Joomla released its new beta release of the its upcoming 1.6 series.

You can download the beta release from here.

Brand new version of Ruby on Rails which was in production for almost two years has finally been released with many new enhancements that will please all the developers. Probably one of the most exciting things about Ruby on Rails 3.0 is that it finally came out with detailed documentation so experienced users and even newbies can learn how to program with Ruby on Rails easily.

Ruby on Rails 3.0 has came out with many new features and below are some of the major changes in the new version:

1. New Active Record query engine
Active Record has adopted the ARel query engine to make scopes and queries more consistent and makes it easier to build complex queries over several iterations.

2. Improved router for the Action Controller
New syntax is completely rewritten in favor of the REST style which is far more flexible.

3. New Action Mailer
Functionality will be much closer to the Action Controller.

4. Manage dependencies with Bundler
Now allows you to specify the libraries, frameworks, and plugins for your application.

5. Plugins APIs
New Railtie API makes it possible to modify the built-in generators, add rake tasks, configure default Rails options, and specify code to run as early, or as late as you need.

6. Completely rewritten internals
Rewrote the internals of Action Pack and Railties, making them much more flexible and easier to be extended.

Even though Ruby on Rails 3.0 has just been released, they are already planning a version 3.1 which will have even more improvements.

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Postcode Search Script is the primary postcode search solution for any web business who wish to enable their users to carry out a postcode search within a radius.

Lightweight CMS framwork, themeable and dynamic, PyroCMS is perfect for the CodeIgniter developers to start their clients projects.

PyroCMS has several features:

1. Security
PyroCMS is very secure. All passwords are stored & encrypted in a way that makes it impossible to guess the original password, even if an attacker has access to the database.

2. Speed
PyroCMS is fast, very fast. Thanks to the advanced cache system and the use of AJAX in the admin panel, page loads are much quicker than other CMS systems around.

3. Simple Interface
PyroCMS’s admin panel isn’t cluttered with options and menus. Confusing options and settings don’t obscure the tools you need to fully manage your content.

4. Themes
Don’t like the default design? No problem, the theme system is so easy to understand that everybody with basic PHP knowledge can create kickass designs for the sites.

5. Multi-Lingual
PyroCMS does not assume everyone speaks English. It has full support for multiple languages and more will be added as time goes on.

6. Web Intergration
Post new news aticles to your Twitter, easily enable Google Analytics with your Analytics ID and plenty more to come. PyroCMS will make it easy for you to interface with other websites.

If you want more information about this great lightweight CMS then visit their official homepage at PyroCMS.

Inout Search Engine is defintely the most powerful, affordable, flexible, feature rich, customizable meta search engine script available on the Internet. It comes preloaded with 12 of the most popular searches on net, including Web, Images, Video, News, Sports, Audio, Forum, Blog, Kids, Dictionary, Wiki, PDF which you can enable or disable as you wish. The latest edition of Inout Search Engine allows your visitors to choose their desired language (14 languages by default) and their desired style in which they want to see your website. Apart from the default engines, new engines can be added based on a themes, websites, domain extensions and the file type of result, which would allow it to run like fully featured search engines like yahoo, google etc or a niche search engine according to your interest.

