WordPress for BlackBerry app version 1.0 has been released. It allows you to write posts, upload photos and videos, edit pages, and manage comments. Both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.7 or higher) web sites are supported by this application. You can download the application and start blogging on the go! This application works with most recent BlackBerry devices starting with the 8700, Curve, Pearl, Bold, Storm, Storm2  and Tour.

New features in this version:

• Ability to record and upload videos from your phone. We now support both 3gp and 3g2 formats on older generation BlackBerry devices.
• Introducing support for the HD video service VideoPress.
• Streamlined UI and functionality relating to comment moderation.
• Overall enhancements to the speed and stability of the application.

You might want to check out a quick video overview of the app with all the latest features. This version of WordPress is also available for download on the BlackBerry App World.

Download WordPress for BlackBerry

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ImpressPages is an open source content management system which lets you build functional and effective websites in quick time. It’s interface is user friendly and can be adapted to your needs. It’s multilingual, absolutely free and open source.

If you spend lot of time on editing font type, re-sizing pictures, regulating spaces between elements etc., then ImpressPages could be a real time saver for you. It is based on the idea that most functions of CMS could be performed automatically. With ImpressPages, all the information could be administered directly in the website without the need to perform sequential tasks.

System Requirements

To run ImpressPages Content Management System, you need:

• Apache server
• Apache ”mod_rewrite” extension
• PHP 5.3 and higher
• PHP GD library
• MySql 5 and higher
• 30+ Mb free disk space

ImpressPages is SEO friendly and it caters to your SEO needs.

Specific SEO features of ImpressPages:

• Automatic generation of SEO friendly URLs.
• Setting of title, keywords, description and URL values for each page.
• Automatic sitemap generations.

Built-in Features

It has built-in features like sitemap, RSS, smart search, newsletter etc., ImpressPages automatically creates sitemaps for you and provides you with custom templates for newsletters so that you can collect and manage your subscriber details.

Administrator Interface

ImpressPages has an easy-to-use back-end interface. It lets you quickly make changes to your site. Each block on the site is provided with options to move it up or down, edit, delete or hide it. This allows you to quickly change the appearance and position of the blocks and elements on your site.

Menu Management

The order of pages and sub pages can be changed quickly. They are made available as a tree structure. So, you can drag and drop the pages and sub-pages to change their order. It also provides you with options to set ‘page properties’ which include meta keywords, description, URL, visibility, date modified etc.,

Configuration

The built-in features like sitemap, RSS, search and newsletter can be configured with just a few clicks from the admin interface. It’s currently available in English and Latin languages.

Conclusion

ImpressPages is an open source, fully  functional and light weight content management system. Without much technical skills like CSS or HTML you can quickly get started with it and create your site in no time. It’s back-end is easy to use and gives you full control to make changes to the site. It loads with built-in features like sitemap, newsletters, search etc., which can be used without having to install any further plugins.

It’s new, but seems to be  a promising web software to create fantastic websites in short time.

You might want to check out a quick demo of ImpressPages CMS here.

Download ImpressPages CMS

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Recently we reviewed the book, Joomla with Flash, build stunning, content-rich, and interactive websites with Joomla! 1.5 and Flash CS4.

As indicated in the review, the book, Joomla! with Flash, is aimed at explaining how to use Flash objects with Joomla! content with minimal efforts and maximum output.

We are pleased to inform you that we are giving away an exclusive copy of this book to a lucky winner.

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The contest is open for anyone in the United States and one lucky winner will be rewarded with an exclusive copy of Joomla! with Flash book sponsored by PACKT Publishing Ltd.

Entries will be accepted till February 1st, 2010.

Book Details

Language English
Paperback 260 pages [191mm x 235mm]
Release date October 2009
ISBN 1847198244
ISBN 13 978-1-847198-24-2
Author(s) Suhreed Sarkar
Topics and Technologies Content Management, PHP/MySQL, Open Source, Joomla!

Highlights

This book enables you to build interactive and content-rich web sites with Joomla! 1.5 and Flash CS4.

