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byNikijacob, July 9, 2011
JoomShopping
Ive been playing with it for about 2 days now, I took out all reference to EURO, and replaced with USD. And still on the front page have prices showing EUR next to them. So I am confused. It looks like a nice and easy cart, but support from what i hear is horrible. Plus I wish i could read the site in English too, maybe I would understand what to do more. I like it so I cannot say anything bad, just confused because its in another language.
JForce
I bought this for $250 and just found out its $99. So I am upset I paid so much and wondering why they dropped the price so much. But I like a lot of features and some I dont. The support ticket systems does not allow you to have anyone send tickets; so dissapointed there. Coming from NBill, the invoicing is not adequate as it send emails out constantly, so you do have to shut things off and customize the templates. You must be logged in to pay unlike NBill and you cannot simply add things or change hourly rates. Time Tracker is confusing as the invoicing is separate, good but not. There is a discussion board, I like. And of course the project management system I like too. I would like to be able to see more done; especially in the 6 months I have support for since updates are free. I was using NBill for invoicing and RS Tickets Pro for support. So I am upset the support tickets are useless for anyone other then a registered user and invoicing is useless for right now until I try to customize it more for everything, not just certain things. The calendar feature is good; but it doesnt remind on a day unless it tells everyone attached to it. So i still also use Outlook for remembering daily things. For $250 I was hoping it did everything and of course you cannot get your money back. I like it still because it is a all in one and support is terrific so I think they will make this a great product one day.
byNikijacob, January 6, 2011
Alexandria Book Library
Everything is seperate - it took me 10 minutes to add one book. If you want a good and ONLY one on joomla Media Component use Media Pro
byNikijacob, December 15, 2010
JCK Editor
I had issues after using JCE for over 4 yrs. And JCK fixed them by just switching to their editor. NICE!!! Only thing I see lacking is the JLink doesnt really work. I tried several times using the right first couple of letters and it never once found the article. JCE has a nice one where it lists the articles under each MENU,CATEGORY, etc. Other than that it works and fixed what I needed. Thinking of buying the PRO since its much cheaper then JCE.
Owner's reply

Thanks (o:b

byNikijacob, November 26, 2010
Article list by month
THIS IS NOT A MODULE ONLY, YOU MUST DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE PACKAGE, component and all plugins. 1st of all their is spacing issues with different aspects, u must use their TITLE, if you use the default Joomla..it creates two overlapping, spacing is a disgrace. Then if you choose those - it defaults the Title and main month to a iJoomla page. Unless you change it in the module. Another thing it shows you the article on the month it was published not created. Simply Horrible and I uninstalled it.
byNikijacob, October 8, 2010
Ozio Gallery
I love this component.. its awesome.. But it says there is a Module.. I didnt see it install and dont see it on the site. If the owner reads this can you send me the link and please try to make your site English too. I read some Italian but I struggle. Keep up the good work! -Italian, NJ
Owner's reply

use "Plugin In Module": http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/core-enhancements/embed-a-include/6713 more info: http://forum.joomla.it/index.php/topic,105200.msg487355.html#msg487355

byNikijacob, March 2, 2010
If you use the stable version its excellent, however my site has three templates and for some reason it doesn t work on all templates in BETA, the stable version doesnt break the template.
Owner's reply

In what way does the beta break the template? Please let us know as we would be delighted to fix it.

byNikijacob, August 7, 2009
SimpleCaddy
this is the most useless shopping cart ever.. you cant add categories, even though it says you can.. u cant add HTMl descriptions, matter of fact the name of the item-is apparently the description. It has four choices in the main control panel. thats it. It does nothing. if u have 2 products...i still wouldnt buy this. I only have 9 and Im going with Virtue Mart just because I can add stuff without beng confused or dissapointed easily...even if I dont need everything for just 9 products.
Owner's reply

Apparently you have missed the point, everywhere. SimpleCaddy is free, no need to buy it. Your descriptions are in your content, not in the product names. Four choices in the main control panel are currently more than enough for what the component does, more are being added for extended features. If it does nothing, then I suppose you haven't taken a look at it more closely than installing, looking and discarding it. If you are happy with Virtuemart, by all means! Although your previous comment on Virtuemart makes me wonder...
Your comment of December, 17, 2008 on Virtuemart :
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I have been trying to use this on several sites for weeks now and everytime I manual install or automatic all's I get after installing everything is a blankwebsite and the backend the component is blank as well.

