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Dan Grover | May 29 2006
I came up with this potentially hair-brained idea a half hour ago or so and wanted to share it with you guys to see what you thought. The idea is to have a free/very cheap service that gives you a personal url to set as a start page. You can then configure it to redirect in several ways: + potentially go to a page once every day the first time you visit the redirection. For instance, you could have it go to a certain page during work time, another at other times, etc. Or maybe just have a "message" instead of a URL it displays. It could also keep stats perhaps. Particularly crafty users could chain them together. It could be a totally free service w/donations, or nag you every x times to pay the $4 or whatever it is. And whatever it is, it would be all ajaxy and very polished/well executed. Potentially useful? Or lame? 10 Comments
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 Here's one way to do...Submitted by GOD on May 30, 2006 - 7:07am.
Here's one way to do the page at x time with javascript: <script type="text/javascript">
var mysites=new Array()
mysites[0]="http://www.weather.com/"
mysites[1]="http://news.google.com/"
mysites[2]="http://www.reddit.com/"
var d = new Date()
var time = d.getHours()
if (time<10)
{
window.location=mysites[0];
}
else if (time>10 && time<16)
{
window.location=mysites[1];
}
else
{
window.location=mysites[2];
}
</script>
And here's a randomized version: <script type="text/javascript"> var mysites=new Array() mysites[0]="http://www.weather.com/" mysites[1]="http://news.google.com/" mysites[2]="http://www.reddit.com/" var r = Math.ceil(Math.random() * mysites.length) - 1; window.location=mysites[r]; </script> Just cut and paste into an html file and edit with a text editor. » POSTED IN:
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