For those of you who do not know, I use firefox, and only firefox for a web browser. This year, they will be releasing version 3, and they plan to break a world record for the most downloads of your software in a 24 hour period.
This is what you need to do, click the button on the right side of my page, and pledge that you will download on that day, that’s all you have to do, download it… if you don’t like it, don’t install it, just download it. They will send you an email when the time gets closer (the day is not yet known, but will be in June)
OK everyone, I know I haven’t been active on here, but finals are over with now, so I am back.
I cooked up something, it’s a PHP emailer. With this you can send anonymous emails to any email address. We don’t ‘brand’ our emails, so the message they get, is exactly what you send, and nothing more.
The messages are sent from ‘anonymous@psidude.com’ … this is to keep spam filters from filtering emails that come from servers that didn’t actually send it. If you want me to change this, leave a comment.
psidude.com/mailer/
have fun
this has also been added to the ‘tools’ at the top of the screen.
OK, I need some input. I was thinking about adding a part to psidude.com that you could stream and watch movies on here. Of course, I wouldn’t be hosting ANYTHING that is copywritten, I would just ‘refer’ you to somewhere that does. Anyway, if I made a spot where you could watch all the latest movies online at for free, would you watch them?
OK, one tool is ready, I installed a cgi proxy (btw, new version that came out a few days ago, great improvements that most people don’t have yet). This proxy will allow you to log onto myspace, facebook and so on while at school, OR you can use it to be anonymous, both work for me, as long as you don’t do illegal things with it! please try to spread it, and let me know if there is anything that doesn’t work right as a comment, or email me psidude@psidude.com
http://psidude.com/unblock
The reason I am not calling it the psidude proxy is because some of the more “spiffy” filters will filter any url with the word ‘proxy’ or ‘myspace’ or… so on in it
Somethin kinda cool happened today.
The company that psidude.com is hosted with is West Host, and I had a small issue logging in a control panel on their site that shows account information and stuff. I sent the member support email an email, and I received one 3 minutes later from a PERSON, not automated, not only that, but my issue was cleared up then too.
This is the best part, when I submitted the email, you can choose priority low, normal, high, or emergency, I picked low, and this all happened at about 4:30 AM. pretty good service, great host too…
Ok everyone, I have been working on some tools for the site. Soon, we will have several tools, some including a cgi proxy, anonymous emailer, and some hash-cracking tools. The cgi proxy is working, but I need to install some services to make it support SSL, but other than not being able to login to websites through it, it is working fine. The cgi proxy will allow you to access blocked pages, for example you will be able to go to myspace while at school. Keep checking back, I will have a “tools” tab at the top of the page when I release them.
We recently had a bug where no posts could be viewed, unless they were viewed on the front page. It has been fixed.
Not to long before the Holiday’s came, I went half and half with a friend and bought Rock Band for my PS3. If you have ever played Guitar Hero, it is a lot like it, except there is a drum set and a microphone in addition to the guitar. The game is great, except a week or two into it, I noticed the guitar wouldn’t strum as fast as it used to, and it occasionally double strummed. I went to the internet and Googled it. Apparently a LOT of people were having this problem, and most of the people are returning the whole game because of it, but I ran upon a website that explained how to fix it. It involved taking it appart and doing a little adjusting, but what do you know.. it fixed it without voiding the warranty.
I just recently tried something that’s new to me, it’s called Blogrush. If you haven’t noticed the new widget in my sidebar, you will see the Blogrush widget. It’s displaying links to other blog posts on different people’s blogs.
The whole thing works through your blogs rss feed, it doesn’t have to be a wordpress blog, as long as it has a rss feed. Every time you post, they pick up your posts title, and displays it on someone else’s blog. Every time your Blogrush’s widget is loaded *even if it is you loading it* that counts as a credit in your favor. For every credit you get, that’s how many times one of your posts will be linked to in someone else’s blog.
It’s a great program to start your blog with. You can sign up and get more info here. Happy blogging.
Why do people love spaming my site?
OK, If I have been doing a good job, you shouldn’t even know this. But SOOO many people come to my site, trying to harvest email addresses, they try to spam, and I have even had people ATTEMPT to dos a certain website, using my website…..
scroll down to the bottom of this page, that’s a big number, isn’t it?
To anyone who has this type of problem, here are some tips to help stop spam/abuse (no, I am not talking about email spam)..
1. Join ProjectHoneyPot. This website, you can install a simple script that catches email harvesters, comment spammers, and even email spammers (I have one installed). Every IP address that it recordes is made PUBLICLY available. Then you can have a script like I do that blocks EVERYONE that is on that list. This is my 1st line of defense.
2. Bad Behavior. I Love this.. I am not sure what it all works for, but there is a version of bad behavior for word press, this is what you see at the bottom of the page (scroll down). This script analyzes where each and every visitor comes from, it checks what browser, and many other different factors and blocks all bots (except good ones, like google). This DRAMATICALLY reduces bandwidth..
3. My last line of defense against comment spam… Akismet. I am not saying that because it is my last line of defense, that is it least effective, because it is great. If, by chance, that a bot or someone gets past 1, or 2, there an extremely good chance they will not get past this. This checks every comment against a database that is always evolving to see if it is spam. If it passes, your comment makes the cut, and is posted.
BTW, all this happens in less than a second, pretty cool, eh?
Have questions about any of these techniques? Always feel free to email me psidude@psidude.com