Archive for May, 2008
Happy Friday Video: Dollys harsh words
May 16, 2008I am appalled at Dolly’s new audio book. Just listen to what she recently said.
why disabling right click is pointless
May 8, 2008A few people out there think that if they add some simple JavaScript to disable right clicking, their code will be safe. For those of you wondering, yes, this can be done. And yes, it is totally pointless.
Here is a link to the script:
http://javascript.internet.com/page-details/no-right-click.html
Web developers dream of the day when there (client-side) code would be completely invisible to visitors. Why, you might ask? Because, it takes time to develop sweet scripts to make a website functional; who wants some script kiddie stealing borrowing there precious scripts. Not only that, Mac users could care less about right clicking, they only have a single click!
Normally by right-clicking (in Windows) on a web page, you have access to such great features like: properties, view page info, exporting options (depending on your browser), and the infamous view page source. The thing is, you could also view a page’s source (and other exciting options) by clicking on your browsers tool bar and finding the same option. And if you think that you might be protecting your images by disabling this function, just remember that there is a little thing called cache.
With this in mind, why would someone want to disable right clicking? Is there any functional reason that someone would do so? Please, someone tell my why you would want to do this, I just don’t get it.
check your foldersize
May 7, 2008Mac users, this won’t work for you. (Actually this would only work with Windows. Oh well.)
There are tons of folders all over your computer with all sorts of crap in them; movies, music, word docs, pictures, etc. At some point, you realize that you don’t have enough space for all of your precious files and you are also to cheap to buy more hard drive space. What is a person to do?! It’s a pain in the ass to clean up your machine, so when you finally get around to it, you do the basics (in no particular order):
- clear your web history; cookies, cache, etc.
- delete any programs/files you are no longer using
- run a disk cleanup
- defrag your PC
- empty your recycling bin
- burn some of your important files on a CD/DVD
So you are all done and give your PC a fresh restart and WHAM!!!, you freed up less than a gig of space. Great, that sucks. You could have spent your time being lazy. You sit there with mouse in hand and wonder: What is responsible for taking so much space? Who is the space-hog culprit?
Here is a nifty little tool that I came across that can tell you how much space is being occupied per folder/drive: http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/. Now this is one bad bitch. You might say,”I could just right click and choose properties to find out how much space is being taken up.” You are right, this is possible. However if you have a lot of folders to go through, this could be a painstakingly long process.
Using the foldersize app, you can view the sizes of all of your folders at the same time. When you look into a folder using “details view”, you’ll see some sorting options such as Name, Type, date Modified, all boring crap.
You could even right click on the bar (with those names) and tick a few other useless options. But what you can’t get is how big a folder is. You would think that Microsoft would have thought about this, but no, they didn’t. Bastards. Lucky for us, there is a little application that can tell us what we want.
Now you can finally see what is taking up so much space on your PC and delete what is necessary.
Get it here: http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/.
Happy Friday Video: ZEITGEIST
May 2, 2008So I haven’t posted an article in a long time, bite me.
For the three of you who read this blog, you should know that I post when I have something to say. Another thing I do is post a video on Fridays because damn it, Fridays are just happy.
This video is kinda long, so I suggest you schedule sometime to watch it. Please watch it. You are totally missing out if you don’t.
Check it out here: http://zeitgeistmovie.com/
