Thursday, 2. July 2009, 21:56:10
mobile technology, game, community
Yahoo! I've finally found a mobile friendly site to host my voice posts and game collection files, as a way to get around the download warning here which keeps stopping or interfering with downloads. I'll be uploading my best games (broadening the reach of my mailing list) and posting reviews plus download links here at some point, so if you're interested in free mobile games, make sure you subscribe. As always, these are for testing purposes only and I hope that my subscribers will actually buy the games that they like.
I've almost finished making a mobile widget for this page. As I've been learning and working with Web Runtime for a week so far and I'm currently programming this on a phone that doesn't support widgets I'm looking for testers. Anyone with Web Runtime on their phones, please comment, leaving your phone model, if you're willing to test a beta version for me. I need you to take a screenshot of the app and let me know if it's working properly if you're willing. Once the test is through I'll get around to porting it to the different widget systems and creating properly sized icons for them instead of my stand in, though this will require me to use a PC.
Third project in the works is a CSS one for here, but you wont see anything from that for quite a while as I've got so many other things going on. It's something I've been wanting to do for quite a while, but I needed to wait until my skills were up to scratch, and I think I learned enough to put the basics together now. If it works out though, I'll be inviting a few people to help me refine it and a few theme designers should be put back in business here.
So yeah, I'm a busy bee lately.
Sunday, 14. June 2009, 22:41:28
community
Happy Birthday to Opera's own dark knight, Darko
Saturday, 13. June 2009, 17:54:08
community
So, I noticed the other day that I'd received an inbox while offline and shot over to check it.
Don't you just hate it when that happens?
Thursday, 4. June 2009, 23:40:06
community
I was browsing round the new blog posts the other day and came across a post about MySpace. After seeing the title I came straight out of the post and resolved to check the titles before I went further through the new posts. It was then that I saw that the next post from a different user was also about MySpace and the detective in me pushed me to investigate. It was a completely different post except for the title, but I did find one other link between the two people - both had introductory posts titled "Hello I am" name of person "pleased to meet you :)". It struck a chord with me so I checked earlier pages on the new blogs list and, sure enough, there was a recent post from another new user entitled "Hello I am" name of person "pleased to meet you :)".
"Hello I am Mik Furie. I love google and cats. Nice to meet you. :)
Starting to get creeped out I checked all three people's introductory posts and they had the exact same content. I started looking further into the site and found more of these strange pod people. Was this an invasion by a race of alien beings bent on taking digital form and destroying us all? If so why did they all claim in their introductory posts to like Google and Cats? I can understand the Google part cause it's useful, but cats?
Inspiration struck me and I ran a search for the words "Hello my name is pleased to meet you" (yes I know now that I slightly misquoted the search term, but it still worked) thinking I'd find all the posts that start with those words. I was right as you can see in the screenshot above. Checking into them I found the first dozen had also posted a MySpace post, sometimes claiming to be sick of it, other times linking to a post they'd made there, always with the same title. I gave up collecting the usernames to report this weird activity and instead added the search link to my report on the forums.
I've since heard (how accurately is another question) that these are automated blogs which link to viral sites, so if you see one don't click any links on it. If anyone's interested in the scale of this invasion, the search had pulled in 662 results.
Friday, 29. May 2009, 12:17:51
community
Just had a very interesting inbox through about the new ignore function on the friends requests. I know a lot of my friends have been liberally clicking ignore since the feature was introduced (something I can't be bothered to do) so I think this could count as a public service announcement.
Hey i need help...am getting confused about the ignore thing.
i thought if i ignored people it would remove them from the friend request. so i did that and i couldn't see their blogs or comments
so i think their should be a part where you can change or remove the people you have ignored...same as when you block someone you can change that to non blocked and be friends with them.
i think the ignoring thing is stupid...cause you cant see their comments or blogs...i didn't want to add them as a friend but still want to see their blogs 
I've forwarded the mail to Espen in the hopes of getting some confirmation about this.
Wednesday, 27. May 2009, 11:40:49
community, blog designs
Notice something about the photo? No? No? Oh you there with your hand up. Yes, you can go to the toilet.
Anyone else? Ah you at the back. Yes, that's right, it doesn't have the friends notification on it.
I know a lot of people don't like things like that on their pages so I've put together a CSS file to get rid of them. Simply add the following line to your CSS in order to remove the more annoying social networking elements from your pages:
@import url(http://files.myopera.com/Furie/themes/nosocial.css);
I'll be updating this file with other annoying social networking features as they're released.
Tuesday, 26. May 2009, 09:31:24
cool, community
Here on The Dark Furie we (me and my other personalites and imaginary friends) are dedicated to providing this blog to it's readers in the style they most prefer. We've made it easily accessible to most phones in the past by creating a widget for it on the now defunct Widsets service. More recently I've put a system in place allowing readers to have my posts delivered to their e-mail inboxes. I'm currently working on putting together a web runtime widget to allow the latest phones to access this page straight from their frontscreens. The point is, this blog is created entirely on a mobile device and I want reading it to be as transportable as writing it is.
As such I've recently enabled yet another way to read this blog, this time using Amazon's Kindle bookreader device and iPhone application. That's right folks, now you can read The Dark Furie on your Kindle enabled device, even on the iPhone (but be prepared for lots of slagging off of your chosen mobile device if you're using the iPhone), as well as regular e-books and newspapers.
Amazon has classified The Dark Furie as a premium blog meaning it costs US$1.99 (£1.30, €1.46, ZAR16, RUB64, INR98, IDR20692) to subscribe in the first place. From then on reading wont cost you a penny. Single articles may also be bought to keep for an as yet unrevealed price. Look for The Dark Furie on your Kindle enabled device soon.
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