[Matt]

Take the name of your favorite pro football team
and surround it with the sports tags for a special smilie:

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[sports]giants[/sports]

You must lose all lowercase letters. Some abbreviations may work: pats, bucs, etc

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[sports]pats[/sports]

[chris270]

The camera on the patriots one in hiliarious...

Go Dolphins!!

[Matt]

This will be a work in progress...
A new map function will make embedding maps easier.
It's easy:
Type an address, GPS coordinates, or place name
Then put one of these line thingies | right after it and type what you want the label to be.
Highlight that and hit the MAP button, which will surround it with tags.
In the first tag, put the zoom level after the = sing
1 is the whole world, and I think the highest it will go is 18.
Hit preview to see how you map will look before you post it.

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[map=16]frontier field, rochester|Play Ball[/map]

[Matt]

We have a set of new features I'm sure the regulars will use frequently
Near the top of the main page, you have some new controls:
• View unanswered posts - puts together a list of topics that have no replies yet.
• View new posts - shows the posts since you last logged in.
• View unread posts/You have no unread posts - shows the posts you have read yet.
Mark forums read - will mark everything as read.

Also adds a 'Mark post as unread' link at the bottom of each post and a mark pm as unread link at the bottom of each private message as well as a folder in the private messages part of the UCP for unread pms.


Yeah... I know... awesome features.

[Brenda]

[HaloGirl]

Near the top of the main page, you have some new controls:

Cool! I will find these very handy.

[backpacker]

sounds like real usefull tools, will try them out.

[Matt]

Embedded youtube videos have been upgraded to widescreen
With a larger player and higher quality

[Matt]

Here's an example of the higher quality Youtube videos

[Matt]

Use the move tag to scroll anything around the screen.

Movin' on up!

You can use "up" "down" "left" "right"

Example:

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[move=up]Movin' on up![/move]

[Kelly]

Ok--nifty! Guess I'll give it a try! Here's "move over"

move

[Bill_K]

Going up

moving over

[Matt]

[Matt]

Introducing the img2 tag.

Post any size photo (even huge ones) and it will show in the message scaled down to a maximum width of 600 pixels (a size that should fit on the average monitor)
Users can click it to see the larger version.

When posting images, just add the "2" to the IMG tag and viola!

Example:

The black border is put in by the tag and helps indicate that the photo is usig the img2 tag and may be enlarged.

Here's what the code for the above looks like:

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[img2]http://www.nyfalls.com/posts/outings/11-08/45-large.jpg[/img2]

the issue with this tag is that the internet browser the user is using now controls the scaling.... so it may not look optimal in some (internet explorer 6/7 sometimes will look overly sharp). I works great in Chrome and Firefox. It does not increase the size, so it won't do anything for images with widths less than 600 pixels.


On a side note, attachments will also now be displayed at a larger size of 600 pixels wide.

[Matt]

Type a city and a state separated by a comma and surround it by the weather tag for a 5-day forecast.

Here is the forecast for Antelope,CA, where member Vinceclortho lives

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[weather]antelope,ca[/weather]

You can click the image to see more detail.