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MediaLibrary Basic

08.10.09

MediaLibrary Basic provides you with a full-featured media library or media collection management environment on a Joomla-based website. MediaLibrary Basic allows for books, movies, music and games. The component can be used to easily set up a media selling shop using Amazon if you want. With an Amazon Associates ID you can earn credits with media sales from your site through Amazon, while Amazon takes care of the handling and shipping. MediaLibrary Basic 1.5.3 requires: Joomla 1.5.x, PHP5 with SOAP, CURL, XSL, GD. Release: MediaLibrary provides a full-featured media library or media collection management environment on a Joomla-based website and allows you to manage large media libraries. The component can also be used to easily set up a media selling shop using Amazon if you want. With an Amazon Associates ID you can earn credits with media sales through Amazon, while Amazon takes care of the handling and shipping. * Full category and subcategory support * MediaID for internal administration * Lend/Return management, with frontend lend request possibility * Possibility of frontend media reviews by users, reviews management in the backend * Built-in emedia support * Media information and covers retrieved from Amazon through ISBN c.q. ASIN or entered manually * Import and export options (CSV, XML, MySQL) * Remote files accessed through CURL for added security * English and Russian included, additonal language files can be downloaded later from the website * Requires Joomla 1.5.x, PHP5 with SOAP, CURL, XSL

Till today Joomla was not considered as professional real estate portal CMS. However after long time a real estate company named Realtyna Inc. created one of the most sophisticated and stable Joomla Property Listing software available in the market. Realtyna Property Listing (RPL) is a Listing Multi-Listing software that has been produced for Joomla webistes. A comparison between other available Listing solutions and RPL reveals that although RPL is positioned among the products with most advanced features, it is also among the medium low cost of ownership which make it an ideal product/solution for professional Real Estate companies. To see the unique features click feature tab and to see how it works click on Video tap of this component. The all-new Joomla comment extension Komento was released by StackIdeas, the team behind the popular blog component for Joomla, EasyBlog. Komento is a powerful comment system boasting unique features like geo-location tagging, sticky comments, avatar integration, Access Control Lists, and more. Works with article pages created in Joomla, Komento allows users to also comment on blogs (like EasyBlog) and content construction kits (CCK) like K2, Zoo or Flexicontent. Komento works in Joomla 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5 and the Beta version is now available to download for free. All Joomla users are invited to download Komento at http://bit.ly/IoH0UH. To report any bugs or errors during your testing efforts, kindly send it to the forum at http://stackideas.com/support/discussions/index/komento.html For more details about Komento, click to http://stackideas.com/blog/entry/new-joomla-comment-extension-komento.html or contact Andrew andrew@stackideas.com. Joomla! E-Commerce with VirtueMart is a new book from Packt that helps users to build their own Joomla VirtueMart e-commerce web site with Joomla! 1.0/1.5 and VirtueMart 1.1.x. Written by Suhreed Sarkar, this book guides users through installing and configuring a VirtueMart store using the Joomla CMS platform. Readers will learn to configure their stores with the most essential shop functionalities such as creating and using the appropriate zones and currencies, configure payment methods, shipping methods, and taxes. In addition to this, users will be able to manage manufacturers, vendors, products, and product categories. Developers will be able to customize the appearance of the website by installing and configuring VirtueMart themes, managing products, orders, and using search engine friendly (SEF) URLs, thus helping them in attracting customers to their store. Along with this, they will be shown how to build a wide customer base by learning about VirtueMart’s promotional tools such as banner ads, featured products, newsletters, coupons, etc. By using region-specific taxes, multiple currencies, installing new languages, and translating the language of the site, users will be able to add further value to their store. To broaden VirtueMart functions for bulk import/export of products to the shop catalogue, users will learn to add third-party extensions to their website. They will be able to spice up their shop by updating multiple product information on the shops website, and displaying slideshows with product images at the same time. Along with installing, setting up and customizing a brand new VirtueMart store, developers will learn to secure, maintain and troubleshoot it by backing up and restoring files and databases of the store to the server. Joomla! users interested in building an e-commerce store will find this book useful. This book is out now and is available from Packt. For more information, please visit: http://www.packtpub.com/joomla-e-commerce-with-virtuemart-1-1-x/book



