(shop/joomla-components/photo-battle-extension.html) Requirements: Joomla 1.5.x

for Joomla Powered Websites Only! Before we get down to the business how to part, let us first get you familiar with the live chat component that will accomplish the above task. Chat Factory is a powerful Ajax based live chat extension for Joomla (1.5 and 1.6) that will integrate Facebook Gmail like chat into Joomla Websites. Think of it like having an instant messenger only for your website. Partial features list:Online and Offline messagesMessage HistoryAvatar managementCommunity Builder integrationChat application is available on every page of your website without having to enable a special moduleChangeable User statusPossibility of staying invisibleallowing users to chat REGARDLESS of the page they are on.Friends list and Blocked users listGuests can Chat with registered users (option to set it off)Community Builder IntegrationPossibility of running advertisements in the Chat window and through advertisement messagesusers can enable/disable the chat systemand many more ... After you install Chat Factory on your website, here are the ways you can put it to use: Increase Your Sales using it As a Live Help Support Tool. A website without live support is like an empty brick and motor store (with no one to guide you. With Chat Factory, you can interact with your website visitors through a real time chat communication providing a higher level customer and sales support. Doing this not only improves upfront sales and customer satisfaction but also increases referral rate and improves brand image (thus affecting the overall bottom line of your business).With the above said, think about this “How much is such a software worth to my business?” I’m sure you will discover that overtime, it’s worth 50 to 100 times more than what you are invest to grab the software.Ready to Implement?Like most other Joomla extensions, installing and configuring Chat Factory is very simple and in most cases the whole process takes less than 10mins to setup.Ready? Click on the "Buy it now" button below to grab your copy of Chat Factory!

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(all-thefactory-products/chat-factory/detailed-product-flyer.html) On the back-end the chat extension for Joomla has the following main features:emoticons management: administrators can add as many emoticons as they wantadvertisements managementIM ads: on login or on specific intervalallowed groups: select the groups that are allowed to chatCommunity Builder integration (enable/disable)set refresh interval of user list, new messages and new friendship requests to reduce server loadspam protection: set the maximum number of messages users can send per minute.Requirements: Joomla 1.5.xDemo-Server:http://chatfactory.thefactory.ro/index.php (http://chatfactory.thefactory.ro/index.php)

What is Deluxe Blog Factory (all-thefactory-products/deluxe-blog-factory/detailed-product-flyer.html)?Deluxe Blog Factory is an user friendly, webmaster friendly blogging extension for Joomla 1.5, with a native and fresh MVC codebase. Full of features, it is a well thought alternative to Wordpress blogging, allowing you to use Joomla versatility and well known blogging conventions - like RSS Syndication, Bookmarking Sites (like Digg, Twitter, Facebook, etc). Featuring a Web 2.0 Dashboard with draggable panes and all-in-reach controls, your blogging experience is truly comfortable and in a luxuriant environment.With its integrated commenting and following system, Deluxe Blog Factory does not need additional extensions in order to function at full potential. No need to get support from 2 different extension providers that keep pointing fingers at each others program. (all-thefactory-products/deluxe-blog-factory/detailed-product-flyer.html) User Avatars, Pingbacks, TinyMCE extensions, Youtube and per user settable Media Upload capacities add to the Extension an amazing set of features and possibilities. What do you get with Deluxe Blog Factory (all-thefactory-products/deluxe-blog-factory/detailed-product-flyer.html)? A well designed and user friendly Dashboard where you can see the most important information and have access to the most important functions.SEF URLs - native Joomla 1.5 router. Well formed URLs that help your website to gain more relevance.Per user Media Management; users can upload Media files up to a certain Quota (admin settable). Your website users will have the possibility to upload images and media from the frontend without overcrowding your hosting.Multi-Blogger: You can allow all users to create blogs, or just specific user groups. Import Blog Posts into Joomla content. Now the gap between the blogs you host and the content of your site will be bridged.Avatars: users can upload their own avatar or use their community builder avatar.Fully customizable template based on smarty tags; there is NO php knowledge needed at all.Backend Blog administration: you can edit or unpublish any blog entry or any comment from the administrative backend.Follow and be followed by other users.customizable eMail notifications for the significant events in your site (new post, new comment, reported post, etc).Customizable bookmark sites (digg, facebook, twitter, etc).CAPTCHA for comments.Tag Clouds. Tag filtering, tagging search.a lot of free modules to get on your site.Integrated Search Plugin.Deluxe Blog Factory comes also toghether with seven modules: Random Blogs mod, Tag Cloud mod, Latest posts mod, Top Active blogs mod, Top Rated blogs mod, Top Rated posts mod, Search mod. Check NOW, what bloggers need and Deluxe Blog (all-thefactory-products/deluxe-blog-factory/detailed-product-flyer.html) provides: Frontpage with all posts listed, paged and sorted.Individual per blog listings - every user gets his own blog front page.Possibility to import Blog posts into regular joomla content sections and categories.A lot of Bookmarking sites to choose from and an easy way to add new ones.RSS feeds and syndication.Pings and Tags, pingback and bookmarking.SEF urls.Avatars with Community Builder integration.Templating System / Easy to change templates.Built in Commenting system.Built in Media uploader with per user Disk Quota.How to use the DEMO site (http://deluxeblog.thefactory.ro/) of Deluxe Blog Factory? You can use the login buttons on the left in order to login into the site as different users and test the features of this extension. You can approve comments, leave comments, add posts, and even login into the administrative backend to see all the management features.

