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Simpler "submit image" page

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:23:53 -0500

I’ve made a few changes to the submit image page. Earlier you had to mark the item in question and specify dimensions (inches or mm). A lot of users gave up midway as they probably did not know those dimensions.

So now you have a slider to specify the size of the item. Drag the slider left or right to make the item bigger or smaller. No need to know the accurate dimensions as long as you physically have it with you.

Google Chrome has become the most popular browser used by...

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:44:00 -0400

Google Chrome has become the most popular browser used by Pective users. This data seems to back Statcounter’s claim that Chrome has already clocked 22% of market share worldwide. Go Chrome !

BBC Click covers Pective

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 05:16:00 -0400

BBC Click covers Pective:

“Size isn’t everything, but sometimes it’s good to know how small something really is, especially when it comes to mobile technology. Pective.com displays registered items in their actual size so you can get an impression about whether they would fit in your pocket.”

Now guess your monitor size better

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:54:00 -0400

A lot of Pective users find it difficult to specify their monitor size is. To help them, I’ve created this simple page. It displays the image of item you possess (credit card, CD, dollar bill etc) and asks you to drag a slider till it becomes actual size.

".. a larger number [for the monitor size] will make a smaller image and a smaller number will make a..."

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:03:06 -0400

“.. a larger number [for the monitor size] will make a smaller image and a smaller number will make a larger image. You may think your screen is a nice round number, but chances are… it isn’t”

- A user explaining why pictures are big for some people and small for others.

Ikea ad: *Not actual size. PS. See this for an actual size...

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:07:00 -0400

Ikea ad: *Not actual size.

PS. See this for an actual size hot-dog.

Comments now with pagination

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:11:16 -0400

Some Pective pages have more than 200 comments, significantly slowing down the loading of the page. I’ve now added pagination so only 50 of them are displayed at a time. Pages should load faster now !

New features at Pective

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:03:00 -0400

I’ve pushed some new features to Pective.

Sandbox: Now you can quickly test any dimension right on your screen.
I’ve limited the allowed monitor size to 4-50”. Users have been confused in the past, and have entered values like 1024 (the pixel width), so this should help them.
I’ve also added a help page explaning what monitor size means. You can also leave a comment if you’re still having trouble.
I’ve added a basic expletive filter for the comments.
Pective has had a vote accurate/inaccurate page for some time, but under 1% of visitors vote. I’ve made the feature more prominent by adding a question below every image.
Externally hotlinked images are redirected to the thumbnail version. Earlier they used to redirected to this image.

Man buys drugs with Monopoly money

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:35:20 -0500

BoingBoing reports,

A Wichita, Kansas man was apparently beaten up by a drug dealer after the man paid for crack cocaine with Monopoly money. It’s not clear why it took the dealer so long to realize that the multi-colored bills were not legal tender.

For the uninitiated, here what Monopoly money looks like, and here’s a normal American 10 Dollar bill for reference.

Pective outage

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:05:00 -0500

Pective is temporarily down due to a Google App Engine outage.

Update: It’s back now.

The actual size of the Apple Ipad.

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:53:13 -0500

The actual size of the Apple Ipad.

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

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:23:40 -0500

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

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

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:56:16 -0500

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

Hotlinking disabled

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:55:16 -0500

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.

"If you know the dimensions of something but need to visualize it prior to buying, Pective is what..."

Sat, 09 May 2009 15:48:17 -0400

“If you know the dimensions of something but need to visualize it prior to buying, Pective is what you need.”

- Chris Pirillo

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

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:32:00 -0500

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

Commenters now have names. All the old comments default to...

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:40:16 -0500

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

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

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:38:38 -0500

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

Added tags to images.

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:33:55 -0500

Added tags to images.

Every search page now offers Google, Yahoo and Live as...

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:25:00 -0500

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.