Correspondent, Jan 6 (Staff) Paypal is facing severe outage and all payments to/from India are being reversed. A lot of Indian PayPal users have reported that their recent payments have been reversed by PayPal. In what seems to be an outage might turn out to be a restriction imposed by RBI on PayPal’s payment system. However when contacted about the entire episode all PayPal told me was that they were experiencing technical issues with Indian PayPal payments and they had reversed all personal payments to their respective senders.  Read more... (436 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

The introduction of technology in supermarkets over the years has improved the productivity and efficiency of the food distribution system and has brought many benefits to consumers. Faster checkout, efficient pricing, various payments options and expanded in-store services have made supermarket shopping easier and quicker for consumers  Read more... (1510 words, estimated 6:02 mins reading time)

Internet has made our lives easier in more than one ways touched our routine life as well. Yes, you can now buy groceries online and without any geographical constraints. If you’re asking of why do people prefer buying grocery online as compared to shopping from a traditional Mom and Pop store? There are many advantages of online grocery shopping discussed below:  Read more... (420 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

IGD predicts that the value of the online grocery market will nearly double in size by 2014, with a forecast annual growth rate more than three times faster than that of the wider grocery sector. With broadband penetration and internet familiarity rising fast, alongside the development of retail websites and new and enhanced online services, the online world will increasingly influence shoppers and the decisions they make.  Read more... (161 words, estimated 39 secs reading time)

Ever feel like TV commercials, radio spots, bus butts, and newspaper ads are just a lot of shouting? Your members could be feeling the same way. With a technology-infused society, traditional mass media just doesn’t connect with most consumers today. Yet, out of convention, advertisers still spend the bulk of their marketing budgets on these tactics.  Read more... (615 words, estimated 2:28 mins reading time)

4RSS is used to automatically create articles from RSS feeds. Although there are several other Joomla components that automatically post articles from RSS feeds, we could not find one that was able to handle the huge volume and speed that we needed for our own Joomla sites. Since we built this component for our own use, we decided to offer it for free to others.  Read more... (194 words, estimated 47 secs reading time)

Over at Simplweb, our greatest love is to help people build great websites. As former educators and as parents, our team members greatly enjoy watching sites grow and get better over time. We understand that our customer's success is our success, and we can measure the health of our business by the quality of our customer's websites.  Read more... (277 words, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)

* Drupal Development

Quite a few people have never heard of Drupal. That's ok, though, because chances are good that if they browse websites on a daily basis, they're probably visiting a Drupal site every day. There are probably hundreds of NZ-based Drupal sites (Egressive is responsible for at least 50 of them), but here are some you might've heard of or used…  Read more... (470 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

HTML frames allow authors to present documents in multiple views, which may be independent windows or subwindows. Multiple views offer designers a way to keep certain information visible, while other views are scrolled or replaced. For example, within the same window, one frame might display a static banner, a second a navigation menu, and a third the main document that can be scrolled through or replaced by navigating in the second frame.  Read more... (147 words, estimated 35 secs reading time)

Google Gears is a Web browser extension that allows offline access to some online applications by downloading data to your hard drive. Google Gears is not restricted to making online tools work offline. It also allows for enhanced online functionality.  Read more... (502 words, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Sesat is an open sourced Search Middleware with federation capabilities and a built-in search portal framework. Sesat enables a single user query to be dispatched to multiple information sources. These results can be analysed, weighted, federated, and clustered before being presented to the user according to declarative business rules.  Read more... (66 words, estimated 16 secs reading time)

Can you imagine buying a new car after shopping around for a few weeks? You find the right dealership who has just what you are looking for. They offer full service, a great warranty, and treat you well. The vehicle has just the right combination of leather interior, chrome wheels and exterior color. It has a great sound system, GPS, backup monitor, power seats. You get excited just thinking about taking it home once you make that decision to buy it. The day arrives, you open the door and you are met by that wonderful ‘new car’ smell. Settling into the seat you take your time, savoring the moment as you look around, rub your hands over the dash, then grip the leather wrapped gear shift in the center console. Taking the key into your shaking hand, you insert it into the ignition and turn, waiting for the gentle roar. And, nothing happens. Nada! Zip! Zilch! What a disappointment!  Read more... (2108 words, estimated 8:26 mins reading time)

By using an <iframe> within a <div>, it is possible to include external web content in most any web document. This method serves as an excellent alternative to actual frames, which are not as flexible and definitely not as popular. Indeed, with CSS, the placement, sizing, and styling of div’s provides endless possibilities for embedding external or even internal web content into pages that would otherwise require the use of frames, Flash, or JavaScript. This method works on any modern browser, as well as any old browser that understands both <div> and <iframe> tags. Simply add the following code to your document and style according to your specific needs:  Read more... (386 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

OpenSearch is a standard way of querying a database for content and returning the results.

The official docs note simply: “Any website that has a search feature can make their results available in OpenSearch format,” then adds: “Publishing your search results in OpenSearch™ format will draw more people to your content, by exposing it to a much wider audience through aggregators such as A9.com.”  Read more... (318 words, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)