The CMS started out early in 2001 when it was a mere message board that evolved form the now defunct Drop.org website, has evolved into the content management system for industry experts who have more experience on the web and the many other industries that relied on it. Starting form a base installation of the Drupal Core system, it can be expanded upon through many third-party contributions that have made the system so successful it is used by over 70 or so brand names for their CMS needs.
Designed to be scalable, meaning it can easily be expanded upon with modules added and taken out as needed to come up with a system that meets an organization’s needs. The system is quite technical and as stated previously, more designed for those people who can be called experts in IT and the many other related fields. Drupal has also been criticized heavily for poor security measures that takes quite sometime to address due tot he many modules/add-ons that can be placed upon the core system. Of the total 2243 user-contributed modules, 64 have been found to have serious security holes that need to be addressed. The community does maintain a support site where they release security information and where updates are posted so users can address them properly, so extensive knowledge of the system is needed to maintain a proper and secure operating environment.

Yep there is such a thing as a psychology of colors. It mostly practiced in commercial establishments such as supermarkets and restaurants. For example, the reason why those popular fast food chains choose yellow, orange, and red for their color theme is because those colors make you hungry! Hmm� if this is the case, then why not employ the same science to your own Web site?

Here�s the color code which you can mix and match:

White: Easy on the eyes, perfection, peace, purity, sense of professionalism
Red: warmth, hunger, and excitement
Yellow: Happiness, vibrant
Green and blue: Calmness, content
Black, brown, grey: Serious, Somber

Pictures speak a thousand words, they say. Especially in this age where more and more people are taking pictures and sharing them online, it’s only normal that people will want to spice their pictures up.

Of course, some will prefer using professional editing tools, not everyone like to use such complicated software. The good news is that there is an online solution that lets you add basic effects and designs to your photos – Picnik.

Picnik is completely free, and does not require you to download any software for you to to be able to use it. Simply upload your pictures, and apply the corresponding effects or designs you want. What’s more, with Picnik’s integration into sites like Facebook, MySpace and Flickr, its easier to share your edited pictures with everyone.

Web Service Description Language (WSDL) is an XML language that contains information about the interface, semantics and “administrivia” of a call to a Web service.

Once you have developed a Web service, you publish its description and a link to it in a UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) repository so that potential users can find it. When someone thinks they want to use your service, they request your WSDL file in order to find out the location of the service, the function calls and how to access them. Then they use this information in your WSDL file to form a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) request to your computer.

The WSDL Standard

The WSDL standard is being worked out by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). That body further defines the standard as “an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. The operations and messages are described abstractly, and then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format to define an endpoint. Related concrete endpoints are combined into abstract endpoints (services). WSDL is extensible to allow description of endpoints and their messages regardless of what message formats or network protocols are used to communicate.”

A Java API for WSDL (JWSDL)

A Java API for WSDL (JWSDL) specification is currently in the works in the Java Community Process (JCP). When released, it will provide an API for manipulating WSDL documents without directly interacting with the XML documents. While you can currently achieve the full range of WSDL functionality using JAXP, JWSDL will be much easier and faster to use, simplifying the developer’s work.

How WSDL Works in the World of Java Technology

The diagram illustrates how a Web service is registered, found and called in a scenario based on Java technology. In this diagram, the Web service is registered in a UDDI repository using the Java API for XML Registries (JAXR), where a business partner or other system can find the service. The registry information from UDDI is used to locate a WSDL document that details the call semantics for the Web service. With the WSDL document in hand, the Java programmer can then feed it to a tool that can generate a Java object proxy to the Web service, or simply use it as a reference document along with a lower-level SOAP API.

This is good news particularly for Mac Users. Gabtastik is a standalone desktop program that enables you to run your Facebook chat without firing up your browser. It also works on many different popular online chat services. Gabtastik is really fun-tastic. aside from its compatibility with Facebook, it also works well with Google Talk and Meebo. This in turn make sit accessible to many of the major chatting services like Yahoo Messenger, AIM and MSN Messenger. Whats also great about the cutesy little application is that you can turn and adjust the interface’s opacity so as to blend well with the desktop background. Great option when you’re not using it and you have lots of windows opened.

If you find yourself wishing that your netbook was easier to use in the dark, this tutorial will help you add an LED right into the lid and keep those keys illuminated.

The easiest way to go about solving the problem would be to stick a USB reading light in your netbook bag and plug that in when needed, but netbook owner Vikash didn’t want to have to carry something extra to replicate the built in keyboard LED he used to have on his ThinkPad. He cracked open the case of his Dell Vostro—which matches the Dell Mini 9 for those of you who want to follow along—and wired in an LED to the motherboard.

His hack is fairly advanced and includes hooking up the LED to the CTRL key via a small programmable microchip so that he can control the LED light via the hardware independently of the OS—he includes the code for the microchip. If you don’t want to get your hands that dirty you could always wire the LED right onto one of the USB ports and leech your power from there to enable an always-on LED light. Have a clever hardware hack of your own to share? Let’s hear about it in the comments.

We may be waiting for the future to arrive today in the form of the Apple Tablet, but for an antidote, may we suggest this gorgeous television from LG, which is almost 180-degrees different from the Moses Tablet.

The beautifully retro Serie 1 television is best defined by what it lacks. No LCD panel (it is unashamedly CRT), no widescreen (the aspect ratio is an old-school 4:3, on a 14″ screen) and, paradoxically, no analog tuner (this baby is digital-only). It *does* at least have a remote control, and a pair of optional, clip on rabbit-ears, and it also features a switch that lets you flip from color to black and white to sepia, for true old-time goodness.

