February 5th, 2010 — Other stuff
A few users have mentioned seeing a glitch that allows Tempmem users to add partial (CD) functionality to any smiley. By partial, I mean the headphones only.
Required: Tempmem
How to: Purchase and activate Tempmem, then add “#cd” to the end on any smiley code (i.e. (smile#cd), (mad#cd), (omg#cd), (maniac#cd))
Examples:
If you have any other information, feel free to comment below.
Thanks!
Update: Blue, xatBlogs member, was quick to point out that this isn’t the only Tempmem glitch. You can also add a night cap to any yellow smiley by appending “#sleep” to the end of your smile code. (i.e. (smile#sleep)
Update: One more, you can also add a friendster sign to any yellow smiley by appending “#fs” to the end of your smile code. (i.e. (smile#fs)
February 3rd, 2010 — Powers
After an unprecedented 19 releases, available in blocks of 100 to 200 units, Tempmem has finally settled down and is now available on Xat’s powers page for a mere 15 days. Contrary to speculation, this power is now officially not limited.
January 27th, 2010 — Powers
This morning, about an hour ago, Xat officially announced that power 61 will be Temporary member. That power is now is testing and we should soon have more details on how exactly it works. On a similar note, Xat has also announced plans to change the way Temp Mod works.
Stay tuned for that!
Update 1 : Power 61, like tempmod, is used by private chatting a user. To “temp member” a user simply type /mb5.0 to make him a temporary member (5.0 being the number of hours). Note that with a few limitations, this power is for and can only by used by Main owners, owners, moderators and tempmods.
Limitations include and are particular to tempmods. Tempmods are able to both make temporary members (but only for one hour) and also guest any temporary members.
January 22nd, 2010 — Other stuff
We held off on this hoping to be able to be able to embed each animation right on the results page, but don’t want to keep everyone waiting, so here they are. Winner, runner-ups and honorable mentions of Stick animation contest can all be found here.
January 18th, 2010 — Xat World
How long does it take to sort through and watch 527 Stick entries? About 4 hours!
Right off, thank you to everyone that participated in and/or mentioned the Stick animation contest to someone else. We had a pretty good turnout and it was actually kind of fun to go through all the entries. Surprisingly, there was only one “pornographic” entry labeled “cleaning” – cute! I won’t erase it.
Anyway here is some preliminary data while we now wait for Xat.com to make some decisions:
We started with a total 527 entries (English and Spanish combined). Two hours later that number was reduced to 95; primarily discarding those animations that were either too jerky, jumpy, or simple. We tried to focus more on those animations that tended to be smoother more unique or creative. About an hour later we reduced the number of possibles again, this time down to 43; it was getting harder and harder to eliminate. 15 minutes later we again reduced the number but this time only to 30. Our last and final elimination round, some 15 minutes later, brought the number down to 27 and well, we quit! LOL! It just got too hard to decide beyond this point and we’d rather hand it off to Xat.com so that they have some variety to choose from.
More stats:
Xatworld entries: 374
Mundoxat entries: 153
Longest entry goes to Ryan (English) with a whopping 1982 characters!
We’ll keep you updated as soon as we hear from Xat and we’ll post the final 27 along with the winner. Thanks again everyone and good luck to all of you!
January 17th, 2010 — Other stuff
In just a few hours, 42 (one of Xat.com’s owners) will make a special appearance in Trade to celebrate that chats one year anniversary.
Here’s the countdown:
http://xat.com/h?351043
This is 42’s first official pre-announced appearance so expect the unexpected!
January 15th, 2010 — Powers
Just a few moments ago, Xat made the announcement that six new smiles have been added to the Costumes power.
They are: (sherlock) (prop) (grad) (dunce) (straw) (3d)
Image below:
January 11th, 2010 — Powers
XatBlogs.com user Kyle, was the first to pickup on Xat’s new Superkick smile.
This, more than likely has something to do with Xat’s scheduled smiley overhaul that we mentioned last year.
Here’s a partial animation of the new Superkick smile:
January 9th, 2010 — Powers
Leave it to xatBlogs.com users to come up with more details on DX. Viren, was witness to and posted the DX power smile and xatBlogs user Rain has an interesting screenshot of a DX power kiss.
Thank you to the both of you for contributing!
January 8th, 2010 — Other stuff
Yes we know, we said we would report back when xatBlogs.com reached its 1,000th user, but since they hit 500 so fast that we couldn’t help ourselves.
As of this post Xat Blogs current member count stands at just 2 users shy of its 500th xat blogs user.
Having said that, we really will follow up when Xat Blogs hits 1,000 users! In the meantime, keep your eye on the xatBlogs website, the fastest growing site for Xat bloggers, for the very latest in Xat info and contests. Oh, and if you still haven’t reserved your xatBlogs blog/username, get it here before someone else does.
