Quick Articles is a module for joomla 1.5, joomla 1.6 and joomla 1.7 that displays articles from categories of your joomla.  With this module you can extract images and text from your Joomla articles.

• Load Images from Image Directory
• Load Image and text from joomla articles
• Load article from multiple category
• Sort Article by date and Ascending/Descending Order
• Set Text limit for intro text
• Generate Thumbnail image
• Link on Image/Text

Check the demo here.