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Old 07-18-2007, 02:40 AM
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This might be a nice tool =D
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Old 07-18-2007, 02:43 AM
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Is it just me or does this not download on Macs?
If it's like Finding Nemo game then No.
I have been on the PC all night and i have not tried it.



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Old 07-18-2007, 02:55 AM
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Smile Neat.

This is quite interesting looking. I will look into this myself, and most likely download it. But this could be a very useful tool.

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Old 07-18-2007, 03:25 AM
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so i guess they see this as a more convenient way to find out whats going on without actually going on the site, the site we need to go on anyway in order to log in.

ah well, it's some-what a good and convenient tool, i guess making this is the reason there hasnt been many new yavn speaks lately?


problem is it freezes up my computer, think it's time to delete this already
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Old 07-18-2007, 03:34 AM
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Arrow I tried it out.

Well, I tried it out. I must say, it's very basic. But it gets the job done if you want to know when events are or check the newsletter without actually going to the sites. It's pretty cool looking, but all in all, nothing big. However, they could add updates to it if they wanted to, so it shows promise. In the future, it could come in handy for that special something.

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Old 07-18-2007, 04:06 AM
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something like this doesnt make sense to me. it doesnt take rocket science to find out what is going on in vmk and just use vmk pal so u can log on while seeing that stuff -.-
that is just my opinion
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Old 07-18-2007, 04:11 AM
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Of course, it's only compatible with PC's, leaving us mac users out.
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Old 07-18-2007, 04:52 AM
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This would be a great way to receive newsletter updates if they ever bothered to update the newsletter.
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Old 07-18-2007, 04:57 AM
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Hmm... looks pretty cool. I don't know if it's worth downloading, though, so I'll think about it I'd much rather just go on the VMK homepage. Heh, I do everyday, so mind as well

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Old 07-18-2007, 05:12 AM
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uh.. i don't really see the point of this. It doesn't even act like an alarm when events start. It's just the website, just in a new smaller design.

idk it seems like that didn't take much time to make. Pretty simple if you ask me.
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Old 07-18-2007, 11:01 AM
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The wallpapers and the screensaver are just screenshots of the game...

I like the original ones better!
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Old 07-18-2007, 12:05 PM
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The following are my opinions, and my opinions only.

At first, I was pretty excited by the thought of this. I could picture all sorts of ways that they'd make a tool to help us out in VMK.

Unfortunately, this lived up to absolutely none of that.
  • What is the point of a news viewer when you never update the news!
  • The "news" that is updated frequently are the front page "headlines" (you know, like the one that told us that VMKC was available) isn't available in VMKC.
  • The event list is the exact same event list - showing us the times in Pacific time, which may not be our own time zone.
  • Event alerts look like they tell us when the event list changes, not when an event is coming up. Rather silly.
  • More screensavers and backgrounds. Whoopie. They already had ways to deliver these to us.

Maybe they'll eventually address all these issues... but I'm not hopeful.

If they really wanted to do this, here's what I would have done instead:
  • Made the news (not just the newsletter segments) available through an RSS feed. This would let anyone with an RSS reader use the info and display it in whatever format they were familiar with. There are lots of great things you can do with an RSS feed nowadays.
  • Made the events list an iCalendar data file. Just like the RSS feed, I could import this into any number of applications, display it in my local time zone, have it alert me when I want to be alerted about events, and so forth.
  • Include screensaver and background updates in the news RSS feed.
  • Include the "headlines" in the news RSS feed.
  • Maybe even include a "today's events" article in the RSS feed every morning, for those not using an iCalendar calendar. The "events info" just isn't news.

But all of this requires work. RSS feeds that don't provide constant streams of information just aren't useful. And who would care about that. So the biggest problem is that they'd need to actually keep updating things.

Now, if I was creating a utility to REALLY help me with VMK, here are some things I might add:
  • Let me view my inventory and save it to a spreadsheet. This couldn't be too difficult - they show the pins you're wearing on the web page if you're logged in.
  • Let me view every item I have and what room it is in (and save to a spreadsheet)
  • Let me see what rooms I have (and save them to a spreadsheet)
  • Let me do some basic room design without having to log in (now you know why I created those room maps)
  • Alerts when friends log into VMK and I'm not on.
  • Save my messages from in game to my local disk.
  • Message my VMK friends even when we're not logged into VMK.

Its a good thing there are places like VMKF that make up for some of the deficiencies in VMK Communicator and VMK itself.

VMK Communicator - too little, too late. Power to the players!
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Old 07-18-2007, 12:55 PM
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I disagree with prisoners post, but that isn't anything new.

Right now the issue is when you have it start up, it keeps updating... and updating...
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Old 07-18-2007, 01:13 PM
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Nope, its hardly new that Ink and I (or in fact, just about anybody and I) disagree.

I'm curious, however - what did you disagree with? I said an awful lot - there was nothing in there thats common ground? With the exception of the bug you outline, VMKC is perfect in your mind?
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Old 07-18-2007, 01:27 PM
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cool screen saver. curious to know whats next in the options
 

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