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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 A few redundant activities are also unpublished by default.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

I downloaded it from the site and was making some experiments on it here at CCN. It’s pretty cool, like the creator mentioned, he likes how the titles turned out. Well, I do too. It’s like embossing the titles using CSS and the colors are oh so unique. It has 6 different colors to choose from. It’s advertisement ready, as usual and; is compatible to all common browsers. Not to mention the nicely configurable option of E-panel they have with SEO.

The only area I’m getting problem with is that I can’t see where or which one is the wrapper *lol* I would want it on the center of the page and I was trying to tweak it to that way. However, doing so will break other areas of the design so I must say… don’t modify it ;p because it still look great that way and was made that way.

The layout being on the center is just my personal preference so not a big deal really. I’m still loving it.

Well, I think that was last 2 weeks ago, when a friend came online on SecondLife and told us about the game was already launched. As I knew it the Beta was launched around July 2009, I can’t play it because it’s not actually open globally and I am on the Philippines.

Hmmn, NC Soft has a launcher where you can download their games including AION. I downloaded the game for like an hour or two only to find out that registration is only for North American and European gamers. How sad T.T

Well, it wouldn’t stop there as we searched for possible means to register on the game. We knew a friend from US, of course, Second Life has a lot of it so we asked him to register us an account for AION and bought the game plus game time. AION is $49.99 and the game time is $14.99 through paypal or credit card. So we did and we can play AION now.

I am currently level 16. Heh! It’s hard to level up but hey it’s not a boring game where you just hack and slash without a purpose. You play the game mostly by doing your quests and race tasks. Daeva is how the citizens or characters of the game are being called. There are only 2 races: Elyos which are the white winged and Asmodian which are the black winged. It’s ethereal angel battle and yes you can actually fly with your wings at level 10 after your Ascension.

AION is an exciting game actually, the mosters have AI and skills. A quests are well-plotted and the 3d environment is WOW! A lot of aggressive monsters though but a very challenging game. At my level, I can’t really narrate the whole thing here as I need more levels and a lot of monsters to kill. I have 10 pending quests and 8 tasks to make. My armor is not so good but my character can survive.

There are 4 different classes: Warrior, Mage, Scout and Priest. I chose Priest since I play games I am bound to it. Each class has 2 sub-classes. For Priests, you can choose between a Cleric and a Chanter. Cleric focuses on supporting the group while Chanters also does the same but Chanters have higher damaging skills than Priests do. You can support at the same time tank a group if needed. You can go solo too. But I haven’t seen its potential on PvPs (player vs player).

Well anyway, I’m gonna do more post about this game and my gameplay, for the meantime enjoy this video of AION. See you!

Every month, there are only 2 sites I am always checking: Elegant Themes and Rocket Theme, which I am both a paid subscriber. I know I’m pretty late on checking RT today but I am so shock to see this magnificent layout. Makes me want to change CovenantRealm.com’s template *grins*

So, what’s so special about it?
Last December, they launched the Gantry Framework; and this template is using same framework which has so many features. If you’re a blogger and you love Joomla, then it’s a must have.

Gantry is a sophisticated Joomla template framework with the sole intention of being the best platform to build a solid template with. Gantry takes all the lessons learned during the development of many RocketTheme templates and distills that knowledge into a single super-flexible framework that is easy to configure, simple to extend, and powerful enough to handle anything we want to throw at it.

They have V2.0 already, if you want to learn more about Gantry, read here.

What else? If you view the demo, you can see its sleek texture, each color theme of the template has quality backgrounds. Well, you know I love touch of reds and so I would like to praise the color combination done on the default theme.

Before I started revamping my site, I was thinking twice whether to use Joomla or Wordpress. Since, I am more familiar with Wordpress including tweaking it, I go for WP instead of Joomla. But hey! That won’t get away with me as one of my site is in Joomla. *laughs* I think my demons will like that theme. *drools*

Anyway, I’ll go try that one on my other site ;p Jah!

With this, I would like to say thank you to all my 2009 Top Referrers. It has been a new year and my Awstats is starting to populate my referrer links.

