Archive for November, 2009

25 Nov

Number10.. number 404!

Its a depressing time when your countries government website has a “beta” label on it and shows a 404 on the homepage – http://www.number10.gov.uk/

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21 Nov

McAfee SiteAdvisor equals spammers

I’m absolutely gobsmacked at McAfee SiteAdvisor. I was checking the feedback for one of my sites recently on there and noticed it has a ‘Email tests’ section.
After reading about it, I realised that what they basically do is send a bot to your website and auto fill any form they can fill with email addresses [...]

17 Nov

Namecheap checkout referal

I actually can’t beleive this! I had to renew some domains in Namecheap so I sign in and choose to use funds already in the account. Should be a 1 minute job I think..
I get an error saying my checkout request was invalid.. so I hit back and click proceed again.. same error. Then I [...]

16 Nov

Paypal temporary mastercard / gift card

I just found out about a Paypal feature that I never knew existed! I really can’t believe I’d never known about this before..

You can download a plugin for firefox/IE which allows you to generate a temporary mastercard (mastercard gift card). Basically you want to pay for something which cost but the place only takes [...]

11 Nov

Spamming with PHP and the iPhone

If you’re lucky enough to have an iPhone (yes, you’re a lucky guy if you have one) then I hope you’ve jail broken it.
I know there’s a lot of arguments over jail breaking your iPhone. Most are worried that it’s going to affect their warranty if it breaks but after speaking to a few people [...]

06 Nov

Ubuntu Gateway / Access Point Server

I’ve been wanting to play wifi king for a long time. Providing free wireless internet access to a reasonable sized area. Finally I got to have a play.
The basic idea is to have a server which shares the internet from a standard connection (e.g DSL) to anyone who connects wirelessly. “You mean a wireless access [...]

01 Nov

Restart OS X Dock

For the last 6 months or so, I’ve run into the same problem across a range of different mac computers. I go to change an application or open a finder window and it just wont work.
I have a second window changer installed which is called witch. I highly recommend using this if you don’t already [...]