For those of you who are developing WordPress templates or you just want to modify existing ones, the following commands sheet should be helpful. Theme Structureheader.php - Header Sectionindex.php - Main Sectionsidebar.php - Sidebar Sectionsingle.php - Post Templatepage.php - Page Templatecomments.php - Comment Templatesearch.php - Search Contentsearchform.php - Search Form Templatearchive.php - Archive Templatefunctions.php - Special Functions404.php - Error Page templatestyle.css - Style Sheet The Loop<?php if(have_posts());?><?php while(have_posts()); the_post();?>// Custom HTML and PHP Code<?php else;?><?php endif;?>The Category Based Loop<?php query_posts('category_name=Category showposts=10'); ?><?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>// Custom HTML and PHP Code<?php endwhile;?> Theme Definition/*Theme Name: WordpressTheme URI: http://wordpress.org/Description: Factory BlogVersion: 2.0Author: the FactoryAuthor URI: http://www.thefactory.roTags: wordpress, drupal, joomla, cms*/Template Include Tags< ?php get_header(); ?>< ?php get_sidebar(); ?>< ?php get_footer(); ?>< ?php comments_template(); ?>WordPress Template Tags<?php the_title() ?> - displays the posts/pages title<?php the_content() ?> - displays the content of the post/page<?php the_excerpt() ?> - displays the excerpt of the current post/page<?php the_time() ?> - displays the time of the current post/page<?php the_date() ?> - displays the date of a post or set of post/page<?php the_permalink() ?> - displays the URL for the permalink<?php the_category() ?> - displays the category of a post<?php the_author(); ?> - displays the author of the post<?php the_ID(); ?> - displays the numeric ID of the current post<?php wp_list_pages(); ?> - displays all the pages<?php wp_tag_cloud(); ?> - displays a tag cloud<?php wp_list_cats(); ?> - displays the categories<?php get_calendar(); ?> - displays the calendar<?php wp_get_archives() ?> - displays a date-based archives list<?php posts_nav_link(); ?> - displays Previous page and Next Page links<?php next_post_link() ?> - displays Newer Posts link<?php previous_post_link() ?> - displays previous link<?php edit_post_link(__('Edit Post')); ?> - displays the edit link<?php the_search_query();?> - value for search form<?php wp_register();?> - displays the register link<?php wp_loginout();?> - displays the log in/out link<?php wp_meta();?> - Meta for administrators<?php timer_stop(1);?> - time to load the page<?php echo c2c_custom('test');?> - displays the custom field1<?php get_links_list(); ?> - display links from Blogroll<?php get_calendar(); ?> - displays the built-in calendar<?php comments_popup_link(); ?> - link of the posts commentsBlogInfo Tags<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> - Title of the blog<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?> - the character set<?php bloginfo('description'); ?> - the description of the blog<?php bloginfo('url'); ?> - the address of the blog<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?> - the RSS URL<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?> - the URL of the template<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?> - the pingback URL<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> - the URL for the template's CSS file<?php bloginfo('wpurl'); ?> - URL for WordPress installation<?php bloginfo('version'); ?> - Version of the WordPress installation<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?> - HTML version of the siteBlogInfo Tagsis_home() - when the user is on the blog home pageis_front_page() - when the user is on the home pageis_single() - when the single post displayedis_sticky() - check if a post is stickyis_page() - when a page is displayedis_category() - when a category is displayedCategory based menu navigation<ul id= menu ><li <?php if(is_home()) ?>><a href= <?php bloginfo('home'); ?> >Home</a></li>< ?php wp_list_categories('title_li= orderby=id'); ?></ul>Pages based menu navigation<ul id= menu ><li <?php if(is_home()) ?>><a href= <?php bloginfo('home'); ?> >home</a></li>< ?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order depth=1 title_li='); ?></ul>

