HTML tutorials for Niteflirt and other stuff

Do you have multiple accounts on Niteflirt that you don’t always keep open? See at a glance which accounts have mail. The script will run on your computer, no upload or website needed. It refreshes every 5 minutes. You will need to put your account names and UID in the script to make it work. Instructions are in the script. It looks like this:

Right click to download and save.

It was a week or two ago when Pidgin failed to connect with any of my yahoo accounts. I tried logging in to the important ones through my email, the webmessenger, or the desktop yahoo messenger, but it’s definitely not the same. They are always fighting each other.

Finally I searched and found an answer in Yahoo Answers on how to edit your yahoo server preferences. It didn’t work for me, though the others who tried it seemed to have had success.

Another week passed, and I was basically tearing out my hair, unable to be logged on to all the accounts I usually receive messages on. I went to the Pidgin site, where it said there was a new release with the problem fixed. I upgraded, but still could not connect.

Finally I found a blog on the site that explained the issue. Apparently, over the years, yahoo has changed the login encryption type several times, though various servers were still accepting the old encryption types. Finally they just eliminated the obsolete ones, leaving those of us who use a client like Pidgin that relied on the old server protocol SOL.

What I had to do was undo the fix that I made last week. If you are still having this problem, it means you haven’t upgraded to the latest pidgin. Just go do it and you should be back in business.

Who knows how long the forum will be up. Niteflirt aggressively protects their copyright. But whatever, every girl in the NF forum is asking for the link to this one, so here it is.

Updated to remove the link after the forum vanished. It claimed to be a customer forum, but there were only a few regular posters, and they were spamming links really hard.

For all who may be concerned: Niteflirt basically owns the word and spelling “Niteflirt”. You can’t use it in a URL or as any major part of your site, except to say things like you work on the site.

I made a video clip using a camera. I liked the background sound, but I wasn’t going to be able to get my computer to the location where I would be able to record it again. But I was able to find a free audio extractor that will snag the sound track from a video in most common formats and save it as an mp3, wav, etc. It’s super easy to use.

Update: This works with only limited success. Even if you edit all traces of “I’m not here now” from your status file, they come back. I was browsing on the Pidgin site yesterday looking for something else and found out why…

One of the project programmers said that they used to have this feature (the wrong status message always showing unless you manually edited it out), and some people loved it. Some people also hated it, so they took it away. Then they decided to bring it back, in response to the large number of people who were demanding that they show the wrong status message every time they changed status or popped out of the away status. We’re a bunch of ingrates for failing to appreciate what a wonderful feature it is. We should want to edit our message dozens of times a day. We have nothing else to do with our lives.

See, it’s not a bug, it’s a FEATURE! Yes, most people want to have the wrong status message showing at all times. They demand it.

Right. Not. Actually it’s a bunch of lazy programmers who want to inconvenience millions people to save them writing a few lines of code.

They have no intention of making it an option. And they didn’t even consider having it show the right status message when your status changes.

Pidgin is a good chat client, great for people (like me) who have multiple identities and want to be available in all of them at the same time. You can chat with all your buddies in the same tabbed chat window, even make it as wide as your screen width to keep more chat sessions open.

It’s got a great chat log, so I always have instant access to conversations I have had in the past. This is not an issue so much for me, but to remind other people of what they have said to me. o when somebody says something about what supposedly happened before, I can just copy and paste the history into our conversation.

It’s not a full-featured chat client, so some things you can’t do. They seem to have file transfer, and it seems to work okay much of the time. You can’t share photos, and lots of other people try to send you photos. They don’t even get an error message, and you don’t get notified about this.

And I have to log in to yahoo when I want to watch a cam.

But it’s got some really annoying bugs, related to how it edits its XML files.

I know you don’t want to know about this. I didn’t really want to know, I wanted Pidgin to work right for me. But ya gotta do what ya gotta do. I was reading up on XML files, and I realized that these problems I was havinge were probably related to XML files, which hold editable data.

The first problem I have is that when you block somebody, you can’t just unblock them later. They stay blocked. To help me with this, I searched online and found that the file that controls this is the buddy list, or Documents and Settings/User/Application Data/.purple/blist.xml. I won’t go into exactly what I edited. But if you want to do this, first save the file as a text file as backup. Then you can compare your buddies, find the one who is blocked, and change their blocked status to whatever the status of unblocked buddies is.

The next problem is one that’s been bugging me for ages, since an upgrade or two ago. When you set your availability to “available”, there is no default status message. If you are away for a while, your status changes to Away, and your status message changes to “I’m not here right now”. I can live with that. But when you reset your availability to “available”, your status message continues to be “I’m not here right now”, when obviously you are, or you wouldn’t have changed yourself to “available” at all.

One of my standard statuses seems to be “4″. I’m not sure how or when that happened, but I figured that ought to be something I should change, as it’s not at all useful.

