I’ve just been playing with some javascript to slide open a DIV tag, it’s really useful for my HelloStumbler plugin because it waits until the page is loaded and if the surfer came from Stumbleupon, it slides down a small DIV at the beginning of the post saying hello and requesting a thumbs up.
See the slide happen

Pretty cool eh? lol, It took a fair bit of fiddling about so I’ll see if I can update HelloStumbler to take all the pain out of it.

I learned it all at Harry Maugans blog, you can see the whole javascript here: Sliding/Collapsing Div

I noticed a HUGE spike in traffic last night for the Hide a rar file in a jpeg post, thanks to those whole gave me a thumbs up!

edit: I’ve also added a bit to detect if the surfer came via a Google search and display that instead. I might develop this a bit further and see what other detections I can put in there. That should be pretty easy, the tough bit comes when I want to make it into a configurable plugin easy enough to use for new bloggers!

Try this link to a google search for Hello Stumbler, click the 1st one down (or maybe lower by the time you read this) to come to a post here and you can see the google detection bit kick in when the page has fully loaded. yey!

Popularity: 8% [?]

Here’s some good old instructions that I found to hide a .rar file in a jpeg so that you can open it as either…

1. Get your .rar file and put it in the same directory as a jpeg picture (c:\hidden is a good place to put it)
2. Open up a command prompt by clicking Start/Run and typing “cmd” and click ok.
3. In the DOS window, type “cd c:\hidden” to navigate to the folder
4. Type “copy /b input.jpg + input.rar ouput.jpg
   (where input jpeg is the picture you want to show, input.rar is the file you want to hide and output.jpg will be the name of the new combined file)

That’s it! You can double click the new file and it will show it as a picture, BUT… if you open it with winrar, you will see the files contained. The picture above has a secret file in it, right click and save picture to your computer and then open it with Winrar to see what I put in there!

Popularity: 100% [?]