Building cl1p.net

Upgrade delayed

2008-02-02T21:29:00.000-08:00

I've stopped the upgrade for now. I ran into some issues on the new server and had to roll back. Everything is back to normal.

cl1p.net server upgrade

2008-02-02T19:54:00.000-08:00

At 4:00 GMT cl1p is going down for a system upgrade. It should take 1 - 2 hours.

iPhone / iPod Touch support

2007-12-10T07:16:00.000-08:00

Over the weekend I purchased an iPod touch, so of course the first thing I did was make cl1p compatible with my new device.

Now you can copy and paste to your iPhone. From a computer just enter in any URL that starts with cl1p.net and the paste.

From your iphone enter in the same URL to see the information you pasted.

Introducing cl1p - The office clipboard

2007-10-31T06:39:00.000-07:00

Up to now you could use cl1p to copy and between any two computers that where connected to the internet. Now with cl1p - The office clipboard you can copy and paste between computers on your network, without sending data over the internet.

Along with greater security a number of new features have been added such as:

Full text searching
History on all cl1ps created
Full administrative controls

Download an evaluation copy today. Visit http://cl1p.net/server.

Improved Unicode support

2007-07-13T16:46:00.000-07:00

Up till now non ASCII characters have not worked with cl1p.net. With the latest patch they should all work properly.

Please let me know if any characters do not work.

Site upgraded

2007-07-08T10:43:00.000-07:00

I've just finished upgrading the site. A number of new features where installed.

1. Plain Text and Rich Text cl1ps have a status indicator which shows a cl1ps editable status.

Editable - You may edit this cl1p
Editing - You are editing this cl1p.
Read only - Someone else is editing this cl1p.

If you try to modify a cl1p that someone else is editing you will get a message. 'Failed to get lock on the cl1p.' In this case you need to wait until the status changes to editable. Once the cl1p is editable the content will update automatically to the latest value.

2. New Rich Text Editor

3. UI Improvements, all options except for keep for have been moved into an options popup.

4. E-mail retrieval for lost cl1p passwords.

5. Improved admin

New Features in next release

2007-06-30T16:18:00.000-07:00

I'm working on a big release for cl1p that will contain a lot of improvements.

Here is what I have done so far.

Adjustable Textarea on Message Board cl1ps
Improved Rich Text Editor
Cl1ps are automatically saved as you type.
Autoupdate of cl1ps. When another person changes a cl1p you are viewing your cl1p will update to reflect the change.
Simplified UI most options placed in a popup, menu bar removed.
Improved cl1p account screen with more information on your cl1ps.

Changes are on the way

2007-06-12T08:28:00.000-07:00

I've spent the last few months hard at work on other projects. But now I'm turning my attention back to cl1p, I've got a number of exciing new ideas to launch.

Stay tuned

Message Board and SSL

2007-02-16T11:51:00.000-08:00

I've added some new features to cl1p:

First up is Message Board. You can now turn an cl1p into a message board. Just select message board in the cl1p type drop down menu.

You can set the title of the message board by entering a new title under options.
You can restrict forum management by setting a password under security. People can still add comments to the board, but you need the password to delete them.

Next is SSL. You can now purchase SSL cl1ps. These cl1ps have the same feature as standard cl1ps, with the addition of an secure SSL connection.

Review of cl1p in one powerful word

2007-02-12T14:35:00.000-08:00

Mr Biggs just posted an excellent article on cl1p.net on his blog.

Thanks for the post Mr Biggs!

New Feature: Cl1p Types!

2007-02-06T10:29:00.000-08:00

Now a cl1p can be more then just a text area. The cl1p type dropdown (in the top left corner) will let you change types.

First up is the Rich Text editor type. You can now create cl1p's with rich formating options .

I have many more types of cl1ps. If you have any suggestions on a cl1p type you would like, let me know!

a new look

2007-02-01T10:21:00.000-08:00

Here is a screen shot of the new cl1p.net. It should be up in a few weeks. What do you think?

Eve Online - As a workout

2007-01-23T10:41:00.000-08:00

Like many computer programmers I sit at a desk all day. My diet is ok, (No fast food, lots of home made feasts, thanks to my wife) but working out is always a problem.

My biggest problem with working out is that it is boring. Going through the same motions of exercise, over and over. I can't stand it. All I can think about is how silly the whole process is. I need a distraction. I've tried watching TV, and reading but I find that these are too distracting, or boring.

But then I brought my laptop up and put it beside the exercise bike, and played eve online as I worked the bike, did push ups, sit ups and free weights. An entire hour of workout can go by without me hardly noticing. Normally I can't stand more then 20 minutes.

