OK, this might not seem very useful at first but I swear I use it every day. So does shaun.
What is this?
It's basically just an online notepad. Save text online, on a remote server. Limited to 128 kilobytes (128,000 characters) per member.
The whole point of this online notepad is that you can share it. You can give access to your workspace to any member you want, with read or write access, or simply let anyone view it.
At first thought, you may fail to see any application for this. Let me tell you some.
- Say you're chatting on some IRC channel and want to paste a huge text. You can't, because you'll get kicked for flooding. Solution: just go to your workspace, paste the text there, enable guest access, and paste the link to your workspace on the IRC channel.
- Shaun and I are going to the USA in no less than a week. We've been drawing a list of things to do in the different US cities we're visiting. Thanks to the shared workspace, both of us were able to update the list.
- In the early days of the tempcast, we used the same kind of online workspace to prepare our episodes. We would keep up a list of things to discuss in the upcoming episode. Now the tempcast guys have their own forum.
- A coder who wants to share a bit of code without having to save to a file and upload it or send it over IRC/MSN/*IM, may now simply use his own shared workspace.
And this is only a couple of possible uses. In time you might find your own.
How to access it?
One of the key points about this is that it can be accessed very easily.
Going to http://ws.gbatemp.net will take you to your own workspace (provided you're already logged in on the forums).
Accessing someone else's workspace can be done by adding the username to that same URL.
For example: http://ws.gbatemp.net/Costello will take you to mine. Shame you don't have access
I hear some people are having problems with subdomains.
If that's the case, you might just use the long URLs:
- Your own workspace: http://gbatemp.net/?act=module&module=ws
- Someone else's workspace: http://gbatemp.net/?act=module&module=...member=Costello (replace Costello with a member name).
Many thanks to Ace for his help on this new feature. Half of the options wouldn't be there if it weren't for him
Any question/suggestion, reply to my blog article!
Costello
What is this?
It's basically just an online notepad. Save text online, on a remote server. Limited to 128 kilobytes (128,000 characters) per member.
The whole point of this online notepad is that you can share it. You can give access to your workspace to any member you want, with read or write access, or simply let anyone view it.
At first thought, you may fail to see any application for this. Let me tell you some.
- Say you're chatting on some IRC channel and want to paste a huge text. You can't, because you'll get kicked for flooding. Solution: just go to your workspace, paste the text there, enable guest access, and paste the link to your workspace on the IRC channel.
- Shaun and I are going to the USA in no less than a week. We've been drawing a list of things to do in the different US cities we're visiting. Thanks to the shared workspace, both of us were able to update the list.
- In the early days of the tempcast, we used the same kind of online workspace to prepare our episodes. We would keep up a list of things to discuss in the upcoming episode. Now the tempcast guys have their own forum.
- A coder who wants to share a bit of code without having to save to a file and upload it or send it over IRC/MSN/*IM, may now simply use his own shared workspace.
And this is only a couple of possible uses. In time you might find your own.
How to access it?
One of the key points about this is that it can be accessed very easily.
Going to http://ws.gbatemp.net will take you to your own workspace (provided you're already logged in on the forums).
Accessing someone else's workspace can be done by adding the username to that same URL.
For example: http://ws.gbatemp.net/Costello will take you to mine. Shame you don't have access
I hear some people are having problems with subdomains.
If that's the case, you might just use the long URLs:
- Your own workspace: http://gbatemp.net/?act=module&module=ws
- Someone else's workspace: http://gbatemp.net/?act=module&module=...member=Costello (replace Costello with a member name).
Many thanks to Ace for his help on this new feature. Half of the options wouldn't be there if it weren't for him
Any question/suggestion, reply to my blog article!
Costello
