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Moving to another account

Fri Apr 24, 2009, 4:10 AM
Hi guys, I'm moving to anther account as a fresh start - new name. :D

My new account is :iconmamainak: and I'd appreciate if you could fave the photos on this new one, not here :)

Thank you and see you there!

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Internet censorship

Sun Jun 8, 2008, 9:16 AM
Half an hour ago I was checking some video sites, including Vimeo, Viddler, Revver and Veoh. I have account on all of them (but not uploaded videos on all). I was unpleasantly surprised to see this message on Veoh:


Veoh is no longer available in CROATIA.


W.T.F.?

I didn't get any message about it! What if I had videos uploaded there?! That's bad bad service.

I asked <lj user="iflie"> can she see it, she said yes, but not videos tagged with Croatia. Finally she found Veoh forum where I saw the reason.

Someone asked what happened and this is official response by Veoh's staff:

"Unfortunately Veoh will be ending service in your country due to a low concentration of users. Veoh is maintaining markets when we have the highest concentration of viewers."
(yes, with all grammar mistakes)

And then later I found a topic with a list of blocked countries - 165 of them. Mostly 3rd world countries in Asia and Africa but lots lots of them from Europe and South America too.

I personally find it offending, but most importantly I find it business suicide. Every user/customer/viewer is important, no matter how poor/rich their country is and no matter how many users in that country are.

That is not first case of internet censorship of course. I think most of the people know about Flickr not being available in Iran, China and United Arab Emirates (because of governments) and content filters for Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Korea (from Flickr's side); Google not being available in China...

Then only yesterday I was faced with blocking. I tried Hulu [link] (movie, video and tv show website), and earlier Pandora [link] (music streaming website) which are available for USA citizens only.

Why is that?! Isn't it better if they have more users? Is politics involved again? I thought that business always overcame politics at least on internet.

Yes I know there are other sites, but some are really good but blocked.

Geeks and techie people are trying to overcome barriers by making different scripts and programs to get behind the shield. I found 2-3 of them but one didn't work, other had some error and third one slooowed down internet badly so the video couldn't be loaded.

*sigh*

Enough of the ranting.

Geeks' revenge will come!! :P

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  • Listening to: Cure - Close to me
  • Eating: just headed for peanuts! :D
  • Drinking: hm, I'm gonna make myself ice-coffee

Tracking your art/photos with Photoshop and Google

Thu Apr 17, 2008, 1:09 PM

There is a simple way to protect your image without a big visible (and ugly) watermark..

METADATA...

Metadata is essentially information embedded into your media that stays there.

Through Photoshop (most versions CS, CS2, CS3 for sure) all you have to do is go:

FILE> FILE INFO, and it will bring up all your embedded info. Simply embed a copyright warning in the correct box (if in doubt, use the HELPfunction on your software)

For instance, i might use "©Sound_Of_Vision_2008"

Now my image is protected with an invisible, digital watermark.. but lets not stop there.. Lets have the internet tell us any time someone posts my image with my invisible copyright!

God bless google! Google alerts, one of the best kept secrets on the interwebs.

From here, i can enter into my Search terms:©Sound_Of_Vision_2008, tell google to notify me once weekly (more if you are a big shot) and have them sent directly to your email!

Just like that, you are informed of every infraction that takes advantage of your work!


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One day I'll organize them by category (art, photography...) but I couldn't be bothered today. :P

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People on my Watchlist :)

Wed Apr 2, 2008, 3:55 AM
These people are doing something amazing and I want to keep an eye on them. Now you go and check them out!
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One day I'll organize them by category (art, photography...) but I couldn't be bothered today. :P

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  • Listening to: CRanberries - Dreaming my dreams

People on my Watchlist :)

Tue Apr 1, 2008, 3:48 AM
(which all have same icon at the moment because of dA's april fool's day 'wittiness'!!)
These people are doing something amazing and I want to keep an eye on them. Now you go and check them out!
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:iconazuzephre::iconbad-blood::iconcacodaemonia::iconbalboulloude: :iconblackeri::iconcottoncandyvomit::icondark-spider::iconelectronicrainbow: :iconellaine::iconfaboarts::iconfoureyes::icongawariel::iconginkgografix: ::icongirltripped::iconglittersniffer::iconhakanphotography::iconidajorsing: :iconignisburns::iconimagec0rrupt3d::iconivan-c::iconivana-zd::iconixidork::iconkissncontrol::iconkmye-chan::iconkuschelirmel: :iconkuschelirmel-stock::iconlamech77::iconlarafairie::iconlilyhbp: :iconlithiumpicnic::iconloish::iconmarinafoto::iconmongi::iconmonstarling: :iconnachan::iconnedashi::iconolgac::iconpen-umbra::iconpink-spike::iconriaherod: :iconro-stock::iconrohanelf::iconsamanthavnr::iconshoomlah::iconstardust-splendor::iconsygnin::icontelescopica: :icontheeyesbetray::iconthegirlinthebigbox::iconthespook::iconthienbao::icontooshtoosh: :icontragicmistress::iconuppun::iconvareign::iconvyrl::iconxblahx: :iconxdayx::iconzeldis::iconzemotion::iconkosjenka::iconcayxess: :icongold-seven::iconhito76::iconkokiri85::iconleelastarsky::iconmadcarrot: :iconmakani::iconmary-dreams::iconreallycorking::iconslinkers: :icontattereddreams::iconthe-gwyllion::iconmarinshe: :iconnikosalpha::iconin5omn1ac::iconlovelamp::iconmasterjinn: :iconsanami276::iconshad0w-gfx::iconsharringan-stock:

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One day I'll organize them by category (art, photography...) but I couldn't be bothered today. :P

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