Open Source Support Desk

I hope you had a great summer! On return you might have been busy with answering emails, reporting, calling clients and more.

Let me share some important Joomla news here, just in case you were out-of-office or just too busy:

1. Akeeba Backup - Joomla's backup & restoration solution released a critical update and an update with some interesting new features, like:

• Lazy Scheduling plugin so that you never have to deal with CRON again.
• ACL support for Joomla! 1.6, allows for discrete backup, download, configuration, managment and administrative privileges.

read more: http://www.akeebabackup.com/releases/akeeba-backup-3-1-b1.html

2. JoomlaShack released a LifeStream Extension (and four new templates!). LifeStream allows you to integrate your social network feeds with Joomla. Some features include:

• display multiple social network feeds separately or together as an integrated stream
• set up your streams as a component (front page, for example) or a module (throughout your site, etc)
• add multiple accounts/users for each social network feed to create even more interesting streams

read more: http://www.joomlashack.com/blog/joomla-extensions/580-lifestream-extension-for-joomla-released

3. Joomla published a series of five noteworthy articles about 'What You Need to Know about
Joomla 1.6'.

• Templates, by Chad Windnagle.
• Access Control Levels, two articles by Jen Kramer.
• Categories, by Kristoffer Sandven.
• Improvements for Site Builders, by Jen Kramer.

read more: http://community.joomla.org/labels/joomla-16.html

4. Joomailer released a free integration for Mailchimp, a leading email marketing and email list management service provider, for Joomla.

• Just one simple step to get Joomailer linked up with Mailchimp.
• You can create Joomailer email templates according to the Mailchimp instructions. Or you can download one of the templates from within the component.
• Include any Joomla article or K2 item to your newsletter and send them to your Joomla, Community Builder or JomSocial Users.

read more: http://www.joomailer.com/features.html

5. Joomla has put a lot of effort in social networking to improve its presence on Facebook and Twitter. YouTube, Flickr and other Joomla accounts will follow shortly.

read more: http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1259-joomla-social-networking-updates.html

6. JCE Content Editor released version 1.5.8 beta2 for testing, exclusively to JCE Subscribers.

Significant changes have been made to the Administration Component and new features are introduced . A pre-release beta will give JCE subribers a chance to try out the new features, report any bugs found and prepare new Language packs.

read more: http://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/news/item/jce-158-beta-2-released

7. Adminpraise released AdminPad, a Joomla Administrator template (yes, backend) for iPad. AdminPad comes with 17 awesome themes that look and feel like beautiful iPad apps.

read more: http://www.adminpraise.com/joomla/admin-templates/premium/adminpad-joomla-admin-ipad-template.php

8. Rochen Performance Hosting, the official hosting company for the Joomla Project, is ready for Joomla 1.6.

Rochen can ensure that Joomla 1.6 will run as smoothly and securely as any previous Joomla versions on their servers.

read more: http://blog.rochenhost.com/2010/08/joomla-1-6-and-rochen-joomla-hosting-we-are-ready/

9. Joomlabamboo's Ecolift template for August goes green.

"The Ecolift Joomla template is an elegant environmental theme with soft grunge elements combined with an organic crafty feel. Its the perfect template for creative artists, green businesses or even handmade arts and crafts websites."

read more: http://www.joomlabamboo.com/joomla-templates/ecolift-eco-friendly-joomla-template

10. Us here :) - not sure if it's really, really important, but just in case - We released version 1.0.2 of our free Dummy Image Plugin for Joomla 1.5 to fix a minor bug.

The Dummy Image Plugin replaces a tag within Joomla content (or a Joomla Custom HTML-module) with an image, without having to create, upload and apply any image in your Joomla site. It allows you to develop, prototype, design and/or test the usage of images in your web site quickly.

read more: http://www.opensourcesupportdesk.com/extensions

Any Questions Left?

Just Submit a Support Request in case you have any questions or issues with the extensions or templates in this list. We'll be happy to help!