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First month of the new year deserve much more than regular monthly releases, for starters we are releasing 3 cool FREE Joomla extensions which we are sure would be very useful for your websites. Yes, they are responsive too and works great with both Joomla 2.5 & Joomla 3.

These freebies are JA Image Hotspot module - Joomla extension for Image markup, JA Promo Bar module - cool flexible promotion bar for your site, and JA Google Charts module - Joomla extension for better visualization of your data using Google visualization API. Check out details below :

We got exciting news for everyone, our free Joomla translation component - JA Multilingual now also supports Google translate apart from Bing Translator. While both the services are great, Bing allows 2 million characters translations a month for free whereas Google translate is fully commercial. We have a little comparison chart down below highlighting the features of Bing translator and Google translate.

We have also updated JA Multilingual component to support auto translation of metatags and meta description, which should be helpful from the SEO point of view. The new version also fixes the bugs reported by users.

Building a Joomla 2.5 or Joomla 3 multilingual site can be tricky, we encountered difficulties while trying to setup multi-language demo site to demonstrate our RTL language layouts for our latest templates. We developed a internal tool to overcome the problems we faced and we thought why not add more options and release the extension as FREE for the benefit of the Joomla! community.

Great news for Joomla users who make use of cloud computing to push user experience to the next level! JA Amazon S3 & Cloudfront CDN Component is now available for Joomla 1.6.

In this post we will introduce to you several CCKs you can consider to use to empower your Joomla site. First of all, using a content construction kit gives you more features, flexibility, control over any sort of content, structure and layout than the core of Joomla itself can do.

Great news for Joomla users who make use of cloud computing to push user experience to the next level! JA Amazon S3 Component 2.0 is available and comes with new features and lots of improvements.

JA Amazon S3 has quickly become popular on the JED thanks to your good reviews and votes. With lots of great feedback from users, and only 3 weeks from the release of JA Amazon S3 Component 1.x, we have updated this tool to make content storage and delivery via Amazon S3 & Cloudfront a real piece of cake.

JobBoard Component - Version 1.4.6 has been released today, primarily a bug fix release with improvements and some new features.

• Detailed Changelog is HERE
• Compare files between the JobBoard Versions HERE
• Upgrade with JA Extensions Manager or simply overwrite the changed files

JobBoard Version 1.4.5 has been released. It is a bug and Security Fix version. Check the changelog HERE. Users are requested to upgrade their JobBoard to latest version.

JoomlArt is proud to introduce JA Extensions Manager, a brand new component for Joomla. The component aims to bring a new way to manage extensions: upgrade, rollback, remote install, internal repository and compare versions.
Our development team promised to transform old extension management into a new and modern one. It comes with new features to speed up and ease the processes.  Check the Video inside.

We are proud to introduce JA Comment Component, a brand new and powerful comment system for Joomla 1.5 and above. It provides a quick way to let your readers post comments on your content pages or provide valuable feedback. The component was developed to meet several needs such as easy administration, powerful front-end features, fast comment moderation and easy integration with other content components. It was designed to be easy for beginners and powerful enough for advanced users to administer and control. We can just keep on bragging about this unique commenting system, try it to believe it!

JobBoard 1.4.2 version has been released today with 6 improvements and 18 bug fixes. The updated files are available in the Download section and the complete changelog can be viewed HERE and discuss it HERE.

JA JobBoard Enterprise component V 1.4.0 has been released, this is New Feature & bug fix release. Read the complete Changelog Here. If you are new to JA JobBoard, read more about it at JA JobBoard HomePage.

JA Voice Version 1.3.0 is out and this version comes with mutiple new features and addition of functionality. Read the complete announcement HERE. Added Feature list is given below.

A. Additional some plugins for posting form
   1. RPXnow Login service
   2. Smileys Support
   3. YouTube Embeddable Video
   4. After the Deadline - Spell check
   5. Captcha for guests
   6. File Attachment Option for Logged in Users.

B. Additional some plugins for Voice Listing
   1. TweetMeme Retweet Button
   2. AddThis
   3. AddToAny Share Button
   4. Facebook-share

C. Avatar support (from multiple services)

JA Voice Enterprise component has been updated to V 1.2.5, this is bug fix and improvement release. Read the complete announcement here. If you are new to JA Voice, read more about it at JA Voice Homepage.

JA Job Board has been updated to V 1.3.2, it is a bug fix and improvement release. Check the Forum Announcement Here. Changelog and Bug Tracker Here. 

New to JA Job Board? Read more about it at http://jobboard.joomlart.com. Please note, it is an enterprise component  and is not included in JAEC or JA Developer Membership.

The download of v.1.3.1 [ bug fix release] JA JobBoard has been updated to the forum. Read & discuss more at our forum

Below are changelog for 1.3.1

JA Voice 1.2.0 released. It's a bug fix release along with some improvements and new features. Check the changelog here. Visit JA Voice Home page for details. 

Please note, JA Voice and JA Job board are enterprise Extensions and are licenced separately. They are not covered in the Developer membership or JAEC membership.

JA Jobboard Bug Fix, Improvement and new feature release. Version 1.3.0 comes with 8 bug fixes, 11 improvements and 8 new features.

View the Complete Changelog here.

JA Compress plugin, a Joomla 1.5 plugin developed to provide optimization / compression of CSS and JS files for Joomla site has now been released as part of JA Extension Club. It provides functionality to use two open source libraries, one is Minify and another one is SmartOptimizer. Features:

JA Compress plugin, developed to provide optimization / compression of CSS and JS files, so as to speed up sites is coming up soon. It provides functionality to use two open source libraries, one is Minify and another one is SmartOptimizer. 

Features:

• Choose between the two libraries to achieve the best performance.
• Option to exclude single or multiple CSS / JS files. This is quite helpful, as not all the files like to be compressed or optimized.
• Option to check server cache or client cache.
• Option to choose optimization, Combine CSS files or use both options together.
• If you are not a JAEC member or JA Developer member, use JAEC20OFF coupon code to avail $ 20 off onJAEC membership (excluding JA Voice & JA Job Board).