• You can build stunning web site(s) and integrate Flash objects into Joomla!
• Joomla! with Flash gives you step-by-step guidelines on how to create stunning photo galleries with Flash transition and animation effects
• The books also includes explanation on, how to use interactive Flash-based maps, animations, videos, charts, MP3 players, logos, headers, and banners in Joomla!-based web sites
• Contains easy to follow guides with enriched screenshots for better understanding.
• After going through the book, you can renovate your Joomla! based web site into an interactive, feature-rich multimedia site

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Joomla! is an award winning Content Management System(CMS) with a wide range of features. It’s a prolific CMS which is suitable for designing and maintaining any type of websites. Joomla has a modular architecture, providing the users with lots of options for extensibility. Apart from the fabulous modules, it is also well known for strong security, templating system, extensive community support and the authorization framework.

There are many extensions available for Joomla! like plug-ins and modules to extend the functionality of Joomla!. These extensions provide – further options for customization, enhancing the functionality as well as ease of administration.

You might want to integrate technologies such as Flash into Joomla!, as it provides great features for creating stunning graphics, interactive games, animated objects and alike to add a new flavor to your site.

The book, Joomla! with Flash, is aimed at explaining how to use Flash objects with Joomla! content with minimal efforts and maximum output.

Book Details

Language English
Paperback 260 pages [191mm x 235mm]
Release date October 2009
ISBN 1847198244
ISBN 13 978-1-847198-24-2
Author(s) Suhreed Sarkar
Topics and Technologies Content Management, PHP/MySQL, Open Source, Joomla!

Highlights

This book enables you to build interactive and content-rich web sites with Joomla! 1.5 and Flash CS4.

• You can build stunning web site(s) and integrate Flash objects into Joomla!
• Joomla! with Flash gives you step-by-step guidelines on how to create stunning photo galleries with Flash transition and animation effects
• The books also includes explanation on, how to use interactive Flash-based maps, animations, videos, charts, MP3 players, logos, headers, and banners in Joomla!-based web sites
• Contains easy to follow guides with enriched screenshots for better understanding.
• After going through the book, you can renovate your Joomla! based web site into an interactive, feature-rich multimedia site

A Brief Walk Through

The book starts with introducing the reader to the different types of Flash objects and various tools that will be helpful for developing web sites based on Flash and Joomla!. Then, the author gives a detailed explanation on how to use Flash-based image slide shows in Joomla and display them at different positions on the site.

By using the ‘random image’ module, you can implement a slide show in no time. The explanation is easily understandable. As, each step is enriched by screenshots, comprehending the text becomes much easier.

Simialarly, you will learn to use the RokSlideShow, one of the popular slideshow modules for Joomla!

This extensions helps you in integrating a slide show with options for dynamic image resizing, captions, loading progressbar, titles and more. Apart from these, you will also be able to set transition and other eye catching effects to further customize your slide show. Chapter 2 also focuses on showing Flash based movies in Joomla! articles/content.

Chapter 3 gives you an introduction to the built-in menus and navigation in Joomla! and then illustrates the use of two extensions, Flash Floating Menu and Super Web Flash for using Flash based menus in Joomla!

The book also covers other related extensions for customizing the flash menus based on your need.

Other intriguing stuff like building photo galleries using Flash into Joomla! based sites, building interactive Flash based maps, and charts, tickers, logos, headers is clearly explained in the book to meet the needs of all kinds of audience. This book also focuses mainly on how to embed Joomla! content into a Flash sites and how to troubleshoot your applications to overcome the most common problems in Joomla!.

What you will learn from this book

Create Flash objects and choose some popular flash tools for working with them

Improve the overall design of your site by learning to use Flash templates and tickers in Joomla!

Build stunning photo galleries with Flash animation effects and display photos on your Joomla! web site from a Flickr account using third-party extensions for Joomla!

Embed and display flash movies inside Joomla! contents using a simple video flash player

Create attractive Flash-based menus for your Joomla! web site

Display interactive Flash maps on a Joomla! web site using YOS amMap extension

Transform your Joomla! site into a streaming media site using Jvideo! extension to embed videos in Joomla! contents

Create mind maps based on your Joomla! site’s structure with the help of Joom!FreeMind component

Customize your Joomla! template to display Flash logo, header, and banners

Display Joomla! contents in Flash objects using amfPHP and J-AMFPHP extension for Joomla!

Maintain and troubleshoot your Joomla! and Flash web site

Approach

This book is a fast-paced step-by step-guide. It is loaded with examples and lots of illustrations showing configurations and their results on the screen.

Who this book is written for

If you are a Joomla! web developer who wants to integrate Flash into your web sites, then this book is for you. Knowledge of Joomla! and basic knowledge of Flash is assumed.

