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bytez, September 26, 2011
ValAddThis module
Almost flawless, except the Google Plus options only show on the first article when viewing multiple articles in blog mode (J 1.5).
Owner's reply

This is a module and thus it shares only the URL of the current page. For sharing multiple articles use the plugin ValAddThis. If you really found some bug please let me know by writing to me the details. Thanks.

bytez, January 27, 2011
Stock GK4
It is good and easy, like just put 'ASX:AXA,title;' into the box and it works. Read the docs.

It isn't commercial either, I think it is free. I just registered and downloaded it, no fees.

Output can be stripped down to pure spans with classes and no extra tables or any garbage, so that is good.

You get an out like this




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bytez, September 7, 2010
JoomGallery
This is a very well constructed component. Uses MVC and looks like it is managed by a group of experienced Joomla devs.

No core hacks needed, template overrides and a lot of configuring are all that you need to do.

I would have like to be able to turn off a few of the menu options using Config. I wont ever need Batch upload, FTP upload, Migrator, Comments, Image Upload (I only use Java Upload).

I really love how it removes ALL the files which are not needed and allows you to never worry about 5meg originals persisting forever, because you can set a max pixel limit and auto delete originals.
bytez, August 28, 2010
GWCoupons for Virtuemart
This is a good plugin. It does most things except a few parts.

It requires one core Virtuemart hack.
Language files need to be edited for English grammar and spelling.
Product as Coupon isn't what I thought. The Product's price IS the Coupon's value. So a $5 product generates either a "5% off" or "$5" Coupon. I can see how this might be used as Customer Credit system, but it doesn't make much sense to make someone buy a $5 product to get $5 off unless they are buying a Gift Certificate for someone else. The Percentage value of Product's price becoming a coupon doesn't make much sense ($50 product = 50% off, $100+ product = 100% off).

I suggest another option called "Buy selected Product(s) - get a Coupon". Which would work like #3 (On Buying a Coupon) but the Coupon's value would come from the GWCoupon admin settings and not come from the Product's price. And when using Multiple-Selected products the Customer would need to buy ALL the selected products to get the Coupon.
Owner's reply

Hello, thank you for your comment.

As you say the #3 feature is to sell coupon to be offered !
(and the % will be deactivated in the next release for this feature)

Sure you have a good idea and your not alone with this need (one specific coupon for each or ALL products of a selected list of products)
I will add this feature for sure !

If you have some correction on the english translation, you can send it to me, i will add you in the contributors list !
(we are looking for other countries contributors too ;) )

bytez, August 8, 2009
Mod PictoBrowser
It looks good, but it loads a remote flash file from db798.com to do the work, If I knew that I wouldn't have downloaded it and now I feel the need to say it up front.

Also wont work without a Photoset ID, so doesn't suit my purpose of showing any latest photo from a user.
bytez, June 3, 2009
Latest Orders VM
This is a great mod for Virtuemart. Very simple, small script, very handy, pretty much mandatory for any shop owner - latest orders are the very first thing you want to see when you log in.

This just adds latest orders to your accordian style menu on the right in the Admin page, instead of seeing who else is logged in, this replaces that.

A side-effect bonus is that it shows up all orders, some of which are missing from my main Order List (a VM bug I think).

Some minor problems.
This is an Admin module, it needs to be Enabled before it will work. Some people might not notice that there is an Administrator section for modules - go to administrator/index.php?option=com_modules&client=1

The 'Module Position' for this module defaults to 'left' but there is no 'left' in the Admin template, change it to 'cpanel' and it will show up as intended.

Freakin' sweet!
bytez, April 27, 2009
ccQuery
It's like phpMyAdmin in Joomla. You can edit a record, add a record, delete a record.

It is a good starting point to do a simple database editor I think. I am going to use it to give someone access to one table, but not the whole database.
bytez, March 6, 2009
Acajoom
It works well, has a lot of features and not many bugs.

Legacy mode still must be enabled if you use the Subscriber Module (according to the red X next to it in Extension Manager->modules->mod_acajoom 3.0.1, maybe it didn't auto-update when I upgraded?)

Does not follow the Joomla MVC model for template overrides. So customising the appearance of anything on the front end is a real pain if you ever want to update it. Would LOVE to see /views/ folders used properly so we can override appearance per-template (joomla template, not acajoom template).

Subscriber modules and front-end HTML is quite messy, hardly enough unique named IDs to customise, and too many hard-coded styles.

Too much CSS/loading involved for the Subscriber module.

Good tools for import and export of subscribers to CSV lists.

Handles un-registered users well, no merge problems.

Good that it handles multiple lists, you never need them at first, but.... you never know
bytez, September 17, 2008
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Does the job very well. Initially I thought it didn't work, but it was only because the default settings tend to make the font render outside the box, try setting Yoffset to 20!

I chose this over my own Flash based dynamic solution because flash just doesn't render as nice (weird eh) and I don't really want to use Flash when an image will do the job. Also copy-paste might work better if when using an image if it has an alt tag.

Some of the problems, sometimes Alt tag is empty (usually) but small hack fixes that.
Some modules change the title in a non-standard way, Virtuemart really messes up with this, it will cache the first heading and keep that - being the same cached filename as the homepage this can be bad because you will see the Homepage heading as "some product name" if the visitor came to your site via a product.
Dynamic article title names work fine, so I think this can be fixed.