Yes, it's a lite (or perhaps I should say light) form of highlight, suitable for informal use. But I don't recommend using that form on the final exam in your English class.DMann said:
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Iffy on Leopard WebClip
When you make a widget with Leopard WebClip, the widget updates as expected, but clicking the links gives nothing?
Otherwise great...
...you can monitor all the gossip/rumors you need/care to know!
This is a "WatchBird", watching you...
When you make a widget with Leopard WebClip, the widget updates as expected, but clicking the links gives nothing?
Otherwise great...
...you can monitor all the gossip/rumors you need/care to know!
This is a "WatchBird", watching you...
kettle said:
Yes
iMeowbot said:
Good idea, I'll see whether that could be added.
yg17 said:
Probably a side-effect of trying to get the timezones to be correct. Is it showing the correct time, but just saying 0 instead of 12?
displaced said:
It's based on the same principles and browser technology (i.e. 'AJAX') but the server architecture is different - MacRumorsLive is completely custom designed for the purpose, while the Spy has to integrate with the normal vBulletin database. They are cousins, rather than being brothers
And yes, it is custom written and not publicly available, sorry
Great feature! much like DiggSpy, was that the inspiration? It must be a first for any forum.
I'd like to see number of searches per day pre and post 'Forum Spy' something tells me it'll take quite a hit.
PS Any chance of a play/pause button like the Digg equivliant.
I'd like to see number of searches per day pre and post 'Forum Spy' something tells me it'll take quite a hit.
PS Any chance of a play/pause button like the Digg equivliant.
Knox said:
Yeah, it was showing the 0 instead of 12.
This insanely quick reply brought to you by MR Spy
Just wanted to publicly say thanks again Knox for all your efforts on this. It's been great seeing it evolve the past week or so and I've found it most useful. I know I for one definitely put it through some "stress testing" so I'd like to think I did my part as well to help.
Seriously though, thanks again and it's great to see this handy feature become available to the MacRumors masses.
Seriously though, thanks again and it's great to see this handy feature become available to the MacRumors masses.
NewSc2 said:hear hear... i go on here for the rumors, not the buddy lists
In that case, then all you need is the front page. I use my buddy list in combo with this to selectively read the comments of many forum members who always have useful, interesting or amusing things to say, whether about rumors, Macs or other things.
There are almost 80 people on this list.
I find this new feature really helpful in knowing what to comment on and such
I'm lovin' it! Damn that catchy McDonald's song...
I'm lovin' it! Damn that catchy McDonald's song...
Mitthrawnuruodo said:Very nice...
...but I miss the"you have posted in this thread"-lightning...
Me too. Having the icons to the side or something similar would make this much easier to use in my case.
OK, this was useful for all of 30 seconds, until I saw someoen posts something every 10 seconds. Are there that many of us commenting on things? (there were 5 comments added int he time it too me to type this reply)
Are there that many of us commenting on things? (there were 5 comments added int he time it too me to type this reply)
Forum Spy is great for a large and busy board, but I still prefer Who's Online sorted by date, as it gives a better overview of most of the user activities on MacRumors. I use it to get a sense of which threads are currently popular.
a bug
have not read this entire thread, so this may have come up already...
but when i have spy running, and in a new tab reply to a post, i do not see the little "subscribed" box next to my post in spy unless i manually refresh the spy page.
have not read this entire thread, so this may have come up already...
but when i have spy running, and in a new tab reply to a post, i do not see the little "subscribed" box next to my post in spy unless i manually refresh the spy page.
Sorry if it's already been brought up, but the timing is wrong.
I submitted a post and it's time was 11:18, but on forum spy it read 11:17 -- I know, I know, it's only a minute, but I thought you might want to know.
Edit: But of course this post was timed correctly.
I submitted a post and it's time was 11:18, but on forum spy it read 11:17 -- I know, I know, it's only a minute, but I thought you might want to know.
Edit: But of course this post was timed correctly.
Good to see that the Forum Spy is working great under all this stress testing going on due to the Mac mini and and iMac updates!
~Shard~ said:Good to see that the Forum Spy is working great under all this stress testing going on due to the Mac mini and and iMac updates!
You just wanted to see how quickly this thread would become popular again in the midst of all of the updates and excitement