June 13, 2009 @ 12:19 am
If you haven’t been told already, Facebook is allowing its users to finally choose an appropriate personal URL for their Facebook profiles. This means that if you’ve got a common name, you’ll want to do this ASAP so that you can stake claim in having facebook.com/yournamehere before anybody else with your same name.
Luckily for me, I’m only competing with a handful of Herman Yung’s on Facebook which means I got my vanity URL pretty easily. But if you’re crazy about maintaining your online identity, you’ll want to snag a Facebook profile URL right away, so head on over to this link and get started.
May 11, 2009 @ 4:59 pm
When I come across a link to an image on Flickr that is a direct image URL (like this, for example) I consider it a very irresponsible act of internet publishing. I liken it to hot-linking which is already considered a big no-no in respectable circles. To give credit back to the photographers, Jarred Bishop has created FlickFindr, a website that reverse engineers the Flickr image URL to point back to the original Flickr image page (if you’re curious, the image linked previously can be found here). [via]
FlickFindr is certainly a must-have bookmark for me as I seem to come across more and more direct image links on Flickr lately…
January 24, 2008 @ 2:08 pm
Did you know that Google hosts alternate search web addresses in order to “hide” your searches? Normally, when you do a Google search, your search query is visible in the address bar. For example, a search in Google for “all your base” will give you the URL http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=all+your+base&btnG=Search&meta= or something like it.
If for some reason you don’t want prying eyes to easily find your search queries, then use the alternate URLs below. Yep, the following URLs are Google-owned and act as direct copy of the Google search page.
Keep in mind however that Google still keeps search history if you’re signed in (unless you tell it not to) and that anybody who knows the list of URLs above can still find out what you searched for by looking at your history. It just makes it a bit harder, that’s all. In any case, it’s still kind of useful.
