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Tag: downloads

  • Parody of the 'home taping is killing music' posters, featuring a mouse whose right button is being clicked. It reads: right-clicking is part of the Web and it's great.

    Webpage Copy-Protection is Impossible (and that's great!)

    A friend of mine was inconvenienced by an over-eager bit of Web copy-protection JavaScript this week, and it reminded me that more-than-ever, these scripts are both harmful (to legitimate users) and pointless (ineffective at preventing downloading).

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1012 words)

    • Article
    • 4 comments
    • posted 13 October, 2026
  • Comic showing a conversation between Firefox and Netflix, as represented by their respective logos. Firefox says 'Hey, send me a copy of Dispicable Me 4?'. Netflix replies: 'Promise you'll delete it when you're done watching it?'. Firefox responds: 'Umm... sure!'

    The Difference Between Downloading and Streaming

    Mostly to make use of an animation I made for a different blog post that hasn't materialised, let me take a moment to explain to you the fundamental technical difference between 'streaming' and 'downloading'. Which won't take long... because there isn't one!

    Read more - about 9 minutes (2012 words)

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    • 3 comments
    • posted 26 May, 2025
  • Fibre Optics Are Cool

    See:



    This is how I like my downloads to look.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (10 words)

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    • posted 28 November, 2008
  • Aberystwyth Webcam Widget

    Aberystwyth Webcams Widget

    There's a reason that people shouldn't show me new programming languages and development platforms: I try them out. Even when I've got other things I should be doing. Ah well.

    And so I'd like to present: the Aberystwyth Webcams Widget [update: link dead], which collates the images of the three Ceredigion Country Council webcams into โ€ฆ

    Read more (120 words)

    • Article
    • 8 comments
    • posted 20 March, 2006

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