Inout search engine general features

• Preloaded with 12 of the most popular searches including Web, Images, Video, News, Sports, Audio, Forum, Blog, Kids, Dictionary, Wiki and PDF.
• Unlimited custom engines.
• Easy engine creation based on a theme, website, TLD extension or result file type.
• Manage engine order easily.
• Amazon and Ebay Affiliate API Search.(*NEW*)
• Create engines based on RSS feeds.(*NEW*)
• Automatically retrieve results from RSS feeds.(*NEW*)
• Create new engines based on your own database and prepare results in any format you want.(*NEW*)
• Easily Integrate Yahoo Boss, Bing and Google Youtube API Keys.(*NEW*)
• XML result parsing from source engines with the help of API keys.(*NEW*)
• Engines can be presented to public as tabs, drop downs, radio buttons or text links.(*NEW*)
• Multi-language support.(*NEW*)
• More Languages can be easily added and managed.(*NEW*)
• You may optionally specify a non-English language as default language.(*NEW*)
• Supports both ‘Left to Right’ and ‘Right to Left’ languages.(*NEW*)
• Mobile Phone/PDA Mode – Load Inout Search Engine on your mobile phone.(*NEW*)
• Set default language, location, theme, logo and other configurations specifically for mobile search.(*NEW*)
• Arithmetic conversion. Allows users to evaluate their arithmetic expression using web search.(*NEW*)
• Unit Conversion. Allows users to change one unit into its equivalent another standard. (eg: 1inch = 2.54 centimeters)(*NEW*)
• I’m feeling lucky button which helps users to find the webpage they are looking without browsing through the result pages.(*NEW*)
• Seasonal logos to start a new season trend for your search engine.(*NEW*)
• Suggests popular, possible related search keywords while users type in their keyword (search autofill), as like in Google and Bing.(*NEW*)
• Bad word filter for family safe search engines.
• Home page keyword cloud tags to show top searches.(*NEW*)
• Optional feature to turn off cloud tags when user selects a language other than default language.(*NEW*)
• Users can search based on a country.
• Optional feature to add a hidden theme/keyword for all the searches users make. Useful when you run a niche search engine.(*NEW*)
• Upload separate logos for home page and result page (Optional).(*NEW*)
• Show thumbshots along with each results
• Allow users to override thumbshots.(*NEW*)
• Quicklook along with results which allows users to load the result page in a frame under the result without changing the browser location.
• Allow users to override quicklook.(*NEW*)
• Email a friend link with each result.
• Spelling suggestion.(*NEW*)
• Prioritize your own results and show them ahead of regular search results.(*NEW*)
• Embedding with Inout Adserver for sponsored results.(*NEW*)
• Show search keywords in result as bold text.
• Show new window icon next to each result.
• Show related keywords in the result page.(*NEW*)
• Create public page display themes from admin area.(*NEW*)
• You may optionally allow users to choose their desired themes.(*NEW*)
• Mix popular image results in its web search as like in google and yahoo.(*NEW*)
• Allows users to show full size images directly from the image results page.
• Cache result in DB for longer periods to reduce the API calls and response time.

shot with each result.

• Improved and fast cache mechanism by balancing load using 27 clusters.(*NEW*)
• HTML code to show search box in third party websites (*NEW*)
• Show full size images in lightbox/normal window/popup window.(*NEW*)
• Fully template driven allowing easy and complete control and customization of all pages.

The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 7, which is still not a recommended version to run on production servers. More than 85 issues were fixed since beta 6 release.
See the full changelog.

Skimming through websites and magazines about the advantages of getting a help desk software, you find that most of them focus on how it could help your customers and your help desk team. So you’re bound to wonder how a software could possibly help boost your company. In all actuality, a help desk software would benefit everyone involved, from your help desk team and your customers to your own company. Here are some of the known benefits:

• Boosts up your customer’s satisfaction. A help desk software mainly works by tracking and managing information. This will help increase your help desk’s efficiency thereby increasing the quality of your customer support. This, in turn, will make the customers happier and more satisfied with the services given to them.
• Gives you the ability to hire offshore employees. A help desk software can work around the globe through interconnectivity and the powers of the Internet. You can cut costs and even look for better help desk team members by hiring people from different countries because software now supports different languages. Plus, you can allow your employees to work from home.
• Has helpful features. Now you might think a software is only there to manage and track information. But it has additional features that could still help you save time and energy. For example, it has an automated e-mailing function so you won’t have to copy and paste everything manually. It also generates a news feed that will inform customers of trending issues filed by them thus reducing largely pointless phone calls. Furthermore, the software could also limit the calls or e-mails sent by your clientele which is pretty helpful considering the number of people submitting everyday.
• Enhances internal communication between several departments. You no longer have to set up announcements over new announcements which disrupt work hours. Now, you can merely send your help desk team messages that they will read as soon as it hits their system. They could also send issues to you or to a department in the company with just a click of the button.
• Information limitations. There are simply things in a company that shouldn’t be seen by a help desk technician or the customers. A help desk software will limit any third-parties from seeing valuable and needless information thereby protecting privacy and anonymity of your customers, your help desk team and your company.

A help desk software could offer numerous benefits for a company. So if you want nothing less but topnotch customer support, getting a software is inevitable.