Potential Hurricane Irene Service Interruptions for Eyejot

A note to our customers: Numerous Eyejot services operate within Amazon's AWS cloud computing umbrella and several of our virtual servers and resources are located in Northern Virginia, outside of Washington, DC. In the event that the hurricane disrupts services for Amazon, it's possible those events will cascade and also impact Eyejot. We will continue to monitor our services and report accordingly.

New way of customizing template colors in Eyejot

We've added a new way of customizing your standard Eyejot template colors after some users reported having trouble using our Template Tuner. You'll find our new Manual Color Settings interface through your Profile page on the Customization tab, next to the Template Tuner link.

After you click the new link you'll be exposed to a panel that lets you edit all fourteen (14) of our standard template CSS elements. If you're working with a specific set of colors and want to manually enter them, you can paste their values directly into the edit fields on this page. If you'd like to choose colors from a pallate you may do that by clicking on the lower right-hand corner of the color picker control next to each field.

Press the Save Color Settings to save your settings. To help you become familiar with the various CSS field names we've included an element map which can be revealed by pressing the link labeled Display guide which will display this image.

New support for downloading vCards in Eyejot

We've added the ability for Eyejot to place a link to a downloadable vCard on your message viewing (mview) and user pages. You can activate the new feature through your profile. Simply mark the checkbox labeled Displaylink to download vCard on the Contact & Privacy panel. We have also added two new fields for storing your company name and your business title, if you want to include that information in your vCard.

When a visitor to your user or message viewing page clicks on your vCard link they'll be able to download and save a file that has been formatted using the vCard version 3.0 specification. These files can typically be imported directly into programs like OS X's Address Book or Microsoft's Outlook contact manager. It's a standard format that's widely recognized.

OS X Lion and Flash - allowing Eyejot to use your camera and mic

Some users have experienced problems configuring Adobe Flash to allow the use of their camera and mic with Eyejot (and other sites) under OS X Lion. One possible solution to this problem is to use the new Adobe Flash System Preferences panel to configure a site-specific override.

To get started, click on System Preferences in the Apple menu on your Mac. Then, locate and click on the Flash Player icon. It will likely be on the last row, labeled Other. If you don't see this icon be sure to upgrade your version of Adobe Flash to the latest version. Click here for more information.

To add a site-override setting so that Eyejot can use the camera and mic on your computer click the button labeled Camera and Microphone Settings by Site... and then, in the new window, add eyejot.com and www.eyejot.com.