iTamer.com

I was checking out kiwi blogs and thought I’d support the kiwi webring that’s been setup. Webrings are an old fashioned idea to link similar sites together and I hadn’t realised that they were still being used. So in solidarity I thought I’d sign up. (more…)

I was driving over our harbour bridge the other day when a zappy little red convertible went past. I think it was an old triumph but don’t hold me to that - and H8DCAF was on his personalised number plate. (more…)

Westfield are an Aussie chain of stores dominating the Auckland retail scene. Today I had the misfortune to visit their St Lukes mall. (more…)

I started a thread at Vorb when I had a problem with Slicing The Valves Off My Tubes on my mountain bike and little did I think it would turn into a 3 page discussion on tyres! (more…)

If Wing can get onto SouthPark then presumably anyone can!

When they decide to sign me up this is what I’ll probably end up looking like: (more…)

I’m no artist and I’m easily impressed by those who can create beautiful things. I needed to create an animated gif last night and downloaded a trial copy of Gamani GIF Movie Gear and very cool it is too. I’ve tried other programs over the years but this one made it idiot proof. I was able to set up the images using my ancient copy of Adobe Photoshop, import it, give each frame a time and I had my image.

Curiously the animated gif is 5.55KB where the same image exported as gif by Photoshop is 6.36KB.

And ofcourse I had to rely on Dan from Pinkeye to create the image in the first place

When I’m navigating around a good site I’ll often have several pages open at once, either as IE windows, or Firefox tabs. I’ll see a link and think “I need to read that when I’m done here, I’ll load it now”, right mouse click and get it going.

Sometimes people are trying to protect their images and page source by blocking the right mouse click. This really annoys me and usually I don’t proceed with the site. The owner has just lost all credibility.

Why that’s pathetic

• The main browser menu still works and will reveal the source
• You are only viewing the html and javascript - anything that is intellectual property should be contained in the serverside script
• Any javascript should be in a separate file, harder to get to but still accessible.
• If you’re trying to protect your images it’s too late, they’re already in my cache and I can retrieve them from there if I really, really want them, but copyright helps. If they’re not needed for a link then consider hiding their location by placing them as backgrounds in the CSS. Not foolproof but the casual image stealer will be stumped.

So if you’re tempted to throw some javascript like this on the page, please, please think again.