Posts Tagged ‘Internet’
Farewell, GeoCities
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
The above image may not mean anything to many people, but for some of us, knowing that GeoCities will be closed down by the end of the year brings a tear to the eye.
I remember discovering GeoCities in 1996, while searching on Altavista (no Google yet!) for a free place to host internet webpages.
I had my “site” up later that night, a huge “Work in Progress” animated gif on a blank background, with “Fulvio’s Website” written on top of it.
I don’t even remember what happened to that page, maybe it is still there somewhere, saved on some dusty hard drive on their storage servers. Who knows.
Farewell, GeoCities, you will be missed.
Photoshop … in your browser!
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
It is not an easy task to impress me with web-related stuff, after being involved with the internet on a daily basis for more than 10 years, I have really seen it all. But not THIS. The guys at Pixlr.com have really outdone themselves by recreating a nearly perfect Photoshop clone … inside your browser.
It doesn’t obviously have all the features you might find in Photoshop, but you can access it everywhere there is a computer with an internet connection, it’s totally free, and it has all the functionality you might require for most of your “quick ‘n dirty” photo fixing needs.
Really, it is so perfect that it is hard to believe it’s “just” a flash application.
Click here to try it out for yourself!
Gotta love spammers
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
I mean, you guys found the time to spoof the referrer of my “recent visitors” page to insert your dirty links in there?
Wow, you must be quite desperate indeed.
I have now changed the code of the recent visitors plugin to add a rel=”nofollow” attribute to all hyperlinks, so that you won’t get any Google PageRank bonus no matter how many fake referrer links you put in there.
I suggest anybody with the same problem to do the same, what these guys do is spam as many sites as they can with links to their hosts, so that when GoogleBot crawls your pages it will give them a PageRank bonus and they will appear up in the search results.
The rel=”nofollow” attribute prevents this from happening.
The Pirate Bay blocked in Italy
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
Today’s news is: fascism is officially back in Italy, and a popular Bit Torrent tracker, The Pirate Bay, has been blocked by our government.
Now, I understand that is possible to download copyright protected material from Bit Torrent trackers, but blocking them is like shutting down stores that sell photocopiers and DVD recorders because they could POTENTIALLY be used to illegally copy stuff.
Anyway, our road to become like China is still long, but I am sure Silvio & Co will do their best to ruin what good is left of our country in no time.
Im the meantime, I am packing my bags.
From TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay’s IPs and the domain name are inaccessible, as they are blocked by ISPs all over the country. Whether these blocks will be very effective, however, is doubtful, since The Pirate Bay has already announced several countermeasures. An insider working at an Internet provider in Italy told TorrentFreak that all the relevant large access ISPs in Italy have complied with the request to block the popular BitTorrent tracker, which was sent out yesterday. Italy is taking a stand against BitTorrent sites, so it seems. Two weeks ago, the largest Italian torrent site, Columbo-BT, was shut down by the same prosecutor who is responsible for the Pirate Bay block.
As you see, The Pirate Bay team has switched IPs to bypass the block, but if anyone is still experiencing problems I suggest giving up your ISP’s DNS and switch to OpenDNS.
Moondus, Take 2
Posted by Fulvio | Filed under Blog
Moondus, the 3D platform I am working on with my colleagues at Virtual Italian Parks, is coming along extremely well.
We finally reached production stage, and clients interested in publishing their content with our engine have just started to arrive as well! :)
A lot has changed in the background since I last posted a video about it, and I think the final result we achieved is nothing short of amazing, especially for guys like us that worked in 3D engineering for the very first time.
