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Everything Else TWC / Redesigned website coming soon!

« on: June 29, 2010, 04:26:38 PM »

I was checking the weekend forecast for where my mom lives and came across an interesting blog post.

http://www.weather.com/blog/weather/8_22209.html

Apparently, weather.com has been completely redesigned and will launch in the coming weeks. The post states that the last redesign was nearly 10 years ago. Wow, I had no idea it had been THAT long! Where I work, we generally recommend redesigning a site every few years.

Anyway, the redesign is suppose to fix issues that people having been complaining about for some time. Among them are poor navigation, a cluttered look, and difficulty finding things. All of which I've experienced, and I'm sure many of you have as well. Should be interesting.

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General Discussion / Overrated, underrated, and guilty pleasures (in music)

« on: June 25, 2010, 11:24:13 AM »

Calling all music lovers! What are the artists that you think are totally overrated and criminally underrated? And are there any artists that you're a bit embarrassed to admit you like? Don't bother with newer artists currently enjoying their ten minutes of fame. Stick with established ones. Here's my list to get you started...

Overrated
The Beatles (and all their offspring), Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Billy Joel, Madonna, Prince, Dave Matthews Band, Eminem, Nickelback, Black Eyed Peas, Kanye West, Beyonce, Elton John, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, John Mellencamp, John Mayer, Train, U2, Creed, Shania Twain, Santana, Gretchen Wilson, Sting

Underrated
Anita Baker, Big Maybelle, Bonnie Raitt, Brian McKnight, Brook Benton, Grayson Hugh, Jackie Wilson, James Ingram, Johnny Gill, Lenny Williams, Loretta Lynn, Luther Vandross, Mel Carter, Norah Jones, Phil Wickham, Ray Charles, Roy Buchanan

Guilty pleasures
Michael Bolton, Reba McEntire, TLC

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Local Forecast / Name that tune (1991)

« on: June 11, 2010, 08:09:56 PM »

A fan sent me this clip. I thought I knew every song used in '91, but apparently not. This one has me stumped!

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Everything Else TWC / Hidden part of weather.com

« on: May 10, 2010, 09:29:07 PM »

A few years ago, someone posted a link to a hidden part of weather.com. It had lots of images and other files. I think the first part of the address was xoap.weather.com. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

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TWC Classics News / Trimming down content

« on: May 03, 2010, 10:53:06 AM »

Just so none of my loyal visitors freak out, I will be trimming down the content within the next month or so. Thanks to generous contributions from fans, the site has ballooned to nearly 600 pages! As you might imagine, maintaining it has become a real pain for one person with a full-time job. It's also gotten to the point where I've posted almost everything I have, which was never my intention. Also, I haven't watched TWC with any regularity since 2003 or so. While I do enjoy going through recent footage (I often find good songs I've never heard before), I often get questions about recent things and I don't have a clue what they're talking about. So what I plan to do is cycle through content (video and images anyway) every week or so. Much like what Charles did when he was around.

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General Discussion / Go TWCFORUM on CompuServe

« on: April 29, 2010, 01:32:22 AM »

A while back, I found two screenshots I took while in TWC's "forum" on CompuServe back in the mid 90s. Anyway, I thought they might interest some people. The first one is what you'd see when you first logged into the forum. The second one shows a list of files in the "library" that contain the word "music." And yes, since I was the resident music expert, most of the files were contributed by me.

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Contributions / TWC Classics design contest

« on: April 17, 2010, 03:29:02 PM »

I have been looking for a new design for TWCC for about a year now. So far I've come up empty. Sure, I've found a lot of things I like on sites, but I haven't been able to pin down an overall design or theme. And that includes looking at pre-made templates that you can download for free or a fee. Seeing as how there are a lot of talented artists here, I thought I'd open it up to all of you. Here's what I'm looking for...

- The overall design should be clean (not cramped or cluttered) and look professional (no designs in Paint).

- Medium-sized round corners, curvy edges, and slanted edges are cool. Anything but boxes!

- The color scheme should be warm and welcoming (maybe orange and blue).

- Subtle nods to TWC and/or weather would be nice (the isobars in the WeatherSTAR XL V1 are an example of a "subtle" nod to weather).

- For the logo, I was thinking about a slightly pealed blue sticker with "TWCC" in it (there are tons of PS tutorials on this). But that's just an idea.

- The logo should allow subtle nods to holidays to be incorporated as needed (like the forum logo here).

- Items in the layout (ie. search, navigation links, etc) should stay where they are when possible.

So if you're interested, please post your ideas here (or send me a PM)! I'll keep the contest open until I find a design I like. If you have any questions, let me know. I look forward to seeing what you can come up with! Thanks!!

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Website errors and problems

« on: April 12, 2010, 03:51:25 PM »

Following Martin's lead, I am creating a sticky thread for any errors or problems on my site. So please post links to pages or files that does not work.

Resolved requests will be marked like this. I don't know why I never thought of doing that on my old board.

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Contributions / Name that tune

« on: April 12, 2010, 03:31:43 PM »

I don't expect anyone here to know any of the songs during the classic years, but I have 143 unknowns from the recent years. If you have some free time and know "today" music well, please check out my "Name That Tune" page. If you can identify any of the songs, please let me know. Thanks!

http://www.twcclassics.com/name-that-tune.html

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Unread posts

« on: March 19, 2010, 03:43:02 PM »

I don't know about everyone else, but I always use the "unread posts" search to, well...read unread posts since my last visit. I haven't been able to find a link for this on the new board. Am I missing it? If not, can this be added?

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Emulator Videos / Matt's clips / Omaha weather

« on: December 05, 2009, 11:23:40 PM »

Looks like we might have two winter storms this week. A light one tomorrow and a bigger one in the middle of the week.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/i656FsGagDg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/i656FsGagDg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/y5QuZm7xAiQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/y5QuZm7xAiQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b</a>

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General Discussion / Name that tune

« on: September 19, 2009, 04:13:57 PM »

A friend of mine sent me this clip over 10 years ago. I have never been able to identify it. If you can, you'd be my hero. The electric violin at the end makes me think it might be Jean-Luc Ponty, but the whole song is too R&B to be him IMO.

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Top login box always fails

« on: September 06, 2009, 01:04:27 PM »

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but whenever I try to login using the box at the top left, it always fails (says my password is incorrect). Yet when I enter the same username and password in the middle of the error page, it works.

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Local Forecast / G Love

« on: May 05, 2008, 03:25:17 PM »

Does anyone have 2 minute audio clips of G Love's songs (especially "Booty Call")? I noticed that they are not on the site. Thanks.