Ok, guys we have some really great news for Android fans and Joomla too. From now on you can manage your Joomla powered website with the help of Android powered device. Joooid is an Android client for the Joomla CMS: it has been created to publish articles with images, galleries and a map indicating the GPS position where the article has been published from. The article manager allows you to browse, publish or trash articles. The developer is currently working on a solution to embed YouTube videos as well. We hope that this client will be very useful for you.

Actually these are not even news because Joomla 1.6 Alpha 2 was released in October, 2009 but we want to notice that Alpha 2 has some details that are really important for the developers and Joomla users. We all know that Joomla 1.6 will be faster than the previous version. This release has such improvements:

Ecommerce nowadays is getting more popular and Joomla as one of the best CMS can’t stay aside. We as real fans of Joomla 1.5 templates assume that installing Virtuemart to your Joomla powered website can really enliven your business and make your project more profitable.This nice tutorial will help you to set up products at your Virtuemart store. Using this great Ecommerce Joomla extension is a perfect for middle sized stores and we know that you’ll feel all advantages of this software. Take care and stay with Joomla!

As many of you know, version 1.5 was released in January of 2007, almost 2 years ago. That means that it will be over 2 years between versions 1.5 and 1.6. I think most of us would agree that this is too long between versions. But just saying that releases must be more often doesn’t address the underlying issues and challenges.

Fortunately, discussion of how Joomla team can get to a more dynamic release cycle while preserving the stability and reliability that users have come to expect. Anyway to cut a long story short Joomla team is waiting for our feedback in discussing this problem and we hope that all Joomla fans will take chance and help to make Joomla better.

Yo-ho-ho, guys! Yup dreams come true and today we are so glad to surprise you with this amazing and outstanding event - Release of the Free 7-in-1 Joomla Template from TemplateMonster. To cut a long story short - this template contains customized design themes for all major holidays (including Christmas, St. Valentine’s, St. Patrick’s, 4th of July, Halloween and Thanksgiving). PSD files for all customizations are also included. So this basically means you get 7 Joomla templates in 1 pack - all for free!

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Default Theme

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Christmas theme

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Halloween Theme

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4th of July

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St. Patrick’s

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St. Valentine’s

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Thanksgiving Theme

Feel free to download this free Joomla template and apply it to your website.

Okay, I think that you remember that we’ve already posted about Joomla Vuirtuemart and you know all its advantages. Today we want to inform you that there is one really useful extension. This content plugin shows dynamic QR Codes in Joomla Articles and/or in Virtuemart product descriptions using the slimbox javascript effect. The QR Code contains the url of the page. It uses the Google Chart API. The best shortcut for mobile devices to your site pages! If you want to have it enabled in any other ‘content plugin enabled’ component, make contact with nordmograph.com.

The Joomla! spirit continues to grow in Africa this year, as Joomla!Day Nigeria comes near. On December 12, 2009, the great people in the Nigerian Joomla! community will be celebrating their Joomla! pride with their third annual Joomla!Day Nigeria in Lagos. Registration is free, but limited to 100 people, so register today!

Recently, Open Source Matters received an unsolicited proposal for the management of http://demo.joomla.org. After consideration and consultation with the Community Oversight Committee, the OSM board the Community Oversight Committee determined that, in the interest of fairness, others should also be invited to submit proposals.

Open Source Matters is requesting proposals for the management of the Joomla! demo site (http://demo.joomla.org). The existing Joomla!® demo site has been highly successful, with an average of 25,000 registrations monthly. OSM reasonably expects the number of registrations to increase with more prominent displays of the links to the site on the joomla.org family of websites. The joomla.org sites now receive approximately 5 million visits per month.

This is an open and competitive process. Responses to this RFP (”proposals”) received after December 9, 2009 will not be considered.

The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.15 [Wojmamni ama mamni]. It has been three months since Joomla 1.5.14 was released on July 30, 2009.
The Development Working Group’s goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community. We hope that these will be great news for all Joomla community.

VirtueMart is a free eCommerce Joomla extension that is written in PHP language. We have mentioned earlier about some really original project that was aimed to implement Magento shopping cart with Joomla CMS. Well today we want to tell you about the other side of this problem or frankly speaking about simpler and more reliable solution.

This Joomla extension has great list of advantages and we think that all these factors will help you a lot in the process of choosing shopping cart for your Joomla - powered wbesite. Of course the best thing is that VirtueMart is totally free :). Other good points are superb Product Catalogue – You can easily add, edit, delete items you wish to sell. Promotions and News Items – it allows to show all latest products and special offers in a great variety of ways. Superb online payment – ‘VirtueMart’ is capable of live credit card processing with safe SSL encryption (128-bit) and supports a large amount of Payment Providers including PayPal and Redunicre.

B2B and B2C in one eCommerce shop – If you want to do business with other resellers as well as end consumers, we’ll setup your online shop to do just that! You can even have individual access areas for different client groups. VirtueMart works as well for 10,000 products as it does for 10, without additional performance or service issues.

And this is just a top of the list - take care and stay with us)