D-talk (Entries tagged as Misc)

SEO - shared hosting or dedicated hosting

nospam@example.com (Mark van der Velden) — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:20:00 +0200

There is much talk going on about it, name based hosting should score more negative in google then dedicated hosted websites. The opinions are spread, both sides have good arguments but the side that says "it's mostly bogus" I agree with. Your site CAN have a more negative ranking then a dedicated one if the IP you host on get's shitlisted. Meaning...
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imageMagick CMYK to RGB

nospam@example.com (Mark van der Velden) — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:17:23 +0200

Today I've encountered the jpeg format and the conversion between CMYK and RGB.

I'm working with ImageMagick and the struggle to view 'corrupted images' at least that is what Firefox and Internet Explorer try to tell us. But in fact they just can't read CMYK. And I don't blame them, they have no business reading it anyway, they should stick to RGB.

The command turned out to be quite simple:

convert myCMYKimage.jpg \
    -colorspace rgb \
    ...

The colors however aren't all that great, in fact if you plan on using it seriously they plain s*ck, but all in all I blame that on the user who uploads it, not the 'failing' of the browsers or IM in this part.

IM supports much more advanced way in converting to RGB, using color profiles, etc. But this script is used in a public upload system and I'm not planning to fix something the user should have taken care of!

Thanks to ##imagemagick on freenode IRC who helped me with this.

Postbank Buddy!

nospam@example.com (Mark van der Velden) — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:06:00 +0200

Postbank ( a dutch 'bank' ) always had and for some till has a bad name. But they are trying hard to improve it! Now they thought of something new, the buddy! It's an MSN contact that you can request information from, like your last transactions and the amount of money you have atm. No very critical information or commands can be showed/issued so fairly safe, and in my opinion.. just cool!