Open Foundry — The ‘open’ stands for open-source, free and easily available. The word ‘foundry’ is taken from the ‘type foundry’ and suggests professional quality and industrial heritage. Their solution is to offer a carefully curated number of fonts in the most clear and dynamic way possible. Instead of overwhelming the user, Open Foundry provides enough interest and excitement to encourage further exploration. All fonts are distributed under an open-source license and are free to use. Every font provides you with a source button to its open-source hosted project, a direct download and the site where it was initially found or published.
SuperPlaceholder.js is a library to bring your input placeholders to life by cycling multiple instructions in a single input placeholder. It is less than 1KB minified & gzipped. Superplaceholder.js supports AMD and commonJS module pattern out of the box. It works best on latest versions of Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari and Chrome mobile. For all non-supported browsers, the library will graceful degradate without any explicit handling in your code.
Google Analytics plugin helps you easily add in Google Analytics to your Joomla website. It allows for both Universal Google Analytics and Asynchronous Google Analytics. Yes both Google Analytics codes.
“R Antispam” is the only Joomla antispam extension for Kunena forums that uses a Bayesian algorithm. This means that spam recognition is improved over time. It can be adapted to prevent spam in other extensions.
Community Builder (CB) is an extremely flexible and robust social networking solution for Joomla. CB has a huge user base, a long history and a great future.
The JComments is a powerful and easy to use AJAX based comment system for Joomla with flexible ACL, smiles, BBCodes and avatars support. Working on this release took extra eight months, all this effort was spent to make the component more stable and usable. Considerable time was allotted for code optimization and improved compatibility to third-party extensions.
VirtueMart is a highly configurable and customizable multi-language shopping cart solution for Joomla 2.5 and 3 with a large number of additional extensions.
Akeeba Backup Core is the most widely used open-source backup component for the Joomla! CMS. Its mission is simple: create a site backup that can be restored on any Joomla!-capable server, making it ideal not only for backups but also for site transfers or even deploying sites to your clients’ servers.
Phoca GAE is a Joomla! module which displays Google AdSense code on your site easy way. Don’t waste your time filling out a lot of forms. Just copy your Google AdSense Code and paste it into your Joomla! site. This way the Google Search code and Google Calendar code can be added too.
Google Maps on Android got a pretty big feature update that let users add detours without leaving Navigation mode.
Now, several months later, the Google Maps team has finally brought the same feature over to iOS users. Up until recently, finding somewhere new to stop while on a drive, like a gas station or shop, meant the user had to leave Navigation mode, find the place manually, and then lose traffic data and basically reroute their whole trip.
That’s changing with this particular feature, which lets Google Maps users simply tap on an option that will allow them to set up a detour to a variety of different locations around them, and keep their original path in tact, including traffic information.
Here’s how it works on iOS:
“When you’re in navigation mode, simply tap the magnifying glass at the top right corner of the screen to see a menu of helpful options for places you might need to stop at, like gas stations, grocery stores, or restaurants. If the drop-down options aren’t what you need, you can tap the search icon or use voice commands to search by specific name or category to find what you’re looking for. Search results include ratings and the estimated amount of time the detour will add to your trip, so you can choose the one that’s best for you.”
For anyone that’s been on a lengthy road trip, where pit stops are likely to happen quite a bit, this new feature is likely a welcomed one for Google Maps users.
The update arrives today. A link below is available to download Google Maps.
Audials Pro could be a welcome addition to the smartphone or tablet of any music junkie who remains allergic to music streaming. By allowing you to create and download playlists composed of your favorite artists or genres, you can curate a personalised music library overnight.
The main draw of the pro version we’ve been testing is the Music Wishes option. Here, you enter your favorite artists, which the app places into a list. It then sets about scouring over 2,000 internet radio stations in pursuit of matching songs to record. Obviously, it depends on your bandwidth, but we had no problems downloading and storing songs that were being broadcast. A little tip: If your downloads are taking too long, just leave the app running overnight and let yourself be surprised by the bounty of new songs you find yourself with in the morning.
But that's not all: the Mass Recording feature lets you do the same but with whole genres. Audials Pro - depending on your choice of settings - gathers up to 1,000 songs from your preferred genre, with up to 20 tracks being downloaded at once. The genres you can choose from range from funk, rock, blues and electro to pop, jazz and film music, including pretty much everything in between.
