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After years of carrying the company on his back, employee reaches breaking point when his boss informs him he needs more ‘coaching’: ‘Do you even know how to do the work?’

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:00:00 -0800

It seems like the higher you climb in the corporate world, the less work you actually do. Otherwise, how can you explain that every CEO in the world seems to do absolutely nothing in their own company? They come to the office twice a week at best, wander around for an hour, have a meeting or two with the people who actually have work, and then go home.

What is even more annoying, is that those types of bosses have no appreciation for the people beneath them, who work extremely hard to keep the company going, like the employee who wrote this Reddit story. OP (original poster), is the only employee left in the company who didn't give up on their CEO. He has watched everyone else quit, and yet he stayed to make sure someone in the company actually does any of the work. That was until his hopeless boss told OP he needed more 'coaching' from him, which made OP understand just how much his boss cares about his company.

Keep scrolling to read the full tale. After you are done, click here for a story of a new hire who got fired 10 minutes into their shift.


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'She didn't actually quit': CEO fires assistant after she spends $2k on fake farewell party with company funds

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:00:00 -0800

There's something universally awkward about office parties—whether it's the forced mingling, the questionable food choices, or that one coworker who takes "open bar" a little too literally. Most of us just try to blend into the crowd, avoid making eye contact with our managers, and hope the night ends without too many cringe-worthy moments. But for one unfortunate team, a party to celebrate an employee's resignation was nothing more than a "social experiment."

It's one thing to make a grand exit when you're moving on to bigger things, but this employee decided to throw herself a farewell bash complete with company-funded catering, decorations, and a custom cake... all while the CEO was on out of the office. The CEO returned from a conference to find her assistant had announced her departure in a company-wide email and threw a party on the company's dime, just to admit she was never really leaving in the first place. 


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'Did they think they were gonna make money from their wedding?': Newlyweds "devastated" after only gaining $3k from wedding instead of the $10k they expected

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:00:00 -0800

This newly-married couple is going to be in a world of debt after throwing a lavish wedding that didn't exactly pay off. 

Weddings these days are a bit different than they were 50 years ago. Besides the obvious changes in decorum and decoration, there's a whole new tradition around gift-giving. Many couples choose to live together before marriage these days, which can be quite beneficial. You can learn if you are compatible with someone before legally declaring it forever. However, if you live with someone for a few years before marriage, you'll have to buy everything for your house in the meantime. In the past, couples were just starting out, and would move in together after marrying. Their gifts would often include cookware, baby items, furniture, or other presents designed to start a new couple off in their home. 

Nowadays, you may as well give the newlyweds some cash. They probably have a lot of furniture and pots and pans already. But they might be going severely into debt to pull off their dream wedding, just like the couple here. It's an eye-opening read, as shared by @kaylajohnsonatl. Commenters debated the state of gift-giving these days–check it all out below. 

After that, this interviewer lamented that "[It] is just really tacky" after noticing that a job candidate did something that gave him pause. 


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Wedding guest asked to leave when blacklight turns her dress into a banned color during the reception: 'I wore a dress that looks white under a black light'

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:00:00 -0800

You don't wear white to a well-lit or naturally-lit normal wedding. Apparently, you also don't wear yellow to a blacklight wedding either—so says this bridal party who asked a guest to leave after declaring her yellow dress to be inappropriate under the chosen ambient lighting.

While we've read about some ridiculous situations where wedding guests have worn what might-as-well-be wedding dresses to their friend's or family member's wedding affairs, I think it's fair to say that this is not one of those situations. Of course, if you were a bee or a butterfly or some other creature that can see the ultraviolet spectrum, you might be able to be willingly held accountable for wearing such a color. 

I thought blacklights were pretty cool, too, when I was a teenager, but I can't imagine having blacklights for such an event as a wedding now. Still, accusing someone of not anticipating the lighting of the wedding reception is strange and petty, especially when the bride herself didn't seem to care.


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New hire gets fired 10 minutes into their shift after boss claims they were ‘not being proactive’, coworker reveals it was not the first time this happened: ‘I was the 4th person they hired’

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:00:00 -0800

Everyone remembers their first real job, the place that kickstarted their career and made them who they are today. And since everyone remembers that experience, no matter how much time passed, it shouldn't be hard to be nice to those who are just starting out.

If every boss would recall their first week at their job, they would remember how stressful it is to prove themselves, and they would remember how important it is to have the right guidance, to have someone who can train you and help you get the ropes of the job on those first days. 

