WordPress.com is now available in 60+ languages.  With this new translation platform – GlotPress, any text on your dashboard, widgets or themes can be shown in one of the supported languages. This can be done by specifying a different language in the Language Settings of your blog’s dashboard.

The Automattic team mentioned that,

Given the accelerated pace at which new features have been rolling out, we have been working on a new and improved translation platform that will make life easier for all involved.

GlotPress, the new open source GPL project from Automattic, that is now the engine behind WordPress.com translations. Here are the most important changes:

• Filters for everything
• Pagination – no more filtering through thousands of strings
• Faster, optimized process of string validation and deployment
• Much easier to add new languages

You might want to read more about this new translation platform from Automattic here.

GlotPress

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OpenGoo, an easy to use open source web office software, which we have reviewed here, has recently released its new version 1.6 beta 3. In brief, OpenGoo is a web office software that allows a group of people to collaborate by sharing information over the Internet. It is a complete solution for every organization to create, collaborate, share and publish all its internal and external documents. You can plan and manage all your projects, easily following the status of every task, set milestones, pending tasks, personal notes etc.,

This is the third beta release towards version 1.6 final.

Following are some of the major changes since 1.6-beta2.

• Added pagination to the Time module.
• Show ‘Archived by’ in object properties if an object is archived.
• Show read/unread status in Dahsboard/View as list.
• Warn a user when replying or forwarding an email and a new email arrives at the conversation.
• Add the magnifying glass to the email views.
• Removed ‘Account already being checked’ error message.

Apart from the above changes many other bug fixes have been made. You can download OpenGoo version 1.6 beta 3 here.

Source: OpenGoo blog

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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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EntropySoft, specialist of the ECI market (Enterprise Content Integration), is releasing a standalone version of its Content ETL product for unstructured data. Standalone Content ETL is specifically designed for SaaS companies that want to simplify cloud integration. By releasing this version of Content ETL, EntropySoft is reinforcing its position as one of the main suppliers of cloud integration products for unstructured data.

The development of Software as a Service (SaaS) means that more and more companies work with document repositories that are no longer managed “in-house”. Using external document repositories is the fastest way to deliver document-based solutions without the pain of deploying and maintaining internally complex architectures. Additionally, a cloud strategy is very common when mergers and acquisitions happen: organizations with different IT architectures need to put their resources in common as fast as possible.

External document repositories increase content fragmentation and the need to exchange securely and easily documents over the firewall. The use of cloud repositories must be initiated in conjunction with a strategy to have easy transfers between cloud and corporate repositories.

EntropySoft’s Standalone Content ETL is specifically designed to be an ideal product for such transfers.

In all companies, most common practice is sending an e-mail with an attachment when sharing information inside or outside of the company. It is common to first download a document from a content-centric application and mail it. The receiving party uploads and saves in its own repository of choice.
This common practice highlights the dangers of not managing company-wide content transfers. Taking the document out of its initial repository comes with major risks regarding permissions, lifecycle management and mail server overload. A protected document extracted from its initial repository becomes a non-protected document. The complete history of the document is left behind or lost. Knowledge Management becomes impossible.

Content ETL is the best product in its category to manage cross-repository document lifecycle. It can manage real time, on-demand or on-schedule transfers between more than 30 applications, without losing permissions and history.

Applications can be fundamentally different, especially with regards to permissions, metadata models or users and groups directories. Content ETL is deploying “bridges” between repositories. The role of the bridges is first to map the different models (permissions, metadata, users and groups…) and then manage the actual transfer.

Thanks to EntropySoft’s state-of-the-art connectors the bridges can be deployed between more than 30 enterprise content repositories including Microsoft SharePoint, Documentum, Google DOCS, IBM FileNet, Opentext Livelink, Alfresco and many other.

If requirements include data cleansing, de-duplication or rendering, Content ETL includes a large selection of pre-programmed actions that can easily be added in the content bridge. Adding the required features is very easy, since it is done by dragging and dropping a new stage in the graphical representation of the bridge.

Standalone Content ETL also has the ability to dynamically track changes in a repository and deliver a list of added, updated and deleted documents. Changes to content, permissions and metadata are taken into account on an immediate basis. This is a vital feature for all companies who want to have an accurate view of their content and take real-time actions such as immediate Records Management to minimize critical data loss risk.

Standalone Content ETL comes with two scheduling options for transferring documents: pre-programmed transfers on a regular basis or real-time immediate transfers.

