I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of AlphaRecommend 2.0.0 Pro. This new commercial version add more features at the free version 1.0.5.

No equivalent product exists today to Joomla!

- Bring traffic to your home page ("Recommend This Site")
- Bring traffic to specific pages ("Email-This-Page")
- Increase member registrations by existing members when they refer friends who sign-up 
- Send reward gift by e-mail
- Reward option of only providing gifts to members that invited a certain number of friends
- Admin can send reminder emails to those who have not yet joined at specific intervals
- Prevent fake e-mail
- Manual import of friends e-mail
- Tracking click on links sent in e-mail
- Trackin new registered users
- Tracking of friends who then invite their friends
- Visitors can add a custom message
- OpenInviter Supported
- Plaxo service supported
- Spam prevention (reCaptcha integrated)
- Statistics in control panel
- anti-flood
- Plain-text or html e-mail optional
- Export e-mails collected
- Joomla! friendly admin interface
- All placeholders available for customized Invitation messages
- Set email sending delay time
- Limit number of e-mails sent by day
- Limit total number of e-mails to sending
- Send a thank you e-mail to the user which invites
- Purge all invites
- Easily adding more language for frontend

- No copyright notice or link to alphaplug.com on frontend

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I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of AlphaUserPoints version 1.5.5 for download.
This release corrects some minors bugs and add OpenInviter to invite function. I continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.

Changelog:

# fixed code to use class uddeim api
# fixed system cache to check update new version available
# fixed max daily points function
# fixed request to change user level
# fixed export email in backend (missing all emails with [at] instead @)
# fixed invite with success
# fixed insertion data reference on submit a weblink
+ added OpenInviter integration on invite layout
+ added possibility to delete a pending approval activity directly from control panel
+ added on send notification the reason of custom points rule
+ added new param in configuration to allows the integration of all activities, even if the activity is zero point
- removed global $mainframe

AlphaRSSConnector is a feeds aggregator wich display feeds as articles. Users can submit their feeds on the frontend of your website. Because items are stored in the database, it is necessary to point out to people who submit a feed url that the items will be stored for a specified period.

Users can voting articles and websites submitted. 2 modules available to display by categories and languages.

Features:

- 3 methods to get new feeds
- cron task integrated in backend
- categories
- languages
- using Mootools
- rating articles
- rating websites
- Module for languages
- Module for categories
- Approve system for url feeds
- Report Objectionable Content
- Purge old entries

- Check broken feeds url

View demo on www.joomlastreets.com

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of AlphaContent version 4.0.15 for download.

This release corrects some bugs and add a new feature with phpThumb. I continue to provide regular and frequent updates to the Joomla community.

Here the changelog:

# fixed ordering on featured article on frontpage
# fixed auto-publish plugins on install
+ added thumbnail generator (phpThumb)
+ added rounder corner on thumbnail image (require phpThumb enabled)
+ added websites thumbnails by www.artviper.net service
- removed param directory at the end of url article
# fixed page title on article
# fixed alphabetical bar on article
# fixed Joomla pathway on showing article

Joomlastreets.com is a new feed aggregator and a free service to helping users stay connected to the world of Joomla!.

Your submissions are Welcome! To have your feed considered for inclusion on Joomlastreets.com you will need sign-up on the site with some specific informations about your website and your feed.

No restrictions to submit your feed(s). Amateur, business, free or not free, all licenses accepted. Your site just speak of Joomla! Other item will be removed immediatly or not published.

This site can vote the article most interesting and run with a new component for Joomla! named AlphaRSSConnector.

Today, I have a special thought for all of the active community in creating extensions for Joomla. Without them, Joomla would not be what it is today with over 4090 extensions!

I will not talk of course time spent in developing these components to the detriment of family life or other leisure and everything after a good day's normal work. All that most of the time free. While it is true that sometimes I am angry when end users can remove copyright statements without at least asking permission and the developer of this component on which they have nothing cost else just their implementation. A small mail is still fun! The copyright notice is just the reminder that created this extension and mention that there are real people behind the extension, whether large or small!

But I would not finish this article without mention other players who also participate in this great adventure: it is the translators. The forgotten ones free. It also requires hours of work to translate all these extensions. They too are entitled to compliance as well as our developers. Without them, the extensions would only partially exploited and would not round the ground.

So just to finish this article for individual users or companies webservice using Joomla and its free components, have also thought and respect for all of the active community of translators.

Following the tragic earthquake in Haiti January 13, I decided to reverse all of my gifts purchased since 1 January on my site for victims of Haiti. I would like to thank the few donors who have agreed to pay a few euros on my site to support me in developing my components. Donations to me are actually intended to help support the work of  "Médecins sans frontières" http://www.msf.org and allow the wounded received first aid on site. Since 1 January, I received exactly 85 euros.

Thank you all.

Bernard Gilly

Copy of Paypal transaction

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of AlphaContent version 4.0.14 for download.

This release corrects 6 bugs. AlphaContent requires PHP 5.x and MySQL 5.x to works fine and properly.

# fixed count comment
# fixed layout contact
# fixed displaying double quote following the word vote after rating
# fixed system cache to check update new version available
# fixed counter and display on specific selected sections and/or categories in menu params
# fixed core SEF