TxtNinja Stashes Your Text Inside Images [Security]
My Clippings September 11th, 2009 by System
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Have something you want other people to read but not spam bots and search-engine crawlers? TxtNinja will turn your plain text into an image to keep the bots at bay.
Why might you want to forgo plain text? One of the more popular reasons is to mask your email to keep spam bots from sucking it up as they scan web pages. Leaving your email@someprovider.com in the open makes it ripe for picking. TxtNinja allows you to turn that plain text into:
The result is an image file which is human friendly but not machine readable.
TxtNinja allows you to change the font, font size, color, background, and supports international character sets for a dozen non-English languages.
Computing’s Greatest Conspiracies
My Clippings September 10th, 2009 by System
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The date is 7 July 1947 and the place is Roswell, New Mexico. Something has crash-landed in the desert – but what is it? The debate is still raging today and AWitnesses reported shiny silver debris scattered over the impact site. Was it the remains of a flying saucer, as the Roswell Daily Record suggested, or just fragments of an errant weather balloon? Stories and conjecture were rife, and from them came the most famous conspiracy theory in the history of the species. Were aliens being hidden from the rest of the world by the United States government?
Conspiracy theories are a thoroughly modern cultural phenomenon. In loose terms they explain historical events as being the work of secret and powerful conspirators. After 9/11, conspiracy theorists insisted the hijackings were the work of the American government. Black helicopters in the sky – that must mean that secret and wealthy juntas are up to no good. Even the humble light bulb isn’t safe from suspicion: was the everlasting light bulb designed in 1930 and then suppressed to bolster bulb makers’ future profits?
A conspiracy theory’s recipe is disarmingly simple: all you need is an occurrence, the suggestion of a dark cabal, a wilful disregard for evidence and a creative mind. Critically, however, once released the tale takes on a life of its own and begins galloping around the globe. As it travels, self-appointed experts begin picking it over, searching out ‘the real truth’. Layers upon layers of detailed information are added to what may originally have been an overheard whisper, a lie or just a simple misinterpretation.
Government cover-ups of extra terrestrial life might have been the mainstay of conspiracy theories for decades, but today the world of computing is an equally fertile breeding ground. Fuelled by never-ending debate on web discussion forums, conspiracies relating to computing and the internet abound. Here we examine 10 of the top PC-related theories and try to decide, once and for all, whether they are rooted in reality, or are nothing more than the result of too many paranoid and furtive imaginations. The truth is out there.
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Convert text into unsearchable images with TxtNinja
My Clippings September 1st, 2009 by System
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Filed under: Security, Text, Web services
If you want a bit of text to be human-readable, but not read or indexed by bots, TxtNinja has got you covered. It converts your text to a GIF, with customizable size, font and color. Potential uses include concealing your email address from spammers, sending sensitive information over IM, and getting around text filters on forums.
The downside of TxtNinja is that the choices of fonts and colors are very limited, and they aren’t common web fonts, either. Your TxtNinja GIF, unlike a real ninja, is unlikely to blend in with its surroundings. This isn’t a particularly big deal, though, and you can use it to your advantage if you happen to want your text to stand out.
Convert text into unsearchable images with TxtNinja originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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MailTo Encoder hides your email address from spambots
My Clippings August 4th, 2009 by System
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Filed under: Utilities, E-mail
Spam is a problem nearly as old as email itself. Sure, it’s 2009, but posting your email address on your website is still likely to invite spammers to let you know about the latest Viagra and Cialis deals. MailTo Encoder uses a bit of Javascript to obscure your address from spambots, while leaving it readable to actual humans.
From the user’s perspective, email links look exactly they way they normally would. The encoding and decoding all happen behind the scenes, thanks to some easy Javascript you can cut and paste. MailTo Encoder is a decent solution that gets the job done with minimal effect on the user experience, and it might beat setting up a contact form on your website.
MailTo Encoder hides your email address from spambots originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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10 Handy WordPress Comments Hacks
My Clippings July 23rd, 2009 by System
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Comments sections are neglected on many blogs. That is definitely a bad thing, because comments represent interaction between you and your readers. In this article, we’ll have a look at 10 great tips and hacks to enhance your blog’s comments section and give it the quality it deserves.
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1. Add Action Links To Comments
The problem.
Whether or not you allow readers to add comments without having to be approved, you will often need to edit, delete or mark certain comments as spam. By default, WordPress shows the “Edit” link on comments (using the edit_comment_link() function) but not “Delete” or “Spam” links. Let’s add them.
The solution.
First, we have to create a function. Paste the code below in your functions.php file:
function delete_comment_link($id) {
if (current_user_can('edit_post')) {
echo '| <a href="'.admin_url("comment.php?action=cdc&c=$id").'">del</a> ';
echo '| <a href="'.admin_url("comment.php?action=cdc&dt=spam&c=$id").'">spam</a>';
}
}
Once you have saved functions.php, open up your comments.php file, and add the following code where you want the “Delete” and “Spam” links to appear. They must go in the comment loop. In most themes, you’ll find an edit_comment_link() declaration. Add the code in just after that.
delete_comment_link(get_comment_ID());
Code explanation.
The first thing we did, of course, was to make sure the current user has permission to edit comments. If so, links to delete and mark a comment as spam are displayed. Note the use of the admin_url() function, which allows you to retrieve your blog admin’s URL.
