Ok, it’s hardly a Transformers Ultimate Bumblebee toy or a Nintendo Wii, but our incredibly exciting Christmas present to our users is the ability to add an image to your account. Now other visitors to the site can see an image of your ugly mug (or whatever else you want) beside any reviews on the site. Depending on the image this choose, this feature has the ability to make your reviews look more or less trustworthy…

Just now the image you upload to go with your profile must be in jpeg format. The image will be automatically resized and cropped to 120 pixels square.

If you choose not to upload an image, rather than assigning you an image of a silhouette of a person or a question mark as other websites do, there will just be no image. This is a much more polite way of doing things, if you ask us.

Merry Christmas!

One of our favourite features on EdinburghMenus.com is the ability to add a sketch to your review. It’s a bit of fun that makes reading reviews on the site more entertaining. We thought it would be fun to allow you to see exactly how people drew the sketches that people draw to accompany their reviews. This information has always been stored in our database but in the past has only been used to create the final image that you see on the site.

But not any more! Now, when you see a sketch beside a review, you can click on it and the canvas will clear and the sketch will redraw itself, exactly as its creator did originally - errors and all. Pretty pointless, but fun!

For the techies among you, this feature is brought to you by Adobe Flash and the jQuery JavaScript library. If you don’t have Flash and JavaScript enabled, you’ll still see the final static version of the sketch.

And so the sketch feature further extends its lead as the least used feature with the most development time spent on it…

It’s now possible to order and pay for food from some of the best takeaways in town without leaving your computer!

EdinburghMenus.com has partnered with just-eat.co.uk to provide this service. There are currently 13 businesses offering this service with more being added all the time. To order online, just click the “order online now” link on the listing page for that business on EdinburghMenus.com. You will then be directed to just-eat.co.uk’s secure online ordering system where you can choose what you want to eat and pay securely by credit card.

The businesses that offer online ordering through just-eat.co.uk have been tagged “justeat” and “orderonline” so you can search for them easily. Try searching for “justeat indian” near “Newington” (try it now) or “orderonline” near “the zoo” (try it now) to get an idea of how to find the business you want.