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UPDATE 6/28 5:46pm (Pacific Time): Hey guys, our scientist fixed the problem in like 1 minute from wherever he was (somewhere in the mountains but he just found out they had wifi ) So the editor is fixed already! Let us know if you see anything weird and thanks for being so patient with [...]

We ask users “Like Your Layout?” at a certain point on the CoolChaser site. (you have to try it out to find out where if you still haven’t tried our site!) We started asking since March 21st and so far there were 49,150 (and counting!) comments!!
Initially our intention was to collect feedback from the [...]

Some people were concerned about providing their MySpace password to us when using our auto insert software. We DON’T store the MySpace password anywhere on our servers and we only use them to insert or undo your layout. The thing is, if you are a returning user, you can login to our site [...]

We think MySpace is (wrongly and randomly) marking less than 1 out of 10 of our CoolChaser users as being phished.
Such users have gotten this message after trying out the auto insert.

We are not 100% sure if our auto insert is causing this message or if MySpace is under heavy phishing attack right now. [...]

“Oh you are so mysterious, MySpace! I woke up this morning and I noticed that you are playing around with the extended network.
I mean playing around because I don’t see it all the time, it’s sort of a hide a seek peek-a-boo~~~!! thing.
You never cease to surprise me MySpace “
…that was my love [...]

A month after wreaking havoc on our service, Tom finally explains the reason for the captcha codes. Since CoolChaser automatically inserts layouts, we have to ask our users to enter these so-called captcha codes. This is required by MySpace and is meant to prevent evil phishers and spammers.

For those who are interested, Tom gives a [...]

Well, after much head bashing, CoolChaser.com is finally on multiple web servers. Let us know if things are still slow for you, and thank you very much for tolerating such sub-standard behavior. We’re working hard to make sure we stay ahead of the game in the future
Url.com users, once we iron the remaining [...]

Update: We’ve redirected all traffic back to our old server. So, feel free to use http://www.coolchaser.com again.
As you may have guessed, we’ve been updating our server architecture to a server farm. Unfortunately, things haven’t gone as expected (isn’t that expected?). For a speedier experience, go to http://old.coolchaser.com
Thanks for your patience!

We are almost ready to released some really cool options on our editor for you to tweak your layout even more!
Option 1 – You can tweak the position of your background
Not so excited? Well, I’ll assure you that you will be after you read on because lots of our users have asked for this option! [...]