CerealKillaz.org

Yo, everyone, we here at CerealKillaz.Org are considering changing our voice chat offering from Ventrilo to Mumble.

What is Mumble, you ask? Well, let me get right to telling you. Mumble is a more fully-featured voice chat program. It is, in functionality, very comparable to Ventrilo or to Teamspeak, but it is open source.

What does open-source mean? Open source means that the program is developed by people all around the world, and offered to everyone for free. This is unlike Ventrilo and Teamspeak, which allow their clients to be downloaded freely, but proceed to charge exorbitant licensing fees to those hosting the servers. So, in the long run, it means that Mumble is cheaper. However, it is cheaper without a loss of quality.

It uses the same speex codecs that are already on our vent server, and it uses less system resources to run than ventrilo. it alos has settings to make it more bearable on slow connections or older computers. Did i mention you can skin it?

What do I have to do to get on the CK Mumble server?

It's pretty easy. You just need to click the link : http://mumble.sourceforge.net

Once you do that, you just download the latest STABLE version for your operating system. Then, you install it. Then, you run the audio wizard, BEING SURE TO SELECT A PUSH TO TALK KEY DURING THE WIZARD. Then, you create a new server entry in the server editor, with the following information:

Servername = CerealKillaz.Org Mumble Server

Address = mumble.cerealkillaz.org

Port = 10025

Username will be your in game name, please.

Once you get all connected up, be sure to use your "Self" menu to register with the server.

Anyway, hope to see you guys over there. There is a forums thread (click the link) where this item will be open for discussion.

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In our latest round of updates we wanted to focus on a few requests we have seen post in our forums, including being able to compose messages and send messages to more then one friend at a time, able to add embed codes from other Video websites other then YouTube and advanced search options for the Members page.

New Inbox Message Features

Next time you visit your inbox you will notice a new option to compose a New Message. Creating a new message to a friend is very easy, the send message box features real time friend searching, as you type out a name you will be given a list of friends to select from, then enter your subject, message body and click send.

When you send a message to more then one person, all replies will appear in one message thread. This makes it easy to keep track of the conversation.

Timestamps are also a thing of the past, we have replaced the Timestamps with a more localized friendly time since the message was posted.

New Video Page Features

Previously the video page only supported adding videos from YouTube using a video page URL or uploading videos if you had an upgrade. In our latest changes we have opened up full support for embed codes. This should allow you to place a video from any video source, enjoy!

With this video page update, you should be aware that simply posting the YouTube links like we used to won't work anymore. Now you will have to locate the button on a youtube page that says "<embed>"  Check the picture below for help.

on other sites, you'll have to find their embed codes, but they mostly are about the same looking.

I hope you guys enjoy all the new features! there are more on the way, but I'm not going to tell you all of them.

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Well, in this blog, I will tell you guys a little bit about the Officers meeting, and I will also present it to you in its entirety on the audio record. 

Also, I would like to point out that the inline spell check option for all text entry areas on the site is now set to default, which means you have no excuses for being misspelling words anymore.

Also, a new feature programmed into the site is the ability to have an automatic inline mp3 player added whenever you insert an mp3 link for the first time in any blog entry.

About The Officer's meeting:

This was the first ever official clan business meeting that we ever aired live on WCKR, and we would like to thank the management team of WCKR for their cooperation in presenting this meeting commercial free. We had some issues facing he clan, and some things are going to be restructured. One Important item you might all want to listen for is Operation Consolidation: Phase 3, which calls for the movement of all active main accounts into one chapter, CerealKillaz Ninjaz. So listen to the reason and how we have planned to get past the issue of only being able to assign one account the captaincy of any mtgo clan. I think you'll find it an ingenious plan. Or maybe not, just listen, damnit. To listen, just click either link above in the first line of this blog, or the yellow play button beside it. You may also just click        this link to download the file and listen to it in your favorite mp3 player.

Thanks for reading, have a good one.

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