Category: maps

05/26/06 01:26 - 69ºF - ID#30285

live yahoo maps replace google maps

(e:ajay) who works at yahoo wrote to me suggesting I use yahoo maps instead of the links to google maps that occur when you use the link tag in your journal. At first I was skeptical because I tried out the AJAX based maps and it was throwing some errors or conflicting with some of the sites other javascript. It also had this bug when you scrolled over it, down the journal, it would think you were zooming in and out on the map.

So I went to the yahoo API site, switched to the flash API and its all set. I love it, these are freakin' great. Now we have inline maps right in the journals. I will add some code so you can add other data to your map point.

Here is an example (MAP TO: 24%20LINWOOD%20AVENUE)

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: comments

05/24/06 11:01 - 60ºF - ID#30284

Let estrip read you the comments

You can now listen to the comments using flash by clicking listen under the comments or by tuning into the podcast. When I am done with work tonight, I will add the journal podcast.

Just subscribe to it in itunes under advanced->subscribe to podcast or use you other favorite podcast player.

Permalink: Let_estrip_read_you_the_comments.html
Words: 58
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

05/24/06 11:40 - 58ºF - ID#30283

Comments Podcast

You can now listen to the comments podcast. When I am done with work tonight, I will add the journal podcast.

Just subscribe to it in itunes under advanced->subscribe to podcast or use you other favorite podcast player.

Permalink: Comments_Podcast.html
Words: 47
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

05/24/06 12:37 - 50ºF - ID#30282

New yahoo map lookup

Now you can look up both google and yahoo maps in the chat.

to look up a yahoo map:
ymap 1600 elmwood avenue

to look up a google map:
map 1600 elmwood avenue

Please read the two previous posts as I posted them all tonight

Permalink: New_yahoo_map_lookup.html
Words: 43
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

05/23/06 11:55 - 50ºF - ID#30281

Has anyone tried journal months

I wonder if anyone has tried the (list by month) link under the userpics. It breaks down the journal by month. Each dot represents a journal. Orange ones have categories, red ones do not. If you are logged into your journal you can add a category to any journal. Ones you already viewed get a black outline. It is the fastest way to flip through jorunal entries.

Here is an example of what it looks like on (e:uncutsaniflush)'s journal.

Permalink: Has_anyone_tried_journal_months.html
Words: 82
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

05/23/06 11:10 - 50ºF - ID#30280

The bumpster stickers are here!

After all the drama, the estrip bumpster stcikers are here and they arwe awesome. They are really bright orange, the picture doesn't do it justice. Like brighter than (e:jenks) orange shoes.

We should meet up this weekend so I can distribute them.

I remember when I thought no one was ever going to use the site in 03 (e:paul,117) - maybe now I can finally see 1000 peeps join the site.

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Words: 73
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: bug fix

05/22/06 12:11 - 45ºF - ID#30279

No more transparent pngs in IE 6

I forgot to mention this. I removed my script for making trasnparent PNGs in IE. For example you may notice the conrol panel icons and theme icons have blue/grey backgrounds whereever they should be transparent.

It took to long for the browser to apply the filter required to all the little images and would freeze the browser for a second while it loaded which annoyed the fuck out of me. I am not going to make a whole other set of ugly transparent gifs to replace the pngs, so from now on IE 6 users will see the blue/grey broder around all pngs. Blame IE for sucking so bad. IE 7 has fixed this uberlame problem.

You could alread upgrade to IE 7 beta, although, I would just switch to firefox

if I were you and wait for the IE 7 final to come out.

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Words: 148
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

05/21/06 06:48 - 47ºF - ID#30278

Updated autosave code / comments update

I totally rewrote the autosave system. It is used to save your journal to your local system. Autosave is on by default. To turn it off uncheck the autosave box above your jorunal entry box.

SAVE
1. With autsave on, it saves you journal entry into a cookie, every 3 seconds.

2. It also autosaves when you leave the page no more warning, it just saves to be safe.

3. You can also hit the create savepoint button at any point to save to a cookie.

RESTORE SAVE
When there is a saved restore point, the restore savepoint button will get a red border. If you hit it, the old text is restored into your box over whatever is in there.

CLEAR SAVE
To remove a savepoint, click the clear savepoint button.

This should stop people from losing entries when they "accidentally" switch pages during writing or their browser quits.

Comments
I also updated the comments to show the 50 latest comments in the (more) link on the front page. When you click on the links on the (more) page they auto load the journals in the main window.

Permalink: Updated_autosave_code_comments_update.html
Words: 186
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: mobile

05/21/06 02:05 - 48ºF - ID#30277

Treo 650 mobile phone with keyboard

I hate advertising for companies but I would love it if more people could use all the mobile features of estrip. While estrip WAP estrip.org/wap version works with just about every cell phone in existence, the regular mobile/dialup estrip.org/xhtml version is even better and works with about 80% of modern phones. People without web browsers on their phone can even send journals as email ot MMS. IF you have any questions please ask (e:paul).

But really the thing separating a phone digital reading phone from a nice mobile publishing device is the keyboard and the treo 650, although not the latest model, has one of those. I personally use the PPC 6700 which I think it is better, unfortunately it is really expensive. A treo 650 is only $199.00

with sprint right now. The phone was normally around $500 only a couple months ago.

Might be something to look into.

Permalink: Treo_650_mobile_phone_with_keyboard.html
Words: 157
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

05/20/06 06:21 - 56ºF - ID#30276

Update (more) comments

I updated the (more) comments system to behave more like the comments on the front page.

Clicking on the more link take syou here:

When you use the more comments link it interacts with the mobile xhtml version of the site, hopefully making more people aware that it exists and getting you familiar with the interface. For those of you on dialup or slow connections it is the premier way to interact with the site. You can always switch between the mobile and normal version by clicking on the red mobile/dialup link at the top of every journal in both modes.

It looks like this: