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rubyaim -> Snap Preview Anywhere (1/23/2007 22:33:01)

This is a bit of fun and I like it as a user:

Snap Preview Anywhere

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What is Snap Preview Anywhere? Snap Preview Anywhere enables anyone visiting your site to get a glimpse of what other sites you're linking to, without having to leave your site. By rolling over any link, the user gets a visual preview of the site without having to go there, thus eliminating wasted "trips" to linked sites.


I first noticed it on The 10 Worst Web Pages Featured on Web Pages That Suck in 2006



Kitka -> RE: Snap Preview Anywhere (1/23/2007 22:58:32)

I don't like it very much - things that pop out unexpectedly normally irritate me.

But I dislike this one far more, because of their rude crawler bot that leeches entire sites in a single sitting and ignores robots.txt.

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=snapbot

If a company wants to display screenshots of my webpages on other sites - I'd prefer they asked first.



rubyaim -> RE: Snap Preview Anywhere (1/23/2007 23:02:21)

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But I dislike this one far more, because of their rude crawler bot that leeches entire sites in a single sitting and ignores robots.txt.

LOL, I never got that far as it's not something I would use, just something I liked as a user.

I'd better go off and find something very useful ... wonder if there are any undiscovered colour tools [:D]



Kitka -> RE: Snap Preview Anywhere (1/23/2007 23:14:07)

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LOL, I never got that far as it's not something I would use, just something I liked as a user.


In order for you to be able to see the screenshots, their crawlers have been very busy little spiders for months, crawling everyone's websites whether they are welcome or not. They don't ask - they just take.

Robots.txt is a convention that good bots cheerfully abide by, these guys happily ignore it.

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wonder if there are any undiscovered colour tools


Nah! Womble has got all those sniffed out. [:D]



jaybee -> RE: Snap Preview Anywhere (1/24/2007 5:14:57)

I would take a look but we seem to have a routing problem somewhere and I can't access any site other than this one. [:@]

There are quite a few tools that display a screenshot of homepages but I find them really annoying. I have it working on a client site via Joomla, can't remember which one it uses, begins with an A, but it's forever serving up black blobs as it's overloaded and can't render the thumbnail, or it can't reach the site for some reason. I got so cheesed off that I went and took my own shots, resized them and linked to those within the site.



Mango Himself -> RE: Snap Preview Anywhere (3/20/2007 20:45:15)

A customer just asked me to do this for him/ I hate it when customers surg the web hoping to find bells and whisltes



womble -> RE: Snap Preview Anywhere (3/21/2007 4:58:33)


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ORIGINAL: Kitka

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wonder if there are any undiscovered colour tools


Nah! Womble has got all those sniffed out. [:D]


[:D] I'm sure there might still be a few left undiscovered by my furry little paws. I'll go and look for some more for you later. [;)]



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