Yearly Archives: 2009
Sep 28, 2009 by Matt | Posted in Software & Scripts
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Need dummy text to stand-in for the content that will fill a space in a design you’re working on? The traditional “lorem ipsum” text is always something to have within easy reach.
The Dummy Lipsum extension for Firefox adds a new option to the Tools menu, giving you easy access to a dummy text generator.
Sep 25
Sooner or later you’ll probably run into a case where you need to put up a “maintenance mode” page while working on the site (e.g. while moving a site to a different server). What’s the best way of doing that? First you create a…
Sep 24
Here’s a neat little trick for those of you with SSH access to your Linux server. You can use a simple command to get a live-updated stream of your access log, so you can see hits as they come in. It’s sort of like…
Sep 23
There are a couple of easy adjustments you can make to your web server in order to decrease page loading times, save bandwidth, and reduce load on the server. All you have to do is add a couple of code snippets to either your…
Sep 22
As you may know, my favorite desktop client is Tweetie for Mac. If you use Twitter through a desktop client (whether it’s Tweetie or some other), you probably wish you could click those green retweet buttons and have them open in your client instead…
Sep 21
Google has acquired reCAPTCHA, the service that powers some of those squiggly-letter fields (or CAPTCHAs) you have to fill out before submitting a form. (This is usually done to hinder bots attempting to mass-submit the forms for purposes such as spamming.) The interesting part…
Sep 18
Here’s an interesting question: Have you ever paid for a WordPress theme? Be it Thesis or a more traditional “design-oriented” theme, have you ever paid for a pre-made theme, rather than making one yourself, hiring someone to do it for you, or simply downloading…
Sep 17
The New York Times was unwittingly serving-up a rogue advertisement last week that would install malware disguised as antivirus software when it appeared in the rotation. The malware seems to be one of the many variants of the infamous Antivirus2009, which goes by many…