Your Weekly Devot:ee - December 16, 2010

This week I’d like to draw your attention to the latest version of Socialee (1.2) from Shotwell Company, which is compatible with EE 2. With Socialee, you can accept registrations via Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Gmail, LinkedIn and more. Socially publish custom comments, entries, or any page to users’ status updates. You can also fill out profiles automatically with Facebook Connect. If you’re looking to add that Social Media Special Sauce to your site, you owe it to yourself to give this add-on a look.

Here is the list of new add-ons to come out over the past week:

• Safe Harbor (for EE1) by Tom Jaeger (EE Harbor)
  Automated daily backups of your ExpressionEngine websites (Files & DB).  Also includes the ability to create manual backups of your site on demand.
• Kyara (for EE2) by Nicolas Bottari
  Kyara is an addon which performs small modification to your ExpressionEngine database to enable longer maximum characters in a number of control panel fields, such as entry title and custom field labels, changing database tables to specified collation/character sets, and backing up your database in an easy and flexible way.
• Mornin (for EE2) by ThoseGeeks
  Depending on the server time, returns the string “morning”, “afternoon”, or “evening” into your template.
• Google/Yahoo Sitemap Ping (for EE1) by Media Cow
  Pings Google and/or Yahoo.
• Static Fields (for EE1) by Media Cow
  Pre-populate static fields on your publish page
• Hidee (for EE2) by Cem Meric
  Hide some stuff in ExpressionEngine 2’s control panel
• Usability (for EE2) by Alex Kendrick
  Higher contrast, monospace text for input and textarea in the CP. Correct cursor type for clickable or draggable elements. Restores field re-order handles for NSM Morphine Theme.
• Last Updated (for EE2) by Alex Kendrick
  A simple plugin that returns the edit date of the most recently updated template or channel entry. Accepts EE date variable formatting.
• Mega Upload (for EE2) by DevDemon
  Mega Upload allows you to take a single field and upload files of any size to an ExpressionEngine entry. The field shows upload progress and does not require the entry to be submitted to upload.
• Edit This (for EE2) by Thanh Vuong
  Similar to Editor for EE1.x. This extension adds a little ‘one click away’ edit link or image next to your channel entries on your website.
• Current (for EE2) by Green Egg Media
  Creates {current_url}, {total_url_segments}, and {last_url_segment} global variables based on the current page.