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2. Separate TrackBacks From Comments
The problem.
Do your posts have a lot of TrackBacks? Mine do. Trackbacks are cool because they allow your readers to see which articles from other blogs relate to yours. But the more TrackBacks you have, the harder the discussion is to follow. Separating comments from TrackBacks, then, is definitely something to consider, especially if you do not use the “Reply” capabilities introduced in WordPress 2.7.
Lifted tutorial code winds up in $0.99 App Store tennis game
My Clippings July 9th, 2009 by System
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For some, the recently released iTennis game in the iTunes App Store looked extremely familiar — that’s because it was a rather blatant ripoff of code provided by the iCodeBlog, a site known for its free iPhone coding tutorials. The original tutorial, written by Brandon Trebitowski, was apparently compiled and submitted by Peter Sheen of BlaBlaIncTech and placed on sale for $.99USD on iTunes in late May.
Trebitowski revealed the theft through iCodeBlog yesterday, and Jonathan Siegel got in touch with us regarding the situation. As response has gotten out through iCodeBlog, there has been a backlash through both BlaBlaIncTech’s site and the App Store. As a result, around 4:45 Pacific Time, the game was pulled from iTunes.
In an attempt to contact someone from BlaBlaIncTech, I headed over to the site to find no contact information except for a support chat that was spammed with nearly 15,000 comments regarding the theft. While I was writing up this post, BlaBlaIncTech removed the link to its guestbook from the front page of the site. Ten minutes later, the game was gone from the App Store. Ten minutes after that, all mention of iTennis was gone from BlaBlaIncTech’s site.
TUAWLifted tutorial code winds up in $0.99 App Store tennis game originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Microsoft Warns Users of Serious Security Hole in Software [Security]
My Clippings July 7th, 2009 by System
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Microsoft is warning users of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 that a security hole in certain parts of Internet Explorer allows hackers to remotely install malicious viruses on unsuspecting users. The company is currently working to fix the breach.
The hole, apparently caused by the interaction of IE and ActiveX, has been used for about a week to install viruses on users who click certain links in spam emails. Microsoft’s stopgap solution, available here, is to disable that video software, and the company is hard at work to fix the problem. Doesn’t bode well for Microsoft’s push into antivirus software, does it? [via AP]
Map FTP servers to Windows drives with NetDrive
My Clippings June 29th, 2009 by System
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NetDrive is a Windows utility that lets you treat remote FTP sites as if they were local drives. The first time you connect to an FTP site, you have to create a profile. But once you’re connected you can copy files to and from the FTP site using Windows Explorer or any other file explorer of your choosing. No FTP client required. To disconnect from the FTP server, just bring up the NetDrive window again and hit the disconnect button.
You can also configure NetDrive to automatically map an FTP site as a Windows drive every time your computer boots up. This could come in handy if you want to use a file backup utility to automatically back up files to an FTP server, or if you constantly need to copy files to and from your web hosting server.
NetDrive includes profiles for a few anonymous FTP servers including the KDE, GNOME, and FreeBSD projects as well as Adobe, Apple, HP, and Microsoft servers. You can also create your own profiles.
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Map FTP servers to Windows drives with NetDrive originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Need a Temp Email Address?
Uncategorized May 20th, 2009 by Shai Perednik
I’ve used dodit for years. But since I always mispell it I looked for alternatives.
Here’s the top 20 via sizlopedia.com
- Mailinator is one of the best and top rated disposable email services that gives you a temporary mailbox on the following address format e.g. something@mailinator.com
- MyTrashMail is another good temporary mail service that gives you a mailbox in the address format e.g. something@trashymail.com and also gives you secure temporary mailbox if you signup
- MailExpire stands out in the crowd by giving you the option to have a temporary inbox ranging from 12 hours expiry to as long as 3 months
- TemporaryInbox is yet another simple and easy to use temporary email service that gives you an email address in different formats
- MailEater gives you a free temporary email inbox in the format e.g. something@MailEater.com
- Jetable not only allows you to set the life span of your temporary email inbox but also allows you to forward the mails in your temporary inbox to your real email address
- SpamBox gives you a temporary email address in the format e.g. something@spambox.us and also allows you to set the lifespan of your inbox
- GuerillaMail lets you generate a temporary email which expires in a time of 15 minutes and also tell you how to offer a temporary email service on your site.
- SpamHole provides you a 2 hour long temporary email inbox at the address format e.g. something@spamhole.com
- 10MinuteMail generates an easy 10 minute email inbox for your temporary email needs
- DontReg is one bigger, better, faster and safer temporary email inbox solution
- TempoMail is one new temporary email inbox services that give you spam-free mailbox
- TempEmail aims to give you a fast, anonymous yet secure temporary email inbox
- PookMail is a multi-language temporary email inbox service that gives an email address in the format e.g. something@pookmail.com
- SpamFree24 is a new multi-domain temporary email inbox service which is growing rapidly
- KasMail requires registration, allows up to 25 aliases, can set aliases to expire after a certain amount of time.
- SpamMotel requires registration, provides mail forwarding, mail can be accessed through desktop e-mail clients, can reply to e-mail from your real e-mail address using SpamMotel e-mail.
- GreenSloth requires no registration, receive-only, e-mail expires automatically after a week
- AnonInbox requires no registration, simple, no frills.
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