This is because Eve online only requires input from you once in a while. Most of the time is spent moving from place to place. With the auto pilot handling the details. So it simple to set the autopilot, then do some push ups. Get back on the bike, do some mining, sell the ore, do some sit ups, etc. It's the perfect distraction.

It works great! I've just started my new eve online workout. I'll let you know how it works out long term.

Adsense, not making sense

2007-01-08T12:10:00.000-08:00

I just found out something really interesting. cl1p.net makes about the same in cpm as a top 50 blog. (I made $1.37cpm last year, he made $1.39cpm) This is really interesting, because I always thought that adsense works way better on blogs then it does on tool sites.

But this must be wrong. We both target a tech audience, perhaps the audience matters more then the content of the site?

A programmers start page

2007-01-03T14:43:00.000-08:00

You can use cl1p.net as a start page for programmers. As a web application developer I have to access a lot of machines in the office. Most of them are by IP and some have long cumbersome names. I also have to access the web apps that I'm working on from different browsers.

My solution was to use cl1p.net to make a simple HTML start page. You can see it here.

Create your own, just follow these steps.

1. Pick a URL that starts with cl1p.net. ( i picked http://cl1p.net/robs/startpage )

2. In the Textarea write the HTML. I just use a simple table and links, but you could use any HTML you wanted.

3. Add a password, change the keep for to something longer then a week and Click save, you will see a message saying (Page was saved).

4. In the top right hand corner you see a link http://cl1p.net/robs/startpage. Click on that link to see the rendered HTML.

5. What happened here is that you are now looking at http://d.cl1p.net/robs/startpage. This will only show you the raw data, and since its HTML we see an HTML page.

6. Set http://d.cl1p.net/robs/startpage as the homepage.

Bam! There you go. A programmers start page.

New years eve, the time critical holiday

2007-01-02T09:03:00.001-08:00

As a time critical guy I'm always worried about what time it is, and how am I doing according to the schedule in my head. I always want to be on time. I hate being late.

For everyday of the year I keep my obsession under wraps. It's not polite to be looking at your watch all the time.

But for one day, I let it fly. New years eve is when for once, everyone is concerned about the time.

And its great.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1

Happy new year!

The Fanboy ubuntu post.

2006-12-29T10:30:00.001-08:00

I recently installed ubuntu 6.1 and I love it. I LOVE IT. This is the best user linux distro EVER. EVER!

I've been using Linux for years as a sever but never been able to stomach it on the desktop. I tried Red Hat, then Fedora, and well I could not get anything else to work.

But ubuntu works! Holy cow!

The installation is a wet dream. It takes away everything I don't care about, (Partitioning, package selection, etc) and just installs what I need.

Top things I freaked out about when installing ubuntu.

- SOUND WORKS
- Boots to a usable desktop
- Looks great
- JUST ONE CD
- wireless works!
- Firefox 2.0 installed, and WORKING
- apt-get works!
- Tutorials work!
- sudo WORKS out of the box

If you have not tried ubuntu, then for the LOVE OF GOD, try it!

Banned from warcraft

2006-12-28T20:04:00.000-08:00

Well my account was banned, I'm guessing that blizzard found out that I payed someone to play my account for me. I wasn't sure if that violated the terms, but I guessed it was OK to have someone else play my character.

I thought you might be interested as to why I did this, I'm sure you have heard this before, but who knows maybe I'll make the difference.

I'm a casual player, I can't spend more then an one evening a week playing. I find that most players are level 60, but after a one year of playing I finally got to level 40, but leveling was getting slower and slower, and groups where getting harder and harder to find. I wanted to play, but I could not find anyone to play with.

So when I saw that I could pay to have my account leveled for me I jumped at the chance. For once I would be level 60, I could play with everyone else. It would take another year to hit 60 on my own (And by then everyone else would be level 70).

I've put a lot of money and time into my account, and I'm sad to see it go. I'm sorry I paid for power leveling, but I didn't see another way.

This blog is BACK

2006-12-27T22:21:00.000-08:00

I'm brining this blog back online. As an independent software vendor its critical that I spend more time on getting the word out about my creations. If I don't talk about cl1p.net who will?

I'm joining a long line of software developers who blog, everyone from the all powerful Joel, and Eric to the not as much known, (but respected in my book) Lord Elph.

So what is the blog about? Well for the most part it's about me, a software developer, married, full time employed, and trying his hand at running an microISV on the side. It's also about life, programming, and getting rich off of adsense. (Yeah right)

Blog Moved

2006-09-08T08:18:00.000-07:00

I've switched to wordpress.

