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05/23/2006 23:55 #30281

Has anyone tried journal months
Category: estrip
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.

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leetee - 05/24/06 00:25
i've used it. i find it useful. easier if i have a general idea of when i am looking, rather than a big group of dots and not knowing where to start. when faced with a big group and having to comb through the whole thing, i am likely to give up... so, this feature has come in handy for me.
theecarey - 05/24/06 00:07
I use it quite often. I find it very helpful in locating specific journal entries. I can also see which months I had a lot to say, haha

05/23/2006 23:10 #30280

The bumpster stickers are here!
Category: estrip
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.

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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.

theecarey - 05/23/06 23:48
YAY!! I look forward to slapping one of those bright thangs on my car. :)
jenks - 05/23/06 23:15
wow! THAT's bright! :)

05/22/2006 12:11 #30279

No more transparent pngs in IE 6
Category: bug fix
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.

05/21/2006 18:48 #30278

Updated autosave code / comments update
Category: estrip
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.

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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.

uncutsaniflush - 05/21/06 23:29
the autosave is real cool, (e:paul).

But I really love being able to see so many comments so easily. Its better than rss.

05/21/2006 14:05 #30277

Treo 650 mobile phone with keyboard
Category: mobile
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).

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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.

paul - 05/21/06 18:41
If you have internet on your phone, and estrip is not working then you are doing it wrong. I have tested on about 100 phones, even the free ones.

If you have WAP use estrip.org/wap

If you have an xhtml capable phone use estrip.org/xhtml
jenks - 05/21/06 17:12
the treo 700 just came out too- in palm and windows versions. I'm wondering if it's time to take the plunge. (but paul- estrip.org does NOT work on my phone (moto 330 with tmobile internet)).