My Blocks

Moblog Address

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:16:24 -0400

Do you know that you can keep RESET it until you get a easier to remember address? You dont have to change this often, as long as you dont let other know your moblog address, you are fine. Every moblog address is unique, and this is the only way to identify you. If you give it to somebody, that person is able to spam your blog, so be careful.

Tags: moblog

Moblog Enabled!

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:41:30 -0400

If you have ever tried to play around your blog settings since last week, you will notice that there is a new option call Moblog Address. There is no help link like the Update Services, so you may not know what is Moblog Address. Moblog Address is an email address, which you can compose your blog entry from any email client. Includes yahoo, msn, gmail and the most useful, your cell phone. A moblog entry is just like a regular blog entry, the only difference is that you update by sending the Moblog Address an email. That's it. In a moblog entry, the subject of the email becomes the blog entry title and the body of the email becomes the text. Like a regular blog entry, you can attach a photo. The current limit of size is 500KB. Photos must be in jpeg or gif format. You may ask, what if I attach more than one photos. This is what will happen. Each of your photo will become 1 blog entry, which the same title and text. Is it cool? Please give us feedback and report errors. Any suggestions for "How to handle errors?" like when you uploaded a photo which exceeds the permitted size, would you like to be notified by a reply email, etc...

Tags: cell phone, email, moblog, update

M$ Windows Everywhere !?

Sun, 31 Jul 2005 00:32:06 -0400

I took this pic right in front of the gate... See Windows is everywhere... lol...

Tags: airport, bug, crash, gate, ms, screen, vacation, windows

New Features

Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:21:00 -0400

There are some new features.

1. As you can see, on your right hand side, there is a tags box replaced the google ads. That means you can now tag your blog. (Blog tags and tags from other sections of the site are separated)

2. When you have time, go check the blog settings, there is a new setting called Update Services. By default now, when you post a blog, our server will ping Technorati to index your new entry. If you dont want it, then you can simply remove the link in the box.

3. Go to tags section from the main navigation bar on the top. You will notice that tags also has the filter box as in blog tags. When you type, the browser will filter the tags on the page for you. For example, if you type "ab", then the brower will sort out all the tags with "ab", etc.

4. There are 3 sub sections in tags. All NYC.com Users, Only Your Connections and Only NYC.com Editors. Each sub section shows only the tags tagged by those people. Especially Only NYC.com Editors, you can find out what our editors say about NYC. Go have a look.

5. In addition to sub sections in tags, you can also filter the tags by sections using the dropdown on the right side of filter box.

6. Taking about tags, you can now share tags with everyone, just your connections or just yourself, so use this feature wisely to maximize your interaction with other nyc.com members.

7. Oh... did I say NYC editors...? If you a editor, you are treated differently. You can see a yellow box with grey text on it says "EDITOR". So everybody know you are a NYC.com editor.

8. Ah.. another useful feature. If someone post a comment to your blog or review, our system will notify you by saying "You have new comments" in your profile. Therefore, if you post a comment here, I will know someone has post a comment next time I come check my profile.

If i missing something.... !?

Tags: new feature, tags, technorati, update

Argg... Bugs found in the navigation links of blogs

Wed, 25 May 2005 15:44:05 -0400

The FIRST / LAST / PREVIOUS / NEXT navigation links has a minor bugs, which the LAST link some time activated when it should not.

Update (5/26/2005 1:26PM): Fixed

Images Resize Bug =(

Wed, 25 May 2005 15:36:39 -0400

Fixed a bug that the size (in KB) of image after resize is much bigger than the original size.

Now testing with a different image that comes with Windows XP too.
The original size is 104KB.

Update (right after posting): The size is 62.23KB. So it is fixed. =)

Relations Problem!!!?

Wed, 25 May 2005 12:47:04 -0400

Right now, in the connections and neighbors tabs on the homepage of profile, Requests and Shouts appear in those ppl who have make you a connection.

But the truth is, it should be the opposite. Only those ppl whom you made a connection should be able to see your PRIVATE REQUESTS and SHOUTS.

Still thinking a better way to fix instead of just adding a bunch of conditionals which slow everything down even more.

IMG Tag of HTML still need to fix

Wed, 25 May 2005 12:43:55 -0400

For those images, that posted to the blog using the HTML IMG tag, should only be allowed when the tag is accompanied with at least the WIDTH attribute. Otherwise, we will make the IMG tag lost in the space deep inside the HTML Parser (which validate the post to make sure proper the user posted proper HTML).

But not yet implemented...

Image do resize now if it is too big.

Tue, 24 May 2005 17:31:17 -0400

This is a sample image from My Pictures that comes with Windows XP.

The original size is 800x600. See what is the new size.

We do this to prevent user uploading a large photo in terms of dimensions, which will break our beautiful layout.

updated (right after posting): The size is 559x419 now.