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byyamada, December 22, 2011
jFinalizer
Downloaded it as i was looking for something like this. good reviews etc. But most people probably dont use much commercial stuff. I know you cannot prevent things like this but it caused a few component to work, or some functionalities stopped working. For example Jreviews. Some things broke and tried to narrow it down but i ended up shutting it down. This is just for starters. It does do the job. But i did 2 tests at webpagetest.org and i didnt gain anything, not in speed anyway...
byyamada, August 24, 2011
BlastChat
For a client i was looking for a better chat solution as their current one at the time was a big and heavy loader. The best solution was a hosted one as iits their main goal...running chat applications. To my opinion the blastchat is the best. Support was great en the chat is even better than just great. But this chat comes in a variaty of setups.. My client picked a paid average version and is happy and thats what counts.
byyamada, July 4, 2011
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
Realtyna RPL
Do i know anything about real estate? No nothing but i thought it would be a great idea to have a website and giving homeowners and agents the opportunity to offer their Greek houses and other properties on a websites which is based in the Netherlands. I’m not doing whole Greece but just a Greek island. I’m self-employed, run a business and this was a private thing. All my websites and those from clients run on Joomla. At first i had a different component that should do the job but that was a very big disappointment. Was very buggy and its support was terrible. That’s what you get when you make fast decisions and don’t look around to see what’s on the market. When i did a simple search on Google i saw "realtyna", didn’t had a clue what it was as i was looking for Joomla stuff. But it was in fact a Joomla component and looked very different than the other stuff i owned and what i could find at the Joomla JED. I asked Realtyna some questions and it didn’t took long for me to decide. Let’s go for it. What i liked was the fact that Realtyna offers a payment processor so i could automate things, others don’t have that, not like Realtyna. So i bought it, set it up, and was happy that realyna offered support beyond their scope because i really needed it. So now i can sit back, relax and enjoy a full real estate site that runs by itself.
ZOO
i use it with jreviews and created a lot of cool pages but with the latest version they somehow changed the apps class and now causes the site to go down.the zoo forum isnt very helpful. Its a good component ,but if your using Jreviews then dont use zoo.
byyamada, August 10, 2010
This is realy a great component+plugin. It works easy and flawless. But disapointing was that i received no reply to my mail and everything on the forum is in french,not even 1 question is in english. That makes it very hard to communicate and give feedback or get some support.
Owner's reply

Hi Yamada,

I didn't receive your email.
And there is a forum in english for this component :
See here :
http://www.cdprof.com/en/forums/23-english

Best,

Alain

byyamada, July 31, 2010
JomEstate PRO
I bought it as i needed it. Compared to others this was a good choice. However, i dont agree on on the support. The author failed to mention his customers that his original domain was changed. Because of that i couldnt download any upgrades. I opened a dispute a paypal asking my money back,that woke him up. He then had a new domain. I downloaded latest version but surprise...he's gone again.On his site it shows license errors for days now.Although the component looks better then the rest, think twice before you pay 150.- for the pro cause as a online source he's very unreliable,that makes it not worth the money.
byyamada, November 12, 2009
Stock Market Ticker + Trader Platform
This is what i would call..the worst you can get. Obviously people dont even check what they install.
Its basically an iframe in a module.
But thats not all,the width is fixed on 576px.
The information it shows is not that great and it gives you the idea that the mod is made to send people over the the creators website to start handling stocks.
And if that isnt enough,the mod includes a invincible extra "meta name=keywords" tag that will show before your closing body tag!
Yes with over 20 keywords ,naturally with a bunch of the creators website.
Thats what i call junk.
byyamada, August 21, 2009
Simple MP3 Player
i gave it excellent...
i guess this is the most user friendly mp3 player ive seen...
no bizar advertising in it...just a nice free product .
amazing..
byyamada, June 20, 2009
Mosets Tree
I must admit that i would prefer mosets tree above sobi but it has one big problem,and thats handling large indexes.
I tried it with almost 59000 links in one category and that wil drop your mosets admin area.
It takes upto 30 seconds to even show the admin page and the frontend is just as bad.
the links added have title,a few lines description and weblink,thats it.