Standalone Content ETL is an all-in-one version of Content ETL. It combines an embedded Content Federation server with content ETL so as to simplify product download and deployment.

Customers deploying Standalone Content ETL can, at any time, upgrade their deployment by adding a separate EntropySoft Content Federation Server. The full architecture gives customers a third scheduling option: the ability to manage on-demand transfers with Content ETL web.

By using a pre-defined content transfer bridge, SaaS companies can now offer their customers a downloadable package that can be easily deployed, so as to seamlessly integrate any corporate content repository with their online service, while preserving permissions and delivering full traceability.

Standalone Content ETL’s immediate benefits are easier content transfers between repositories, better information life-cycle control and stronger compliance with rules and regulations.

EntropySoft brings Content Management Intelligence to its customers.

About EntropySoft
EntropySoft is focused on the integration of unstructured data and is a pure-player in the ECI global market (Enterprise Content Integration). An information-access expert, EntropySoft’s mission is to facilitate content access and make content interoperability easy.

EntropySoft technology is used by software vendors to simplify the integration between their solution and all content management solutions. Applications fields are numerous (Enterprise Search, BPM, e-discovery, Records Management, Collaboration, etc…). EntropySoft has the most extensive read / write connector portfolio in the market.
EntropySoft also has a Content ETL (for cross-repository transfers and cloud synchronization) and a Content Federation Server (to simplify enterprise connectivity architecture).

The following leading global organizations integrate EntropySoft connectors: Attivio, Coveo, Digital Reef, Endeca, Exalead, IDS Scheer, Image Integration Systems, Jahia, Kazeon and W4.
For more information, visit www.entropysoft.net.

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Movable Type, an open source blog software, which we have reviewed here has recently released its new version 5 RC 1. Included in this release is a new theme ‘Pico’ and many other bug fixes. The launch of Movable Type version 5 is targeted for late November.

Major Changes in this release,

• Added a new theme “Pico”.
• Bundle style repository with a theme.

Styles can also be bundled with a theme to easily offer different flavors of a theme. Styles are nothing but a combination of a stylesheet and images to bundle with a theme.

• Config directive SQLSetNames should be specified as SQLSetNames 0 in mt-config.cgi when upgrading from older versions with MySQL 5.x and UTF-8
• Tip: When including templates inside a loop which is using multi-blog to aggregate content, blog_id should be specified with include tag to ensure proper template is included unless the template to include exists in each blog/site being aggregated.

Backup and Restore Issues Solved,

• When Backup/Restore all or website, manifest file cannot start restore.
• JavaScript error when uploading a manifest file from the Restore screen
• Backup/Restore drop the Following/Follower data
• CF: Backup/Restore customfields of Image object
• Backup/Restore: Association of assets CF of Category is wrong
• CF: Backup/Restore customfields of Blog/Website object
• Assets named in Japanese have garbage file name when backup
• [Restore] Website custom field is not restorable
• Restoring set wrong userpic
• manifest file : cannot upload
• [restore] folder/category custom field is not restored
• Website: Restored Facebook Commentes setting
• Restored data can get wrong Multiblog settings

Upgrade Issues Solved,

• Index templates are not published after upgrade from MT 3.21
• Upgrade remove all system templates of the blog whose template set is not Classic Blog
• Problems after upgrading a blog whose site/archive URL is ‘foo.com’
• Error when publishing templates after upgrading from 3.21

Theme and Template Issues Solved,

• Professional Website template doesn’t display Comment and Trackbacks
• Unable to display Professional Website template with Dynamic Publishing
• Warning messages are always shown when applying a theme that contains a custom fields
• No warning messages show up when theme cannot add a custom fields
• Item customfield tag is escaped in community template
• mt:WebsiteIfCommentsOpen doesn’t work in dynamic publishing
• mt:Websites with exclude_websites doesn’t work (static/dynamic)
• Template refresh doesn’t respect blog language.
• View Published Template link doesn’t work when Output file include directory
• IE: Comment Pagination doesn’t work
• Comment Pagination doesn’t work on Community Blog template
• Pagination of Main Index
• Dynamic: Publish mt.js by dynamic generate error
• Fixing issue on Ajax pagination.
• mt:Include doesn’t work in some situations
• mt:Blogs doesn’t work in dynamic publishing
• Professional blog doesn’t work on dynamic
• Professional Website: Comment form is blank on Comment Preview

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The Joomla project has recently announced the immediate availability of its new release,  Joomla 1.5.15 codenamed “Wojmamni ama mamni”.

