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Good news! I’ve been working a lot on my site features recently. Today I’ve included an update that adds 47 languages to the entire site. To select a different language, scroll to the bottom and click the appropriate flag (this will probably move to the top). Site page translation is an ongoing process so it may be slow at first. Page requests also include Google translator for instant page translation.

Oh, heads up!

I’m in the process of starting a new web hosting solution for my friends, family, and colleagues. The service is dedicated to providing quick  customer support response times and easy to use web hosting tools (this alleviates headaches of most hosting providers). Starting out, I will be the sole person managing the servers, applications, and support. Your questions, comments and concerns will go straight to me. The best part about this service is that I can now offer you any web related service (ruby on rails, postgresql, ad serving, social network integration, endless etc.).  If you would like some solid, secure, and highly customizable hosting on my managed dedicated servers then please contact me at fantomstranger.net. Keep an eye out here for web hosting discounts by subscribing to the fantom-stranger.com facebook fanpage.

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I tinkered a bit with my facebook integration and you can login again with facebook and post comments. You won’t be forced to use your facebook account though.

I also added some publishing features to manually post to facebook while my posting service fixes it’s issues.

If you haven’t browsed through fantom-stranger.com, I have a paste bin for directly pasting any text, into my site. Really handy for sharing text. It kind of an open security hole and recently, some bots have found it and taken the time to nestle in some content. Luckily I caught it before anything turned into a rash. The text-dump paste-bin has been updated and now employs recaptcha in attempts to narrow bot spam. This is my round 2 attempt as my first custom captcha didn’t stop any “inappropriate” content. I’ve also wiped the database to start a-fresh in “the text-dump pastes”, from this point forward. Bot spam will not be tolerated any longer and I will put harder captchas in place it comes down to that. Jerks.

Wow, some developers have figured out how the iPhone should multitask, and enhanced it 7 fold*!itimes\*.. It’s pretty and it should already be here, but all the iPhone users are caught in apple’s iPhone stranglehold.

[Source: thank you justanotheriphoneblog and iphondownloadblog and Gizmodo]

Waaahhbam! Highhhhyaaaah! fantom-stranger.com is now setup to use any form of syndication you can think of. I’ve finished twitter and facebook integration so you can get site updates directly on your facebook home screen or twitter page, INSTANTLY.

Ya want email updates? Got it. Ya want RSS? Wow, of course we’ve got it… we’ve got RSS to the max with feedburner. If you haven’t tried yet, you should try and subscribe. RSS is really simple to setup and delivers instant updates of what you want to know about, at all times, from WHO you want. The technology is so old, yet a lot of people have no idea what it’s even for. You find something you like, locate their RSS feed url, add to your feed reader (google, firefox, or Internet Explorer), and consume.

Oh and the last update, I’ve sped up the homepage considerably. I added some more caching and implemented cron automation to the RSS generated content. Nothing should lag on your first view anymore. It’s just tight like that.

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