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Surf the net anonymously with Tor

Post by AskApache Jan 02, 20082 comments

Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that give you a very good level of anonymity, using Tor with privoxy and FoxTor for firefox gives you privacy at the touch of a button.

Category: Software

Who Am I – Your IP Information

Post by AskApache Dec 18, 2007comment

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CSS Cross-Browser Compatibility Tip

Post by AskApache Dec 13, 20078 comments

What I used to do when I was still learning CSS was to check the web page in each of the various problematic browsers to make sure the display stayed the same. I have several actual machines and several vmware virtual machines running various browers but I decided to skip all that extra time and effort and just use an online tool to do it for me. The tool views my page in all the various browsers and generates a screenshot image from each browser so that I can see if there are issues with my CSS.

Category: Software

Referer Spoofing Using JavaScript

Post by AskApache Nov 27, 2007comment

Even though at the moment I'm more into AJAX and simple behavioural unobtrusive javascript more than java, I still remember how excited I was back in 1995 when Sun released both beta and alpha Java versions to the public.. In fact I still have my Java 1.0 Unleashed book, which I'm looking at right now.

Category: Javascript

A better way to use PDF files online

Post by AskApache Nov 26, 20079 comments

.htaccess and php example serves .pdf files to give visitors the choice to open in an external program or save to disk without having to open it in the browser

PDF Before and after Fix - Firefox

Category: Htaccess

Renaming Sponsored Links in AdSense

Post by AskApache Nov 13, 2007comment

Google AdSense calles their AdSense Ads, "Sponsored Links", while Text-Link-Ads.com recommends "Sponsored By". Of course it is against the Google Adsense TOS to rename your ads, but in general, for non-adsense, what do you like to call your sponsored links?

Category: SEO

Request Method Security Scanner

Post by AskApache Oct 22, 2007comment

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Website SEO Score Tool

Post by AskApache Oct 08, 20079 comments

Check out this free online SEO site-scoring tool. The SEO generated report is simple, neat, and helpful. The main thing I like about it is how it is a stand-alone website, a residual money making machine.

Category: Software

Login to Google AdSense using PHP

Post by AskApache Sep 22, 20075 comments

Demo php cURL code, that automatically logs into Google AdSense, using cookies and post fields with the POST method.

Category: Google

Speed Up Google Analytics with urchin.js

Post by AskApache Sep 14, 200711 comments

Category: Google

Firefox, Firebug, and yslow are REQUIRED

Post by AskApache Sep 06, 20071 comment

A lot of the past and upcoming articles on AskApache are focused on speeding up a server or website, or just making things more efficient. I'm starting several speed tip articles that require the following 3 programs if you want to follow along, that is... if you can keep up! ;)

Category: Software

Wget Trick to Download from Restrictive Sites

Post by AskApache Sep 06, 200712 comments

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I am often logged in to my servers via SSH, and I need to download a file like a WordPress plugin. I've noticed many sites now employ a means of blocking robots like wget from accessing their files. Most of the time they use .htaccess to do this. So a permanent workaround has wget mimick a normal browser.

Category: Linux
Tags: bash, wget

Downloading Multiple Files with Curl Simultaneously

Post by AskApache Sep 05, 200717 comments

Wouldn't it be great if you could use php and curl to download multiple files simultaneously using built-in curl functions? You can!

Category: PHP

Alexa Toolbar Add-On for Firefox Works!

Post by AskApache Aug 20, 2007comment

This is the 10th anniversary of the Alexa Toolbar, July 17, 1997. Do you remember what the Net looked like back then? Netscape was the most popular browser. AOL had released it's first Instant Messenger program in Beta. Jodie Foster's new movie Contact was number one at the box office.

Category: Software

PullQuotes using CSS

Post by AskApache Jun 09, 20072 comments

I looked at a lot of different ways to display quotes and pullquotes and even though the javascript solutions are very nice, esp. the 456bereastreet.com solution, I decided to just use CSS (Keep It Simple Stupid).

Category: CSS

Speedier Sites use CSS Sprites

Post by AskApache May 04, 20074 comments

An Image Sprite is simply multiple images combined into one image. Using the background-position in CSS you can display a specific image from the image sprite.

Sprites reduce the number of files that are requested and downloaded by site visitors, resulting in noticeable decreases in Page-Loading times, Bandwidth usage, and Server loads.

Category: CSS

Apache Variable Fun in htaccess

Post by AskApache Apr 10, 20073 comments

Server and Environment Variables are used by The Apache HTTP Server by provides a mechanism for storing information. This information can be used to control various operations such as logging or access control.

Category: Htaccess

Best-practice Web Design Process

Post by AskApache Mar 26, 20071 comment

Category: Web Design

Caching Tutorial for Webmasters

Post by AskApache Jan 02, 20071 comment

If you examine the preferences dialog of any modern Web browser (like Internet Explorer, Safari or Mozilla), you'll probably notice a 'cache' setting. This lets you set aside a section of your computer's hard disk to store representations that you've seen, just for you. The browser cache works according to fairly simple rules. It will check to make sure that the representations are fresh, usually once a session (that is, the once in the current invocation of the browser).

Category: Optimization

FastCGI on DreamHost

Post by AskApache Nov 28, 2006comment

Using FastCGI on DreamHost and .htaccess

Category: Shell Scripting