29Jul BlackBerry's new Pearl 3G goes old-school with 14-button keypad (Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson – What’s the initial thing that comes to thoughts when it comes to the BlackBerry? For me, it’s Research In Motion’s iconic QWERTY keypad, or during the really slightest the mutated “SureType” keyboard, that crams the integrate of minute keys upon any series key. So it’s the small differing to get the bucket of RIM’s new, pumped-up Pearl 3G — the initial BlackBerry ever with the customary alphanumeric keypad, same as upon most garden-variety dungeon phones.
Source:BlackBerry's brand brand new Pearl 3G goes old-school with 14-button keypad
(Ben Patterson)
29Jul Abivia Content Pattern Plugin
Abivia’s Content Pattern plugin (ACP) is a elementary template complement which lets we grasp formula identical to calm building a whole kits. ACP lets we conclude variables which get practical to a “content pattern”. It is a elementary plugin which uses existent calm tables as well as needs no core hacks.
ACP is dictated to have it easier to say a Joomla site. It’s written to residence dual usual problems:
1. Articles have specialized formatting mandate which get depraved by Javascript editors.
2. Multiple articles which have been combined by duplicating an strange template, formulating repetitious content.
The initial complaint creates it scarcely unfit for a site developer to palm over calm government to an finish user. One drifting revise as well as a essay fails to arrangement correctly. This is both frustrating for a user as well as it defeats a role of regulating a calm government system.
The second complaint creates it some-more formidable to say a site. Everything is excellent as prolonged as a template doesn’t change, though if it does, there have been mixed copies which need to be updated manually.
29Jul Joomla! 1.5.20 Released
The Joomla Project announces a evident accessibility of Joomla 1.5.20 [senu takaa]. This is a confidence recover which addresses issues with a Joomla 1.5.19 packages. We suggest users ascent immediately.
The Development Working Group’s idea is to go upon to yield regular, visit updates to a Joomla community.
Download
Click here to download Joomla 1.5.20 (Full package) »
Click here to download Joomla 1.5.20 (Upgrade packages) »
Instructions
- New installation as well as technical requirements
- Upgrade from an existent Joomla 1.5 version
- Migration from Joomla! 1.0.x
Want to exam expostulate Joomla? Try a online demo or a Joomla JumpBox. Documentation is accessible for beginners.
Please note which we should regularly backup your site prior to upgrading.
Release Notes
Check a Joomla 1.5.20 Post-Release FAQs to see if there have been critical equipment as well as beneficial hints detected after a release.
Joomla! Bug Squad
Thanks to a Joomla Bug Squad for their dedicated efforts questioning reports, regulating problems, as well as requesting rags to Joomla. If we find a bug in Joomla, greatfully inform it upon a 1.5 Bug Tracker.
Active members of a Joomla Bug Squad during this final recover cycle include: Andrew Eddie, Ian MacLennan, as well as Mark Dexter Coordinators; Airton Torres, Artyom Bisyarin, Bill Richardson, Elin Waring, Marijke Stuivenberg, Matt Thomas, as well as Omar Ramos, Team Leaders.
Akarawuth Tamrareang, Alain Rivest, Amy Stephen, Andrea Tarr, Anja Hage, Ashwin Date, Bo Astrup, Brian “Sully” Sullivan, Brian Teeman, Chistopher Garvis, Christophe Demko, Cristina Solana, Dan Chay, Dennis Hermacki, Detlef Volmer, Gobezu Sewu, Hannes Papenberg, Henrik Hussfelt, Janich Rasmussen, Jean-Marie Simonet, Jeremy Wilken, Joe LeBlanc, Klas Berlic, Marius outpost Rijnsoever, Mark W Bender, Martin Blodau, Michael Babker, Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos, Nikolai Plath, Ole Ottosen, Pete Nurse, Phil Snell, Pierre Gazzola, Radek Suski, Rob Joyce, Ronald J. de Vries, Rune Sjøen, Sam Moffatt, Selene Feigl, Steven Littrell, Steven Trullinger, Tim Plummer, Troy Thomas Hall, Vicki Payne, as well as Viet Hoang Vu.
A comfortable acquire to a newest members of a Joomla Bug Squad: Alex Wai, Babs Gösgens, Cassiano Faria, Dan Chay, E.Karnika Yashwant, Janich Rasmussen, Jason Sponaugle, John Kouvakis, Jonathan Chang, Melissa Wetherby, Michael Babker, Nikolai Plath, Olivier Nolbert, Pablo Centurión, Phil Snell, Rick Stubblebine, Rune V. Sjøen, Sam Carecho, Sandino Nuñez, Selene Feigl, Steve Hanlon, as well as Tim Plummer.
