A little belated, but, worth posting anyways. For the second year in a row, the moderators at the movies subreddit approached us, via our custom bingo cards to help with their Oscars Bingo contest. Over 3 times as many of the cards were claimed this year! This years live contest thread is here. It looks like it worked out for everyone! It’s a fun use of our site – but highly customized – we host a custom mini-site to distribute the custom bursted and logo’d cards to the reddit users.
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Oscars Bingo for reddit.com/r/movies 2015
Sunday, March 1st, 2015A print-bingo.com Video Spotted on YouTube
Wednesday, June 25th, 2014We’re long-overdue for another blog post, so, we were happy to stumble on another YouTube video from late last year of someone using print-bingo.com for playing while watching horror movies. We don’t have a template for that, but we have a bunch of other bingo templates for our users.
Thanks for the video, librarianfanmail.
Oscar’s Bingo for reddit? Yes… we can do that.
Saturday, March 1st, 2014We had an interesting email the other day from a moderator of the movie subreddit on … er… reddit.com. They wanted some help with their Oscars Bingo game.
Several emails, and a little bit of one-off work using print-bingo.com, and we had a system that worked for everyone.
And it’s live now: official reddit thread. It’s not a typical use of our custom bingo card generator, print-bingo.com, but, it is not the first custom job that we have ever done, nor is it likely to be the last.
sIFR (and Flash) is dead. Long live sIFR (and Flash)!
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013It’s hard to believe, but only a few years ago I eagerly looked for excuses to use Adobe Flash to make a website just a bit more interactive or fluid. Now, I have started the process of purging Flash from every site that we operate, and manage for clients. What changed?
iOS.
It’s truly astounding how much web browsing is done on iPhones and iPads where Flash does not exist (Flash is also on the outs in the Android world). One of our clients has the majority of their web traffic driven by their weekly email newsletter – and I’ve seen the numbers, a very large fraction of people read their email on their phones and tablets. Today, it is critical that your website does not depend on Flash. It’s also a good idea to slowly remove Flash from non-critical parts of your website too.
Which leads to today’s subject. On many of Perceptus’ websites we use sIFR, Scalable Inman Flash Replacement, which 5 or 8 years ago, was a great way to use nicer fonts on your website for headers. sIFR uses Flash. For some reason the most recent Google Chrome web browser broke some, but not all, of the sIFR headlines on print-bingo.com, our popular bingo card generator. It might be related to a missing attribute or something relatively minor. But, rather than debug it, it was time to move to Javascript based fonts. On print-bingo.com, we’re now using Google Web Fonts.
Bye bye sIFR. You were a good thing for your day.