Ferodynamics

Starting New Lines

PJ — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:14:12 +0000

Chelsea asks:

how do you put things on a different line when writing the about me part? enter doesn’t work

Ciara asks the same question:

how do I get my writing to stay on the line i put it on? Because when I am in the edit profile part I hit enter and put them on different lines, but when I look at my profile they are always pushed back together, like right on top of each other!
please help.

The problem is web browsers ignore "enter".

So you need to tell the web browser to skip to the next line with the "br" tag, like this:

Roses are red, />violets are blue, /> />then skip two.

Looks like:

Roses are red,
violets are blue,

then skip two.

Disappointed

PJ — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:46:40 +0000

Thousands of comments and millions of visitors every year, yet this blog doesn't pay as much as a part-time minimum-wage job. Which is hard to imagine when some of the biggest names in the world advertise here: shoe companies, car companies, presidential candidates, seriously.

A blog like this doesn't appear out of thin air. There's demanding PHP, CSS and MySQL code involved, sophisticated web hosting, and I do it all myself. This takes time.

Valuable time. I'm going to keep Ferodynamics online but this is it. I'm out on a limb. Maybe I'll get more links from more websites. Maybe I'll get millions more visitors. Maybe people will pay more to advertise here. But for now it's a hobby.

Happy Mothers Day!

Hide Status Message Updates

PJ — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:56:08 +0000

The friend status updates are useful at the top of the homepage, but I don't see the point of showing this information in the profile page, looks like clutter to me. This is how you can hide it:

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.extendedNetwork{display:none;}
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Hide Myspace URL

PJ — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:27:53 +0000

This style removes the text under your profile picture that says: "MySpace URL"

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.userProfileURL{display:none;}
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The URL is in the title of the page if you ever need it.

Hide Top Friends

PJ — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:50:01 +0000

"J" asks,

how do i hide my top friends without hiding the ‘view all friends’ part?

He's probably using this code, it hides your friends but also hides your "view friends" links:

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.friendspace {display:none;}
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The div with the "All, Online, New" links is "ctl00_Main_ctl00_UserFriends1_pnlAllFriendsLink" but this knowledge doesn't help us (in this case) because the .friendspace "display:none" is inherited, no matter what. This does not work:

div[id=ctl00_Main_ctl00_UserFriends1_pnlAllFriendsLink]{visibility:visible!important;}

So I came up with this style, it hides only the names and pictures of your friends:

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.btext, [id^=ctl00_Main_ctl00_UserFriends1_FriendRepeater_ct]{display:none;}
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The ".btext," hides where it says how many friends you have. Looks crazy but it works. This code might leave a gigantic gap in your page because Myspace (for no good reason) uses "br" tags within the .friendspace tables. The gap is much smaller if you switch to a "top 4". If you work at Myspace, please take these "br" tags out.

Another option is leave the links hidden and add your own "viewfriends" link, like this:

style="padding:10px 10px 10px 100px;background-color:white;"> href="http://friends.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewfriends2&friendID=65435510" style="font-size:25px;color:red;">✈ See my friends.>>

But remember to change the friendID to your friendID.

What is my friendID?

PJ — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:58:23 +0000

In Myspace, hover your mouse over your main profile picture and you'll see a link in your browser at the bottom of the screen. Mine looks like this:

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewAlbums&friendID=65435510

At the end of the link you see your friendID. Mine is "65435510".

If that doesn't work, right-click your profile pic and choose "Copy Link Location", then paste the link somewhere you can read it, like the address bar at the top of your browser.

Copy (or write down) the number, now you have it!

Internet Safety Task Force

PJ — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:44:49 +0000

I said 2008 would be the year of social network security/privacy.

For a massive social site like Facebook (or MySpace, for that matter), negotiations with the state attorneys general inevitably go beyond child safety. Security and identity theft, such as the threat of malicious "phishing" for personal information, are also hot issues.

The News.com article also mentions "age verification technology" which opens a big can of worms. Now that wireless connections are more popular it will be harder to know who is connecting to the Internet. As for verifying identity, even these "name of your favorite pet" questions are too common to be trusted much longer, IMO.

Back when I was in school we required "callback verification" which hung up the connection and called your home asking for a secret code. People were more honest online because we (sysops) had your phone number.

Remove Friend Borders

PJ — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:52:23 +0000

I don't know about you, but for a while now I've wanted to remove the borders/outlines Myspace draws around friends. This style in your "about me" removes the image borders from your friends, for a cleaner look:

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.friendspace a img {border:none;}
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Myspace Contact Table

PJ — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:11:18 +0000

The default Myspace contact table is ugly, the box with the "Add me" and "Message me" icons. How do you change it? First remove the old contact table links/icons, put this style code at the top of your "about me" or wherever you keep your style codes:

.contacttable{display:none;}

With the contact table gone, how will anyone add me or write me a message? You probably want those links back in your page. This is what I came up with to replace the default contact table, save this in your "about me" under your last "" tag:

style="padding:10px 10px 10px 100px;background-color:white;"> href="http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=invite.addfriend_verify&friendID=65435510" style="font-size:25px;color:red;">✈ Add me as a friend?>> />
style="padding:10px 10px 10px 100px;background-color:white;"> href="http://mail.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=mail.message&friendID=65435510" style="font-size:25px;color:red;">✈ Send me a message!>>

If you save your profile and see "msp" links, don't worry. Myspace translates URLs into "msp" URLs to redirect people through their servers.

You will need your friendID to make this new contact table work. If you don't already know your friendID, read this.

Copy (or write down) the number. The last step is to construct the "Add Me" and "Message Me" links using your friendID. Before Myspace converts them into "msp" links they should look like this:

Add me:
http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=invite.addfriend_verify&friendID=65435510

Message me:
http://mail.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=mail.message&friendID=65435510

Catholic Social Network

PJ — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:23:12 +0000

Reuters announces Pope Benedict launching a Catholic social network for World Youth Day, this July:

We wanted to make WYD08 a unique experience by using new ways to connect with today's tech-savvy youth," Bishop Anthony Fisher said in a statement on Wednesday.

I wonder if this social network is for Australians or for the entire world? This is needed because millions of Catholics (myself included) use social networks, but these websites are blind to what Catholics believe. For example, Myspace knows I'm Catholic yet ran Planned Parenthood ads on my Myspace profile on Christmas, and only on Christmas.

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