However, instead of providing that guidance to new hires, bosses insist on doing the exact opposite, while some go as far as firing people if they don't show the right 'initiative' on their first days. Much like the boss in this Reddit story, who fired their new hire 10 minutes into the shift simply because they thought it would be wise to wait for instructions, and not act on their own.

Keep scrolling to read the full story, and let us know in the comments down below what you think of the situation. After you are done, check out this story of a parking dispute between two store owners.


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'Just remember that in da clurrb, we all fam': Boss sends fake message to his team only to start layoffs the next day

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 11:00:00 -0800

This is definitely not the tone you want to set before firing a bunch of people on your team! 

This boss had the audacity to send a team-wide message to boost everyone's morale by including the overused colloquial statement, "just remember that in da clurrb, we all fam." Yes, it was written that exact way, and no, this message did not get the intended reaction from its audience. Instead, this toxic boss's employees responded with confusion, frustration, and eye-rolls about how outdated and desperate their employer was acting. 

Well, their frustrations did not stop there because the very next day, their boss decided to begin a well-planned series of layoffs across the team. The Redditor, who shared the initial team-wide email for all of us to mock, was one of the unfortunate employees to be let go from the company. However, in the long run, perhaps he was spared because who wants a boss like that?

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more, check out this post about a hybrid employee who demanded a $15k raise if they were going to make him come into the office five days a week.


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See What Happens When They Don't Listen To The Lady?

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:28:28 -0700

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I TOLD those scientists they should be finding a cure for breast cancer instead of playing around with that atomic energy nonsense, but NO....


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BETTY INSISTED ON USING STRAWS

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:31:53 -0700


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A Little Precaution Goes a Long Way

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 05:03:46 -0800

Alas, if Lord Grenley and I had used a little Trojan then, we wouldn't have to feed the little Trojan now


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At least he can say the bear never laid a glove on him!

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:10:36 -0700


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Video: Dillon Butcher Shows The Meaning of Effortless in 'Symbiosis'

By www.pinkbike.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 PST



Sit back and enjoy as Dillon floats through the forest.
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Transition Releases New Youth MTB Lineup

By www.pinkbike.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 PST



A new 20” hardtail, a redesigned 24” full suspension, and a 27.5” young adult full suspension bike.
( Photos: 8, Comments: 40 )


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Review into rail fare-dodging enforcement after ‘egregious’ prosecutions

By www.independent.co.uk
Published On :: 2024-11-13T13:32:25+00:00

‘Where people have made genuine mistakes they shouldn’t be prosecuted’ says transport secretary Louise Haigh


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One of Italy’s most beautiful cities issues 10-point plan to tackle overtourism

By www.independent.co.uk
Published On :: 2024-11-13T13:44:06+00:00

The city has repeatedly pressed for a special regulation from the national government


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New CrossCountry train service will directly connect Wales, England and Scotland for the first time

By www.independent.co.uk
Published On :: 2024-11-13T15:05:54+00:00

The service will run between Edinburgh and Cardiff passing through Birmingham New Street


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Spirit Airlines ‘prepares to file for bankruptcy after Frontier merger talks break down’

By www.independent.co.uk
Published On :: 2024-11-13T15:08:39+00:00

The airline reported a revenue decrease of $61m compared to the same time last year


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Cận vệ Chủ tịch nước Lương Cường bị tố 'lạm dụng tình dục': phản ứng của các bên

By www.bbc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:45:57 GMT

Dư luận Chile đã có những phản ứng mạnh mẽ sau vụ việc một cận vệ của Chủ tịch nước Lương Cường bị cáo buộc lạm dụng tình dục trong khi đoàn Việt Nam đang có chuyến thăm chính thức Chile.


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New Study On Moons of Uranus Raises Chance of Life

