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Personally, I really do enjoy the album. There has been a lot of controversy surrounding it with many fans kicking their feet claiming that it's disrespectful and that it "doesn't even sound like him" due to the modern re-mastering production. I thought the idea was cool though. In the deluxe version they not only brought out 8 unreleased tracks from many of his older recording sessions but remastered them with modern instrumentation and also included their original demo versions as demo tracks. It isn't very often that demo versions of tracks are released for commercial purchase and I thought the modern remasters were tactfully done to re-work his sound and make it sound more "up to speed" without covering his vocals or not making him center stage. But for any of you who have listened, what are your opinions?

Well right now I am about as broke as can be. But once I am able to save up money I am getting one, asap. I believe a healthy budget for a good laptop for gaming would be anywhere from 1,200 - 2,500 USD depending on how much power I want it to have. I am not a huge hardcore gamer but I despise any kind of lag caused by crappy hardware. The rig I am on right now can handle playing Skyrim on the lowest possible settings. It's horrendous.

How is the gameplay on it? What benchmarks? Any issues with it at all? Even the slightest con? Sorry for interrogating lol but I just like to do a LOT of research on things.

Okay, I struggled for about an hour or so getting this to work properly. All the tutorials I found on the net were somewhat outdated since Facebook updated the way they have their app setup now. I figured to save others the frustration, I would post how I got mine to work! The steps are as follows (I will try to make them the most accurate and easiest way possible)! I have also included images to help those who like visual instructions in the spoiler tags below each step! You will need to be logged in to both your Facebook account and your IP.Board's Admin Control Panel (Duh, lol) Go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps/ and click the "Create New App" button. Now, in "Display Name" enter what you want it to be named. The best thing is just the name of your website. Then select a category (I chose Entertainment) and then click the "Create App" button. You will need to also enter a captcha when you do. Just make sure you type the characters correctly (although if you have been on the internet for longer than a minute, I am sure you are used to captchas ) In the sidebar on the left hand side, click on "Settings". Now enter an email address for the contact email (this is required). You can use the same email address as your Facebook profile or the admin email you used for your IP.Board. It is up to you! Click the "Save Changes." button. Next, click the "Add Platform" button and click "Website". Now input the URL that you use for your board into the "Site URL" textbox. (This includes the subdomain if it is in one.) - Click the "Save Changes" button. Now, in the sidebar click on "App Details" and scroll down till you see the "Configure App Center Permissions" button. Click on it. Next, where it says "Auth Token Parameter" click the dropdown and select the "URI Fragment (#access_token=...)" option. Now where it says "App Center Permission", enter in the following permissions (it will bring up selectable things as you type so when you are typing, if you see it listing below as you type, click on it.): email, read_stream, publish_actions. Click the "Save" button. Next, click back on "Settings" in the left sidebar and click on the "Advanced" tab. Find the section "Deauthorize Callback URL". In the textbox for Deauthorize Callback URL you will be using this URL, tailored to your boards url: http://your-board-url.com/interface/facebook/index.php When you are finished click the "Save Changes" button at the bottom of the page! Next, click on the "Status & Review" button in the left sidebar, and click the little toggle button next to "Do you want to make this app and all its live features available to the general public?" to enable the App to be activated. This will bring up a dialog box asking if you want to make it public. Click the "Confirm" button. Now, login and go to your IP.Board's Admin Control Panel. Under the "Application & Modules" category on the left sidebar, click "Community Enhancements". Then, click on "Facebook". This step will be pretty long (long-ish) but here goes. Go back to your facebook app stuff and click the "Dashboard" button in the left side Sidebar. You will see some stuff that says "App ID" and "App Secret" click the "Show" button next to App Secret to display it. You are going to copy both these fields into their appropriate equivalent textbox fields in the Facebook settings stuff we just opened in IP.Board. (e.g. copy App ID into Application ID, Secret into Secret key). Keep all the other settings the way they are on the IP.Board side and click the "Save" button. NOTE: If you keep the 'Facebook "Real name/Display name" handling' option as "Allow User's Choice" you MUST have the setting to let users choose display names ON. (This can be found and edited in System Settings -> "Members" tab -> Username Restrictions -> Display Name Restrictions -> Allow display names) Now go into the register or login pages on your board (you must be logged out of your admin account but still logged into facebook, obviously ) and test to see if it works. If it does, it will open facebook and ask if you want to have the app gain access to your info (email and profile info used for registration). And if you follow the prompts accordingly, you will be linked back to your forums with the option to use the Facebook login to create a new forum account or link it to an already existing one! That's it! You have successfully setup the Facebook login/registering feature on your board! Congrats! All these steps worked on my end, doing it twice, both succeeding. If it worked for you, let me know. If it doesn't work, also let me know and we can troubleshoot. If you liked this post and thought it was helpful, a nice PM or message is always appreciated as well as voting this post up to help out my Rep. Cheers!

