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RSGallery is one the most popular and most reviewed Photo Gallery extension for Joomla CMS. This is a very simple tweak but a very useful one for people who don’t have knowledge about even simple MySQL query structures. And I hope it might be useful for RSGallery users who might not have extra time to look into the code and tweak around the MySQL query. So, here I provide a simple tweak in the RSGallery module to show the Latest or Recent Image from the RSGallery galleries. Using this module you will be able to show all recent images from all the galleries and you can also exclude a gallery from being displayed in that module.

There can be a case where you want to show latest images from one gallery only instead of having all the latest images from all galleries being listed there. For this purpose I made Candid Photos module. Here you can specify which gallery to be used. You will need to put the Gallery ID of the gallery that you want to use for candid photos. Then in the Candid Photos module, recent images from the gallery you specified only will be displayed.
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New version of wordpress is released few days back. The new wordpress release brings few new useful features. Some of the new features and improvements were listed below

• Word count: To get the number of words in th post.
• Image captions.
• Bulk management of plugins.
• A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.
• Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.
• Plugin update notification bubble.
• Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default, but you can turn it on easily through the options screen.
• Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security.
• You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.
• Ability to move your wp-config file and wp-content directories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts.
• A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.
• Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.

You can find more details in wordpress.org.

I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus dozens more…
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Firefox 3.0 was recently released to be the fastest, most reliable and powerful browser again. The new version of firefox will include many new features like appearance, security and bug fixes from previous release. Check the official Mozilla website for more details and download, or here is the download link.

Program Size : 7.8MB
Version : 3.0

There is one small reason why I want to make this post. In the previous post I wrote about the Word Wrapping in firefox, but the fixes I have given there is no longer necessary if you upgrade to Firefox 3.0. The word wrapping is now automatically taken care of in Firefox 3.0.

If there is only Firefox browser in the Web, one third of a web developers work will be reduced.

After a long pause I came back with this tweak for wordpress. Here it comes, since I work a lot with wordpress these days.

I came across this wordpress tweak when one of my client wants a Blogroll Icon to be displayed along with the blogroll link. So here’s the steps on ‘How to show a Blogroll Icon’ in wordpress blog. Originally, what you have with wordpress blogroll is a list of links to websites and blogs. So to show image beside the blogroll link (most probably on the right side of the link text), perform the following steps.

Step1:
First you need to get the plugin ZocPowerblogroll from his website. Download the plugin and this plugin will do most of the work for us.
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Here are some photos from our trip to Shivanasmudram and Talakad on 13th June 2008. Talkad is an ancient city buried under sand. It has around 100 temples buried under sand. It is about 150kms from Bangalore and located near Cauvery river. Shivanasamudram(bluff) falls is also located nearby Talkad. These are the photos we took on that day.

The Photos:
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