Love Factory (shop/joomla-components/love-factory-dating-and-matchmaking.html) Joomla Extension through the language files and Joomfish Integration. (shop/joomla-components/love-factory-dating-and-matchmaking.html) The Main Features of the component are:Member Pages with fully configurable fields!Photo Gallery (users can specify the images order)Comment System (page owner can delete any comment on his page or report them to the admin)Messaging System (users can create, send and receive personal messages)Interaction System (sending kisses between user) Rating SystemFriends List (including pending requests; user can set the page status visible only for friends)Ignore List (to avoid spamming or any unwanted contact)Advanced Search (to find friends or matches after certain criteria like gender, age, etc., criteria which are fully configurable by the administrator from the existing page fields.Membership Plans with integrated Payment Gateways: Paypal and Moneybookers (support for one till four membership-level, so that users can upgrade their account in order to receive a higher number of allowed photo and friends. For each level, differentiated prices can be set, depending on the time period. The membership plans feature can be enable or disabled by the administrator.)Smarty-based http://lovefactory.thefactory.ro (http://lovefactory.thefactory.ro/) - to login for the frontend or backend, just click the login buttons available on the page. Feel free to test as you please; the server resets itself each hour.

With the last released versions, the Reverse Auction Factory (shop/joomla-components/reverse-auction-factory.html) solution is consolidating one of its main goals, serving as a freelancing platform. Among other new features, the new version comes with a special new template, which can be also seen on the new updated demoserver (http://reverse-auctions.thefactory.ro/) available under http://reverse-auctions.thefactory.ro/ (http://reverse-auctions.thefactory.ro/) (http://reverse-auctions.thefactory.ro) Other noticable features are: New feature: Gallery Plugin, Gallery settings in backend.New feature: New Gallery Mootool.New feature: Differentiated Comissions for Powersellers, verified users and regular users.Improved quicker and lighter coding; rbidsVersionCheck replaced with JOOMLA_RV_VERSION.Improved SEF.Fixed several issues including Short Open tags, watch category, tags filter with spaces search when trimmed and display results (twice), search after country and city without CB, quickButton (in J!1.0) finding JOOMLA_RV_VERSION, including file Router.php, CB date format my auctions my watchlist, installer CB plugin Google map, etc.Also for the payments towards the site, Multiple Payment Gateways with integrated payment methods like Paypal and Moneybookers are now availble, with the possibility through API documentation for each webmaster to implement new one.Toghether with the new features, the Reverse Auction Factory Solution (shop/joomla-components/reverse-auction-factory.html) stands for a professional e-commerce platform, providing the possibilty for its users to obtain a good price or a good deal and also last but not least o good income for the webmaster, through the available commissioning systems. (shop/joomla-components/reverse-auction-factory.html) Why use Reverse Auctions? Reverse auctions do assure the lowest price for buyers, discouraging imprudent bidding practices (closed auctions conducted by invitation only) and allowing the fairest live and consistent auctioning system through the Open Bidding System. The two round bidding ensures that the winning bidder is qualified and prescreened complying with federal and certain state procurement laws.Buyers Benefits? Save Money On Every Single PurchaseSave Time without Comparing Store PricesPosting an Order for wanted item is free: No Bids, No Fees. Risk Free!Quick Turnover, Get IMMEDIATE Results. Just start asking for what you want to buy.Reverse auctions eliminate the possibility of corruption (in procurement), etc. (http://reverse-auctions.thefactory.ro/) With the Category option is possible to host on your site different areas of interest, transforming your site in a general point of interest for everybody. The pictures are representing just a normal template, provided for free, but since the product is templetized, with the existing Documentation (support/documentation/reverse-auction-factory-tutorial---templating.html) each webmaster can configure the look of the site to comply to his requirements. (http://reverse-auctions.thefactory.ro/)

