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DocShots makes it easier to share documents on your web site
Here's how it works. You install a bit of code on your site and whenever someone hovers their mouse over a document link you've placed on your site, a preview window will pop up showing the document. You can customize the size of the preview document and you can decide whether the documents you upload will be marked as public or private.
Readers will also be bale to find a list of related documents and other documents uploaded by the same user, all without navigating away from the web page.
Overall, I can definitely see this service adding value to some web sites. On the other hand, I can also see it annoying the bejesus out of some people who accidentally hover over the wrong links, much the way that pop up windows from Snap or Vibrant Media ads do.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Abscissa said 5:23PM on 2-19-2009
"You install a bit of code on your site and whenever someone hovers their mouse over a document link you've placed on your site, a preview window will pop up showing the document."
Just what I need, yet another reason to turn off JavaScript.
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nyrulez said 10:31PM on 2-20-2009
actually to be on the safe side, you might want to try lynx, a very safe web browser that is completely text based. Will save you from lot of trouble lurking out there on the web.