By science.slashdot.org
Published On :: 2024-11-13T10:00:00+00:00

A new analysis of data from NASA's Voyager 2 mission reveals that the planet Uranus and its five largest moons might harbor subsurface oceans and potential conditions for life. The BBC reports: Much of what we know about them was gathered by Nasa's Voyager 2 spacecraft which visited nearly 40 years ago. But a new analysis shows that Voyager's visit coincided with a powerful solar storm, which led to a misleading idea of what the Uranian system is really like. [...] So, for 40 years we have had an incorrect view of what Uranus and its five largest moons are normally like, according to Dr William Dunn of University College London. "These results suggest that the Uranian system could be much more exciting than previously thought. There could be moons there that could have the conditions that are necessary for life, they might have oceans below the surface that could be teeming with fish!". It has been nearly 40 years since Voyager 2 last flew past the icy world and its moons. Nasa has plans to launch a new mission, the Uranus Orbiter and Probe, to go back for a closer look in 10 years' time. According to Nasa's Dr Jamie Jasinski, whose idea it was to re-examine the Voyager 2 data, the mission will need to take his results into account when designing its instruments and planning the scientific survey. "Some of the instruments for the future spacecraft are very much being designed with ideas from what we learned from Voyager 2 when it flew past the system when it was experiencing an abnormal event. So we need to rethink how exactly we are going to design the instruments on the new mission so that we can best capture the science we need to make discoveries." Nasa's Uranus probe is expected to arrive by 2045, which is when scientists hope to find out whether these far-flung icy moons, once thought of as being dead worlds, might have the possibility of being home to life. The findings have been published in the journal Nature Astronomy.

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Apple Defends Mac Mini Power Button Relocation

By apple.slashdot.org
Published On :: 2024-11-13T14:41:00+00:00

Apple executives have defended the relocation of the power button to the bottom of its new M4 Mac mini, citing the computer's significantly reduced size as the driving factor behind the design change. In a Bilibili video interview, Apple's Greg Joswiak and John Ternus explained that the Mac mini's form factor, now half the size of its predecessor, necessitated finding a new position for the power button. The executives said that the bottom placement allows for convenient access despite initial user criticism.

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Secret Service Says You Agreed To Be Tracked With Location Data

By yro.slashdot.org
Published On :: 2024-11-13T16:02:00+00:00

An anonymous reader shares a report: Officials inside the Secret Service clashed over whether they needed a warrant to use location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on smartphones, with some arguing that citizens have agreed to be tracked with such data by accepting app terms of service, despite those apps often not saying their data may end up with the authorities, according to hundreds of pages of internal Secret Service emails obtained by 404 Media. The emails provide deeper insight into the agency's use of Locate X, a powerful surveillance capability that allows law enforcement officials to follow a phone, and person's, precise movements over time at the click of a mouse. In 2023, a government oversight body found that the Secret Service, Customs and Border Protection, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement all used their access to such location data illegally. The Secret Service told 404 Media in an email last week it is no longer using the tool. "If USSS [U.S. Secret Service] is using Locate X, that is most concerning to us," one of the internal emails said. 404 Media obtained them and other documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Secret Service.

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Women jailed over sadistic monkey torture videos

By www.bbc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 18:56:27 GMT

The judge describes Holly Le Gresley and Adriana Orme's actions as "abhorrent and sadistic".


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Connor McGregor tells court sex with rape accuser was consensual

By www.bbc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:41:31 GMT

Irish mixed martial artist Conor McGregor claimed to have had consensual sex with a woman who is accusing him of rape, a court has heard.


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Church at precarious moment after Welby resignation

By www.bbc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:02:50 GMT

Justin Welby behaved like a politician and in some ways has faced the downfall of one, writes religion editor Aleem Maqbool.


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Why the name switch from Snowdonia to Eryri matters

By www.bbc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:59:33 GMT

For many Welsh speakers, Eryri and Yr Wyddfa are the names they have used all along.


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Gary Lineker steps down as Sports Personality host

By www.bbc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:27:08 GMT

The news comes a day after confirmation that he will leave the BBC's Match of the Day.


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People smuggler convicted of £1.5m small boats operation

By www.bbc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:50:27 GMT

Pistiwan Jameel described migrants as "pigeons" or "sticks" as he facilitated illegal crossings.


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Daniel Khalife denies asking Iran for help after prison escape

By www.bbc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:39:14 GMT

The former soldier has pleaded guilty to escaping from prison but still faces other charges.


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Homebase collapses into administration with 2,000 jobs at risk

By www.bbc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:54:04 GMT

Homebase enters administration, but The Range buys up to 70 stores and the brand.


