Promote Your Calendar Using This Web Site
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- Created: 27 January 2015 27 January 2015
If you have enabled Zap Calendar for iCalendar downloads, or if you are looking for a calendar to import into Zap Calendar, then this site may be for you. The iCalShare.com web site provides a directory of downloadable calendars. You can download any of the thousands of calendars available on the site and import them into Zap Calendar, or you can promote your own calendar by sharing it with others using this site.
Dutch Language File Released for Zap Calendar
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- Created: 31 December 2014 31 December 2014
Zap Calendar has released its first language file for Zap Calendar 4. The Dutch language file is available for both the front-end and back-end of Zap Calendar, and can be downloaded from the subscription page.
We are working on other translations, but we need your help. To help with a translation, go to the Zap Calendar page at transifex.com and sign up to be a translator. Translators can receive additional time to their Zap Calendar subscription for their efforts.
Joomla! Retires Version 2.5 With Final Release
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- Created: 31 December 2014 31 December 2014
Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?
Just as in the song, "Auld Lang Syne", our old friend Joomla! 2.5 retired at the end of 2014 with the final release 2.5.28. Our old friend has been replaced with a new friend, Joomla! version 3. Since this is the last expected release for Joomla! 2.5, current 2.5 sites should be migrated as soon as possible to Joomla! 3.x to avoid potential security issues in the future. If you are using Zap Calendar with a Joomla! 2.5 site, read this article on methods on migrating your Zap Calendar data to Joomla! 3.x.
Zap Calendar 4 was developed for Joomla version 3.x exclusively and has been available for over 1 year. Nearly all of the 30+ add-ons that were available in Zap Calendar 3 are available in Zap Calendar 4, including a few new ones. This new version has incorporated many of the new features introduced in Joomla! 3.x, including GUI improvements utilizing jQuery, Bootstrap and icoMoon fonts.
If you need to upgrade Zap Calendar and your subscription has expired, don't worry. You can renew your subscription at the renewal price by logging into your account at ZContent.net and clicking the renew or upgrade buttons on your subscription page.
Introducing Zap Calendar Lite
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- Created: 16 December 2014 16 December 2014
We have recently released Zap Calendar Lite, a free version of the Zap Calendar application for Joomla. Now with 4 versions to choose from, Zap Calendar provides a calendar solution to suit everyone's budget. Zap Calendar Lite is built upon 8 years of development and provides these features:
- Extensive iCalendar support for exporting a single event or an entire calendar
- Joomla SEF support
- AJAX support for displaying calendars by month, week, day and year
- RSS feed for upcoming events
- Multiple calendars supported with different layouts to choose from
- Multiple time zone support
- Automatic e-mailing of upcoming events
- Add-ons for displaying upcoming events, mini-month display, searching and category filtering
- Advanced event management for supporting multiple categories per event, repeating events, removing or editing an event within a repeating series, and batch editing
- Front end adding and editing events
- Group events by location/venue
Click here for a comparison of the features of the 4 Zap Calendar versions, including Zap Calendar Lite. To download Zap Calendar Lite, login or create an account and navigate to the "My ZApps" page.
Note: The support forum is not available to Zap Calendar Lite users. To use the support forum, you must have an active subscription to either the Basic, Standard or Pro versions of Zap Calendar.
Zap Calendar 101: Back End Administration (video)
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- Created: 12 October 2014 12 October 2014
We have just released the second video in our Zap Calendar 101 series. This new video demonstrates the back end administration of Zap Calendar. If you are new to Zap Calendar or even if have used Zap Calendar for a while, you should learn something from this video. This video will also help those who are not yet Zap Calendar users but are thinking about using it in their projects.
In case you missed it, our first Zap Calendar 101 video about the Google Maps plugin is available by clicking here.
Zap Calendar 4.0.15 Has "Something For Everyone"
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- Created: 23 September 2014 23 September 2014
We have been working hard this past month and are very excited to tell you about our latest release of Zap Calendar. Version 4.0.15 has "something for everyone", including one or two cool items that we think will make you smile. Read on to see if we were right.
National Weather Service Affected by Abusing Android App
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- Created: 04 September 2014 04 September 2014
The National Weather Service (NWS), the weather service used by Zap Weather, was severely impacted last week due to what appears to be a badly written Android app. Details on the name of the app and the exact cause have not been disclosed. Unlike this app, however, Zap Weather behaves nicely with the NWS by caching its weather data it receives from the NWS to minimize data loads between your Joomla site and the NWS. Our guess is that this app did not cache its data, causing a network load on the NWS servers as more people downloaded and used the app. You can read more about it in an article from mashable.com.
Zap Calendar Version 4.0.14 Now Available
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- Created: 02 September 2014 02 September 2014
Version 4.0.14 of Zap Calendar is the sixth release of Zap Calendar since we announced the first production release 3 months ago. There has been a flurry of activity in the past 3 months with new features, new add-ons and bug fixes. With several new add-ons released in this version, the number of add-ons in Zap Calendar's library has reached 30. You can see a listing of all add-ons on this page. If you have not updated your Zap Calendar site recently, now is a great time to do so. You can see a detailed history of what's new in the change log, or you can continue to read about Zap Calendar release highlights from the past 3 months.
Back to School: 6 Reasons Why Zap Calendar is Best for School Web Sites
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- Created: 11 August 2014 11 August 2014
With school starting for many students this month, We thought this would be a great time to give you 6 reasons why Zap Calendar may just be the best Joomla calendar application for school web sites.
Read more: Back to School: 6 Reasons Why Zap Calendar is Best for School Web Sites
6 Things You Didn't Know Zap Calendar Could Do
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- Created: 15 July 2014 15 July 2014
Zap Calendar is a powerful calendar system for Joomla, but you may not know that Zap Calendar can promote your events outside of your web site. Here are 6 things you didn't know Zap Calendar could do.