the pective blog

Pective displays the actual size of any item right on your monitor.
February 18
The actual size of the Apple Ipad.

The actual size of the Apple Ipad.

January 30
The distribution of self-reported monitor sizes of Pective users.

The distribution of self-reported monitor sizes of Pective users.

January 2
2009 was a decent year for Pective, with 220K+ visitors and 1M+ pageviews.

2009 was a decent year for Pective, with 220K+ visitors and 1M+ pageviews.

December 4

Hotlinking disabled

Due to high bandwidth usage, I’ve disabled hotlinking for high res images - they will now display this image. You can still hotlink to thumbnails.

Please use any free image hosting service instead.

May 9
“ If you know the dimensions of something but need to visualize it prior to buying, Pective is what you need. Chris Pirillo
February 9

The Amazon Kindle 2 is “thinner than the iPhone”.

January 30
Commenters now have names. All the old comments default to “Anonymous”

Commenters now have names. All the old comments default to “Anonymous”

January 9
The Palm Pre is pretty compact at 101 x 60 x 17 mm.

The Palm Pre is pretty compact at 101 x 60 x 17 mm.

January 6
Added tags to images.

Added tags to images.

November 30
Every search page now offers Google, Yahoo and Live as alternatives. The default search engine (Yahoo BOSS) is sometimes slow to reflect changes, so some searches might return stale results.

Every search page now offers Google, Yahoo and Live as alternatives. The default search engine (Yahoo BOSS) is sometimes slow to reflect changes, so some searches might return stale results.