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Year-long action plan to combat diabetes to be launched on World Diabetes Day - The Hindu

By news.google.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:36:00 GMT

  1. Year-long action plan to combat diabetes to be launched on World Diabetes Day  The Hindu
  2. World Diabetes Day 2024  PIB
  3. World Diabetes Day: Why diabetes is more than abnormal blood sugar level  The Times of India
  4. World Diabetes Day 2024: 10 Foods That Are Secretly Increasing Your Risk Of Diabetes  NDTV
  5. World Diabetes Day 2024: 5 ways to detect diabetes quickly  Health shots


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After Sunita Williams, NASA now worried about her stranded mission partner's losing body mass - Hindustan Times

By news.google.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:22:47 GMT

  1. After Sunita Williams, NASA now worried about her stranded mission partner's losing body mass  Hindustan Times
  2. "My Body Has Changed, But....": Sunita Williams On Health Aboard Space Station  NDTV
  3. Stranded Sunita Williams dismisses severe weight loss rumours, says she feels ‘healthier than ever’  The Times of India
  4. Sunita Williams explains reason behind her changed appearance in space | 'They have routine checks, dedicated surgeons' | Inshorts  Inshorts
  5. Inside Sunita Williams' extended mission: What she’s doing in space  India Today


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'I have found ways...': Ravichandran Ashwin gives an insight on his mind games with Steve Smith - The Times of India

By news.google.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:16:00 GMT

  1. 'I have found ways...': Ravichandran Ashwin gives an insight on his mind games with Steve Smith  The Times of India
  2. 'I have figured out Steve Smith': R Ashwin tries to get inside Australia star's head ahead of India's series opener  Hindustan Times
  3. 'His Time At Delhi Capitals...': R Ashwin Reveals How He Broke Steve Smith's Sound Game Plans  News18
  4. BGT 2024-25: Ashwin says over the years he found ways to break Smith's 'sound game plans'  Daijiworld.com
  5. I've found ways and means to break it down: Ashwin on Smith's batting  The Hindu


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Rohit Shetty gives an update on Deepika’s Lady Singham - 123telugu

By news.google.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:30:00 GMT

  1. Rohit Shetty gives an update on Deepika’s Lady Singham  123telugu
  2. Rohit Shetty Confirms A Standalone Film On Deepika's Lady Singham: 'There's A Reason...' | Exclusive  News18
  3. Rohit Shetty CONFIRMS a standalone film on Deepika Padukone's cop character from Singham Again: 'Otherwis  TOI Etimes
  4. Rohit Shetty confirms Lady Singham with Deepika Padukone, promises action-packed spin-off  Moneycontrol
  5. Deepika's cop character in 'Singham...' to get a solo film: Rohit | Ajay Devgn & Ranveer are part of 'Singham...' | Inshorts  Inshorts


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John Krasinski reveals wife Emily Blunt's reaction to his Sexiest Man Alive title - Hindustan Times

By news.google.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:21:12 GMT

  1. John Krasinski reveals wife Emily Blunt's reaction to his Sexiest Man Alive title  Hindustan Times
  2. Actor John Krasinski Named 'Sexiest Man Alive' Of 2024 By People Magazine  NDTV
  3. Is Jim from The Office really the sexiest man in the world?  The Guardian
  4. Not Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Leonardo Dicaprio, Chris Evans, or Tom Cruise, THIS actor is the sexiest  India.com
  5. John Krasinski Is PEOPLE's 2024 Sexiest Man Alive!  PEOPLE


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Global carbon market gets green signal at COP29 under Paris Agreement's Article 6 - The Hindu

By news.google.com
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 06:48:00 GMT

  1. Global carbon market gets green signal at COP29 under Paris Agreement's Article 6  The Hindu
  2. Why India and China have pushed against climate change-related trade measures at COP29  The Indian Express
  3. COP29: G77, China agree to use new NCQG draft text as basis for finance negotiations  The New Indian Express
  4. Video | UN Scientists Warn Of 'Rising Emissions' Worldwide  NDTV
  5. COP29 gets momentum with consensus on creation of carbon credits standards, India wants to conclude work  The Times of India


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Watch: Nitish Kumar bows to touch PM’s feet at Bihar event. Here’s how Modi reacted - Moneycontrol

By news.google.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 13:12:17 GMT

  1. Watch: Nitish Kumar bows to touch PM’s feet at Bihar event. Here’s how Modi reacted  Moneycontrol
  2. Watch: PM Modi's unexpected gesture as Nitish Kumar bows down to touch his feet  The Times of India
  3. Nitish Kumar tries to touch PM's feet at Bihar event. Modi does this next  India Today
  4. PM Modi lays foundation stone for AIIMS Darbhanga in Bihar, says NDA Govt committed to welfare of people  The Hindu
  5. PM Modi states ‘1 lakh medical seats in India’, vows to add ‘75,000 more’, lays foundation stone of AIIMS in Bihar  Mint


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Frontpage SlideShow

By www.joomlaworks.net
Published On :: Thu, 03 Mar 2022 21:04:59 +0200

Now fully responsive & Joomla 1.5 - 3.x compatible!

