Xat’s new WINTER power – some details

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Xatworld

Woke up this morning to a few more WINTER details.
This is the WINTER back-end flix interface:

I’ve marked off what each flix animation is rumored to cost, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32 (32 is the spinning tree).
Also, if you have HAT, try (hat#x) to add a santa cap to your pawn.

Also, if you have HAT and WINTER, try (hat#xs) to add a santa cap to a snowman pawn.

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Resize your Xat chats – proportionally

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Xatworld

More “useful utility” than anything else this new Xatworld feature allows you to resize any of your Xat chats. The catch, and what makes this different from Xat’s own resizer,  is that with it you can “proportionally” resize any chat. No math required, no need to fiddle around with a calculator, and no need to just “eye it”. Simply decide what width or height you want, enter your chat name, use the slider to adjust to the desired dimension then click the link to get your embed code. Your chat and it’s background are guaranteed to stay true to form (see below).
Instead of this:

You get this:

Feel free to try it out here.

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Xat has new pawns!

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Xatworld

This is mostly a recap of what went on earlier today.

Christmas pawns

Most already know that Xat has announced it’s next power, WINTER. What Xat didn’t announce was it’s flurry of new pawn releases. Side note: sorry for the barrage of Tweets but news of each new pawn literally came to us that quickly and that spread out (thank you again VIR3N).
So let’s see…since this first group of new pawns do seem to share a common theme “cough.. Christmas.. cough, cough”, let’s just call them “Christmas themed pawns”. We were able to spot the following:
Try (hat#hg) for the sack-like pawn. You’ll need CHRISTMAS and HAT:

Try (hat#hc) for the ice-cube (yeah, that’s what we’re calling them) candy pawn. You’ll need CHRISTMAS and HAT:

This one is a mystery (Christmas tree pawn?). Rumored to be (hat#ht). You’ll need to have HAT & WINTER. If you know the code please help everyone out by posting in the comments:

This one is also a mystery (let’s call it a scarf snowman pawn) the snowman pawn. You’ll need to have HAT and WINTER. Again, if you know the code please post in the comments below:


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Xat’s new BARGE power

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Xatworld

Xat has just announced testing of BARGE, it’s next power. With it chat owners and moderators will have instant access to a chats overflow “pools”.
Note: pools are created in an effort to minimize chat lag. When a chat box reaches it’s 61st user, that user thrown into a sort of sub chat called a “pool”. Every 60 users creates a new pool. This is commonly seen in heavily trafficked chats like Trade and Cambio.

One common problem is that once a pool has reached 60 users it’s considered full and there is no way to enter. You would typically be forced to wait until someone left the pool before being able to enter (problematic if you are moderating a chat and can’t get back into the main chat for example). Xat’s BARGE power allows owners and moderators to bypass this waiting period, giving them instant access to any pool they want.
Official smiley should show up here when it’s released:
http://www.xatworld.com/smileygenerator/?fname=barge
Update1: @Vir3n pointed out that Xat BARGE is listed under GCONTROL (see image below):
Update2: @Spell pointed out that Gcontrol only allows you to set who can barge in. Barging in will still require the barge power regardless of the gcontrol setting.

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Xat’s new UGLY power

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Xatworld

While we wait to get more details on Xat’s soon to be released UGLY power, we do have a list of its associated smileys… they are:
(USMILE)
(UWINK)
(UTONGUE)
(UTHINK)
(USAD)
(UANGEL)
(UDEMON)
(UEVIL)
(UHAPPY)
(ULOOK)
(USCRATCH)

This new power “looks” to be a new function that allows you to tweak Xat’s traditional smileys, giving them a more grotesque, wretched, disgusting appearance.
Stay tuned for that and don’t forget to join our Twitter and Facebook for sometimes unreleased Xat info. Feel free to retweet this post to your friends!

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Xat working on new Anime HAIR?

