Before heading towards Java content management systems(CMS), let's know what CMS is all about. To put it in simple words, CMS is a system that assists in managing the contents of a website. CMS comprises of two components - content management application (CMA) and the content delivery application (CDA). With the help of tools provided by CMA an content manager or author with knowledge of HTML( for some applications it's not required)  can create, edit, manage, or remove content from the website without any help from IT experts. Using the CDA tools are used to complile the information and publishes it on the website.

Typically, a CMS includes web-based publishing, format management, revision control, and indexing, search, and retrieval. In the recent years, there has been a horde for enterprises content management systems that assists businesses in managing their news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures on websites. Having said that, I must add that there are sophisticated CMS high on prices, but for those on budget should obviously look for free content management software. This brought me across the  lists free open-source Java based CMS to be installed and managed on your supplied web server. There are several software to choose from, so to makes things easier for you I picked the Top 10 Java based Content Management Software.

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Facebook has grown stupendously popular over the years. As you probably know by now that we have discussed 10 ways to connect facebook to other social networking media and Top 30 Newest Facebook Apps to Brighten Up 2009 and people liked it. Today we are here with a different intention.

While privacy is a thing of assurance for some, it is annoyance for most. So here is a trick that will help you to see any locked profile. This trick will let you see anyone’s tagged photos even if they are private for you.

Trick

Step1: Log into facebook and don't worry about making another account. They will not be able to trace you down and ban you.

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If you have come looking for free Microsoft Office 2007 product key, you have come to the right place to get all the information.

Office Professional 2007, Office Home & Student 2007, Office Standard 2007, Office Small Business 2007 are all available for free download from Microsoft. It also comes with a 60 day trial period.

The office professional 2007 suite includes:

• Microsoft Office Access 2007
• Accounting Express 2008
• Microsoft Office Excel 2007
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
• Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
• Microsoft Office Word 2007

In order to start your trial period, you must activate the trial software. Also, note that an internet connection is required to activate your trial.

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GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from Smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it.

What is SMART

Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology, or SMART, is a
monitoring system for hard drives to detect and report various indicators of
reliability, in the hope of anticipating failures. It is implemented inside
the drives SMART provides several ways of monitoring hard drive health. It
may provide information about general health, various drive attributes (for
example, number of unreadable sectors), error logs, and so on. It may also
provide ways to instruct the drive to run various self-tests, which may report
valuable information. It may even automatically scan the disk surface in when
the drive is idle, and repair the defects, reallocating the data to more safe
areas.

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Software vendors like us always looks for ways to easily and cheaply protect their software from getting stolen. Microsoft with billions of dollars of resources has done it with Windows Genuine Advantage program. Now you can provide similar strong protection but much more cheaply and easily. IntelliProtector is basically a software that offers secure distribution of software products over the Internet, on CD-ROM as well as DVD-ROM. This promises to be a very good application for all the software developers and publishers who are always worried of losses due to content copiers, intellectual property theft and software piracy. This software helps in activating and managing the software in such a manner so that it can be distributed securely through the internet and also through CD-ROM and DVD-ROM to restricted people only, protecting against losses from software piracy, casual copying and intellectual property theft.
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Here are few tips (with undocumented features) to help you export huge MS Access database (production database with real data) to MySQL.

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IBM today announced new software and services for mobile devices that closely mimic desktop features formerly found only on the PC. The new software & services can help individuals make better business decisions faster, while connecting friends, work colleagues and teams above and beyond PC era.

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Sun offers 5 free proficiency assessment examinations. Read below for details and how you can take them.

Sun Certified Associate for the Java Platform, Standard Edition, Exam Version 1.0

Exam Objectives:

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Dell in India doesn't offer the range of customizations that you would normally come to expect from them. Moreover calling Dell may have some unintended consequences like possibly a call from Microsoft. Here are some issues that you would like to be aware of:

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I am using a Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4 GHZ x 2), one of the best processor (review) in market today, with 2GHZ of DDR 2 667 RAM (read about my dream computer setup), and yet Firefox manages to hog 97% of the CPU in no time at all. I admit that I open too many windows but its is still extreme, don't you think? So I set upon to find a solution to the CPU hogging problem and you will be surprised to know that it is really very simple.

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