Frontpage SlideShow is the easiest & most eye-catching way to display your featured articles or products in your Joomla website.




It creates an uber cool slideshow with text snippets laying on top of images, in a variety of templates and combined effects.

Frontpage SlideShow allows you to create multiple slideshows within your Joomla website (in different pages or even on the same page), comes with 8 uniquely styled templates, a powerful jQuery based slideshow engine with crossfade & carousel based transitions, text effects, statistics and can retrieve content automatically from Joomla articles/menus, K2 items and Virtuemart/HikaShop products!

Frontpage SlideShow is a pure CSS & JavaScript based slideshow system, which means it's dead simple to customize and it's both SEO and tablet/mobile friendly (in iOS, Android or Windows 8 smartphones & tablets).

And don't worry about how you'll manage your slideshows. Unlike other expensive/copycat implementations, Frontpage Slideshow has a dedicated Joomla backend component which you use to effortlessly manage your slideshows. Easy and fast.

Moreover, it now natively supports content fetching from K2 and the most popular e-commerce components for Joomla: Virtuemart (versions 2.x & 3.x) and HikaShop. That means you quickly make up your slides just by selecting the source (e.g. a K2 item) and Frontpage Slideshow will fetch in a snap the title, description text and associated image!

 

FEATURES

  • Fully compatible with Joomla 1.5 - 3.x
  • Lightweight & frontend optimized slideshow engine, based on jQuery, offering crossfade & carousel transition effects between slides, lava-lamp style navigation, progress bar and text transition effects. That means you have 24 different effect combinations to use!
  • 9 slideshow templates to get you started. Customizing them is very easy as all fonts, font-sizes, colors etc. are controlled by CSS. Building your own is a joy if you know your way around with MVC templating in Joomla.
  • Responsive as of v3.10.
  • The slide creation process is dead simple to use through guided steps.
  • Drag and drop slide re-ordering (per category) in the backend.
  • Integration with Joomla articles and the most popular Joomla content extensions like K2, Virtuemart (2.x & 3.x) & HikaShop. That means Frontpage Slideshow can import the title, text, link and associated image from such components with a single clicks. For example, if you want to create a slide from a K2 item, all you have to do is select that K2 item and Frontpage Slideshow will automatically populate all slide fields, which you are free of course to edit as you wish!
  • You can now display your slideshows either via the module (or multiple module copies) or via the new component view. That means you can create a direct menu link to a specific slideshow, so you can e.g. assign a slideshow to your homepage, without messing with module positions and funky module display conditions. This option is ideal for portfolio based websites that want to assign slideshows directly to Joomla menu items.
  • Multiple slideshows in your Joomla website, even on the same page (thanks to new slideshow engine) - so you can have a slideshow fetched in the component region and an other in a module or in combinations you define.
  • Better slide image uploading using ajax (which means better previewing) and better slide image management (similar to K2's), with multiple copies of your original image created for better performance. And we got some cool new templates to show in the near future using these different size images...
  • Statistics! Frontpage Slideshow will now track (by default) all slideshow clicks and create beautiful statistics graphs in the backend, so you can visually see which are your most popular slides in various timeframes. Using Frontpage Slideshow to promote products? Now you can now which products draw your customers attention more! Statistics can of course be disabled at any time if you prefer SEO over click tracking.
  • Better server-side performance compared to version 2.x. A new caching layer for the module and the new slideshow content prefetching mechanism, which reduces the queries needed to retrieve slide content from third-party extensions (K2, Virtuemart & HikaShop). In high traffic or high content volume Joomla websites, this translates to significantly better performance.
  • Better image compression on both desktop and mobile browsers with the integration of a 3rd party web service. This can lead to up to 50% image size reduction and mobile optimized serving of images when your site is viewed in mobile browsers on iPhone/iPad/Android etc.
  • Full ACL integration with Joomla 2.5+.
  • New version/update notification in Joomla 2.5+.

The component's user interface is very clean and easy to learn. It consists of only 2 areas to edit: your slides and your categories (slideshows).

Additionally, the styling/customization of each slideshow is entirely HTML/CSS based. You have full control over the layout of the slideshow and you can easily style it to suit your needs. No other website will ever share the same looks as yours!

As with all our Joomla extensions, Frontpage Slideshow uses MVC template overrides - so you can modify existing templates or create your own from scratch without a) hacking core extension code and b) worrying about future updates breaking up your changes.

Frontpage Slideshow has been successfully tested in all major browsers. The prebundled slideshow templates are fully compatible with Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Edge and Internet Explorer version 7 and above.

