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bymasvil, July 26, 2009
VirtueMart Tag Cloud
I lost my time testing other tags extensions. Now I know VirtueMart Tag Cloud is the best choice for me.

Danny, you made a good job. Thanx
bymasvil, April 21, 2009
AdSense Module (ClickSafe - Special Edition)
It's the only working module on "Aurora" templates.

Great backend: a lot of options, easy to use, VERY stable.

Thanx for effort to Joomlaspan
bymasvil, March 31, 2009
It works very good. Great html implementation, fully customizable. I found a bug and reported it into the forum.

TY2U thanx for effort!
Owner's reply

Fixed the bug and released a new version.

bymasvil, March 14, 2009
Joomla Popin Window
It could be the best popup extension, but until they don't fix IE html compatibility, it will not. Such a shame.

In the meanwhile I'm going with MOOPopup.

Note: It DOESN'T require registration to download.
bymasvil, March 14, 2009
MooPopUp
The best "pure" popup extension, even if customization is poor.
bymasvil, February 26, 2009
GTranslate
Pros: nice looking (it is the only one to show flags and drop down menu at the same time) and good backend.

Cons: author seems to "push" users to Pro version. How can we explain that Google wins the "frames show" battle a couple of days after each new free release while Pro alway works good?

At the moment AGTranslator is my 1st choise.
Owner's reply

Thanks for good response.

There is a big difference in used technologies of Pro and Free versions and this time there is no possibility to hide top frame 100% by Free version (it shows during the Translation process, but after disappears if you wait).

bymasvil, February 8, 2009
RokSlideshow
I have to agree wirh other reviewer: it's a great extension, maybe the best no Flash Joomla slideshow out of there.

Anyway Ken Burns animation is VERY resource consumer: have a look at browser CPU usage and you'll understand why avoid it. So in that case a flash based slideshow (like JSN ImageShow) is still the best choise.
bymasvil, January 9, 2009
JoomSlide
Highslide is the best Web 2.0 approach to popup windows. A professional choise for professional sites. On the other hand it's VERY complex to integrate and configure, so that beginner webmasters can be discouraged if they can't use a GOOD J! extension.

I tested ALL HS-related extensions without having satisfaction until I discovered JoomSlide. JoomSlide has a rare feature: it turns a nightmare in a dream. Other HS extensions (free and paid) can't get 10% of power and simplicity of JoomSlide.

Juan Miguel is a great coder and an enthusiastic and friendly person: he is working EVERY day at his/our project and he is very collaborative so that I'm pretty sure Joomslide will become a killer application in multimedia (not just images) manager in the next future of Joomla world.

Juan, keep on working!
bymasvil, October 26, 2008
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Google/Yahoo/AltaVista (Translation Module)
Last version is really good: it adds "Remove Frames" option so that provider frame disappear after few seconds. Margins options are very good too.

The best solution if you are not ready for Joomfish.
bymasvil, October 24, 2008
BIGSHOT Google Analytics
Kenneth, you are the man!

Thanx for effort, your plugin is the best way to use GA without any problem.
bymasvil, May 3, 2008
eXtplorer
A must have together with Joomlapack to upload archive, extract and restore. Also good as file manager if you don't have ftp access.

Thanx to authors! :)
bymasvil, May 2, 2008
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Page Peel Banner
I tested it and the other similar J!1.5 native module (JPagePeel for Joomla! 1.5.x - NATIVE). It's my favourite because:
- it doesn't alert popup blocker (JPagePeel does);
- Auto Open feature works (JPagePeel one doesn't).

But there are compatibility issues: as reported in their forum from some users it doesn't show on top on some templates. I get that on Aurora and Ambient (both very famous) and support (fastly) replied they can't help and don't want test (!) so I fear they will not fix that bug in future. Such a shame.
bymasvil, April 29, 2008
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Phoca Guestbook with Captcha
Tested ALL guestbook extension here. My choise was Phoca because it's stable and has a very good documentation. As far as I know it is the only one you can choose font, border and background colours, so that it PERFECTLY integrates in every template.
I hope they'll add images link capability.

Great piece of software, higly recommended if you need a simple guestbook (or comment).
bymasvil, April 8, 2008
Beautiful tool, a must have for every Joomla user. I guess/hope it will be included in official distribution. I'll donate for it.
bymasvil, March 24, 2008
Slimbox Image Gallery Plugin for Joomla! v 1.5
It still seems to be the ONLY really working slimbox extension on J1.5, so... thanx for effort.

It should be great if we don't have to manually add all images/thumbnails, so I'm going to write a tool that "grab" all of them into a dir according with specified patterns and generate needed code to simply copy and paste. If someone of you is interested let me know and I will share it (with source of course).

MasviL