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In this blog I will discuss a donation drive for the website, our confirmed move from Ventrilo to Mumble, and a music player you can put on your profile.
As was discussed at the recent officers meeting, we are starting a donation drive to pay for our website. I will be keeping track of who gives how much and the person that gives the most to the site will be rewarded with a CK shirt from bubbakush. While the site is the place where we need donations the most, it was requested of me that I mention other areas where the clan can use your, the member's, help. We are needing card and ticket donations for our PRE offerings, if you would like to donate to that, please locate BMWarner, or email him at bmwarner@cerealkillaz.org. We will soon be needing donations for the mumble server, but that is most likely going to be our next donation drive, probably closer to the end of the year. So, if you want to donate to the site, just click the paypal link on the top left of almost any page at cerealkillaz.org.
The time has come for a change in our voice chat program. We have finally decided and confirmed that we will be moving from Ventrilo usage to Mumble usage. Please check the front page at www.cerealkillaz.org for the information and download links.
What? Is it over? I thought you said something about a music player for our profiles? Well, hell yeah I did. Go check it out, add a new element to your profile and select the music player. I t supports linked music files, you can upload music files to it and you can share your music with your buddies music players on their profiles, if they and you both so choose.
Exciting times in CK, yo, and they are just getting started. More updates soon.
Donation drive ends at the end of August, so get those donations in, yo!
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Yo, everyone, we here at CerealKillaz.Org are considering changing our voice chat offering from Ventrilo to Mumble.
What is Mumble, you ask? Well, let me get right to telling you. Mumble is a more fully-featured voice chat program. It is, in functionality, very comparable to Ventrilo or to Teamspeak, but it is open source.
What does open-source mean? Open source means that the program is developed by people all around the world, and offered to everyone for free. This is unlike Ventrilo and Teamspeak, which allow their clients to be downloaded freely, but proceed to charge exorbitant licensing fees to those hosting the servers. So, in the long run, it means that Mumble is cheaper. However, it is cheaper without a loss of quality.
It uses the same speex codecs that are already on our vent server, and it uses less system resources to run than ventrilo. it alos has settings to make it more bearable on slow connections or older computers. Did i mention you can skin it?
What do I have to do to get on the CK Mumble server?
It's pretty easy. You just need to click the link : http://mumble.sourceforge.net
Once you do that, you just download the latest STABLE version for your operating system. Then, you install it. Then, you run the audio wizard, BEING SURE TO SELECT A PUSH TO TALK KEY DURING THE WIZARD. Then, you create a new server entry in the server editor, with the following information:
Servername = CerealKillaz.Org Mumble Server
Address = mumble.cerealkillaz.org
Port = 10025
Username will be your in game name, please.
Once you get all connected up, be sure to use your "Self" menu to register with the server.
Anyway, hope to see you guys over there. There is a forums thread (click the link) where this item will be open for discussion.
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In our latest round of updates we wanted to focus on a few requests we have seen post in our forums, including being able to compose messages and send messages to more then one friend at a time, able to add embed codes from other Video websites other then YouTube and advanced search options for the Members page.
New Inbox Message Features
Next time you visit your inbox you will notice a new option to compose a New Message. Creating a new message to a friend is very easy, the send message box features real time friend searching, as you type out a name you will be given a list of friends to select from, then enter your subject, message body and click send.
When you send a message to more then one person, all replies will appear in one message thread. This makes it easy to keep track of the conversation.
Timestamps are also a thing of the past, we have replaced the Timestamps with a more localized friendly time since the message was posted.
New Video Page Features
Previously the video page only supported adding videos from YouTube using a video page URL or uploading videos if you had an upgrade. In our latest changes we have opened up full support for embed codes. This should allow you to place a video from any video source, enjoy!
With this video page update, you should be aware that simply posting the YouTube links like we used to won't work anymore. Now you will have to locate the button on a youtube page that says "<embed>" Check the picture below for help.
on other sites, you'll have to find their embed codes, but they mostly are about the same looking.
I hope you guys enjoy all the new features! there are more on the way, but I'm not going to tell you all of them.
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