About a week ago Google celebrated it’s 10th birthday. It’s amazing in a world where websites come and go on a seemingly weekly basis to see one that’s around that long.
Screenshot of Google from 1997
They have put up a page that allows you to search their index from 2001 so you can play with an old index and see how far they’ve come.
This is one of those features I’ve been wanting to add to my photography forum for a while now, but I just got around to it this weekend.
With the addition of a database table, a new template file, a few source files, and changes to several others, my Simple Machines Forum now gives my users the ability to bookmark their favorite threads. With the new theme files they’ll have a menu option across the top where they can view their bookmarked threads and the topics will have a little blue flag next to them so they can easily identify their bookmarks.
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From the Guardian
A German computer gamer is being held in connection with the murder of a British university student after an apparent cyberspace dispute escalated into a killing.
There’s another forum I’m on where the discussion of blocking right-clicks comes up every few days it seems. People put up their first website and are terrified when they find out how easy it is to right-click on an image and save it.
The problem is that it’s trivial for anyone with a moderate amount of computer knowledge to get around right-click blocking. Well, it’s also a problem that blocking right-clicks is just annoying, but I guess that’s a different issue.
Off the top of my head, here’s the ways I can think of to get around right-click blocks. Read the rest of this entry »
About a year ago I wrote a post on how to embed a YouTube video in a Simple Machines Forum post. Well, as it works out today I needed to embed a Google Video in a post so I went through and did almost the same process to get it to work.