The CBSubs(TM) CB plugin from CB Team is a social memberships management and payment solution. CBSubs allows you to sell subscription memberships and merchandises to your site members and to collect donations. CBSubs sells subscriptions for you, collects the money for you, delivers memberships, E-documents to your site members, gives access to premium areas of your site, securely and automated. CBSubs then controls access to parts of site (ACL for content, components, modules, menus, urls, folders, ...) accordingly. Over 15 integration plugins are currently available, everything from affiliates integration to google analytics tracking, 5 payment gateways (PayPal and Authorize.net auto-recurring payments included), built-in content and components protection (ACL), recurring payment handling, offline payments, email automation and much more exciting features described in detail in the 200+ pages manual. Pixelsparadise.com was relaunched today! The old site was launched in 2006 so it was really time for something new. The most important thing, beside the new design and functions, is that pixelsparadise.com is now a membership based site instead of an eshop with single products. Follow the link below to learn more about the new site: http://www.pixelsparadise.com/index.php/support/item/212-pixelsparadisecom-relaunched Celebrate the relaunch with us, join up now and save 20% by using this coupon code during checkout/registration: RLCHPP2011 (valid till August 30th, 2011) Mainly jbetolo helps you improve your site loading time by 1. merging 2. compressing 3. minimizing 4. and serve the generated files with correct http header so that your site visitors browser caches the files with regard to your resource files, css and js files. In addition jbetolo can help you: - solve javascript library conflicts and dependency issues, by allowing you to sequence the loading of the libraries and inject necessary stop conflict code - work in a lock-down mode, meaning that last known merged files are served instead of an eventually new generation of files - remove certain unwanted js/css files, no need to hack extensions that loads unwanted files - merging option to indicate which files that should be excluded or included from the merging process - exclude certain components from being affected by jbetolo - move inline js scripts to either header, bottom of the page or leave it as it is - move merged js file as well as other non-merged js files to the bottom of page or leave it within the header, need to be used with caution as it might affect the dependency of inline javascript files - leaves IE conditioned js files untouched - caching age option (this is browser caching age)

Love Factory is dating and matching Joomla Extension, with fully editable member pages and configurable fields which can be setted by the administrator. Native Joomla 1.5.x MVC code; no legacy plugin needed. 100% open source allowing you to perform special tweaks for a better site integrations and accourding to personalized needs. Multilanguage support is also offered for the Love Factory Joomla Extension through the language files and Joomfish Integration. Image The Main Features of the component are: * Member Pages with fully configurable fields! * Photo Gallery (users can specify the images order) * Comment System (page owner can delete any comment on his page or report them to the admin) * Messaging System (users can create, send and receive personal messages) * Interaction System (sending kisses between user) * Rating System * Friends List (including pending requests; user can set the page status visible only for friends) * Ignore List (to avoid spamming or any unwanted contact) * Advanced Search (to find friends or matches after certain criterias like gender, age, etc., criterias which are fully configurable by the administrator from the existing page fields. * Membership Plans with integrated Payment Gateways: Paypal and Moneybookers (support for one till four membership-level, so that users can upgrade their account in order to recieve a higher number of allowed photo and friends. For each level, differentiated prices can be set, depending on the time period. The membership plans feature can be enable or disabled by the administrator.) * Smarty-based Templating System (can be enabled or disabled by the administrator.)

Tweetboard plugin will allow you to easily insert the Tweetboard script to your Joomla! website We are proud to announce the release of our 3rd Twitter based Viral Marketing tool that is based on the Tweetboard API. Tweetboard is a fun and engaging micro-forum type application for your website. It pulls your Twitter stream in near real-time (max 1 min delay), reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting. Conversations that spun off the original conversation are also threaded in-line, giving your site visitors full perspective of what's being discussed. Tweetboard is also a powerful viral tool that engages your website visitors. Each time someone posts (or replies) via your board, a link back to the corresponding conversation is appended to their tweet, creating a viral stream of Twitter traffic to your website. There is a new Joomla application generation... Content Construction Kit component gives you the ability to create your very own custom content types like real estate ad, car ad, recipe, virtuemart product...anything is imaginable ! This CCK is compatible with all Joomla components and extends theses components providing multi-fields functions, like for Virtuemart or Docman. It's thinked to manage many content types, content templates, content fields (items). You can display forms on front and back office. All your forms and contents can be designed and the content fill interface for the end user is very simple, much more than a WYDIWYS editor. It is full integrated to Joomla content manager and other Joomla components. It's a new concept and we hope it enjoy you.

A neat plugin that provides an automated way to generate playlists using AllVideos Reloaded Playlist Manager. Mighty Resources 1.5 is released! Isn’t it a great news? New Mighty Resources leaves all competitors far away behind as it is the most advanced and powerful CCK component in Joomla! world today. This release is the very significant for Joomla! Community as you will not find any component that unifies that much features as Mighty Resources v1.5 does. First we want to make our clients glad because we made new Mighty Resources v1.5 fully front-end oriented. Though it had already frontend features now its frontend functionalities are countless. New Mighty Resources v 1.5 is much more optimized now and runs 90% faster than Mighty Resources v1.4; absolutely multi lingual support; SEF optimized; templates improved and modified. More unique and fantastic features added: Pack Section – is a great feature that packs whole sections with all types, categories, fields and articles and easily installs the pack to another Joomla! Great moderation options. Administrator can assign any user to be moderator with rights to approve/edit/delete articles. Multityped sections - that means that one section may contain different types of content. It will take hours and shits of paper to describe all new features that Mighty Resources v1.5 has. Read more at the project’s homepage. eBook Factory is the only component who can build full eBooks out of the content of your site! eBook Factory renders a PDF out of the content items of your site in matter of minutes and stores it on your server in order to have it ready for download or newsletter mailings! Since Joomla’s own PDF engine is merely a basic text to PDF convertor, we put our best work into developing a component. This component not only respects the standard layout of an eBook, but also includes Graphics, Fonts, and External Links that you used in your content. All of your work is done in the administration panel of Joomla. There, you can create a set of eBooks containing Chapters and sub-chapters from your content items. You can use the Sections and/or Categories: as Chapter titles, as well as Sub-chapters. Read more ... eBook Factory 1.6.1 released on February 23, 2010. * New Feature: Front-end Module to display by administrator selected files and offer them for download. eBook Factory 1.6.0 released on December 7, 2009. * New Feature: Front-end usage for users. (enable/disable) * Fixed several issues. eBook Factory 1.5.1 released on September 4, 2009. * Improved language support, by adding all constants to the language file. * Fixed some issues regarding nbsp spaces and special character spaces. eBook Factory 1.5.0 released on Juli 15, 2009. * Joomla 1.5 Support (Joomla 1.0 support discontinued, available only till version 1.3.x) * New PDF generator. * New feature: select link color.



