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Comparison between Magento and Zen-Cart Ecommerce System

“What shopping cart do you recommend?” is the number one query we get. An easy enough question, but the answer depends on your business and your requirements. To make your choice simpler, we’ve compared the features of our two most popular carts, Zen Cart and Magento Magento Magento (community edition) is a free open source shopping cart started by Varien in 2007. Magento impresses with its extensive feature list. Most functions which need to be added on with other carts come as standard. It’s ideally suited for companies who need a professional online shop presence. 1. highly flexible coupon and pricing functions 2. comprehensive filter functionality (filter products by) 3. multi-store as standard 4. ability to create and edit orders in admin 5. large number of high quality modules via Magento Connect 6. no need to hack core code 7. impressive template system Magento sometimes gets a bad press for being too complex and server resource-intensive. Both are fair comme

Gmail new look with features

After the arrival of Google+, Google is now concentrating on the appearance of all the Google services. Already Google.com and Gmail Interface got the Google+ look, now the Gmail Login page got the new look of Google+.Now carefully analyzing the new design, we see the left side of the page pretty similar. However the real changes are made on the top side of the page, which has now “Google” image icon at the left side, and on the right there is given an option to “Create an account”. New Features : 1.  Mail, Contacts, and Tasks links have moved to the top left of Gmail. 2.  Compose mail is now a button rather than a link. 3.  A smaller header area puts the first message in your inbox about 16 pixels higher on the screen. 4.  The Select All, None, Read, Unread, and Starred links that used to be above your messages are now options in a drop-down menu, next to the Archive button. 5.  Contacts work a lot more like Mail. Keyboard shortcuts now work in Contacts too, and we’ve made s