http://ok-cool.com OKCOOL make cool digital applications. We help companies balance brand and technology. From mashups to mobile shennanigans to social networks. Fri, 16 May 2008 12:24:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It pains me to blog about the same topic straight after a previous post but, I just couldn't let this one go. I tested a live transaction today and went in to the paypal account to void the purchase. I was presented with the following screen: Yes... you are seeing that right. ... http://ok-cool.com/posts/read/131-paypal-you-may-never-void-a-transaction/ We're having some serious issues with the Paypal standard payment. It works perfectly for all payments except for VISA credit cards. Debit cards are working fine, but as soon as we try and make a transaction with a VISA credit card we get this... It just fails. Is anyone else having ... http://ok-cool.com/posts/read/126-paypal-visa-payments-not-working/ I'm in the process of writing the API for our fancy new web management platform (I think you'll like it, watch this space). One of the security features I've implemented is an integrity check for the data being posted across the wire. I won't go in to the details of it ... http://ok-cool.com/posts/read/125-php-md5-not-the-same-as-net-md5/ The other day my friend saw me using Google Mail and was intrigued by some subtle but noticeable differences in my layout and functionality compared to that which he'd experienced through his own use of Google's webmail interface. I, too, was surprised as I believed it to be fairly common knowledge ... http://ok-cool.com/posts/read/123-a-tiny-weeny-google-mail-tip-change-display-language-to-us-for-additional-functionality/ One of the key design goals of our new Simple Web Management platform is ease of use. We want to deliver a joyous user experience. If you read my post on password generation using twitter you will know I'm currently working on the process of adding users to the system. A ... http://ok-cool.com/posts/read/121-jquery-ajax-username-availability-lookup/ A while ago now I wrote a very simple Facebook application to show a random photo from one of your friends. It was the facebook app I built and was really only to play around with their framework. I received a response from a guy called me Jeff asking about showing ... http://ok-cool.com/posts/read/120-source-code-of-random-friend-photo/ We're working on an exciting new web based management interface at the moment which we hope is going to make the lives of web developers and designers a lot easier. I can't say too much about it now but I just wanted to quickly post about an interesting use I've ... http://ok-cool.com/posts/read/118-twitter-as-a-way-to-generate-nice-passwords/ I posted a very simple question to a web development/designer mailing list today. We've got a new product in development and I thought that I'd do a little research on what UI's people liked the best from the current crop of online applications... The exact question was this: We're developing an interesting ... http://ok-cool.com/posts/read/116-my-back-end-is-bigger-than-your-back-end/ We've just completed a website for local short term property letting company Hambledons, which utilises various cool features from our SimplewebEditor. With the design we focused on the luxurious; with a confident style that immediately let's the user know exactly what the site is about. We utilised their recent brand overhaul ... http://ok-cool.com/posts/read/115-short-term-property-letting-website/ The Safari 3.1 update has just landed on my Macbook pro. It's quicker, more compatible, has Javascript that seems to work more consistently, but Gmail has gone decidedly odd. I've written a subject in an outgoing email, pressed tab to start writing the body and despite the cursor showing up in ... http://ok-cool.com/posts/read/114-has-safari-31-has-broken-gmail/