CampKohler
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Message Posted: Jun 20, 2011 3:23:09 PM
The chat room idea has been proposed over the years, the last recently. It has fizzled, because we are BBSers here and not chatters, for the most part.
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ngapuhi
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British Columbia
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Message Posted: Jun 20, 2011 12:32:19 PM
ditto for me, would be great when I log on I come to my town's page? also have the same feature as on facebook, somewhere to click "like it" or "dislike it", good polling feature....and last suggestion have a spot where you can see (like facebook) if one of your "friends" is logged in, and being able to be interactive with them!!! keep up the good work, Jason....
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scoutmaster
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Message Posted: Jun 17, 2011 4:23:33 PM
Nope. My response was because the request can be accomplished by the used just like Scrapheap posted.
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Scrapheap
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Virginia
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Message Posted: Jun 17, 2011 4:23:16 PM
Okay, it won't work if you use a zip code. It will work if you search on the areas and bookmark that.
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CampKohler
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Message Posted: Jun 17, 2011 4:06:19 PM
I think the following is what prompted SM's response: If anything you do on this (or any other) site is done at an address such as GasPriceSearch.aspx, the aspx tells you that the address is not that of a page (home or otherwise); it is the address of a server program that produces the page and runs all its functions. In other words it is the virgin starting point of using the page, not the results or even a starting point that is ready to search, i.e. has the ZIP already installed. So a simple book mark won't set you up to do the search you want. (Read about it here, if your interested.)
GB may have provided a means in the program to type something after the URL that would feed the ZIP code into the program; if so, you could bookmark that and it would work. But I don't know if that is true, and if so, how to do it. Perhaps a PM to a moderator asking how to do this would give you the needed info. (If so, please report back.)
Otherwise you are stuck with GB's Saved Searches. After doing a search, you can elect to save it with a name. Those names are visible from the home page as My Saved Searches and all you would have to do is click the name, which is one step more than you want. Further, the ZIP is not an element that can be searched for, so Saved Searches would work for you only if the other elements (area, brand, fuel, price age) would be sufficient to define the prices you want (which it probably won't be). Note: The last time I looked, you could create Saved Searches, but editing did not work right, so you have to delete and create anew to make changes.
What would really do the trick is a client program (one in your PC) that would position the cursor wherever you want, type whatever you want and press [Enter] for you. This would be a program that would memorize your keystrokes (no matter how complicated the sequence) and generate a script that would exactly repeat them upon command. You could then bookmark the script name to do anything that one could do from a keyboard, which is just about anything at all.
Others are also looking to do this. Here is one discussion about programming the PC to make the keystrokes (as opposed to memorizing them with no programming necessary). Autoit is available free here. Another method is SendKeys.
As for recording keystrokes and playing them back, you can see there are tons of them here.
And so, in the words of the late Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, "Stop wasting time and get to work!"
[Edited by: CampKohler at 6/17/2011 4:14:14 PM EST]
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f250jbh
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California
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Message Posted: Jun 17, 2011 10:12:56 AM
Tried the book mark thing not working Thanks for helping !! Not a big deal
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scoutmaster
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Message Posted: Jun 16, 2011 9:43:09 PM
Jeesh!
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Scrapheap
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Message Posted: Jun 16, 2011 5:03:14 PM
Bookmark the search and simply go there.
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