The key features and changes made in this release include,

Security
Two security issues were fixed in this release:

• Moderate Priority – Core – Front-End Editing.
• Low Priority – Core – XML File View.

Components

• Allowed search to use the Itemid of the current Menu Item
• Removed unnecessary quotes in search results
• Fixed problem when using relative URL’s in editor with SEF enabled.
• Fixed formatting problem in Category List layout with Internet Explorer
• Fixed problem with entering HTML in user confirmation messages
• Fixed Media Manager issues in Windows
• Fixed problem with Archived Article filters when cache is enabled
• Fixed RSS feed problem with ampersand in page title

Modules

• Allowed underscore character in menu names
• Fixed problem with mod_newsflash and altenative read-more text
• Fixed problem with Alias Menu Item Type not opening in new window
• Fixed problem with UTF-8 characters in breadcrumbs

Plugins

• Fixed problem with email cloaking and non-ASCII characters
• Fixed TinyMCE configuration error
• Fixed problem with multiple editor instances on one page
• Fixed problem whereby TinyMCE stripped some image HTML
• Fixed TinyMCE Extended Valid Elements problem
• Fixed problem with TinyMCE blockquote
• Allowed Firefox inline spell check to work in TinyMCE
• Fixed problem saving changes in TinyMCE
• Fixed TinyMCE problem with caption.js and filtering
• Fixed TinyMCE bullet issue with Internet Explorer
• Made image title names consistent in front and back end
• Fixed issue with email cloaking and images
• Fixed problem in email cloaking syntax
• Fixed caption alignment when image alignment is not set
• Fixed JavaScript error in TinyMCE
• Added option to create templates in TinyMCE editor
• Fixed problem with TinyMCE Sql
• Fixed problem when using email cloaking and JavaScript
• Fixed problem with email cloaking when using images

Templates

• Fixed problem with missing template CSS files
• Fixed problem with linked images in Beez template
• Added default text color for backend error messages
• Added missing spinner.gif
• Fixed problem when copying Beez template to new name
• Fixed error in JA_Purity template with Internet Explorer 8

Language

• Added TinyMCE Language file for Toggle Editor button
• Added Ulaanbaatar in timezones
• Fixed problem with localisation of pagination strings
• Added missing Display # language string
• Added missing com_media language strings
• Improved tooltip text for mod_search
• Fixed problem with version information for core languages

Administrator

• Fixed problem with FTP fields auto-completing

System

• Don’t show password in configuration.php file
• Fixed problem when Itemid does not exist
• Fixed PHP 5.3 compatibility issues
• Fixed problem with caching for com_weblinks and com_contact
• Fixed additional PHP 5.3 compatibility issues
• Fixed problem with warnings in system_config.php file
• Added missing JEXEC checks in code
• Fixed problem converting UTF-8 characters to ASCII
• Added option to disallow users to view extension XML files
• Fixed problem with onAfterDisplayTitle event and PHP 5.3
• Fixed problem with displaying error messages with right-to-left languages

Downloads Joomla 1.5.15 here.

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Recently we have reviewed some of cool stuff from Envato.  Some of the popular Envato marketplace sites are ActiveDen, ThemeForest, GraphicRiver, AudioJungle and VideoHive.

The Envato marketplaces are a family of niche web sites which allow professionals to buy and sell digital items such as Flash files, website templates, WordPress themes, videos, music, code and more. Envato marketplace now has over 240,000 members worldwide, and is a hub for tens of thousands of digital items available for purchase with hundreds of new items being added everyday.

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phpBB one of the popular open source forum software’s, which we have mentioned here,  has recently announced the availability of the fourth release candidate for the next release – phpBB 3.0.6. This fourth release candidate contains mostly regression fixes.

The following things have been changed since 3rd Release Candidate:

• Fixed cache issues in feed generation.
• Include default language in data to send for statistical purposes.
• Revert “Parse multiline url title for [url] BBCode tag” because it introduced different bugs.
• Fix sql_create_table (table creation) in db tools for mssql and sqlite.
• Adjusted email template admin_welcome_activated to be more descriptive (and in-line with the changes to the other email template files).
• Implemented better way to generate SID-free links in feed.php
• Fixed Jabber SASL PLAIN authentication failures.
• Fixed severe bugs with Oracle and UPDATE statements.
• Fixed issues with database updater and Oracle/SQLite/Firebird.

You might want to read more about this release here.

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