HOWTO: get a high-resolution version of an image on Blogger

Here is a quite big garbage JPEG picture made of pseudo-random noise.

A noisy picture thumbnail

Thumbnail URL:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3IBd5kptNGk_R6iYcCcVRbGPr-qznzJQXl51zG2kB8fPm5ksrpPdG3t4LrsNMq4kdsupZI3QBQ2RzvmdAXPtP6B4ZmwAur6IyQIZAA74UmNbOFE59MtXcTPyCwPlIrVPx4dAyhxT5oYg7/s320/noise01.jpg

"Big image" direct link URL:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3IBd5kptNGk_R6iYcCcVRbGPr-qznzJQXl51zG2kB8fPm5ksrpPdG3t4LrsNMq4kdsupZI3QBQ2RzvmdAXPtP6B4ZmwAur6IyQIZAA74UmNbOFE59MtXcTPyCwPlIrVPx4dAyhxT5oYg7/1600/noise01.jpg

And now we can guess a link to even bigger-sized version:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3IBd5kptNGk_R6iYcCcVRbGPr-qznzJQXl51zG2kB8fPm5ksrpPdG3t4LrsNMq4kdsupZI3QBQ2RzvmdAXPtP6B4ZmwAur6IyQIZAA74UmNbOFE59MtXcTPyCwPlIrVPx4dAyhxT5oYg7/2048/noise01.jpg

Websites: VirusTotal

VirusTotal is a great online virus scanner, a Google subsidiary.
You can either scan a local file, or submit a remote URL; you can also search the database by file hash (SHA256, SHA1, MD5 etc.).
There's also a rating system for registered users.
Warning: all files you try to scan using this online service are actually get uploaded onto the remote server (or "cloud") for scanning, and subsequently can be shared with antivirus software developers in the future, so you should avoid scanning any confidential documents with this service ;-)
By uploading new malware, we can somehow improve the contemporary anti-virus solutions!

Links:

• home page,
  • currently, loading some kind of Web-2.0-styled uploader;
• rather old-style home page (unfortunately, apparently discontinued).

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Last updated: 2019-04-24

HOWTO: decompress WOFF2 fonts

Once upon a time you can stumble upon a WOFF2 font file; it's in WOFF 2.0 format, an improved version of Web Open Font Format.
And it's quite easy to unpack such compressed files to get the usual TTF (and maybe OTF) fonts -- just use the woff2_decompress utility from the woff2 Google project on GitHub:

$ woff2_decompress myfont.woff2

(please note: you need to compile that project before use, and it's much easier to do in GNU/Linux and other Unix-like environments, than in MS Windows).

Tips: where to find the photos in your Google account

You can try to find your photos in different "departments" of your Google account:

• Photos - Google Photos
  • Albums - Google Photos
• Google Album Archive
• Google Dashboard (see the "Photos" count)
• Download your data [Google Takeout] (refer to the "Google Photos" section)
• Google Photos - Google Drive (somewhat deprecated)
• Photos - Google+ (discontinued)
• Picasa Web Albums (the classic option; unfortunately, discontinued)

And don't forget about the trash folder(s):

• Trash - Google Photos
• Trash - Google Drive
• Photos - Google+ (discontinued)

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Last updated: 2018-03-01