Why So Scared

Joe, the Facebook developer in charge of its iPhone application has posted whats to be expected in the 3.0 update, apparently it’s 98% done, so I think we can expect it really soon. (< 2 weeks, factoring in the time Apple approval takes).

• The “new” News Feed
• Like
• Events (including the ability to RSVP)
• Notes
• Pages
• Create new photo albums
• Upload photos to any album
• Zoom into photos
• Easier photo tagging
• Profile Pictures albums
• A new home screen for easy access to all your stuff, search, and notifications
• Add your favorite profiles and pages to the home screen
• Better Notifications (they link to the comments so you can reply)
• Quickly call or text people right from the Friends page
• Messages you are typing will be restored if you quit or are interrupted by a phone call

Unfortunately the “killer” feature I’m waiting for, push notification, wont be coming until version 3.1 slated for a summer release.

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Yesterday, an SMF modification by, “M-DVD” was accepted by the simplemachines moderators. It currently works with; rapidshare.com, megaupload, megarotic, megaporn, sexuploader and filefactory.

With this modification installed links in messages will be checked automatically at a admin set interval and users can see if links are valid at a glance with some handy CMS colors, Green = all good || Red = error.

Features

• If a member opens a topic, the modification will search all filehost links in the messages page’s.
• Links founds are checked and recorded in a log in the SMF database to expedite revisions in the future (eg, the next time a member returns to this topic).
• You can set the time for expired this log, according to the last check links to the message. eg, each 2 days.
• Messages without links fileshost’s, will be marked and will not be rechecked again.
• If links dead are found, the modification will be send a PM to post author (and the Moderator Local).
• Compatible with Anonymize Links and with links masked (eg: hp://, h p://, hxxp://, h..p://, h__p://, h??p://, h**p://, h++p://, h–p://)
• Compatible with QuickModify

Screenshot

Link Checker With Default SMF Theme

It’s the first modification of its kind for SMF and works extremely well, we’re using it on Warez-DnB.

You can download here.

Starting yesturday, June 13th 2009, Facebook users have the option of choosing a username to have an unique Web address for their profile. Facebook argues that it will be easier for your friends to find you via web search engines like Google.

There is no doubt that Facebook is working hard to innovate and give the opportunity to their million of users to personalize even more their profiles. I wonder what new options will Facebook bring in the near future?

Facebook usernames will be available in basic text forms, and you can only choose a single username for your profile and for each of the Pages that you administer. Your username must be at least five characters in length and only include alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9), or a period or full stop (”.”). While usernames are currently available only for Romanized text, we’re looking at how we might support non-Romanized characters in the future.

Think carefully about the username you choose. Once it’s been selected, you won’t be able to change or transfer it. If you signed up for a Facebook Page after May 31 or a user profile after today at 3 p.m. EDT, you may not be able to sign up for a username immediately because of steps we’ve taken to prevent abuse or “squatting” on names.

You can get yours at www.facebook.com/username on a first-come, first-serve basis

Ive got mine

Warez-DnB is a project my flatmate and I are working on. Currently we have 35 members, this is a Rapidshare link exclusive forum that is for various music; Breakbeat, Dubstep, Hip Hop, Electronic and Mixes

To get this forum online there where a few challenges, first we needed to find a host that would allow rapidshare links. http://altushost.com/ provided this.

Secondly we wanted guests to be able to view the forum and pages, but have the links hidden (forcing them to register).

This turned out to be pretty simple as well, searching for any instance of

‘tag’ => ‘code’,

On the line below it will say

‘content’ => ‘

‘ . $txt['code'] . ‘: ‘ . $txt['code_select'] . ‘

$1‘,

After “‘content’ => ”
Add $user_info['is_guest'] ? ‘Register to see codes!’ :

So it will look like this

‘content’ => $user_info['is_guest'] ? ‘Register to see codes!’ : ‘

‘ . $txt['code'] . ‘: ‘ . $txt['code_select'] . ‘

$1‘,

We’re still busy working on a LinkChecker mod written in Ruby, but the website is doing pretty well. If you like Drum & Bass you can become a member for free at. http://www.warez-dnb.com/index.php?action=register

Enjoy