gHacks technology news » spaceball.gif http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:14:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Easier Way To Download Protected Photos At Flickr http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/05/easier-way-to-download-protected-photos-at-flickr/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/05/easier-way-to-download-protected-photos-at-flickr/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:10:01 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5869 A Flickr user can decided to protect the photos that he uploads to Flickr which has the effect that the a user who is trying to download a protected photo will end up with a gif called spaceball.gif instead of the real image. I’ve already shown how it is possible to avoid saving spaceball.gif images at Flickr. The method made use of the fact that the real location of the photo is referenced in the source code.

It’s not everyone’s favorite to crawl through source codes and I would like to introduce an easier way to achieve the same effect. I only tested it with Firefox 2 and Firefox 3, can’t really comment about the other browsers.

All you need to do is make use of the Page Info menu that can be accessed by right-clicking on the page with the image. Page Info has a media tab that lists all media files on that page including, yes you guessed that one right, the image that is being displayed on that page.

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All that’s left to be done is to find the correct image and click on the Save As button. Now, before someone (again) comes along and tells me that this is stealing I would like to inform him that the image gets downloaded automatically by the browser cache as well and that it therefor already exists on the computer.

If users want to protect their Flickr photos they should either make them private, stop uploading them at all or upload them in a resolution that they are comfortable with that it gets downloaded.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/05/easier-way-to-download-protected-photos-at-flickr/feed/ 13 How to avoid saving spaceball.gif at Flickr http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/29/how-to-avoid-saving-spaceballgif-at-flickr/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/29/how-to-avoid-saving-spaceballgif-at-flickr/#comments Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:38:32 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/29/how-to-avoid-saving-spaceballgif-at-flickr/ Some images at Flickr are weakly protected with an image overlay called spaceball.gif. Whenever you right-click the image to save it you do save spaceball.gif instead which is a 1×1 pixel image showing nothing at all. The same happens if you try to drag the image to your desktop or hard drive.

However, if a photo is show it can be saved. The easiest way to achieve this is by blocking spaceball.gif from being loaded when visiting Flickr. You can do this in Firefox if you have the Adblock extension installed. When you are viewing an image at Flickr that you can’t save because of the spaceball.gif overlay you do the following to block the overlay.

Hit CTRL + SHIFT + B to open the list of blockable items. Navigate to the entry with spaceball.gif at the end and choose to block this item by right-clicking it. This prevents that spaceball.gif is loaded so that you can save any items at Flickr by right-clicking it.

Opera has a similar function. Just go to Tools > Advanced > Blocked Content and click Add in the menu. Paste the url *flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif into the new entry and close the menu.

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