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SP Stock uses the Yahoo stock API to display stock data about various companies easily within a Joomla Module position. This is perfect for a news or portal site, and is free to download and use.

Developers at corePHP, makers of extensions such as WordPress for Joomla and jomCDN, have offered a 25% off sale to celebrate Labor Day and Back to School. The discount is available for all corePHP Joomla products.

JomSocial's new service is still in Beta mode; however, there is a demo site to familiarize yourself with the offering, and this new option could be perfect for those needing a good social media solution for their Joomla websites but who don't want the hassle of maintaining infrastructure.

SiteGround, a popular web hosting company with over 80,000 Joomla installations, has announced the launch of their six month long project to update and refresh the working area for users. The improvements add a completely new file structure as well as a much improved front-end.

This week I interview ... myself. Well with some help from Robert, our forum moderator, blog writer and customer service wizard! If you've ever been curious about my background or what Robert sounds like, this audio recording is for you! This is the first in what I hope will be a regular series of recordings from interesting people in the Joomla world. Click the continue reading link to head to the audio player.

Joomlage's newest prefab template is a versatile, elegant design that makes great use of white space.  The easy to navigate template allows for quick browsing to a variety of relevant on-site locations without removing an easy to browse front page for news and blog posts.  Like most major Joomla releases in recent months, Impressions is built around Responsive design protocol. All of the white space and easy to click images are rearranged on mobile devices like smart phones and tablets to make for an easier viewing experience automatically.

Anyone using the Komento Joomla extension should mosey over to StackIdeas official site and download a brand new hotfix to plug a few holes in Komento's code.   Although rare, it seems that a serious bug has been discovered which can cause a site to crash if it is not fixed. Komento users can download the patch here.  StackIdeas also offers the relevant source code for users to FTP onto their site if they're not interested in running a software patch.  From start to finish, the patching process should take less than five minutes, so there's no reason to delay!

ACL (Access Control List):

Joomla's ACL offers a way of securing content and "controlling access" to certain objects and functions within a website. There are two aspects to the ACL in Joomla, who can view things and who can do things in regards to content and various actions available to users.

Joomla's Access Control List determines things like who can see certain articles and other media published on a website as well as who can add and edit content and media. It also determines who can access the Administrator and what they can see and do while they are logged in.

Joomlashack has released version 3 of their in house Joomla Template Framework named Wright. This latest version has been made responsive in keeping with the mobile first philosophy in web design. Billed as a very lightweight, fast loading framework, Wright is said to be built to remain "future proof."

Based on a custom framework, Sociality is a new responsive Joomla Template available on ThemeForest and specifically designed for the social networking extension Jomsocial. ThemeForest elite author, Hogash, has created this theme with enough flexibility and features to use as a main website template as well.