Find my new blog here.

New Feature: cl1p links

2006-08-06T12:29:00.000-07:00

You can now link cl1ps together. Just add the URL of the cl1p you want to add at the bottom of the cl1p in the cl1p link section to link cl1ps together.

Last60.com

2006-07-31T06:28:00.000-07:00

I've just released a new website. Last60.com.

Last60.com gives you only the latest headlines from the most popular websites, showing you the news in the past hour.

Updated every five minutes

Stories are listed in the order they were published, with the latest news in the top left corner.

Clicking on a story will move it to the 'Already read' section to help you keep track of news you have already consumed.

Optimized for Firefox, try opening the links with the middle mouse button.(Or ctrl + left mouse button)

New Features!!

2006-07-22T11:06:00.000-07:00

I've just uploaded the latest version. New features.

1. cl1p accounts.

You can now create an account with cl1p! The first account feature is the tracking of cl1ps. When logged in any cl1p that you create or edit is added to your cl1p account. Though this account you can track your cl1ps!

2. Tittle

The title of each cl1p can now be set in the title box on each cl1p.

3. Random Cl1p's.

Need a blank cl1p in a hurry? Just type in r.cl1p.net in your browser. You will be redirected to a blank cl1p.

Live Clipboard

2006-07-17T16:04:00.000-07:00

I just read the post at Ray Ozzie's blog where he talks about live clipboards, and cutting and pasting between everything - web-app to web-app, web-app to desktop, desktop to web-app. Give it a read if you haven't yet - its really interesting.

Some people have written that cl1p.net is the first answer to the live clipboard question, And in a way it is, you can now move text and small files between PC - PC. It's no where near Ray's vision, but it is a start.

I'm still working on implementing cl1p accounts and other features I listed below. But I think once that's done I'll start to look at ways to copy and paste parts of websites into cl1p.

Oh and still waiting for that buyout offer Ray. :)

Passwords

2006-07-11T07:39:00.000-07:00

You can now remove passwords from cl1ps. Just click the remove password check box.

Survey Results

2006-06-29T12:13:00.000-07:00

Thanks to everyone who filled out the survey. Here are the results. I'll start coding this weekend!

1. cl1p account.
Track your cl1ps from one screen, set common settings (a password for example, a default length of time)

2. Title
Set the title of your cl1p.

3. History
View a cl1p's change history

4. Conversation Mode
Sets a cl1p so that is can only be written to. Each addition will be added below existing entries, with a timestamp added to each new entry. The result would be something like this

5. Public cl1ps
Mark a cl1p as public, public cl1ps will be added to a list that other people could browse though via the main cl1p page.

Other things I will ad.

A print button (Print a cl1p)

Thank you Kim Komando

2006-06-09T22:47:00.000-07:00

WOW! cl1p.net is Kim Komando's cool site of the day.

Thanks for the hits Kim!

Survey

2006-06-08T07:38:00.000-07:00

I'm looking to add a number of new features to cl1p.net, and I would like your help. Please take a second and fill in this survey.

Help and User Guide

2006-05-02T19:43:00.000-07:00

I've added help and user guide pages to cl1p. If you think something is missing, or would like additional information, please leave a message after this post.

User Guide

Help

del.icio.us for cl1p now > 1000

2006-04-28T07:40:00.000-07:00

Cl1p.net just passed a big milestone. Over 1000 people have bookmarked cl1p.net on del.icio.us! I'm glad that so many people are using cl1p.net. But just wait, new features are in the work that will make cl1p.net more accessible and fun!

Use cl1p.net on forums

2006-04-26T07:03:00.000-07:00

Many online forms limit the text you enter, or mess up its formatting. Use cl1p.net to post your text and then just add the URL to your forum post!

Code Changes

2006-04-21T16:14:00.000-07:00

I just made a minor change to the home page. Example cl1p's used to be displayed as random characters. Now it will display a random word for the dictionary.

For example the example link used to look like http://cl1p.net/sadfjhaow now it is like http://cl1p.net/book.

Recent Changes:

2006-04-17T19:27:00.000-07:00

Link to quick silver plug-in on the 'more' page
cl1p's with passwords must have password entered before editing
Password can be changed
Keep For option can be changed
Restrict Views option can be changed

New Feature: Keep for

2006-04-16T13:36:00.000-07:00

A new feature has been added to cl1p.net. You can now tell cl1p.net how long to keep your data! Just make a selection in the "Keep for" drop down list. (Times range from 1 hour to 2 Weeks)

Server Move complete

2006-04-15T09:38:00.000-07:00

Cl1p.net has just completed a server move. For the past few months I’ve been running it out of my living room!

