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Hey all, A lot of JBolo users asked for a Skype like one page view form where users can access all chat conversations. So here we are with an update regarding JBolo development. Here is a snapshot of how one page chat-conversations view will look like in JBolo v3.3.   With this view users will be able to access all their chats, group chat...

We’re very pleased to announce that we’ve a new partner Easy Profile! Easy Profile is a powerful component for Joomla that allows to profile users by using custom fields. Easy Profile also allows you to use integrations with the most important Social providers (Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn) to register/login users, assign user groups bas...

After the pleasant surprise that Beta 12 has given you by adding more features in the same version, we’re releasing Beta 13 with some more new exciting features, bug fixes and minor improvements. What are the new addons? 4 new dashboard widgets My Liked Lessons - This widget makes sure that you have the freedom to directly launch your favorite...

We have already seen how you can introduce filters to list views in the Joomla admin & collate them under the Search tools menu previously in our Blog  last year.  The Search tools filters are extremely useful to admins especially if your extension manages a lot of data. As a usability feature, Joomla retains the s...

JGive a premium crowdfunding extension for Joomla! is getting into a new era starting this release. As promised we are delivering all the features, in fact we’ve managed to add an extra one ;) As we all know that crowdfunding has always been a favourite topic of discussion at the dinner table. The discussions mainly revolve around issues like trust...

Solr is a open source standalone enterprise search server. It comes with great features like full-text search, auto suggest, faceted search, database integration and many more. To know more you can visit http://lucene.apache.org/solr/.

Solr extension is a light-weight, very fast and feature-rich library which allows to communicate with the Apache Solr Server in PHP. To know more solr-php methods visit http://php.net/manual/en/book.solr.php

We have been using Apache Solr in one of our service project. The project is a website which is basically collection of artefacts, posters and other memorabilia from across the globe, importantly India. It currently has about 75,000 objects in our database. In addition, there are roughly 100,000 items in ‘masterlists’. Within the masterlists we have the list of people, films etc, which are the related data for the objects.

We’re very excited to announce the release of Quick2cart version 2.3. Quick2cart has always been a favourite extension for people who have and want to build an ecommerce shopping platform in Joomla! With this release we will be unfolding the new boundaries of Quick2cart by Introducing plenty of features which will make sure that the user and a...

We are regularly rolling out updated Beta versions of Shika as promised. In previous blogs you might have noticed that we’ve said that the feature list for version 1.0 has been finalized and we will not be adding any new features till 1.1.

However, we have made an exception and added some tempting features!

A Video link without a thumbnail is like a smartphone without a camera, you can use it but no one would like to use it. If you want your visitors to see your video, you need to make sure that your video link has a thumbnail which is forcing users to click on the link.

How can we do this?

Hey All, We got some good news for you! Our most popular Free Extension PDF Embed plugin (with 1 Lac+ downloads and counting) is here with exciting new features. 1. Google Viewer Support: This feature is offered by Google Docs. With this you can embed PDF files in a web page. And, the pretty part is - you don't have to be u...

JGive! A premium crowdfunding extension for Joomla! which is getting into a new era starting this release. After much thought out process and keeping all the necessary most asked features in mind we have come up with a roadmap for JGive 1.7 . What all is coming in JGive 1.7? Campaign promotion using invitexCampaign Specific Video galleryQuick Donat...

PayPlans by ReadyBytes is a Joomla! membership software for selling your services online & provides automatic subscription and effortless billing management. We have always recommended PayPlans to our customers plus we have some great integrations with them too ! As part of the celebration, the awesome guys at ReadyBytes have offered to give a&...

As you may have read it in the news, tragedy has struck Nepal and thousands have perished and many more are rendered homeless and are in need of help.  We are launching Nepal Earthquake Relief Fund with equal support and participation of top companies in the Joomla! sphere and are are pledging 10% of our sales in the next 7 days for the Nepal ...

Hi there, We have released an update for People suggest. We have fixed some bugs from v1.4.4. We suggest you to upgrade to this version. Checkout the change log given below. Bugs Fixed :#44059: Fatal error: Class 'TjAkeebaStrapper' not found in plugins/community/recommendfriend/recommendfriend.php on line 19.Support for latest techjoomla ...

It has been really long since the Beta 10 release of Shika! As we all know that we are really close to the stable release which can happen anytime soon. Entire feature list has been finalized and this is the Beta 11 we are rolling out. You will be overwhelmed to see the number of Bug fixes (500+) done in Shika after Beta 10, especially if you ...