AjaxLife Blog

AjaxLife is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch! It’s currently about where AjaxLife itself was just over a year or so ago - you can chat to people, IM those on your friend list (online or offline this time ’round), and receive IMs from arbitrary people. Thus far, there is no movement, no inventory, no money transfers, etc.

To use it, simply visit http://ajaxlife.net on your iPhone or iPod touch. You will be redirected to a secure “login proxy”, which is used because the iPhone could not reliably run the code to encrypt your login details. From there you will be redirected to the standard server.

See some screenshots

New features

• “Offline Friends” list to complement “Online Friends”
• Following disconnection from the server, a more obvious dialog will be shown. Note that it’s not necessarily true - it might be a momentary blip.
• Textures shown from inventory have a checked background behind them, which shows through transparencies.
• Added a server-side ban list - I can ban you now. :p

Changes

• Removed “Properties” from inventory context menu in Internet Explorer (it didn’t and won’t work)
• Moved the “Online Friends” and “Groups” tabs into a new “Contacts” window. Instant Messages is now only visible when there are instant messaging sessions in progress.
• Unsuccessful texture downloads are now shown as such, instead of waiting forever.
• Server now uses libsecondlife 0.5

Bug fixes

• Profiles load in Internet Explorer again.
• When starting a group IM, proper notification is given when it is (or isn’t) created, instead of mostly hidden errors
• Internet Explorer users can drag the Parcel Media window down without the drag aborting after twenty pixels.

This update will (should) appear automatically without your intervention. Please enjoy Linden Lab’s new splash screen, too.

New update without any downtime. And you don’t, in theory, have to clear your cache, either. Hurrah.

Anyway:

New features

• Display of parcel title next to your position
• Parcel media support
  • Two new buttons will appear when applicable in the toolbar, labelled “Music” and “Media”
  • These buttons will only appear if you have the QuickTime plugin installed
  • The “Media” button will show the parcel media - most often a video
  • The “Music” button will show a window in which you can play the parcel stream
  • Nothing will auto-play
  • Web pages are not supported

Not much actually changed, but here you go:

New features

• Option to disable notification sounds - checkbox at login, and keyboard shortcut (ctrl-shift-S) to toggle.
• Keyboard shortcut (ctrl-shift-H) to teleport home

[01:26 BST] AjaxLife is up again, running version 0.3.7. If you see a checkbox labelled “(loading)”, please clear your cache and try again. Thanks to a backend change made in 0.3.7, this should not be necessary for the next version (probably 0.3.8).

[00:46 BST] S3 is now up. However, AjaxLife remains down for work that will decrease the time required for updating in the future, and for an update to 0.3.7.

Due to a failure with Amazon’s S3 storage service, AjaxLife is down until they fix it. This is the same reason that LL’s website is broken and half the rest of the “Web 2.0″ thing is screwy. Apologies for any inconvenience. Please moan at Amazon instead.

AjaxLife 0.3.6 was released today. Please clear your web browser’s cache to update.

New features

• Creating new notecards through right-click in inventory
• Saving notecards you have permissions on.
• Notification of new inventory from other people/objects, and the ability to see it without relogging.

AjaxLife is currently down for updating to 0.3.6. This version is less buggy and has improved inventory support. More details will follow.

(Anyone wondering why I always make these posts just before I do an update: because the system redirects new requests to ajaxlife.net to blog.ajaxlife.net when I set it to update mode.)

The 0.3.5 update has just been completed. Please clear your browser cache if you experience any issues.

New features

• “Start Location” option on login screen lets you choose to log in at your last location, your home location, or an arbitrary sim (you’ll be placed at (128, 128, 20), and SLurl link format won’t work)
• Support for the Callout Firefox notification add-on, if installed. Used as the Fluid growl support is now.

AjaxLife is currently down for an update to 0.3.5. Release notes will follow.

I’ve tweaked the layout of the login screen for the next version. It now looks like this:

Specifically, I added this menu:

Which may look something like this after typing:

So now you can choose where to log in. This is working on my testing server, but not yet live.