cyclr.com blog: Category Features

Currencies and primary email addresses

yeah — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:18:00 +0100

We’re getting there. I should do more travelling. I am just more productive on planes ;-)

Today’s announcement includes changable default currencies and changable primary email addresses.

First things first: The primary email address thing is not a big deal and it’s a shame that it hasn’t been there before. As you know, you can register several email addresses with cyclr.com – and you should do that so that other people can enter new stories more easily. Now, your primary email address is the one that all your cyclr.com notifications are sent to. You probably want to use an email address that you check frequently. Just hover over your registered addresses and click on make primary to do so. Easy, huh?

So, what about that currency thing? The good thing is: you can change your default currency now. The bad thing? Well, it doesn’t change much (yet)! Your overall balances as well as balances with friends are still calculated 1:1 no matter which currency your stories are in. Yes, I am still working on that and yes, there will be a neat API powered solution that does conversion on daily updated exchange rates. Meanwhile, please make sure that you set your currency on your Settings page. cyclr.com will already save the correct currency for your stories – this enables you to have automatic currency conversion for all your old obligations once the feature is implemented.

Open stories at a glance

yeah — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:34:00 +0100

Did you ever get lost on cyclr.com? Have you had too many stories to keep track of your open items?

These times are over! cyclr.com just became a little bit better: it has a new and convenient listing of open stories – just those that require action from you.

And I’m sure, you will love the tiny open stories symbol in the upper right, won’t you?

Get-Even-With-This-User feature

yeah — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:26:00 +0100

It took you guys quite some time to convince me that we do need that feature, but here it comes.

I see that some of you want to get even before leaving to another place or after coming home from a trip and stuff.

But please keep in mind that the main idea behind cyclr.com is to keep tabs open and have them cycled instead of paying them back!

So how does it work? Just go to your people view and you’ll find new links. Clicking on a friend’s name will bring up a stories view which shows just the stories you have with this person. ‘Got it’ and ‘Pay’ let you close a tab.

If you have questions, comments or find bugs, please don’t hesitate to contact me!

SCHWAG!!!

yeah — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:07:00 +0100

We finally got SCHWAG! I know, you love it as much as I do, so drop me a line or stop by to get yours.

Claim your very own cyclr.com sticker and place it on the lid of your laptop to tell the world you use cyclr. And then, leave a comment here once you did, of course! :-)

Hey, you travelers...

yeah — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:43:00 +0100

cyclr.com does support different currencies for obligations, stories and users – the user interface just doesn’t allow you yet to set that up yourself.

I know, some of you recently moved from one country to another and I’d kindly ask you guys to send me a short email, so that I can set up your profile in the backend. Your stories will then display the correct currencies. I promise, the config feature (plus automated currency conversion) will come very soon.

Remember me next time

yeah — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:02:00 +0200

Today is cyclr-feature-day! One more feature for you to enjoy: ‘remember me next time’.

From now on, it’s okay to forget your password, just tick the box and don’t worry any more. Happy, Martin?

(And thanks, Hagen, for reporting this pg-bug…)

More lightboxes for the people!

yeah — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:29:00 +0200

I thought, I should incentivate the upload of new images a bit. Please follow these simple steps - it will take not more that 2 minutes.

Upload your photo on the settings page.
Check out how pretty you are today by clicking on your small image.
Tell your friends to upload pictures in cyclr.com
Check out all their pictures and lightboxes on the people view.

Now, that’s nice, isn’t it? Thank you, Lokesh Dhakar for your great lightbox script.

Feature-Wishlist

yeah — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 13:37:00 +0200

You know, I’m very busy with Footiefox these days and have very little time for cyclr.com.

Thus, I thought it would be good to ensure that I spend my time on stuff that matters! What is it, folks?