Simple PHP text Spinner

A while back someone asked me how would you go about writing a text spinner in PHP code. It simple enough, you need to work with { | } and random numbers, I have done various forms of this in my time but mostly in .NET C#. Here is the sample code I came up … Read more

Informing search engines of your site

We all know how important backlinks are and getting your pages indexed but did you know there’s a little trick you can do to get Google, Bing or any search engine for that matter to read your sitemap without having to open a webmasters account with them? Yes? Well don’t bother reading on you’re not … Read more

More on the .htaccess file

In part way response to a post from the forums, I belong to musing about the .htaccess file. Here is my penny’s worth on htaccess files. Not meant to be the end-all of information we should always aim to gain as much info on a subject before acting but I tried to bring you a … Read more

Blocking Chinese hackers from your web site

So a few web sites I run got hacked by some Chinese hackers! Only noticed because a friend had mentioned his site was under attack by someone from a Chinese IP address, this prompted me to have a poke around my sites and low and behold several had been compromised After a little messing around, … Read more

Killer USB Drive

‘Dark Purple’ the Russian security researcher has created a killer USB drive, the device works instantly in the demo video he posted online, killing his laptop in the process! The device is able to incapacitate almost any equipment equipped with a USB Host interface. Almost all smartphones support USB mode, along with TVs, routers, modems … Read more