Re: Why looking at your web stats is important . . .
ragnar, Mon May 22 2006, 03:29AM

Yah, webstats are brilliant. I check mine every day.

Re: Why looking at your web stats is important . . .
Dr. Shark, Mon May 22 2006, 10:03AM

now you got me curious, but somehow does not show up. But I so much want to use your drip as a cool avatar!

Re: Why looking at your web stats is important . . .
HV Enthusiast, Mon May 22 2006, 11:30AM

Wrong site. The link is here:

http://www.danielmccauley.com/images/photo29.jpg

You can use the image however you like (the small one on the menu doesn't have the text)
Actually, anyone can use the image - just not hotlink it . . .

Re: Why looking at your web stats is important . . .
ragnar, Mon May 22 2006, 01:02PM

lol, nice watermark!

/me rubber-stamps out... j/k

Re: Why looking at your web stats is important . . .
HV Enthusiast, Mon May 22 2006, 01:55PM

Yeah, i got bombarded with nasty emails after i added the watermark. Apparently, tens of people had the image hotlinked as a background photo etc..., so they weren't too happy to see the watermark. Damn teenagers.


As i said before, i don't have a problem with people using the image, even without my permission. I just have a problem with them hotlinking it and sucking my bandwidth.

Re: Why looking at your web stats is important . . .
Carbon_Rod, Mon May 22 2006, 08:41PM

Ha ha ha, lol
I always get a chuckle with this one.

A better watermark overlaps the important areas of the image and is subtler.

1.) Create a Macro in Photoshop or Script-Fu in Gimpshop (Free)
2.) Create/import an overlay with white letters
3.) Set Overlay to a ghostly opacity (~30%)
4.) Merge down layers
5.) Resize image to 72 ppi with rescale at 100% (low-resolution web format)
6.) Save a copy as jpg (leaves your source images untouched)
7.) Close open image
8.) Repeat until no more open images

The other power of Photoshop is batch mode that can fully automate large image base processing. I believe there are a few editors around too that can do this –but have not tried it with Gimpshop yet.

When done run JPGCleaner (free) to strip out the Photoshop tags from the JPGs.

Cheers,

Re: Why looking at your web stats is important . . .
Alex, Mon May 22 2006, 09:52PM

Why? Is there anything sensitive in them?

Re: Why looking at your web stats is important . . .
Cesiumsponge, Tue May 23 2006, 12:50AM

You got angry emails from people because you changed your intellectual property as you saw fit?

These must be the same people that complain when they illegally download a DVD/movie rip and someone plugs their website at the beginning of the movie file.

It would be amusing to see these emails and how they attempted to justify their anger. You should replace it with an offensive XXX image rather than a watermark. That'd really get them angry. Maybe they'd go write some depressing poetry and stay off the Internet.

Re: Why looking at your web stats is important . . .
Mike, Tue May 23 2006, 03:33AM

haha I am sure glad I read the url of that before clicking!
Things like Lemonparty and Tubgirl probably shouldnt be posted on the forum though :P

Mike

Re: Why looking at your web stats is important . . .
Michael W., Tue May 23 2006, 04:16AM

I saw that about a year ago and couldn't blink for a week.....

Re: Why looking at your web stats is important . . .
Nik, Tue May 23 2006, 04:21AM

>_< damnit, always should check the URL before I click it >_<

Re: Why looking at your web stats is important . . .
..., Tue May 23 2006, 04:34AM

I suppose since this is in chatting it is ok to send the thread off topic...

SafeSearch does have it's purpose

I do find it sorta odd that we have the admin posting links to stuff like that in any case...

I personally would have done something more than what you did, especially since I host everything out of my home line... Thinking along the lines of like goatse with some text over it about how they are loosers, etc. You gotta have fun with people sometimes

Re: Why looking at your web stats is important . . .
Carbon_Rod, Tue May 23 2006, 05:14AM

"Why? Is there anything sensitive in them?"

Depends what you consider sensitive -- But your icon tells me you are running a more recent version of Photoshop registered with a generic generator code (6 or above – can’t tell yet you for sure, but I think it’s a v7.0.1 code.) That little utility only strips out non-image data to make smaller files and does not always work =D

Are you a Windows man after all this time? Mmmm -- crunchy on the outside with a soft chewy nugget centre. Don’t worry – I won’t tell anyone. =] lol

Re: Why looking at your web stats is important . . .
Ben, Tue May 23 2006, 06:06AM


A link to a google search? If you're offended by it(or at work) you should have had safe search turned on....it is by default, you had to turn it off on purpose.

Re: Why looking at your web stats is important . . .
Tesladownunder, Tue May 23 2006, 10:41AM

I have had a big surge in my web site hits to about 3000/day for the 2 combined sites. Mostly to European sites with a soft porn background bizzare/freak type sections.
All available through my hit counter (to everyone). Interesting where it ends up.
42% of all my hits are to European sites and 32% to the US.

Peter

Re: Why looking at your web stats is important . . .
Alex, Tue May 23 2006, 05:26PM

Yeah, I don't consider any of that information to be something that needs to be kept private.

RE: Windows... Yeah, I've been using it lately. Don't worry, I'm not enjoying it. Application level audio routing is a major pain in the ass (although audio device management is better than it is in linux, thus my choice). I need Windows to run Ableton Live (which I'd run in a Mac, but I don't have one). I run linux on my Mini ITX to do all my network services/not crash when I look at it funny. I'll be getting a new mac this summer.