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Author Topic: Advertising on Film -Tech Spell check? Erick Akers Arse Kicker Posts: 201 From: Dallas, TX, USA Registered: May 2001 posted 12-05-2005 12:39 PM                     I dont usually use the F-T spell check but I wanted to ask about the advertising window. Is this something new, or being hijacked by some unknown source?  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: California, U.S.A. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 12-05-2005 01:11 PM                     What advertising window? Methinks you have adware on your 'puter...  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-05-2005 02:19 PM                        I see the Ad on my computer. It even say's that I won a prize. Maybe thay want me to win a vacation to Dallas to meet "Walker Texas Ranger".  |  IP: Logged James R. Hammonds, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 931 From: Houston, TX, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 12-05-2005 03:39 PM                     Cold it be that the ads are actually coming from SpellCheck.net? Shop at Jerk-It City!  |  IP: Logged Erick Akers Arse Kicker Posts: 201 From: Dallas, TX, USA Registered: May 2001 posted 12-05-2005 03:57 PM                     That could be it, The spell check window dosen't extend below the ad window on my browser. At first it said I won a prize, then the ad for Jerk It City appeared. Maybe Brad could look in to it, he was against piggy backed advertising in the past! I check for spyware and adware almost daily, just caught me by surprise! I agree James, Ad's Suck!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-05-2005 04:20 PM                     There are no ads on this site. Anything you see is an infection in your computer.  |  IP: Logged Anslem Rayburn Master Film Handler Posts: 476 From: Yuma, AZ, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 12-05-2005 05:12 PM                     If you load the page in IE and check the source, you find : !-- FASTCLICK.COM 468x60 Banner v1.4 for spellcheck.net --> <!-- FASTCLICK.COM 468x60 Banner v1.4 for spellcheck.net --> with a bunch of code in between. Seems to me it's being included by Spellcheck.net, and Fastclick.com is an ad/ad-tracking company. I get a similar entry in FireFox, without the code. It loads a blank white square instead of an ad.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-05-2005 05:29 PM                        I was thinking maybe the ad was caused by the "free" spell checker software, until I read Brad's post. I remember the dark couple of weeks a few years ago when there were banner ads on F-T. Glad those days are over!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-05-2005 07:28 PM                        Ain't nothin' is for free, mofos. You want free, you gots to take da adz dat come with it.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-05-2005 07:45 PM                        Some one who knows how to get rid of them should pretend I was in nursery school and post a note on how to get rid of the ads.  |  IP: Logged Adam Wilbert Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 590 From: Bellingham, WA, USA Registered: Mar 2002 posted 12-06-2005 11:31 AM                        Spellcheck is for loozers. ...right in the same window.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 12-06-2005 11:52 AM                        I like how Gmail has managed to turn webmail into a standard client side mail app. Now I await the day people start citing it as an example of a successful centralized application role out that many having been fearing and arguing against for years. One of the first role outs to cite Gmail's success will probably be Microsoft's "Office Web Edition". Oh yeah, I also like how this topic comes up about once a year when people (re)notice the ads on Spellcheck.net's site (which is what you see when you hit the Spell Check button). Don't let the Film-Tech branding fool you.  |  IP: Logged Brad Bridges Film Handler Posts: 8 From: Lake City, MI, USA Registered: Nov 2005 posted 12-06-2005 08:31 PM                        Has anyone ever thought of making an on site spell check and not using a third party? It's quite easy with PHP if the pspell lib is installed. Or even the aspell lib. I have wrote one in php in the past, but that was for my own systems. I am not sure how F-T's forum works.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 12-06-2005 08:41 PM                        quote: Brad Bridges Has anyone ever thought of making an on site spell check and not using a third party? Not including you, yes. quote: Brad Bridges It's quite easy with PHP if the pspell lib is installed. Or even the aspell lib. I have wrote one in php in the past, but that was for my own systems. Letting a third party update and manage the dictionary is easy too. In fact, it's probably a lot easier than getting a PHP library to work in a different programming language (thankfully UBB isn't written in the Swiss cheese known as PHP -- that's why it's not completely insecure like phpBB). quote: Brad Bridges I am not sure how F-T's forum works. That's not the important part. The important part is that it already works as is.  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 12-06-2005 08:49 PM                     quote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea That's not the important part. The important part is that it already works as is. Wake up Neo... The F-T Forums have you...  |  IP: Logged

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