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Xatworld

A few people have pointed out seeing open slots in the smiley tab for Anime. If you mouse-over each space you’ll get the following:
(haira7)(haira8)(haira9)(haira10)
Here’s what it looks like:

I haven’t noticed it before so I’m just assuming that it’s something new.

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How to use Xat HORROR power

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Xatworld

Earlier today Mundoxat blogger, Defect, posted what appears to be a sneak peak at Xat’s HORROR power flix interface (see below).

The current interface allows for the selection of two effects, either “skeleton” or “eyes”;  “Horror” themed effects that can be applied to the flix backgrounds that come with this new power (currently viewable on http://xat.com/xat_test).

Other options include the ability to change colors, horizontal & vertical offset,  as well as some degree of scaling. One final option, called “background”, allows a user to choose between either “web” or “moon”.

For a more thorough review of Xat’s new Horror power, give this post a read.

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Xat’s new ANGRY power

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Xatworld

We woke up this morning to what presumably is Xat’s next power, ANGRY. After scouring Xat search for tidbits of information we’ve come up with very little. Apparently 42 entered Xat.com/help some two hours ago with the news of this new power and has distributed pre-release versions to some of their testers.
This is the power smiley associated with ANGRY:

The animated version can be found on Xatworlds smiley generator here:
http://www.xatworld.com/smileygenerator/?fname=angry
We really don’t have much to say at this point but if we find anything else out we’ll update.

Update 1: Angry smileys are (angry) (explode) (facepalm) (bite) (hissyfit) (mutter) (potstir) (pullhair) (raging) (ticked) (yell) (flame) (grumpy2) (headache) (timebomb)
http://www.xatworld.com/smileygenerator/?fname=explode
http://www.xatworld.com/smileygenerator/?fname=facepalm
http://www.xatworld.com/smileygenerator/?fname=bite
http://www.xatworld.com/smileygenerator/?fname=hissyfit
http://www.xatworld.com/smileygenerator/?fname=mutter
http://www.xatworld.com/smileygenerator/?fname=potstir
http://www.xatworld.com/smileygenerator/?fname=pullhair
http://www.xatworld.com/smileygenerator/?fname=raging
http://www.xatworld.com/smileygenerator/?fname=ticked
http://www.xatworld.com/smileygenerator/?fname=yell
http://www.xatworld.com/smileygenerator/?fname=flame
http://www.xatworld.com/smileygenerator/?fname=grumpy2
http://www.xatworld.com/smileygenerator/?fname=headache
http://www.xatworld.com/smileygenerator/?fname=timebomb

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Xat Halloween backgrounds – Boo!

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Xatworld

Another year, another Halloween… Time to break out your Halloween Xat hat and get to decorating your chat with a spooky or mildly scary xat background.
To get you in the spirit we’ve added a new section called Halloween Xat backgrounds that we intend to keep adding to (btw, a big thank you to the various designers that helped create the backgrounds). There you’ll find a few, brand new chat backgrounds to get you started. While you’re at it, why not decorate your Xat page with an orange, black or purple tiled background; perfect for Halloween!
Also, don’t forget about Xat’s Halloween power. Although it is a limited power there is always a chance that Xat may release a few for the holidays.

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BAD – Xat’s censor power coming!

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Xatworld

Xat is preparing to release BAD; it’s next unlimited group power. Similar in function to Xat’s “hide inappropriate words” feature, Bad allows a user to censor words of his choosing via a custom list. When typed into the chat, those words will simply be converted (we’re assuming here) to garbled text (example: ####).
Although unconfirmed by us, rumor has it that censored words will have to be 4 or more characters in length. Two interesting questions to ask here. Will censoring the word SEX censor the word SEXTUPLETS as in ####tuplets or would a user have to specifically add “sextuplets” to that list? Also… will Bad include a wildcard (*) feature that allows a user to censor SEX, SEXTUPLETS, SEXTANT by simply adding SEX* to their list (i.e. ###, #########, #######)?

Check comments below for more info…

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