I looked at all the XML files in that same folder, and the one that needs to be edited is of course status.xml. You can look at each state and see what the default message is. Here’s the problem:

<state>available</state>
<message>I&apos;m not here right now</message>

The default message for the available state is “I’m not here right now”. You have to change that not only here, but also you should probably go down to the individual accounts and change them, too, where it looks like this:

<substatus>
<account protocol=’prpl-yahoo’>youruserid</account>
<state>available</state>
<message>I&apos;m not here right now</message>
</substatus>

If you want to use an apostrophe, use the &apos; coding they have used here. If you want to use other characters, you will have to look them up and test them to make sure they don’t mess you up.

I’ve added a link to a new blog, StolenPhotos.info.

It is looking like it may be a very interesting site. It’s for posting stolen photos used in adult sites like (but not limited to) Niteflirt, links to the pages they are being used on, and links to Myspace and other social networking accounts that the photos were stolen from.

Niteflirt is a site where individuals set up accounts to do phone sex. What with human nature and the anonymity of the internet, there is a huge problem with theft of photos from social networking sites and from adult solo girl sites as well. Some of the photos used are known to be of underage girls. Some accounts are full of photos of glossy blond girls partying, drinking with their friends, etc. You know they were taken off a site like Myspace, because they are obviously not intended to be adult content.

Unfortunately, Niteflirt’s method of dealing with copyright violation is to not act unless the owner of the copyrighted photo contacts them with a complaint, and sometimes not even then. It is often impossible to locate the owner of the photos, who may be the photographer rather than the model in case of photos stolen from members sites. On Myspace members steal each other’s photos all the time, complicating finding the real owner.

There is one model with an adult site whose photos have been used (and even sold!) repeatedly on Niteflirt, while the webmaster can’t be bothered doing anything about it.

The photos of one underage model (I believe she is now 18, but many of her photos were taken before she turned 18) in particular have turned up in many Niteflirt accounts.

Unfortunately, Myspace has no interest in dealing with the problem. If you make a complaint to them, they will send you a random form email about how to adjust the settings on your account.

I will be following this. You can follow it on Twitter.

Obviously this is only for those who are concerned about unethical and illegal behavior around us. Those of you who think girls should mind their own business when they have knowledge of specific instances when this is occurring (in other words, aid and abet the thieves), just proceed—until they steal your photos.

Okay, Niteflirt does not let you use a colored background in html code. You can use an image of a color as your background, and I’ve sold a few of them.

However, you can use a color name or hex code if you use inline CSS (cascading style sheets). At the top of your listing, put the following code:
<body border="0"style="background-color:black">
if you want it black. Use another color name (test it first) or a hex code, a 6 digit letter and number code for colors beginning with a ‘#’.

Copy it exactly, especially the spacing.

Yahoo has been unreliable forever, and lately I have heard girls complaining that Eyeball Chat has been down and out more than it has been available.

Some girls do sightspeed, which has the annoying feature of making it really easy for a customer to record your cam within the program, so many avoid it.

I also know a few who use Paltalk, but the viewer has to pay for an account to watch, so that doesn’t work for too many.

I use a company called influxis.com. It’s a flash media host, which means that it hosts and streams your feed on flash, which is about the most common format there is nowadays.

I had looked at buying software to put in a video chatroom, but all of them cost a bundle (like $1000 for a real video chatroom), and then after you paid, you still had to get a flash media server.

With this one, you get a bundle of free chatroom and broadcast scripts that come configured for your website. So you do need a site to put the embed code on.

I was chatting with a guy on yahoo who wanted to show me his cam, but it froze up every couple of minutes. I sent him to one of my chatrooms, and the picture was perfect, no more freezeups.

Plans start at $10 a month and the cost is determined by how much bandwidth you use and how many simultaneous connections you want.

I’d like to say I’m getting a signup fee for saying this, but they don’t have an affiliate program for customers. Check it out if you have your own site. If you’re busy, it will more than pay for itself.

I was a little worried, shall we say, since I had read of difficulty of fixing broken templates and bizarre lost functionality. I was also concerned, remembering how long it took to get used to the new dashboard style when Wordpress upgraded to 2.5, and how little there was to show for it.

This is different. They have redone the admin area to add all kinds of cool jquery javascript functionality. All the menus you need are in the sidebars now. Dropdowns appear with a click. No more multiple menus across the top of the page or waiting for pages to reload so you can get to the menu you need. No more scrolling down below the post to look for the menu you need or forgetting to put tags or categories because, out of sight, out of mind.

It’s just very intuitive. Even the menus that are below the post are all dropdowns.

And they even got rid of that nasty default color scheme.

Just check your posts when you update. I have found that about half of mine had their permalinks reset to the default format, not anything I wanted.

Some screenshots:

Upload your image, then put this at the top of the page:

<body background=”http://yourimageurl”>