(Friday, May 30th, 2008)
When you have a web site, it becomes quite common that some people feel so easy to just borrow your images that they do not even take the time to make a copy on their own web site. Not only do they use your artwork, but they also use the bandwidth you paid for.
Normally, there is a solution. You can modify slightly your website to ensure that if this happens, the image served is not the original one, but a modified one (either a big red X, or a message to the reader). But it is a little difficult to do by hand. A wbe site tool comes handy for this: HTMLbasix – Htaccess Disable Hotlinking Code Generator.
Find more stories in Art, Blog, HTML and CSS, Internet, Liberties, Photo, Photo & Graphics, Security, Use your D-SLR, Web sightings. Tags: Apache, automatic, code, generator, hot link, hotlinking, htaccess, image, steal, web site
(Tuesday, May 13th, 2008)
It is always a bit difficult to actually think about doing backups. Either you spend too much time thinking about it or you forget about it. For Windows, I found a nice free utility program: FileHamster from MOGware.
This small utility will allow you to automatically backup every single file you save or modify. FileHamster will create a full history track of your activity without even the need to think about it. It acts immediately (you don’t have to wait for a daily backup), and keeps everything. Of course, you need some free disk space, but it’s so much of a relief…
Find more stories in Security, Storage, Windows Vista. Tags: automatic, backup, download, FileHamster, free, MOGware, save
