Tools and Software Articles

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.

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.

Check out ReadWriteWeb’s fantastic list of uniquely useful search engines, its a lot of fun!

Ever wanted to execute commands on your server through php? Now you can.

I’m calling this file (see below) shell.php and it allows you to run commands on your web server with the same permissions that your php executable has.

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.

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! ;)

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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.

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.

This article is a quick and easy HowTo detailing the use of Wireshark or another network sniffing program to debug your Apache .htaccess or httpd.conf files.

Tracking Spam and email with free online tools