Don't worry guys, I read pretty much any rules page I could locate. The community rules, signature rules, file upload rules, all that good jazz. I actually WANTED to make sure I didn't break any to avoid get reprimanded and not knowing why. I try to not be brain dead lol

I am eventually going to be getting a gaming laptop in the future. I am a budget kind of guy, and I know gaming hardware doesn't come cheap. My question is, for any gamers out there, what are some of the best gaming laptops on the market? Which are the worst? What should and shouldn't I look for? I do my research for the most part and price wise, for what you get, I like what I see with the Qosmio line by Toshiba. My main areas of playing would be things like Skyrim, Oblivion, the MMO of Star Wars: The Old Republic, Sims 2 & 3, etc etc.

Hey everyone. I may not be immediately new, but in a sense I am. I signed up November of last year but have been completely inactive with the account until now. I decided after returning here for an IPB addon I needed, that I would become a part of the community and kind of "return the favor" by posting what I know about webdesign and IP.Board, even if it is very little. I figure since you guys provided me with stuff I could use, I would "earn it" by doing so in return. A little about me (since this is an introduction). I am a simple guy who got into web design at about 9 making simple HTML pages and then getting into a little CSS some time later. I continued to hand code HTML and soaked up as much as I could up until the end of middleschool. I also self taught myself image editing and creation with Photoshop along the way. When I got into highschool I took digital and web design and learned more about using Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash, InDesign, and some Visual Basic programming. I become certified in Adobe Flash, Dreamweaver and Photoshop my senior after taking their certification exams provided by my school. I have setup quite a few websites along the way, with only 1 achieving slight success, but I am currently in the mix of setting up a gaming themed website to provide users with a gaming environment that doesn't rely on biased reviews and built on honest research and open-minded opinions. I figure if I can get it going that it will be a nice project and kind of a "Breath of fresh air" so to speak in the gaming community niche. In the future I want to teach myself PHP, Java, and Actionscript programming. (If anyone knows any good resources for absolute beginners, a PM would be much appreciated! ) That's all folks!

This is a relatively simple tutorial. Most people do this by deleting a line of code, but what we will be doing is commenting it out. I do it this way so if for whatever reason I want to enable it in the future, I can do so without having to do too much work. The steps are as follows: Go into your Admin Control Panel Click the "Look & Feel" button. Click the name of the skin you are currently using on your board. In the left hand side, click on the category "Board Index", then click on "boardIndexTemplate". Find this code: <a href='#' id='toggle_sidebar' title='{$this->lang->words['toggle_sidebar']}' data-closed="{$this->lang->words['_laquo']}" data-open="&times;">&nbsp;</a> And replace it with this code: <!--<a href='#' id='toggle_sidebar' title='{$this->lang->words['toggle_sidebar']}' data-closed="{$this->lang->words['_laquo']}" data-open="&times;">&nbsp;</a>--> That's it! Go and check your sidebars to make sure, though. It may be a good idea to recache your skins, but I didn't find it necessary. If you are wondering what that did, essentially all we did was commented the code out so the browser ignores it. If for whatever reason you wish to undo what we did, just remove the <!-- and --> at the beginning and end of the modified code. If you think you will forget this, there is always that handy dandy bookmark feature Hope this helps out some people!