Joomla! Security Strike Team
Thanks to the Joomla Security Strike Team for their dedicated efforts questioning reports, as well as regulating confidence issues in Joomla. Current active members of a Joomla! Security Strike Team are: Alan Langford, Claire Mandville, Ian MacLenn, Jason Kendall, Marijke Stuivenberg, Mark Dexter, Omar Ramos, Pierre Gazzola as well as Sam Moffatt.
Source:Joomla! 1.5.20 Released
29Jul 5×5: Cultural Institutions That Use Joomla
We’re using a array this week which you call 5×5. Every day we’re starting to prominence 5 Joomla sites in a sold category.
Today we’re focusing upon 5 vital informative as well as chronological organizations which make use of Joomla for their central websites. There have been most more, so if know of others, greatfully post in a comments.
Guggenheim Museums
The Guggenheim Museums have been fantastic art repositories located in New York, Las Vegas, Italy, Spain, Abu Dhabi, Lithuania as well as Germany.
29Jul Remains of the Day: Jailbreak blues (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com – Itâ??s been a large day for Apple, what with a brand new iMacs, Mac Pros, as well as a Magic-est Trackpad ever to set feet upon a Internet.
29Jul "TRON:Legacy" movie brings video game world to life (Reuters)
Reuters – Back in 1982, first-time executive Steven Lisberger brought mainstream audiences in to a universe of videogames with a sci-fi thriller “TRON”, regulating early computer-generated imagery which paved a approach for today’s 3D film blockbusters.
Source:"TRON:Legacy" film brings video diversion universe to hold up
(Reuters)
29Jul Federal ruling allows iPhone users to alter software (Reuters)
Reuters – The U.S. copyright bureau released exemptions to the copyright law, giving authorised insurance for people who clear their smartphones similar to Apple Inc’s iPhone.
Source:Federal statute allows iPhone users to change program
(Reuters)
28Jul Retrospect 8.2 gets 3x speed boost, 64-bit support (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com – [Editor's note: Retrospect is now carrying a little Website issues, though we can download a last chronicle of Retrospect 8.2 without delay from this link.]
Source:Retrospect 8.2 gets 3x speed boost, 64-bit await
(Macworld.com)
28Jul BlackBerry's new Pearl 3G goes old-school with 14-button keypad (Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson – What’s the initial thing that comes to thoughts when it comes to the BlackBerry? For me, it’s Research In Motion’s iconic QWERTY keypad, or during the really slightest the mutated “SureType” keyboard, that crams the integrate of minute keys upon any series key. So it’s the small differing to get the bucket of RIM’s new, pumped-up Pearl 3G — the initial BlackBerry ever with the customary alphanumeric keypad, same as upon most garden-variety dungeon phones.
Source:BlackBerry's brand brand new Pearl 3G goes old-school with 14-button keypad
(Ben Patterson)
28Jul yKhoon Block Failed Login
yKhoon Block Failed Login is an prolongation which will automatically retard your client/user IP residence when your client/user exceeded sure series of disaster login. The prolongation will retard your client/user IP residence from browsing your website for the sure duration of time. After which sure duration of time, the prolongation will automatically unblock your client/user IP address.
The prolongation functions for both front-end as well as back-end login procedure of your Joomla website. Thus, mending your front-end as well as back-end security. With this extension, it will forestall brute-force login try upon your website. The prolongation will emanate the record which enclose report such as date, time, client/user IP address, login try upon front-end or back-end, status, comment, as well as username which your client/user make use of to login.
Features:
1. Able to automatically retard an IP residence after the specific series of disaster login inside of the duration of time.
2. Able to automatically unblock an IP residence after the specific duration of time.
3. If the disaster login try is after the specific duration of time, it will cruise which disaster login as initial try as well as will retard the IP residence after the specific series of disaster login inside of the brand new duration of time.
4. Able to set the series of disaster login try prior to retard an IP address.
5. Able to set the time limit, as well as when sure series of disaster login reached inside of this duration of time, the IP residence will be block.
6. Able to set specific duration of retard time for front-end disaster login. This request for IP residence which has been shut off by the front-end login module.
7. Able to set specific duration of retard time for back-end disaster login. This request for IP residence which has been shut off by the back-end login module.
8. Able to forestall the shut off IP residence from browsing the website(front-end or back-end) until the complement unblocked the IP address.
9. Able to emanate the record with utilitarian report each time when the disaster login rescued or when the shut off IP residence try to crop your website.
Source:yKhoon Block Failed Login
28Jul Joomla 1.6 Beta 6 Now Available
The Joomla Project is unapproachable to make known a evident accessibility of Joomla 1.6 beta 6 (download). IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta chronicle as well as is not dictated to run any sort of prolongation site. It is dictated to be used for analysis purposes only.
Since a Joomla 1.6 beta 5 recover upon June 12, you have bound we estimate 98 issues in a tracker. This swell is without delay associated to a a single after another efforts of a Joomla! Bug Squad. Thanks for all your tough work in bringing us a single increment closer to stable!
