If you tried creating Mooplr stickers or minicards in the last few weeks and were getting an awful “500 Internal Server Error” message, please head back over to the main Mooplr.com site and give it another go. A while back I changed the font on the Mooplr minicards & stickers to one that was more inclusive for non-latin characters. Unfortunatley this seemed to cause some issues with Moo which was causing the error. However, Mooplr is using a new image format now which seems to be placating Moo for the time being.

We have also been experiencing a few issues with large numbers of stickers/minicards being sent to Moo. Unfortunately this is being caused by processes on the Moo side of the equation, and are thus beyond my control. I appreciate how frustrating it can be to select a large number of cities only for the process to fail, and please believe me when I say that I’m monitoring the situation very closely. For the time being the issues with large uploads to Moo have been resolved, but should they occur again then I’ll be straight over there, banging on their (virtual) door.

Please remember, if you have any comments, concerns or problems with Mooplr.com, feel free to drop me an email. My name is kev and I can be found at lloydie.co.uk.

Minicards are kind of like business cards, except smaller and a lot more awesome. They’re high quality, full colour little cards featuring the city name and colour on one side and whatever text you want on the other. That’s right, you can add up to 6 lines of text in a variety of fonts and colours on the other side of the card, and even include a small picture too!

So go on, get creating some Moo/Dopplr minicards (and don’t forget to post your photos to the Moo/Dopplr flickr group too).

The “add all” button should be fairly self explanatory. You click it, it adds all the cities to the list, ready for them to recieve some sticker love (once you click on the “make stickers” button, obviously).

The previews part is slightly less self explanatory. Once you do click on that “make stickers” button, rather than be taken to the Moo screen that lets you chose your sticker packaging, you’ll now be shown a little preview of the stickers by the lovely people at Moo. If you don’t like any of the stickers and would rather not print them, just click on the “don’t use this photo” box to exclude it from your final sticker set.

As always, comments & suggestions are more than welcome here on the Mooplr.com blog.

A couple of days ago, Stefan of the Moo People gave me a nudge to tell me that he was seeing some missing letters in Mooplr sticker names – namely of those cities containing a Macron (e.g. the line above the ‘o’ in Ōsaka and Kyōto). This turned out to be a problem with the font I was originally using to generate the text on the bottom of each sticker. A little bit of digging later and I’ve managed to turn up a font that supports a much wider set of characters (including the missing ones Stef pointed out).

But that’s not all! I’ve also increased the size of the images that Mooplr sends to Moo for printing. What does this mean? Bigger stickers? Well, no. But it does mean that the regular stickers should now see an increase in the text quality! I should also point out that this increased size may slightly decrease the speed of Mooplr.com, as it takes us more time to send the images to Moo (you know, because they’re bigger). This should be short-lived though, as we’ll only need to do it once per city (the good people of Moo don’t forget the images we send them). Once you see those high quality stickers, I’m sure you’ll agree that they’re worth the wait.