On a test i did while going to my mosets admin page this is what my server showed:

Server Load 1.91 (4 cpus) (before request)
Server Load 5.16 (4 cpus) (during request)

Its also to bad it takes so long to release a native version.
However,its good for smaller sites.
Owner's reply

We have quite a number of users running large directories without the said performance issue. 30 seconds to load a page is not normal. If you can get in touch with me at http://www.mosets.com/contact/, I'll see to it to get this resolved.

byyamada, December 29, 2008
Hider
ok it works but thats about it.
it hides but it doesnt show any text like "to see the following bla bla bla you need to login".
but now nothing shows..
amazing that they forgot about this..
Owner's reply

..... that's what the {pub}{/pub} tags are for! You need to replace the text that's hidden with whatever should display for non-logged-in users... amazing that you overlooked this.

byyamada, December 16, 2008
Googlemaps Plugin
Yes Mike was indeed very fast with support, and i love the plugin.i wanted a googlemap and i even tried to get that with a commercial solution but this free plugin did a much better job. there is however one thing mike could solve whenever he will find a solution is a way to include a map into a module without hacking joomla's index.php file. for me it wasnt required...nice work Mike.
byyamada, December 10, 2008
also this one doesnt do it for me..i have joomla sef standard running and it simply changes my content urls with the tags component name in it..,thats unacceptable to me..
byyamada, December 10, 2008
JTags
the few negative reviews do cover it i think.
When you have a full website and your not planning to add any more content then this tag thing gives you the feeling you have to start over again.
nobody in his right mind would edit 478 content pages in order to add some tags.
but i gave it a try.
Uninstalling wasnt easy as well.
the plugin failed and trashed my site as i use gzip and that somehow was a problem..
byyamada, November 24, 2008
JCE
Ryan proved to be very helpful.i was looking for an editor that a friend needed cause he wanted to upload files. at first it didnt show the upload but was caused by the current upgrade of flash 10. after mailing i received a nice reply explaining how to set the settings and it was solved,and that in less the 10 minutes...
byyamada, November 12, 2008
Disable Core Registration
Well this one doesnt work either.
On joomla 1.5.7 ,latest CB
Core registration is disabled in config.

But when i go to :index.php?option=com_registration&task=register i get 403 forbidden which isnt dont by this plugin..and when i go to index.php?option=com_registration , i can still use the registration.
Owner's reply

First of all, what interests me in your review is "when i go to index.php?option=com_registration , i can still use the registration." this means plugin is either disabled (aka not enabled) or misconfigured. Both issues are easy to resolve, you can ask your questions in the project forum.

Regards

byyamada, August 21, 2008
Wikipedia Search
The idea might be good but the result is poor.
Results show in an iframe which makes it cheap..
Long ago i saw a non joomla php script that really searched and printed out the results,so i know thats possible.
byyamada, August 21, 2008
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
JVideo
Well my judgement is a bit harder.
I realy fail to see what extra value this offers compared to other components that deal with video in general.
It surely has its limitations.
And when i saw what it costs to use it in full i always had a heart attack.
Owner's reply

I'm sorry you didn't see the benefits of our system, we definitely haven't been doing the best job of explaining what really does set us apart from everybody else. We'll work to make that more clear on our site.

Our component and service is currently completely free. The only time somebody would have to pay is if they want the player to be branded with their own logo or they are getting over 10 gigabytes per month of traffic.

Make no mistake, this is a beta product right now. If you don't like something about our product in it's current state, mention it on our support forum. We have a full team dedicated to this and your request will probably be addressed sooner than you think.

byyamada, August 7, 2008
Phoca Gallery
This gallery is a must have.
I have a few websites with a gallery but with my mnew joomla 1.5.x versions not much seems to be supported or they are way behind development.
Then i found phoca gallery.
What i like about it is its simplicity to configure your albums.
The simple update feature is great and support by Jan is top.
byyamada, July 28, 2008
Phoca Documentation
Jan impresses me more and more.
Amazing what this guy creates,and all for free.
And now this docu component which is very handy.
I realy like what he makes,all components come with an easy upgrade system.
He's also quick on the support as well.
I cant wait to see what his next thing will be :)
byyamada, May 3, 2008
sorry, i did tried it but as i thought its a simple mod with an iframe to capture remote address at the authors site.
it may look nice but then you have to rely on a remote source and thats something i dont like.
Owner's reply

If we didnt do it this way, it wouldn't be kept so up-to-date (every 5 minutes).

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