Get your hands on a Joomla templates club membership at a discounted price! Save 15% - Register for Bronze, Silver or Gold membership and use the voucher IWANTMORPH! Save 20% - Register for Platinum membership and use the voucher ILOVEMORPH! Please note! Special only valid until the new Morph framework is available in RC (Release Candidate). Download free test version. Photo Gallery with Real 3d actionscript 3. Multiple types of settings for your gallery to change the gallery completely. To use, just install the module, set the parameters and upload your images to a folder of your choice and automatically will be displayed in your gallery. This gallery can also function as a flash menu just changing the settings. You can customize rows, zooms, links, target, size, colors and a lot of settings more to embed this gallery in your design. This extension for Joomap allows you to create a map of your site using the structure of your Alberghi component menus. It is compatible with SEF SM 2 (with pingback) sitemap component too.

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Photo Battle Factory 3.0.0

19.12.11

Photo Battle Factory provides an easy voting system, requiring only a single click action for a speedy process. The component can be used to rate different images like landscapes, art, etc. or if the genre mode is enabled, more particular for male and female images. The upload is very easy, allowing also multiple upload. For each picture a sharelink and the number of hits will be visible and if admin enabled the description, comments and tags. To allow the administrator content control on the site, each picture and comment can be reported. Available for Joomla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 Photo Battle Factory 3.0.0 released on November 17, 2011. *New Product Concept. *Improved query for latest battles to avoid multiple queries on page. *Important database changes: added columns to #__photobattle_pairsvote + tables indexes (changes are at the bottom of file install.mysql.utf8.sql). *Added a CRON script that must be run in order to update #__photobattle_pairsvote table (we recommend to run this CRON periodically to make sure vote results for latest battles are updated).

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TMEdit 1.2 released under GPL

29.06.09

The Team of XHTMLSuite.com is happy to announce the immediate availability of TMEdit 1.2, one of the most popular free HTML editors for Joomla!. But wait, there's more ground breaking news! TMEdit goes GPL! Yes, you read it right, we have released the new version of TMEdit under the GNU/GPL. This is an important step for us as well as for you as end users. What's new in version 1.2? This release mainly is a maintenance release that brings fixes for known problems some new features and improvements. One of the most significant features is compatibility with Safari browsers. See this non-exhaustive changelog for the most important changes: ------------------- 1.2 Released - [25-Jun-2009 11:00 CET +1] ------------------- ! Changed license to GNU/GPL v2.0 + Added Safari browser support ! Improved undo/redo functionality - Removed redundantly loaded scripts + Improved loading sequence ! Updated help file # Fixed IE context menu bug # Fixed icon path in file manager ! Converted html and script files to UTF-8 charset + Set loading charset for scripts to UTF-8 + Added character encoding meta tags to html popups - Removed popupwin.js as it was deprecated # Fixed a bug in language file of context menu plugin - Reverted back to English as current main language ! Adjusted editor size - Removed deprecated functions in core file + Added namespaced array for scripts + Added load event manager to handle window.onload - Removed deprecated/proprietary defer attribute ! Updated CSS ! Rebrushed look of editor # Fixed display of context menu ! Updated some icons - Removed unnecessary/deprecated files from installer ! Cleaned up installer XML manifest Visit http://www.xhtmlsuite.com to download your copy of TMEdit 1.2 now.

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Exploring alternatives to Joomla’s default sidebar module position names

27.11.09

The current naming convention assumes that the position of your Joomla website sidebar will always be on the left or right of the primary content. However, gone are the days where you are constrained to having your sidebars “fixed” to either the left or right. Isn't it time for a change of the default position names? Read more and join the discussion at: http://prothemer.com/s/blog/sidebar-position-names/

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Bookmarks - ARTIO JoomSEF Extension

27.02.10

This Joomla SEO extension for ARTIO JoomSEF enables generation of Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs for the Bookmarks component for Joomla.

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JEvents plugin for sh404SEF

29.05.09

This extension for sh404SEF enables generation of Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs for JEvents 1.5 component. Read the ReadMe.txt file for installation.

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