Art, Technology & People

Oh yes folks, mark this day down as a record breaking day… On this day in 2005, Donna, in a momentary lapse of judgement, agreed to come on board and join the P2L staff. See it yourself at http://www.pixel2life.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3766

So Donna has hit the 2 year mark, which is the official record for longest amount of time that a staff member has been able to put up with me!

So please raise your glass and join me in a toast to the EXTREMELY hard working woman that works hours every day to keep this community up and running, works to keep the tutorial database cleans and basically takes the brunt my rants, tantrums and ramblings.

D, I know you've done a lot of so hopefully you have a very hard head and are ready for the next 2! On behalf of everyone here, thank you so much for all the hard work you've put in to the site and this community.

Dan

Hi guys,

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that NG has added two new features to the P2L Publishing System:

Multiple Image Upload

Have a ton of images to upload and you're tearing your hair out doing on by one? Have no fear, multiple upload is here! Simply go to your Image Collections Management area and click on "upload multiple items" located just under the form, or if you already have images in that collection, under the images in the toolbar.

Simply click on the browse button to add a file to the upload list (you can have up to 25 items) and click upload to submit them. The beauty of this is that the image's title and description will be automatically filled in based on the filename. You can even use the underscore symbol _ to generate spaces in the title and description.

So if you submit an image called "hell_world.jpg", the title and description will be automatically assigned as "hello world".

Private and Public Unpublished Tutorials

Whenever you create a new tutorial, it is now set to private and no one can view that tutorial until you publish it. You can click on "Public" under the Display Settings area when editing your tutorial and click submit to open up the tutorial so you can link it to others for previewing.

That's about it, enjoy!

Dan

Hey guys,

I just wanted to show you a new site I set up that lets you download streaming videos from MySpace, YouTube, DailyMotion, MetaCafe, Blip.tv, Google Video and IFilm! Give it a shot at http://www.videosnag.com and let me know how it looks and works for you. ATM there is a small issue with the examples that I am working on, but it should all work nicely.

Thanks,
Dan

Hello everyone,

In an effort to protect our members and community, I would like to announce the following policy changes in regards to posting competition announcements in our Competition Free-For-All forum. For those of you that don't know, P2L has a FFA forum dedicated to people that want to run competitions and advertise them on our site. Unfortunately people have seen fit to take advantage of this free service and run contests to score themselves free labor and not deliver on their advertised prizes.

From now on, anyone looking to announce or run a contest on our forums that involves a prize consisting of cash or goods must do the following:

1. Contact me (Faken) via email or PM to advise me of the contest you wish to run with a complete breakdown of the contest (Theme, timeline, prize(s), rules etc…) before you post anything. Unless you have permission from me, do not post a new contest.

2. In some circumstances I will allow you to run the contest with no further questions asked. This will be based on your reputation. If I know you well and feel I can trust you, you will be able to post your contest.

3. If I do not know you very well or do not have 100% trust in your ability to pony up the prizes, you will be asked to use me as an Escrow service. This means that if you are offering cash, you will be expected to send the funds to me in the form of Paypal or certified check or money order. If you are offering goods that you will be shipping to the winner, you will be asked to send the item(s) to me to be held until the winner is selected. I will then ship the items directly to the winner or make the payment. I will require the prize money or items in my possession BEFORE any contest is announced.

If you are asked to use P2L as an escrow, don't be offended… we're here to protect you and the other members of this forum to ensure that all future contests are held with integrity and in a manner that is trustworthy and reliable. If anyone has any concerns or questions about these rules, please contact me directly or post below.

Thanks,
Dan