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Microsoft uses Firefox

Had a visitor from a Microsoft domain… and they’re using Firefox!

And before you post a comment saying that one visitor is not very good data, I know.

Pagerank Increase!

I checked my PR today, and apparently Google likes my new site

Some of the ones I checked:

Home: 2 (I checked this a day or two before the update and it was 0!!)

bugFile: 2

TemplateEdit: 3

TinyCMS: 2

Users Online Tutorial: 2

Web Design Projects: 2

1Book: 3 (So all the websites which kept adding the exploit days after it was discovered and fixed actually helped me…)

Keyword Grabber (MIcroscripts): 4!!!

This blog: 3 (and it’s only been online 20 days)

I’m so happy

If you hate your computer…

Note: this was not my new computer!

Keep Spambots Out with a Simple Math CAPTCHA

Spambots are undoubtably among the most annoying problems for web developers. They look for forms on your site, and submit links to their own websites, repeated many times and mixed with keywords. One way to deter them is a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart). One common form of this is an image with distorted letters, and the user has to type in the letters. I find those really annoying, and unless you are very popular you probably don’t need something so difficult to crack. Our CAPTCHA will ask the user to answer an addition problem.
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Pagination in PHP

If you are going to have a site where users can submit stuff, and the stuff is listed on one page, you definitely need pagination. Pagination scripts consist of two main parts: getting the correct records and displaying them, and displaying the page links at the bottom.
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Fruit Art

Fruit Art!

Found on StumbleUpon, thought it looked cool.

New Computer Pics

I finished building my new PC yesterday. It’s very nice! Here are some photos.

Easily Transfer Files Between Windows and Mac, Only 1 Download Required

This is a quite easy method of transferring files between your networked Windows and Mac computers.

First, go to System Preferences, Sharing, and check the Enable Remote Login box. What this does is start an SSH server on the computer. We will use this server to connect from the PC later.

Now, you need a FTP over SSH (SFTP) client. FileZilla is an excellent open source program for this purpose. After installing it on your Windows PC, launch it. Select Site Manager from the File menu. Select New Site, and use the following settings:

• Host - your Mac’s IP address (you can find this by typing ifconfig at the terminal, look for a line that says “inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx” in the en0 section)
• Server type: “SFTP - SSH File Transfer Protocol”
• Logon type: Normal
• User: your username
• Password: your password

Now, you should be able to click Connect and access the files on your Mac!

Creating a Login Script in PHP

A user authentication system is required for most large webapps. The login script we will make in this tutorial will be flatfile based, and contain login, register, and logout features.

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Blogs I Read

Reading blogs is a good way to catch up on news, learn new things or just get a laugh, and it’s one of my favorite things to do on the computer. Here are some of my favorites.

• The Unofficial Apple Weblog
  
• Engadget
• Fail Blog
• Euphoric
• Oddity Central
• This one :