The way the app is organized means you can easily see what downloads are in progress and from what stations. If a recording is not complete, it is represented by a yellow arrow. A green arrow, on the other hand, means that the recording is complete and hopefully not cut off at the end by the show’s presenter. If it is interrupted by a talkative host, you will have to continue downloading and listening to songs until you find the perfect rip.
One small drawback is that when the app collects a mixture complete and incomplete tracks, you end up with duplicate entries, which have to be manually deleted. Also, the genre selection doesn’t always work flawlessly. For example, a Beatles track will occasionally land in the middle of a punk playlist. However, this isn’t always the app’s fault; often it is down to inaccurate ID tags assigned by the radio stations.
On closer inspection, the apps shows itself to be a solid all-rounder. Songs and videos can be played from your personal library on your phone via the built-in player, and it also it features a clock radio and a sleep timer.
Many of theses features are available without a pro account. But to use the Wish List and Mass Recording features, and to save music to the cloud, for example, you will need to upgrade to the Pro version.
The location you wish to save tracks to can be specified in the settings. Furthermore, using the Windows software, Audials Music, you can sync your smartphone with your home PC. An equalizer is also included, which can provide improved sound quality and balance.
Any tracks you download are stored on your smartphone in a separate Audials folder. Unfortunately, the songs in there are not automatically sorted by artist or album, but by their radio station of origin, which makes little sense at first glance and makes finding a particular track a little more difficult.
Aside from some stuttering and delayed response issues, the Audials app is very intuitive. Recorded songs can be played straight back, or even put on while they’re being recorded. The layout makes it easy to find your favorite stations and what’s currently playing, thanks to a small bar at the bottom of the screen. The color scheme and style of the radio list can also be customized a little.
On the Recordings page, you will find all the tracks that Audials has grabbed in a list with the name of the station they came from. Any tracks that are currently being downloaded appear at the top of the page. From the menu button, you can manually add stations and go about deleting files.
Under the Radio tab, there are a variety of useful features, for example, suggested stations and artists, and a list of local stations. Once you’ve selected a station, the tabs at the top give you the option to listen to and record previously-played songs, view similar stations, and bring up the news (which sees a Twitter feed of station-relevant tweets appear). Finally, there is something called Zapp. Zapp is designed to let you put on a station and then quickly jump to another that aligns with your current choice. Although, while listening to BBC Radio 6, Zapp made the spectacular leap to a country station and everything spiraled wildly out of control from there, so use with caution.
One thing of note, when it comes to downloading using the Wish List, is that it would make sense if your music wishes could be prioritized. Since better-known artists are naturally played more frequently, when you hit the simultaneous download limit, musicians and bands with smaller profiles become much less likely to be included in your library.
Speed & Stability
During our test, there were a few technical hangups with Audials Pro, but fiddling with the settings can help somewhat. You can specify whether the app only plays when you’re connected to Wi-Fi, or whether the buffer time is extended in order to curtail playback stuttering. Their effectiveness is limited, but might be of some use.
If you have a memory card for your phone, you can easily swap it over and fill card after card with music. The range of acceptable bitrates for download can be set individually for Radio, Mass Recording and Zapping. The increase in battery consumption falls within acceptable limits when using the app, but, as mentioned earlier, if you’re doing a tonne of downloading, leave it going overnight, when you can charge your device, too.
Incidentally, what is true for many other radio apps is also true for Audials: if you’re travelling to work, or otherwise out and about, and don’t have stable access to mobile data, the buffering will frequently remain at 90% and sit there, doing nothing, which can be frustrating.
In Tafu you are given a target number of balls which you must fire from a rotating canon in the center of the screen. If you successfully reach the target, then you complete the level. But the balls stack on top of one another and if they reach the launcher which you fire them from, you fail the level.
It's crucial that you avoid the balls already placed in fixed positions around the circular area you fire within. If you misplace a ball, and it sticks closer to you than you would like, it makes shooting past it that much harder.
