En Vogue Computers is proud to announce that we are the host of the inaugural Toronto Joomla! User Group Meeting. The meeting will take place at our offices on Monday the 25th of February. We love Joomla! and can't wait to meet other Joomla! evangelists.

What is Yahoo thinking? Yahoo decided (for fun I guess) to change the way one sends mail through Rogers Internet Service with a non-Rogers account. You now have to go to mail.yahoo.com and add any non-Rogers addresses into your Control Panel, or Yahoo! will block all your mail you send out with this address! You will receive the following cryptic message:

There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server. Please contact your system administrator. #5.5.0 smtp;553 From: address not verified; see http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/edit/alternate_email/index.html

The link leads you to a place, that if you dig hard enough, you may understand why your email is blocked. You are also trapped, as you cannot send through other outgoing mail servers with Rogers Home High Speed Internet.

Maybe they should change their name from Yahoo! to Duh!? It's one thing to make an annoying change like this; it's another to not tell inform your users about it! Shame, Yahoo; you have caused a ton of confusion. If you want to see how much, try typing the above error message into Google.

Blackberry has recently announced Blackberry Enterprise Server Small Business edition. The software is for 5 users and costs $1199; this is staggeringly cheaper than the $3599 they want for the full edition. At $1199, it seems pointless to have it hosted elsewhere as the cost will hit that amount within the first year!

Right now at Future Shop you can get a Tablet PC for the unheard of cost of $1099! That is about $500 cheaper than any I have ever seen! The model is from Hewlett Packard (TX 1000) and as I have bought one for myself, they are awesome!

A Tablet PC is a smallish laptop that converts into a book shape, allowing you to write directly on the screen. It is an incredible technology, to be sure.

En Vogue Computers has partnered with a Toronto-based Managed IP phone company that provides easy to manage phone systems. The systems are cheaper than traditional phone systems, and are much more flexible. They have exciting features such as cell phone twinning, where your cell phone as well as your desk phone ring when someone calls you. And they are paired with T1 Internet at a fraction of the usual cost for a T1! Contact us to find out how you can make your phone system more efficient with Managed IP!

The stable release of Joomla! 1.5 is now out, and it looks great! It is much easier to update your site, and the interface looks amazing! Also the language support is vastly improved.

Now we just have to wait until more extensions are developed, the major one being VirtueMart. The programming of extensions for Joomla! 1.5 is supposed to be easier, but only time will tell. Let's get behind this release, developers!