This is going to be a relatively easy and simple tutorial on how to change strings to say what you want them to. I found this while generally going through IP.Boards vast features and messing around with them. In this example I will show how to change that Create Account URL/Button's text into whatever you desire! The steps are pretty simple: How to setup the custom language pack we will be using! Login to you ACP, hover your mouse over Look & Feel and click Manage Languages. In the row that has "English (USA)" click the down arrow located all the way to the right of the row and click "Copy language pack". The reason we need to copy it, is because the default English USA language pack is not directly editable. Although you can disable that in the database, I would recommend not doing so and just making a copy the language pack. Click the pencil icon (Edit) and change it to whatever you like (such as English - Custom) but make sure to click the YES option where it says "Default language?". Click save changes. How to actually change the text of what you/we want to change! Click on the name of the language pack you want to edit stuff in (so in this case click the custom one we made with the above steps that you set as default). This will open up a new page with a bunch of tabs and other junk. In the "Find" search box above all the tabs, enter the text you want to change (so in this case enter "Create Account" without the quotes) - The results should bring up 2 results, "register" in both public_global and public_register. These will essentially tell you where the changes/text will show up. In the textboxes located to the right of these results, enter whatever you want the new text/link/button to say in ALL the boxes that you want it to apply two (so in this case, obviously both boxes). I changed mine to "Join Us!" Click the "Go" button to save the changes and voila! The values should be changed. Double check by going to your homepage and register page and making sure the changes have applied. If not, just re-follow the steps and make sure you did them all correctly! This tutorial applies to most strings you find, as well. Including some applications, addons, etc. If you want to change how something looks, try searching it like we did above, and changing it in the appropriate textboxes you find in the results. As an example, I changed my register link to "Join Us!" so I followed up by searching the language pack for anything that said "register" and changed some phrases to say things like "consider registering an account" to "consider joining", etc etc. I hope this was a helpful tutorial for anyone needing to change what certain things say on your board and let me know if everything goes smoothly! ^_^ And if for whatever reason you are more of a visual person, I took some screenshots and mashed em together in a single image to create a visual tutorial: http://imgur.com/ptzhShy

First of all, I apologize if this topic was posted in the incorrect forum. I was unsure of whether to actually post it in the IP.Board support, the Tutorial forum itself or here. I am fine with the topic moving if it is in the incorrect spot. The get to my question: I was wondering if there is a certain guideline to posting IP.Board tutorials in the sense of it being too "basic"? Like if there is any level of difficulty it has to be to be posted or whether any tutorial regarding IPB can be posted. I ask because I am new to IP.Board and have had a BUNCH of questions myself and found the answers digging around in IP.Board's settings and features myself and testing until I could get it to do what I wanted or would spend hours googling and hunting down information myself and would appreciate the possibility of helping out others who might be in the same boat. But if my postings were to be considered to basic of a principle to need to be posted, then I shall refrain from doing so. Either way I am glad to be a new member to this community. You guys have provided me a few downloads that I have appreciated having in my arsenal and many of the answers in your older topics have helped me with a few things as well!

I am not too bad with IP.Board. I don't develop for it but I know how to install things and minor troubleshooting myself with making things work. But for the life of me I cannot get this Donation Track (version 3.1.1) to work properly. I use Animate as my theme, and I even placed the images that are in the "master" folder into my animate folder, I have created a goal and clicked "Yes" to adding it to the Featured sidebar and have even made a ficticious "donation" for testing by adding it in manually and yet a few things still happen 1) The featured sidebar still never shows up (even though its Enabled in the hooks) 2) A donation sideblock does show up but only in the Donation statistics sidebar 3) Even the misplaced statistics sidebar does not change, no percentage, no "progress" bar, it doesn't even show the description Screenshot: http://prntscr.com/3kz8uu I know the solution might be pretty simple and I am just being dumb, but any help would be much appreciated! EDIT: I managed to fix it myself. I completely uninstalled and re-installed it once more and for some reason now it wants to work. I dunno how either install was different than the other but for now it seems to be fixed. You all can close this

I was wondering if it is at all possible to be able to share any custom Arrowchat games/applications that I have made but I am unable to start a topic in any downloads forum (I'm assuming because of permissions that are set). If I am able to where and how can I? If not, that is fine as well. Thanks

Well I plan on using IP.Boards for the forum software no matter what. It is by far the best forum software I have encountered and (one of) the easiest to find resources for (kind of lol). I was mainly just questioning the CMS properties and abilities of IP.Content vs Wordpress. I may try and utilize IP.Content and then if it doesnt work out, fall back onto wordpress

Not sure if this topic has been covered but I run multiple wordpress sites and have come to love it. I am used to how it works, the layout of the admin control panel, etc. I know I can use IPSConnect to make the two integrate with logging in, but it seems the logical thing would be to have a site use all the same platform (i.e. IP.Board for forums, .Downloads for... well.... downloads. and .Content for pages and posts.) - that way there are no compatibility issues or worries about updates in either wordpress or IPboard breaking the use of IPSconnect. Not only that but I have linked IPSConnect to causing some issues with both Arrowchat and Cometchat. My thing is, is IP.Content just as good/powerful as wordpress? Or better? Worse? From just playing around with it, it confuses me a bit and doesnt seem as feature packed / userfriendly as wordpress. Would plugins I use to enhance wordpress have some kind of equivalent with IP.Content? In your opinion which would you rather use out of the two for a page creation, content management and blog posting styled website?