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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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Update: Mar 16 2pm PDT We’re back up – sorry for the inconvenience.
Sorry, we’re experiencing a slowdown due to the deployment of a new CoolChaser release. The site may not be operational for many of you. Please check this log for updates. We’re hoping to be back up in the next few hours.
Thanks for your [...]

UPDATE (3/12/09): This should be fixed now so you DON’T have to do it manually. Let us know if you still are having a problem (and please remember to put a link to your MySpace profile!)

Hey guys! Sorry that we didn’t notice for a while, but we just found out that the background image doesn’t [...]

YET ANOTHER UPDATE (5/26/09): Auto insert feature is BACK! Woo Hoo! Read more here.

UPDATE (3/11/09): If you are using Profile 2.0 and the background didn’t show, it’s our bug not MySpace We’ve wrote a post on how to fix it so read it here! http://guidingvoices.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/dont-see-the-background-on-profile-20/

So MySpace didn’t like the auto insert functionality from [...]

Hey CoolChasers, we have just shipped out a new feature on our layout editor that lets you use animated gifs for your backgrounds! Huraaaay! This feature has been suggested by Lost John, our very loyal member on CoolChaser, who is fighting a battle against cancer – thus we would love to call this feature the [...]

Congratulations to 45Steve, winner of the CoolChaser Holiday Contest! We have selected 45Steve’s Sparkling New Years Party Theme as the winner for it’s dynamic use of space and great sense of style!
Here’s an interview with the winner!

Q1. Congratulations 45Steve! How do you feel about winning the Holiday Contest?
A2. It feels good to make things for [...]

Happy New Year!! Hope you guys enjoyed the Holiday Contest – we had 556 entries! Wow! We would like to thank every single person who entered their themes. Now we are at the final stage to choose the winner to the 8GB iPod Touch! Here are the top 10 most used themes from the [...]

UPDATE 12.22.08 – Looks like there aren’t gonna be any changes for now so CoolChaser should continue to work as is! Phew!
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We aren’t 100% sure yet at this moment, but the tool we are using for people to update their MySpace profile (called Gigya) might not work tomorrow as MySpace is undergoing some [...]

Hey people, thanks for entering the holiday contest and for leaving comments on the holiday contest blog. We wish we can give everybody an iPod Touch, but there is going to be only one winner! So what’s your chance of winning that prize? Now we have a ranking page that shows the number of layouts [...]