Mobile Textarea: How Many Characters Left

We’re up to Version 3.0 of the WordPress Mobile Plugin utilizing Connective Mobile’s API and Text Club feature. Connective Mobile has a 150 Character limit for your Mobile Marketing message that you want to broadcast to your subscribers. Rather than having someone wonder how many characters they have left, I modified Geeky Grrl’s little in-line Javascript method to display the number of characters left: <textarea style=”margin-left: 50px; margin-top: 4px” rows=”2″ cols=”60″ name=”wpcm_message” id=”wpcm_message” onKeyUp=”i=150;val=this.value; if(val.length>i) { this.value = val.substring(0,i); wpcm_message.focus() } document.getElementById(‘textcount’).innerHTML=i-parseInt(this.value.length);”></textarea><br /><br /><small><span id=”textcount” style=”margin-left:50px”>150</span> characters left.</small> The way … Continue reading

As I Tweet on Twitter with Snitter…

As I Tweet on Twitter with Snitter, I try to Twoosh. Twooshing with Snitter is easier because Snitter from Snook comes with Snurl. What the? What in the world is this new lingo? Here goes nothing… a while back I joined Twitter. Twitter is basically a universal chat room where anybody can talk to anybody (there are some privacy features). When you post a comment or response on Twitter, it’s known as a Tweet. Ridiculous? Absolutely. Waste of time? Perhaps. Addictive? Yes. Some folks are calling it micro-blogging; however, I … Continue reading