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Aug 27
2010

Facebook Sues Teacher Network "Teachbook" for Using the Word "Book"

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Facebook is suing a company called Teachbook, which operates a social networking site for teachers, apparently because it has "book" in its name and "competes" with Facebook. Teachbook is described as "a professional community for teachers".

In the suit, Facebook is alleging federal trademark dilution, trademark infringement and unfair competition.

Teachbook, which says that it is a community for teachers where users can share lesson plans, get advice, and connect with other educators, had created a site similar in scope to Facebook, but rather than social, Teachbook is offering a professional network site for educators. The homepage had a message, that has since been removed, stating, "Many schools forbid their teachers to maintain Facebook and MySpace accounts ... With Teachbook, you can manage your profile."

Aug 26
2010

Facebook chat drops support for IE6

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If you are using the Internet Explorer 6.0 till now to chat on Facebook, better move to an upgraded version.

Facebook in its blog said that chat feature will not be supported by IE6, better shove it under the carpet and move on. According to blog post, company will be dropping Internet Explorer 6 support for its chat application on September 15th, 2010.

Like many other web applications, Facebook is also moving away from IE6 because of its inability to support new feautres.

Aug 24
2010

Nepal Government to monitor .NP domain registration

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Government of Nepal is going to monitor on Nepal's Country domain .np registration. It was previously authorized to a Private company, Mercantile Communications Pvt. ltd. Still Mercantile Communications Pvt is maintaining on .np domains registration.

It is available free of cost because Mercantile, which is maintaining primary name service for NP is providing this service free of cost. Due to providing free of cost, Government has suspected misuse of these domains . So, Government sector is planning to charge for .np registration in the future. 

Aug 23
2010

Frustrated web developer decides to teach Joomla for free

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BuildAJoomlaWebsite.com has revised its online Joomla video training course and has released it for free.

Build a Joomla Website owner Richard Pearce said that it was an easy decision to release the training for free. “When I discovered Joomla, I found it difficult to understand, complicated to use and the documentation was poor. I became so frustrated trying to use it that I threw it away three times before knuckling down to work it out once and for all,” said Pearce, a web developer of 15 years.

“Once I mastered Joomla, I decided to produce a training course that teaches beginners the essentials of Joomla in around an hour, instead of weeks. Hundreds of people paid for and enjoyed the training. Many customers told me that if it wasn’t for my course, they too would have given up using Joomla. So when it came time to revise the course, I did not want anyone to go through the same miserable experience I had and so I decided to release it for free.”

Aug 23
2010

A Brief History of the Internet [Video Documentary]

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The foundations of the Internet were formed when packet-switching networks came into operation in the 1960s. Transmitted data is broken up into small packets  of data, sent to its destination, and reassembled at the other side. This means that a single signal can be routed to multiple users, and an interrupted packet may be re-sent without loss of transmission. Packets can be compressed for speed and encrypted for security.

Computers at the time were massive, primitive structures. The only type of network in operation before was made up of terminals that logged into mainframes. This is similar to the present-day client/server relationship we have with the modern Internet, except the computers are usually comparable in terms of power, and so the Internet is known as a peer-to-peer system.

Aug 22
2010

Facebook Launches Facebook Places

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Facebook has launched Facebook Places, a new tool which allows its members to automatically share their location with each other.

The social network, which has over 500 million members, has launched the new mobile phone tool in the US-only, with plans for a global roll-out “soon”, according to the Facebook’s blog post. It is not yet known when the service, which allows users to check-in to restaurants, bars and shops, will launch in the UK. It is currently live via the Facebook iPhone app in the US and on an advanced version of its mobile site.

Aug 22
2010

Actress Cameron Diaz: Most dangerous online celebrity

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Actress Cameron Diaz has topped a McAfee computer security firm list of the most dangerous online celebrities.

Diaz was ranked just a step ahead of box office powerhouse Julia Roberts when it came to cyber crooks using their names to lure internet users to bogus websites booby-trapped with malicious software.

Movie stars and sexy models topped an annual "Most Dangerous Celebrities" list released by northern California-based McAfee, which computer chip titan Intel is buying in a deal valued at 7.68 billion US dollars.

Aug 21
2010

Introduction to Joomla Content[Video Tutorial]

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Joomla! is one of the most powerful Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla is easy to install, is simple to manage, and reliable, and offers the perfect balance of power, flexibility and ease of use. It is Open Source and free.  In this, the first in a series of introductory articles we try to answer some of the Frequently Asked Questions when we first tell people about Joomla.

Indeed there are. Because a CMS works in a dynamic manner, retrieving your writing from a database and incorporating it into your current template to build your page, there are other things it can do while it is at it. Your main content is integrated into the 'central' part of the page but around the periphery of the page other 'modules' can be carrying out related tasks. Lists of 'most popular', 'most recent' or 'related' articles can be integrated into your page, polls allowing people to vote on issues, newsletter sign-up can be integrated. There are modules for paypal donations, etc.

Aug 14
2010

CAN Softech 2010 to begin from September 1

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Computer Association Nepal (CAN) is organizing the third edition of CAN Softech 2010 from September 1 to 4 at Direction Exhibition and Convention Center, United World Trade Centre. CAN has been organizing Softech from 2007 and InfoTech since 1995.

 The event will have about 60 stalls of different software development companies and most of them have already been booked, according to Binod Dhakal, general secretary of CAN.

Aug 06
2010

6 Steps to create Your Own Website: For Beginners

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This page explains everything that is needed for anyone wanting to create their own web page.  It is intended for the beginner and layperson, taking you step by step through the whole process from the very beginning I hope this guide is helpful.

1. Get Your Domain Name

The first thing you need to do before anything else is to get yourself a domain name. A domain name is the name you want to give to your website. For example, the domain name of the website you're reading is "nirmal.com.np". To get a domain name, you have to pay an annual fee to a registrar for the right to use that name. But to register a domain like mine nirmal.com.np, you don’t need to pay. You can register from Mercantile Communications Pvt. Ltd.  You  just need is your photocopy of Citizenship and letter head. But remember a name does not get you a website or anything like that. It's just a name. It's sort of like registering a business name in the brick-and-mortar world; having that business name does not mean that you also have the shop premises to go with the name.

 

Aug 04
2010

7 Simple Tips For Using Your Joomla Site

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There are many webmasters that need assistance with their Joomla site. Most problems webmasters have to deal with will be avoided by following these 7 simple guidelines for using a Joomla site:

1. Article Manager
The "pages" on your site are referred to as articles, the main content for each page. One of the first things you always want to do when creating a new page on your Joomla website is create a new article. Content Management Systems work by controlling how your site handles information, so it is natural that this should be your first step.

2. Menu Manager
When you work with menu items, you must remember that these are just links that tell your site which article it is pointing to. Menu items help you assign modules to specific pages, rather than having to show them on every page or none at all.

Namaste!

Nirmal: Freelance web designer and developer from nepalThis is Nirmal Gyanwali, a freelance web developer from kathmandu, Nepal. Currently I'm working as a web developer at Image Channel. I am well versed with Open source CMS and portal frameworks like Joomla, Wordpress and also a Master's Degree holder in Information Technology. Please feel free to contact me if you have anything you want to discuss.

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