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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!

Coolchaser is going to be down from 1am to 4am PST today as we migrate to Facebook Layouts. Thank you for your patience.

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!

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!

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!

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!

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

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!

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!

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 )

How to use this extension (especially for IE users)

1. Download & Install Firefox

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