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

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.

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.

New Features

• You can click on avatar names in the chat and IM history windows to open their profile. There is no visual indication of this, however.

[17:30 GMT] Update complete. We’re back (and unblocked)! Please clear your browser cache and try again if you receive a message to the effect of “A C# exception was caught: array index out of bounds.”

[17:17 GMT] Final testing has passed. We’re now waiting for the deploy script to update the servers. We should, hopefully, be back up shortly. Release notes will be posted in a separate post.

AjaxLife is going down for an unscheduled update to 0.3.4. The version was going to be released in a week or so, but is going out now due to having the property of bypassing the libsl block currently in place. It was actually almost released last week, but failed final testing. Those bugs have been fixed now, so it’s just being released without a bugfix/enhancement that was planned.

We’ll be back as soon as possible!

New release of AjaxLife!

New Features

• Links in chat and IM are now clickable
  • secondlife:///sim/x/y/z and http://slurl.com/secondlife/sim/x/y/z format links will open the map at the given location instead of following the link.
• Teleport trail - whenever you teleport, a message giving a link back appears in your chat history (like LL’s client)
• Chat input scrolling - you can move up and down in the chat and IM input boxes using the up and down arrow keys to look through your previous messages

AjaxLife is going to be updated to version 0.3.2. Here is a pair of screenshots demonstrating the added features:

Here’s the new feature list:

• Group list in the IM window
• Group IMs work correctly - including joining, leaving, starting and conversing.
• The position of the map beacon is shown on the minimap if applicable
• You can now change inventory item permissions and descriptions via their properties (right click on the item and pick “Properties” from the menu.)

Additionally, the following was fixed without fanfare in a minor patch to 0.3.1:

• Issue 10: No Way to Scroll Down Friends List.