Good things come to those who wait. And the Good is finally here! Yes, we’re talking about JomSocial 1.6 codename Brillo. We’ve worked long and hard on this release, adding new features and refining the product to make a faster, streamlined… just plain better JomSocial. And we think you will agree, this version rocks!

Updated and New Features:

Amazon S3 Storage support
Why not utilize one of world’s cheapest cloud storage solution to host your photos and video, while at the same time reducing your server access load? With JomSocial 1.6, you can do just that! JomSocial now allows you to use Amazon S3 highly scalable, reliable, fast and inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites! With this, your site can graciously handle traffic spikes and your visitors can experience fast-loading site no matter where they are.

Massively enhanced privacy support
Sometimes you just want to post something private for your closed friends. We have now enhanced our privacy system on this release. Activity streams for example, will accurately show streams from public and friends’ activities only. If you want to keep things for yourself, others won’t be able to view it. This applies to all private group activities as well. Private groups stay private!

Improved activity stream
We have made our activity streams more informative and a lot more useful. We have strategically included content preview within each stream and allow admin to automatically hide unwanted activity from ever be shown. A few redundant activities are also unpublished by default. Not only activity streams now look a lot nicer, we’ve also organized and displayed them in a way that helps site members to discover new information and be kept up-to-date easily.

New API for new possibilities
We always strive to give more control and flexibility to 3rd party developers. We have added some ambitious new APIs to give 3rd party developers more empowerment. Plugins now have the ability to override any controller or even an ajax output. Giving more control to developers means that they can be more creative in developing new modules and plugins, opening a whole new world of possibilities for JomSocial.

Modules everywhere
You can now easily load any Joomla! modules within JomSocial content. We have added a number of strategically located module positions inside JomSocial itself. For example, making an announcement on top of all profile, is now easier than ever. Just create a new html module and assign it to “js_profile_top” module position. You can read more about this at http://www.jomsocial.com/docs/Built-in_module_positions

And tons of refinement and bug fixes
We work very closely with our fellow testers to crush numerous small annoying bugs, making this release one of our most refined and polished release ever. From updated styling to revised translations, input button removed to re-align icon position, all our hard work is geared towards making your community site easy to use!

Where?
$number=3;
$template = "default";
include("/public_html/cutenews/show_news.php");
?>

Replace:
$number=3;
$template = "default";
include("/home/user*/public_html/cutenews/show_news.php");
?>

user* stands for your cpanel username. Some peeps really forgot about some small code to be replaced. Modifying will solve the problem. ^.^

I used CuteNews before, that’s why I’m pretty sure I knew how the coding and integration is done in one see. The software was awesome for beginner’s in php since it teaches the basic includes that everyone needs to know. But the fact that CuteNews was abandoned a long time ago, features aren’t as updated as other version.

The most updated CuteNews version that I’ve seen from the past is CuteNews.ru. Before I left the CuteNews system for Wordpress, Cutenews.ru released its Strawberry version which has more features and has the ability to store data on MySQL. It also has version 2.5.4 which is actually the upgrade of the said software.

However, before, the difficulty on translating Strawberry has been a problem since the language is not at all English. I’m still not sure if they already catch up with the translation thingy but it is still good to upgrade to a newer version of it as it has better functions in general. Well, depends on how you wanted to learn more about on the coding side and if you wanted to have some sort of new features ;p