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Keyloggers and how to avoid them
2008-04-13 23:37:00 Photograph credit: Conor Lawless. Keyloggers are are commonly a form of software (but can also be hardware) that are used to keep track of everything you type on your computer. Essentially every key you press is recorded to a file, which can be relayed over the internet to someone who can use the information gathered. Every ... More About: Computers , Tips , Anti-Virus , Anti-spyware
Why build your own computer?
2008-02-01 17:28:00 With the advent of computer sellers such as Dell, many people feel that it is no longer worth it to build your own, whether that is due to time or economic value. Most of the time you can build your own PC and still have enough money left over for petrol. In fact, not only ... More About: Windows , Graphics , Computers , Applications , Microsoft
Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
2007-12-25 12:33:00 Haven't been posting much lately, as I have been getting ready for my exams next year. I have the time to wish all my readers a merry Christmas and a happy new year, 2008. In 2008 I hope to review some software and/or games and get in a few more posts. On 1st March 2008, ... More About: New Year , Games , Readers , General
Merry Christmas for 2007
2007-12-25 12:33:00 Haven't been posting much lately, as I have been getting ready for my exams next year. I have the time to wish all my readers a merry Christmas and a happy new year, 2008. In 2008 I hope to review some software and/or games and get in a few more posts. On 1st March 2008, ... More About: Games , Readers , General , Blog
StumbleUpon traffic really isn't all that good
2007-11-24 18:06:00 Many people (such as Tibi Puiu, DoshDosh, Dan Grossman, Dev Basu and Shaun Low) have been writing about StumbleUpon lately and how it brings in a good number of visitors to your website, so here is my view on it. I think that the main problem with visitors stumbling across your website through StumbleUpon is that ... More About: Internet , Traffic , Blogging , Word , Press
Statistics review for October 2007
2007-11-01 18:52:00 Here is the statistics update of Bull3t's Blog for last month: Google PageRank: 4 Alexa Rank: 822,335 Technorati Links: 41 Technorati Rank: 305,717 Technorati Authority: 27 del.icio.us Bookmarks: 1 FeedBurner Subscribers: 30 Reinvigorate Total Visitors: 1,368 FireStats Daily Visitors Average: 110 Posts: 48 Comments: 125 As you can see, I have somehow managed to reduce my ... More About: Personal , Review , Blogging , Statistics
Red Hat Linux surprised me
2007-10-24 19:15:00 Earlier this month I managed to get my hands on a copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux . This version was in fact a server edition (or meant to be used as one), but I was not too impressed, I know that Linux is an open source operating system good for hosting servers on, whether that ... More About: Windows , Internet , Computers , Applications
Weekly Roundup issue 2
2007-10-13 10:10:00 Another week rolls by and so do the blog posts, here is this weeks list of interesting posts that I stumbled across: Stumble Your Way From 10 To 4000 Readers: This post talks about StumbleUpon and how it has the ability to drive hundreds (or even thousands) of visitors to your blog within a few days. The ... More About: Tips , Blogging , Roundup , Blog , Weekly
Ajax Post Save WordPress plugin released
2007-10-08 19:05:00 I have just released a new Word Press plugin called Ajax Post Save. Ajax Post Save is a WordPress plugin which enables you to save your posts and pages through Ajax; you can now make edits to a post and not have to reload the WordPress administration every time you want to preview the post. WordPress ... More About: Wordpress , Blogging
Weekly Roundup issue 1
2007-10-06 02:55:00 Hopefully, from now on I am going to be publishing a post which links to other blogs and/or blog posts that I found interesting. This is one of the many new ways in which I am trying to increase the number of visitors I get to my blog. Anything that I like (which is not ... More About: Internet , Computers , Tutorials , Tips , Blogging
Statistics review for September 2007
2007-10-01 19:17:00 Seeing as I have now posted this blog's goals, I thought I would update you monthly on my progress. Here is the review of Bull3t's Blog statistics for last month: Google PageRank: 4 Alexa Rank: 2,229,997 Technorati Links: 22 Technorati Rank: 540,306 Technorati Authority: 12 del.icio.us Bookmarks: 1 FeedBurner Subscribers: 31 Reinvigorate Total Visitors: 301 ... More About: Personal , Review , Blogging , Statistics
Bull3t's Blog comment policy
2007-09-30 11:10:00 I have seen many people writing comment policies for their blogs, so I thought I would take this opportunity to make my own, so here it is: I really appreciate it when a reader of this blog takes the time to leave a comment on a post. However, I reserve the right to remove any link ... More About: Personal , Blogging , Word , Press , Blog
Encouraging your readers to post comments