MediaMall provides is a powerful solution to manage media files online distribution with a built-in Credit System. Using this component the site can easily sell media files online, like for ex. Video Tutorials (including sample files). Using the MediaMall solution users can post their media files on your site. For each media file a number of Credits can be perceived in order to visualize the file. The poster will earn credits, which can be later converted into a payment by the webmaster. Accepted media file formats are:video files (flw, swf, mov and wmf; avi files are also partially supported, but not all codecs are included.)audio files (mp3)archives (zip, rar, gz, bz2, arj, arc, '7z) - used generally for tutorials; if a user is posting video file with a photoshop tutorial, in the archive he can include the sample files. (shop/joomla-components/media-mall.html) In order to purchase the credits easier the system provides a Paypal integration. Clean payments are transformed automatically into credits. If any problems the payments are going into the Payment/canceled Payments, where the administrator can decide further actions. A further income method, if set, can be the pay for Contact. Here a user will pay with credits in order to send a contact email to the author. The administrator can create and manage Categories, set credit related settings and manage credits and views. Another important administrator feature is the management of the author payments. The system also includes user notifications on certain actions. Viewers can use the integrated Rating System to rate and also place comments for any media file. This is allowed for free media files and for commercial media files only after viewing in order to avoid any abuses.Surely the media files can be also posted for free, allowing the view without any credit purchase. The administrator can configure this allowing the view for guest or logged users. Among other features, the component benefits also from Joomfish Integration, offering multilingual support. Demo: The demo-server is available under http://media-mall.thefactory.ro (http://media-mall.thefactory.ro/) - to login for the frontend or backend, just click the login buttons available on the left side. Feel free to test as you please; the server resets itself each hour.

DEMO Server (http://jooanswers.thefactory.ro/) - you can log on the Front end or Admin Back end in order to check all features and settings jAnswers Factory brings also several charging possibilities, so that the webmaster can transform his site to a profitable business. From this features it worth mentioning the followings: Pay-per-Question Pay for featured Question Pay-per-Contact Support for beer money payments Multiple Payment Gateways including Paypal and MoneybookersNative SEF integration (all question links are SEF!) (shop/joomla-components/janswers-joomla-yahoo-answers-clone-script-joomanswers-jooanswers.html) Other noticeable features are the extended User profile (avatar, location, yahoo id, paypal email) and Community Builder Integration.On the back-end side, the solution brings also important features and settings to offer the needed flexibility for the site administrator. Here some of the available features: set avatar size, set time period for questions, block offensive questions/answers, manage abuse reports, manage payments, import/export questions answers, manage extended profile, user statistics, etc.The component comes also with a free 5.000 records database to provide a valuable start-up (due to this the downloadkit is approx. 5 MB). Bigger database packages are available upon request for an additional charge. Some of the available modules are: Latest Questions, Popular Questions, Open Questions, Random Questions, Featured Questions, Tag Cloud, etc.

On Tuesday, Google was slapped with a breach of contract class action lawsuit alleging that its Nexus One smartphone failed to maintain 3G connectivity and that the Mountain View company not only made misleading claims about the product's capabilities but also failed to adequately support customers in search of answers. Plaintiff Nathan Nabors of Florida is seeking damages and class action interest on behalf of residents of his home state as well as California who have bought the Nexus One since its January debut. The only defendant named in the suit is Google - in other words, manufacturer HTC and exclusive 3G carrier T-Mobile USA are not included in the suit. The potential size of the classes is not specified in the complaint.

Sometimes the titles just write themselves. On Tuesday Virgin America and Loopt partnered to offer people two-for-one tickets to Cancun or Los Cabos from California. All you had to do was check in on Loopt at SFO, LAX or one of a variety of taco trucks in San Francisco and Los Angeles in a four hour window. So how did it go? Loopt says 1,300 people checked in to a single taco truck in San Francisco, and 80% of those people have already bought tickets on Virgin America for flights. It was Virgin's fifth highest revenue day ever, says Loopt (we're confirming with Virgin).

Are you addicted to Twitter? Do you have an iPad? Even if the answer to both is "no" right now, after you see Twitter for iPad, those answers are going to change -- quickly. Yes, the wait is over. Launching tonight in the App Store is Twitter for iPad -- the first official native iPad app from the company. We all knew it was coming (Twitter even said so a few months ago), but it has been a long wait. It was definitely worth it. Like most people, I wander into hyperbole from time to time. But it has now been a few days since I first played with Twitter for iPad, and I still think it is hands-down the best iPad app out there. It's that good. With all due respect to Reeder, Instapaper, Flipboard, and Pulse, this is now going to be my go-to app for just about everything related to reading news. It's simply such a great experience for reading tweets -- and more importantly, reading the links your friends share.

