Wednesday September 08 , 2010
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Joomla! gets a face lift and you know what, it looks quite okay

The Joomla! website has had a face lift. The new look is very clean and dare I say it Web 2.0ish.

It's basically using the frontpage as a portal for the huge Joomla website and I suspect it's geared more towards 'new visitors'. It looks very appealing - it would just be nice if they updated it all at the same time, however I expect that is coming and it's really the content that matters.

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Forking off from Mambo: MiaCMS

If the poor old chaps at the Mambo Foundation hadn't had it bad enough the past couple of years, it's just getting worse for them, with the news that more people are jumping ship.

I say it's getting worse because everyone seems to be leaving. This time it's Al Warren, Chad Auld, Ozgur Cem Sen and Richard Ong. They've left to start up the MiaCMS, by taking the Mambo code.

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Google recognise St George's Day

Last year, Google ignored St George's Day and it wound me up a bit, mostly because the excuse was 'there are so many individual days' and that they couldn't recognise every one.

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Run a Joomla website at home on your QNAP NAS

I run several Joomla sites and have a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device but I would never have thought about running a website on it. Sure, when I was looking I looked for one that would give you the functionality, but never for a Joomla site more just a static home page.

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Johnny Vaughan and the power of Facebook

They probably don't call him twinkle toes but they may very well be soon, if this Facebook group has anything to do with it.

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Scammers from Nigeria now operating out of Sweden

You know those emails that occasionally get past your spam software where you've either just won the World Cup lottery or that there is a business opportunity waiting for you and you'll make thousands, if not millions, well, they're now operating out of Sweden.

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Elgiganten saga comes to an end

I've had a few issues with my Panasonic TV, purchased from Swedish chain Elgiganten. Basically it's something called purple snake which pretty much spoils your viewing when watching some channels and some DVD's.

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SAPortals launches: Intelligent SAP connections

SAPortals opened up last week and while the tech guys are actively finishing the site I'm pointing you to it now - because I can and if you're interested in SAP this is going to be quite interesting.

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