You can now prioritize next Joomla extensions ideas/features

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I did setup an account at UserVoice, thanks to this new tool, you’ll have the possibility to submit new features and ideas that I may put into the next version of my Joomla extensions…

You can from now on, use the Feedback forums and start prioritizing ideas through votes.  With status updates I will also be able to communicate with you on the progress of these ideas.

UserVoice creates simple customer engagement tools that help companies understand and interact with their customers more positively and build customer.

With more than 70,000 organizations signed up and thousands of customers, UserVoice products include:

How to get 5GB of free additional Dropbox storage

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Dropbox is arguably the best known cloud-based file sharing service. It’s available for Windows PCs, Macs, iPhones and Android smartphones. You get 2GB free of charge, but here is a tip to get 5GB more…

With the service’s latest beta desktop software, Dropbox has added an automatic photo import feature. Plug in a camera or smartphone, and you’ll have the option to automatically import those pictures to your Dropbox account.

During this beta period, Dropbox is also offering additional free space to test automatic uploading of photos and videos. For every 500MB of photos and videos automatically uploaded, you'll receive another 500MB space bonus, up to 4.5GB total. [Update: To clarify, you can get up to 5GB of free space with this feature, if you count the initial 500MB space for the first photo import].

Windows: http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/Dropbox%201.3.13.exe
Mac OS X: http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/Dropbox%201.3.13.dmg
Linux x86_64: http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-1.3.13.tar.gz
Linux x86: http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86-1.3.13.tar.gz

When you are finished, and credited , just remove your freshly uploaded pictures and keep the 5GB of additional storage!

From http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=53104&replies=1791

Updating PHP5 to PHP 5.3.10 on Ubuntu

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Thanks to Nathan Rennie-Waldock. you can have the latest PHP5 5.3.10 running in Ubuntu Oneiric, Natty, Maverick and Lucid.

Nathan Rennie-Waldock Personal Package Archives (PPA) is located at https://launchpad.net/~nathan-renniewaldock/+archive/ppa

Just run as root the following to use PHP 5.3.10

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nathan-renniewaldock/ppa
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get upgrade

Canonical should be a little bit ashamed to not deliver these security patches for the server edition! relying on individuals to provide the latest version of secure software is not promoting Linux in enterprise.

Vmware Virtual Appliance Ubuntu 11.10 x64 Server

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Download and install the latest  VMware Player 4.0.2 to run this Virtual Appliance “Ubuntu 11.10 x64 Server”

Ready to user stock Ubuntu 64 bit Server 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) on Vmware

This virtual appliance may be used by multi purpose operations, such as source control management server, development server, ftp server, or for testing some changes before rolling them out against your productive server and so on…

Download for FREE  Ubuntu 11.10 x64 Server.7z (2.2GB) for Vmware

From http://linux.waltercedric.com/

• VM Information
  • CPU's : 1
  • Memory : 1G
  • Disk : 20G
• Authentication Credentials
  • Username : user
  • Password : user1234

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Vmware Virtual Appliance Ubuntu 11.10 x64 Desktop

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Download and install VMware Player 4.0.2 to run this Virtual Appliance “Ubuntu 11.10 x64 Server”

Ready to user stock Ubuntu 64 bit Desktop 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) on Vmware

This virtual appliance may be used by multi purpose operations, such as source control management server, development server, ftp server, and so on…

Download for FREE Ubuntu 11.10 x64 Desktop.7z (4.65GB) for Vmware 

From http://linux.waltercedric.com/

• VM Information
  • CPU's : 1
  • Memory : 1G
  • Disk : 20G
• Authentication Credentials
  • Username : user
  • Password : user1234

Read more: Vmware Virtual Appliance Ubuntu 11.10 x64 Desktop

Updating PHP5 to PHP 5.3.9 on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric

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Thanks to Ondřej Surý,  maintainer for some Debian packages, you can have the latest PHP5 maintained by Debian PKG PHP Team in Ubuntu Oneiric, Natty, Maverick and Lucid.

Currently it is the previous version 5.3.9, but that’s already a lot better than 5.3.6 (Official in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric). I did contact Ondřej to ask him for updating the Personal Package Archive to 5.3.10.

Personal Package Archives (PPA) allow you to upload Ubuntu source packages to be built and published as an apt repository by Launchpad.

Ondřej Surý’s Personal Package Archives (PPA) is located at https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/php5

Just run as root the following to use PHP 5.3.9

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get upgrade

I did create an account at https://launchpad.net/~cedric-walter just in case I would like to build some packages for Ubuntu.