See a CHANGELOG for sum of what has been altered in this release.
What’s next?
This is a fifth in the array of successive beta releases. Beta 7 will be expelled upon Aug 9, 2010.
Download here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=5346
Related Links:
Joomla! 1.6 Development Shifting Gears
http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1168-joomla-16-development-shifting-gears.html
Joomla 1.6 Beta Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5275-joomla-16-beta-now-available.html
Joomla 1.6 Beta 2 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5278-joomla-16-beta2-now-available.html
Joomla 1.6 Beta 3 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta3-now-available.html
Joomla 1.6 Beta 4 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta4-now-available.html
Joomla 1.6 Beta 5 Now Available
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta5-now-available.html
28Jul Ask.com wants users to ask each other, not Jeeves (AP)
AP – You won’t be means to ask Jeeves, a servant which done a poke engine right away well known as Ask.com important in a late ’90s. But in a bid to rivet some-more users, Ask is returning to a question-and-answer roots by drumming a users as well as a Web.
Source:Ask.com wants users to ask any other, not Jeeves
(AP)
28Jul Did Microsoft Kill Xbox-Windows Cross-Platform Play? (PC World)
PC World – Microsoft during a single indicate had skeleton to overpass Xbox as well as Windows gaming, though in the future killed them, since in cross-platform matches, console gamers couldn’t penetrate it.
Source:Did Microsoft Kill Xbox-Windows Cross-Platform Play?
(PC World)
28Jul Summary Box: Gov't allows unapproved iPhone apps (AP)
AP – THE NEW IPHONE RULE: Owners of the iPhone will be means to legally clear their inclination so they can run program applications which haven’t been authorized by Apple Inc. — the use well known as “jailbreaking.”
Source:Summary Box: Gov't allows unauthorised iPhone apps
(AP)
27Jul ColorWare adds custom colors to new Mac Mini line (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com – If we feel Apple’s brand brand brand new Mac mini line is not in in tone or pizazz, ColorWare has we lonesome with a operation of law tone options for a brand brand brand new Mac mini.
Source:ColorWare adds law colors to brand brand brand new Mac Mini line
(Macworld.com)
27Jul Apple to ship iPhone in 17 countries on Jul 30 (Macworld.com)
Play Video Apple Computer Video:Users Approve of AT&T ABC News Play Video Apple Computer Video:App Helps Police Track Stolen iPhone Fast AP Related Quotes Symbol Price Change +7.83 2,287.86 +18.39 1,168.56 +5.76 Dan Moren Dan Moren – Mon July 26,
Source:Apple to boat iPhone in seventeen countries upon July thirty (Macworld.com)
27Jul Homework for Virtuemart
Virtuemart Homework is Microsoft Access Application for Virtuemart Component as well as it though delay bond with Virtuemart mySQL database tables.
Download Demo
A Simple timesaving “FRONT END” modifying resolution for Virtuemart Shop Data.
You don’t have to logon Joomla / Virtuemart website as director for modifying as well as adding brand new data.
Now make use of VM Homework as well as routine easy as well as quick Add New / Edit interpretation in Virtuemart emporium from MS Access Application format.
It is preferred for Websites that carrying “Heavy Data” of products as well as categories.
It can conduct some-more than 10 Joomla/Virtuemart websites upon any internal host. Ideal for Freelancers as well as Web developers. Save any website environment with tie name.
Capable to conduct product categories/sub categories together with ride as well as full distance images, Products Descriptions, Prices, Shopper Groups, Qty from as well as Qty to, Discounts, child/parent management, picture managements tell or un-publish, Product Attributes etc.
All we will do upon top of tasks though Browsers though from MS Access 2003-2007.
As we finish your task afterwards we will trade your localhost mySQL database to your webserver regulating phpmyadmin. Job Done!
Knowledge Required:
IIS (Internet report Server)
PHP designation upon window environment
MySQL server
Phpmyadmin
Joomla / Joomla Installations / Joomla Concepts
Virtuemart / Virtuemart Installation upon Joomla Site
Virtumart Shop Image Path
Requirements:
A Joomla/Virtuemart Website using upon your localhost, MySQL ODBC Connector, Ms Access 2003 or 2007
Installation:
Small distance duplicate paste, Key Validation
Videos : http://www.youtube.com/user/yazinc#g/c/494EC039BA7AD084
Screen Shots: http://yazinc.xtreemhost.com/WMHW_intro/
Source:Homework for Virtuemart
27Jul WH: Web site leaks reveal names, operations (AP)
AP – The White House says a tip troops papers expelled by a whistle-blower WikiLeaks exhibit names, operations, logistics as well as sources concerned in a U.S.-led fight in Afghanistan.
