This snippet of PHP code will show you how to get a Google page rank for a specific website. The function below will return the page rank as an integer. The code was pulled from the wordpress links directory plugin located here.
There has been numorous websites expoiting Michael Jackon’s death. Scammers are setting up Phishing sites posing as “charity sites” in the name of Michael Jackson, asking for personal information only to scam you later on.
Chain mails are also being sent out via email in hopes that you will reply. Once you reply you can be [...]
The following code is a basic example of how to use the Yahoo search API. An array of objects is returned containing the search results letting you create dynamic scripts to show images. This code could be used to make a simple plug-in for Wordpress to show images based on tags in your posts or [...]
Tonight I was really bored at work so I decided to write an online tool that will find all posts that support trackbacks based on a keyword or phrase. I tested the tool with “Michael Jackson” and it returned a bunch of results. The cool thing is all you have to do is remove the [...]
Many of us have accounts all over the Internet; Ebay, Gmail, Yahoo, World of Warcraft, EVE Online and the list goes on. You can take just a few steps in making sure your online accounts don’t get hacked. With your personal information so readily available, hackers can easily hack almost any of your online accounts. [...]
Coming up with a domain name for a website can be a daunting task. You can spend hours at Dictionary.com looking up words and searching for available domain names. What if there was a better way to come up with a good domain name?
Bing.com is Microsoft’s most recent search engine. First they started off with MSN.com, then they rebranded as Live.com and now they’ve rebranded yet again with Bing.com Submitting your website to Bing is as easy as going to this URL and submitting your site. It could take a few days, even weeks but your site should [...]
If you’re a Photoshop user and want to stop paying huge fees, your in luck. Photoshop files can now be edited and created using the the GNU Image Minipulation Program ( GIMP ). GIMP is free software and is availible for MAC OSX, Linux and Windows and can create and edit virtually any file [...]
Syncing your Zune in Linux has always been an issue because of Microsoft’s proprietary methodology and lack of cooperation in the open source world. If you just can’t dual-boot into windows to do your music synchronization we may have a solution for you.
At some point you may find yourself at a company that uses a Microsoft ISA proxy server. ISA is proprietary proxy server created by Microsoft that uses their own methods for authentication, making it difficult to integrate other operating systems. Microsoft decided to make it difficult for people to integrate by not using standard proxy [...]
Adding a simple ListBox widget in your GTK application is easier than you think. This tutorial will show you how to create ListBox-like functionality in GTK using Glade3. GTK uses the TreeView control as their do-all list control. You can create simple lists, tree-like lists and all sorts of various list views. What is really [...]
Read More »Today I whipped up a simple GTK application using the Anjuta IDE, Glade 3, and the new GtkBuilder system. As some of you know, Glade 3 and GTK changed things up. First Glade stopped using generated code which required you to use libglade. Now the GTK developers created their own interface interpretor called GtkBuilder. [...]
Read More »This code will show you how to search for Windows Services. The ServiceController class handles almost everything service related. You can also check if services are running by checking the service.Status property and you can search for installed services using the sample code below. The services we are talking about are the services that run [...]
Read More »Visual Basic for Linux is here, sort of. In my search for the perfect RAD environment for Linux I came across a project called Gambas. Gambas is a Visual Basic like development environment for Linux which is very much like Microsoft’s drag and drop Visual Basic but it is not a clone. For an Open [...]
Read More »This code snippet will let you force a background color into a PNG file with C#. When working with PNG files in Visual Studio sometimes you’ll run into situations where the background of a PNG shows up as grey or even blue. This is because of the PNG files transparency and Windows can sometimes [...]
Read More »The following code shows you how to build a UDP server in C# using the UUdpClient class for the networking and BackgroundWorker class for reporting data back to the application. This particular UDP server class is designed to be used with a Windows Forms or GUI. When using the UDP server you pass a BackgroundWorker [...]
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