Joomla with Flash, build stunning, content-rich, and interactive websites with Joomla! 1.5 and Flash CS4 is definitely a must have if, you are planning to build and enhance you Joomla! based web site with Flash.

Check out Joomla! with Flash at PACKT Publishing

Note: Keep track of this blog to get a chance to grab an exclusive copy of this book.

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Movable Type, an open source blog software, which we have reviewed here, has recently released its new version 5.01. Following are some of the highlights in this release.

Some long-awaited features like the following are made available in this release:

• User Dashboard for quick access to the most used blogs and websites
• Themes are provided with full support for custom fields, templates, static files, categories, folders, etc for blogs and websites
• Revision History for entries, pages, and templates
• Websites for grouping blogs together
• Custom Fields are made available for all objects

Movable Type 5.01 is available in English, Japanese, German, Spanish, Dutch and French.

Download

• Movable Type 5.01 – commercial license
• Movable Type Open Source 5.01 – open source license

Source: Movable Type blog

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WordPress, one of the popular open source blog software has announced the release of its new version 2.9 (’Carmen’). You can quickly upgrade to this new version right from your Dashboard by going to Tools > Upgrade.

Following are some of the interesting stuff released from a user’s end in this new version of WordPress,

• Global undo/”trash” feature: This feature would be useful when you accidentally delete a post or comment and would like to restore it. It also eliminates the annoying ‘are you sure’ pop-up messages when deleting post(s).

• Built-in image editor: This new version of WordPress sports an image editor which allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images.

• Batch plugin update and compatibility checking: This feature enables you to update multiple plugins at once. This gives you the comfort of hassle free plugin updation.

• Easier video embeds: With the new video embed feature, you can just paste a URL on its own line and turn it into the proper embed code, with Oembed support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv.

You might want to read more about the other updates in this release here.

Source: WordPress blog

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Automattic, the team behind WordPress has just announced that WordPress for iPhone 2.1 is available now for download on the App Store.

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Movable Type, an open source blog software, which we have reviewed here has recently released its new version 5 RC 2.  Following are some of the highlights in this release.

Highlights

• A lot of work has been done by the Movable Type team to get the dynamic publishing in sync with the static publishing.
• Updates to the Professional blog templates have been made.
• Unbundling of Motion and Action Streams
• The Entry/Page “previous” and “next” container tags now account for entries/pages with the same date-time, rather than skipping them.

Many other bug fixes have been made in this release. You can download Movable Type Version 5 RC 2 here. You might want to check out the release notes here.

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phpBB, one of the popular forum softwares which we have mentioned here has released its new version 3.0.6.  This release has some major new features, bug fixes and improvements in stability and performance.

Following are some of the major new features implemented in phpBB 3.0.6

• Better captcha options and backported 3.2 captcha plugins:
  • Classic and GD CAPTCHA
  • reCaptcha (based on API from recaptcha.net by Mike Crawford and Ben Maurer)
  • Q&A CAPTCHA
  • 3D Wave (by Robert “Xore” Hetzler)

• Introduced new ACM (Cache) plugins. (Please consult our support forums for help if you need to use one of the new ACM plugins)
  • null (to disable caching completely)
  • memcache
  • APC
  • XCache
  • eAccelerator
• ATOM Feeds
• Bare-bones Quick Reply editor in viewtopic
• Users can report PMs to moderators which are then visible in a new MCP module
• Ability to copy permissions from one forum to several other forums.
• Send anonymous statistical information to phpBB on installation and update (optional)

You might want to read more about this release here.

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Flynax Classifieds, a web software maker specialized in classifieds web software, is presenting a new and long-awaited script – Flynax Real Estate Classifieds.
Flynax Real Estate Classifieds is a powerful software makes it possible to run your own free or commercial Real Estate classified ads online agency.

They have tried to include all customers’ wishes and request in new Flynax script.

SEO friendly optimizing system of Flynax Real Estate Classifieds Script allows you  to make your site more adapted for search engine systems.
The multi-functional Administrator Panel and additional Plugins will give you unlimited possibilities of script customizing. Friendly templates will amaze your client by useful functionality and modern style.

Flynax Real Estate Classifieds Script adapted for USA region by default. There are map, states list, zip codes database, address view related to United States only.

In order if you wish to use this software for your country, you should contact them and request Real Estate script adapted especial for your region.

Try the online demo before buy!

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