2007-09-28 12:14:00 I always have trouble convincing my readers (that's you) to leave comments, no doubt other bloggers do too. It is one of those things that shows to other readers that your blog is active and in some cases, popular. Yet many readers do not leave comments after reading through an article they liked. I believe ... More About: Tutorials , Readers , Blogging , Word , Press
My goals for Bull3t's Blog
2007-09-25 21:51:00 Tibi Puiu over at Lost Art Of Blog ging has just written an article regarding setting goals for your blog and accomplishing them. I think this is a very good idea so I am setting my own goals for this blog. I don't think that I will accomplish goals as high as the Lost Art Of ... More About: Personal , Goals , Statistics
Just installed Adobe Creative Suite 3
2007-09-06 08:49:00 I have just recently purchased myself the Adobe Creative Suit e 3 and installed Bridge, Contribute, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Soundbooth. They are very good, except a few things that could be better… The first thing I noticed with CS3 is that when you install Photoshop and Fireworks from the suite, some of the image file formats, such as 'JPG' are not associated with Photoshop, they just stay with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Fireworks then decides that it wants to be the main editor for PNG files. Funnily enough, I do not recall any point in the setup where it asked me what applications I want to associate with what file types; it just does it for me, but evidently not very well. I thought: "ah, not a big deal I will just have to change the associations the first time I run Photoshop or Fireworks", but nothing came up and I could not find any way of doing it from within the applications. In the end I had to save a 1×1 pixel...
Just installed Adobe Creative Suite 3
2007-09-06 08:49:00 I have just recently purchased myself the Adobe Creative Suit e 3 and installed Bridge, Contribute, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Soundbooth. They are very good, except a few things that could be better… The first thing I noticed with CS3 is that when you install Photoshop and Fireworks from the suite, some of ... More About: Applications
Code Wednesday: Tag cloud
2007-08-08 14:50:00 Each and every Wednesday , I publish a post containing a snippet of code so that you can use it in your own project or just so that you can store it in your "Useless Snippets Folder" on your Desktop. You can view all of the older Code Wednesday articles by browsing the Code Wednesday category list. This code can be used to make a simple and easy tag cloud for your categories or tags on your own website or blog. It uses a simple mathematical sum to calculate a percentage for the font size of each tag and then returns it in a XHTML-compliant, inline list. The function requires an array of the tags in the format: "$tags['tag_name'] = tag_count;", when tag_name is the name of the tag and tag_count is the amount of instances the tag has. Anyway, here is the code: Code (php) function tag_cloud($tags) { if (!$tags) { return false; // Error: no $tag argument was specified. } $max_size = 250; ... More About: Cloud , Tag Cloud
Code Snippet: Tag cloud
2007-08-08 14:50:00 Here is another post containing a snippet of code that you can use in your own project or just so that you can store it in your "Useless Snippet s Folder" on your Desktop. You can view all of the older code snippet articles by browsing the code snippet category list. This code can be used ... More About: Code , Cloud , Tag Cloud
Code Wednesday: Tag cloud
2007-08-08 14:50:00 Each and every Wednesday , I publish a post containing a snippet of code so that you can use it in your own project or just so that you can store it in your "Useless Snippets Folder" on your Desktop. You can view all of the older Code Wednesday articles by browsing the Code Wednesday ... More About: Cloud , Tag Cloud
Code Wednesday: Tag cloud
2007-08-08 14:50:00 Each and every Wednesday , I publish a post containing a snippet of code so that you can use it in your own project or just so that you can store it in your "Useless Snippets Folder" on your Desktop. You can view all of the older Code Wednesday articles by browsing the Code Wednesday ... More About: Cloud , Tag Cloud
World Wide Web indicator, is it needed?
2007-08-06 19:09:00 Do we really need to type the "www." prefix to every single website we wish to visit? Everyone knows that a website is hosted on the World Wide Web, so they do not need to be told so every time they type a URL. Last time I checked, I didn't have any site hosted on my Intranet with the name "google.co.uk", so it's extremely important that I tell my browser it should begin it's DNS search on the World Wide Web . That sounds logical, but searching your Intranet before it finds a DNS on the Internet is not a big deal, it takes a mere nanosecond to look at your Intranet to see if "google.co.uk" exists and most browsers just look straight into the Intranet to begin with anyway, regardless of whether you have typed the "www." prefix or not. Why don't we start auto-truncating the "www." from all websites, so the 95% of society who never knew what it stood for in the first place can chill out and stop typing it. We should adopt a new practice: shred the "www." prefix. I really don't thin... More About: Indicator , Indica
World Wide Web indicator, is it needed?
