03/09/06 08:57 - 54ºF - ID#30216

Chat Archives and Journal Music

[size=m]Chat Archives[/size]
I have finally dried out the latest 11,700 lines of estrip chat into an achive file. You can find it on the media page with all other chat since 2004 or simply click on the picture below.

That is a lot of lines for only 3 months.

[size=m]Journal Music[/size]
I have also made it so that your journal music can play by default if you uploaded an mp3 into the system using the your journal music control panel. If you want to change it so that the music does not play by default, which I would suggest - then just open up your preferences control panel - the red switch icon in your control panel - and set "Automatically Play Journal Music" to no.

Either way if someone has music loaded into their journal a play button will show up under their user pic. CLicking on it starts the music. If the music is on it turns into a red square. Clicking on the red square stops the music.

If the user has the music on by default the play button will default to a red square.

The journal sound on/sound off toggle now overides all sound on the page. I moved everything to the new system so you can toggle sound on an d off that way. You can also toggler sound off in your preferences control panel.

I should probably write help files about this. If something isn't working empty your cache before telling me. All sounds now require flash player 8. You can get it here

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Stay tuned, next I am going to work on the editing system and the profiles.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

03/09/06 01:25 - 53ºF - ID#30215

Sound Fix for Safari

I fixed the sound for safari. Thanks to (e:jenks) for noticing it was broken. Or wait maybe I hate (e:jenks) for using safari - j/k. No it's good because she catches all the bugs.

If you want sound and don't hear it it is because the new sound engine is piping sounds from javascript to flash player 8. No more stupid messy quicktime plugin that was so buggy and no more long sound load times. It also ended that ridiculous bug that made the window pop forward all the time.

So if you don't have the latest flash player you should upgrade. You should upgrade for secxurity and other bug fixes anyways. they release new players all the time. You can get it here

(e:uncutsaniflush) I am going to leave you in charge of seeing how this works or doesn't work with linux - is there are flash palyer 8 yet - because my linux desktop is now the server and I can't play with it.

I also updated the quick correct typo catcher - see the jorunal below.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

03/09/06 12:42 - 53ºF - ID#30214

Fixed the Quick Correct Button

I just noticed the quick correct button was broken so I fixed it. It is the one that looks like a chidlrens block under above the publish button. It quickly corrects common typos such as "the", "something" etc.

Try typing "the" in one of you journals and then click it.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: web

03/07/06 09:22 - 23ºF - ID#30213

Gather- peep online file sharing

Welcome to Gather

- An (e:strip) file sharing utility to help peeps share files with each other on and off their journals. After uploading a file, you will be given a url that you can use on your journal or to give to another peep so that they can pick up the file.

You can log in with your regular estrip username and password. Other peeps will need to log in with their username and password in order to pick up the files.

I hope you like the cute little graphics. They are minimal and I got the perspective off a bit, but I like the look they ended up with.

I also upgraded the chat. Right now there are no sounds but it should be really fast now.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/08/06 12:04 - 25ºF - ID#30212

Sorry, I fucked it up

it will be back soon - the chat that is in the mean time you can chat here

-paul

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: artvoice

03/05/06 12:11 - 26ºF - ID#30211

Best of Artvoice

Well, it's been another year since we didn't win the Artvoice Best of 2005 contest. I hope maybe this year we will have a better chance. I think last year a lot of people voted online and then it seems like those votes went away at some point. Maybe someone else knows more details about how that worked.

Another problem is that a lot of you voted for best blog but we aren't really a blog, we are a blogging/community website, and they do have a best website award so it would be best to vote for that. If you want to vote for someone's individual blog that would seem more appropriate for the best blog contest.

Anyhow, I guess we should try again although the motivation of getting ntoiced so that we can get a new server has been resolved since Artvoice is hosting us as a result of meeting Jamie at the event last year.

The best way is probably to vote by filliing out a ballot in artvoice but you can also click on the image above to vote online

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

03/01/06 10:35 - 25ºF - ID#30210

Userpic Maker Update and Best Of Buffalo

I fixed the userpic maker so that you once again can cut userpics out of web based images without having to use photoshop. You can even use it to cut userpics out of images on your journal. Basically, just like it says enter the URL of the image from the net (try searching for some on google images), then when the pic loads, drag the box where you want to crop and click just outside the upper left hand corner.

On another note there is a Best of Buffalo Contest sponsored by Spree. There is a category for Best Blog and Best Buffalo Website. It is in the 200s. Yes there are that many questions but you do not need to answet them all but you can win a prize. The survey is here

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: bug fixes

02/22/06 02:02 - 28ºF - ID#30209

FIxing the mobile email a post function

Jenks, the email a post from your mobile function works again with the new code. Using this you can post from a non WAP/XHTML mobile phone to your journal including both text, sound, and images. The only requirement is that you can send an email from your phone.

--paul

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

02/12/06 01:22 - 21ºF - ID#30208

Site Updates

I moved the userpic upload and usersound upload buttons back into the control panel at the top of the page. This should make it easier for people to find and use them. Your profile is now an actual link under your userpic labeled (my profile). It is right above journal overview and journal dots.

Usersounds now work in IE as well. You can play them by clciking on the speaker icon that shows up under anyones userpic that has uploaded an mp3 usersound.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

02/08/06 01:18 - 24ºF - ID#30207

The Evil of Windows Auto-Update

Last night I upgraded about 50 files involved in the site code and it got really late so I left my text editor open with all the files saved so that I knew which ones to upload in the morning.

Then windows did its stupid magic. It auto updated my computer and decided that it was appropriate to do an auto reboot without my approval. Seeing as the files were saved it wasn't too much danger but I no longer knew what changes I had made from the total site code. This lead to me having to re-upload everything so if you have any problems or something seems out of the ordinary, go ahead and send me an email.

--paul

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Location: Buffalo, NY

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