How To Protect Image Theft from Website

You can’t prevent everyone from using your posts. If you don’t want the users to download or steal your images, the best and most effective way is not upload them online! You can’t completely eliminate others from using your images. However, you can work on a few techniques to make it really hard for others who try to steal your images.

1. Add Watermark

Watermark is possibly the most effective and simple way of ensuring image protection. Watermark is a visual copyright placed on an image. The bigger the watermark is, the harder it becomes to steal the image or download them without authorization. However, it is a visual distraction for users who try to view the image.

2. Post Low Resolution Image

Posting a low resolution image is another way of protecting the images. Uploading an image with 550 pixels saved with 72 dpi is a perfect size to upload and makes it look decent while viewing online. At the same time, the image leaves more or less no room to work on for people who download.

3. Disable Right-Click on Webpages

Most people copy images by just right clicking and downloading the images. If you post images on your website, you can prevent “right clicking” by placing the images as background to tables. You can do it easily by following a simple code in CSS. Alternate way to prevent right clicks by using a JavaScript. These scripts override the right clicks when someone tries to copy the image.

4. Indexing Technique

People can misuse your images only when it comes under the search engine indexing. You can protect your images from being indexed by the search engine spiders. Using a non-index (noindex) and un-follow (nofollow) tags eliminates the entire webpage from getting indexed. However, if you want only the content to be indexed and not the image all you need is a Meta tag. The Meta information prevents the spiders from indexing just the image.

These are some of the techniques you can follow to protect your images from online thefts! If you really wish to share your images on a public forum, you have to take all the possible steps to protect them. Though these take time, you will not get a nasty surprise when you see your image on a different website!

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How To Speed-up Windows

1. Speeding up your Windows PC startup time :

You can optimize your computer’s startup speed by launching Run on your Windows computer and typing “msconfig” without the quotes. This will take you to the System Configuration Settings which has five tabs – General, Boot, Services, Startup, and Tools.

Under the General tab, you’ll find 3 startup selections: normal, diagnostic, and selective. During normal startup, all device drivers and services will be loaded by your computer. If this is ticked, it may be the reason why your computer is taking long. Choose either diagnostic or selective startup to speed up the starting time of your Windows computer. Diagnostic startup only loads basic devices and services whereas with selective startup, you can choose to load neither system services nor startup items. After making a selection select “Apply.”

Under the Boot tab, select Advanced options so you can choose the number of processors to facilitate boot speed. If you have a dual-core or quad-core processor, assigning more than one of them to help with the start-up process can significantly boost your computer’s speed. Unfortunately, this optimization tweak is not so efficient on power so if you’re using a laptop, expect some battery drain after startup.

Finally, there’s the Services and Startup tab where you can specifically choose which services and startup items are going to load.

2. Speeding up your Windows Start Menu :

The Start Menu is another serious offender as it often takes time to load. Once again you need to open Run but this time, you will type “regedit.exe” to launch the Registry Editor. Go to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER folder and find Control Panel –> Desktop –> MenuShowDelay. Then, double click MenuShowDelay to edit its value. Type in the numbers on the blank and hit “OK.” Remember, the lower the value the faster the Start Menu will load.

Another trick for speeding up your Windows Start Menu would be to limit the number of shortcuts on your desktop. It could be that you just have too many icons on your desktop and that’s what is causing your computer to take long when loading the Start Menu.

3. Speeding up the Right Click Menu :

Yet another disappointing slow-down that Windows users experience is the time it takes the Menu to show up when hitting the right click. Installing third-party programs that allow you to remove items from the context menu should speed it up.

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