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site updates

Andy — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:50:35 +0000

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.

Facebook integration

Andy — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:10:18 +0000

-PnP- Pirate Ninja Pornstars

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.

die, some spam!

Andy — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:41:20 +0000

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.

How iPhone OS “SHOULD” work

Andy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:49:36 +0000

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]

site syndication replication automation

Andy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:30:15 +0000

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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couple more feetsha’z

Andy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:11:52 +0000

The feature isn’t really so much of a feature as a welcome message to my newest contributor Kacie. Her humor might not be your style, but I don’t care, cause it’s my style. So, welcome to my site Kacie!

Review code update and new reviews!

Andy — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:52:02 +0000

I just hacked together some navigation features on the review page.

Z wrote a couple reviews that are now published. One about the video game Braid and the other is about “star trek vs. star wars”.

You can check them out under “reviews”.

pastebin added

Andy — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:12:11 +0000

So I added a my own pastebin to this site, big woop.

The password may be “tardbot” soon, since it is a “private” bin.

Were g0ttened’ reviews, dig?!

Andy — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:21:24 +0000

I’ve added another feature to my site. Reviews. Just reviews of stuff. Anything… Here is the first review, of a game called Musaic Box. Check it out in the Reviews section.

image dump upload script update

Andy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:57:17 +0000

Updated da’ sum’bich.

Now includes Hotlink Protection, ETags, Cache headers, *security fix*, love, and wires.

Dump your images! Click here!

DOUBLE UPDATE!: I just added a text view if you don’t want to load all the images to see the files.