2007-08-06 19:09:00 Do we really need to type the "www." prefix to every single website we wish to visit? Everyone knows that a website is hosted on the World Wide Web, so they do not need to be told so every time they type a URL. Last time I checked, I didn't have any site hosted ... More About: Internet , World Wide Web , Indicator
Holiday from August 4 until August 11
2007-08-02 14:14:00 I am on holiday from August 4 until August 11 so that means any comments or emails that I receive while I am away will not be answered until at least August 11. I have scheduled a few posts for release but don't count on the future posts system to function correctly as I ... More About: Holiday
Holiday from August 4 until August 11
2007-08-02 14:14:00 I am on holiday from August 4 until August 11 so that means any comments or emails that I receive while I am away will not be answered until at least August 11. I have scheduled a few posts for release but don't count on the future posts system to function correctly as I haven't tested it. Oh, and have fun browsing through my blog, it seems to be going really slowly - I think it is due to too many plugins (considering I do have 43 plugins currently active), but I am not sure. More About: Holiday
Holiday from August 4 until August 11
2007-08-02 14:14:00 I am on holiday from August 4 until August 11 so that means any comments or emails that I receive while I am away will not be answered until at least August 11. I have scheduled a few posts for release but don't count on the future posts system to function correctly as I ... More About: Holiday , General
Code Wednesday: Simple contact form
2007-08-01 11:43:00 Each and every Wednesday , I publish a post containing a snippet of code so that you can use it in your own project or just so that you can store it in your "Useless Snippets Folder" on your Desktop. You can view all of the older Code Wednesday articles by browsing the Code Wednesday ... More About: Contact , Simple , Form
Code Wednesday: Simple contact form
2007-08-01 11:31:00 Each and every Wednesday , I publish a post containing a snippet of code so that you can use it in your own project or just so that you can store it in your "Useless Snippets Folder" on your Desktop. You can view all of the older Code Wednesday articles by browsing the Code Wednesday category list. This week I will be showing you how to create yourself a very simple contact form for use on your blog or website. It will consist of just two files - one being the PHP script to send the mail and the other being the HTML that can be used to send the mail - and I will explain how to use them and what they do. Code (php) if(isset($_POST['submit'])) { $to = "you@yourdomain.com"; // E-mail address to send to. $prefix = "[Bull3t's Blog] Simple Contact Form : "; // Subject prefix. $name = $_POST['name']; $email = $_POST['email']; $subject = $prefix . $_POST['subject']; &nbs...
Code Snippet: Simple contact form
2007-08-01 11:31:00 Here is another post containing a snippet of code that you can use in your own project or just so that you can store it in your "Useless Snippet s Folder" on your Desktop. You can view all of the older code snippet articles by browsing the code snippet category list. This time I will be ... More About: Contact , Code , Simple , Form
Blog fixed and updated
2007-07-30 18:13:00 Damn that took a long time! I have finally managed to clear the warning messages that appeared on my blog, which looked like the following: Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in /htdocs/wp-includes/classes.php on line 95 Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in /htdocs/wp-includes/classes.php on line 96 It didn't only show one though, it showed up to 15 of them and appeared randomly one time while I was editing some of my installed WordPress plugins. I submitted a support ticket to my host asking them whether they had made any changes to my server recently and their senior engineers took the trouble and effort to try and sort out something that was not even caused by them, which was very helpful. I do not think they were familiar enough with WordPress to be able to tell me that it was something to do with permalinks though. I knew that I was registered to the WP-Test... More About: Blog , Fixed
Blog fixed and updated
More articles from this author:2007-07-30 18:13:00 Damn that took a long time! I have finally managed to clear the warning messages that appeared on my blog, which looked like the following: Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in /home/fhlinux172/b/blog.bull3t.me.uk/user /htdocs/wp-includes/classes.p hp on line 95 Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in /home/fhlinux172/b/blog.bull3t.me.uk/user /htdocs/wp-includes/classes.p hp ... More About: Word , Press , Blog , Fixed 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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