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bybaijianpeng, June 1, 2010
kSecure
5 stars to this FREE and great plugin!
This ia a must for every Joomla website.
Thanks to the author.
bybaijianpeng, May 23, 2010
ContactMap
This is a good contact component to show Google map along with the email form.

However, there are still many things to be improved:

1. There is NO "email copy" feature which is offered in the Joomla default contact component.

2. Please add support for JoomlaXi Captcha plugin to avoid spam messages.

3. The marker will show the "contact image" again in the bubble. It is useless. I hope the "Marker" feature will allow the webmaster to define several places/locations, each with their own photo, like the building entrance, then these marker will all be shown on the map. For example: Air port, railway station, subway station, and your office. Then visitor can easily choose the places to find the directions/routes.

Thanks.
Owner's reply

In these last versions, ContactMap has new features :
Captcha.
email copy.
display the marker or photo contact.
display all your contact on a map and send them a email when you click on his marker.

bybaijianpeng, April 11, 2010
JoomLine mp3 player
Pros:
1. Auto scan the defined directory and list all mp3 files there.
2. Play in a pop-up so if you browse through pages it will continue to play

Cons:
1. Can't show my Chinese ID3 tag correctly. My ID3 tag was entered as UTF-8 encoding and can be properly read by Foobar2000 player.
2. One of my mp3 file can'be played though Foobar2000 can play it with NO problem.
Owner's reply

Thank you for your report. Please send a sample of the song in Chinese, we do make changes to the module.

bybaijianpeng, April 10, 2010
Advanced Flash Mp3 Player
1. Not support Chinese characters for song name(I am not saying filename).
2. very complicated method to add new song.
3. No default album for the module, you have to manually load one.
4. No language files for the component.
bybaijianpeng, April 9, 2010
SEF Test
I like the idea of this plugin, I want to use it to get the Non-SEF URL of a page when I still offering SEF URLs to other visitors.

However, I just tested it and it can't work on my website. Maybe it only supports the Joomla core SEF, but can't work with AceSEF which I am running to generate SEF URLs.

Hope the author will improve this plugin.

Thanks.
Owner's reply

This plugin only works with Joomla! core SEF. If you want this functionality to be included in AceSEF, than that's a feature request for AceSEF, not this plugin. Third party extensions like AceSEF add their own logic to Joomla!, which means that our whole plugin needs to be rewritten (and probably called AceSEF Test plugin). That's outside of the scope of this plugin.

bybaijianpeng, March 23, 2010
KLogin for Kunena
This is totally a best relpacement to the Joomla default mod_login. It is very easy to install and use.

The current version can work very well. However I would like to see the author adding one more feature to make it better:

Custom Links: for example, we can put a new link of "Submit article" to this module along with other links. I think this is better than leave the "Submit Article" link on the "user menu" module. Maybe allow users custom up to 5 links is good.

Thanks.
bybaijianpeng, March 16, 2010
Encrypt configuration
This is a good idea. But in my test, it conflicted with XIJC (JoomlaXi Captcha component). Since Encrypt Configuration component processed the captcha code, then XIJC can't recognize it though I entered the correct captcha code.

I think Encrypt Configuration need a new option: Exclude certain component (such as XIJC) or exclude specific forms. Maybe both.

Another thing I would like to see being changed is that Encrypt Configuration has NO language file. I hope the author will add multi-language support in next version.

Thanks.
Owner's reply

Change the plugin order setting Encryption plugin before the captcha plugin.
Multi-language support is promissed.

bybaijianpeng, February 26, 2010
Edocs - Embed Documents
This is the only one Joomla extension which can embed multiple formats of documents inside Joomla article, not limited to PDF alone.

I had tried the v1.0 and reported the IE bug to the author, and he worked out a solution so quickly. Impressive!

Thanks to the author! (and hope Google will fix that bug soon)
bybaijianpeng, February 15, 2010
HecMailing
I tested HecMailing v0.8.1 today on my Joomla 1.5.15 installation. At least it has following problems:

My J1.5 was installed in a subfolder to www root, then I noticed that the "browse host" dialog can't show me the files of my host at frontend. It just show me a blank dialog window.

Second, the backend language file is bad, many language Keys in that INI file is NOT uppercase so I had to convert them manually.

Third, some language Keys was NOT included in the language file, so I can't make a complete translation.

Forth, there is NO real CAPTCHA engine in this component, it just randomly use some pre-defined images which contains words on them. This is very bad because such a CAPTCHA can be easily guessed by spam-bots.

Hope the author will improve it soon.
Owner's reply

Hi baijianpeng,

Thanks for testing my component.

1. For browse host problem
My test website is also in a subfolder and it's ok. It working also in my production websites (with and without subfolders). It may have another problem (webservice file missing in install, bad parameter...). I will check it.

