Are you sick of that annoying spaceball.gif overlay that attempts to stop you saving “protected” images on Flickr.com? There’s a really simple way around it.

• 1. Install Adblock Plus for Firefox
• 2. Go to a Flickr page with a “protected” spaceball.gif image
• 3. Right click on the image, and select “Adblock Image”

  

• 4. In the Adblock custom field, add “*spaceball.gif” (without the quotes).

  

• 5. Click “Add Filter”. Reload. Done.

Once you’ve done that, Adblock Plus will prevent spaceball.gif from loading – which uncovers the image underneath, allowing you to right click it, view it, save it, whatever.

Uploading.com is paying less and less, especially for small files – so I did a bit of hunting around today, and have found an alternative – QubeCash. They pay $20 for 1000 unique US downloads, and $15 for 1000 EU downloads, along with various different rates for other countries (including Australia and New Zealand). They don’t appear to have a minimum file size limit, so it looks promising for those of us that get a lot of small file downloads.
UPDATE QubeCash seem to have gone out of business. I never received a single payment, and have switched over to ShareCash instead.

Unlike some browsers (yes, I’m talking about Firefox 3.5.x), Opera is actually getting better with every release. Opera’s new and improved features include:

• Opera Turbo – uses Opera proxy servers to compress traffic before it reaches the client computer
• Inline spell checker – spelling errors are now indicated as you type via a dotted red underline
• Tab Bar – can be used to show all open tabs as thumbnails
• Acid3 test – Opera 10 scores 100/100, pixel perfect on the Acid3 compliance test
• Auto updates
• Crashlogging tool

Download Opera 10 here.

eBay’s new Quality Click Pricing preview report is now available, which allows you to see how your new payouts compare with the current CPA payment structure (look under Reports > Report Type in your ePN account). I’ve just had a look at my report, and I’m not impressed. My Quality Click Pricing total is less than half my current CPA earnings for this month. Looks like Quality Click Pricing isn’t going to be much fun, but I think we all knew that didn’t we?
EDIT – September 22nd, 2009 I’ve just had another look at the QPC preview report (for September), and it appears that I will in fact be earning more with QPC than I am now. Which makes a nice change from the way things have been going with ePN for the last 12 months. Humble pie tastes good.

I’ve finally found a Qantas affiliate program. It’s run by Affiliate Future, and offers a commission of $15 USD for every flight booking you generate departing from North America to Australia or New Zealand. $15 doesn’t sound like much to me, but if you’ve got a US targeted travel site about Australia or NZ, then it might be worth a shot.
More info at Affiliate Future.

I recently came across some wonderful freeware called doPDF – it allows you to print just about anything to a PDF. It’s free, and it works. Get it here.

doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create PDF files by selecting the “Print” command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files.