Joomla 1.6: Designed to offer a better user control of website and user management

Joomla is an open source Content Management System (CMS), popular and used from small firm to big organizations. Joomla can be use by any person without knowledge of programming, and it makes easy to handle the websites. Joomla is in competition with the fellow CMSs Drupal and WordPress for long time and remains it familiar among all.

Despite its success, Joomla has little weakness on existing versions of accessing permissions (website control) and user managements. However the latest version Joomla 1.6 designed to offer a better control of site and get more user management experience.

The new version designed with features and capabilities of hierarchical design of the access control system, semantic XHTML layouts, easy to extension updates and multilingual functionality.

Hierarchical design: This feature allows the site administrators and content creators, user-defined category levels for the creation of a category tree with as many or as levels for organizing articles and other content as needed.

Access Control System: The new features allows site Administrators to control over who can view and manage content

Semantic XHTML Layouts: This features allows to provide better content presentations

One-Click extension updates: Allows users to keep sites secured and controlled by simplifying the process of updating extension


Additionally, both developers and implementers will have enjoyment in allowing extensions to build with granular control and permissions to make it easier to create more advanced, enterprise-focused and extensions for Joomla.

Hangar 17 ICT is very excited about this beta release and looks forward to work with the complete version to experiment for its customers all around the world.

Google HotPot, Review and rate of items in your geographical location

Google, Giant search engine has unveiled a new product which is a support for geographical based finding and reviewing called Google HotPot. Google Hotpot let‘s you join the reviewers from Google’s partners and others in Google Places. It recommends places based on how you’ve rated similar things. I give you a quick run about Google HotPot.



First, once you have login your account you might see your friends there or you may invite others to get connect in. The idea behind this product is, if you rate or review a place it will be helpful for others may want to connect.
Google has said that “User’s ratings and reviews appear only on the places profiles, not in the Google profile. We have done this to ensure that users have control over how their reviews appear to the public” – Source from Searchengineland



Once you’ve done your profile with quite number of online friends, you can search places which are near you and rate them. The more items your rate, Google has predicted that these are the item highly recommended by you to the public.
Google has also motivate you to put against of others rating.
If you thing Google Hotpot is good for fun and social way, just go and signup and do your rate