Things You May Not Know

Rehash is a work-in-progress, just like anything worth using on the internet these days. I mean, how long did it take Flickr to shed its "beta" tag? Anyone? Anyone? That's right, nobody knows, not even Oscar Wilde, and he knows everything.

What I'm about to show you are some tips and/or tricks that even some of our own staff don't know. I'm not exaggerating. Sure, some of you are savvy enough to figure these kinds of things out on your own, others of you just intuitively fell upon them, and the rest recently discovered you can actually trade stuff on this site. So without further ado, here are le tips*.

Waaa, Waaa, Waaa - I Don't Like Green Hey, I understand, green reminds you of leprechauns which remind you of the Irish which in turn reminds you of Colin Farrell which makes you remember herpes and how it's an annoying virus afflicting millions upon millions of humans. No sweat, we thought of that already. If you want to change the color to something more appealing, on the top left of every page on this site where the cute little Rehash logo resides there are 3 little colored boxes below the logo. Each one of those boxes changes the screen color. Rad.

Nothing My Size? Outrage! That's probably not the case, you just didn't have the time/mental fortitude to click every single Rehash one-by-one to check what size it is. That's why we've got you covered. In the Trading Post there's a quick live search that'll return results based on text in the description, but what if you want more? The more powerful search in the Trading Post menu up top ("Search rehashes") is your answer. From there, you can enter Google-style queries that yield much more accurate results. Want to search by size? Try "size: small" to see what happens. What about if you have a Kevin Costner in Waterworld shirt and want to know who's trading something and looking for a Kevin Costner in Waterworld shirt in exchange? Enter "looking_for: i have no style" and the result will be shown to you. There are more options, and they're shown below the search bar. The same thing works when searching users. Give it a try.

I Spent 9 Hours Uploading Flickr Pics Hardcore, I say. Put your hard-earned effort to use by integrating Flickr into your profile, that way the whole world will be able to see the photos you took of [choose a landmark] last [choose a season] in [choose a location]. I'm sure your [choose a parent] really [choose a sentiment] it, and so will other Rehashers [choose a punctuation] To do so, there's an option to edit your account in the My Profile menu. Simply use it and fill out the field with your Flickr username, update, and WHAM!, your photos are up before you go-go.

I Spent Hours Learning HTML Is that so? Then let me be the first to welcome you here from MySpace. Look, we like our site to look good, OK? We're not going to allow all that "glitter the crap out of your profile lolz!" nonsense you learned over there. Epilepsy is a serious thing, and we refuse to contribute to it <s>without compensation</s>. We allow some tags, sure, but for other things you can use Textile, we allow that. A good reference will help you out, it's easier than HTML.

Recycle Recycled Rehashes OK, so this one is recent and fairly obvious now, but even so. When you're offered a trade or when you yourself offer a trade, the items in question are removed from public view and the tradability (I can't believe that's a word) of said items is nullified. Now, let's say someone declines the trade 5 days later; the items are back up on the market, but definitely not on the first page of results. What to do? Why, view recently re-listed items of course! There's a nice little button for it above the results in the Trading Post page.

RSS: Rehash's Super Syndication Maybe that's not what it stands for, in fact, we don't know what it stands for. No one does. But nonetheless, we like to use strange technology and hope it doesn't break our site. Really Simple Syndication would be a good name. It's a good way to keep up with the latest articles and Rehashes. Don't feel like pointing your browser over here just to see the latest Rehashes? Prefer to have your mail/browser application let you know of the cutest new blouses being traded by [choose Rehasher]? That's fine, just subscribe to our RSS feeds. If you use Firefox, Safari, Opera, or any of those good browsers your address bar will let you know if the page has a feed you can subscribe to. I don't know about IE, last time I gave it a serious look Lou Bega's Mambo No. 5 was on top of the charts.

L.A. Has Dodgers; Rehash Does Too You traded with a seemingly nice person that has a photo of, I don't know, a marsupial as their avatar. You send your stuff, they never send theirs. You message them a few times demanding a response and you want to give a quick little complaint to a wonderful Rehash staff member. How do you know Ms. Marsupial got the message and she wasn't just legitimately eaten by a ferocious cougar? Simply view your sent messages. Just like your inbox, bold subject lines mean unread. This one was a gimme.

Showcase Your Profiles I'm willing to bet no one here has just a Rehash profile and no other web presence, as utterly flattering as that would be. Allow-yourself-to-allow-others-to connect to your other profiles as well by entering your profile ID/username in the fields provided when editing your profile.

That's all for now. As more features and sections are added to Rehash more articles will follow. Unless we're purchased by Google, in which case I'll be much too busy being fed grapes by beautiful island ladies.

*Fake French for "the tips."