Art's Thoughts

A couple weeks ago I realized my efforts in "outdoing myself" were slack, not because of a lack of ideas, but because of a lack of time. There are so many things I know I can achieve, but they stay on the backburner until I have time to pursue them.

It wasn't until last week that I had the idea to take a sabbatical from Neoseeker to start attacking this long backlog of self-improvement efforts. As a result, I began talking with Redemption, a few supermoderators and my good friend bobbonew to see if we could come to sort of arrangement. Fortunately, we did. I recently released a new version of NAMFox alongside the new forum upgrades, both of which help facilitate the all-desired
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Throughout middle school and high school I had four years of Spanish classes, and while I thought we were learning a lot of material, I remember now that we were not truly engaged in wanting to learn. I recently realized that I didn't want those years to go to waste, though, and so I started learning Spanish on my own. The best way that I found so far (within my budget) was to use the tools available at SpanishPod101.com.

If you haven't been to SpanishPod101.com and you're interested in learning Spanish, then I recommend that you take a look. Their premise is simple. Don't pay a cent and you get access to free podcasts, each of which usually involve some Spanish monologue or dialogue along with an audio translation. Pay a little bit to gain access to PDF transcripts of the lessons so you can examine grammar and spelling in more depth. Pay a lot more to access all of that in addition to on
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I am strongly of the opinion that most bug report forums on Neoseeker don't need moderators. That might seem strange coming from someone who's moderated the Forum and Site Bug Reports forums for a year and a half, but I have learned a lot of things about the forums that suggest they can be run differently.

I believe that the typical moderating experience for a bug forum is very poor. The moderator has the onus of updating statuses for each and every thread that comes into the forum; this might be easier if the pre-established statuses were plain text, but as far as I can remember bug statuses have always involved fancy flags (, , , , , ...). As a result, moderators would have to remember statuses and their corresponding flag colors in order to set a status:

• Status: Confirmed
• Status: Resolved
• Status: Unconfirmed

And yes, the status list does go on.

Another problem with moderating bug
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This release has a few new features as well as fixes for the major remaining bugs.

Art

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New Features

1. Make size 1, sup, and sub text normal-sized
2. Confirm Bugs from Quick Reply
3. my.post history in NAMFox Menu

Bug Fixes

1. NAMFox Not Auto-Checking PM Options When Forwarding a PM or Quoting a Reply
2. PHP Tag Translates Colors to HTML
3. Invalid Link URL for Double Post Notification
4. Quick Reply, Edit, Quote, etc. Don't Work in Threads Without Titles

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NAMFox 1.5.2 has a few bug fixes and adds supports for Firefox 3.5. I realize I am a bit delayed with this and I apologize for that. I was working on incorporating a few bits of feedback that the editors over at https://addons.mozilla.org had for NAMFox. This means we're getting close to having NAMFox accepted as a full-fledged add-on on https://addons.mozilla.org.

So for all of you who submitted reviews for NAMFox, I really appreciate it!

After this I have another side project that I need to finish, but I will be able to devote more time to bug fixes and suggestions afterwards. Enjoy!

Art

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Forgot I had this picture of me in the Cadillac Ranch just outside Amarillo, TX. You're encouraged to spray paint. :D


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This release just has a few bug fixes. One of them was a big bug to fix though, so I hope it helps!

Art

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Bugs That Were Fixed

1. Quick Reply Doesn't Load
2. NAMFox PM Settings Override Specific PM Settings
3. Guestbook Message is Reset if not Accepted
4. Color Boxes Don't Sync with Slider in Preferences

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After what seems like forever, I've advanced NAMFox to a point where I am happy with the latest release. There are a lot of new features, a lot of bugs that were fixed, and overall, (I hope!) a much richer Neoseeker experience.

If you have any questions about new features, be sure to check out the new NAMFox 1.5 FAQ.

You may also notice a button in the NAMFox forum header for donations. NAMFox will always remain free, but it is something that takes a lot of care and time to get right. Including all the new features, bug fixes, rewrites, blogs, and troubleshooting, this release has taken about 400 hours of work. If you really find that NAMFox helps you, I'd ask you to consider donating. But, no pressure. :P

Cheers,
Artificer

To Update:

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Q: How do I update NAMFox?

NAMFox is compatible with Firefox's automatic updates feature for add-ons. Usually, Firefox will automatically alert you when

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Note: This beta release is no longer available. You may download the final version here.

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I apologize for the delay in getting this out. The Neoseeker team made some changes last Thursday night which broke a lot of functionality of NAMFox, and I was in the middle of making changes to support Firefox 2 at the time.

The bright side is that those of you who are on Firefox 2 can choose to use this version, because I'm sure most previous versions of NAMFox will be broken as well.

Assuming this release fixes the current problems, this will be the last beta of this version.

This is a beta version, which means it is an optional update. If you want this version, you will need to download it from the link on this page. Since it is a beta version, I would very much appreciate any feedback you have, positive or negative. Bug reports and suggestions for new features are always welcome. You may post these
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I'm hoping to get NAMFox available on https://addons.mozilla.org soon. Now that I've finally got it there, it has to go through an approval process for it to be publicly available.

One of the items that the approvers look at is the quality of the reviews it receives. If you have benefited from using NAMFox, I would appreciate if you could take a few moments to write a review for it.

You will need an account on https://addons.mozilla.org to do so. Don't worry; they don't send spam or anything of the sort.

Thanks!
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