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Surf securely: Unblock Websites Service

TK — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:36:04 +0000

With our Surf Securely service you can unblock websites that may otherwise be blocked by your Internet Provider. It is a web based proxy using the incredibly fast and lightweight Glype script. You can access most login required sites such as Google, Yahoo, etc. but you aren’t able to view sites like YouTube and Hulu at the current moment (working on it). The script has quite a few options such as removing Java scripts, Flash, Referrer, etc. You can even tunnel our web based proxy through another proxy server, making it that much more secure. There are ads before you use the script, but absolutely none while you’re surfing (besides any that appear on the site you’re viewing). Surf Securely: Website Unblocker

Easily switch favicons with WordPress plugin

TK — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:51:20 +0000

With MaxBlogPress’ FavIcon WordPress Plugin you can easily switch between favicons without a hassle. I’m using Firefox and the updated favicons show up automatically…
This means you can switch your favicon whenever you want, for an added look to your blog. You can use your own image or pick from one of the many that come with the plugin.

Web Based Online Torrent Client

TK — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:47:23 +0000

If you’ve got a dedicated or even semi-dedicated server with lots of space and bandwidth, why not install a web based torrent client capable of everything a software version is capable of? TorrentFlux is a free web torrent client that runs on a HTTP web server. It is implemented on the LAMP stack. Manage all of your Torrent downloads through a convenient web interface from anywhere. This can also be installed on your linux/windows machine and run as a server from your PC.

I installed it on one of my previous hosts, but it didn’t work as it was supposed to since I was using a shared hosting plan. However, I could still get a feel for how extensive this script is. You can download files, upload your own torrents, manage your files and torrents plus many other options. Here is a list of the features straight from their website:

Upload Torrents via URL or File Upload
Start, Stop, and Delete Torrents with a click
Advanced Torrent start options (ports, speeds, etc.)
Multi-user interface
RSS Feeds, download Torrents files with a click
View Download Progress of all torrents at a glance
View drive space at a glance
View Torrent file meta information
Built-in User management and Security
Private Messaging
Themes (selectable per user)
Upload History
Detailed User Administration
Admin Searchable Logs
Advanced Torrent Search (many major sites included)
Cookie support at the user level for private trackers
Queue Manager
Maketorrent — supports making torrents
Language Support

And here are the system requirements:

LINUX VERSION:

Linux OS (most *nux)
Apache with PHP module
MySQL Database
Python 2.2 or higher
safe_mode = off

WINDOWS VERSION:

Windows OS
Apache with PHP module
MySQL Database

TorrentFlux

Click here to view a How-To on installing TorrentFlux on Ubuntu.

PHP script for blocking email harvesters and spammers

TK — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:39:09 +0000

With Project Honey Pot’s HTTP Blacklist you can stop comment spammers, e-mail harvesters and. Of course you’ll need to sign up for a free account at PHPot’s website, but that’s a small price to pay for having a huge lack of spam in your blog, web directory or wherever else they decide to attack.

After you sign up and request an API Key, head on over to PlanetOzh and pick up the PHP script he made to query the Project Honeypot’s HTTP Blacklist server and then block any offending IP that is logged there. Most of these spammers and e-mail harvesters were caught using PHPot’s honeypot script which you hide in your code, which spam bots will follow and then basically send spam to PHPot’s servers, therefore being "registered" as spammers. On my web directory, I’ve already caught over 40 spammers and harvesters in the act. By using PlanetOzh’s PHP script in accordance with the honeypot script you can block the already registered spammers before they have the chance to attack.

If you’re using WordPress, get the HTTP:BL plugin.