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Hello my friends,

Done! All the utilities are back on line and working. Assuming RB leave their new cute interface alone (they changed the way they present groups three times while I was fixing it!!!), we should be good for a while. And If not, I’ll just have to fix them again… LOL. (For those of you that understand what this means, I dream of the day there is a RedBubble API or SDK…). Any comments or ideas, just bmail me!

Oh, I almost forgot! I’ve added a new utility that several of you have asked me for – check the bottom of the list!

RB Utility – Top Tens (displays your wins and top-ten placements)
Now displays WINs as well as Top Tens. Also there are two cut & paste options for journals (full description) and for your profile (just the icon), both with “hover text” that shows when the cursor is placed over the picture.

RB Utility – All Challenges & Entries (shows what groups are running challenges and what you have entered)
Now handles descriptions with single quote marks correctly, has correct links for the artwork, shows the correct time left for the challenge and now gives the option on the login screen, for choosing to see only Open or Voting challenges (default is both)

RB Utility – Which groups is my art in (shows all of your artwork with a list of which groups each has been accepted in)
No updates yet, but expect a major re-vamp soon, to speed it up, as well as a sibling utility for showing the same information but sorted by group (i.e. by group, which art pieces you have submitted to that group) – watch this space…

RB Utility – My Features (cut & paste links to your latest features)
Although this information is readily available in RB, this utility provides the feature descriptions in RB format, ready for cut & pasting into journals and profiles (similar to the output of the “Top Tens” above)

RB Utility – All My Work (A “wall” with all your work on one page)
A utility that gives you a thumbnail wall of all your work on one page. Clicking on a thumbnail will take you to the editing page for that work. Invaluable if you have over 100 photos and can’t remember what page they are on! leave your cursor standing on an icon and it will tell you what Art page it’s on. Click on it and it will take you straight to Edit mode. New: The totals bug has now been fixed. Plus, you can now choose how many “top” entried you want to see. Default is 10

RB Utility – Am I a featured member?
New utility that works through the list of the groups you are a member of, and tells you if you have been featured as a member. BEWARE: If you belong to a lot of groups this will take a LONG time to run. Be patient…

Comments, suggestions, criticism, other ideas, all welcome! :-)

WARNINGS
1) Disclaimer: this has nothing to do with RB, don’t go blaming them if it goes wrong. This is just me, making my life easier and sharing it out
2) These utilities will take a while to run. It has a lot to do to collect that info. Be patient!
3) The utilities do not store passwords, but they don’t use encryption either. If your RB password is the same as your bank account’s – Change it!

I hope you find them as useful as I have. Bookmark this post and come back whenever you want to get a handle on your challenges & entries.

Regards
George

(1 Dec 2009)