AppButton, Web Translator Updated
by Austin Heller on September 23, 2007 7:55 PM in Widgets.

We've updated AppButton and Web Translator to versions 1.1 and 2.1, respectively. Aside from some minor bug fixes, we've also totally revamped them aesthetically; AppButton's faces look better and have some brand new colors (Pink, Purple, Brown? Whodathunkit!), and Web Translator, sporting a shiny transparent black skin, has finally been banished of its blue ugliness.

You can get the latest AppButton here and Web Translator here.






CharacterPal and Keyboard Characters
by Mason Sklar on September 17, 2007 2:10 AM in Widgets.

If there's any support email we get the most (besides PayPal's annoying donation alerts), it's probably "How do I use CharacterPal? I can get the keyboard characters like "æ" to work, but when I drag and drop the other characters it just gives me the code, like ☤ What am I doing wrong?"

The answer? Nothing. You're doing nothing wrong- that's how it works.


You see, when developers write HTML (the stuff webpages are made in), they have to type special codes to get special symbols to render correctly (and HTML emails, too). However, they do not work in, say, Microsoft Word or your everyday text editor. As much as we wish we could fix this, we simply can't provide a solution at the moment given the constraints of Dashboard, so the best thing we can tell you is to just try to avoid typing those characters. However, you can use the ones in that first menu item ("Keyboard").

Thanks for reading. :)






Duck
by Galen Winey on September 14, 2007 6:05 PM in Bugs/Issues.

You've probably gathered by now that the new blog is indeed up and running. We hope (really hope) that it's all hunkey dorey but this is technology, so things are bound to go wrong. Should it explode in your face (see title), just fire us a quick message and we'll sort it out.






Blog Refresh
by Austin Heller on September 13, 2007 12:50 AM in Website.

After two years of running under the same format and design, we have finally updated our poor, neglected blog. There's a lot of changes here, so let's get down to it.


First off, we've completely overhauled our backend, which we've used since the very beginning (unless you count our one-month stint with Blogger... we won't go there). Since the Nucleus CMS was never the best or most intuitive system around, I took the week to build one under Movable Type, which just hit 4.0 and because Galen was too busy working on a top-secret project gave me an opportunity to learn how to use it. However, in the commotion of a new engine, we did lose our archive. *weeps*

We've also revamped the blog aesthetically, too. I've been waiting to debut a dark color variant, so this was the perfect chance to finish it up, and each post's layout is a lot cleaner now. Categories have been simplified to Widgets, Website, Bugs, and Other, and in addition to having real post author names (not boring "Taco Widgets"), there's also some fun portraits of us, which will likely change frequently. Commenting has been disabled to avoid spam, but if the need arises we might turn it on again. And finally, as you can see at the top, we have a brand-new logo (designed by myself and Mason Sklar), which I hope will make its way into the rest of the site shortly.

But that's enough about that. For those of you wondering where the new stuff is, you'll be getting minor updates here and there over the next couple of months. In the midst these changes, however, we've got something really big in the pipeline that we hope to introduce later this year, so stick around and read on (or get the feed) for future updates!