SCREENSHOTS

Backend interface screenshots taken from Joomla 1.5 (which is nearly identical to Joomla 2.5) & Joomla 3.x. Frontpage Slideshow uses the Joomla backend design guidelines so it will match the design of all these Joomla versions, from 1.5 to 3.x.

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Discover Something New at Home this Holiday Season

By www.gadling.com
Published On :: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:15:00 EST

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Traveling "home" this holiday season? Don't fall into your old routine. Your high school hangout may be an easy go-to, but if you don't live there anymore there's a good chance you're missing out on some great new local spots. (Plus, be honest: you already know what all your classmates are up to from Facebook.)

We turned to local writers to help you rediscover your hometown over Thanksgiving and the winter holidays. Each city guide features a great new restaurant to try while you're in town, a cool neighborhood that wasn't on the radar last year or a store where you can pick up a keepsake to bring your old home back to your new home. We'll also catch you up to speed on the hot topics of conversation in each city, so you'll come back savvy enough to join the local sports banter or eat your holiday weight in Cronuts.

Click your city below to learn what's new since the last time you went home:

Continue reading Discover Something New at Home this Holiday Season

Discover Something New at Home this Holiday Season originally appeared on Gadling on Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Will You Be a Horrible Restaurant Customer This Holiday Season?

By www.gadling.com
Published On :: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:31:00 EST

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So you've finished your Thanksgiving dinner and you're finally sick of turkey leftovers. It's time to get out there and hit the great new restaurant that just opened in your hometown or wherever you're spending the holidays. (FYI: Aol Travel knows the hot restaurants in cities around the U.S.)

Wherever you go, remember that there are appropriate ways to behave. And there are horrible ways to behave, as highlighted in this Montreal Gazette story by two Montreal-area restaurant servers. Among other things, they urge:

Continue reading Will You Be a Horrible Restaurant Customer This Holiday Season?

Will You Be a Horrible Restaurant Customer This Holiday Season? originally appeared on Gadling on Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Demonstrations in Thailand? No Problem, Travelers Say.

By www.gadling.com
Published On :: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 11:26:00 EST

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The political protests currently taking place in parts of Bangkok don't seem to be affecting travel to and within Thailand. And that should be no surprise. Despite events -- a coup, floods and protests that closed an airport among them -- that have rocked the country in recent years, travelers remain unfazed about visiting Thailand.

Quartz reports:

Not only are tourists still coming, but they've been arriving in increasing numbers in recent years, according to government data.

The story adds:

Continue reading Demonstrations in Thailand? No Problem, Travelers Say.

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Where to Ski In Every State and 16 Ski Vacations Near Big U.S. Cities

By www.gadling.com
Published On :: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 11:29:00 EST

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The period after Thanksgiving isn't just the start of the holiday shopping season, it's typically the start of the ski season as well. To that end, AOL Travel has posted these two guides to ski vacations: Now you'll be able to cross off Ski in Alabama on your bucket list.

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Because There Aren't Enough Reasons to Visit San Diego in Winter, Now You Can Ice Skate

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Published On :: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:32:00 EST

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Top reasons to visit San Diego right now:

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Facebook, Instagram Release Top Checked-in Locations of 2013

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Published On :: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 14:23:00 EST

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Photo-sharing app Instagram and Facebook, a website your parents visit, released lists of their users most checked-in locations for 2013 earlier this week.

Congratulations to Disneyland for being the top U.S. spot for Facebook check-ins and the third most photographed location on Instagram. And props to all of Canada: its most checked-in location was a hockey arena.

Here are both lists.

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Sorry Indianapolis, You're No Longer the Sole Location Offering TSA PreCheck Enrollment Background Checks

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Published On :: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 15:07:00 EST

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Two weeks ago, the Transportation Security Administration announced that it would began allowing travelers to apply for its PreCheck program, "an expedited screening process" through airport security.

Curiously though, the only airport in the country where travelers could complete the program's required background interview was Indianapolis International Airport. That changed today when TSA opened three enrollment centers in the Washington, DC area. Interestingly, none of them are at DC-area airports. Nor are any of them in DC itself.

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London, Rome, Paris Top TripAdvisor's Most-Reviewed Cities List

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Published On :: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:11:00 EST

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The litany of year-end travel-related lists continues. Today, it's TripAdvisor, which unveiled its most reviewed cities. Leading the way: London, Rome and Paris, according to the Telegraph. The top U.S city was New York, which ranked fourth overall -- a stunning blow for American exceptionalism.

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