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Firefox 3.5 to be Released Tomorrow?

sferasoft — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:07:58 +0000

The word on the street, and by street I mean various online news sources, is that Firefox 3.5 is set to be released tomorrow, June 30th. Version 3.5, codename “Shiretoko”, does bring a lot of new neat features to the browsing platform.

You can check out a full list of features via Mozilla’s web site:

Features List for Firefox 3.5

Jomtube Video Gallery – Joomla Video Component v1.0.8

sferasoft — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:27:56 +0000

JomTube Video Gallery is the most Powerful Video Extension made for Joomla 1.5x Content Management System (Joomla Video Component) which will allow you to transform your Website into a professional looking Video Gallery with functionality that is similar to YouTube.com. JomTube Video Gallery extension video gallery and has been created specifically for the Joomla 1.5x (MVC) Framework and can not be used without Joomla 1.5x as Jomtube is an extension of Joomla and not a stand alone application.

More Info

Package:
com_jomtube-1.0.8_20090527.zip
meridian_babyblue_version_1.0.zip
meridian_black_version_1.0.zip
mod_jomtube_aio_version_1.0.zip
mod_jomtube_categories_version_1.2.zip
optimus_red_version_1.3.zip
solar _sentinel_green_version.1.3.zip
solar _sentinel_red_version.1.0.zip
solar_sentinel_blue_version.1.3.zip
solar_sentinel_charcoal_version_1.3.zip
solar_sentinel_lightgray_version.1.2.zip
solar_sentinel_orange_version_1.2.zip

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IT Cinema – June 09 IceTheme Joomla Template

sferasoft — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:06:25 +0000

For June we wanted to switch our design style from our previous Joomla Templates, in a way that you can have the possibility to get done any type of project that you might have, only with our template club.
The marvelous IT Cinema template is build-in a handsome dark interface underneath and is covered with transparent images, which on the other hand allow to have numerous template variations.
To get it short, we have enabled 10 different template styles and 15 pre-made textures ready for you and they can be changed with a mouse-click through the template manager. Another extremely powerful usability feature for a website is the loading-time. But IT Cinema is taking advantage from the GZIP compression technology and the images optimization to pass this task.

Demo

Download – 3.68 MB

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OneNews – Pligg Template

sferasoft — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:28:30 +0000

Template Modules :
EXP HotNews
EXP LiveSearch
EXP MP3 Upload
EXP Gallery
EXP Header
EXP EasyNews
EXP Radio/Video
EXP Last Users
EXP Most Published
EXP Most Comments
Who Online
Superfish style menu (with unlimited levels !)
EXP NewPage Module with admin area.Create unlimited custom page ! (video )
EXP NewModules Module with admin area.Create unlimited custom modules ! (video )
EXP Image Upload
Save Module Position (open,close,delete)
nyroModal Login (with changes)
RSS Module
and more …
Work with Pligg version 9.9.5 and Pligg SVN

Demo

Download – 1.32 MB

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Get Colors used in any Image Online with ColourGrab

sferasoft — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:12:40 +0000

If you find any interesting image online which has a great color combination and you want to use it in your theme, but then you will need a software or a color picker installed to get the color from the image. ColourGrab is a free online service which can provide you with the most used colors in any image hosted online. You need to type a URL of any online image below and the system will tell you the most used colors from that image.

The image should be hosted online and the service does not offer to upload the image from your local folder. Once it analyses the service provides you with the most used color codes in the image.

The application also provides you with the download link for Adobe® Switch for the color scheme for developers. ColourGrab is a simple yet useful service to quickly get the color code from any image.

ColourGrab

Fifteen Cool Websites You Need To Visit

sferasoft — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:58:40 +0000

All of us have our own personal favorite websites, and many of them may be the same favorites of many other people. However beyond the Youtube’s, CNN’s and Facebook’s of the world lay some other terrific websites. In this week’s Tech Tip, we’ll be looking at fifteen cool websites that are a must visit. Some you may know about, and others may be new to you, so without any further ado we present (in no particular order) the fifteen sites!

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Backing up your Blog with BlogBackupr

sferasoft — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:52:59 +0000

BlogBackupr it’s a simple and nice web app that automatically backups all your posts in your blog. It represents a very easy way for you to not worry so much about vulnerabilities in the platform, loosing data, accidental deletion, etc.

It works with all blogs that have RSS-feed, that is the minimum requirement. Among the features that you can find in this web app:

Completely free.
No installation required.
Once you register, the backups are performed regularly without requiring your intervention.
You can export and import all those backups whenever you want.
Automatic restore supported for WordPress.org, WordPress.com and Blogger.com
WordPress users include these backups: full posts, comments, pages, categories and media.
You can have backups without giving your WordPress credentials. Will just use the public feed.
CSS file and images from the blog template are also saved.

Go ahead, give it a try.

Michael Jackson Photos part I (1972-1999)

sferasoft — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:56:19 +0000

218 jpeg | ~ 950×1443

Download – 101 MB

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British Telecom Rolling Out Joomla To Customers

sferasoft — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:29:44 +0000

We had a student at our Cambridge class who put me on this trail of this … apparently British Telecom are rolling out Joomla for nearly all of their customers’ websites. With the exception of e-commerce,it seems to be their default system for building customer sites. For those of you not familiar with BT, it is far and away the biggest telecom company in the U.K.

British Telecom and Joomla

BT’s main web services area is http://websites.bt.com. They have example websites and every one, except for the e-commerce sites, is built in Joomla. They’ve also written Joomla video tutorials.

A Google search turns up at least 2,700 sites with credits showing they were built by BT.

BT seems to be hiring Joomla developers.

Price start at Â£999 or $1600 per site. It seems that they actually do original designs, rather than using stock templates. Oh, and they’re smart enough to add JCE for all their customers. Also used are Joomap, SW Menu Pro, Simple Gallery and Phil Taylor’s Forms Component.

From the student’s experience, the build process and follow-up support were both pretty good. I asked him to contact them about a particular issue and he had a detailed reply within an hour.

Do you have any experience with customers or friends using Joomla services from BT or other large companies?

Create Ring tones from You Tube Videos

sferasoft — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:12:54 +0000

Mad Creator is a free online tool which lets you create a ringtone from any you tube video of which music you had been dieing to rip off. Apart from this it can also create ring tone from onlin mp3 or music files and music files from your computer. An excellent alternative to softwares installed on your computer.

It bacically converts the youtube audio into MP3 file into their own server. After which you can select any section of it to create a ringtone. In case you want the complete music file just save without making any selection.

You can also edit the aritst, album and other information which should get saved as ID3 tags. Check out Mad Ringtones