Month: April 2011

Improving the download section

In order to help you find the right download, I’ve added some new stuff to my blog that should help you find the right download document faster.

  • Stay up to date with the download RSS feed, now with QR code and feed burner support,
  • Some new modules
    • Most downloaded document list
    • Latest downloads

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I did also modify Docman Most Downloaded module and Docman Latest Downloads module to support

  • Joomla! caching! as it was missing since 2009!
  • Custom module CSS style sheet,
  • Custom CSS style sheet.

You can download these modified version here Docman Most Downloaded & Docman Latest Downloads

Your feedback is welcomed!

Apple iPhone Screen Repair: iPhone 3GS

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I will show you how to repair a cracked or broken iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, or iPod Touch screen yourself.

In brief, what you need to know

  • The 3G and 3Gs screens are different! you can not mount an iPhone 4 screen on a 3G(s)
  • There is NO 3rd party or lower quality screens, all 3rd party repair company just LIE.
  • Different kit are available:
  • LCD only for 12€ to repair a broken LCD screen only: the iPhone has an intact glass screen, however the image behind the glass screen is absent, broken or distorted.
  • Glass + digitizer for 22€ This is for an iPhone 3G device with a broken glass screen or malfunctioning touch screen with the image (LCD Screen) behind the screen still intact.
  • Glass + digitizer + LCD + button + speaker mounted for 42€ the most expensive but the easiest to replace
  • Duration: 30, 15 or 2 minutes depending on the kit

    • I went for the most expensive Kit on ebay.fr, which allow you to replace the broken screen by removing 2 screws, an connecting 3 cables!

    By the way I would NEVER send any phone to anyone, how do you think all these private pictures land on forums? removing the sim card is not enough, there are tools to fetch data even after the have been removed!

    Continue reading Apple iPhone Screen Repair: iPhone 3GS

    socialsharing extension for Joomla! 1.6

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    This small plugin add automatically to any articles a set of social icons that let your reader increase your social ranking. It support

    socialsharing extension for Joomla! 1.5

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    This small plugin add automatically to any articles a set of social icons that let your reader increase your social ranking. It support

    There is 2 different branches of this plugins depending on your version of #Joomla!

    Don’t' mix them and use the right version!

    joomla_socialsharing_horizontal_left joomla_socialsharing_left

    Features

    • Output is CSS driven, 6 preset styles
    • Toolbar can be added before or after your article
    • It is possible to include exclude sections and category for displaying the toolbar
    • Inclusion of  #JavaScript done using asynchronous techniques for more performances
    • Less than 220 lines of PHP code!
    • Support for SEF friendly URLs
    • Code produced is XHTML 1.0 Strict,
    • License under GNU/GPL v3
    • Tested in the following browser Firefox, Opera, Chrome, IE 8

    Documentation

    I Broke my Iphone 3gs, a how to repair will follow

    Apple IPhone don’t fly well, and here is a picture to prove it:

    broken.apple.iphone.3gs

    I will this week end publish an online “how to exchange your iPhone 3GS LCD screen yourself”

    • The Glass can be found on ebay for 22 euros
    • The whole assembled kit: Glass + LCD + frame + home button + speakers + kit of 7 tools for less than 42 euro! this is the kit I ordered yesterday online.

    iphone.3gs.screen.repair.kit

    By the way, Apple ask a little bit more than 200 CHF for replacing the glass.

    LEGO Great Ball Contraption (GBC) 20 modules

    The Great Ball Contraption ( GBC) is a concept invented by Team Hassenplug: set up some kind of standardized interface for LEGO® based modules to enable them to interact, in this case to pass a ball. Based on this standard, LEGO® builders distributed all over the world are able to build their particular modules to take part in this special kind of LEGO Oriented Architecture (LOA).

    IMPRESSIVE work and time invested to make this working!