New Blog

2006-04-15T09:20:00.001-07:00

I’ve moved the blog from cl1p.net to blogger. The main reason for this move is to get better feed back from you, cl1p.net users!

Traffic continues to build; cl1p.net now has a link on my.yahoo.com. Amazing.

So far the site is stable, with a few bugs found a fixed. Thanks to everyone who reported bugs.

I’ve added a new feature. Passwords can now restrict cl1p viewing. Just click the restrict views checkbox and enter in a password.

Have a feature idea? Let me know!

Why I created cl1p.net

2006-04-15T09:20:00.000-07:00

I was testing a application and I ran into a familiar, and frustrating problem. For each test I needed to modify settings and gather test data from each machine. Because they where on a separate network, running different operating systems the only way to sync the settings was to print out a copy from my machine and then manually enter it on each test machine, at least that's how it was done when I joined the team.

I tried to speed things up by using FTP but did not have access to a ftp site. Also on some of the test machines. (Macs) I wasn't sure where the FTP client was or how to use it, I also tried webmail and that worked for most of the test machines, however some did not have a browser that could support my gmail account.

It was taking far too long just to move data between machines. There had to be a better way.

So I created cl1p.net and it has saved me tons of time. Now whenever I need to move test settings around I just open up a URL that starts with cl1p.net. (For example I used http://cl1p.net/mayhew/td ) and post my settings. Then from each test machine I enter in the same URL.

I hope you find cl1p.net as useful as I do. Enjoy.

Great day for hits!

2006-04-10T21:31:00.000-07:00

Wow, a lot of things are in motion. First off I got a link on popurls.com. This is great because it’s a site that gets a lot of traffic. I’m not sure how long the link will be listed, but its been up for over 24 hours now and has sent me at least 200 hits.

I also noticed that some folks form live journal have started to use cl1p.net. This is unexpected and cool.

I got an e-mail from lifehacker.com. They are checking site, and I guess they could be submitting a story. That would be awesome.

Also I submitted the site to buzzshout.com.

Delicious links now sitting at 33. Tool appears to be the popular tag.

Today’s stats. (As of now) 544 hits, 170 unique 30 clips.

If everyday what like today I could sell ad space.

popurls.com

2006-04-09T10:46:00.000-07:00

As a lark I submitted cl1p.net to popurls.com in the your pop section. And now I’m getting hits from popurls.com.

This could be big.

Welcome to building cl1p.net

2006-04-09T10:27:00.000-07:00

This blog tracks the progress of cl1p.net, a website that I have built lets you copy and paste between computers. I believe that cl1p.net is an innovative and useful web site. My hope is that one day thousands of people will visit and use cl1p.net, and that It will improve there lives in some small way.

So I’ve build the site, everything works. Now what? How do I get people to use it? How do I get the word out? And how do I do this on my current marketing budget? (Which is zero dollars by the way.)

I’m going to start off by posting what has been done so far in terms of marketing.

Feb 28, 2006

Started promoting cl1p.net as the worlds largest notebook

Posted an entry on tradetricks.org

Tech Support

I use cl1p.net to help move settings. For example when I need to setup someone’s email I copy the settings to cl1p.net and then use them on the other guy’s machine. It’s great! I’ve also used it to move small files around when firewalls get in the way.

Check it out http://cl1p.net

Also posted a link on http://wiki.43folders.com under notebook software.

I also submitted a story to digg.com and a comment on slashdot.org. This is what happened.

Feb 28 - Slashdot / 43Folders
Unique IP's 107, Clips 17
March 1 - Digg.com
Unique IP’s 124, Clips 10
March 2 - None
Unique IP's 43 Clips 12
March 3 - None
Unique IP's 12 Clips 1
March 4 - None
Unique IP's 6 Clips 0
March 5 - None
Unique IP's 5 Clips 2
march 6 - None
Unique IP's 19 Clips 1
March 7 - None
Unique IP's 16 Clips 5

Not bad, but really just a trickle.

Not much happened until I noticed the Joel, from joelonsoftware.com has just started up joel.reddit.com. I quickly posted a link to clip and remained on the hope page for about a day

2413 Hits 432 Ip's and 81 Clips made.

That’s a bit better.

My stats for March came in at.

Unique Visitor (IP/Agent String) 974 Hits 3750

Still just a trickle. I figure I need 10000 unique visitors a month before I can start selling ad space. Which in itself will be another problem to conquer.