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We would like to apologize to our Joomailer subscribers that have patiently been awaiting further updates. All existing subscriptions have been extended for the remaining time of the beta. Many new features and improvements are coming. Please read on for detailed information about the new authentication system and further features.

Dragon Share is our newest addition to our Roster. Drag to Share as seen on Mashable, now for your Joomla! site. This is the first version for you to play around with, works well on most basic sites. Stay tuned for updates and more free social icons to choose from.

We just released an update for our popular J2top plugin! It is now possible to align the button not only to the right but also to the left border of the window. Upgrade mode enabled: You can now install the new version without uninstalling the older version before.

In this release we tackle a few milestones, like template support and draft creation. Simple template conversion from Campaign Monitor is possible. With the introduction of Joomailer templates, it will become even more fun creating newsletters from your site's contents. Read on for all the updates:

The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.14.
This is a security release and users are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately.
This release contains fixes for two material bugs that were introduced in version 1.5.13 and one low level security issue.

If you are developing web applications and need to use javascript libraries from time to time you probably allready have read about the Google AJAX libraries API, which enables you to include nearly any javascript library with only two lines of code. You don't have to include the libraries into your package anymore.
As this is such a usefull solution we decided to write a short instruction how to use the Google AJAX libraries API for those who might have missed that opportunity.

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Whilst doing our own "webcrawling" we come across a lot of interesting and helpful sites.  You will notice that our bookmark collection has a strong IT & Tech sway. You will probably find them most helpful if you are in development, marketing or business management. For quick access to our most recent stumbles just bookmark http://delicious.com/freakedout

The Joomla! Project has just released a new update. They urge users to upgrade to the new version as it includes a low-level and moderate-level security fix, along with dozens of bugfixes. In order for you not to miss out on future updates, we have released a tiny little tool we lovingly named: JVcheck.

It is sometimes the details that make the difference, so we have added a couple more of our free must-have extensions. Today we will be stocking up the free extensions roster with J2Top, JsecX, JcatX and JVcheck.

Don Norman gave a very interesting speech at TED about why good design and thoughtfulness is important. You can find many more good articles here or visit Prof. Don Norman's Homepage.
"Donald Arthur Norman (born December 25, 1935) is a professor emeritus of cognitive science at University of California, San Diego and a Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University, where he also co-directs