The latest Social Community Joomla Extension - Love Factory 1.6.5 allows users to interact in the same way they are used on larger dating or social networking sites, allowing also to use the full power of Joomla features. This Native Joomla 1.5.x MVC code does not require legacy plugin, and through 100% open source allows you to perform special tweaks for a better integration according to your needs.

Using a templating system (in this case we have a simple and an advanced system) your web site will keep a coherent look and a nice web 2.0 feeling. Read more..

Love Factory 1.6.5 released on October 15, 2010.  

• New feature: Videos section (embedded videos).
• New feature: Infobar buttons can now be enabled/disabled.
• New feature: possibility to set for each Infobar button the ItemId it will use.
• Fixed several small issues.

Auction Factory supports all common auction types including also Proxy Bidding. Auctions are supporting the usual Bids and BuyItNow features. Also they can be set as Private (bids are hidden to the public) or Public (bids are showed to the public). Among other options there is also the possibility to set up a auction as Automatic (winner will be automatically choosen) or Manual (the offertant will have to choose a winner).

The interface is very user friendly and you can track easily auctions and bids. In the backend panel, various administration features have been provided in order that the site admin can easily maintain control of the site and survey the auctions and bids. As payment methods PayPal and Moneebookers can be used or due to API webmasters can configure their own payment gateway. Read more...

auction Factory 1.7.3 released on September 28, 2010.   

• New feature: added Smarty cache status for administrator (warning if not writable).
• Optimization: notices stripped from States Filter Module
• Fixed several issues including save as default and save BIN Only where initial price was not displayed, default automatic value was not saved for BIN only auction, Auto-extend not adjusted to Auction component Time Offset, cancel auction when compulsory custom fields defined, loading language file on backend, Bin accept, UTF-8 for Java-script language files, start date on edit, etc.

RSS Factory PRO is a professional RSS Aggregator and RSS Reader for your Joomla Website. It brings different view styles that will enhance your website look and feel, category browsing to create that SEO edge you might need, different story display (no need to get your visitors off from your website), IMPORT to CONTENT, including the new and complex feature of FULL Story import from the Source website and many more... 

rss Factory PRO 1.7.0 released on September 28, 2010.  

• New feature: added several propreties to $story; $story->categoryId,$story->categoryName and $story->categoryDescription (for the cases the category parent is needed, the method RFProHelper::getStoryPath($story) should be used, which will return the full category path as an array of objects).
• New module: Category module.
• New module: Top Voted.
• New option: enable/disable overlib (tooltip) for channel string.
• New option: support for page-break on new article.
• New option for RSS module: max. nr. of stories per category.
• Fixed several issues including tooltip title in module, etc. 

The latest Social Community Joomla Extension - Love Factory 1.6 allows users to interact in the same way they are used on larger dating or social networking sites, allowing also to use the full power of Joomla features. This Native Joomla 1.5.x MVC code does not require legacy plugin, and through 100% open source allows you to perform special tweaks for a better integration according to your needs.

Using a templating system (in this case we have a simple and an advanced system) your web site will keep a coherent look and a nice web 2.0 feeling. Read more..

Love Factory 1.6.0 released on September 27, 2010. 

• New feature: added new system fields: a. Profile Rating, b. Spacer, c. Captcha field (using ReCaptcha service), d. Terms and conditions (Attention! Old Terms and Conditions will be lost! Save them manually and restore them after upgrade.)
• New feature: added Top Friends (enable/disable from backend, different values depending on the membership).
• New feature: added the possibility to differentiate memberships in search results using CSS classes. CSS file responsible is search.css found in [Joomla dir]/components/com_lovefactory/assets/css/views/. To style a membership add a CSS rule: ".lovefactory_membership_X" (replace X with the ID of the membership you want to style). Check CSS file for examples.
• New feature: added possibility to group members on search radius page.
• New feature: added possibility to define the default search field and order for search results.
• New feature: added possibility to define the number of friends shown on the profile page.
• New feature: added links to: view my profile, edit my profile, my gallery and my friends on the info bar for easier access. 
• New feature: Last Visited Module (displays a list of last visited members).
• New feature: Friends Birthday Module (shows who's friend's birthday is coming up: today, tomorrow, this week, this month).
• New feature: Users Statistics Module (shows the total number of registered members and for each gender).
• Improved search page adding Ajax pagination.
• Improved friends page adding Ajax pagination.
• Rewritten the frontend language file for easier customization and better maintainability. (Attention! The old language file will not work anymore, you will have to translate the new language file.)
• Several other improvements and fixed issues.