Welcome to a new year and a new direction for Nicecoder. There have been a number of changes in the background that users have not seen and I have reluctantly been holding back on.
The new year brings us a new office with some new programmers! There are now a total of seven programmers for Nicecoder. The programmers will be working on all Nicecoder products including the Extreme DMOZ Extractor, iDesk and IndexU. While we can’t make any promises or announce any dates, we can expect good things to come out of this and should see some updates soon. The decision to move forward with a team of programmers was brought about by Dody and John who want to see Nicecoder take a giant step forward in a new direction. I for one am excited to see what will come of this.
December was a slow month for updates due to Dody opening the new office and hiring the programmers so no new fixes were released but January provided us with a number of fixes and news bits.
Mod Of The Month contest
Nicecoder is now offering a Mod Of The Month contest. You can find full and complete details at the link below
http://www.nicecoder.com/community/showthread.php?p=28455
The winner for the mod of the month for January is inspireme for his Targeted Article mod. You can view the mod at http://www.nicecoder.com/community/showthread.php?p=29017. Congrats to Matt and his $100 reward will be coming to him soon.
A new manual for the Extreme DMOZ Extractor
I have written a new manual for the Extreme DMOZ Extractor. The new manual shows exactly how to use the Extractor to get categories and links and how to upload them to your IndexU. The manual can be found in the client area and can also be found at http://www.nicecoder.com/community/showthread.php?t=5802
More good news about manuals
Many users have spoken about how much they like the IndexU Install Guide that I wrote a while back. I’m pleased to say that the Install Guide has been added to the client area so users no longer have to go searching for it.
More translations added
A few new translations have been added to the client area. These are the Greek, Swedish and Japanese translations. This brings the total number of translations up to thirteen! With an upcoming feature of the new IndexU being able to change character sets in the admin panel, this makes IndexU to a truly international program.
IndexU Deluxe
Dody has recently changed the version number in SVN to IndexU Deluxe and has stated that the new version should be available some time in Febuary. Changes include mail templates being stored in the database as well as a number of settings. This will reduce the amount of work requred when upgrading. New features and functions include SMTP mail sending, subscription payments for 2checkout and paypal, preventing duplicate URL submissions and a number of other fixes as well as a new look for the script and an enhanced admin area.
Recent Fixes
Paypal and 2checkout subscriptions have now been added to the SVN version of IndexU.
Recent Mods
Adding social bookmarks to your site
http://www.nicecoder.com/community/showthread.php?t=5875
Google Checkout payment module
http://www.nicecoder.com/community/showthread.php?t=6102
Tips
A few users recently had an issue where they couldn’t see .htaccess files when using their Mac. A solution was found and provided.
http://www.indexusupport.com/2007/12/12/mac-yuk-issues-with-htaccess/
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The Nicecoder Team
Bruce (support)
Dody (co-owner/programmer)
John (co-owner)