I'm not sure how it made Editors Pick. If you check out the forum they never answer anyone's support question
[/quote]

Let me state that VirtueMart is also an excellent product, but not for the same users/public as SimpleCaddy.

byNikijacob, May 13, 2009
Remository
I am very shocked that Joomla does not ahve a good donwload component, there is something wrong with everyone. This one works the best for me - but..again I say but. I need to upload alot of files to transfer from DOCMAN. The ADD FILES ALREADY ON SERVER does not work..it adds nothing or only adds the folders and not the PDFs
Owner's reply

Thank you for the grudging praise. But the central comment here is simply wrong. I have just used "Add Files Already on Server" to add all the .jpg files from the Joomla /images directory structure. The results are visible in "Selected Images" folder at http://j15.joomlaguru.net. The operation ran flawlessly, using the current release of Remository, and took a few seconds. There is an extensive FAQ on this topic at http://remository.com/faq/remository-general/add-files-already-on-the-server/. I hope you will consider revising your review.

byNikijacob, May 11, 2009
obRSS
I bought RSS Factory thinking it would be good.. they are two different products techbnically, but this one does so much more, along with Slick RSS and Im set. I lost money with RSS Factory, but the look and feel of this, frontend and backend is worth the money.
Owner's reply

Thank you for the review of yours. Every product has it own purpose, I'm happy this Joomla RSS Syndicate extension suits your needs and made you happy.

byNikijacob, May 11, 2009
Slick RSS
This is actually better then the whole RSS FACTORY component.
byNikijacob, April 22, 2009
Quick Jump
I have over 30 menus in my site and my main menu is made up of menu links to the top of each separate menu. the quick jump does a 404 for every menu link item, but works on articles only. Very poor figuring. This shouldn't matter what the link is or where it goes.
Owner's reply

Dear Niki jacob,

I just read your comment on my joomla component quick jump,
frankly i didn't understand what you were looking for using my component.

I explain for what menu structure you can you quick jump.

Pls give more details to understand why it is giving 404 error.

byNikijacob, March 27, 2009
JoomGallery
Ohh my god, I needed something fast, quick does and says everything I need. Its awesome. It does so much more then the others I dont know why this isnt higher up on the list.
byNikijacob, March 13, 2009
Phoca Download
I love the phoca products and am starting to switch over to them. But for the download manager, the one thing that keeps me with Docman is the fact that you can multiple add files with another components. You can add multiple files with Phoca Gallery, why cant we get that for the Phoca Download. Otherwise...Id switch.

PS you can only link to Sections, not categories.
Owner's reply

Hi,

"You can add multiple files with Phoca Gallery, why cant we get that for the Phoca Download"

- This is a time issue, as I wrote here many times :-(, I do all the extensions and all the user guides in my freetime and I give help and answer all the questions in forum and per e-mail in my freetime too. I am not able to produce all the features at once :-( ... Phoca Extensions need help (e.g. answering posts in the forum will be very appreciated).

"PS you can only link to Sections, not categories" ... this is the Itemid issue. See Phoca Forum ( http://www.phoca.cz/forum ) and Phoca Documentation site ( http://www.phoca.cz/documentation ) to get answer about this issue. Creating menu links to other Phoca Download parts is very easy (e.g. to Categories, Files) but what is not easy, is to coordinate Itemids of these created menu links if users are using SEF in Joomla! because links rendered in every Joomla! component get no information about which Itemid they should use. So if there is a link in some component, the link has no information about the Itemid (and in fact it cannot get it from database too, becasue there can be more entries, etc, e.g.)

byNikijacob, March 11, 2009
CQI - CustomQuickIcons
I set a item to administrator thinking that admin and super admin would see it, but no dice, only the admin see it. ODD since Joomla doesnt work this way usually. If anyone else knows what Im doing wrong let me know.

Otherwise this is a excellent component, I install it on every site for the managers running things.
Owner's reply

In the actual release you can define this easily with the module parameters.

byNikijacob, February 2, 2009
Simple Font Resizer
Its works, but changes the font of th whole website and doesnt change back. Plus when you do make thigns smaller or larger. The template a css rockettheme one doesnt move.. so with the smaller font you have a gigantic space between modules.
byNikijacob, December 17, 2008
VirtueMart
I have been trying to use this on several sites for weeks now and everytime I manual install or automatic all's I get after installing everything is a blankwebsite and the backend the component is blank as well.

I'm not sure how it made Editors Pick. If you check out the forum they never answer anyone's support question.
byNikijacob, October 9, 2008
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
obTODO
I loved the HP module, but with 1.5 nothing was around. This is exactly the same! Thanks Everything else doenst compare.
Owner's reply

In this 1.5 version, you can easier to install module, just install ==> publish ===> and use. this is small and good improve.

byNikijacob, May 16, 2008
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Exposé bridge
This is by far my favorite component, but I need to be able to have parameters set to show certain gallerys, not using a URL. I need to maintain a left hand side menu at all times.

Hopefully this is incorporated into the next version out! I would switch back instantly!
byNikijacob, April 24, 2008
Webamoeba Ticket System
the frontend is very busy, sloppy and all runs together. It also needs to be able to have files to be uploaded. And it pops up all kinds of stuff, like organization, user, admin... who needs that. Its too sloppy. I uninstalled and I will keep looking.
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