Posted by: sachiko on: July 29, 2011
We accidently deleted new Facebook layouts that were created since we migrated to Facebook layouts! We are so sorry about this! Please create a new layout on http://www.coolchaser.com/layout/create.
To those who are interested, the reason why it was deleted was because we tied all the layouts to our old accounts. Layouts that were not tied to any account were deleted every night automatically. We forgot to remove this and when we switched over to the new Facebook Connect, the system thought the layouts were not associated to any account and deleted them
We might have many more bugs so please be patient with us and let us know if you find anything!
Posted by: sachiko on: July 27, 2011
Coolchaser is going to be down from 1am to 4am PST today as we migrate to Facebook Layouts. Thank you for your patience.
Posted by: sachiko on: July 19, 2011
Due to the new MySpace change, MySpace layouts will no longer be supported on CoolChaser very soon. You can read more details on how MySpace killed css customization.
What this means to existing CoolChaser users is, very soon you will not be able to create any new MySpace layouts or themes. However, we will keep your account for a while so you can view your existing layouts and themes and can use it if you still have Profile 1.0. However, since we think only a very very small portion of users still have Profile 1.0, we will most probably not going to keep the accounts for very long. Please comment on this post if you have any concerns regarding this.
So what is going to happen to all the beautiful layouts and themes our wonderful users created? No worries, they will not be wasted, as we are going to convert all of them to Facebook layouts so you can use them on Facebook. So stay tuned!
Posted by: sachiko on: January 6, 2011
As many of you know already, MySpace had a huge makeover and got a totally new look. They changed their logo to My|_____| (really not sure about that logo) and also released an updated Profile 3.0 which during the beta phase, people had a chance to take a look and go back to Profile 1.0 or 2.0 if they didn’t like it. Unfortunately, Profile 3.0 does not allow any custom CSS so our layouts do not work. MySpace contacted us about their customization tool that might be able to be integrated to 3rd party sites like ours but we’ve not heard any updates on that from them.
We still supported Profile 1.0 and 2.0, but MySpace recently actively converted all the inactive Profile 1.0 and Profile 2.0 into 3.0 automatically. We are not entirely sure but we think people with Profile 1.0 who logged in and had some activity were not converted though so if you still have Profile 1.0 (like our official MySpace site) you can still use our layout by pasting the code manually inside the “About me” section. All the fields in MySpace will now say “No CSS allowed” but you can still paste it in there and will work if MySpace still kept your Profile 1.0 layout.
They also changed the way how we inserted the layouts automatically into Profile 1.0 and got rid of the Profile 2.0 editor entirely from their site; therefore, our auto insert toolbar no longer works for any profiles right now. We are researching if we can get the toolbar to work at least for Profile 1.0.
To people who still have the precious Profile 1.0, we think it’s only a matter of time MySpace converts all the profiles to Profile 3.0, so might as well enjoy your own custom made layouts while it lasts!
Posted by: sachiko on: September 3, 2010
UPDATE 9.03.10: 2 hours after we wrote this blog, Photobucket responded that they have fixed the problem! We are impressed with their great customer service
We will be enabling the media plugin soon again after tonight’s deploy.
(original post below)
There has been a problem with the Photobucket media plugin on our Theme Creator since couple of days ago. Whenever people try to embed a background using Photobucket, it busts out of our site and directly goes to Photobucket showing only the widget. We have contacted Photobucket but have not received a response yet. We will temporarily disable their media plugin until they resolve the problem, so in the meantime please manually embed the image link from photobucket for now. Hope we hear from them soon!
Posted by: sachiko on: December 29, 2009
2010 is just couple of days away! Here are some of the latest 2010 New Year themes created by our awesome CoolChasers!
Here’s a very cool New Year theme created by our rising star Zman757! His purple, green and blue themes are pretty popular too so go check them out!
Another cool theme by the famous Yvonne! It looks great for both Profile 1.0 and 2.0 but the 2.0 has a cool animated gif on the header!! How you do that Yvonne??
I stumbled upon this theme and liked the colorful confetti! Very cool!
One of CoolChaser celebrity Em‘s latest creation! Love the animated gifs!
This is a very romantic New Year theme by ♥CJ♥! Her Betty Boop New Year theme is so lovely too!
Another theme by our superstar Lisa Lindsay who has more than 600 themes!! This one will surely match all kinds of background so go check it out!
Thank you to all of our awesome CoolChasers for all your love and support this year! We wish you all a very happy, prosperous & creative
New Year 2010!
Posted by: sachiko on: December 1, 2009
Can you believe it’s December already? Have you started your Christmas shopping? What about the Christmas cards? Feeling panicked? Don’t worry, at least we’ve selected some awesome Christmas layouts for you to put on your MySpace page – here you go!
