Color Cop
Every once in a while, I’ll run into a problem that my current collection of tools just can’t do efficiently. I get to thinking, I wonder if someone out there was annoyed at this problem and developed something for it…
Well my dilemma today was picking the exact color of an area, like the vertical column of tan on the right side of this page. Technically its “ECFDCE” which is a hexadecimal number that represents the color. I needed it to blend the Google Ads into the background so they didn’t look so darn f-ugly on the page.
Jay Prall developed Color Cop for just such an occasion. Its a tiny app that stays above all your current applications. To use it, you simply grab the eye dropper tool and drag it to the area you want to sample. Even if you’re just aiming for a single pixel on a 19″ monitor – Color Cop has a magnification window that shows your eye dropper at an adjustable magnification.
It also can do seven different color coding standards and give you the last seven color samples that you did.
It really has saved me time, great work!
See it in action and download it here: http://prall.net/colorcop/features/
Google loves me, 3 of 10
Google has bestowed upon my site a PageRank of 3. This is higher that I normally would expected a personal blog to get, every.
So just to satisfy my curiosity and ego, I ran a URL Trend check on my domain, here’s what I got:
PageRank: 3/10
Alexa Rank: Not RankedIncoming Google Links: 0
Incoming Yahoo Links: 898
Incoming MSN Links: 17
Incoming Alexa Links: 5
Overall Incoming Links: 920 (Overlap is possible – Estimated 898 unique links)
Outgoing Links: 24 (Ratio: 0.000% – Each Link Receives Approx. 0.106 PR)
So, it’s not Amazon or Yahoo.. but not bad for just a hack in the box website.
Cash Parking
I’ve been sitting on a few domains with some ideas rolling around in my head… but no time to actually bring them to fruition. After staring at a blank html page for too long – I decided to park them with GoDaddy’s Cash Parking service. Initially I opted for two of my domains, and only paying for the service month to month.
GoDaddy charges $4/month to provide the service and takes 40% of the ad revenue. It sounds like a rip – but it’s the lesser of many other services, and I don’t have to hand over my domain. For another $3, I can keep 80% of the profit. A few quick calculations, and I’m better off starting small.
So with some luck, my domains will generate enough cash to pay for themselves… I don’t want to let them expire and some squatter jump on them. I think they have potential – but I just haven’t time to develop them.
So over the next few weeks and months I’ll share what I end up making with this deal, stay tuned.
Macrovision DRM speach – translated.
At Macrovision we are willing to lead this industry effort.
Translation: If we could get everything under our control we could make a lot of money.
See the rest, here.
There is no Mafiaa
Some sites speak for themselves… I think I may make “Mafiaa” a category, they sure like to churn up the water.
