Hide Your Email From Spam Spiders With Flash

Everybody is concerned about not letting their email be added to spammers database. It is advised not to leave your main email address in the comments or forums because there it can be easily detected by spam spiders. You can use your less important secondary email or just use disposable email.

Other ways for protecting emails are distorting - adding additonal chunk of text which has to be removed. For example:johnREMOVETHIS@maill.com Programs can't recognize the meaning but people surely will understand.

Another way is to use special character for the @ sign. Just replace @ with &#64 Then your email will look to spiders like: john&#64maill.com but humans will see john@maill.com

All these and other techniques can't quarantee you 100% because even spiders get smarter. They can be programmed to search words like REMOVEME and actually remove them or replace code &#64 with @. I thought out another way to hide your email from spiders, its by using flash. Even google can't index flash content so does spiders. If you put your email into flash clip only humans could read it. So what you need is to make a simple flash clip with dynamic text. Users could highlight and copy it to their email programs while spiders will go by and don't notice there is a mail address.

If you are unfamiliar with Flash CS3 don't worry below is very simple tutorial how to make such a clip with your email address inside it.

At first you have to download Flash CS3. You can use trial for 30 days and don't pay any money.

1. Open Flash CS3 and select Create new flash file (ActionScript 2 or ActionScript 3)
2. Change canvas size to about 150px width and 50px height (or any size which suits your site)
3. Click on text tool and write down your email address
4. Change type of text to dynamic. This will give people the ability to select and copy text from flash file.
5. Now create a flash file which has your email address inside. At first test how your clip will look like by hitting Ctrl+Enter. Test if you can select and copy text from the flash clip and make any corrections (add color, change size or font). Save your flash file as myemail.fla on the desktop and hit Ctrl+Enter again, this will render your flash clip and save it in the desktop too. Note that .sfw files are saved in the same location as .fla files are, unless you change output location in the Publishing Settings.
6. Now when you have this flash file with your email safely hidden you can add it wherever you like in your blog or site. Of course you won't be able to put it in comments or forums in other sites but it will perfectly work as your primary email guard in a blog.

Add flash file to blogger

To add flash file to your blogger blog you need to upload the file first to googlepages (or other hosting source). Copy the address of uploaded flash file and paste it after src=" in the folowing code:

<object width="140" height="50"> <param value="email.swf" name="movie"/> <embed width="140" src="PATH TO myEMAIL.swf file" height="50"> </embed> </object>

Adjust height and width to your needs and paste this code block into html area in your post. The example is shown bellow. A flash clip is embedded into blogger (you can select and copy to clipboard).

Flash clip with email inside it

Need To Save Flash Games from Sites Like Miniclip?

So you want to download and play flash games on your computer? I tested this trick on these popular free flash game sites: ugotgames, dailyarcade, addictinggames, miniclip, zoopgames, legitgames, flash-game.net It should work on other flash game sites as well. To download flash games from the internet you need this powerfull firefox add-on which can save any flash object from page. It also can save all embedded objects. After installation you will see this icon in the lower right corner of firefox browser. Let's take an example and save one flash game from miniclip site. Open this page with a Superman Returns Save Metropolis game and press . Select view embedded objects. A list with all embedded flash files appears. Highlight main.swf file and hit Download. Now you have this game on your computer and can play offline. Important: not every game site allows downloading flash files from their pages. At first read their terms of servise if you can download games for personal use.

How to save flash movies from web pages with no software?

Sometimes when you see interesting movie clip or image on website and click with right button of your mouse on them nothing happens. You see only a menu Zoom in or About Adobe Flash Player 9.. This is because flash objects doesn't have a download feature. However there is a free trick to save this movie on your computer. Indeed the truth is that you already have dowloaded it but it is well hidden in your browsers temporary folder. All you have to do is to go to that folder and resave it in your desired place.

• 1 step is to make sure that you can see hidden folders. To do that open no matter what folder and press Tools -> Folder options:
  When folder options panel is open click on View bar and select radio button Show hidden files and folders and unselect Hide protected operating system files (Recommended). Press apply and ok.
  
• Step 2 Now you have to go to Temporary Internet Files folder and search for that flash movie file. To do that go to My Computer -> C disk -> Documents and Settings folder -> Your User Name (e.g. Bobby) -> Local Settings (this folder is hidden and looks like washed out) -> Temporary Internet Files (also hidden folder)
  When you open Temporary Internet Files folder you see a bunch of various files. Try to sort them out by clicking on Type button
  
  
• Step 3


Now you have to find the movie clip you want to save. Scroll down until you see file type ShockwaveFlash Object. Here are a list of all flash files on web pages you have visited.
You can narrow search process by looking at Internet address column which should match your site url. Then manually check if the flash movie file is correct and when it is just right click on it and select copy anywhere you want

Notice: in order to play flash movie file locally on your computer you have to install flash player, otherwise windows will not recognize flash file as playable. One way to get rid of this situation is to drag flash movie files on open internet explorer window, then it will play on the entire browser window.
That's it, now you have flash movie on your computer saved.

Tip!

If your Temporary Internet Files Folder contains too much files try to delete them all and refresh browser where flash clips are. Those files should be downloaded again into TIF folder so you don't miss them.