2&3. Backend language file
This version is in beta yet and backend resource file may have some missing keys. But I will try to check it as soon as possible. If you have the list of missing keys it will be faster to correct it.

4 Captcha
Yes, I know this captcha is not very strong. But "Contact" is a new functionality (Alpha) and I want to know if this will be usefull before to make a stronger CAPTCHA (or remove "Contact" functionnality). But If you know a good, strong and easy CAPTCHA I may include it in my component!

If you have another problem you can add a post in my sourceforge forum (http://sourceforge.net/projects/hecmailing/forums/forum/1020813) or in my tracker (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=281865&atid=1195720).
I will answer about these problems on this forum.

Herve
(HEC Mailing Developper)

bybaijianpeng, January 15, 2010
Alexa and google page rank
I tested this module today on my website and found that the page loading became very very slow after this module published.

Then I checked the source code and found that this module does not retrieve data directly from Alexa, but the author's own website. This is why it is so slow.

Why not just embed the standard Alexa Widget code?
I used to use Translations Manager, another Joomla component to make Chinese language translations for many extensions.

Today I tested Jolomea, found that Jolomea is very good. But Jolomea itself has NO multilingual support, I can't translate Jolomea to my native language.

Another problem is, if I have a long list of extensions, then the list at Jolomea backend is also very long. How about categorize them to different groups, such as Component/ Moudle/ Plugin/Template, etc., and shown in different Tabs?

Thanks.
Owner's reply

Hi,

thx for your review.

Jolomea is still alpha. All your critics are welcome.

I am aware of these problems.

Localisation, paging..... are planned features.

Regards

Antoine

IDoEditor
I tested this editor plugin today, it is too simple, I mean, the function is very limited.

The only good point is: when upload image, it will create user folder named after the user ID number for each user.

If you install Joomla in a subfolder, then the uploaded Image/Video/Audio can't show up because the path is error.
bybaijianpeng, December 30, 2009
XIJC
This plugin should be installed on every Joomla site who want to use the Joomla core Registration component and contact component.

I only found one problem: My Chinese language translation for this plugin can't work. So the frontend will show English message along with my Chinese words, it is a little ugly.
bybaijianpeng, December 14, 2009
pcDTR
Very good method to replace sIFR. This pcDTR plugin made it easy to use any font on your Joomla website. I can even use it to show Chinese fonts. Great!
bybaijianpeng, December 8, 2009
This plugin worked out of box!

I hate that Joomla core will change my article Alias to date-time format if I input Chinese words into Alias field. But now this plugin solved this problem smoothly.

I just wonder: why this feature was NOT included into Joomla core?
bybaijianpeng, October 31, 2009
MP3 Browser
Can't believe such a great plugin is totally free!

Thanks to Luke for your efforts on this best player plugin.

One suggestion: please improve it to work with UTF-8 encoded ID3 tags in other languages such as Chinese and Arabic, then your plugin will be welcomed all over the world!
bybaijianpeng, October 21, 2009
Redaction Utility
For non-GPL softwares, If we don't modify the source code and filter the links with this plugin, is it legal?

I think this plugin is a great idea. Thanks to the author.
Owner's reply

The original intention of this plugin was to eliminate the need to edit the source of a GPL extension every time you updated it.

However, our understanding of the GPL is that any extension that isn't also GPL is a violation of the core Joomla license. That's why you don't see non-GPL extensions in the JED.

In the same way, you can't say "this is GPL with these extra restrictions", which many extensions try to do. It's simple: if there are extra terms and conditions, then it's not a GPL license. GPL v3 makes this much more explicit.

However, if you purchase a non-GPL extension, you entered into an agreement with the developer and accepted their license. If you choose to use this plugin to violate that license, it is entirely your responsibility. Our position is that non-GPL extensions should never be installed in the first place.

bybaijianpeng, October 17, 2009
Very easy to use. One problem: if I enter Chinese words for the Paypal Item Text, then those words will be shown as unreadable symbols on Paypal page. I think this must be the encoding problem, J1.5 use utf-8 but Paypal use other charset. Is it possible to solve this problem? Thanks.
bybaijianpeng, September 14, 2009
BK-multithumb
When Multithumb's author claimed to stop developing, I felt very sad. Now BK saved this project !

This version works smoothly, at least I did not encounter any problem till now.

Thanks to BK !

This plugin should be added to the Editor's Pick list on JED!
bybaijianpeng, September 12, 2009
gAvatar
This is a very good plugin!

One suggestion: since this plugin can work with gAuthor plugin, why not make the avatar image also link to the author's description page? At least, make this as a new option.

Thanks.
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