There is an element of skill involved in Tafu as you must time your shots correctly; Tafu really teaches you to be patient. If you place a ball in the wrong place, it will remain there. And it will haunt you. As the balls edge closer towards, you begin to regret your past placements more and more. It’s rare for a game to stir this kind of emotion in its players.
That's basically all there is to the levels. They present different challenges in terms of where the starting obstacles are placed on screen. It works, but Tafu would really benefit from a timer for each shot. While I appreciate that it makes no attempt to go for the tired three-star system like most other Android games, the problem is that it becomes as much a test of patience as one of skill.
Having a time limit on each shot would mean that you couldn’t rely on playing the waiting game to get the perfect shot. It would decrease the round length while maintaining the challenge and rewarding quick thinking. That being said, Tafu does become brutally hard even on early levels and a more gentle learning curve would help ease early frustrations.
Screen & Controls
Any game which requires precision must have controls to match. Thankfully, Tafu is responsive and easy to handle. It only has one action; you tap the screen to shoot the ball, but it never fails.
It’s minimalist in design, relying on only a few basic shapes and a handful of colors, but that’s all it needs. The clear distinction between the balls and the background is essential. Better to nail a simple idea than fail at a grander design.
Speed & Stability
Tafu had no problems with load times or crashes during our test on a Nexus 6, but there were some performance issues with it on the Galaxy Note 4. The Note 4 arrived at around the same time as the Nexus 6, and it has the same processing power and RAM, but the frame-rate dips frequently on the Samsung device.
That being said, it takes mere seconds to start playing and we didn't observe these performance problems on other devices: it's as accessible as it gets on Android.
Price/Performance Ratio
Tafu is a free-to-play title with ads and in-app purchases. There is no in-game currency, so any special items must be paid for outright, or else earned by inviting friends to play the game via Facebook. The good news is that even the cheapest of the in-app purchases has the added bonus of permanently removing the ads.
Like many of these free-to-play games, though, the purchasable items are used to help you beat a level. This means that using them almost feels like cheating and it ruins the feeling of success upon completing a level.
Radar Beep is an app that warns you of approaching speed cameras and radar traps. With the launch of the app you activate a background process that scans the environment for safety cameras. So the information is as current as possible, when you load the app at first you'll be prompted to download a file with corresponding radar control positions. You set your country as a defualt and there are packages for the United States as well as many different countries in Europe. You can check how much speed camera data is available for each country via the national table.
Your exact location is recorded by GPS. A map shows where you find yourself and speed cameras are marked with corresponding icons in the map. As you approach a warning point, a beep from the app will increase in intensity as you get closer and closer to the trap. A large display will keep you informed about the prescribed speed for the area you're currently in. In addition, you will be shown the type of speed trap coming up, your current speed and how far away the speed camera still is.
In the test, the app warned of upcoming speed cameras very well. If you do not have your phone connected via Bluetooth to a navigation device and have not selected a specific route the app will just show you alerts for speed cameras in the area. Since the app shows a lot of potential safety cameras though, the message density can be correspondingly high and not always apply to the road on which you find yourself or even plan to take. Getting alerts for a specific route only is possible only in conjunction with a navigation device. Unfortunately, this does not apply to Google Maps and its navigation system. Connection to an external device must be done via Bluetooth.
In most cases too, the app alerts you to possible speed traps. This means many of the speed cameras you're being warned about are no longer current or accurate, but simply possible. Freshly mapped speed traps on the other hand are only displayed if you have updated to the most current data package.
Note: About the legal use of speed camera apps: it is your responsibility to arm yourself with the relevant information regarding the legality of using an app such as this in your local area. Local law enforcement may fine you for using an app or device that displays speed camera locations and radar traps. Also, you should not use an app such as this as an excuse to disobey speed limits. Driving safely at all times is the best solution.
Screen & Controls
The user interface of radar beep is very clean and clear. The background map (Google Maps) can be zoomed in on as much as necessary and you can check up in advance where possible cameras could be lying in wait along your route. Your current speed is displayed over a large area at the top of the screen for easy visibility. Warnings are also nice and large and include all important information. In the settings you can decide exactly what you want to be alerted about in the app. In addition to fixed radars and possible mobile speed cameras there are some other warning categories, including, for example, a radar section, possible police checks and other 'danger' points.
