The guys at Uptake Communications have release Threadsy onto the world.I met the guys at Threadsy late last year and I felt they were really on to something… So naturally I jumped at the opportunity to play with the new twitter,facebook, email inbox webapp as soon as it was available. It has been a few days using it and so I see some ‘Quick Wins’ where it can be improved and hopefully they will implement them in near future (fingers crossed).
Try my Interface! Run this in Firebug or Safari inspector’s console…
As soon as your logged into threadsy run this script below in the console.
var flash = document.getElementsByTagName('object');
for(i=0; i<5; i++){
if(flash[i] != undefined){
flash[i].style.display = "none";
}
}
document.body.style.background = "#fffbef";
document.getElementById('toggleColumn').style.background = "#fffbef";
document.getElementsByClassName("profileImageHolder")[0].style.display = "none";
document.getElementById("smallProfileAndLoginLogout").style.margin = "12px 15px 0 0";
document.getElementById("header-userName").style.display = "inline";
document.getElementById("personName").style.display = "inline";
document.getElementById("personName").style.color = "#333333" ;
document.getElementById("unifi_logOut").style.display = "inline";
var logo = document.createElement('img');
logo.src = "http://pushhandle.com/downloads/threadsy-logo.gif";
logo.style.width = "100px";
logo.style.height = "62px";
logo.style.zIndex = "999";
logo.style.position = "absolute";
logo.style.left = "7px";
logo.style.top = "0";
var chattab = document.getElementsByClassName("chatTab")[0];
chattab.style.display = "none";
document.body.appendChild(logo);
alert('just a few changes ... nothing crazy - but I like it.');
Testing ie6, ie7, ie8… Turn my mic up.
April 15th, 2009
Let me talk you off the ledge, ieCollection 1.4.0 is here. 
Yesterday, I was working on some client materials and had a request to revise a css element that was not rendering properly in ie8 – though I had a conditional comment that it should NOT have been included with (if lte IE 6). Ie7 fine – IE8 not so much… SO DEEP BREATHE -
I installed ie8 as my primary browser on my VMWARE virtual machine and added a standlalone browser for 6 and 7. Seems easy enough – until I realized I could not input any text at all on any browser form inputs! Needless to say – I was crazy pissed. Sick of IE, sick of stupid PC hackapps just to make sue their feeble browsers render properly (never equally), and sick to my stomach that ie8 has CSS problems and differences that are not shared by any other browser (i will explain). If it was not for such an amazing GEEK base of bloggers/writers/developers for PCs – I would turn my back on this issue.
Sure enough, PC users – not platform – save the day! Coming across various different in browser solutions – like BrowserCam, and XenoCode – were not in my best interest of speed and performance. Although, widely commented and high on google search Tredosoft’s multipleIEs almost crashed my whole LIFE. Then like a diamond in the rough a site in CZECH, FRENCH, RUSSIAN (I don’t know I was too excited about downloading…) came up and screenshots proved to be exactly what we are are looking for. Simple install, you can run all at same tIme, and no weird issues with inputs.
I give you ieCollection 1.4.0 better than excedrin.
FantasySP gets a new look
January 23rd, 2009
Today Founder and Lead Developer Brant Tedeschi released his informational sports utility redesign to the public. I am quite excited about this release because it was a comprehensive design overhaul from logo to content lift to general ui optimization. Early December PushHandle was contracted to come up with a new way to serve the vast content that any Monday morning Fantasy Beast would drewl over.
Immediately, I wanted to get involved being that I am a sports fan. I personally frequent, nike.com, cbs sportline, and ESPN.com and felt that this site needed to become a standout addition of this ‘bandwagon’. Starting with logo – I drew several designs that I felt were decent but did not indicate a key point – remembering the site name. We all know how hard it is to find the domain you want these days… but given that fantasysp is what they had – I wanted to create a logo that reinforced the name for users to easily remember. “FSP” now becomes “FantasySP” reflecting the domain name. Once that was in place the color scheme was pretty much derived from the sites I mentioned before. Repositioned the ads to not get in the way of precious content and tried to modularize everything into widgets to lift the length of the long page. This helped in creating a stronger look but also aided load time of pages by having 1/4 of content on load on splash with options to load more content in if clicked.
So don’t get rolled by your friends in your next Fantasy challenge. Check out the site: http://fantasysp.com
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FSP New Look by PushHandle
FSP Original Page
Dapper-Playphone
January 14th, 2009
Finished out 2008 with a project that was challenging and exciting. Contracted to design a super-dynamic ad interface and then create a actionscripted web service flow for Playphone and their wealth of Ringtones with the power of dapper. The project is close to release – look out for updates soon.
Startup's best friend
January 14th, 2009
PushHandle? Yes. But just as well is the tag team ability of some of my favorite online services.
1.Beanstalk: has a few partner services integrated with their user friendly Subversion interface. Basecamp, twitted, lighthouse, fogbugz and campfire. However, just recently added was Harvest: This makes time tracking seamless and uncomplicated by using tags for svn comments. Helps focus on real issues at work. This is definately my favorite.
2. Also, is Linkedin’s.feature to add wordpress app to your homepage – keeping business associates up on your latest and driving traffic to your site without extra efforts.