Our superstar EM‘s Christmas themes are all so beautiful but I especially like this one as it’s so clean and so well balanced! Love it!
♩Silent Night~~♪ ♫Holy Night~♬ Hey do you like these cool symbols? LOL This beautiful and solemn theme was done by another superstar S.A.P.. I think it would had been even greater if there were buttons on the contact table, but other than that, I love this theme!
I stumbled upon this beautiful theme and love the color, the round corners and the image in the Basic Info box!
As always, love 2 make layouts! creates beautiful holiday themes and this one is one of her latest creation! Very dynamic and dramatic with the banner and network box images. Lovely!
I really like Sandi‘s themes, makes you want to grab a jar of cookies and sit in front of the fireplace and relax, doesn’t it? (although in my case, it’s a bag of chips in front of the TV. haha!)
This is a really cute and cheery Christmas theme! Makes you want to put those mittens on the snowman’s hands!
As always, these are only some of the themes I stumbled upon today. There are so many more beautiful Holiday themes created everyday so make sure you check them out! We appreciate all of your creativity and looking forward to seeing more!
Posted by: sachiko on: October 19, 2009
Hope you are enjoying our BumpMe MySpace app that easily lets you send or embed any graphics on your page with one click of button!
I’ve been getting some questions from people asking how to remove duplicated stickers they accidently posted on their page. Unfortunately, MySpace doesn’t allow us to access the user’s profile to retrieve information so we can’t remove the graphics for you automatically. So removing would be required to be done manually.
Here’s how. Take a look at the section that you posted the sticker. For example, I posted 2 cat graphics on my “About me” by accident.

So, I need to click “Edit Profile” from the top navigation menu “Profile” and go to the “About me” box.
Here’s the code for the first sticker.

As you can see, all the BumpMe code starts with this code:
<br /><br /><p><p style=”text-align:center”><a href=”http://www.msplinks.com/
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and ends with
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target=”_top”>Share this sticker!</a></p></p>
so compare this chunk of code with the one right after, if it’s identical, you should remove one of them and that should solve the duplicated graphics problem.
Hope this helps!
Posted by: sachiko on: October 7, 2009
Halloween! I’m sure it’s one of your most favorite day of the year! Have you gotten the costumes to wear? And all those cool decorations to decorate your home? Oh, and don’t forget to get a Halloween MySpace layout too!! Here are some of the brand new Halloween themes and layouts created by our awesome members this year!
This is really a great Profile 2.0 Halloween theme! It uses round corners and a double background technique, very high tech and professional!
Our superstar theme creator Yvonne did it again! One of her most recent Halloween theme that is so perfectly made – I like the black navigation bar against the orange background
Another superstar, love 2 make layouts created some beautiful Halloween themes for this year too! This one is especially cute if you have a Profile 1.0 layout
Em is our rising star! She has so many beautiful themes other than this Halloween one, so go check them out!
If you want something traditional, you can’t go wrong with this one! I like the Profile 1.0 version, so if you haven’t upgraded to 2.0, this would be a great layout to have
Halloween is still couple of weeks away so there will be many more awesome Halloween themes to come! Let us know if you spot anything you like, we would love to share it here with our other members!
Posted by: sachiko on: August 5, 2009
Yup, we still feature themes in case you forgot! I know it’s been a long time, but better late than never!
I found some unique Profile 2.0 themes that wanted to introduce to you. So here we go!
What a beautiful theme! It doesn’t even look like a MySpace layout huh? I recommend using the technique used in this theme for the background to make a professional looking layout. The background is actually very tall (1429px!) so even if you have a big monitor, you won’t see the background image get cut off on the bottom! And it’s fixed position so no matter how long your MySpace gets with all the comments from your friends, your background will stay in the same place. I like how the background image is shaping the content too. Love love love it!!
Clean and very simple but has lots of small details, such as round corners, double background, quote inside the basic info box, and a thin banner on top! Jasmine has other very similar looking themes that are equally beautiful such as the Hater theme so go check them out!
What a beautiful theme! It uses the double background technique with a huge image on the basic info box. All of the images are well blended and has a very soft feeling to it! Who doesn’t like butterflies?
OK this is another girly theme but hey I like girly stuff!
I love the color palette used in this theme very much. It would had been better if the background’s image had a wider white space to enclose the modules, but still a very beautiful theme.
This double background theme is so cute!! I love the color palette and the dot pattern against the checker background – geometric but cute and pop
These are just some of the recent ones I found today but I’m sure there are many more beautiful themes out there. Please let us know when you run into a cool theme that you wanna share with other people, whether it’s someone else’s or yours!
Posted by: sachiko on: July 24, 2009
After careful consideration, we have decided to wind down the ClipClip service.
We are planning to take the following steps:
1) Close down on new registrations but still let existing members to view & clip.
2) Disable the clip button so no new clips will be made.
