cedPhotofeed 2.6.1 for J2.5 Released

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Created on Monday, 25 March 2013 22:02

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This extension for Joomla! 2.5 allow you to inline a set of images from your favorite online gallery: Smugmug, Flickr, Picasa, Gallery2/Gallery3 and YouTube or any RSS feed in any article.

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BUG Button in the backend was always working properly while when being logged in the the frontend of the site, It was returning an error 404.

Alternatives to Google Reader

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Created on Monday, 18 March 2013 20:46

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I've been a huge fan of Google Reader for years. I usually start every morning with my coffee and Google Reader...

Note: i am still not decided between Tiny RSS and Newsblur, both are running on my server…

The bad news

We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined. So, on July 1, 2013, we will retire Google Reader. Users and developers interested in RSS alternatives can export their data, including their subscriptions, with Google Takeout over the course of the next four months. see  http://googleblog.blogspot.nl/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html

Get your data

As usual Google do a great job, and let you download your data very easily with Google Takeout. You can get there a copy of ALL of your Reader data:

• List of people that you follow / follow you
• Items you have starred / liked /shared
• Notes and comments

Follow this link to download only your Reader data from Takeout.  Your subscriptions are then available in a xml file that can be imported in most RSS aggregators. (see below)

The hidden plan

Both Google+ and Facebook are pushing now to be your one and only news aggregating site. You can still sign the online petition at https://www.change.org/petitions/google-keep-google-reader-running (for what it is worth)

My Alternatives to Google Reader

Feedly

• Synchronizes itself with Google Reader until July,
• Same keyboard shortcuts,
• Import from Google Reader using Google's OAuth,
• Mobile app,
• Firefox and chrome plugin,
• Tips for Google Reader users migrating to feedly

Newsblur

• Commercial and free plan for up to 64 12 RSS channels,
• Import from Google Reader using Google's OAuth,
• iOS apps, Android Mobile app
• Open Source (MIT),
• Self hosting thanks to  https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

Tiny RSS

• Free software, licensed under GNU GPL
• Paid mobile app,
• Chrome plugins
• Commercial plan
• Self hosting thanks to Github (I did install my own copy at http://rss.waltercedric.com)

How to Install vShare on iPhone & iPad

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Category: Cellphones

Created on Monday, 18 March 2013 20:08

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Disclaimer: I don’t recommend vShare or any other alternatives to Install .IPA files.  The only reason of this post is to help users try out paid apps before they decide to purchase them. This post do not support piracy or piracy-related apps.

I recommend you to use instead Android since you can test any paid application for 24h and get a refund if you are not satisfied!

You will need:

• Jail broken iPhone/iPad (Use Evasion)
• Cydia installed

Only 2 steps are required

1. Install AppSync
2. Install vShare

AppSync

• Is a package that Cydia asks you to install if you want to install Installous/vShare.
• Allows users to sync and install cracked App Store applications to your iOS device.
• Works by patching the Mobile Installation file on the iOS firmware which is needed to install .ipa files (App Store Apps) without going through iTunes.
• Is only available through an external repository that must be added to Cydia.

Install

1. Open Cydia
2. Go to Manage -> Sources -> Edit -> and tap on Add
3. Type repo.hackyouriphone.org and tap on Add Source to add the repo
4. Now search for “AppSync for iOS 6″  and install it

vShare

After you’ve installed AppSync, do the following:

• Open Safari
• Visit http://v.appvv.com/en/
• Click Download/Install vShare to install vShare
• Once installed, vShare will show up as an icon on the home screen

Enjoy!

Schema Validation for Joomla 2.5 Extensions

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Created on Monday, 18 March 2013 19:46

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I’ve created from scratch, all Joomla extensions XSD.

Without them, Joomla accept any entry in manifest xml and never complains about

• Mistyping, like a valid xml but that the Joomla installer do not understand or only partially,
• Wrong constructs, xml tag child misplaced,
• Invalid data type, like a path not being a valid path, an expected integer being a text and so on…

Joomla just silently die during install or install only partially extensions. These days are over as developers with any decent IDE will be able to validate while typing and enjoy auto completion. To use them now just include them in all your manifest like this:

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