The notifications for each category can be adapted individually. You can turn off notifications for all but a few special special warnings, or you assign a notification or an additional tone to them. Voice notifications can also be enabled. The app is configured quickly and easily and worked first time in the test. For quick access, there is also a widget.
Speed & Stability
In my tests, Radar Beep worked very well and accurately. Most of the possible radars were not currently present, but the app's warning of excessive speed was, in every, case, offered with plenty of time to safely slow down before any traps. A stable internet connection and a good GPS signal are absolutely necessary in order to take advantage of the app on the whole route though. Battery consumption and data usage on my mobile network were limited.
Price/Performance Ratio
The app is available for free and includes a banner ad at the bottom of the screen. If you want to remove this, you can donate any amount above a dollar to the developer.
Google Photos is one of the more viable options for cloud storage for photos and videos, and now it’s getting even better.
Google has officially updated its Google Photos app, bringing the version up to 1.8. With it, there’s a few key new additions, with the biggest tentpole being the addition of support for Apple’s Live Photos. Users will not only be ale to backup Live Photos within the app, but also view them as well. The update also makes it possible for users to use less cache space when your device is low on space.
The update also means Google Photos now officially supports Split View on an iPad, and adds iPad Pro support, too.
Here’s the full breakdown:
What’s New in Version 1.8.0
• Improved app navigation, so you can spend less time flipping hamburger menus • Back up and view Live Photos • Reduced cache usage when your device is low on space • iPad Split View and iPad Pro support • Performance improvements
The latest software is available now, and a link below will get you to the app if you haven’t installed it yet.
Opera has updated its desktop browser for Windows and OS X with ad-blocking baked right in. The company believes its new feature helps speed up page loads by 40 percent on average and works better than third-party extensions.
In the browser’s developer edition, You can turn on ad-blocking in the Settings menu and list sites that you want to exclude there. When you browse the Web, a shield icon in Opera’s address bar turns blue and displays how many ads it avoided loading.
You can also click the shield icon to find the Speed test option and compare load times for any site yourself.
Krystian Kolondra, who heads Opera for computers, said, “Advertising fuels the internet, allowing for many services to be free for users. But, as our new research shows, most webpages today are significantly slowed down by bloated ads and heavy tracking. We don’t accept it – we want the web to be a better place for us all, as users.”
Ads are one of the most common ways for publishers to generate revenue online and as such, the idea of blocking them on sites you frequent isn’t without controversy. But Opera’s claim of loading pages faster certainly holds true.
In my testing, several news sites, blogs and online stores loaded between 40 and 50 percent faster. Opera says that its browser filters ads at the rendering engine level where it has full control over how it loads content and thus performs better than third-party extensions.
If you head into Settings and click ‘Manage exceptions’, you’ll find that some sites are listed there by default. But it’s easy enough to remove them so that their ads are blocked; simply click the X next to each URL.
While Opera’s new feature works as advertised, I still depend on a bunch of Chrome extensions for work and can’t switch just yet. If you’re looking for a better ad-free browsing experience and aren’t tied to any particular app, this might be worth a go.
Wikipedia is probably one of the best resources on the Internet — a mountain of facts that most people who use it barely ever see. Today, the company announced via blog post that it has a newly re-designed app for iOS that takes advantage of the information you don’t normally see on Wikipedia, by utilizing the new features in iOS 9 and aggregate data from the way people use Wikipedia daily. The app experience is a now much easier to use than the mobile browser, featuring snappier navigation and gestures with 3D Touch. It probably wins the award for the most creative 3D “peek” gesture, offering users the ability to select an article completely at random with a simple long press. The app also takes advantage of Spotlight search, so your phone’s native search bar can feel more complete and informative. The minimalist design also draws attention to interesting things found on the app’s home screen, including aggregate data from daily searches as well as Wikipedia entries relevant to your location. The new look not only feels closer to the pared-down look the platform is known for, but the content feels like it matches that idea as well. There are also useful tools, like an easy to navigate gallery system that allows you to save images and an offline mode that lets you read those articles later. For the ability to enhance Spotlight search alone, the redesigned Wikipedia is a helpful tool. But if you’re a trivia nut who loves fact-checking your friends, then the ease of use is really helpful.
