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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.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
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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.