{"id":477,"date":"2008-03-29T16:40:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T16:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2008\/03\/snap_shots_revisited\/"},"modified":"2011-12-28T00:37:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T05:37:54","slug":"snap_shots_revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2008\/03\/snap_shots_revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Snap Shots (revisited)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a title=\"Snap Shots (web page preview)\" href=\"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2007\/05\/snap_shots_web_page_preview\/\">wrote earlier<\/a> about adding Snap Shots to Mac 5. It will enhance any external link by giving you a small preview of the destination web page. I think it is most useful when it defines a word or phrase using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikipedia<\/a>. But it can also be neat to see a preview.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Snap Shots started doing something I considered invasive. It scanned for phrases it our posts and decided to attach links to them. I could also see that ads now appear under the Snap Shot previews, so this was about making money (fine) by randomly picking out key phrases in our posts (not fine.) I noticed it when posting the witness I gave at Dad&#8217;s funeral. I sure didn&#8217;t want to be randomly selling things in a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eulogy\">eulogy<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, I can create an account and control that new phrase-link option. I turned it off. I turned on charitable contributions so that a portion of the ad proceeds will go to the International Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m still sold on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snap.com\/snapshots.php\">Snap Shots<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote earlier about adding Snap Shots to Mac 5. It will enhance any external link by giving you a small preview of the destination web page. I think it is most useful when it defines a word or phrase &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2008\/03\/snap_shots_revisited\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}