Tech: How to prevent image leeching (hot linking) in IIS 6.0

One of the most annoying things about hosting your own web site is that some people will take advantage of your web server serving up images and other content to any browser that requests them, even if the browser is displaying a page somewhere else on the internet.

By not hosting the images themselves, leeches save both disk space and bandwidth. It’s called leeching, image stealing, hot linking, hijacking and just plain stealing.

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Change? Yes we can - spark our biz on cloud 9

I know it’s been over a month since my last blog post. I’ve been a bit busy. Before I publish any new articles, here’s a quick catch up for the past month.

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Curious about Google Android? (T-Mobile G1 / HTC Dream emulator now available)

Look what I found on the T-Mobile website earlier: A Google Android G1 emulator.

The emulator isn’t fully functional, but looks like it is a very close approximation of the Google G1 end user experience. The built-in Google services for search, mapping and basic email and contact management looks good but it leaves me confused as there are quite a lot of “missing” features conspicuous by their absence. Read more

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