http://dyketech.com Technology is just Queer Science Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:41:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This post is a work-in-progress. Have a favourite that isn't listed here? Shoot me an email below and tell me about it. Online (no download, platform independent) Applications GifWorks. For GIFs, animated or no. http://www.gifworks.com/image_editor.html On Your Windows Computer Image Resizer http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx http://dyketech.com/techy-tidbits/image-manipulation-software My friend asked me to explain, to explain in 5 minutes or less, the difference between some of the different image file formats! I'll give it a shot, bare-naked, like. There's a crapload of different formats for pictures, and they all save the picture differently. There's two main kinds, raster and ... http://dyketech.com/techy-tidbits/a-very-simple-thingy-about-image-types Factoid: The lovely, enormous images we take with our digital cameras are too big for displaying on the web. Here's a few reasons why: (1) Because we can't see better than 72 or 90 dpi on our screens anyhow. (2) Even with North America's huge number of users on highspeed internet, who ... http://dyketech.com/techy-tidbits/websizing-images While we try to keep backups of all files on the server, you are ultimately responsible for the back-ups of your files. Back-up modules are accessible through your CPanel, so if you're running live or interactive content you'll be able to do up-to-the-minute back-ups. Here's how: ________________ All of your domain ... http://dyketech.com/techy-tidbits/how-to-backup-the-files-on-your-webserver-elaines-clients-only Scenario: You have a document online, but the online source has vanished, whether by server crash or perhaps having a hacked website. If you've recently visited your site on your machine with your browser, you may have a copy of your images and pages still inside your computer, in an ... http://dyketech.com/techy-tidbits/how-to-retrieve-a-lost-webpage-document-or-image-from-your-browser-cache http://www.archive.org/web/web.php Place your desired domain name in the search box and click "Take Me Back!" The dates that show up are linked to a cache of that domain at that particular time and space. (It's always humbling to look back upon one's early coding skills, for instance) This'll be very text-only unless the ... http://dyketech.com/techy-tidbits/how-to-find-a-lost-document-in-the-wayback-machine Some folks have lost some data recently, and would like to get it back. There's some small hope -- Google.com will create a cached version of the various pages it visits, and you can often find your missing web pages here! Step 1 Go to google.com, and in the search box, ... http://dyketech.com/techy-tidbits/how-to-find-a-lost-document-in-googles-cache Send the following command as the body of an email to your LIST REQUEST ADDRESS to see everyone who is on your mailing list. The roster is limited to list members only, and you must supply your admin password to retrieve it. Your list request address (found in your listmail ... http://dyketech.com/techy-tidbits/mailman-email-lists-how-to-back-up-your-membership-list Every DNS transfer has resolved, as far as I know. If you own a site that has not resolved (eg it has a blue page that says "there is no website configured at this address") contact me and we'll troubleshoot your DNS troubles. I'm working on re-upping the sites I directly geek ... http://dyketech.com/server-status-and-news/update-domains-resolved-uploading-in-progress I have limited access to the old server, for those few folks who are having a hard time getting the DNS records changed. It's web only, no cpanel, no frigging email. If you need to be temporarily re-upped on the old server, let me know. Note that this won't bring our old ... http://dyketech.com/server-status-and-news/limited-access-to-old-server-still-no-backups