Server2Go is a Webserver that enables Joomla to run from CD-rom and USB stick (or any other disk) without the hassle of configuring Apache, PHP or MySQL.

The developers of E-Crawler have produced a plug-in many Joomla users must have been waiting for: the possibility to drag and drop images directly from other sources into Joomla articles while the image is automatically saved in the image/stories or any other directory.

That first impressions count is something most people do understand. That is takes 50 milliseconds to come to the conclusion that a website is great or not, is even for the most optimistic web designer shocking. Fifty milliseconds is a short, very short period of time.

JoomlaShine has released a new version of the high quality JSN Epic template. The new version is of particular interest to developers of multi-lingual websites that use both RTL and LTR languages. The template automatically moves the position of the header to the left or the right when text directions change and bullet points in menus on left and right positions are correctly rendered.

In JSN Epic version 2, the header would not move. In JSN Epic version 3.3, 4.0 and above, the header moves correctly as demonstrated below.

If you are interested in a feature summary and detailed review of WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone, four popular content management systems, than you should check out the report by Idealware. Idealware provides "candid Consumer-Reports-style reviews and articles" about software of interest to nonprofits.

In March 2009, the organization published an interesting comparative analysis of four popular content management systems, including Joomla.

You must have heard about them - the horror stories of people loosing their data: pictures, files, and back ups of the Joomla sites wiped out. The sad thing is, it happens all the time.

So, as a new year's resolution, we have decided to go further. Not only do we make back ups of all our production sites (see this tutorial), but we also always have two separate back ups in the house. That is of course great as long as the house doesn't burn down or when no-one breaks in. So we are now making a third back up each year and place it in the safe in the bank - a five minute walk away from the other back ups.

The team producing DOCMAN has released the long awaited native 1.5 version. That is great, but what is not so great, is that the file repository system is no longer for free. The team charges a modest fee for the, we must say, more than excellent extension. Perhaps indeed the few EUROs are not so much for a quality product like DOCMAN. It is also not that we do not want to pay - fortunately we can and we hope many others can also. What increasingly frustrates us is, that more and more high profile developers of the most essential Joomla components are asking for "small" fees, undermining the concept of free opensource software.

In case you were wondering where Lazybackup is, you are not alone. A good number of people are searching the web and the developer seems to have disappeared. The JED, as of January 2010, has no longer a link to the plug-in because the developers' website is down.