Beware: ImageShack shows someone else’s image instead of mine?
Posted on October 11, 2007
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Was supporting one site and stumbled upon this strange thing.
An article on that site has an illustration, a drawing of a bee (it fits the text in a metaphorical sense). The image is hosted on ImageShack and it’s placed on the article page as a usual plain picture by means of a direct link in ImageShack’s terminology. I believed that’s OK for a small picture like that.
To my great surprise, 2 days ago I noticed (by accident) that the article has a wrong different someone else’s image instead of mine. I’ve checked the page — the IMG tag was still the same and referred to the same correct ImageShack’s URL. But the picture on that same URL got replaced. Instead of my bee it was a photo. Deep investigation has shown that the photo was a portray of Russian PM. Taking the article subject (”Surrounded by idlers and loafers”), the new alien picture looked especially weird, ambiguous and awkward. I hurried on to replace that photo with the original illustration. Also I’ve sent a description of the problem to ImageShack’s Technical support via a contact form on their site. What was interesting is that the image’s thumbnail in the list of my images on ImageShack site was still correct and displayed a harmless bee, but when I clicked on its direct link — I got that guy’s photo. I’ve mentioned that in the issue report. Read more
Spelling mistakes may save your money on eBay
Posted on August 29, 2007
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Stupid me — never thought of this.
But other smarter people did think. There is an online service helping find misspelled items on eBay. That misspelled stuff and goodies should be cheaper due to the lack of literate people’s attention.
Stumbled upon this info in this blog post. Thanks, Abby!
Having nice graphics on your site does not mean a huge bandwidth!
Posted on July 31, 2007
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Read this update — some weird thing occurred.
I was thinking: to add or not to add images and pictures to my sites. After all, eats bandwidth == eats money.
Actually, not necessarily so 
(It eats, but not necessarily mine.) Read more
How to create professional PDFs for free
Posted on July 26, 2007
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1. Download and install OpenOffice.org (it’s a free software from Sun Microsystems).
2. Open OpenOffice.org Writer and create your file. For the sake of test, just copy contents of a web page (say, this page) into the text editor and save.
3. In the Writer’s menu, select File -> Export as PDF… and follow the instructions (it’s sufficient to point to a folder and enter a name for your new PDF file your content will be exported to).
Interesting notes:
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