    And some more interesting links

    Joomla_1.5.23-Stable-Full_PackageForSecurityImages5.1.x_v01.02.00.zip

    Only for SecurityImages 5.1.x and #Joomla! 1.5.23
    Allow login views, login modules, register, lost password, lost user account and contact section to be
    protected by SecurityImages

    • Are for #Joomla! 1.5.23 only and SecurityImages 5.1.x or later
    • 14 files has been altered, mostly views, and com_contact/com_user controller, click on picture below
      for more details
    • Download file Joomla_1.5.23-Stable-Full_PackageForSecurityImages5.1.x_v01.02.00.zip (33kB) and
      overwrite file on your server with the zip package usign FTP/SCP
    • Go to #Joomla! control panel and HIT at least SAVE configuration once, this will add a new boolean value
      (true or false) in #Joomla! configuration for using SecurityImages.

    How to install documentation

    Download #Joomla_1.5.23-Stable-Full_PackageForSecurityImages5.1.x_v01.02.00.zip

    Joomla_1.5.22-Stable-Full_PackageForSecurityImages5.1.x_v01.02.00.zip

    Only for SecurityImages 5.1.x and #Joomla! 1.5.22
    Allow login views, login modules, register, lost password, lost user account and contact section to be
    protected by SecurityImages

    • Are for #Joomla! 1.5.22 only and SecurityImages 5.1.x or later
    • 14 files has been altered, mostly views, and com_contact/com_user controller, click on picture below
      for more details
    • Download file Joomla_1.5.22-Stable-Full_PackageForSecurityImages5.1.x_v01.02.00.zip (33kB) and
      overwrite file on your server with the zip package usign FTP/SCP
    • Go to #Joomla! control panel and HIT at least SAVE configuration once, this will add a new boolean value
      (true or false) in #Joomla! configuration for using SecurityImages.

    How to install documentation

    Download #Joomla_1.5.22-Stable-Full_PackageForSecurityImages5.1.x_v01.02.00.zip

    Plugin Photofeed for Joomla! 1.6

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    The extension has been converted successfully to Joomla! 1.6

    Photofeed can inline a set of images from your favorite online gallery: Smugmug, Flickr, Picasa or any RSS feed in any article.

    Now with Photofeed you can put in an article the following

    {rss uri=http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=45007589@N00&lang=en-us&format=rss_200 limit=20}

    and here is the result

     

    Features

    • Update manager is also supported, keep up to date this extension with only one click using #Joomla! 1.6 extensions manager
    • Photofeed 1.6 is #Joomla! 1.6 native, it wont run in #Joomla! 1.5 (use Photofeed 1.2.x)
    • Code produced is XHTML 1.0 Strict,
    • Tested in the following browser Firefox, Opera, Chrome, IE 8
    • License as always under GNU/GPL v3.0 or later

    Download

    Demo

    Documentation

    Visit the online WIKI

    Support

    Use the forum board

    Tracker for new features and bugs at http://jira.waltercedric.com/jira/browse/PHOTOFEED

    Plugin Freemind for Joomla! 1.6

    The extension has been converted successfully to Joomla! 1.6

    FreeMind is a free mind mapping application written in #Java which runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and #Linux operating systems. FreeMind is licensed under the GNU General Public License

    Freemind is a content plugin for #Joomla! that easily display mind map in your articles.

    Mind map (*.mm) has to be on your host, you can not display currently remote mind map, aka URL starting with http://
    You can put anywhere in your article the following keywords (one time or multiple times):

    {freemind uri= width= height=}

    All these parameters are mandatory
    uri has to be a path to a local freemind map files

    mymap.mm being in images/stories/maps/

    {freemind uri=images/stories/maps/mymap.mm width=400 height=400}

    mymap.mm being in root folder of #Joomla!

    {freemind uri=mymap.mm width=400 height=400}

    Features

    • Update manager is also supported, keep up to date this extension with only one click using #Joomla! 1.6 extensions manager
    • Freemind 1.6 is #Joomla! 1.6 native, it wont run in #Joomla! 1.5 (use Freemind 1.2.x)
    • Code produced is XHTML 1.0 Strict,
    • Tested in the following browser Firefox, Opera, Chrome, IE 8
    • License as always under GNU/GPL v3.0 or later

    Download

    Demo

    Documentation

    Visit the online WIKI

    Support

    Use the forum board