BIG chartbull update

I've just uploaded a BIG update including the following changes:

• better cache handling
• shorter image filenames for registered users
• thumbnail support (also hotlinkable: http://support.yaboard.com/16.html )
• ability to remove chartbull button on exported charts
• dashboard hints and titles
• tested with latest internet explorer (it should not function with latest firefox and internet exploder)
•  rewritten a lot at the back to make things more stable
• hide hints setting
• copy & edit feature, this allows one to copy someone else chart and edit the drawings on it. Handy for discussing charts. Can be disabled if you don't like the idea.
• a lot more :-)

Public beta!

After over a week of testing and doing small updates Chartbull is finally in public beta.

Public beta means that everyone is allowed to give it a try. But keep in mind that there might be a bug hidden somewhere.

If you see this bug please feel free to post a message on our support forum.

 In this update i've fixed a few small bugs:

• color picker is working again in dashboard.
• when export/sharing chart you can now copy & paste html, bb code or the direct chart url.
• changed the text on the frontpage.
• moved to public beta.

Styles and more

It's been a while since I've added new features to this project. I've been busy launching ChartBull. This weekend i added and changed a few things. Here is a short list:

• Links to our support forum has been updated. Because about a week ago i dumped the old forum (base on fluxbb) in favor of our own forum software base on YaBoard. The yaboard software is quite old (several years) but still does the job.
• The " The 10 most recent violations" widget now only displays the first 75 characters of the violation (it did became to long)
• I've integrated yaboard's way to change css using a browser in undolrn. See the "Styles" item in your Dashboard.

1.5 minutes near fullscreen movie in a 850kb animated gif

This evening i managed to reduce my animated gif even further, now it is 850kb. I did cut some slow sections where the mouse is only moving. In addition i removed the "tilt" effect and the "pan" effect. Now i'm using my original recording which is crispy clear. Because it is now crispy all lines are not blurred and this resulted in around 500kb smaller size.

Over 2 minute fullscreen movie in a 1.5mb animated gif

I'm quite happy with the compression of animated gifs. I got a 2.5 minute movie of me using chartbull in a animated gif that is less than 1.5mb. Can't get that much of a movie in a 1.5 mb file with any encoding.