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Disabling Image Hotlinking with Apache

Monday, January 28th, 2008

I had a big bump in ad clicks on one of my blogs earlier, and I was wondering if something in particular was driving it (the answer is, not that I can tell). I hadn’t check the logs for the blogs in quite a while, and man are there are lot of people hotlinking to pictures I’ve posted!

Now if you want to link to pictures I’m using, that’s fine, but host them yourself or give me a link back. The bandwidth your link to the files I host costs me money and I’d like at least a link so that people might find my site…

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Tags: bandwidth, configuration, hotlinking

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Apple WebClib Bookmark Icons

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Software update 1.1.3 for the Apple iPhone introduced the “WebClip icon”, which gives you a convenient shortcut button from your iPhone to a web site. There are now over 4 million iPhones in the hands of users… probably not all 4 million of those people want to go to your web site, but if they do then surely you want to reward then with a pretty bit of WebClip swag, don’t you?

WebClip icons work similarly to the favicon.ico file, but in this case you store the icon as a PNG file in /apple-touch-icon.png

You can specify a different location in the <head></head> element with a line of HTML similar to this:
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Tags: apple, icon, iphone, webclip

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F’ing Microsoft: IE8

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Microsoft acknowledges that there were many bugs in IE6 and IE7, and promises IE8 will be much more standards-compliant. In order to make it act in a more standards-compliant way, however, you will have to include a non-standard tag in your HTML HEAD section. Otherwise it will continue to act like the pieces of bloated crapware that IE6 and IE7 were.

Thanks for the big “fuck you”, Microsoft. How about paying everyone back for all the time they’ve wasted dealing with your crappy browsers?

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Tags: ie, ie8, internet explorer, internet explorer 8, microsoft, standards, wtf

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