help you in booking your NANO
Name: ___________________________
Location: _________________________
Contact No:_______________________
For More details visit
* Terms and Conditions apply.
Disclaimer & Privilege Notice: This e-Mail may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential information and is sent
for the intended recipient(s) only. If, by an addressing or transmission error, this mail has been misdirected to you,
you are requested to notify us immediately by return email message and delete this mail and its attachments. You are also
hereby notified that any use, any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution
and/or publication of this e-mail message, contents or its attachment(s) other than by its intended recipient(s) is strictly
prohibited. Any opinions expressed in this email are those of the individual and may not necessarily represent those of
Tata Capital Ltd. Before opening attachment(s), please scan for viruses.
Tags: ritesh.singla@tatacapital.com, Tata, Tata Car, Tata Hotels, Tata nano, Tata Salt, Tata Spamming Services, Tata Truck, TCS, TSS
Got this in mailbox today
Hello my friend!!!
This letter arrived to you from Russian Internet dating agency “The Relationships”.
This is not spam or other bad things. So, please, answer to me!!!
My name is Ekaterina. I’m 32 years old from small city Asbest, 86 km from Ekaterinburg, Russia.
I addressed to agency “The Relationships” and they sent my letter to you.
I want to search man from THE WEST for friendship and love.
I’m not married and have no children.
This is my photo. I hope that you like it and will answer to me.
Please, answer only to my personal e-mail address: myheart339@rambler.ru
Best regards,
Yours Ekaterina
The crazy news is that HSBC has switched from Maestro to VISA for debit card(?).
They forgot that someone might be travelling abroad and for long time and that he might not be able to get new VISA card and that he obviously can’t use the old card and that his old card will be deactivated while he enjoy sun and that he is screwed.
I’m one of those unfortunate customers who got screwed up by HSBC (sic of them) Master->VISA switching fiasco.
A call to Customer Support, thru skype, landed up in (obviously) Hyderbad and a rude and tense Lakshmi disclosed the breaking news while I, hopelessly, tried to find a way out to get my old Maestro card reactivated.
At least they should have allowed customers to use old Maestro cards till they decided to use the new VISA card and get rid of old.
What a bunch of brainless bankers!!!!
Tags: Brainless Bankers, HSBC, Maestro, VISA