Right now, many of you are likely downloading iTunes 10, the latest version of Apple's media software. The most notable feature in this new version is Ping, Apple's first stab at building a music social network (or really any kind of social network). It's interesting on a number of levels, but even the most basic level is pretty interesting: Ping's social graph. First of all, to use Ping at all you have to opt-in to it. While Apple CEO Steve Jobs touted the 160 million built-in users (it's currently available in iTunes in 23 countries), that's a bit misleading because many people won't opt-in to using it -- many of them for no other reason than they're lazy or just don't care. But assuming you do opt-in to it, the next social layer is interesting as well. Immediately, you're taken to a Privacy Settings page where Apple asks you how you'd like to use the service. This is where you decide if you want to use the friend model, the follow model, or the lurk model.

If you're anything like me, you've been hitting refresh on the Apple iTunes website waiting for them to put iTunes 10 up for download. Sure, it has said it was available since this morning, but when you click through, it would still be iTunes 9.2.1 with a promise that iTunes 10 was "coming soon." Links being shared on Twitter were likewise bogus. It was starting to look like a Duke Nukem situation. Well, it took several hours, but it's finally here. Apple announced iTunes 10 this morning at their event in San Francisco. The latest version is more than just a minor update, there are several things that have been reworks, including some UI elements. But the biggest addition is obviously Ping, the music social network Apple has baked into iTunes. I got a chance to use it earlier on some demo computers and on the iPhone/iPod touch -- it's very interesting. Now it's time to see if 160 million built-in users agree.

New York City startup BankSimple today disclosed that it raised its first venture funding in a round led by First Round Capital, Roger Ehrenberg's IA Ventures, and Village Ventures, along with seed investors SV Angel (Ron Conway) and Nauiokas Park, and Jerry Neumann. But it did not disclose how much it raised. I've confirmed that the round was $2.9 million, with an additional $190,000 raised last year in convertible debt (which converted to shares with this round), for a total of $3.1 million raised.

Inflection, a company aimed to democratizing the public records system on the web, has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. Founded in 2006, Inflection aggregates public records and data from past and present and currently operates Archives.com, a site that sources historical records made available on the web. Archives is meant to allow people to access birth, death, marriage, divorce, and other historical vital records to get information about deceased members of their families. Currently the site has more than 2 million members conducting searches and sees 3 million unique visitors per month.

We've confirmed that wunderkind Jessica Mah is one week away from closing a hotly anticipated round of seed financing for simple online finance management tool InDinero. Confirmed investors in the round (which still has three open spots reserved for valley VIPs like SV Angel) include 500 StartUps' Dave McClure, Microsoft's Fritz Lanman, and YouTube's Jawed Karim. Part of the YCombinator class of 2010, InDinero aims to be the Mint for small businesses and is off to a running start as this latest round is set to close between 1 and 1.5 million. We've heard reports that she had to turn investors away, and Mah promises that more "juicy details" about the story behind the funding are yet to come.

The hits just keep on coming for Elevation Partners, the one-time digital media, private equity dream team that has reconfigured itself as an investor in late stage Web 2.0 treasures. Earlier this summer, Elevation requested an extension on investing its $1.9 billion fund, and TechCrunch has learned that that request was denied—a move that came as surprise to us and to Elevation, we hear. So what does that mean? Clearly, LPs are sending a strong message that has to do with Elevation, but also has a lot to do with the broader market: They want to see some returns before they pony up more money. But the news isn’t nearly as bad as it sounds.

Credit card debt is a serious issue for Americans, who have an average of four credit cards each. Defaulting on credit card bills can result in damage to your credit score and even bankruptcy. Y Combinator-backed ReadyForZero is launching today as easy to use web-based platform to help guide consumers out of credit card debt. The site asks you to import your credit card information, including what types of cards you have, the amount owed, and will then walk you through the same steps a trusted financial advisor would give you. Based on your minimum payments, salary and balance, ReadyForZero will figures out an optimal strategy for what to pay and when. The site will send you reminders and you can track your progress online. While you cannot actually pay your bills directly from ReadyForZero, the startup will eventually allow users to do this directly from the site.