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We love doing our bit for the community when we can & are very entusiastic about spreading the Joomla k nowledge via Joomla days, conferences & JUG meetings. These events in our opinion Show the real spirit behind what Joomla is.. & what community is. We are active members of Joomla User Groups in Pune & Mumbai & know what it ta...

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. J!MailAlerts 2.3 with Joomla 1.6 Support is here ! We are happy to announce the release of J!MailAlerts version 2.3 with Joomla 1.6 support ! The extension is free to download for all & so are all the free Plugins. For the JomSocial plugin pack & other commercial plugin...

J!MailAlerts ver 2.3 is now available with Joomla 1.6 Support ! The extension is free from download in the free extension area. All the plugins are also updated to support Joomla 1.6. Note that though all the plugins have been updated to 1.6, all extensions that we support might not be ready yet to work with 1.6. This is a common package release &a...

Join the Party as Joomlapolis celebrates 400000 members on their website ! Joomlapolis, the creators of Community Builder one of the first community building extensions for Joomla have an awesome set of offers for their members & Techjoomla is proud to be part of this. Get an awesome 30% off on our Community Builder Power pack & SocialAds a...

SocialAds 2.5.1 is a bug fix release . We recommend you update your SocialAds installation immediately so that you can get these fixes. This release also includes some minor changes based on feedback post the 2.5 release.  We recommend that you update to this release ASAP.  All Subscribers can download the latest release from the 'My Subscriptions' . For a full Changelog, read on..

The Joomla Community Support Challenge ! Our Parent Company Tekdi Web Solutions has launched a Joomla Community Support Challenge for its new Trainees. Here's a Snapshot Each trainee starting the 20th of June shall aim for Posting 30 useful posts on the Joomla forums per day.The trainees have a collective goal to contribute 3000 useful posts to the...

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.In this Newsletter, bring you an update on J!MailAlerts & an Amazing offer from our Partners, StackIdeas in addition to a behind the scenes update from our development team. And ofcourse, there is a nice fat little plugin for you to get our Products at a cool 20% off as well ! J!MailAlerts...

A Big Hello to the Joomla Community in Malaysia !  Techjoomla is proud to be associated with Joomla Day Malaysia as a Community Sponser. Whats more we are giving away some really cool goodies including hand made Newspaper bags from Nirmalya Trust, India & a never before discount of 50% to all attendees of Joomla Day Malaysia on all our pro...

Want to lower the entry barrier to your Social Network for LinkedIn users ? We have a 2 part solution. A. LinkedIn Connect ( Which will allow you to login using LinkedIn to your Joomla/JomSocial Site)B. LinkedIn Profile Import ( Save your users the trouble of having to fill our their profile again & just import it from LinkedIn) In this blog, w...

Recently I gave an interview for JoomlaSverige, the Swedish Joomla community. We are reproducing the interview here in English, with their permission. You can read the Swedish version here http://joomlasverige.se/joomla/tillagg/13-snabba-fragor-till-parth-lawate Parth Lawate tell us about you and your companyThanks so much for interviewing me !I am...

SocialAds 2.5 - Kickass Advertising features like Zones, Layouts, Coupons & ofcourse Social Targeting for your Joomla Website SocialAds 2.5 is here ! We are super excited to tell you we have come out with a brand new version with the most awesome features which are sure to take your Ad revenues to a whole new level ! In case you havent heard, S...

We are super excited to announce the immediate availability of SocialAds 2.5 Code named "Awesome Sondra". This version comes jam packed with some awesome features that we have been teasing you about over the last couple of months. With over 100 features & bug fixes together, this is truly a "Mega" release for us. Besides the coolest of features to help you earn even more money, SocialAds 2.5 is 1.6 compatible & can now also work with a simple Joomla installation sans JomSocial or CB if you do not want Social Targeting. So now Joomla sites without Social networks can also benefit from the awesome ad designer & cool features that we have packed into this release. We have also added partial support for German, French & Italian languages from this release. We are soon introducing a Translation partner program that will help willing people to contribute translations & get free subscriptions in return !

The Major feature additions are as below..

• Zone Management for full flexibility
• Ad types ( Text, Text & Image, Image banners)
• Ad Layouts for full flexibility in Ad Design
• Zone based pricing
• Multiple Ads per module
• Ad orientation ( Vertical or Horizontal)
• Coupon manager to let you offer promotions to your Advertisors

To read more details of these features & see screenshots, you can read our past 2 blogs"Something Bubling in SocialAds 2.5" & "SocialAds 2.5 features. Another teaser". For an in depth look, head over to read our updated documentation here.  Users with active subscriptions can download the extension immediately. 

Price Change annoucement : Note that starting today the pricing for SocialAds is hiked to 70$ for 6 months & 120$ for 12 Months.  But we have a coupon code which will work till end of May to help you get it at a much lower price. Use the Code : SOCADS35 to get a 35% disount on SocialAds as well as all our other extensions !

Please click on Read more for the Upgrade Instructions ( important !) & the change log.

Its a great pleasure for us to be here & at And Beyond, the grandest & the bestest & the coolest & the......( well i am out of adjectives here ! ) Joomla conference ever ! With 200+ Joomla developers & integrators from over 35 countries here, its going to be great to meet the greats in the Joomla community & get a chance to ...

Its a great pleasure to announce that 6 more of our extensions are now Joomla 1.6 compatible ! Joining the 1.6 native extensions are Network Suggest, People You May Know & Mutual Friends for both CB & JomSocial. Note that in case of JomSocial , all these extensions are also JomSocial 2.2 compatible. Besides the 1.6 compatibility, we have also included quite a lot of Bug fixes & some feature additions in all the extensions. For the full changelog, please click on read more. Users with active subscriptions shall be able to download the extensions in the My Subscriptions area.

With these releases, now the major extensions that are still in development for Joomla 1.6 compatibility are J!Bolo, SocialAds & J!MailAlerts. Of these you can expect SocialAds & J!MailAlerts to be out by end of next week, while J!Bolo will take more time as its undergoing a full rewrite. Stay tuned for more updates !

Its been a while since we wrote the last blog post about SocialAds 2.5 & upcoming features. Last time we just showed you a little bit of what was planned. This blog post will take you through the rest of the planned features. We got very tied up with a lot of releases & klind of forgot to get this out !  SocilalAds 2.5 may come any moment now .. while you wait, here's what to expect :)