SuperStock.com get heavy over stolen images
October 21st, 2008 by Sarah KingSuperStock isn’t a site I’d visited before but they appear to be one of the bigger stock photography companies on the web. Right now I’m following a case where a guy used one of their images without permission (or paying, I’d guess). The image has been removed but he also checked online to see if he was doing the right thing. Unsurprisingly he didn’t get much sympathy. Read the rest of this entry »
Cuil Image problems not easily fixed, apparently
August 16th, 2008 by Sarah KingCuil is the new search engine on the block providing a new competitor in the search engine wars. How they will stack up against MSN, Yahoo and Google remains to be seen but it seems these guys have a few issues yet to iron out. Read the rest of this entry »
Newbies, don’t upload exploits with your images!
July 20th, 2007 by Sarah KingManuel Lemos from phpClasses.org has written an excellent post about about the risks when allowing users to upload images. It’s not something I’ve done alot but lets say you have a generated image such as this one – with a .php extension. I could upload it to your server and have it served from there – not much use to me because it would fail to update.
The next guy, however, might be uploading a malicious script that might take over your server, send spam etc.
Read his post here: PHP security exploit with GIF images
Grant Robinson’s cool stuff
August 25th, 2005 by Sarah KingI wasn’t going to blog about Grant Robinson’s Guess the Google game – mostly because I couldn’t get a good score (ie sour grapes) but then I found he was a fellow Kiwi… Read the rest of this entry »
Saving emailed images
March 19th, 2005 by Sarah KingMost of us get sent “funny” emails which usually aren’t, but sometimes there’s a gem within and you think “I’d like to save that image, it’s cute” but usually you never use it.
My avatar at Digitalpoint forums is one such cutie sent by the infamous “Mark and Richard” of Waiheke Island.
However it started life as an embedded image in the email. Couldn’t save it because it wasn’t an attachment, couldn’t do a save as because Microsoft Outlook wanted to convert it to a bitmap (not good for animated gifs). When I viewed the source all I got was
<IMG src=”cid:004301c5290d$0e52aca0$0401010a@D2T8GC1S”>
or
<img src=’cid:rainchecklogo’ alt=’Raincheck Logo’ />
So, after trawling through Google looking for the right way to save the images I emailed them to my gmail account where they are shown as regular images with their proper names.
Seems webmail has a use when you’re at your regular desk after all 
