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Here are the steps in creating custom page in magento:
1st: Login to your magento administration area.
2nd: Go to CMS -  Manage Pages

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Just this day, i found this campaign of wikipedia.org about gathering donations from people who uses this kind of technology. They offered us free and wide variety of information since 2001 and now they need to get back the expenses they've thrown for the continuity of the service.

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This campaign already gathered 0.6M USD as of November 17, 2009 @ 4:50 PM Philippines Time.
I don't really know why is it that wikipedia needs 7.5 M USD. It was a huge amount of money that will just keep their servers running. Is it the plan of wikipedia since then? Is it their strategy to gather money?

Their financial report is available here
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This is how to install Joomla CMS Framework locally in windows if in case you don't have a web server and you are starting to learn this framework. This installation requires the following:

-Apache
-PHP
-MySQL (for database management)

You can have these all in a single installer. Ok, now for the steps on how to Install Joomla in a local machine.
Step 1: Download xampp (available here).
Step 2: install xampp. and run the apache as service.

Step 3: Download Joomla package here and extract.
Step 4: Go to /htdocs and copy the extracted joomla folder here.
Step 5: And you're ready to start the installation, start your browser (I recommend using mozilla firefox).
Step 6: type in the address bar:" //localhost/"
Step 7: Then you will see this interface and you can start installing joomla.
Then you will be redirected to the pre-check page
Then you must agree to the terms and conditions unless you are not.
Then you will have to set up the database. go to //localhost/phpmyadmin and create a database named "joomla".

Go back to joomla installation and fill up the fields.

database type: mysql
host name: localhost
username: root
password: do not put anything
database name: joomla

Skip the next page then set up your site configuration. After that will be your time to explore the power of joomla.
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Today i found this interesting blog weather widget which can be integrated in Blogger, Wordpress or any website that will surely liked by your readers. This weather blog widget can be customized according to the weather of a specific city or country.

This Blog weather widget is available here [click here].

Now for the screenshots of different designs.


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Magento Ecommerce framework is built to support any languages.
The default language pack that magento ecommerce framework has is english. Enabling the multilingual feature will be a great benefit to any e-commerce site to be understood by different races.

This is Enable multilingual feature in magento.

1. download the language pack [click here ] and then unpack it to your magento directory. When the system ask if the folder "app" will be replaced, click "yes to all"

2. Then go to System -> Configuration. Below the Current Configuration Scope dropdown box, click manage stores




3. Click the Create Store View link on top right, and type these in store view information form:

Store: Main Store
Name: "Language name"
Code: any
Status: Enabled
Sort order is optional.

Here, you can also disable any store view by disabling its status.

4. Save, go back to System > Configuration. In Current Configuration Scope dropdown box, you now see there’s new store view. Click that link.
On Locale options tab on the left, uncheck the “use website” checkbox then change the locale to the name of the storeview you just recently created. Save.
Now you can have your website in your selected language.
You can do this step to configure other existing store views, too.
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Turn Off autoplay for removable drives
how?
modify your registry: go to run -> type regedit and locate this
HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Policies -> Explorer -> "NoDriveTypeAutoRun"

the default value is 95 0 0 0. change the first 2 digit to 91.

-this can prevent viruses residing in the removable drives like memory cards, flash drives etc. some malwares has autorun.inf file inclusion that runs the virus when the user double clicks the drive.

Install Reliable Antivirus
what?
I suggest use Avast, a free home version is available but if you have budget, you can purchase the pro version. Avast is more reliable in detecting trojans and rootkits which usually steals information from your system.

Always install updates for your operating system.
- if you are using the genuine one.

Never download suspicious files and attached files in your email.

learn the virus thing.
visit www.psvx.org, this is a filipino VXER (Virus Writer) , AVER (Antivirus Writer) and enthusiast organization which aims to educate and help people protect themselves..
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