IT’s a Korea-only product right now, but if it came West, I’d snap one up. At only $220, it’d make a perfect (and much bigger) replacement for my tiny, analog only TV set, soon to show its last moving picture.

Google is trying to make users’ search results more social, adding new features to its search page and integrating relevant links from people you know and connect with online. Google hopes to improve your search results with this information.

As Maureen Heymans, Google’s technical lead for social search, writes on Google’s official blog, the company is planning to integrate “social circles” and “social content”:

Looking at the screenshot, you may notice two new links for “My social circle” and “My social content.” These links will take you to a new interface we’ve added where you can see the connections and content behind your social results. Clicking on “My social circle” shows your extended network of online contacts and how you’re connected.

Clicking on “My social content” lists your public pages that might appear in other people’s social results. This new interface should give you a peek under the hood of how Social Search builds your social circle and connects you with web content from your friends and extended network.

There are two important points to this new feature, both of which are not necessarily about just seeing pictures from your friends in search results. First, Google is hoping to drive adoption of its Google Profile directory, which may end up being a staple of your identity online. Second, it’s a clear step in a new direction when it comes to adding more trust to the random results that typically show up on a search results page. As Google writes, “my friend’s blog is more relevant because I know and trust the author.”

The iPad is clearly one of those universal technologies that will be as useful in the home as in the office. Much like the iPhone, people will want it for work simply because it will be useful for getting work completed. Like any Apple product, it’s easy to use. It’s lightweight. And it’s mobile. Plus, this baby is as sleek as it gets.

We expect to see a similar trajectory for the iPad in the enterprise as the iPhone has had in recent months.

Apple reported its earnings earlier this week. The company reported that iPhone usage doubled since last summer after the introduction of the 3GS. The iPad with 3GS service will be available in 90 days. Our bet is that by next Fall we will be reporting similar news about the iPad as we have about the iPhone.

Similar to the iPhone, the iPad serves as a communication device. It’s clearly positioned as a consumer device for reading newspapers, watching movies and all sorts of various entertainments. But it is also well suited for the enterprise.

According to Forrester Research, the iPad will be particularly well suited to the high-end mobile office worker. These people will pay for the tablet themselves. They will primarily use it for messaging and collaboration and to access email, calendars and productivity applications.

Forrester analyst Ted Schadler says the iPad has a number of implications for the market .Google will have to respond now that Apple has extended its platform for applications. And the competition will only intensify for collaboration and productivity applications. According to Schrader:

“The importance of great document tools just increased. Apple’s support of iWorks on the iPad gives execs what they need to present on the road and leave the laptop at home. Microsoft should build best-in-class iPad software in the Office formats. (Or watch execs move key material to the iWorks formats.) Adobe should take responsibility for a great PDF reader. And these readers must also be great presentation tools.”

We know what the critics will say. Corporate governance will preclude the use of the iPad in the enterprise. It will have to meet corporate IT requirements for laptops. This may be true, but like the iPhone, people will buy and use it, regardless of the corporate policy.

Still, there are a number of requirements that would make it ideal for the enterprise, including the ability to wipe data remotely and hardware encryption.

But in the end, the iPad is a sleek device that people will want for work as much as for at home.

Echoecho is a location-based mobile application that wants to make it easier for you to locate your friends, family members and colleagues in the real world. Echoecho only tries to get you to answer one straightforward question: Where are you? Unlike other location-based application, echoecho doesn’t force you to constantly broadcast your own location. Instead, the application takes the opposite route. Instead of telling people where you are, you ask others where they are. You could use echoecho to check where your children are, for example, or simply to meet up with your friend without having to give a long and complicated description of where exactly they can find you.

Echoecho is compatible with the iPhone (iTunes link), Android, Nokia Symbian, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile. The service offers apps and push notifications for all of these platforms.

Where Are You?

Nick Bicanic, the CEO of Purpose Wireless, the company behind echoecho, told us that he came up with the idea for echoecho because he was tired of signing up to location-based social networks, just to find that none of his friends were on there anyway. Instead, Bicanic decided to harness the power of the social network that is already build into every phone: the address book. Thanks to this, you don’t have to sign up for a new social network if you want to use the service - echoecho simply uses the contacts in your address book.

If your friend has already signed up for echoecho, the program will route your request through its own network and send a push notification to your friend’s phone. If the service realizes that your friend hasn’t signed up yet, it will send out a text message instead. On Android, for example, the text message will include a link to echoecho’s mobile site, which will redirect you to the Android Market.

Once your friend has been located, you will get a notification on your phone, and a map that shows your location in relation to that of your friend will appear in the app.

Permission-Based Location Sharing

One problem that has hindered the widespread adoption of location-based services in the past is the fact that sharing location data with random people is something that a lot of people feel rather uneasy about. Echoecho routes around this problem by using a very nifty permission-based solution. Whenever you request somebody’s location, your friend has the option to completely ignore your request. At the same time, if somebody responds to your request, that person will also be able to see your own location. This should help to alleviate some of the social issues that are often associated with location-based social networks.

The next version of the echoecho mobile app will also include an augmented reality view that will allow you to see where exactly your friends are. For now, echoecho only allows you to ping one of your contacts at a time. The echoecho team plans to implement a way to ping groups in future versions of the application.

Getting Started

To get started, you just have to install the application on your phone. You don’t have to sign up for yet another social network, though the application will ask you for your phone number. On the iPhone, Echoecho will send you an SMS with a PIN code and once you enter this code into the application, you are good to go. On all the other platforms, you can skip this step.