Quasar Free GPL Joomla Template

Quasar is a Joomla template by RocketTheme (http://www.rockettheme.com).

Some of the features are

1. Free and released under the GPL license

2. CSS drop down menu

3. 6 preset styles/themes - 3 light and 3 dark in red, blue and green variants. You can also edit a style and save it as a custom style.

4. The template supports upto 60 module positions. This is quite high when compared to most other templates.

5. From the backend you can choose the font family to use for the pages. I found this quite useful rather than having to edit the css files.

6. There are many more options which you can edit in the backend to fully customise the template as per your needs

There was one drawback which i noticed. One of my requirements for a template is a rounded module and module borders. With my basic CSS knowledge i couldn't get it to work.

For a demo of the template - http://demo.rockettheme.com/?template=quasar

And to download and for more information - http://www.rockettheme.com/joomla-templates/quasar

Another free GPL template recently released by RocketTheme is the Grunge template. The look and design is different from the Quasar template but most of the module positions, the backend options are quite similar.

For a demo of the grunge template - http://demo.rockettheme.com/?template=grunge

For further information and download - http://www.rockettheme.com/joomla-templates/grunge

NX instead of VNC

Sometime back i need to access one of my Linux servers from home. The Linux server could be directly accessed via the internet and i was concerned about an unencrypted connection. I have to admit that i couldn't get a VNC server client setup correctly as i was in a hurry to get things going.

But then i hit across the NX client and server (www.nomachine.com). The linux edition i downloaded was free and apparently the connection is encrypted. All i had to do was install the client, server and node packages on the server and the client package on my desktop and run 'nxclient' on my desktop. Worked fine for me and the connection was fast.