3) We will keep the site for only browsing for a while.
4) TBD: When the day comes when we decide on shutting down ClipClip entirely, we will provide a download link to let our members to export their clips.
We love ClipClip and are very proud of the service it has brought to our users. However ClipClip became the haven for spammers. They exploited our service to advertise their poorly made sites – some were even paying people to clip their sites. We tried very hard to fight them but to continue weeding the spam and install adequate spam prevention measures would require too much work.
Therefore, we have decided to focus on helping people explore and find items online in other ways. We are very excited about this new project and hope you will find it useful and compelling.
Many thanks to our real members (a.k.a. non-spammers) for using and supporting ClipClip for all these years! Let us know if you have any questions by leaving a comment here or by using our feedback form.
Posted by: sachiko on: June 8, 2009
We are sorry to announce that we have decided to discontinue our MySpace CoolChaser Widget. Many of our loyal fans have been asking us when they can get the widget back and that they miss it so we tried VERY HARD to get our app unsuspended. But the conditions MySpace gave us were too strict.
They told us that nothing from the app can link to our CoolChaser.com site – which means, even if you would like your friend to preview the layouts and themes you’ve created, there is no way they can preview it or use the layout – cause it doesn’t link anywhere!!
Why are they treating CoolChaser like a swine flu? LOL Like we mentioned before, they claim that they found lots of inappropriate materials on our site. I tell you, MySpace content review team knows more curse/sick words than anybody on this planet! Since the CoolChaser developers are all dorks, we were like “I can’t find that thing they mentioned!! How did they find it!” LOL
We don’t want any of our users to promote hate, violence, and porn (just enjoy porn elsewhere!) on our site which I know 99% of our users don’t. But like somebody said, “it only takes one @$$hole to ruin your day”. Especially if you deliberately look for one!
Thanks for your understanding and we would really like to thank all of our loyal fans for supporting us! We are working hard to improve our site (hey do you like the auto insert thing? Isn’t it cool?) Like always, please feel free to leave us comments/suggetion/feedbacks
Posted by: sachiko on: May 26, 2009
Hey guys, remember we had that very convenient feature that lets you update your MySpace layouts automatically in seconds? And when we had to take it down, lots of people got mad? LOL (251 comments!!) Well, guess what, we got that feature back!! Woo Hoo!
This feature is offered through our shiny new toolbar so all you need to do is to install it (Installing is super easy btw!) and that’s it! You can change your layouts literally in seconds – we even detect what profile your are on (1.0 or 2.0) so even if you aren’t paying attention (like how I am all the time!) you still get an amazing layout at the end
Of course, we replace your old CoolChaser layout automatically too so no need to delete it beforehand
Also, let us assure you that our toolbar is 100% safe with no spyware or obtrusive ads and is 100% free! You can uninstall it anytime also so give it a try, you’ll like it
As always, we would love to hear your feedback/suggestions/bugs too so feel free to leave comments!
Posted by: sachiko on: May 13, 2009
As some of you may have noticed, our CoolChaser widget installed on some of your MySpace profiles has the “CoolChaser is currently down for maintenance.” message. MySpace suspended our app because they found inappropriate materials on our site that was created by some of our users. We are working to resolve this problem with MySpace’s help and hopefully get the app back soon but we aren’t sure exactly when.
We are terribly sorry for the inconvenience!
Posted by: sachiko on: April 14, 2009
YET ANOTHER UPDATE (5/26/09): Auto insert feature is back now for both Firefox and IE! Woo Hoo! Read more here!
UPDATE – 4.15.09: Yes, the Auto Insert feature IS BACK! It’s still in super BETA and only for Firefox users though. But IE people, don’t despair, you can still try it out the following steps! (btw, we ARE planning to have an IE version soon so if it is too complicated, you can sit back and relax until we release the IE version
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How to use this extension (especially for IE users)
2. Go to your user homepage and you should see a BIG SHINY Auto Insert button!
3. Not just yet! Download & Install the CoolChaser Extension first to use this button! (you will be prompted to do so right there)
4. Restart Firefox and click that install button like you’ve never clicked anything before.
5. Done, you got a new layout!
What’s so great about this extension:
1. It will automatically detect what profile you are using (1.0 or 2.0) so you don’t even have to be on the right tab!
2. It will replace the old CoolChaser layout code so no need to look for it!
3. IT’S SUPER FAST, I was able to update my layout 5 times in one minute!! (from my history)
Couple of things to note:
1) Like I already mentioned, this extension is still in Super Beta mode, and as we are planning to ship out the IE compatible one, you WILL need to reinstall a newer version later. (but this should be a piece of cake)
2. There is a known bug that you’ll see a tiny frame on top of your browser when updating your layout. This disappears after you update your layout and is not permanent. We are looking into the fix.
Those who have tried this feature out, please let us know what you think