Messages posted by: danopia

Carbonize wrote:I did come across something when looking into AIM presence about a way of doing it and specifying your own online/offline images.

Online Status allows that. Also, all the iamges would be consistent. However, my server probably won't allow me to run another process and I don't want to hijack someone else's bandwith.

Here's something that Google got me: http://www.onlinestatus.org/

A sample is at http://imstatus.msitgroup.co.uk:81/ . A lot of hosts are avalible, and if I actually implement this, I might run my own server.

Of course, I should of saw that.

Carbonize wrote:Not that many people use AIM these days.

Don't tell me that, now that I'm working on my AIM Bot (DanopiaBot) and wasted a lot of time...

Also, I use a lot more then AIM (clicky), but I only know how to add AIM Presence, I don't even know if there is a Yahoo Presence.

Carbonize wrote:Also the images for away etc may be confusing as they are not really AIM related.

Picky, picky. Okay, how about the default AIM icon, followed by AIM Status: or something and then the icon? Or maybe just the two icons side-by-side. Or maybe "AIM: " and the the status icon.

Or, I could parse the AIM Presense XML feed and display the actual word status.

Also, you could store the key in the DB and allow users to enter one in the settings to enable the status indicator so you shouldn't have a problem with AIM.

Good point...

BTW, the built-in guestbook captcha might as well be plain text. I just ran one of mine ( http://danopia.5gigs.com/guestbook/image.php?id=043627b0b7d1f8bb50d33cd6f9bc30fa ) through my (scanner's) OCR and it got it correct!

I just had to do some resampling, which could be batched, and I've got a good fully automated spamming system! I hope that my CAPTCHA is outdated, though...

I suggest for someone who was spammed to report this spammer.

(He's from the Russian Federation

, by the way.)

I modified my guestbook ( http://www.danopia.5gigs.com/guestbook ) to use AIM Presence for AOL Instant Messager Screenames. If anyone is interested, I could provide information on getting a key from AIM, etc.

Basicly, this is what a AIM screename becomes:[ NOTE ]
The icon and link is not here because phpBB hates "aim:" type links and only allows .jpg or .gif pictures.