These sites seem to get quite popular, http://isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk – case in point.
So I quickly wrote a small JS app that would check my twitter feed and check to see if I had posted anything in the past two days, if not then I’m dead.
The code is available on github, and the full version of my site is at: isryanmcdonoughdeadyet.co.uk
So yesterday I released hullstrap 0.2, hullstrap being an instance of hull.io themed with bootstrap and some extra custom stylings.
It provides widgets for:
Hopefully making customising hull a little easier for new people.
Though of course you are wondering what hull is? Hull is a pretty cool service allowing you to create social apps in a weekend.
hull is a full stack social platform as a service. It makes it easy for developers to build social apps with open and reusable components.
Basically taking the effort out of connecting to github, twitter or facebook and taking advantage of those services as well as making your site social in an instant.
Download hullstrap from Github, or have a look at the demo.
What a great project, a full Ubuntu system within Windows. Coming in XFCE and KDE flavours, you get:
This is a great system for those must have Linux app’s you have to use when you have to use a Windows system, this is obviously for people who use Linux already and have to use Windows in some aspect of their life for either work on an application that Wine can’t quite do just yet.
I’ve just launched hashfor.me which is an online hash generation service, you can generate SHA1,2 & the latest SHA3 as well. MD5, Tiger, Gost as well.
It’s a quick online tool in beta, I hope you enjoy it.
SlabText – JS responsive headline creator: http://www.frequency-decoder.com/demo/slabText/
Metro UI CSS – Make your web apps look like the Metro Windows 8 Look UI: http://metroui.org.ua/
Chirp JS – Lightweight plugin to embed tweets on your site: http://lab.rog.ie/chirp/
Placeholder Filler – JS Plugin to offer graceful degrading for the placeholder attribute: http://www.scriptiny.com/2012/08/html5-placeholder-fallback-using-jquery/
Whilst looking for a router I could set up as VPN gateway to the US to access the larger library of content they have available on Netflix, I landed upon Overplay.net I signed up for a full VPN account, with access to Smart DNS.
Smart DNS allows you resolve the American Netflix, by only changing your DNS records. This is useful as most devices that allow you to use Netflix, which may not necessarily have full VPN support will allow you to change your DNS records. Allowing you to keep your full speed from your ISP, and not having to tunnel through a VPN for a service that doesn’t require encryption.
To Quote OverPlay:
By enabling the SmartDNS service on your OverPlay account (visit the My Account area of our website, and choose the Server Details tab) and then performing the incredibly simple configuration change, you’ll instantly enable access to websites currently blocked at your office, school, or location. With no software to install, it even works on connected devices – iPads, AppleTVs, roku or BoxeeBox… the list is endless! Furthermore, if you make the simple configuration change on your local router, you’ll even benefit from the SmartDNS service on your entire network.
Please note that this service differs from our standard offering in a few ways. Firstly, this isn’t a VPN! It doesn’t encrypt traffic, everything still goes via your ISP. Don’t use this service if you need the extra safety provided by the VPN! Second, unlike the VPN service, the supported websites are whitelisted – obscure sites may not yet be supported, and others simply may not be compatible. Don’t worry though, if SmartDNS doesn’t unblock, you can fall back to our standard VPN service!
Visit OverPlay to have a look at the Smart DNS service.
If you need to run some JS or jQuery on an ASP.NET page then the following code will be useful:
Private Sub runjQueryCode(ByVal jsCodetoRun As String)
Dim requestSM As ScriptManager = ScriptManager.GetCurrent(Me)
If requestSM IsNot Nothing AndAlso requestSM.IsInAsyncPostBack Then
ScriptManager.RegisterClientScriptBlock(Me, GetType(Page), Guid.NewGuid().ToString(), getjQueryCode(jsCodetoRun), True)
Else
ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock(GetType(Page), Guid.NewGuid().ToString(), getjQueryCode(jsCodetoRun), True)
End If
End Sub
Private Function getjQueryCode(ByVal jsCodetoRun As String) As String
Dim sb As New StringBuilder()
sb.AppendLine(“$(document).ready(function() {“)
sb.AppendLine(jsCodetoRun)
sb.AppendLine(” });”)
Return sb.ToString()
End Function
You can then call the function using: runjQueryCode(jscodetorun)
Found an NHS service site, ripped the data, uploaded here.
Contains practice name, address, postcode & telephone number for over 9000 practices across the UK.
In the past few years you will have seen more and more news about items like SOPA & the Digital Economy Act which were attempts to curb your privacy and rights online by using piracy, child pornography and terrorism as guises to try and push these through.
Even without these recently in the UK the courts have decided that 5 major ISPs must block the piratebay, and thus ending all piracy.
However, these blocks can be circumvented easily and securely using VPNs. There are other guides online to using proxies, however they are not as safe as using a private VPN service.
A VPN allows you to tunnel all your traffic from your device to a server elsewhere using SSL allowing you to totally hide your traffic from your ISP, and making it appear to any sites or services that use that you are coming from the server, rather than your specific device (and it’s associated IP address).
I would suggest using a service like http://yourprivatevpn.com, there are 3 packages you can choose from depending on your requirements.
YourPrivateVPN comes with a tool for windows and guides for Mac & Linux on how to use the VPN, however the main features are servers in 6 countries (UK, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, America & Canada) which allow you to seem to be coming from these countries and helps further anonymise your browsing.
You should use the VPN when doing any browsing that you feel would be looked unfavourable upon by your ISP or the government. By using the VPN none of your traffic is seen by your ISP and therefore can’t be blocked, shape or monitored.
So by using a VPN on Virgin Internet you can visit thepiratebay.se or any other site the British Government and court system decides isn’t in its interest.
When this type of stuff happens in China or Libya it’s called oppression.
Ideas when to use a VPN:
That’s it really.