Feb 2009:

148 http://allianora.net/
56 http://frail-frivolity.chanlu.org/
95 http://www.protowhale.net/
44 http://aethereality.net/
32 http://celestial-star.net/
24 http://saturdaisy.com/
21 http://www.frozen-rain.net/

Mar 2009:

222 http://allianora.net/
70 http://frail-frivolity.chanlu.org/
96 http://www.protowhale.net/
44 http://aethereality.net/
38 http://www.karmakaze-designs.net/
33 http://celestial-star.net/
32 http://saturdaisy.com/

Apr 2009:

288 http://allianora.net/
112 http://frail-frivolity.chanlu.org/
110 http://www.protowhale.net/
59 http://www.karmakaze-designs.net/
44 http://aethereality.net/
42 http://www.frozen-rain.net/
39 http://endless-light.com/

May 2009:

337 http://allianora.net/
165 http://frail-frivolity.chanlu.org/
115 http://www.protowhale.net/
82 http://www.karmakaze-designs.net/
54 http://www.aunexamor.net/
50 http://www.frozen-rain.net/
44 http://aethereality.net/

Jun 2009:

368 http://allianora.net/
237 http://frail-frivolity.chanlu.org/
164 http://www.lifevine-design.com/
131 http://www.protowhale.net/
82 http://www.karmakaze-designs.net/
66 http://www.aunexamor.net/
51 http://endless-light.com/

Jul 2009:

405 http://allianora.net/
296 http://frail-frivolity.chanlu.org/
281 http://www.lifevine-design.com/
83 http://www.karmakaze-designs.net/
74 http://www.aunexamor.net/
68 http://www.protowhale.net/
60 http://www.neogrotesque.net/

Aug 2009:

430 http://allianora.net/
408 http://www.lifevine-design.com/
358 http://frail-frivolity.chanlu.org/
108 http://www.neogrotesque.net/
102 http://digital-lavender.com/
87 http://www.aunexamor.net/
84 http://www.karmakaze-designs.net/

Sept 2009:

584 http://www.lifevine-design.com/
458 http://allianora.net/
411 http://frail-frivolity.chanlu.org/
144 http://www.neogrotesque.net/
120 http://digital-lavender.com/
96 http://www.aunexamor.net/
84 http://lunar-eclipse.ldt.biz.hr/

Oct 2009:

685 http://www.lifevine-design.com/
472 http://frail-frivolity.chanlu.org/
469 http://allianora.net/
184 http://www.neogrotesque.net/
131 http://digital-lavender.com/
101 http://www.aunexamor.net/
101 http://lunar-eclipse.ldt.biz.hr/

Nov 2009:

677 http://www.lifevine-design.com/
496 http://allianora.net/
472 http://frail-frivolity.net/
213 http://www.neogrotesque.net/
139 http://digital-lavender.com/
112 http://lunar-eclipse.ldt.biz.hr/
107 http://www.aunexamor.net/

Dec 2009:

702 http://www.lifevine-design.com/
542 http://allianora.net/
472 http://frail-frivolity.net/
241 http://www.neogrotesque.net/
154 http://digital-lavender.com/
132 http://lunar-eclipse.ldt.biz.hr/
111 http://www.aunexamor.net/

I have registered Creative-Central.net 2 months ago, although I haven’t decided what do with it during the last months I still bought it because of the domain availability and easy search engine targeting the domain, better traffic so to speak. As you can see, it has now a full blog look on it and lesser free downloads.

I have put off my avatars section since a lot more sites are doing it while the texture category will be moving on to as blog section. I won’t be giving you one or two pieces at time but a bundle instead.

Textures has a lot of different types. There are 2d textures where you can use for your 3d models that comes with an alpha texture sometimes. Alpha textures are black and white textures which you could use for transparency and guided grids for your 2d textures. There are fractals which is perfect for 3d effects such as particles if you wanted to use it for some online games like secondlife.com. There are background textures such as 3d renders and patterns, and; ofcourse the usual texture that is known to the creative community which they use for enhancing their designs.

On the other categories, the desktop wallpaper section is still there untouched, however, I’m going to shift from 1024×768 to 1280×1024 or higher. The ordinary 1024×768 is already phased out because monitor quality nowadays has higher resolution and it would look crappy on some people who are using better video cards on their computers.

Wallpapers are my favorite! It’s easier for me to conceptualize a wallpaper than do a raw texture hehe! It gives more meaning to the design per say without the trouble of scripting it and putting it up from image to codes. My SL screenshots are almost no-edit. I edit it on the SL client itself as they have good lighting and sky effects, plus colorization. Not to mention the details in-world are better than 2ds. I am a great fan of 3d, please don’t take it against me. Infact, I have done 3 wallpapers for this update.

The layout categories are now being categorized as Web Design as pre-made layouts aren’t anymore as popular as it is. No offense meant, but on how i see things, people would rather download a theme or a ready made template that is fully-coded for their site. Themes and templates comes with a specific code for some web softwares such as Wordpress or Joomla. Inside the zip file it has its source code and if you purchase themes from premium sites it also comes with the raw psd file which you can modify anyway you wanted. So, overall, a theme or a template is the fully-functional layout ready for upload and use.

