Simply find your IP address
May 19th, 2008
After needing to get my external IP address a bunch of times when setting up long distance LAN games with my brother I made a simple page for displaying it. This link simply gives you your external IP address and nothing else, no adds or other junk like every other IP address site on the net. *note that this is the external IP address of your cable modem and/or your router, not the local IP address of your computer on your personal network. Interested in the code? It’s from the getenv() man page at php.net. Get it here. Learn about…
Isometric drawings with jQuery
May 19th, 2008 | 1 comment
Here’s an interesting site I came across today, that lets you create isometric pixel images for fun. No real purpose other than just a neat JavaScript experiment. It uses jQuery for the JavaScript framework which powers the UI.
Easily display recent posts in WordPress
May 16th, 2008
Want a quick and easy way to display a list of your most recent posts in WordPress? Just add the following code wherever you want the list to appear in your sidebar. [code='php']
PicLens – Photo browser plugin for Firefox
May 16th, 2008 | 1 comment
If you’re on Flickr alot you’re familiar with what a pain it can be to browse through a photo set or stream. There is a great plugin for Firefox called PicLens which hooks into a lot of mainstream websites, such as Flickr, Google, Photobucket, Facebook etc. and makes browsing through lots of photos really easy and much quicker than the usual click and load routine. It can also handle YouTube videos as well. Video quality isn’t so hot, but its a really nice user experience. Check it out.
Securely browse your Gmail
May 16th, 2008 | 4 comments
Ever looked at your address bar while reading your email in Gmail and noticed that the page wasn’t encrypted (“http” and not “https”)? Google sends you to a secure page to login, but by default sends you to an un-encrypted page to view and send emails. I’m not too sure why they do this, but there is a simple hack around it. If you want to always browse your e-mail with high-grade encryption (AES-256 256 bit), a more secure encryption than most banks use, just change you Gmail bookmark to point to https://mail.google.com/mail/. You will be sent to a secure…