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Port Monkey - new features and facelift; maybe time to check it out again... or for the first time!

Posted by: edzep on Jan 21, 20:33

Port Monkey has been refreshed, and is chock-full of port-management goodness.Ā  I've completed a long-overdue facelift of the trade panel, and added a new feature, while I was at it: there's an area where you can mouseover to set the quantity of shares to trade. There's also an option to turn if off, as some may find it annoying.

I added other new features in near the end of 2010, including: 1) Instant division of the current price, to help with opening weekend estimations. 2) Each movie's phase is now shown in the last column, with Concepts highlighted in red, and Productions in green. 3) Added visual cues to assist the colorblind, and ability to enter a 6-digit quantity of shares.

Click into the Port Monkey league, or head straight to the home page to learn more.

There are plenty of happy Port Monkey users, but, a few have said the modest increase in refresh time - when the magic is done - was annoying. Let me say this about that: Of course, your port has to be BIG too see much penalty. And, computers and net connections keep getting faster, which helps. But, there's more speed around the corner, as Firefox 4 gets rolled out, which promises a great increase in speed of javascript processing! I have not succeeded in seeing that in the Beta, yet, as work on Greasmonkey for FF4 is still under way.





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