So, I would be giving you those when I got more time on my hands, probably sooner. But for sure, I’ll be providing you more links where you can find better themes and templates. It’s a good way to practice HTML, CSS and PHP without pulling your hairs how to start from scratch.

On the brushes category, I am not sure how many of you are using Photoshop, Gimp, Illustrator, Corel or PaintShop, it is a .abr extension which is compatible for Photoshop CS1 to CS4. It is always nice to include the raw file on it but since what I’m giving you is free so I won’t include any image files or raw on zip as its under Creative Common’s License. You may see the Terms of Use for more information.

Very well, more updates soon. It’s just an long intro here. I would probably be updating more often now. Laters!

2010 is near and this is my resolution… change. Since, I have been engaging to a not so connected stuffs like SL, Joomla, Jomsocial, IPB, vBulletin, PHPBB3 and I’ve been trying other stuffs all around the net during these past few months, I might as well say goodbye to the community I love to bits. I would like to move ChemicalRain.net to a new mission.

First move… I stumbled upon Elegant Themes oneday while I’m looking for an inspiration for CHR and now, I have chosen to show you one of Nick’s WPTheme that I envy so much and that is Lumin (December released). You can see this on my site as my new layout for Episode 5. I have modded it to suit the sites new mission and made a gallery for my archives and graphic designs. CHR will now focus on innovation.

Innovation what? ChemicalRain.net is now my official graphics, resources and designing blog. I will be posting more on trends, updates of some of the web softwares I’ve been using, purchased and a couple of other stuffs to-date. I’ll be sharing with you some of the wonderful sites I have visited and other cool graphics I have seen or searching so far.

I still want to continue doing some graphics during my spare time in fact I have done 1 brush last week… but then my post will soon be as off as making its going to be a blog. Updates could be less or could be more often. I always see new stuffs on the net as I’ve been doing a lot of experiments about the web softwares I mentioned above. This is a not goodbye to all of you who have been visiting me all this time, instead this is my new ChemicalRain.net. All other net presence will soon be arriving here and most of my activities will be placed here, even if its non-sense ;p

I am still editing a few more parts here, so I guess the new born blog is still not so ready but I’ll be posting soon what I had to post.

To all my affiliates, I still would love to affiliate with you but if you think this move is against your rules you may delete me on your lists or be part of my link exchange. To all my link exchangers, you know how you all are wonderful, I’d still like to be listed on your sites but then and again, if you think this is not what you wanted for a link exchange, then please let me know. I will still come visit your site, that’s not against any rules right? Hehe!

Thank you. You young ones are like my sisters and I treasure you so deeply.
Have a Merry Christmas everyone and A Wonderful New Year.
Rain waves to all visitors.

So, while everyone is busy with school, work and family. I’m still here doing the usual thing. My secondlife family is growing again with role-players. We had a Stronghold’s (officers) meeting yesterday and I was like “OMG!” We’re working on some role-play stories and was collaborated with our own idea. I’m happy that my brain thinks again. ;p

On the other hand, I am also setting up a creative community, which I don’t think I’ll launch this year. I know most of us are truly busy and some of my affiliates have not updated their sites for like 2 to 3 months? That’s fine, real life comes first, as always. Maybe. I would look for a partner in doing it, else I’ll look for alternative.

I just don’t want the space and the licenses to expire without doing anything useful on them *lol* I would rather donate it to a strong community who would like it or need it than keeping it here sleeping and waiting it to expire. Sometimes, I lack planning on what I do, its just because I’m easily discouraged by uncalled criticisms which I don’t expect or maybe I don’t consider in the first place, especially, when I expected too much about it. Downside? It turns out the same. I just love what I’m doing. Ahaha!

Well, anyway, sorry about the “No Graphics on this update” thingy. I’ll for sure have them on my next update. Although, I’m thinking of another revamp. I mean a total overhaul. As you know, I love experiments ;p and since I am more on advancement than doing the old bored ways, I might give it a shot. If its not here then somewhere else. I will for sure let everyone know about changes when I am decided to go for it.

Currently, I have 2 sites online. The one is for my SL Role-play community and Chemical Rain. Well, I added one though UROCK-IHOST.com, a site for my hostees. Some of them are non-english sites and I love watching them. Well, I don’t care about who’s doing when and who’s doing what. Help is help. So, right now… enjoy.

To all who are busy, enjoy your life and I wish you all happiness on everything you do. Always remember that taking a break or making a change can be better or worst but no quitting. Quitting are for losers.

Finally… ADVANCE MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!